There is a name that is associated with my youth, Gao Mingjun.
In high school, we were keen on the fever and chase of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs, and the tape shop built in the tin house on the street became a frequent place for me to skip class, accumulating money to sell scrap iron, and unconsciously collected a lot of cassettes, and a bunch of children gathered in front of a tape recorder that was called a brick at the time to listen to the mechanical sound of magnetic pulling and simple music after school.
Every time you put it, there is Gao Mingjun. Maybe it's his youthful flavor, the image is tough, remembering that "that taste / like a sharp blade" is often hung up on our lips, and "Young Cheers", that tidal surging feeling makes us very eager to pretend to be like Wang Shuo's deep buddies who are free and do not care about anything, and the song "I am alone in the wind and rain" makes us can't help but experience the solitude and strength of the pretentious "teenagers do not know the taste of sorrow, and go to the upper level". Perhaps, this is the breath and impulse that youth needs.
In fact, now that I think about it, most of Gao Mingjun's things are the interpretation of the youth declaration, the helplessness of the city and the yearning to get rid of it, "You ask me where I came from, what place is it, a place you don't know, you ask me who I wandered for, where to go?" Is it the direction of the sunrise? I left my home, searched the end of the world alone, no tears, no love, no her, left the ancient woods, came to this young city, I carried the unknown fate, the neon red is flickering, according to my loneliness, the mood is really impossible to shake off, like a wandering cloud, cloaked in the cold wind, in the wind is the echo of the woods", he sang without worry, annotated a mentality called drifting, deeply attracted to the young us at that time.
Yes, in the life of a person, perhaps the free life is the most exciting thing for us, so when imagination and dreams become our desire for these, those music full of magnetism and dynamics like Gao Mingjun quietly poured into the undefended young minds and became part of what we can consider to be memories and loves.
In the end, Gao Mingjun's songs still contain a lot of musical elements, rock, country, pop, etc., the deep impression is to listen to "Concert", that kind of interpretation we are still listening to for the first time, everyone is particularly envious, the song can also be sung like this.
And the image of that era has not yet begun, our time is passing far away in the wild and unrestrained songs of Gao Mingjun...
Some people say that Gao Mingjun's songs have a sense of vicissitudes, in fact, what I want to say is that Gao Mingjun's singing voice accompanies our youth and longing to make us go to vicissitudes...
For me, Gao Mingjun used to be the breath and impulse of my youth, in the chaos of the past, in the vague running and rhapsody, we shared that beautiful time.
Later, in his "Drink a Glass of Aged Fragrant Wine", I also began to drink, and at a farewell party, I held the tape recorder and played only this song, and let my eyes slowly dim in the drink--- at this time, my high school years had just ended.
Note: This article was written in 2007