Beijing Band 2001 (VA)
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Beijing Band 2001
General Information
Artists: Various Artists
Label: self produced by Matthew Corbin Clark aka Kemaxiu
Recorded: 2000-2001
Released (US): 2003
Article: Birth of a Beijing Music Scene - The Making of BEIJING BAND 2001
Tracklist
- Happy Avenue - Daughter
- Wood pushing melon - Look But Dare Not Look
- Yao - Ping-Pong Party
- Ruins - Love Unbridled Creates A Life
- Glorious Pharmacy - Little Shadow
- Second Hand Rose Band - But I'm Still Singing
- Pioneers Club - Rock 'N' Roll Frogs
- River - You Pay!
- Tongue - The Painter
- Wild Children - Leave
Lyrics
Happy Avenue - Daughter
I don't know,
Who you,
Are.
I don't know,
Who you,
Are.
I guess you are a woman,
A woman just like me.
So many people on the street,
How do you know which one is your FATHER?
We buy you a lollipop,
And together GO BACK HOME.
Oh - be a good girl!
Be happy and be a good girl.
Oh - be a good girl!
Listen to your mom and be a good girl.
DAUGHTER, DAUGHTER,
MY LITTLE DAUGHTER.
DAUGHTER, DAUGHTER,
MY BABY DAUGHTER.
---
music / lyrics: Wu Hongfei
arrangement: Happy Avenue
vocals: Wu Hongfei
lead guitar: Geng Fang
rhythm guitar: Li Weiyan
drums: Tian Kun
bass: Jiang Rong
acoustic guitar: Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Wood pushing melon - Look But Dare Not Look
Oh! An unfamiliar room,
With an unfamiliar neighbor,
Is a hidden danger.
A breathless canal,
With reeds and water mingling,
Is an ambiguous parable.
The clouds kiss deeply,
And the neighbor is surprised,
By the lightning in his eye.
I stumble and duck my head,
Look but dare not look.
---
music / lyrics: Song Yuzhe
arrangement: Wood Pushing Melon
vocals / rhythm guitar: Song Yuzhe
lead guitar: Zhang Fangze
bass: Chen Chuangyuan
drums: Li Dan
keyboards: Wang Peng
backing vocals: Wood Pushing Melon / Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Yao - Ping-Pong Party
Why do I never see you clearly?
Why am I always numb and careless?
I see the complex relations in the splendid everything.
I see the beauty of the colorful world.
Night and day are endlessly spinning into one another.
The cycle of reproduction cannot be broken.
Excitement cannot go on forever.
Our flesh is still endlessly differentiating.
Where are our ideals?
Where are they?
Our ideals are here!!!!
Clothing cannot hide that delicate patch of skin.
Flip over the top to become the edge.
The line of the edge is now what was the side.
The top and the side is what everyone wants to see.
---
music / lyrics: Fang Ke
arrangement: YAO
vocals / guitar: Fang Ke
bass: Liang Wei
drums: Feng Yun
drum programming: Peng Fei
clean guitar: Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Ruins - Love Unbridled Creates A Life
The young moon hides in the bosom of the clouds,
With pleasure and delight.
The sun has faded,
But the clouds are enough.
A pure white joy,
Shining brightly.
Like an arrow's quiver,
Kissing deeply.
That place full of enticement,
Can deliver wellness.
Someone was with you last night,
Unbridled and created a life.
When mother earth's lips swell,
The sky sprays rainwater.
Love,
Unbridled,
Creates a life.
---
music / lyrics: Zhou Yunshan
arrangement: Ruins / Kemaxiu
vocals / rhythm guitar: Zhou Yunshan
lead guitar: Zhou Shengjun
bass: Wang Chuanjiang
drums: Chen Kun
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Glorious Pharmacy - Little Shadow
Thrill through the titillation you and he share,
Where breasts and penises are bouncing.
You fear someone understands you,
And won't relieve me,
So I go out on the razzle.
Finally I panic, lose my head, and run off.
And everyday when night falls I sing my song,
Walla, walla, walla, wa!!!
Until I become the panties you never change.
I will forgive you for the fist you plant in my face,
Because you and I are in the same pain,
That a single song cannot cure.
So I make my decision….
And everyday when night falls I sing my song,
Walla, walla, walla, wa!!!
Unless I become the panties you never change.
So, I stop and calm down,
Slowly, quietly….
But all this is just revenge against the daylight,
As I am small like a mouse,
Only in the night,
Stealing over your feet.
---
music / lyrics: He Guofeng
arrangement: Glorious Pharmacy
vocals / acoustic guitar / marimba / wine bottle: He Guofeng
bass: Ji Yue
drums: Zheng Zhiyong
keyboards: Wu Chunming
saxophone: Liang Jun
chinese drum / finger reeds: Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Second Hand Rose Band - But I'm Still Singing
Every time I don't want to get drunk, I get drunk.
Every time I don't want to sober up, I feel ashamed.
My melancholy is the solace you give.
My heart is as broken a person as you.
But I'm still singing.
But I'm still singing.
Lalalalalalala….
I can only sing like this.
I only want to sing like this.
If you feel life is unimaginable.
Then it's best we all become the same.
But I'm still singing.
I must cover my ears or what might I learn?
I must cover my eyes or what might I fear?
I must forfeit my conscience or what might I do?
I must deny my appetite or what might I get?
But I'm still singing.
But I'm still singing.
Lalalalalalala….
---
music / lyrics: Liang Long
arrangement: Second-Hand Rose / Kemaxiu
vocals / rhythm guitar: Liang Long
lead guitar: Wang Yuqi
bass: Sun Quanwu
sheng: He Yuan
drums: Cui Jingsheng
backing vocals: Kemaxiu
makeup artist: Bai Long
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Pioneers Club - Rock 'N' Roll Frogs
Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua, Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua,
We are a bunch of cute rock 'n' roll frogs.
Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua, Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua,
We are a bunch of cute rock 'n' roll frogs.
A girl puts on a disguise and gazes around,
Behind her is a sign-shop.
Luck is floating on her cheeks,
But oh! oh! - Why a fever deep in her heart?
Such a strange situation today,
Outside the pavilion no cars or people.
Only this very beautiful pond,
And a gang of obedient frogs,
Contemplating along with her,
Who open their mouths and croak out a bubble,
But in fact they're so thirsty they only croak smoke.
She's so troubled by this that she braids her hair,
Hey! Look how you've messed-up your hair!
A baby bounces along on two little legs,
Like two little elastic bands.
With a huge head but no forehead,
His crinkled brow emits the smell of sweat.
One minute he's laughing, the next he's screaming,
Always running off and getting lost.
"Hooyoh! Hooyoh!" erupts the voice of a toy,
Saying the baby has a right to be like this.
You wanna dig? Dig!
You wanna skip? Skip!
But the bubble is about to burst,
Watch and see if the girl and the baby get along.
If us frogs had wings we'd fly away too!
Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua, Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua,
All this stuff, now we've seen everything.
Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua, Gua Gua Gua Gua Gua,
Playing the part of a trumpet,
Isn't as good as playing the part of a mute.
---
music / lyrics: Chen Ke
arrangement: Chen Ke / Kemaxiu
vocals / backing vocals / guitars: Chen Ke
bass: Sun Shu
drums: Yang Fan
percussion: Gu Wei
keyboards / backing vocals: Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
River - You Pay!
Being short of cash ties us up.
Don't know where our next meal is coming from.
But you don't need to tremble like that.
We'll let you sit at the head of the table.
You don't need to run away - walk if you want.
We're a bit messed-up anyway.
Your being here is especially apt.
But, you can't understand it.
Because of our misfortune,
We won't even escape by sheer luck.
So for this meal,
You pay!
---
music / lyrics: Hong Guo
arrangement: River
vocals / rhythm guitar: Hong Guo
lead guitar: Qi Lin
bass: Yazi
drums: Chi Guoquan
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Tongue - The Painter
This request is not even a little extreme.
The meat grinder is in operation now,
With one eye open and the other shut,
Climbs onto the grandly blueprinted toilet,
And in another's bed catches a louse.
Shiny coins and the national emblem looking in all directions,
Slide out from under the shadow of the sun.
The Shangfang Dagger and The Jade Seal,
Comfort the spermatozoa on the road.
Carnivores brokenhearted eating vegetables,
Happily lifting steel reinforcement bars.
Toys madly cranked-out over endless nights,
Are all now totally inspected.
He figures these things,
These things,
Are all that he deserves.
Long ago the hats and masks were plucked off.
Long ago the experience and lessons were forgotten.
Different wounds require comrades working hard together.
These days one hand is pulling-up the pants,
While the other hand is strangling the necks.
You are masturbating in front of an old man with no origin,
Clinging on to Buddha's foot as the riptide washes out.
A sideshow of episodic eras of coherence.
A shame nothing is really ready yet and just slides down the flagpole,
But by teaching through faulty example, you live on in the people's hearts.
Better to just admit that you yourself at that time were too small to meet any specific demands.
Looking back on it with one eye you slouch over.
In the end it can't hold back,
And simperingly pulls itself out,
And sprays a stylish ejaculate at us.
Let us stride ahead towards the things of simple humanity.
It painted the young girls' dresses.
It painted the young guys' Mao suits.
It painted the old mens' bifocals.
It painted the old ladies' pincushions.
It painted our youth.
It painted our spirit.
It painted our rhythm.
It painted our life.
It painted our devotion.
It painted our style.
It painted our crimes.
It painted our everything.
---
lyrics: Wu Tun
music: Tongue
arrangement: Tongue
vocals: Wu Tun
guitar: Zhu Xiaolong
guitar: Li Hongjun
bass: Wu Junde
keyboards: Guo Dagang
drums: Li Dan
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
Wild Children - Leave
We've arrived at such a good era.
People on the street busy rushing to the future.
They're inebriated, laughing and singing, and still complaining.
They've been dreaming of a good life for many years now.
We've arrived at such a good age.
Even more people soaked in mud without hope.
They borrow money to live in their own homes.
They dream about living the good lives others are living.
People and cars in all directions moving,
The red flag fluttering.
They stride along the avenues.
Neon lights glowing,
A scene of prosperity.
A girl's rouge intoxicating,
A fine wine's bouquet effervescing.
So I just put on my worn-out clothes and stand next to you.
So I just hold out my hand and get you to look at my poor appearance.
And you say I shouldn't destroy the nice scenery here.
So I just turn my head and leave such a good place.
---
music / lyrics: Zhang Quan / Xiao Suo
arrangement: Wild Children
vocals / lead guitar: Zhang Quan
vocals / rhythm guitar: Xiao Suo
bass: Li Zhengkai
chinese bongos: Chen Zhipeng
accordian: Zhang Wei
drums / djimbe: Kemaxiu
PRODUCED BY KEMAXIU
