1989 Beyond IV

BEYOND IV
1989 - Label: Cinepoly

Their fourth Cantonese album, majority is pop-rock materials. The hits Really Love you (Cen Dik Oi Nei) is the mainstream success, also available in Mandarin version retitled as Ni Zidao Wo De Miwang. This song is Beyond most popular hit in Indonesia. The other hits are track #7, Cin Ci Je Si Passing Day, which is from "Naughty Gemini" radio drama.

Overall Beyond raising their pop level, making this album actually easy listening. After few spin it will be all become memorable. Unfortunately the rest of the song did not get much play.

Track List:

1. 真的愛妳 (Cen Dik Oi Nei)（電影《開心鬼救開心鬼》 插曲) - Really Love You (TV Series OST)
2. 我有我風格  (Wo You Wo Feng Ge) - I Have My Style
3. 曾是擁有 (Cang Si Jung Jau) - Once Owned
4. 摩登時代 (Mo Ten Se Tai) - Modern Times
5. 原諒我今天 (Yen Yi Wo Cin Thien) - Forgive Me Today
6. 與妳共行 (Ci Ni Kong Sin) - And You Were OK
7. 逝去日子 (Cin Ci Je Se)（無線電視劇《 淘氣雙子星 》主題曲) - Passing Day (Radio drama OST)
8. 爆裂都市 - Explosive City (also translated as Wooow)
9. 午夜迷牆 (Cien Ye Ni Ciang)（電影《 黑色迷牆 》主題曲) - Midnight Wall (the movie " The Black Wall "theme song)
10. 最後的對話  (Cui Hou Ye Ti Hua) - The Final Dialogue

Beyond IV 1989 album cover

Beyond IV 1989 album booklet, Wong Ka Kui, Yip Se Wing, Wong Kui Chong, Wong Ka Keung

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1988 Beyond Secret Police 秘密警察

秘密警察 - Secret Police
Bei Mat Ging Caat
1988 - Label: Cinepoly

The third professional studio album by Beyond. This album considered their breakthrough. They had success bringing hard rock music into the mainstream. The album consisted numbers of hits. The first song, Cung Hoi Jat Cai (not sure how to translate this...it literally mean "to open"...) is heavy. The guitar intro is classic. Secret Police also heavy song, the intro riffs is awesome and the song sing under galloping bass line. Goodbye Faith repeated their first album, re-arranged, mixed with better guitar sounds and shorter than original. The Earth (Tai Di) is one of Beyond most popular songs. Followed by Hei Fun Nei / Love You. Both are extremely popular later.  未知賽事的長跑 (Mei Zi Coi Si Dik Coeng Paau) - Unknown Long-Distance Run, is heavy song ala Iron Maiden in the beginning. The last song Jyun Ngo Nang - Wish I Could is also familiar to ear. All the rest seems filler only.

note that I hardly able to translate the song titles meaning, basically just picked from Google translate.

Track List

1. 衝開一切 (Cung Hoi Jat Cai) - Entrance

2. 秘密警察 (Bei Mat Ging Caat) - Secret police

3. 再見理想 (Zoi Gin Lei Soeng) - Goodbye Faith

4. 昨日的牽絆 - Yesterday's Tie Him Down

5. 未知賽事的長跑 (Mei Zi Coi Si Dik Coeng Paau) - Unknown Long-Distance Run

6. 大地 (Tai ti) The Earth

7. 喜歡妳 (Hei Fun Nei) - Love You

8. 每段路 (Mei Dyun Lou) - Each Way

9. 心內心外 (Sam Noi Sam Ngoi) - Inside Heart Outside heart

10. 願我能 (Jyun Ngo Nang) - Wish I could

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1988 Beyond - Modern Stage 現代舞台

現代舞台 Modern Stage
Jin Doi Mou Toi - Xian Dai Wu Tai (Pinyin)
1988 - Label: KINN'S

The second Cantonese album. Beyond was still a five piece band, the other former member are Lau Chi Yuen (Liu Zhiyuan) and Dang Wai Him. Overall this album put down most of their hard rock style as in their previous album, bringing more pop-rock sounds on board.

Old Footprints (舊日的足跡 or Yesterday's Footprints) is a direct adaptation to its 1986 version from their self produced album. Crimson Blood has a nice groove, a regular playlist. Triumph In The Skies is a minor feel rock song. Cold Rainy Night is a popular song that in regular playlist. Modern Stage is a happy Hong Kong dance rock song, not much being played later. The other four songs did not have much memorable moment, can considered as filler only.

Modern Stage saw Beyond begin to reach wider audience by lowering their hard rock styles. Although then, this album very enjoyable with all songs easily become memorable after few spin.

Track List:

1. 舊日的足跡 (Gau Jat Dik Zuk Zik)- Yesterday's Footprints
2. 天真的創傷 (Tin Zan Dik Cong Soeng) - Innocent Wound
3. 赤紅熱血 ( Cek Hung Jit Hyut) - Crimson blood
4. 衝上雲霄 (Cung  Soeng Wan Siu)- Triumph In The Skies
5. 冷雨夜 (Lang Jiu Je) - Cold Rainy Night
6. 雨夜之後 (Jyu Je Zi Hau) - After a Rainy Night
7. 現代舞台 (Jin Doi Mou Toi) - Modern Stage
8. 午夜流浪 (Ng Je Lau Long) - Midnight Rovers
9. Once Again
10. 城市獵人 (Sing Si Lip Jan) - City Hunter
11. 迷離境界 (Mai Lei Ging Gaai) - Twilight Zone

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1987 Beyond - Arabian Dancing Girl 亞拉伯跳舞女郎

亞拉伯跳舞女郎 Arabian dancing girl

Aa Laap Baak Tiu Mou Neoi Long - Ya La Bai Diao Wu Nu Ren (Pinyin)
1987 - Label : KINN'S 

This is the first full professional studio album by Beyond. It is in Cantonese. Overall this album still has a thick hard rock root. The hit Arabian Dancing Girl bring Beyond to their first door of success. Noted that former member  Dang Wai Him and Lau Chi Yuen may still present in the band, as they are listed as member until 1988.

This album highly influence by Oriental Eastern scale. The first track Oriental Treasures is the direct adaptation of Long Way Without Friends from their previous album. Dune Witch (literally mean Demon Woman from the Desert) is a highly energetic Easter scale hard rock, I am not sure why this song didn't make it into Beyond repertoire. Dance From the Past (昔日舞曲) is the second hit that made it into Beyond repertoire. Silent Farewell is still in their original unpolished version, but later this song will be have regular play. Passing to Present is showing Yip Sai Wing great drumming. There are not much hits from the rest of the repertoire. 

The album did not do very well in the market where hard rock is too much for mainstream audience.

Arabian Dancing Girl is adapted into Mandarin version with different lyric and title, become 射手座咒語Shèshǒu zuò zhòuyǔ Sagittarius spell. It is on the album The Glorious Years.

Track List: 

1. 東方寶藏 (Dung Fong Dong Fang) - Oriental Treasures

2. 亞拉伯跳舞女郎 (Aa Laap Baak Tiu Mou Neoi Long) - Arabian Dancing Girl

3. 沙丘魔女 (Saa Yao Mo Nei) - Dune Witch

4. 無聲的告別 (Mou Seng Dik Gou Bit) - Silent Farewell

5. 追憶 (Zeoi Jik) - Recall

6. 昔日舞曲 (Sik Jat Mou Kuk) - Dance from the Past

7. 新天地 Xintiandi – New World

8. 隨意飄蕩 (Ceoi Ji Piu Dong) - Drifting Wishes

9. 過去與今天 (Gwo Heoi Jiu Gam Tin) - Passing to Present

10. 孤單一吻 (Gu Daan Jat Man) - Solitary Kiss

11. 玻璃箱 (Bo Li Seong) - Glass Box

12. 水晶球 (Seoi Zing Kau) - Crystal Ball

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Beyond - 亞拉伯跳舞女郎 Arabian Dancing Girl Cover

Back Cover for 亞拉伯跳舞女郎

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1986 Beyond - Goodbye Faith 再見理想

再見理想 Goodbye Faith 
Zoi Gin Lei Soeng  -  Zàijiàn lǐxiǎng(pinyin)

(officially also translated as Goodbye My Dreams)

1986 - Self Finance

This is Beyond first self finance album. Not really considered as their official studio album. The sign of Beyond diverse rock style and modern approach already present. 

If you haven't listen to this, do it now! This is Beyond most original sounds which is deeply root in hard rock and blues. It was no surprise that this album did not make it into mainstream Cantonese music listener. This was so underground. The hits is in Goodbye Faith, where it was regularly played on concert. Then Yesterday's Footprints (Old Footprints) is also a regular play. In 2005, all three member resurrected the first track Waiting Forever, a very hard rock in nature.  Long Way Without Friends  is oldies blues song, where the guitar is shredding all the way. This song will later adopted into their first professional album re-titled and re-arranged as Oriental Treasures. Most of other songs were forgotten by fans and the band.

Noted that translations are not official, assisted by Google and Cantonese translator.

Track List - Youtube Play list:

1. 永遠等待 (Wing Jyun Dang Doi) - Waiting Forever  5:06
2. 巨人 (Geoi Jan) - Giants 5:21

3. Long Way Without Friends 7:22 (English)

4. Last Man Who Knows You 1:53 (English)

5. Myth 6:34 (English)

6. 再見理想 (Zoi Gin Lei Soeng) - Goodbye Faith (Goodbye My Dream) 7:18

7. Dead Romance (Part I) 6:53 - instrumental

8. 舊日的足跡 (Gau Jat Dik Zuk) - Yesterday's Footprints 6:22

9. 誰是勇敢 (Seoi Si Jung Gam) - Who is Brave  6:18

10. The Other Door 4:24 instrumental

11. 飛越苦海 (Fei Jyut Fu Hoi) - My Bitterness Fly over the Sea 4:19

12. 木結他(即興彈奏) Acoustic Guitar (improvised play)  1:34

13. Dead Romance (Part II) 4:03

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1984 Hong Kong Guitar Competition Compilation

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Beyond Discography

This is Beyond discography, covering from 1984 up to current day. The official studio album last released in 1999, and the official live album with three members last released in 2005.

Compiling Beyond discography is complicated job, there are simply existed too many versions. What listed below is considered most accepted Beyond discography. They are divided into Cantonese albums, Mandarin albums, live albums and compilations albums.

About This Blog

Welcome,

Beyond-Amani.blogspot.com is a blog tribute for Beyond 超越, the greatest rock band from Hong Kong. This is the band that turned Hong Kong rock n roll music in the late '80s. The quartet then suffered the most tragic lost when Wong Ka Kui, founder singer and guitarist of the band, die in stage accident in 1993. The band continue the legacy as a trio and their popularity even greater ever.

If you found this website you must be Beyond fans by now. This blog try to reach the English speaker and Indonesian speaker Beyond fans around the world. There is enough web resources for Beyond-ology but mostly only available in Mandarin / Cantonese, so this blog try to fills in English language. I am Beyond fans from Indonesia, and listen to Beyond for most of the '90s.

This blog try to listed out all Beyond discography. As we know, it is very difficult to build a comprehensive discography for Hong Kong artist, because they just produced a lot and created a lot version of it also. Basically the 'canon' of Beyond discography can be divided into five categories:

1. Cantonese Albums
2. Mandarin Albums
3. Japanese Albums
4. Live Albums
5. Compilation / Featured albums
See BEYOND Discography page

All known albums from Beyond will be posted in this blog. The other important information is, this blog try to give translation of what Beyond song titled mean. Some of the songs officially given English title (such as Amani, Cryin' etc.), some given an official translations (such as Sea & Sky, Corrupt the Young, The Glorious Days). For most of the song, there is no official translations, and as we know, Mandarin and Cantonese phrases is very difficult to translate into English language, without losing its proper meaning which only make senses in their original language. Most of the time I used Google translate to do the job and cross check whether this translation come close to the meaning.

I will also try to give the Pinyin for each title. In Indonesia, some of the song are popular just by its Mandarin title. The case is Cantonese titles will not works in Pinyin, and I did not speak Cantonese. If you are Cantonese reader, please help on giving Romanization of the titles.

Yours : J  B  E  I

"Amani Nakupenda We We " mean I love You , Peace

is one of Beyond most popular song

Beyond are:
Wong Ka Kui 黃家駒 – vocals, rhythm guitar ( ceased in 1993)
Paul Wong Koon Chung 黃貫中 – lead guitar, vocals
Wong Ka Keung 黃家強 – bass guitar, vocals
Yip Sai Wing 葉世榮 – drums, percussion, vocals

Sources for this blog can be found on these links:

http://www.beyondmusic.net/balbum.html

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond

http://beyondmuseum.net/list.aspx?cid=29
http://beyond-4ever.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/beyondmusicnet/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_(band)
http://www.cdbao.net/thread-327-1-1.html