1995 - Love & Life (Beyond Mandarin album)

愛與生活 [Love & Life]
1995 Label: 滾石唱片 Rock Records (HK) 

"Love & Life" is Beyond sixth Mandarin album. Most of song here are unique and exclusively found only in Mandarin version. Overall it was a Mandarin version of their Cantonese album "Sound". This album try to act as the softer version of "Sound" album, but most of heavy songs are included here. The highlight of the album is a song "Love" which is exclusively in Mandarin lyric, mostly sung by drummer Yip Sai Yung.


Track List

1. Unrequited 一廂情願 (also mean Wishful Thinking)
    Cantonese version: Emotion
2. Absent-minded Persons 糊塗的人 –
    Cantonese version: Doormen
3. The Only 唯一 (literally: Unique)
4. Sound 聲音 –
    Cantonese version : Sound
5. Love
6. The Last Answer 最後的答案–
    Cantonese version: Crack
7. Wonderful Life 活得精彩
8. Cryin' –
    Cantonese version : Cryin’
9. Dreams 夢
10. Absurd World 荒謬世界 –
      Cantonese version: Corrupt the Young

Line Up Beyond 1995:
Wong Kui Chung
Wong Ka Keong
Yip Sai Wing

1995 Mandarin album of Beyond "Love & Life", which built up from the Cantonese "Sound" album. The album highlight song is "Love"

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1995 - Sound (Beyond album)

SOUND
1995 - Label: 滾石唱片 Rock Records (HK)

Immediately after the success of Paradise (1994), Beyond followed with Sound in 1995. This album was their new testing ground. The band fly to Los Angeles to recorded, and the it was mixed in Vancouver, Canada. After the album done, Beyond do a concert in Hong Kong Cultural Center and it was broadcast live to major shopping center in Hong Kong.

Musically the album heavily influenced by arising "grunge" era in the US. Wong Kui Chung's guitar are very dominant. Surely the album much heavier than ever before, hence the title "Sound". The first tracks "Iron Monkey" is a drum solo by Yip. Then the song "Corrupt the Young" is their single, in which the guitar riffs are memorable. Another heavy song is "Sound" which is also has memorable bass-riff in the intro. Both songs are quite frequent in Beyond concert list afterward. "Animal Fight" is also heavy metal in style. The mellow songs consists of many popular hits "Crack", "Cryin'", "Emotions", all close to their fans as memorium to Wong Ka Kui.

Some of the songs are available in Mandarin version with slightly different lyrics. This album comes in Mandarin version called "Love & Life", which is focus to mellow and ballad styles.

Track List

01. 鐵馬騮(演奏曲) Iron Monkey
02 . 教壞細路 Corrupt The Young  (official English translation) –
       Mandarin version: Absurd World 荒謬世界
03. 缺口  Crack -
      Mandarin version: The Last Answer 最後的答案
04. 阿博  Bob
05.Cryin '
06 . 聲音 Sound
07. 困獸鬥 Animal Fight
08. 逼不得已Forced
09. 門外看 Doorman -
      Mandarin version: Absent-minded Persons 糊塗的人
10. 嘆息 Emotions - Unrequited 一
      Mandarin version : 廂情願 (also mean Wishful Thinking)
11. 幻覺 Illusions

the second Beyond album after Wong Ka Kui death. This album memorable for its heavy sound, in respond to the Grunge era of the mid '90s.

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