1999 - GoodTime (Beyond Album)

1999 - Goodtime
Label: 滾石唱片 Rock Records (HK)

This is Beyond's fifteenth album and also their last studio album as original three piece band. The album has no Mandarin title but just English title "Goodtime", just like in "Paradise" album. The album slightly return to guitar orientated sound. As in their previous two albums (Surprise and Until You Are Here), the album represented Beyond hyper modern era.

"Good Time" is nice alternative rock song with lots of guitar explorations. The English chorus lyric is quite memorable. "失蹤 Missing" is also a strong song with nice guitar chopped rhythm. "錯有錯著 By Chance" is also not bad, the bluesy guitar lead in the intro is welcome by old time listener, indeed the song is quite old-times in style. "洗衣粉 Washing Power" is harder song, again very close to their Paradise-era. The album close with "hidden" track, "Evolution". It started after few seconds of silence.

Goodtime is actually quite strong album with all three members begin to employed their rock roots. Unfortunately this is also their farewell album. The band still released Live album after this.

Track List

01.Good Time

02. 失蹤 Missing

03. 錯有錯著 By Chance (lit. Own Wrong With)

04. 十八 Eighteen

05. 一百零一次 101 Times

06. 洗衣粉 Washing Power

07然後 And Then

08看星 Starry Night

09. 褪色 Fade Away

10. 荒謬 Ridiculous

11. 進化論(隱藏曲) Hidden Track: Evolution

Beyond Goodtime - released in November 1999, their last studio album

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1998 - Until You Arrive 不見不散 (Beyond Album)

1998 不見不散 
Until You Arrive
Label: 滾石唱片 Rock Records (HK) 

Until You Arrive / 不見不散 is Beyond's 14 studio album, sing mainly in Cantonese and released in December 1998. The album continued Beyond ultra modern sounds. Leave little trace of what done in Paradise album, which itself still very connected to Wong Ka Kui's era. Starting their previous album (Surprise) and this one, Beyond already left their root many miles behind.

The opening track "Sunday 星期天" is calm pop-rock style song. "犧牲 Sacrifice" is quite acoustic in mood. The upbeat song is "蚊 Mosquito", where the guitar riffs is very alternative rock in style. While "時日無多 Last Day" is a recalled of bluesy-rock guitar play. The harder song is "扯火 Fury" with at least leading distortion to be heard. The title song "不見不散 Until You Arrive" is quite ambient techno rock song. The album finished with instrumental "Phantom Power" with some slapping funky bass line and finally guitar solos.

Track List

01. 星期天 Sunday

02. 犧牲 Sacrifice

03. 蚊 Mosquito

04. 時日無多 Last Day

05. 討厭 Hate

06. 太完美 Perfection

07. 扯火 Fury (Pull fire)

08. 崇拜 Worship

09. 不見不散 Until You Arrive

10. 無重狀態 Free of Gravity

11. 奉信 Devotion

12.PHANTOM POWER (純音樂 instrumental)

Wong Ka Keong - bass, vocals
Wong Kui Chung - guitars, vocals
Yip Sai Yung - drums , vocals

Beyond in 1998 with Until You Are Here album.

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1997 - Surprise 驚喜 (Beyond Album)

1997 驚喜 Surprise

This is Beyond 13 studio albums. Notable in this album is the inclusion of additional guitar player Huang Zhongxian and Liu Zhiyuan. Huang is respected HK's session guitarist, while Liu Zhiyuan is actually Beyond's early band mate.

Surprise is full of surprise as an album. The whole sounds turns out to be more pop-rock, alternative rock and electronic music. Most thick in Deep 深 song. 驚喜 Surprise in other side is quite acceptable in style and become one of the album's popular song. Tsing Ma Bridge is instrumental, and 緩慢 Slow (Latency) is later released in 1998 album due to popularity.

This album also released in Mandarin version titled as "Here and There 這裡那裡" 1998.

Track List

01. 回家 Coming Home

02. 霧 Fog

03. 深 Deep

04. 驚喜 Surprise

05. 無事無事 Alright Alright

06我記得 I remember

07管我 Piss Off

08. 青馬大橋 Tsing Ma Bridge (instrumental)

09. 緩慢 Slow (Latency)

10. 不朽的傳說 An Immortal Tale

Wong Kui Chong - Guitars, vocals
Wong Ka Keong - Bass, vocals
Yip Sai Yung - Drums, vocals
Liu Zhiyuan, Huang Zhongxian - additionals guitars and musics

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