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Led Zeppelin
18th November 2009, 20:35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEnZrGqRaQg

Any people out there who know Chinese and can translate the lyrics for me? :)

Oh, yeah, and the song is awesome so check it out.

RedStarOverChina
19th November 2009, 01:17
What a majestic night it is/
Leaves shivers along with their shadows/
The moonlight pierces through the wind
So transparent it gives you chills.
Yellow grassroots moistened/
With your frozen tears/


here's a sample...I don't know what you like about the song though, sometimes he sounds way out of tune.

Led Zeppelin
20th November 2009, 11:31
What a majestic night it is/
Leaves shivers along with their shadows/
The moonlight pierces through the wind
So transparent it gives you chills.
Yellow grassroots moistened/
With your frozen tears/


here's a sample...I don't know what you like about the song though, sometimes he sounds way out of tune.

Well, I like the music a lot and the verse/chorus structure sounds very good too. At least that's how it comes over to me. To be honest I also like his voice. I'm not really a fan of necessarily "good" sounding voices (good in the "official" sense, whatever that means...). I wouldn't be a fan of Neil Young or Bob Dylan if I was. :p

But yeah, the lyrics are decent. Could you also post the chorus?

By the way, the video looks very good too. Chinese rock seems very promising. It's not one of those languages which don't go well with rock at all, like Dutch or Farsi are. In my humble opinion of course.

RedStarOverChina
20th November 2009, 18:54
The chorus is different in almost every section. But they all depict stress:


So transparent it gives you chills/
...
Certain fears have arose/


Rock music isn't that popular among Chinese youth...It's more associated with people now in their 40s. These people were very much influenced by Western Culture in the 80s, until the Tiananmen Massacre at which point there seemed to be a silent backlash against Western music.

Also I get the impression that Rock Music in China purely aims to imitate Western music rather than being creative on its own.