PK14 - TAMEN

[jammingwithmarley]

I watched like a cool documentary on this band I think it was on my Youtube homepage

[Roodosutaa]

For the benefit of those who don't understand Chinese, here are the subtitles 0:19 Listen! They've started again! 0:26 Can't let this go on! 0:27 "THEM" as written on the thugs' shirts 0:35 An innocent citizen 0:37 "Come and have a taste!" of whatever the dude's selling 0:52 It's them again 1:18 OK. We're on the way 2:02 "OK!" or "Go!" or "Ready!" in this context 2:09 Who will save the people? 2:13 Fear not! We will (blah blah blah blah blah... about what they'll do)

[Mmccormick88]

Such a cool band. "White Paper" is one of the best art punk records of the 2000s, drawing from everything from Neu to the MC5 to Moss Icon and combining it together in a totally new way. As for the video, I'd imagine when you play with imagery like this in mainland China, you're seriously putting yourself on the line. So pissed I missed them when they toured the US.

[myomai]

Very good song and guitar work, like the guitar on the right at 1:40 and forward

[leftyisdabest]

saw these guys last night and after the gig me and a friend were just sitting in the concert hall and out comes Yang Haisong! So I say to my friend something along the lines of, "Holy shit, look it's Yang Haisong." and then he looks over at us, and approaches us and started a conversation with us for five minutes or so. Such a nice guy, really polite and funny. Made our night!

[Arashicupcake22]

太棒了~!

[flakmutant]

Classic

[dlobrown8888]

I'd rather be yellow who wears yellow glasses than being a fucking mindless, hopeless, useless, colourless, ugliness, futureless, illness, blinding, retarding, hairy body, balding head, red-necked, arse'ing, poor white man.

[Donahue2]

@dlobrown8888 I'm a white dude and I approve of this message.

[dlobrown8888]

LOL - That sounds contradictary..., the last I checked was two decades ago =P I wouldn't be doing anything if my eyes weren't open :) Yellows do have big eyes too O_O so whens the last time you went to the opticians? Got better things to list on rather than going about on Youtube talking out of your dirty white ass? Poor whiteman's face is a little too fucked up for anything. Filthy whiteman's pride is masturbation but that will end with your balls cut off and to be fed to the dogs, you tramp.

[tele912]

you're a fucking dick. I hope you burn with Hitler and Richard Nixon.

[cloedypdx]

youre an asshole

[penhess]

kinda sounds like the hives

[ThrowingMueslix]

太棒了. 没想到中国有这么好听的庞克音乐. Rock on.

[plasticmickey]

ha, love this shit. i actually sent it to some poor bastard in china through rapidshare since he didnt kno em and he couldnt get his youtube to work.

[pureecstasy]

what a voice!

you either love it or hate it

tinge of patti smith there perhaps

[djmaoku]

非常喜欢!

[liusha85]

中国音乐的生命力在地下生长，主流乐坛除了歌功颂德就是麻木不仁­的小丑表演！

[hvylobster]

@Packitlikesardines:

actually the chinese underground rock scene can be just as rebellious as western music, perhaps even more so because they live under an actual totalitarian government. of course, their lyrics tend to be a hell of a lot more vague and obscure

[Packitlikesardines]

That is kind of undermining my point. I just remarked upon the peculiarity of trying to have a true-to-punk band in a country where journalists and activists get imprisoned for trying to mediate a nuanced view on political activities. But thanks for your opinion. I shouldn't be too smug though. I like China. Studying Chinese at the moment. Hao bang!

[kittybastard]

@hvylobster

best example being 中南海 by carsick cars

the lyrics 抽烟只抽中南海 become a whole lot more meainingful when you realise he isn't talking about cigarettes.

[theironeye]

Nice one Dave! This is a cool clip, great to see it again!

[Packitlikesardines]

must be a tough job, living up to standard ideas of punk: criticism, disobedience, maverick free-thinking and a middle finger shoved in the anus of the system. This in a harsh, totalitarian, capitalistic state with repulsive methods in dealing with political dissidents. Too bad. I reckon they sing about ear-wax and times of joy, kind of like Blink 182

[pk14]

thank you. shame you don't understand chinese.

[Packitlikesardines]

Ni shuo dui. Keshi wo ting budong tai hao. Wo gai qu zhongguo xue zhongwen yidianr. Yinwei ni shuo wo bu kandong zhongyu. Zai jian.

Förresten. Berätta för mig då, vad jag inte förstår, såvida du inte blir haffad och satt i fängelse för det.

[panayotaki]

你太聪明了

[groggyde]

Great band! Just saw them live in chengdu!

[thetenzenmen]

search for 'the MAYBE MARS series' on facebook for more fabulous punk, rock, indie, noise coming out of china. new pk-14 cd in october

[paltschwimen]

mm i love pk14. this is such a awsome vid, I wish i could understand chineese though -__-

[yaimogwei]

one of the best chinese rock bands

[weiner66]

why the world is not that excited by Chinese rock bands

[yaimogwei]

soon...

[tovelina69]

The drummer in PK14 is my cousin,Jonathan is a swed:)

[sirdemonbrown]

i dug it.lead singer sounds like dave thomas of pere ubu. that's a good thing!

[botulismbunny]

OK thats what I was hearing. Yeah he does.

[Fiendhorn]

Superb

[Ares22]

awesome!!