Cui Jian - Nothing To My Name

[BoiPenis]

I find this easy to fap to.

[onewaytosavetheday]

This is awesome!

[BlueFox284]

I'd try to stop a column of tanks to this.

[RatherWeird]

Happy year of the Dragon

[epiphone4life4]

I never thought i could connect to a song in another language like i have with this song. it is truly amazing. it represents the burden carried by an entire generation. it accomplishes this goal perhaps more so than any song i have ever heard, in any language.

[BoiPenis]

@epiphone4life4 Thank you for doing my music homework.

[filipamd]

it's Tsui Jee-anne

[filipamd]

heard this today on my china history class. rock is truly universal ;^;

[JesusPaid4You]

"Cui Jian was Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Kurt Cobain all rolled into one, a one-man rock and roll revolution"

[grail68]

4 people just can't recognize good music. I'm not even going to try to be clever about it.

[jaketheman091]

Why take the biggest hit in Chinese rock history and just bash it? I'm American and I collect albums from everywhere, and this is a great song! Did he seriously scrounge up this mostly "laughable" notoriety because of Wikipedia? For those of you who found him on there and regard this as an 80s classic, good work! But to those who are merely "entertained" by the existence of Chinese rock, grow up. Cui Jian knew his stuff even back then. Rock truly has no barriers.

[mycommentsalwaystrue]

@joshuamanimtim2 go suck noynoy aquinos authoritarian cock faggot I laugh at the philippines poverty and I hope every single filipino that somehow makes it to america is forced to scrub toilets for lower wages than mexicans

[p12wwh]

@mycommentsalwaystrue One day you will look back at this comment and feel embarrassed and foolish.

[Koroodetto]

Lyrics:

I’ve asked over and over, when will come with me

But you always laugh at me having nothing

I want to give you my dreams, to give you my freedom,

But you always just laugh at me having nothing…

Can it be that you’re telling me you love me having nothing.

[BearGirl26]

Yes, I found this song through Wikipedia...but it was from looking up Chinese rock bands, not from some featured article.

[carrottheninja]

@BearGirl26 aren't you cool



[marracotube]

This is the same Cui Jian song named "I have nothing"?

[RmSlayR]

how do you pronounce his name ?

[vengeurglorieux]

@RmSlayR

Tz'ooey Djien

[Stektanudlar]

@RmSlayR Probably something like "Sooy Jee-an", however dn't mind me :P I don't speak Chinese.

[UltraPandamonium]

@RmSlayR It's pronounced "Su-Jan", I think. Don't quote me on it.

[Play3r0ne]

@UltraPandamonium Think it's closer to "Su-ee Gee-an"

[JeffreyViper]

That's pretty much right, except that his name starts with a sound you don't here quite as often in english. It's a ts sound. Like at the end of the word "cats," or "starts."

[yidinghe]

@UltraPandamonium more like "ts-way drien"

[hukslee]

@UltraPandamonium cui = tsway (like the verb sway in english but with a t infront of it), jian = jyen (pronounce yen, as in the currency, with the J sound in front of it)

[eatmydust166]

I brought myself here....

[littlteapot]

Hu Jintao, Mau Tze Tung, Kim John Il and Karl Marx all disliked this.

[13hehe]

@littlteapot bahahha. excellent comment

[Ichisokeno]

Its oddly haunting... it represents the anguish of the Chinese youth from the late 70s and 80s and I don't understand a single world but I will say that it is haunting.

[MaurMusic77]

thnx wikipedia.

[heracliteanflux1]

Big ups Cui Jian.

[COPMMUSIC]

this is the greatest song ever made

[RKarshenas]

Not bad solo guitar.

[piconese]

@satv365 it was the 80's, dude. rock music in general failed in that decade!

[em4rulz]

@piconese Fail. Rock music and music in general from the 80s was some of the best ever made.

[Fetcha200]

TheSpeedCube

*checks his email

150,000 new comments on "Nothing to My Name".

Ummm.. wtf?

[MarcusKerensky]

Wikipedia Rocks, saw this in there as well.  I miss the vibrance and energy of the late 80's and 90's. Too much emo, and not enough Tienemen Squares. This song gives me hope though. Beautiful work.

[SyncChrome]

I love da Wiki

[vincentwbriggs]

Where do I download this song?

[Maladath]

Wikipedia, of course. Such a wonderful thing.

[Zeanu]

This should have BILLIONS of views...

[ZackInCali]

Wikipedia

[COPMMUSIC]

i can respect it, because cui jian grew up with traditional Chinese music but, bridge the gap between the american sound and chinese music....through his influences with the beatles and lennon, pretty cool

[bouse23]

there is a beat to it and it was made for its time and place to many chinese its probably like that scorpions song the winds of change

[eddiec360]

Wow. Can't believe all of you got this from wikipedia's "Todays featured article" as well. Hahaha

[roymarluxia]

It's really amazing to listen to this kind of protest song.Too bad sometimes we just don't happen to know what is going on in the other side of the world.

[zzzzJAGJEETzzzz]

My girlfriend left em a few months ago and this isn't helping ahahaha nah its good thank you wikipedia for an amazing song solidarity with all my brothers in a struggle against power

[FreshFruitInc]

this is fucking terrible. fuck you wikipedia, FUCK YOU.

[19andlife]

@tangypasta Um, it already WAS a hit, dude.

[imp84]

wikipedia ftw

[tornadoslaye]

thank you wiki

[venichen1]

god bless wikipedia

[Reaperlastfm]

@venichen1

Indeed! May Odin magically infuse wikipedia with his blessings and charms.

[zpct]

Didn't expect this song to be this good actually. I'm chinese and I hate chinese music... but this isn't bad.

[mycommentsalwaystrue]

learn english slanteyes

[ddevil02]

@mycommentsalwaystrue I speak for a lot of people when I kindly say SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU RACIST PRICK!

[AndyMaines93]

@mycommentsalwaystrue English has a capital letter, you ignorant tit. 

[jjwelham]

@mycommentsalwaystrue why does he need to learn English

[mycommentsalwaystrue]

@jjwelham cause he's a slant-eyed yellow rice-eating piece of shit

[jjwelham]

@mycommentsalwaystrue he is from the same place as me and you

[lollerbanner]

Wikipedia xD

[MrGreyDreams]

he sounds like a a chinese version of sting

[HailChaos]

Thumbs up if you knew this dude long before he was featured on wikipedia!

[BlazinHothead]

I came here cuz of wikipedia.

[myownservant]

Sounds good.

[tangypasta]

I'd laugh if wikipedia made this a hit

[13hehe]

@tangypasta this was a hit already 20 years ago in China...and China has always had a huge population..

[ashtonnesmith]

Well, that was nice. Now back to huqin.

[sweiland75]

Too bad people in China can't access Youtube nor Wikipedia.

[mycommentsalwaystrue]

@sweiland75 wikipedia can be accessed in China (as of May when I was there)

[utcursch]

The earth beneath my feet is moving.

The river beside me is flowing.

But you always laugh at me with,

Nothing to my name.

Why do you always laugh at me so?

Why don't I give up?

Why do you see me as,

Forever having nothing to my name?

Ohhh….

Just go with me now!

[vincentwbriggs]

where do i download this song?

[LordoftheTeletubbies]

@vincentwbriggs You have to search Cui Jian on iTunes and scroll down the list of songs 'till you find the one that's 5:33 long.

[maalbe987]

I love it even though I can't understand a single word of it!

[maalbe987]

Ain't Wikipedia great?

[cjgone2]

Lol, got here from wikipedia.

[m3ntalcollid3r]

I never knew this guys music till I read an artical in wikipedia, haha I know. Then it hit me, back in high school I ripped an artical called China's Youth Wait For Tomorrow

with a picture of a young chinese guitarist and I thought it was cool so I kept it. Now that I realized who it was I found the artical in my old school bag and decided to put it up on my wall to remember that there was still good music.

[Tfrne]

That's a kickass guitar solo it's got, too!

[13hehe]

@Tfrne i think the guitar solo is by a Jamaica dude named Eddie, he's always doing the major guitar solos in the live shows with Cui..

[felx34]

saw this on wikipedia.....

[Kool4Sure]

@felx34 I know right? :P That's what got me here too.

[carpediem081]

@Kool4Sure me too lol

[Ancientlordx]

@carpediem081 me three lol

[Tekrostw]

@felx34 me 2 :D



[weiming63]

@felx34 I saw it on wikl as well

[audevourahn]

I like it!

[DeviantCharles]

It sounds like it's somewhere between Phil Collins and The Police in the mid 80s.

[GuoBia]

My family left the mainland but this is still an anthem for us.

[harry2sing4u]

This song inspired me to write Heavenly Peace in 1992. Documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace is concluded with Mrs. Ding Zilin. Couldn't bring myself to publishing cause I didn't want to intrude. In 2004 I saw her on German TV announcing the founding of The Mothers of Tienanmensquare. Then I published. Today I find my song related to Cui Jian, Nothing to My Name. Thank you. What happened june 4th 1989 changed my life. ♡

[ForeverInYourHands69]

why???????????i never heard of him until Social Studies

amazing

[IamGIRobeyme]

i understand very little of this but i love it X3

[mabuhayguy]

AWESOME!

[unpointsword]

What a great song.