Good Chinese music?

[imron]

If you're in China, you'll get much better quality and results from google music: http://www.google.cn/music

[tooironic]

Oooh! Interesting post. I'm a big Bjork and Radiohead fan too, amongst other "alt" music. That being said I do enjoy some mindless C-Pop every now and then.

My two favourite Chinese singers I'd recommend to you are Sun Yanzi 孙燕姿 and Faye Wong 王菲, although I'm not sure if you'd call them C-Pop in the traditional sense of the word. Especially Faye Wong, seeing as she'd had a pretty monolithic career - not all her albums have that washed out treble-max sound like Cyndi Wang, et al. Their clips are all up on youtube if you want to check them out.

[nabary]

Very intersting post, indeed. You are right, Faye Wong has realy something special. I never forget her version of Sinead O'Connor's "Thank you for hearing me" (can be watched here: [http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=9gPZ4N86R5g witch is almost better then the original (only my opinion ).

But I also listen to Sammi Cheng and Denise Ho (or Hocc), both with great voices and (sometimes) very good lyrics. And - gone but a real Queen of Canto Pop - Anita Mui.

[kabukiboy]

If you're interested in avantgarde music, I know a few excellent bands to check out, although they're instrumental.

almost 3 years too late but anyway....give me some advice please! :-)

[zhuhao]

Two of my favorite instrumental bands in Beijing at the moment are Wangwen (惘闻) and Sparrow (文雀). Check them out and let me know what you think!

[roddy]

Many thanks for these and the other recommendations - it's been ages since I plugged any new Chinese music into my collection - probably one of the early Modern Sky samplers from back in the day, when 面的s still roamed the streets, and I could afford to buy two 鸡蛋灌饼s at a time. Am going to listen to some of this stuff - not sure how much of it will stick, but it's all good fun.