It is less than two minutes long and there is just one phrase which is repeated in chorus many a time: the last man that knows you. I was hooked by this debut album from Beyond when I first heard it back in the early 1990s, and now it still sounds as fresh as it ever was.
The album was in fact a self-financed demo album from the pop band from Hong Kong. I have never heard anything so raw yet so charming and powerful from that territory since. The energy and the drive is not uncommon in the debut albums of some of the most successful bands. The album is named Goodbye Idealism and how sad this seemed to be exactly what they had to do in their pursue for survival and success in Hong Kong pop.
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