张楚是中国摇滚音乐史上的一名现象级歌手,他见证了中国摇滚在1990年代中期的一个高潮。在“魔岩三杰”当中,他的歌词文学性最强。在他之前,有崔健所积累的摇滚的能量,在“新音乐”与“流行音乐”的交替间产生。在他之后,是朴树与许巍这样一群在“摇滚”中放弃社会批判,寻求内心解脱的歌手。夹在这两者中间,张楚的价值就凸现了出来。他失去了崔健身上集体主义的印记, Zhang Chu, a phenomenal singer in the history of Chinese rock music, witnessed a climax of Chinese rock in the mid-1990s. Among the “magic rock three Jie”, his lyrics literary strongest. Before him, there is Cui Jian accumulated rock energy, in the “new music” and “pop music” between the alternating. After him, it is a group of artists such as Hackney and Xu Wei who gave up social criticism in “Rock and Roll” and seek inner relief. Sandwiched between these two, Zhang Chu’s value highlights. He lost Cui Jian’s collectivism mark,