Looking back on the origins of band music, Tao Hsiao-ching attributes its popularity to the albums of Lo Ta-yu and the fact that many proprietors of pubs and other establishments that hire live music started putting emphasis on "the band sound." The social commentary in the lyrics of these songs also elicited a strong response.
追究這一波樂團熱潮的起源，陶曉清說，主因是歌手羅大佑的專輯與演唱會大量使用 BAND SOUND（樂團現場演奏），歌曲中批判的形式也引起市場廣泛的迴響。