After many personnel changes, the members of the band were Dong Yaqian, Shi Li, Ji Geng, and Yang Yougeng by the time Omnipotent Youth Society was released.
[3] Since its release, the album has received positive reviews from some music critics and mainstream media in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Influenced by American rock band Blind Melon, The Nico was formed in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, in 1996.
[5] The initial members were Ji Geng (Bass), Zhang Peidong (Drum), and Dong Yaqian (Guitar and lead vocalist).
[6] In 2000, Dong Yaqian suffered serious depression after his childhood friend and classmate, Ji Geng, went to the south of China for further study.
After the new drummer, Xun Liang, joined the band, The Nico officially changed its name into Omnipotent Youth Society under the suggestion of Ji at the end of the same year.
[6] In 2004, Xun and Cui left the band, and Ji went to Hebei Normal University for postgraduate studies in English.
Band members were reluctant to go to studios for the work, so they planned to finish the job at home, which brought lots of problems.
With the new equipment, OYS finally finished the recording of the electric guitar part of “Ten Thousand Hippies” and “Qinhuangdao”.
[4] The first track, "The Hall of Dog's Urine", and the fifth song, "Summer Record of Foreign birds", are purely instrumental.
Ji Geng, the songwriter, admitted that he replaced the word "square" with "pub" to make "cruel" things "relatively romantic".
The arrangements of this song feature many instruments: starting with a blues slide, proceeding with a solo of early-style-blues, and ending with guitar noise and free jazz.
", was uploaded to the Internet, containing demos of "Kill That Man from Shijiazhuang", " The Non-omnipotent Comedy", and "Qinhuangdao", which were recorded by OYS between 2003 and 2004.
These bootleg albums included live versions of "Kill That Man from Shijiazhuang", " The Non-omnipotent Comedy", "Qinhuangdao," "One Hundred Thousand Hippies," and "Big Block Smashing on the Chest", with some of the band's unpublished songs.
[13][14][7][8] The CD version of the official album was originally released on November 12, 2010, by the band themselves, and the signing was hosted at the Yuyintang bar.
(OYS) features folk rock and unfamiliar melodies, leaping thoughts like poetry, dense, subtle, and twisting metaphors, young and lazy singing like moans.
[21] After its release, the album went popular with listeners and musicians from Taiwan,[22][6] and influenced the local music industry to some extent.