Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

When The World Ends

Nature is beautiful. Everything around that feels beautiful. My love for the origin, the cradle and the field of action for mankind is honest. And pure. Then again, there's always the dark side of the moon. Afterall, the fact that junta is fascinated by the end of civilization a.k.a 21st December 2012 is not total bullshit. Although logic, sense and rationality deny it. But who'll listen to me? I'm no Hrithik Roshan. Not total bullshit because the judgement day is nearing each day. Just 200 million years away now. O-crap minus one. Day. Already. And that's the nearest possibility of a dozen theories predicted.

Anyway what's funny is funny. A friend's Facebook homepage boasted of a status by his girlfriend, "How many of you believe that the world's gonna end on 21st?". A few graced that post with comments affirming how they believed. One guy went on with the pheko-logy,"Have faith in Nature!". I know, Oh-dear-God! I gave an euphoric expression associated with the words, BITCH, PLEASE! ;-)
Half a dozen people with a total IQ of less than 100, and their beliefs. I could use their beliefs instead of toilet paper and there won't be a scratch of conscience in my clean-wiped behind.

I still hope that the end comes. I am upbeat about it. What's funny is funny. And it's been a rather pathetic year for Manmohan Singh anyway, politics-wise and economy-wise. Months of NCERT Economics book-reading convince me that he won't hesitate in joining hands with the US(it's always them) to invite those alien-ships at the Taj Mahal for a grand, probably human, dinner. I hope those vegan pseudo-intellectuals step up with their firm resolve, then. Er, just saying!

We have less than a month. And Neo should be prepared for the rescue, just in case the world ends. I have a bad habit of getting subjective, something I'm working on these day. So after random blabbering, I'll get to the object of my post, a playlist. When The World Ends. There was a Dave Matthews Band song in The Matrix Reloaded by that title(here), but that's not what we are thinking. The singer is more like a moaning pervert, trying to have sex on his death bed in that song. Here's one kick-ass mini playlist I thought would work for me.

5 FIVE 
Lesiem - Temperantia (Bescheidenheit)
Well, we are going to need a lot violins, awesome(and innovative) percussion and a lot of mysterious synth. So here it is!

4 FOUR
Navras - Juno Reactor/Don Davis
With the obvious Indian connection in this one, need I say this is something ultimate. Music-wise, it adds Flute and Sitar to such conviction. Besides, this comes from the morning prayer we had in the assembly during my middle-school days. Another reason, The Matrix is just awesome. Ask Neo. What do you know, I'll lead us out of this big mayhem? The problem is choice.

From delusion lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortality.
Let there be peace everywhere.
When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the path supreme. No kidding.


3 THREE
Becoming One Of "The People" / Becoming One With Neytiri - James Horner
Too much of soundtracks? The basic idea of this playlist is to fit background music to life. I know, same thoughts! And movies are the closest escape from reality, offering everything you want. And who better than James Horner to fit in. This track, as the name says, fills the mind with a sense of what's really important in such times, of becoming one of your own, spiritually. The Indian connection, Nature, this movie has everything. Toruk Macto? Yeaahaa, bithes!

2 TWO
Mad World - Michael Andrews/Gary Jules
Donnie Darko classic. Gary Jules won't ever write a better song. If you've watched this movie, you'll feel the obvious connection.. deep enough to give you goosebumps when the Judgement Day arrives. Watch this video, PLEEEAAASSSEE! This song is so intriguing that dumbshit like me has been inspired to add a stanza of his own to these tunes. Very fitting. Thank you, you mad mad world, I'm grateful for my existence along with such music! Phew.

1 ONE
Now We Are Free - Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard
Is there ever a playlist without this? I am stuck ;-) A feeling of inspiration, ecstasy and liberation. On the big day, whether it is about the final resistance with collective strength, the ultimate defeat or the journey to the end, this piece will accompany you till the end! Have I gone nuts? Well, that's pretty usual. And expected.

0 ZERO
Strawberry Swing - Coldplay
Why? Because it is the tradition. I am talking about the ZERO thing. Why Strawberry Swing? That's tradition too. I am a real believer. These tunes calm me down, come what may. Main bhi hoon Nature. What do you know, Strawberry Swing might calm the elements of Nature to give up the destructive instinct. People deserve a chance. What's more important you won't be bothered even if it doesn't work. Because in the end, living is more important.

Now the sky could be blue, I don't mind. Seriously, I don't.




 now playing: Indian Ocean - Zindagi Se Darte Ho

Saturday, 9 April 2011

The Playlist

Dedicated to my lost iPod(with 1202 songs) and the few friends who helped me with there gyan to allow me to explore this massive world of good(yeah!) music.


Now I wasn't quite sure how to present this. So I decided to go for chronological order. The timeline is appromixate, and so is science. So here are the 50 songs begged-borrowed-stole to make it into my kick-ass blog. Not ranking my playlist; these are the ones that crossed my head during this following activity (oops! yeah, you read it right, my mind) :P


Year 2007 - The Beginning


1) Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
This was the mega start. I started believing.. This song was the religion. The cult I followed! John Frusciante! The fan in me was born!! :)


2)Imagine
John Lennon
First heard it when I was in 7th standard, was revisited this year. John Lennon. This man truly was incongruous. Unmatched personality with a set of principles of his own. Respect.


3) Nothing Else Matters
Metallica
If every life had a theme song, I would take that one!


4) Fanaa
A.R. Rahman


5)Snow (Hey Oh!)
Red Hot Chili Peppers


6)Time Of Your Life
Green Day


7)Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Best Guitar solo ever. Jimmy GOD Page.


8) Holiday
Green Day
This song is awesome as it is. I remember how I had the first of innumerable viva's of engineering life, and 2 days prior I didn't even have a book. Plus, those were the days I thought its sad to fail :P Last day, I was on a mission. Still remember the day in the Reading Hall. And this song!! Trust me.. its far better than caffeine :P

Year 2008 - Pink Floyd and Trance!

9) Another Brick In The Wall
Pink Floyd


10) Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Psychedelic Rock. A new world. What music can do to you - David Gilmour is the best at it!


11) November Rain
Guns N' Roses


12) Hotel California
The Eagles


13) Ecstasy
ATB


14) In The Dark
DJ Tiesto
Ecstasy and In The Dark were two of the few songs that incited an interest in the Ambient music, precisely all that is Trance. This was like adding another shade to my complete life. Trance does give you a new perspective!


15) Carnival of Rust
Poets Of The Fall


16) Illusions & Dreams
Poets Of The Fall
The poetic style of the Poets Of The Fall is captivating. The lyrics!


17) The Legacy
Iron Maiden
The intro - the raw sounds of guitar; nothing beats this one!!


18) Phase I
Porcupine Tree


19) Lazarus
Porcupine Tree
If I ever rank the songs I've heard, Lazarus would definitely be one of the top '#1's ;)


20) Under The Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers


21) Viva La Vida
Coldplay


22) Coming Back To Life
Pink Floyd


23) High Hopes
Pink Floyd


24) Ten Years Gone
Led Zeppelin
Absolutely love it esp the part where Plant cries, "Do you ever really need somebody.." :)

Year 2009 - The numbness & nothingness

25) Jalpari
Jal


26) Mausam & Escape
A. R. Rahman


27) Working Class Hero
John Lennon


28) Following The Sun
Enigma


29) Turn The Page
Metallica


Just WOW!


30) Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles
As much as people put Yellow Submarine from this album, Revolver as the best ever by The Beatles, for me Eleanor Rigby wins feet-up-hands-down-pee-in-the-sky!


31) Stand By Me
John Lennon


32) Riders On The Storm
The Doors


33) Behind Blue Eyes
The Who


34) Dream On
Aerosmith


35) Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
I remember the day I heard this first. I was ecstatic about having the world's fucking best song on my playlist!


36) Falling Slowly
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova


37) Norwegian Wood
The Beatles

Year 2010 - "Yes Sire, MUSIC is all I do..."


38) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles


39) Lady D'Arbanville
Cat Stevens


40) The Heart of Life
John Mayer


41) I Feel You
Schiller
In case you've not heard this, just youtube it.. right now!(Ah! just click!!) :)


42) Adiemus
Adiemus is a kinda musical project, or a series rather by Karl Jenkins - about whom I know nothing more than that he is a big-moustached-Welsh-man who composes such EPIC pieces!!
I would seriously regret my death, if I haven't heard THIS a million time by then ;) 


43) Love Generation
Bob Sinclair
Clearly, Sinclair is one of a kind; and this is Preity Zinta's favorite, hence.. ;)


44) Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd


45) Underdog
Kasabian


46) Love You Till The End
The Pogues


47) Fairytale Of New York City
The Pogues
The last two songs feature in the movie P.S. I Love You. Well, I love you or not, I damn love these tracks!

Year 2011 - Hello World!

48) Acid Darbari
A.R. Rahman


49) Guaranteed
Eddie Vedder


50) Society
Eddie Vedder
These two Eddie Vedder songs feature in the movie Into The Wild, which also happens to be my fucking FAVORITE!! Not until recently had i discovered the kick-ass-ness of the OSTs and Eddie Vedder, the LEGEND!
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I am sure there are a few hundred songs which I can't recall while finishing here, and a few which I deliberately skipped, coz I have personal favorites within my personal favorites :P To give credit to those who have been missed, this piece is so-MAHA-awesome, yet so incomplete because I'll never be able to choose the BEST 50 ;)

Friday, 25 June 2010

Kurt Cobain : The Man Who Sold The World

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain. A man whose death said more about him than his birth. When such men are talked about; no date-of-birth's are mentioned. Years they lived need not be counted : this is all irrelevant. To me, he was born the day I read this line in a miscellaneous article; and I linked Cobain's name to his image on a dude's T; and will perhaps live as long as I do.  Needless to say how restless I was reading the quote. I always believed in this thought; but no way a rockstar writes this! That's pretentious, I must've thought then. Not knowing what I was about to discover, for my own good!!

I read a lot about him. Nirvana. Grunge rock. I had heard all his albums in no time. Kurt had been this multi-talented boy good in all forms of art. The style of his death pinched me. But his legend was quick in influence upon me. A guitar in his hand increased my excitement for Guitar and gave me my latest love. John Lennon has been my idol ever since I heard IMAGINE. After having done enough research about this great man, Kurt Cobain was my idol too. And one day I read in an article on the internet :  Cobain called John Lennon his idol. And my joy was beyond expression! I've heard from some that a man who did heroin and perhaps under its effects, shot himself, cannot be an idol to a normal person. If that is so, I don't care what is normal.

In my opinion, every great band in the past had a genius whose intelligence worked magic for them. The soul  of the group's works. For Nirvana, Kurt was the genius. Visibly, many rockers don't know names of the other two members(or others who didn't stay). Nirvana's most successful song was Smells Like Teen Spirit. Another popular song Rape Me's guitar was basically Smells Like Teen Spirit backwards. Cobain thought that if a song was played backwards it would take on a new character.

Cobain's music continually challenged social evils. This song (Rape Me) was from the perspective of a victim replying to a rapist; again the reverse of  Polly which is from the perspective of the rapist, and is based on a true incident. Bob Dylan commented hearing the song, "The kid has a heart".To emphasize on Cobain's intentions; Nirvana played some benefits to help rape victims, including the "Rock Against Rape" concert in 1993, which raised money for a women's self-defense organization.

Clearly stating his sensibility, he was a different human-being. Where the social setup deters Man from going beyond limits, a thinker of Cobain's league is declared abhorrent. He was into heroin. He had been jailed for vandalism. His use of drugs prompts towards an escape that he was seeking. Although, this cannot be justified to moralists, I linked all his life up. The divorce of his parents is said to have an adverse effect on Kurt as a kid. But that wasn't the only problem. I found all answers in his philosophies, his Journals, and his suicide note.

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not"

His suicide note made people reconsider this quote of his.
He wasn't loving the music he had enjoyed all these years. A brainstorm of thoughts; that would kill him each time. Use of heroin was for the escape; he often pointed the dark side of doing drugs. He was too sensitive. He said he hated all humans; felt sorry for them because he loved them too much.

His search for happiness in the same world had lost hope. His work didn't give him anymore pleasure. The reason he said was that I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child. This numbness was all that he was seeking. This links us to another of Nirvana's song Dumb. This song describes the condition of a dumb person; as for some reason he is always happy, no matter what. Kurt Cobain, who had been declared one of the best songwriters, the grunge legend, wasn't happy about any thing. He often related to Buddhism and Jainism, though he was a Christian. And certainly not pretentious. The man couldn't use a shotgun in his mouth if he is faking! His thoughts were beyond our, the lesser mortals' perception. His life wasn't fun to him and :  The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

After his death, Nirvana grew in popularity higher than ever before. Kurt Cobain as a dead man, built a larger fan following. A cult rose in his remembrance. Grunge rock started to be considered his genre. Unplugged in New York topped the charts. Some claimed him to be talentless. Suicide was condemned by many. But that man was more than his music, his life, his possessions. His search was for Nirvana. He had no desires. He chose freedom....
And whenever somebody questions his death, the lines he asked the world to remember, mystify my mind..

I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away.

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Music

I rest, i sleep, i wake, i work.. I sit, i stand, i walk...n stop..
I finally lay down.. on my bed.. wondering... I
I cant find my peace.. I m bored of evrythng.. I get in a state of unrest... Something that is irresistible..
My head hurts... I take deeper breath.. I need something to cling upon.. something to pacify my mind....
To prevent it from thinking at all.....Almost like I wanna givein..


Theres some music.. I hear it... I feel the music in the air..
My body not in control... But the rythm gets my faint response...
Some movements beneath my flesh...
My heart thumps.. I feel blood rush down my ears..
I hear the sound.. The doors creak.. Air gushes out of my lungs..almost missing a breath...

I sense my senses fading..I barely feel alive...
It seems gothic, but who cares, its soothing... I try recollectin my senses, but fail.. I loose to the ambient.. A drowning feeling..

Its been long Im still.. I breathe.. stable enough..
My eyes are shut..My mind just follows the music...
And I feel some life...Energetic suddenly...
I feel something imaginative.. I get my colours.. I get my peace..
I get my xcitemnt.. A refreshing feeling.. A passionate one....

I recover..
I get life..

Music.. is a safe kind of high