Monday, October 17, 2011

Daniel Bedingfield

1) Thanks to Sidhant Jain. This beautiful song was playing(correct english?) in his phone when I got to know about it. Awesome voice this person has. If You're Not The One





Everything about this song is amazing. These lyrics, this composition, anybody would want to fall in love after hearing this one! At 01.50, 'I don't know why..' is sooo beautiful.. At 01:58, 'and i hope' to 02:18 'i build my home with..' is awesome again. Then at 02:22, its 'I hope.. i love..you all.. my life..' is amazing... too good.
I always used to hear till this, and then revert the song back to the start to listen to it again. But this one day I realized what I was missing! There is this beeeesst part.. starts at 02:53, 'coz I miss you...'  This part went  into me after 2-3 hearings, and now when I listen to this song, I wait for this part. I love to sing it along.

2) Never Gonna Leave Your Side
Another nice song. (I would have called it aweesome a few months ago, but now I have heard freddie and billy :D)  The amazing voice and lyrics. 'I gotta have a reason to wake up in the morning...' I love this part.  Then there is 'coz when I lying in your arms, I know I'm home..'.

3) Honest Questions
This one took a few hearings. Slow, but soothing. Goes to the soul. At 00:57, 'I'll pour...' till 01:24 'you'll grow' is my favorite part. And I also like the variation(s) in the end.

4) Nothing Hurts Like Love
This one is a different song. I like it, but couldn't love it.

5) All the Little Children
I love this song. I can feel it, from the inside.. (!). 'I'll compose a new song from my heart..' lovely. I think I can feel what he is trying to say.

6) Draw You
This song is here because I just love the line at 01:12 'But I'd draw you into my heart if your eyes weren't close to me...' till 01:34. Dhaasu feel. And the remaining song is also good. But not that good. It just creates the right maahaul.

This guy had been my favorite, but Billy and Freddie took over him after a few months :P

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Billy Joel

1) Thanks to Monadhika Sharma. Introduced me to this great song writer, composer through one of the greatest songs, Vienna 




There is this starting piano piece, it just passed by. But there it comes as a surprise in the end, and I have loved it since then. And then the song starts, ohh myyy goddd.... Amazing feeling it was.. That first feeling was precious. That humm at 00.29, eyye hey.. at 00.45, ooo... at 00.59, then vienna waits for you takes it all. There is this violin kind of thing going in the background in the 2nd stanza, I couldn't hear it for the first few hearings. Harmonica piece is also nice. At 02.43, it starts again with a different feel. I love it too. At 02.51, there is 'even get halfway'.. I love the way he sung that. 03.05, that dhapak on the piano, and then the soft music, and then the piano music piece.. oooh... feel...
One more thing, In the sentence 'Vienna waits for you' every time the length of the word 'waits' has been increased... makes the song even more lovely.

2) She's Always A Woman to Me
One extra thanks to monadhika for this one. I just listened to it once and rejected it. But after a few hearings, everything was clear. It is a masterpiece. That lovely music that keeps playing in the background, the lovely voice of Billy Joel, Just after the sentence 'she's always a woman to me' a music starts.. lovely. That part at 00.55, then the most amazing part, the humming at 01.50, I, just, love, it. The same humming while thesong dies out at the end, it feels amazing.

3) The Entertainer
The same music for all stanzas, but still I love it! That's because it is amazing! Lyrics,the voice, and the minor variations make it all. Lyrics are embedded into the music in a very nice way. 'I'd love to stay but there's bills to pay', then the stanza at 02.00, I love it. 'best years of my life' , 'if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit, so they cut it down to three o five'. Classic.
'Ah but what the hell you know just as well' I love to listen to this part at 01.20

4) An Innocent Man
The starting music, the bg music, the chutkis, the voice, the voice modulations, the lyrics. Everything fits into place.

5) Just The Way You Are
Didn't like it for the first 10-15 hearings, almost rejected, but now I have started liking it. Maybe someday I'll love it. I have not left it because it is a big hit. Might be something in there.

6) Honesty
I love this. But took manyyyy hearings... I liked it at once, but couldn't go mad about it. It took time. Gradually went in me. And now it stands just below Vienna! That part at 03.21, 'is hardly ever heard'... too good.. but to love it, you'll have to listen the whole song, with immense attention if possible.

7) The Longest Time
I love it too. 'If you said goodbye to me tonight..' What a tune..  Whaattt a tune... 'maybe this wont last very long..' Just give it a try.

Piano Man is also famous, I think I will like it some day. I have already started liking it. Look for the word 'melody' in the song. Feels good.
And the lyrics for all of his songs, amazing.
Please don't try to watch his live performances first, you might start to hate him... But the recorded ones are a bit too awesome.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Queen

1) Best song? This song... Down here... Bohemian Rhapsody



From the very first moment, I fell in love with this one. Usually the 'love at first sight' types of songs fade away after some time, this didn't. Although, I used to hate that opera part in there, but it was just a matter of 3-4 days, I started loving it too. And then there is this rock section afterwards.
I have never ever seen somebody singing with such passion, such love for what he is doing. This 'video' above played a great role.
The piano piece which plays in the background, I can't understand why somebody would not love it!. Then the opera, skip it if you are listening for the first time :P  And the rock section my god, Freddie mercury burns it. And then comes my favorite part, nothing really matters... anyway the wind blows...

2) Love of My Life
Listen to that piano piece after 12 seconds. Feels heaven. It has come at 2-3 places in the song. Then comes the song. I didn't like it at once, took 2-3 hearings. Then the antara, it was difficult to grasp it, but when I did, I loved it even more.

3) The Show Must Go On
Starting music, amazing. those drums at 0.07.00. Then the song. Nothing to say. Just listen to it.

4) Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
I love this one. I love the arrangement of the song, though I am not completely sure of what I mean by 'arrangement'. :P

5) Don't Stop Me Now
Thanks to google, it made a doodle of this song on Freddie's birthday in 2011, with an amazing animated video. I have loved this song from then on. I can assure you, you'll love it. If at first you don't, just give two minutes to that doodle. You can find it on youtube easily.

6) The Great Pretender
'Oh Yes'. Just when I listen these words, a smile comes on my face. And then there is the whole song.

7) Who Wants To Live Forever
I like this song.

You might also like Killer Queen.
Then you also have the We will Rock You. Everybody loves it, right! But there is one of the modern versions of this song which I like more.

I was just going through some songs on youtube, when I came across the bohemian rhapsody video, live hd.That's how I got to know about what I was missing! Life became better.
All live versions are better than the recorded ones, at least for me. Freddie mercury had been loved, is still loved. (Died of AIDS.)