Another week ends. Routine has now begun to set in and me thinks that me needs to find some new avenues,real quick and fast. Otherwise me might find meself in a morass of
dissatisfaction and torpor. Me doesn't like the idea of that. Me needs to get into action. And now! The trouble with me, however is that I make all these commitments and promises to the self but rarely honor them, an act highly unbecoming of me. The self recongnizes that but chooses to ignore. The self is guilty accomplice.

"Start small", I tell me. Me listens, agrees and promptly forgets. Me understands everything but me is afraid of acting decisively. Me fears there might be no coming back.

Music genres..Rock..

different genre of music represent different expressions...every person views or feels the music in his own way...many relate the music to something...in my opinion a type of music which is appreciated by some section of people or which appeals to someone is so, as that sect/person is able to relate or find some expression in that type of music..the so called popular music thus gains more momentum among the masses coz of its simplicity and lightedness....now as a case take indian classical music..there many instruments and singers in indian classical...but still its popularity is not as much as any popular music..the shows of Bryan Adams ,MJ etc in India garner more revenue and are more thronged by common people...why??...well the simplest explanation can be that we are ignorant to it...as it is said you need to know how to read to appreciate a literary work....in the same way in understanding classical music you need to either be a meticulous listener..or you need to have a knowledge/background of the music to say "hey this is what is worth appreciating in it"...i have not heard any of classical music nor have i heard any of reggae...but i have heard a lot of rock music and metal...and it comes down to the same argument in this type of music also..apparently i have been made guilty of listening to such music from my parents to my friends...when a rock song is being played in my room the usual comment i get is "yeh kaise ajeeb gane tu sunata hai"...until my brother picked up guitar i had the same opinion about rock...it was after knowing about and trying to learn to play guitar that i started appreciating the music..lyrics were and are still a problem..i have to google the lyrics of some singers...but usually i found the lyrics very deep meaning, heartfelt and poetical...it was then that i started listening to the notes being played and the rythme thus generated by drum beats...ironically the word rock is used in every kind of music these days..though it was something that Jimmy Hendrix introduced long back...one of the draw backs of rock music apart from knowing/feeling guitars/drums is the way it was introduced..with most of the early age Rockstars having links with drug addiction/liquor...a common person was never looking forwad to encourage his children to listen to it...here i feel that our society now needs to think and grow....music is about feeling it..good or bad depends on how you percieve it...take the example of a well appreciated poetry piece "Madhushala" by Hari Vansh Rai Bhachan....many of my friends listen to it when they are drunk....coz they listen to it relating it to drinking...well i was surprised when my mother told me that she liked the piece..on asking she told me that it was the way the poet hits the society and relates it to "Madhushala" (drinking place) that she appreciates....my conclusion of this was that one should try to evaluate whats worth appreciating in a artistic work, rather than see the trench it lies in....

Johnny Cash

This is my last day at IIT Kharagpur and I did not want to leave this place without making a single post on this blog about the things that have been my passion the last four fabulous years of my life here at Kharagpur.

To the readers, I will recommend Johnny Cash, if Walk the line hasn't still managed to hook you in, I would suggest that you hear the song, "Hurt". If you havent watched the movie, listen to "walk the line","Hurt","folsom prison blues" particularly.
to me his voice has always conveyed emotions profoundly felt and pains really experienced. If you wish to get a change from the plastic angst of most of the modern day rockstars, experience the raw expression of pain that drips from his voice in these songs.

If you like what you hear, I also recommend Frank Sinatra, Dean Jones and
in a slightly different genre, Nat King Cole.

sultans of swing...

this song by Dire Straits was released in 1978 in their self titled album(their first album)...the song has one of the best guitar solos...Mark Knopfler(lead guitarist ,vocals) is one of the greatest guitarist of all time and this song is a stamp to that...the name is ironical in hearing..as the song is not in the genre of swing..and also the band Dire Straits doesn't play songs of that genre(how can they be sultans of swing)...the song is actually telling about a situation..in which the performance of some band catches the attention of some person..this band is the one which is called the Sultans of Swing..the song is rythmic though it has some really fast guitaring by Mark Knopfler..with striking slides..bends..pull offs being played in the guitar solo...this is a light song with its genre somewhere in between rock 'n' roll or swing...worth listening to lighten up your mood..

hotel california...

this song by eagles is some work in classic rock...for those who like guitaring (hotel california hall freezes version) its a priceless gift...the song starts with a small lead guitaring by Don Felder..moments later a bongo picks up in the background..as this lead proceed..gradually two more rythm guitars and a bass guitar come into play..as this music begins to gel..appears the voice of Don Henley...this combination makes it a memorable and one of the best songs of all time..there is a lead(guitar) played almost through out the song...the lyrics are more like a ballad...the song starts with a person going into a hotel named Hotel California...somewhere in the desert highway...the place has a beautiful lady serving..living in it is like a journey through heaven(So I called up the captain)..as this place has no wine instead they serve champagne...there is dancing,there is merry making...the song proceeds to hint that all these are but one's bondages coz.. we are all just prisoners here, of our own device..the song ends showing the person trying to leave..but its a place whereWe are programmed to receive.You can checkout any time you like,But you can never leave! ..this song is a beauty in terms of instruments(guitaring)..with good lyrics and vocals..which becomes the reason for this song being appreciated world over...

black...

black is a song by pearl jam...the song is about a lover filled with the pain of his/her lost love(probably his/her lover is dead)..the voice of Eddie Vedder....beautiful lyrics..which is seen by the peotical expressions and some beautiful one liners..makes the song more beautiful...the song starts with the lover telling everthing has changed around him and he has lost everything..and now his hands chaffe beneath the clouds...then he says there is still happiness but he doesn't feel it...he is spinning,thinking about what he had is lost..and he is holding on to the broken glass that contained it..everything looks blank to him like pictures washed in black..his world is just as dark and black...everything tattooed..fixed to some part of the body....not moving..his life is standstill...the last few lines of the song are my favourite lines..
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Flow with the music "S & M"

Music..heard by many, composed by some and played by few...its an art...appreciated since the very existence of human civilization....so here is a blog that gives my view on the music i hear..by music i include songs which are the very essence of music...Be it rock, jazz , symphony,trance, pop,remixes....one will find some section or the other of the society aprreciating it..every genre of music has its grades..music expresses various moods of a human...be it headbangs, swaying your body, waving your hands in a concert...or liying sad in your room...one will have a music for every emotion.... When i was a kid i listened to lot of popular songs,movies songs(of the heros and heroines i appreciated)...gradually i started hearing hard beat songs..then metal and so on...music in all struck my cords....every thing about music is miraclous...be it from writing of songs..composing of music to playing of various instruments....you can create music using a single instrument or even a whole symphony...symphony reminds me of one of the best piece of music..symphony and metallica...a fusion of hard rock metallica and soothiing symphony of Michael Karmen...appreciated by many, this concert has some of the very best perfomances...Michael Kamen and Metallica came together to record a live album combining rock music and the symphony orchestra...the title "S&M" is short for "Symphony & Metallica"...Michael Kamen had worked with the band before on the original "Nothing Else Matters" in 1991...the live performance starts with the Michael Kamen conducting San Francisco Symphony Orchestra playing "The Ecstasy of Gold"..the musical peace played when ever metallica enters the stage before their performance...Call of ktulu is the first peace that this club of great performers play...followed by various hits by metallica...the fusion of metallica and symphony creates a great music which one can feel only after listening to it..James hetfield's strong voice(also rhythm guitarist of metallica)..heavy drumming by Lars ulrich and Kirk hammett's lead guitaring gives the energy to the live show...while the symphony creates a wave...which makes one flow with the music thus created...what is noticeably the best part of the show is that people who are not into rock music also enjoy it....