well Chord no post could have expressed my feeling better than this post. i will add more..
Main Hoon Yuvvraaj: what a let down and disappointing start of the album. A complete waste with childish and stupid lyrics by Gulzar (what's up with you man), cheap and stupid singing by a cheap and stupid actor. a complete hell waste of Beethoven's piece. if you simply omit his singing, it will be a quite acceptable to start the album with. Main Hoon Yuvvraaj has the credit that it is the WORST ever non-song in an ARR album, a black spot. and i know credit must go to Ghai for forcing this ******* on ARR. Tu Meri Dost Hain: some people said rightly here. unfortunately this was the best song of the album. a pretty good song overall, though nothing special or Rahmanish. interludes are nice. did not like ARR's singing though, don't understand what is going with him. Shano Shano: i have already expressed my anger and disappointment with this song in another post. to repeat it here this is first song by ARR perhaps in past 10 years which i SKIPPED in first hearing. this is one of the weakest songs of ARR. again dont understand what went wrong with him. does this type of a song deserved to be in a grand musical like Yuvvraaj?, actually it does not deserve to be in any of ARR's albums. Tu Muskura: Some relief. a good song. more Rahmanish than Tu Meri Dost Hain. its in the league of Milo Wahan Wahan (Ada) and Tu Bin Bataye (RDB) though the the two were better. good singing by Javed and Alka. starts superbly with violen or whatever. Mastam Mastam: An okay song. nothing special. though started to grow on me more. Sonu is superb. Zindagi: A pretty good song. Srinivas sounds like Hariharan. he rocked the song with his perfect singing. vocals are strong but music/melody is minimum (almost absent). Dil Ka Rishta: My favorite of album so far. very nice heavy arrangements. though very long and too much going on in the song. what a waste of Roopkumar, did not notice him after the beginning of song. hard to remember the tune of song, completely agree with Chord. alap by ARR does not impress much. don't know why but boss is not in very good form in this album. Manmohini Meri: Great song. great fusion. best song of the album. the only song which deserved to be in a grand album of ARR-Ghai combo. though unfortunately very short. overall this would be my ranking: Dil ka rishta Manmohini meri Tu muskra Zindagi Tu meri dost hai sorry for any harsh words i used. this only shows my anger and disappointment. i m feeling like deceived. does this album really deserves to be soundtrack of a musical? i don't think so. Taal was absolutely the one. if i give Taal 10/10, Yuvvraaj would be 3/10. some guys here are saying Taal was also not an instant hit and required time to grow. i completely disagree. i fell in love with Taal se Taal, Ishq bina, Ramta jogi, Ishq bina (Western) in the very first hearing. a huge disappointment. my dream of another album of Taal's standard (not Taal 2 btw) is broken for ever. --- In [email protected], "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I realize it's early and that Rahman's music grows: > > Pluses: > - Great use of symphonic elements like choir, strings with elaborate > arrangements and sounds. > - Fresh sounding overall. > - A bold effort by Rahman > - Strong mukhada (asthai, chorus) melodies > - Good singing and expressions > - Good lyrics > - Out of the box creativity shows strongly > - Good range and variety > - Zindagi is just amazing > - Great experimentation with novel fusion (Western musical with Indian > classical) > - Effort by Rahman shows a lot of courage and hard work in most songs. > > Minuses: > - Some songs with very weak melodies and with overall weak melodies in > Antaras (hard to remember the tune of Dil Ka Rishta and Mastam, low > hummability) > - Shano Shano and its remix to me are a complete waste. One of the > worst songs ever by Rahman IMO (many will strongly disagree witih me, I > I know). > - Some gimmicky elements with too much of Subhash Ghai influence at > times > - Weak rhythm sections with too much use of light keyboard hip hop > rhtyhsms and less of ethnic percussion. The punch is missing. > - Lack of any instrumentals > - Different genre of music that is thus far foreign to North Indian > tastes and may be met with resistance in the beginning. > - Large carnatic influence in the music, which is not a bad thing, but > again, which Northies may not be used to. > > That's it for now! >
