QUOTE(mmuk2004 @ Feb 4 2005, 12:41 AM)
It is a lovely song, had not even known it existed, dont remember seeing it in the movie(video cassette)
This is where I disagree with Ashaji's stated aversion for the music internet culture. Of course she is referring to the mp3 dakus who sell these songs and those who do not ever buy music. But really the kind of music that we are sharing here is not really always easily available--infact quite a lot of it is just unavailable and the kind of stuff that is being dished out to the public is pure junk--remixes and copies and nothing inspiring. That is what the youngsters of today get to hear and buy. And who is there to really tell them about the old albums that do adorn the racks if only in small numbers?
Now not all of us here are that old and however old we are most of us daily get to learn something new, to taste for the first time some exotic delicacy we never knew existed, to understand one more facet of our fav artist's singing persona. I pride myself on being a HUGE fan of Ashaji's, but when we all pool our views and treasures and tastes and opinions how much richer does our personal storehouse become.
And while I cannot say this for Ashaji whom I feel I have known all my life, with a singer like Noor Jehan it was the net that got me to know her after her death. I heard one song and hunted for more and then found friends on grps like this who told me more abt her and introduced me to her music and now I have bought hordes of albums and got videos. A legend will always be immortal but sometimes that immortality too has to be known to be understood.
Why am I writing an epistle? Don't ask me--I do weird things when the whim takes me. Just felt it when I read mmuk's post and I too was feeling precisely the same thing hearing the song Bobbyji uled.
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