Tuesday 24 April 2007

Rahul Dev Burman: Mehbooba (1976)

24.4.07    9 comments

Mehbooba

More Burman, but of a different sort. This one's all traditional, devoid of electric guitars, moogs, beats and cabaret numbers. It's still quite trippy though, so in a way I sort of like it - I can get into the atmospheric 'Mere Naina Sawan Bhadon', some of the cool instrumental breaks in 'Gori Tori Paijaniyan', the mood of 'Parpat Ke Peechhe' - but I can't decide if the melodies on this album are as strong as they should be. I find my mind wandering halfway though them all (cue smart-alecky comments about attention span) thus leaving me uncertain if 'Mehbooba' in fact is a keeper or I can chuck it in the "for sale" box. (Not that I expect to get much for it; copies on eBay seldom make it past the starting bid. I can't believe I actually acquired this as a trade-in for my spare copy of 'Haré Rama Haré Krishna' - in terms of potential profit, not the wisest transaction I've ever conducted.)

Some more listens first perhaps...

Track listing:
1. Lata Mangeshkar: Mere Naina Sawan Bhadon
2. Manna Dey: Gori Tori Paijaniyan
3. Lata Mangeshkar: Jamuna Kinare
4. Lata Mangeshkar & Kishore Kumar: Parbat Ke Peechhe
5. Lata Mangeshkar: Aap Ke Shahar Men
6. Lata Mangeshkar & Chorus: Chalo Ri Chalo Ri
7. Kishore Kumar: Mere Naina Sawan Bhadon

9 comments:

  1. Tara25 April 2007 at 20:58:00 CEST

    i love RD BURMAN songs.. he is just too gr8 to be forgotten.. and good list of songs. .too.. chk out www.hummaa.com and listen to all ur fav tracks with live streaming .. chk out ..and enjoy..its legal

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  2. mikail26 April 2007 at 01:29:00 CEST

    Loving your blog! Keep up the good work. Nice to hear these works in their original context and not in another compilation. Thanks for keeping old school Bollywood alive!

    mikail
    http://subtleperfection.blogspot.com

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  3. Anonymous28 April 2007 at 19:21:00 CEST

    Surprising the vinyl has missed out the title track of Mehbooba :(

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  4. Anonymous30 April 2007 at 17:23:00 CEST

    Hi, i would like to congratulate you for this website, it's really great. I had much fun listening to your records. The only problem is the slow downloading, easy share sucks, rapidshare has by far the best service. But we can't have it all... and this site is 9/10, near perfection. With rapidshare will get 10/10 :D

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  5. Anonymous1 May 2007 at 19:21:00 CEST

    Yes - the vinyl (or the CD for that matter) does not have the Kishore Kumar song included.

    I can only assume that this song was added at the last minute (or something like that!

    Good album though!

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  6. Anonymous2 May 2007 at 16:19:00 CEST

    how wonderful shares!!!

    i just discovered your blog while researching for some newer (and much poppier) bollywood soundtracks i posted.

    you put up great treasures here - much appreciated!

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  7. Anonymous3 May 2007 at 21:41:00 CEST

    Great site,

    Just discovered it by accident. Have been checkin for updates almost everyday. Thanks for all these wonderful albums.

    D

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  8. Disco Deewana21 October 2007 at 23:32:00 CEST

    Would love to hear this in pristine Vinyl converted format rather than mechanical CD :) Any chance of a new link added for this album? Many thanks.

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  9. PC22 October 2007 at 11:52:00 CEST

    New DL: http://lix.in/99ae19

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