The MJ Show #147 - Classic Albums - U2 - The Joshua Tree

In my last episode Sachin Kalbag spoke about The Joshua Tree by U2. Actually...it was the only song and album about which he had nothing much to say. That is not because there's not much to say...but because there's no need for anything at all to be said about it.
Whatever you say about this iconic epic album is not enough.

Tonight, if you are one of the few people who've not heard the album, that shall change.
First up, I have the complete album in one video for you. Listen to the studio version of the album from start to finish.
After that I have every song from the album for you separately. Some of the videos are the official videos of the songs...and some are live performances. Over the last few decades U2 has been universally thought of as the best arena-rock band. If you've not seen them perform live (and if that is the case, what rock are you living under?!)...check out some fantastic performances of the songs from The Joshua Tree.

A couple of years ago, I had picked up the Limited Edition box set of The Joshua Tree, which even today is one of my most prized possessions.

- The 3 disc box-set format contains The Joshua Tree CD, the bonus audio CD, and a Bonus DVD. 
- This package also includes a 56 page hardback embossed book, featuring previously unseen Anton Corbijn photos, handwritten lyrics by Bono and liner notes by Bill Flanagan, Bono, Adam Clayton, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Anton Corbijn, Steve Averill, David Batstone, René Castro and a special essay by The Edge.
- An embossed envelope contains five more Corbijn photos, printed on 5" x 7" sheets of textured, "antique" paper. 
- The Bonus DVD contains a rare live performance of U2 Live from Paris - filmed at the Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, on July 4 1987, on the European leg of The Joshua Tree tour.


Here are some facts about the album before you begin:

- The Joshua Tree is U2's fifth studio album.
- It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 9 March 1987 on Island Records.
- The album won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1988.
- The Joshua Tree is one of the world's all-time best-selling albums, with over 25 million copies sold.

So...with all this talk done...are you ready for it?! :)
Here we go!

The Joshua Tree - Complete album

Now let's get into the songs one by one. :)

1. Where the Streets Have No Name

2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

3. With or Without You

4. Bullet the Blue Sky

5. Running to Stand Still

6. Red Hill Mining Town

7. In God's Country

8. Trip Through Your Wires

9. One Tree Hill

10. Exit

11. Mothers of the Disappeared 

Do check out all the songs. This is such an incredible album. Deserves to be heard from top to bottom.
Let me know what you think on https://www.facebook.com/mihirjoshipage or in the comments here :)

Right then...it is now time for me to say good night and take care! :)

This is your Musicman...Mihir Joshi...signing off!

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The MJ Show #131 - Kumar Gandharva - Mala Umajlele Bal Gandharva

One of my favourite albums growing up was "Mala Umajlele Bal Gandharva". I remember my dad had an old cassette of the album. In fact, I remember that it wasn't even an original cassette. He had got it recorded from a friend of his who had the original album. A few years ago, when I got into the radio business, I searched all over and finally found the album on CD at a store in Dadar and it was like finding lost treasure for me.
I didn't know what the words meant back then...and I still don't...but I know that this man's voice speaks out to me. When I heard that they were making a movie on Bal Gandharva, the only reason I wanted to see it is to see if the songs sound as good as Kumarji's. They did in their own way and that's a tale for another episode...but the reason I mentioned it here is that as far as I was concerned, this man, Kumar Gandharva, was and still is for me one of the greatest singers I've ever heard.

A few days ago, talking to a friend of mine, Yashad, who is also a classical music aficionado I told him that I must do a show on Kumar Gandharva and that got both of us excited. I will be putting up a few more shows on Indian classical music in the days to come but the first thing I wanted to do when I thought of doing anything about classical music...is...I wanted to put up a show on this incredible album.
When I searched the net, I was stunned to find that there were hardly any good recordings of the album on the net...and so...for the very first time, I uploaded all songs of an entire album on to youtube. This is my tribute to this incredible man and these songs.
I really do hope you enjoy them. I can't say much about the songs themselves...or about the man or about Bal Gandharva. There's enough info about that all over the net.
Right now...I just want to give you the songs of one of my favourite albums ever.
Enjoy! :)

Nath Ha Maza

Tat Kari Duhita

Sujan Kasa Man Chori

Mam Aatma Gamala Ha

Mala Madan Bhase

Karin Yadu Mani Sadana

Kashi Ya Tyaju Padala

Nayane Lajvit

Virat Dyanee

Prabhu Aji Gamala

So...how was it for you? Was this your first time listening to him? Or are you a big fan?

Let me know what you think on www.facebook.com/mihirjoshipage

Right then...it is now time for me to say take care and have a nice day! :)

This is your Musicman...Mihir Joshi...signing off!

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The MJ Show #128 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Complete Album)

One of my favourite albums of all time is "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac. It has without a doubt some of the most beautiful songs ever written and sung.

Here's some info about the album:
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, it was produced by the band with Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut and was released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records. The record peaked at the top of both the main United States Billboard chart and the United Kingdom Albums Chart. "Go Your Own Way", "Don't Stop", "Dreams", and "You Make Loving Fun" were released as singles. A Grammy Award winner, Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release with sales of over 40 million copies worldwide.

I loved the harmonies and the instrumentation...but let's not talk about it. Just go for it. Listen to the entire album!
The songs in the album were:

1."Second Hand News"  
2."Dreams"  
3."Never Going Back Again"  
4."Don't Stop"  
5."Go Your Own Way"  
6."Songbird"  
7."The Chain"  
8."You Make Loving Fun"  
9."I Don't Want To Know"  
10."Oh Daddy"  
11."Gold Dust Woman"

Another great thing that recently happened with the album was that the cast of Glee covered a lot of songs from the album and I thought they did an absolutely splendid job.
Check em out:

"Dreams"

"Never Going Back Again"

"Songbird"

"I Don't Want to Know"

"Nice to Meet You, Have I Slept with You?"

"Go Your Own Way"

"Don't Stop"

Oh hell! I've got to give you a couple more version of my favourite songs in this album
Here's a live version of Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Eva Cassidy - Songbird
This has got to be one of the most beautiful covers I've ever heard! Check it out!

That's about it for tonight :)
Enjoy this incredible album!

Right then...it is now time for me to say good night and take care! :)

This is your Musicman...Mihir Joshi...signing off!

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The MJ Show #120 - Classic Albums - Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was Elton John's seventh studio album. It was released in 1973 and it has  been considered his best studio album to date. It has sold over 15 million copies.
The album has the very famous Marilyn Monroe tribute, "Candle in the Wind", as well as three successful singles: "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting".
The album was ranked #91 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time!

The album was a double album and featured 17 tracks in total. 18 if you consider that the first song is actually two songs together. Bernie Taupin, Elton John's long time song-writing collaborator wrote the lyrics in two and a half weeks, with Elton John composed most of the music in three days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica.
Though Elton wanted to record the album in Jamaica, because of problems he faced there, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was recorded in two weeks at the Château d'Hérouville in France, where he had previously recorded Honky Château and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player.

The album went 7 times platinum in the US and platinum in UK. It also reached the #1 album on both the US and UK charts in 1973.

Today, I'm giving you a chance to listen to the ENTIRE album right here! Listening to albums has become such a lost joy. Most people just listen to the singles or the hit songs or the greatest hit cds...but you've really got to go back and listen to complete albums by fantastic artists like Elton John and so many others like him to realize, just WHY, they are such massive superstars right now and back in the day :)

Enjoy! :)


Disc 1
1. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"  

2. "Candle in the Wind"  

3. "Bennie and the Jets"  

4. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

5. "This Song Has No Title"  

6. "Grey Seal"  

7. "Jamaica Jerk-Off"  

8. "I've Seen That Movie Too"  

Disc two
9. "Sweet Painted Lady"  

10. "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)"

11. "Dirty Little Girl"

12. "All the Girls Love Alice"  

13. "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n' Roll)"

14. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"

15. "Roy Rogers"

16. "Social Disease"

17. "Harmony"  

That's about it for now. Hope you enjoyed listening to this classic Elton John album! :)

Right then...it is now time for me to say take care and have a nice day! :)
This is your Musicman...Mihir Joshi...signing off!

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The MJ Show #73 (Classic Albums - Metallica - Black Album)

Tonight's show is for all you Metallicaheads out there!

Okay before the music begins...here are some facts about the Black Album!

Metallica, informally known as The Black Album, is the fifth album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released August 13, 1991 through Elektra Records. The album features songs that are considered today among Metallica's most well-known tracks, with songs such as "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters", "Wherever I May Roam" and "Sad but True".
It spent four consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard 200. Metallica is the band's best-selling album to date, with over 15 million copies sold in the United States and over 22 million copies worldwide. It is the best-selling album of the SoundScan era. The album was certified 15x Platinum (Diamond) by the RIAA on November 13, 2009

What I'm going to do is give you the studio version of the song and then a bonus live version of all the songs that I could find live versions for.
So that's something for the hard core Metallica fans (the live versions) and something for someone who's just trying to discover the band (the studio versions of the song).
So...here's a bit o' Metallica for everyone! Get ready for one of the greatest albums in rock music history!
Rock n Roll \m/

1st Song - Metallica - Enter Sandman


Bonus Track - Metallica - Enter Sandman (Live)


2nd Song - Metallica - Sad But True


Bonus Song - Metallica - Sad But True (Live)


3rd Song - Metallica - Holier Than Thou


Bonus Song - Metallica - Holier Than Thou (Live)


4th Song - Metallica - The Unforgiven


Bonus Song - Metallica - The Unforgiven (Live)


5th Song - Metallica - Wherever I May Roam


Bonus Song - Metallica - Wherever I May Roam (Live)


6th Song - Metallica - Don't Tread On Me


7th Song - Metallica - Through the Never


Bonus Song - Metallica - Through the Never (Live)


8th Song - Metallica - Nothing Else Matters


Bonus Song - Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Live)


9th Song - Metallica - Of Wolf And Man


Bonus Song - Metallica - Of Wolf And Man (Live)


10th Song - Metallica - The God That Failed


Bonus Song - Metallica - The God That Failed (Live)


11th Song - Metallica - My Friend Of Misery


Bonus Song - Metallica - My Friend Of Misery Solo


12th Song - Metallica - The Struggle Within


Bonus Song - Metallica - The Struggle Within Solo


And you know what! This is another one of the albums featured on the Classic Albums series on Vh1. I had to give you this brilliant documentary! Check it out!!

Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (part 1/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (part 2/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (part 3/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (part 4/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (part 5/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (EXTRA 1/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (EXTRA 2/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (EXTRA 3/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (EXTRA 4/5)


Classic Albums - Metallica - Metallica (Black Album) (EXTRA 5/5)


That's all I got for you tonight :)

Oh this just in. Here's a feature of The MJ Show on MumbaiMirror.com

Click on the images to read the story or you can see it directly here: MumbaiMirror.com features The MJ Show!

Right then...it is now time for me to say...take care...and good night! :)
This is your Musicman Mihir...signing off!

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The MJ Show #66(6) (Iron Maiden - The Golden Years - 1980 - 1989)

I have had the pleasure of hanging out with this incredible band. Twice!
Here...have a look :)

This was when they played in Bangalore and Mumbai. It was brilliant. The gigs were incredible and so was the time spent with them.
I will also admit this. I'm not the BIGGEST Iron Maiden fan in the world...though I do LOVE their music and their energy.

I thought that if I'm going to do a Maiden special, I've got to do it right...so to help me out with that, I got a guy who is possibly the biggest Iron Maiden fan...at least in India.
Enter Mikhail Madnani (@mikhail666). I've known him for a few years and I can safely say that I don't know anyone else who has more Maiden stuff or knows their music more than this guy.
So, in the pursuit to give you the best, I turned to the best. :) And here is Mikhail's choice of songs from the golden years of Iron Maiden. I hope you agree with him :) (If you don't...I've just given you his twitter id. Bash him all  you want :) But I think he's got this one spot on!)
Loved the songs here...and I hope you do too!

(Incidentally the naming of this show as episode #66(6) was kinda something I came up with when Mikhail suggested that the 666th show should have been an Iron Maiden special...and since I've got a long way to go before we read Ep #666...I thought I'd sneak in a 6 just to make this one special) :)


1980 - Iron Maiden
1st Song - Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera


2nd Song - Iron Maiden - Running Free


3rd Song - Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden


4th Song - Iron Maiden - Transylvania


5th Song - Iron Maiden - Sanctuary


1981 - Killers
6th Song - Iron Maiden - Wrathchild


7th Song - Iron Maiden - Killers


8th Song - Iron Maiden - Murders In The Rue Morgue


9th Song - Iron Maiden - Purgatory


1982 - The Number of the Beast
10th Song - Iron Maiden - Children Of The Damned


11th Song - Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast


12th Song - Iron Maiden - The Prisoner


13th Song - Iron Maiden - 22 Accacia Avenue


14th Song - Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name


15th Song - Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills


1983 - Piece of Mind
16th Song - Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare


17th Song - Iron Maiden - Revelations


18th Song - Iron Maiden - Flight Of Icarus


19th Song - Iron Maiden - Die With Your Boots On


20th Song - Iron Maiden - The Trooper


1984 - Powerslave
21st Song - Iron Maiden - Aces High


22nd Song - Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight


23rd Song - Iron Maiden - Powerslave


24th Song - Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
part 1


part 2


1986 - Somewhere in Time
25th Song - Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere In Time


26th Song - Iron Maiden - Wasted Years


27th Song - Iron Maiden - Stranger In A Strange Land


28th Song - Iron Maiden - Sea Of Madness


29th Song - Iron Maiden - Heaven Can Wait


30th Song - Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great


1988 - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
31st Song - Iron Maiden - Moonchild


32nd Song - Iron Maiden - Clairvoyant


33rd Song - Iron Maiden - Evil That Men Do


34th Song - Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams


35th Song - Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son


Here comes my favourite Maiden track. This is a song that I cover as well, with my band, The Works! LOVE THIS ONE! :) \m/
36th Song - Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness?


Bonus Feature!!
This album marked the debut of Bruce Dickinson as the vocalist in Iron Maiden. It has been cited as one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time, and is widely acknowledged as one of the best and most iconic albums of the genre.
The album is also Iron Maiden's highest selling album worldwide with over 14 million sales estimated.
You already heard the 3 epic songs -"The Number of the Beast", "Run to the Hills" and "Hallowed Be Thy Name" - from this album along with a few other in this show. I now want you to see the making and the history of this Classic Album.
Here it is...the Classic Albums feature on The Number Of The Beast!

Classic Albums - Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (Part 1/5)

Classic Albums - Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (Part 2/5)


Classic Albums - Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (Part 3/5)


Classic Albums - Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (Part 4/5)


Classic Albums - Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (Part 5/5)

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The MJ Show #64 (Nirvana - Unplugged)

Kurt Cobain died on the 5th of April 1994. On April 8, 1994, he was found dead in his home in Seattle. His death was ruled by authorities as a suicide by self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. There is some mystery around his death but irrespective of whether it was a suicide or a homicide there is one fact that is uncontested post his death - Millions of fans around the world miss Kurt Cobain and the music he made and they will always remember Nirvana for serving as an outlet for their frustrations and angst.

MTV Unplugged in New York was the first Nirvana album released in the wake of the April 1994 suicide of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and has become the group's most successful posthumous release, selling five million copies in America by 1997.
The album won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. The performance was released on DVD in 2007.
Go pick up the dvd today!

Here's a preview of what you'll get on that dvd!

1st Song - Nirvana - About A Girl


2nd Song - Nirvana - Come As You Are


3rd Song - Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam


4th Song - Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World


5th Song - Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea


6th Song - Nirvana - Dumb


7th Song - Nirvana - Polly


8th Song - Nirvana - On A Plain


9th Song - Nirvana - Something In The Way


10th Song - Nirvana - Plateau


11th Song - Nirvana - Oh Me


12th Song - Nirvana - Lake of Fire


13th Song - Nirvana - All Apologies


14th Song - Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?


Bonus Feature!!
Nirvana's greatest album was an album called "Nevermind".
Despite low commercial expectations by the band and its record label, Nevermind became a surprise success in late 1991, largely due to the popularity of its first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". By January 1992, it had replaced Michael Jackson's album Dangerous at number one on the Billboard charts. The Recording Industry Association of America has certified the album ten times platinum (10 million copies shipped). Nevermind was responsible for bringing alternative rock to a large mainstream audience, and critics subsequently regarded it as one of the best rock albums of all time.
Here's a look into the making of this ... Classic Album!

Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind - Part 1


Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind - Part 2


Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind - Part 3


Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind - Part 4


Classic Albums - Nirvana - Nevermind - Part 5


That's the show guys. This one was for all you Nirvana fans!

It is now time for me to say...take care...and good night! :)
This is your Musicman Mihir...signing off!

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