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Long before silicon enhanced breasts and Botox changed forever the way men listen to music, the acoustic delights were as entertaining and uplifting then as visual ones are nowadays. Is it nostalgia or is it something else that makes the past so endearing, one never knows. Back then in the golden days of Beirut before its inhabitants decided to turn it into rubbles, there was art and culture that identified an era long gone and forgotten in the archives of the artistically fanatic and the hopelessly sentimental.
Many a beautiful song, by talented artists vanished into oblivion. Many had been revived for a final flurry of enjoyment and they too marched into the sunset of oblivion never to be remembered.
The purpose of this thread is to youtube ARABIC songs (pre 1980) from the past like its western counterpart Happy Days. So tell us what you remember. Perhaps amongst them there may have been some that even modernity could not eclipse their beauty.
Few great artists survived the test of time and left us with an immense wealth of art to enjoy. There were also artists that had one or two songs that propelled them to popularity for a season or two before the river of creativity ran dry and nothing remained of their arts but memories of few lovely songs.
I will open the auction with an all time favourite of mine that even decades later it never fails to give me goosebumps every time i hear it and another beautiful one.
خبطة قدمكم - فيروز Fairouz
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I wasn't born prior to the 1980s but I should've been. The days of cold a7s and painful wawas shouldn't have been mine even though I do like going crazy at times... I remember that the only old singer I liked when I was a kid was Fairouz because my dad was an addict and I would wake up every morning on her songs. To me she's the morning bird that always takes me back to the pleasent days when I was so happy with zero political knowledge. My dad would take us on those early morning drives, the wind would blow throught the car window as Fairouz sang her angelic hymns... Those simple things made me so happy... I used to say "yuk" whenever i heard an old song for anyone other than Fairouz; but after I matured I started saying "yuk" to everything (well, not everything...) that's not ancient. I'm old fashioned when it comes to music...
My favourite...
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If someone puts a gun to my head and said you have to choose one and only song as your favourite It would have to be this one. Not particularly this recording though but close enough.
Sorry Madame Oum Kulthoum, Alatlal is close second.
If someone puts a gun to my head and said you have to choose one and only song as your favourite It would have to be this one. Not particularly this recording though but close enough.
Sorry Madame Oum Kulthoum, Alatlal is close second.
You want to kill us with this? I get emotional from this stuff!
It is I must admit the most emotional of songs. Enjoy it for its words and music and hopefuly its beauty transcends the basic emotions of a horribly broken heart.
The way we were -
30th December 2008
