I haven’t heard any of Mashrou’ Leila’s songs yet, but I have read many articles about their music being very nice.
Below is an article by Hanadi Dairi from Nahar Alshabab about them.
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If you know where they perform, plz let me know the place, I am interested in watching them live.
The scan is via Lubnanabad
Here’s their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/mashrou3leila
You can listen to some of their music. I actually stumbled upon them by coincidence about a month ago. The music is really good. Wierd lyrics though. Very refreshing sound!
Hey, you can actually join their Facebook group, they send msgs whenever there’s a concert. They’re one of the few bands that I think are gonna make it big. They have a certain je ne sais quoi, a different premise let’s say 🙂
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6677629001&ref=ts
Thanks to both of you! 🙂
thanks for sharing this Rami, refreshing style
I’m not too big a fan of their music, but they are pretty good. I think they’re going to be playing at the AUB Outdoors next week, May 23rd/24th 🙂
By the way, the lead singer is behind many of the graffiti in Ras Beirut. He talks about them here in a Talk20 presentation.
They’re not bad at all.
As it happens, one of the guys is the son of one of my colleagues. He’s extremely talented.
Too bad they ruin their good music with some ugly and not-so-good-for-the-ears lyrics and words.
serpico, you must be joking. both their music and lyrics are amazing, at least depicting some sort of people’s reality in beirut… if you want to stay in your ‘b7ebbak-b7ebbik, el 7obb el abadi’ lyric zone, well, chapeau.
Mostafa,
Their music is indeed amazing. As for their lyrics and choice of words, I’m just talking from my limited exposure to their songs. I only listened to a couple of them, and to be honest the songs which I listened to didn’t have a quite good choice of words. Maybe the other songs are much better lyrics-wise, and I would be happy to listen to them.
I did not listen to ‘b7ebbak-b7ebbik, el 7obb el abadi’, but as a simple example in ‘Chem el Yasmine’, I do not agree that the words ‘otbokh akletak, oshtoflak baytak” etc… really fit and suit this good music. Maybe the tone in which he’s saying them is not soothing to the ear.
Anyways, is there a way to listen to all of their songs, or maybe buy their album online? I do not live in Lebanon so I cannot watch them performing live. I would be happy to listen to more of their songs.
I don’t understand the lyrics so I have no right to argue. What I know through friends translating is that Hamed likes make sure that every knows that he’s definitely sure that he’s gay. Also, all this talk about how their music is incredible is ridiculous. They’re just the only band to play original, easy to listen to pop music in Lebanon, basically ever. There’s nothing new, or, for that matter, in anyway original, about Mashrou Leila’s actual music. They’re very much a Coldplay style band. Hamed even takes a, “Chris Martin trying hard to imitate Ian Curtis but not doing such a good job,” stance. They play things people like hearing and they’re very good at it, but that’s not necessarily good.
That said, Hamed and Haig are the only members of the band who could not be replaced, they really make them what they are, and what that is is a very fun thing to see on the weekend, and even, you could say, potentially substantial in the pop music world. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if these guys where to go on a very succesful world tour, if they mix up song english. The arabic ones do give them an edge though.
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“They play things people like hearing and they’re very good at it, but that’s not necessarily good” he says.
Really! Noooooo!!! I mean really?
What’s good then? As I know it, a good song is a song that people like hearing.
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