Monday, August 19, 2013

Linkin Park - Radiance (A Thousand Suns) my view on reason behind the song and album name.

Linkin Park is my favorite nu-metal band. They started their career in 1998 with their first studio album Hybrid theory. Then they never looked back. Mike Shinoda is the man behind this band formation and now totally 6 members are working together for its awesomeness ! For more information about this band you can Google for it. I know about them everything and I am also member of LP Underground 12 since a year. So I will directly jump to my topic on the reason behind their 4th album title A Thousand Suns and the song name Radiance. 

         The song Radiance has voice of J. Robert Oppenheimer, where he quotes saying:
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people who were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is kind of persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him, he takes on multi-armed form and says. ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds’. I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
(Source: Wikipedia).

         In this quote Oppenheimer mentions about Lord Vishnu showing his multi armed form called "Vishwaroopa" to Prince Arjuna to persuade him to fight against the evil brothers 'Kauravas' in Mahabharata. When Arjuna refuses to fight against Kauravas, Lord Krishna who is the Avatar of Lord Vishnu takes a tremendous form which the normal eyes could not see it. This brilliant form was huge as infinite cosmos ! With uncountable arms and faces and ornaments and other matters, that sight was amazing for Arjuna. This scenario is completely explained in Chapter 11 Verse 10-11 in Bhagavad Gita. In the next verse - 12, it explains the beauty of that universal form. The below shloka is in Sanskrit and its translation is given below that.

"divi surya-sahasrasya / bhaved yugapad utthita
yadi bhah sadrishi sa syad / bhasas tasya mahatmanah" 

-- Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11 Verse 10-11).

Translation: 
"If 'A Thousand Suns' (= surya sahasrasya) rose all at once in the sky, such splendor might approach the effulgence of that Supreme Person in His radiant universal form."


This explains the visual beauty of that universal form. The ‘Radiance’ form was equal to Thousand Suns of this cosmos. So the name of the song ‘Radiance’ and the album name ‘A Thousand Suns’, both might have come from this analogy. This is what I think and I believe, rest is up to the reader.

This is my personal view and I do not want to hurt any fans.
Image courtesy: Narayan Hari (blogger in Sulekha).

Monday, July 1, 2013

Reliving Things - Linkin Park Association. (Fan Made Remix Album)

Hi all LP fans,

                     'Linkin Park Association' (LPA) is an unofficial fansite and community. There are thousands of fans who are member of it. LPA gives lot of updates about Linkin Park's tour activities, Linkin Park songs and many more...
                      Recently they have come up with an album named "Reliving Things", which consists remixes of "Living Things" songs, made by fans for the fans. After releasing their new album 'Living Things', Linkin Park released Acapella and instrumentals of the album. The band singer Mike Shinoda asked the fans to make remixes of their new songs and upload them. There were thousands of remixes and Linkin Park gave away best chosen one remix every month for the fans who purchased Living Things CD as a monthly subscription.
                      Because of this fans could listen to hundreds of remixes and Linkin Park Association made an album out of all the remixed songs, choosing the best ones. And they have named the album "Reliving Things". The album has 12 remix songs for each of the original, plus 2 bonus tracks of Tinfoil and In My Remains. You can download the album for free from the link given below. Below is the cover photo of the album. It looks awesome.




http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39145&p=1254426#post1254426

Thank you all - Enjoy the latest remix album,

LP 4ever !
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