― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Hell, I'd settle for seeing Lagaan again.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 28 March 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link
If you have recently started exploring hindi film music, can I just go ahead and rattle off the names of a few of my favorite soundtracks?
- Devdas (I refer to the newer film version here, not the black-and-white original, though that is good too....layered songs with classical influences and younger singers who lack that reedy vocal style that some people dislike in hindi music)- Dilwale Dulhania Laajange (a classic from 1995...this has the great lata mangeshkar though, so expect reedy thin vocals)- hum dil de chuke sanam (two great standouts, the rhythmic garba-style "dholi taro dhol bhaje" and "nimbooda")- umrao jaan (from the 70s, asha bhosle sings, sparse and poetic)- pyaasa (from the 1950s, but fantastic! my favorite movie and soundtrack ever....mohammed rafi and geeta dutt sing)- khabhi kushi kabhie gham (traditional bollywood stuff but done very well, lata sings)- recent good ones: kal ho naa ho, chalte chalte, veer zaara; monsoon wedding has a few good classic songs on there
by the way, most of these i think you can listen to on www.raaga.com - go to their movie index
i don't know anything at all about compilations, though, and i'm not as well informed about non-"filmi" hindi music
― Priti Batta (priti), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And I wholeheartedly admit that my Bollywood tastes, as represented above, seem rather mainstream if you know Hindi film. Would love if someone could recommend older stuff, or things that are more obscure
― Priti Batta (priti), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
this site has some really good songs but i can't get the mp3s to download
(btw, how does one italicize on ILM?!)
― Priti Batta (priti), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
no worries. i skipped past more than half the songs. i guess it's a good overview, and maybe if you speak hindi or know the movies, these songs would mean more to you, but i wasn't feeling them. they were all very vanilla. the bollywood stuff i like is the stuff that apes american music from the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s. i love it when they get all Zorn & Esquivel on us and paste tons of genres onto each other and each bar is a different style or tempo or lead instrument. of those 19 songs, i probably liked about 5.
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
here's bappi in dubbed out electro mode from 1983's wanted s/track. asha bhosle sings.
http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=27Z6FP88KALQJ2RH8CIO978ZCT
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Priti Batta (priti), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Poundstretcher (nordicskilla), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 31 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 31 March 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
The "Radio India: Eternal Dream of Sound" album on Sublime Frequencies is awesome; full of classics from the Bollywood of yore.
Especially recommend the collage entitled: "Deep Disco Drama Diva" where a (no doubt moustachioed) Indiam lothario cum DJ whispers "Kabhi Kabhi" in his best Barry White over (what sounds like a dub/house revamp of) the song "Kabhi Kabhi"
Been listening to it all day
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 2 July 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLddIH7U6eE
everybody else: get this song going through your head too, ok?
― ETERNAL WAR AGAINST THE DICKS IS ALL WE CAN RESPECT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i wouldnt recommend the beginners guide to bollywood comps (theres 2 volumes) on nascente. you can get them v cheap and they do have some good songs but theyre compiled by john lewis from time out who only seems to like/choose the stuff that sounds like western pop the most (and puts them only into categories of western genres like disco, rock n roll etc). this ones better imo - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essential-Guide-Bollywood-Various-Artists/dp/B000MR9DLS/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252928231&sr=1-32
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 14 September 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i met a nice indian girl last nye and wound up borrowing her ipod and ripping her bollywood playlists off of it. so here's 3 top 10 playlists of what one hip london girl of indian descent was listening to as of nye 2008/9:
fast stuff:
Move Your Body - Johnny GaddarLucky Boy - Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)Aahista Aahista - Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)Sexy Lady (Khwab Dekhe)Maari Teetri - De TaaliBakhuda Tumhi Ho - Atif Aslam & Alka Yagnik (Kismat Konnection)Dil Dance Maare - Vishal - SekharChhaliya - Vishal - SekharMilo Na Milo Main Milane - Shaan (Love Story 2050)Sach Kehna - Kunal Ganjawala (Love Story 2050)
slow stuff:
Khuda Jaane - Bachna Ae HaseenoKabhi Kabhi - jaane tu ya jaane na (A R Rahman)Jogi Mahi - Sukhvinder Singh, Shekhar Ravjiani & Himani KapoorJaane Tu Ya Jaane Na- Nazrein Milaana Nazrein ChuraanaKahin To Hogi Ho - Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008)Tere Bina - AR Rahman, Chinmayee (from the love guru?!?!?)Zara Gungunale ChaloYeh RishtaYa RabbaYeh Honsla
oldies:
Lata Mangeshkar & Moha Rafi - Aadmi musafir hai aata hai jata haiChana Jor GaramChalte ChalteBaharo Phool BarsaoChalo Dildar Chalo - Lata Mangeshkar with Mohd. Rafi - Lata Mangeshkar (Pakeezah)Bachpan Ki Mohabbat - Lata ji (Lata Mangeshkar Live)Bagon Mein Bahar Hai - Lata Mangeshkar & Mohammad Rafi (Hit Duets of)Aye-Dil-E-Nadan - Lata Mangeshkar (Pakeezah / Razia Sultan)Babuji Dheere Chalna - Geeta Dutt ? (Aar Paar)AWAARA HOON - Mukesh
i don't know if this is really what you guys are after (i suspect it's no more or less than a representation of the most popular mainstream bollywood stuff circa 2008) but it's all pretty listenable actually.
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 14 September 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
actually it's better than just listenable - i'm playing this stuff for a first time in a while and it's really not bad at all. obvious western influences on the new stuff, and it's clearly quite MOR in a tecnho-influenced kind of way, but a lot of these cats have REALLY nice voices
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 14 September 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Fave soundtrack of the year: Dev.D, probably shortlisted for my favorite album of 2009 -- amazing genre-confusion, B-wood with techno and rock squiggles, hardest metal sequence ever in "Emotional Attachyar"'s rock version (the other one is brass band version and it's hot too). Other good ones from this year: Billu Barber, Chandni Chowk to China, Kambakkht Ishq, Dilli 6. There are a few more that are supposed to be amazing but I haven't heard them yet.
The Om Shanti Om soundtrack was my favorite album of 2007. Beautiful and audacious, amazing singing and chart work, banjo solos mixed over surf rock and big band jazz, recurring motifs, remixes, everything you'd ever need from a record.
― mojitos (a cocktail) (Cave17Matt), Monday, 14 September 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i just saw the movie (om shanti om)... first time i've seen a bollywood film in ages, and quite watchable. i like how many bollywood films are comdies, romances, tragedies, and musicals all rolled into one. the dvd i watched translated the lyrics as well as the dialogue, and some of them were hilarious, ie. dard-e-disco (= "the sorrow of disco", an upbeat disco number sung and danced by a blind, deaf, handless, wheelchaired character in a fictitious bollywood movie [in his mind!])
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:52 (fourteen years ago) link
First posted on the Global World 2010 thread:
Anybody know anything about the below? I forget whether there's a separate Bollywood/bhangra etc thread.
Fox Searchlight Pictures (Slumdog Millionaire) presents MY NAME IS KHAN, the biggest and most anticipated new Indian motion picture of 2010, an epic romantic drama with universal appeal.
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's musical score for the film reflects the myriad hues of the film. Music composers Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are India's must renowned and accomplished artists, and the trio has been responsible for some of the biggest hit soundtracks of the last decade. The album has Sufi inspired sounds and features amazing vocalists from the sub-continent - Rahat Fateh Khan, Shafqat Amanat Ali and Adnan Sami. The music is earthy and features very prominently in the film. Over 20 minutes of the film is set solely to music.
― curmudgeon, Monday, January 25, 2010 5:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkIt's being released February 16th
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
my wife's favorite Bollywood comp: http://www.answers.com/topic/i-love-bollywood
― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of slumdog millionaire, the soundtrack brought to my attention the tame a r rahman (the guy who did the soundtrack) which lead to my checking out a recent comp "the best of a r rahman (composer of the music for slumdog millionaire)" which rocked, and further lead to downloading some huge 3 gb collection of his contributions to about 80 other soundtracks, pretty much all of which are GREAT. i believe he's quite well known in india, if not to say ubiquitous, so maybe it's kinda like saying "gosh, the beatles sure are great" or something. but i gotta say the dude can produce the hell out of a soundtrack. he seems to thrown in at least one really cool, original idea per song, usually more like 5 or 6, he chucks in a lot of interesting chord changes as well (which i find overall is not bollywood's strong point, it's not part of the musical culture and i suspect it's hard to pull off and still sound "indian" but this skill seems to be one of mr. rahmans many selling points)
btw, i really find him quite listenable as well - the cheese factor seems to run pretty strong in a lot of mumbai's musical exports, but not so with this guy - really his stuff seems very very easy on the ears, i've got a constantly updated playlist i'm drawing from his collected works and i keep getting drawn back to it....
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
om shanti om has one knockout song - the first one thats sung when theyre in the cinema. the later ones are all pretty forgettable.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe it's kinda like saying "gosh, the beatles sure are great"
A.R. Rahman is pretty much one of the biggest musical names in India so yeah, this is about right
― The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
revive!!
"the year disco broke: india on the dancefloor 78-84" mp3 cdr mentioned upthread, six years ago or so? does anyone still have it?
― geeta, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
CTRL+F "Burning Train" = no results, WTF?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, fuck it, I'm going to post some of my favourite youtubes on this thread.
Burning Train - Title Music (R.D. Burman)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmS-G7RI7Z0
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
The Burning Train - Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe (R.D. Burman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCemp_hR2_Q
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Rocky - Aa Dekhen Zara (R.D. Burman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJglcQFTITo
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Disco Dancer - unsure of the song name, but it's a Bappi Lahiri tune sung by Usha Uthup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMk_xBMzGLw
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
The last two have *very subtle* Western influences. ^__^
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
a fb friend of mine put out that Charanjit Singh "Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat" record (the one that combined 808 & 303 before acid house, etc) and told me about another comp he's working on called "Agni Natchatram (Fire Star)". it's damn near amazing. kinda like indian boogie and early hip hop. he describes it as "80s weirdo synth-pop+funk from tamilnadu."
this first song is on there and it's damn near the best thing i've ever heard http://cartilage-records.bandcamp.com/album/play-that-beat-mr-raja-1
― jaxon, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMISxMZJ7Q
xp Disco Dancer's a great film. Janbaaz, not so much.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
omg jaxon if there's a store nearby that has that lp i'm biking there in five minutes
― AWeAreVEV0 (Spectrist), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
!!! that is great
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, just listening now and it is bloody awesome.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
well yeah there's no arguing with that
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
just saying that when I'm out eating chaat somewhere and watching vids looped on dvd on the big flatscreen in the corner more people in the newer vids have a homogenized look but then again I don't really pay close attention to these movies on a historical basis, and actively dislike most of them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
whenever I listen to that sun city girls track, after it's over, I think to myself "good hustle guys"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh i'm having a fantasy otm. one of the things i love about sharukh khan is how indo his features are--sort of amazed he still gets cast.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
but not really because he's awesome.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Bit depressing to see him in skin-lightening cream adverts but he's completely amazing otherwise.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
did you guys see the whole Aishwarya Rai skin-lightening controversy? it wasn't her; it was a fashion magazine that apparently lightened her in Photoshop for the cover
http://jezebel.com/5719938/lawsuit-rumors-for-elle-india-skin+lightening-controversy
― geeta, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
:( i hadn't read that
last time i was in india, my sister and i were joking about using the skin-lightening creams we saw freaking everywhere and my male cousin, very seriously, was like, i can get you guys some if you want it! it turned out his sister had a gigantic stash.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah :(
Aishwarya Rai is teh hotness
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure i have no idea what i'm talking about, but my sister's in india for the summer working and she and i were talking about how what indians need is an analogue to the Black Arts/Black Power movement. obviously it's a different situation and would look different and it's pretty ridiculous of me to be opining about what a subcontinent full of people should be doing but.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
that's pretty far off-topic i guess
i've never used these creams, and i object to the principle. (i bet they're not safe either.) but i'm a bit sensitive about the issue, because i actually got made fun of in the opposite way when I was a kid--I'm paler than a lot of Indian people (my family hails from the mountainous North) and my hair is more brown than black. when i was a kid, other indian kids would tell me i didn't look 'indian' enough, or that i must be half-Indian, or whatever, but no--my parents are both Indian
it was really odd
the funny thing is, when i was 14 years old, i actually hated Bollywood movies--at the time I wore all black and listened to Coil (why did I have so many Coil records? I don't remember now) but i distrusted Bollywood and its big, colorful, over-the-topness: it signified the mainstream to me, which i hated at the time
now, many years later, in my 30s, i adore Bollywood movies, and i appreciate them: also, things get more interesting when you add some time to them
― geeta, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i didn't mean to suggest there's only one "indo" look. (my family hails from the mountainous north, too!)
― horseshoe, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Disco circa 1985, from the movie Saaheb, music by Bappi Lahiri:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzOSqkWfCY
― geeta, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
you can see a lot of michael jackson in those dance moves as well
plot synopsis, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Anil Kapoor plays Saaheb, the youngest son of the family. He is focused on football, his passion. Due to this, everyone in the family constantly tells him he is no good. However when circumstances demand, he gives up his kidney to fund his sister's marriage, at the cost of his football career.
― geeta, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
it's no "aao na" but it's cool
― bamcquern, Monday, 22 August 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Don't really know much about Bollywood but some Kollywood soundtracks I've enjoyed
Kadhal RojaveKadhalanParuthiveeranKannathil MuthamittalGhilliAnniyanChandramukhi
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
tell me more! tamil cinema is not something i know that much about
― geeta, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
more Bollywood 'I Feel Love' action (Bappi Lahiri, in case you were wondering)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Cg-eFUWho
(starting at around 2:30)
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
Me on some Bollywood disco gems, over at Wired's Beyond the Beyond:
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/09/musica-globalista-geeta-dayal-on-disco-part-1/
― geeta, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBu_TBNmmkc
― geeta, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Babla's Disco Sensation isn't a Bollywood OST per se but still really good, "Old film hits with a new disco touch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMxl-wLNOB4
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://bodegapop.blogspot.com/2013/06/get-this-two-dozen-track-revelation-here.html
I gave myself a task: Using only CDs I'd purchased in Jackson Heights, Queens, over the last decade or so, create the Single Most Kick Ass 1970s-80s Bollywood Freak Out Mix of All Time without resorting to any track included on any previous Western Consumer-targeted Bollywood Funk/Disco/Dance or other compilation.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 June 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
I really really love the 1930s/40s stuff on the History Of Indian Film Music box set from a few years ago. I'm having a hard time finding other CDs of that period however. Any recommendaions? I do have wonderful comps of Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar that are comprised of 40s-60s stuff, i believe.
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 June 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
That Bodega Pop link doesn't seem to work for me. Bah.
― emil.y, Saturday, 15 June 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
Any decent overviews of more recent Bollywood stuff (Yo Yo Honey Singh, "Badtameez Dil", etc)?
― etc, Sunday, 15 March 2015 07:59 (nine years ago) link
Isn't there a new thread kinda covering this now...forget what its called
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Ah, sorry, I'd missed Rolling Punjab, Hindi/Bollywood, etc. jams from Central Asia... - though I can't see anything in that thread due to YT being blocked in China, and a rolling thread might not be the right place to ask about 90s/00s/etc overview comps.
― etc, Monday, 16 March 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Feels like the '90s are old enough for this thread. So, what about '90s Bollywood?
I'm hoping in vain that it'll all be like "My Adorable Darling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4tmeg9me9E&t=4s
(Purists would argue they should've bought fewer guitars and more amps.)
Allegedly Anu Malik's songs did resemble lots of other songs, but not Bollywood ones.
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
Gurudev (1992)R D BurmanAsha Bhosle,Shailendra Singh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=dpCrRj0CRKE
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 9 July 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
he he digging this list: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWYRTlrhMB12D?si=wIekccu4R2-aoJKNIB7t3w
― niels, Friday, 3 August 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link