Un ke dekhe se jo aa jati hai mun par ronaq, Woh samajhtey hain keh beemar ka haal accha hai. Dekhiye paate hain usshaq buton se kya faiz, Ek brahman ne kaha hai keh yeh saal accha hai. Hum ko maaloom hai jannat ki haqeeqat laikin, Dil kay khush rakhnay ko Ghalib yeh khayal accha hai. And here’s the wonderful Jagjit [...]
Archive for the 'Music' Category
Un Ke Dekhe Se – Mirza Ghalib
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23Mar07Here’s the ‘They Say Vision’ video: I LOVE THIS SONG. It sucks that she hasn’t released any albums since 2002, and the fact that her website hasn’t been updated since the beginning of 2006 can’t be good. Wikipedia suggests that she’s prepping another album, so that’s hopeful. Interestingly, she’s doing supporting vocals for Gnarls Barkley right now [...]
The Devil whispered in my ear…
22Mar07This is a must-see for Karate Kid fans. I know Johnny was an idiot, but you had to feel for him in the end, when he said, “You’re all right LaRusso” (and then got his ass kicked by the sensei). Another question: is this the first Jack Black/Tenacious D derivative band we’ve seen? You knew this [...]
Amy Winehouse is interesting
13Mar07Joss Stone has released a new album. Her self-indulgence and spiral towards Alicia Keys/Lauryn Hill-esque kook-dom puts me off, but one good thing to come of reading a review of a recent live performance (sorry, no link) is that I’ve discovered Amy Winehouse. And she’s pretty good y’all. This page has a couple of her [...]
Music and Lyrics
27Feb07Wow, I just read a great article about jazz’s (?) popularity in the US has dwindled in the last few years. I don’t think an article has resonated as strongly with me in several months: the author describes how he tends to focus on a song’s music, whereas his wife focusses almost entirely on the [...]
Links Day
10Nov06The stupidest man alive. ‘Nuff said. Now everyone can dunk. Yep, all you have to do is shell out $50-150 an hour, and your personal trainer will plyometric-ise you till you finally feel like a man. FM, SH, I hope you’re paying attention. What is 78 * 23? And am I stupider if it takes me longer [...]
Youtube Dance Essentials
07Oct06Allowing people to create lists like this…that’s why YouTube is going to succeed. Uh-huh. Let’s start with the original Numa Numa dance. (The song is Dragostea Din Tei, by O-Zone — the original video’s pretty funny too.) Moving on, the famous scene from Napoleon Dynamite. This is the highlight of the movie, and though the rest of it [...]
God damn Bon Jovi
07Jan06Along with some of the excellent stuff I got from MT at college, some Bon Jovi slipped into my music collection. This was college, where completeness of one’s collection was more important than quality, so it has remained there since.. A few minutes ago, ‘Bed of Roses’ came on, and I realized just how badly [...]
Weeks sick: 2; Weight lost: 6KG!
29Dec05Yep, you read that right. 6kg. So I guess the plan to get to 75kgs by the new year is out the window.I heard a busker playing U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” at Piccadilly Circus station the other day. She had a husky voice and did a beauuuuutiful rendition on her [...]
Madeleine Peyroux & Stacey Kent
01Sep05I’ve heard a couple of fabulous modern jazz singers in the last few weeks. Madeleine Peyroux, a wonderful singer with the same rich voice as Billie Holiday is now officially top 15 on my list of current artists, even though she’s only got a couple of songs that I really truly love, namely Careless Love [...]
Long-view
16Aug05So the British media are gleefully chanting Long-view’s name, telling us their album’s the best thing since U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’. Yeah, riiight… I’ve only bothered to listen to a couple of their songs, but in my opinion they’re decidedly derivative. Take their song, ‘When you sleep’, for example. The name recalls a Corrs song, while the [...]
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