Gobbledigook

Sigur Rós is like opera, you listen to without understanding a word of the lyrics. Fans,( I know there are a few here and there in Blore, Bombay) can download the song gobbledigook from the album With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly which is due to release later this month. Also check out the video of the song available here. Quite of a kind , to say the least. Jesus Alanis Morrissette Christ.

And one another favourite scene of mine for all time. From the classic noir humour Man bites Dog. This is what annoying people should get.

Boom boody Boom boody

The master Peter Sellers and hot Sophia Loren, not the best video but hey its Boom boody.

Some World Music

Weeping Meadow, Eleni Karaindrou, Greece





But It Rained, Parikrama, India




Lane Moje,Željko Joksimović Serbia




Tijuana Dream, All India Radio, Australia

Love Will Tear us Apart

Nouvelle vague, the French band famous for their song In the manner of speaking , doing a cover of Love will tear us apart. Is okay.

But here's the original. Out of this goddamn world.

There will be Music...

Radiohead Jonny Greenwood’s score for There will be Blood is the best score for a cinema in recent years. Innovative, multidimensional, and very moving. The last time I was so ensorcelled by the notes was perhaps Mullick’s The Thin Red Line. Have downloaded the stuff and listening on repeat.

Radiohead In Rainbows.. Its really up to you

Well Well. Radiohead have gone ahead and done it. What was begging to be done since ipod revolutionised the concept and melody of music.

Radiohead’s aversion to the music industry is as well known as their innovation and creative talent. Now as we all learnt over the last few days, they are selling their albums directly from their website from today for a price that you are willing to pay. As they see its really up to you.This could range from free to up to hundred quid for downloading their latest ten tracks.Whatever that you want to pay. I am told that the site doesn’t accept more than one hundred pounds.

And I am still mulling over and discussing this idea just like anyone on the island. At the moment I find it wonderful and I have neither thought for myself nor have been presented with any argument to disfavour the idea. The only concern is with music lobby going contract happy creating a hierarchy of useless music. But hey it cant get any worse than it is now. And then there is a also a risk of decadence of music in general, making it hard to discover your kind of music amongst loads of substandard garage bands. But it’s all speculative, got to wait and see. I have a feeling this is just a first throw of stone. Things would take a different course as we go along.

Anyway talking of the music as such, I paid a fiver ( which I believe is a reasonable price considering that all of it directly goes to the band) and downloaded the ten tracks.

Its good mostly and brilliant at parts. Typical Radiohead but not complexly fragmented as Kid A(I don’t dislike it). But to my taste I did not find it extraordinary. But we ought to bear in mind we almost subconsciously compare any of their album to OK Computer which perhaps is the best album of the last century. Except perhaps one. Well Never mind.

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Skip James' gem...

1966 version of Devil got my woman. Unfortunately, not the 1931 version.
Anyway, Music, without such, life is a mistake.

William Shatner's Dog..

Boy next door Stephen Fretwell has released Man on the Roof last week which is a nice cross between dylanesque and damien ricey music. You could visit him here, watch videos, listen to featured songs and also sign up for a free download of the song What, which you would find very strummable if you are a guitar player.

Btw: William Shatner's dog is a title of a song.

Ghost world...crazy diamonds

I had to check this video out after the song was featured on the Ghost World soundtrack. Absolutely crazy, but, frigging brilliant. Why is that all the good things have to be dug up always?



Ps-I think the term crazy doesnt even remotely justify her ecstasy. Since the clock runs anticlockwise, check the lady from 54 to 44 seconds. The Australians have a term for such enviably rapturous and incorrigible madness. Its as crazy as a cut snake derived from how a cut snake prances all over the place. Thats the term wanted.

Gulag Orkester

When I casually picked up the Gulag Orkester by Beirut last week at the borders, I had no idea what it was. I went only by the cover and the title of the songs.
Never have I been so emotionally moved by one single album in such intensity. This is undoubtedly the best album of recent times. If you haven’t listened to it yet, you haven’t lived.

Dirty Dozen: Favourites

The coral atoll, The Thin Red Line
~Hans Zimmer

A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics, A Beautiful Mind
~James Horner

Overture, Lawrence of Arabia
~Maurice Jarre

Cinema Paradiso Main theme, Cinema Paradiso
~Ennio Morricone

Lux aeterna, Requiem for a dream
~Clint Mansell

Citizen Kane theme,(Of the Cinema Century Album), Citizen Kane
~Bernard Hermann

Now we are free , Gladiator
~Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badel

Out of Africa Main Theme , Out of Africa
~John Barry

The Bourne Identity , The Bourne Identity
~John Powell

Jules et Jim Main theme Vacances, Jules et Jim
~Bateman

Schindlers list main theme , Schindlers list
~John Williams

Comptine d'une Autre été : L'après-midi Amelie
~Yann tiersen


Burnt a CD for a gift in this very particular order; may be I should write about em sometime. Perfect emotional journey.