All time Music-6: St's never ending playlist

//Seems i edited a draft of 2014 but this si actually 2018!...yeah takes me that long...talk about writer's //block :P

Have been feeling so overworked recently ..weekday stress, working weekends, break-less ...jaded...and then i decided not to work on independence day. A kind of rebellion against the tyranny of cheapskate IT companies that suck the blood and relief out of employees.

And so on the night of 14th August i was watching mindless TV, mindlessly, when the song "O WOmaniya" came into my head. A unique song from an especially unique film, I was trying to remember the mischievous lyrics... something about how to handle a tharki/turned on man and his hormones and that voice...the deep-raspy voice that i love-love. A smile came to my face when i remembered the lyrics ... "badle rupaiya ke dena chawaniya " so true! never be the one who loves more...I had that craving that i have for food, only this time I just had to listen to that earthy song that reminds me of lust marriage and strangely love for my country.

I opened YouTube( my best friend) and played the song and before i knew it was trapped playing the excellent song suggestions that came next (my best friend does know me better than anyone alive). One after the other the 80/90s songs that i grew up with. How each of them had a story, and i remembered things which i didn't know were possible that i remembered. 

Before I knew it, till and beyond the stroke of midnight of 14th August, when the world was asleep and India awakened I danced and danced my way back into my License-Raj- upbringing 

 ( when the world was asleep India will awake to life ...

"Peeche peeche aunda mere chaal ve na ayi... Mera laung agvacha" (shikha swaroop anyone? )

"Ye Zameen Ga rahi hai, aasmaan ga raha hai" (kumar gaurav you were my first love.)

"Tere waaste re sajna...nain mere jaage re jaage, nain  mere jaage...Tu mera kaun lage" ( the b'ful women and their dutiful husband...why do i love this shit?)

"Channa ve ghar aa jaa resss, dhola ve ghar aa ja ve.." (what a perfect song for dance!)

"Leja Leja re mehki raat mein tu udake " ( what superb choreography!)

"O piya, o PIya....leke doli aa" ( Falguni pathak looks so manly but then her woman-self comes out when she starts to sing in that sweet voice...and this video... its inspired totally...love the expression of the girl in the video... she is proud and detached and crazy at same time! She totally owns the feeling that she loves this guy and is doing this over the top gesture <3 )

"Roop tera mastana.." (the remix..not the original song....i hate it when it happens to original songs that i love but the romantic lyrics turn playful because of the choreography...the guy singing in shower and obsessing about his looks, the maid and the adolescent boy dancing, the working man and working woman singing the song oblivious to surroundings, the chokras eve teasinga nd getting caught:D .. OK..this isnt the embarrassing part...the part is that I actually remember the rap word-by-word... <Indian girl the most beautiful girl in the world...watch this! :D> cue saxaphone)

"Yaar bina chain kahan ree....." (i remember how payal and shweta thought that I liked this song as i was the only one without a boyfriend in class 9... maybe it was true... who knows... like i said before songs reach out to feelings deep and unknown even to self...only youtube knows :) )

"Mehbooba oh mehbooba..." and now in my old age i finally appreciate the belly movements of mademoiselle Helen....am not even able to copy her coz of my damn-pseudo-beer-belly...aaargh! Anyhow ...the song..is a solid gold classic... anytime...and every time and all the time!

"Sun sahiba Sun">> Strangely... why oh god why? the lyrics... the line that got stuck in my head was..."koi haseena kadam...aise uthati nahi...".. I dont know... maybe again the girl is owning up to her feelings... that calls to me again? 

"Aake     bhar lo bajuon mein...tumko hai kasam jaan meri jaa rahi sanam" The russian ties remind me of my dad's trip and how my dream was USSR never USA ...shayad yehi to pyaar hai...

"banno re baag mein jhula daaliyon..."

"Pardesia ye sach hai piya sab kehte maine ...tujhko dil de diya!!" ( Again the remix and not the original..I love Rekha but no one could have rocked the step as well as Rakhi Sawant and in the end the way the guy comes and dances...its too cute and... yeah well..)

"tere bina jiya jaaye na...": Took a break from dance to listen to this one... the best part of this song however is the end in which the male voice takes over and sort of changes the tune of the same lyrics a bit. Yea am a sucker for romance...

"kaali teri choti hai paranda tere laal ni" Roopali ganguli and Sudha chandran were my earliest idea of what beuty is. In this song in her pink glitter dress and the red paranda Rupali Ganguly was my eternal crush. I frequently imagine myself in her place. Yes i Do. Am that person.

"Der na ho jaaye kahin der na ho jaaye">> Kab aaoge...jism se jaan judaa hogi kya tab aoge...yep that reminds me of my mom calling me when ever i was late from any school party (which i had many)...but apart form that what i love is when ashwini bhave shakes her booty while being extremely sad towards the end of the song to fast beat aaja ve maahi tera rasta udek diya...For sure some could argue that the original is way more haunting what with Nusrat Fateh Ali KHan's spectalularly unique voice and the drama of a qawaali... but am sure by now you must know am not a purist :/

"kaise bholegi mera naam">> So it's true you see the person you love everywhere... but here the energy that this guy Palash sen translates is...infectious and obsessive....hmmm..... I do love songs in which one or the other is obsessive. Speaks volumes :|! "Jeeti tu haare hain hum... "

"janam samjha karo" Must be milind soman and his impossibly good looks? But again this song and the videos of songs were so...IN...when i was young...and how Helen Brodie looked like a million bucks as the simple/sweet/innocent girl... But there is a section of the song that i repeat and repeat and repeat ....Any guesses? the flute instrumental music! It's played somewhere in the middle of the song and Leslie Lewis is a bloody genius is what it is.

"Manzil dekhi dil bhi bhoola...milke .aapseee" Dimple and Sunny...I don't particularly like either of them, they havent danced well or looked well, i dont know which movie. The fact that this song is featured in the list is because of this obscure channel called El TV that played equally obscure music continuously. Am a victim of marketing.

5 am! Happy Independence Day my Lovely Indians! BREXIT SINCE 1947!

All time Music-1: St's never ending playlist

My neighbour in college used to get extremely irritated because of this one...everytime she entered my room this would be playing on repeat mode. She couldn't even say the words: Aa mujhe choo le without making a face :P

The song by Sukhwinder Singh, man with an amazing haunting voice...i think i am partial towards voices that are rustic and harsh like Shubha Mudgal or Ila Arun. The music itself is so sexy...when I saw the video I thought it was a waste as this was obviously a dance number but when I tried to dance to it I realized you "want" to gyrate hips to this sultry number rather than full steps..:)

Sukhwinder Singh has sung many songs most of which have the same obsessive haunting quality to them...like chaiyyan chaiyyan, or nasha hi nasha... but the one that makes the cut is: "Aa Mujhe Chooo Le" ;)

Deepika darls.. this one is for you <3:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r9nqzS7ULiQ

Elegy

I thought you were it, I was happy to do it

A doubt kept my soul from committing but my hungry body caved in

The experience wasn't orgasmic, but I thought it would be enough

If we kept together we could make it through the rough

But when the push came to shove

I found out it’s was not true love

Here I am pouring my heart out in words

Would still be lying if I didn't say something was better than nothing or

that things couldn't still get worse

What wouldn't I give to take back our life… except bend and lie.

I guess its not love, so no point in saying love is not enough, to take us through this rough.

All Time Music- Intro

So if someone were to ask me my favorite songs i would list the typical top 10/ evergreen/ romantic numbers  who no one hates, like Ashiqui songs (the Original one), or songs from Arth (Tum itna kyun muskuraa rahe ho...). No doubt these put a smile to everyone's face and one starts humming them at the mere mention of the first few lyrics.

BUT...the songs that go on and on behind my closed doors, the songs that I obsessively listen to the most are the obscure, forgotten or dismissed ones and the repeated listening to of which has now permanently tarnished my vote of approval.

However in an attempt to move past these allegations of poor taste and hard hearing... I am compiling my infinite playlist and trying to decipher the reason behind listening to these so obsessively. The answer is in the lyrics...i just so know it.


To Start off in chronological order, here is what I am currently listening to, of course in repeat mode. Found this beautiful song as a matter of chance. I have lumia 720 and i use the Nokia MixRadio mixes when i want to go off to sleep and will listen to anything. So, found this amazing Gurdas Mann number, and it was love at first sight or rather at first listening.

What the lyrics mean, am not too sure..i think its talking about people forgetting friends and busy in rat race... an emotion that is all too familiar in times today....well after such an intro...here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqgjSbFqOsE