Week 8 2009

This week was mainly spent being Haunted by the 1st 2 songs in my list.

1) Beggin' (Pilooski re-edit) by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons- Man. I must have heard this song 3 months back on kcrw. Then it played on a few more times. But I never found out the artist untill one hour back.

2) Beggin - MADCON This is a Hip Hop version of the same song. They are ripping off the melody of Beggin in all their songs.

3) House Of Cards - Radiohead Its really weird to have heard this song so much in 2008 but I saw the video finally this week. Life without TV. What a beautiful song.

4) Suddenly - Hi Tek

5) Astronomy (8th Light) - Black Star My fav Black Star song from their seminal album. One of the best Hip Hop albums of our times. If not the best.

Addidas House Party

After weeks of listening to this song on Radio & not knowing what song is it, this morning I woke up with a headache to finally put an end to this. So the song is a Re-edit by Pilooski of an old Frankie Valli song called Begging You. There is a hip hop version of the same song by MADCON which is getting played on radio a lot.

I just found this Addidas Film shot on this song. Its a great video.

Week 7 2009

So AR Rahman is a Oscar winner. So is Resul Kutty. Its amazing. Last night was like Bollywood took over Hollywood. I'm pissed that Penelope Cruz won the best supporting actress. JAI HO!

1) Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite - I love thios song. And again Kanye is the producer here. I love the video. And guess what it fetaures my neighborhood Dive Bar SMOG CUTTER in the video. Its shot all around my old appartment. He walks in front of the video game arcade.

2) Ratatat & Spank Rock - Wildcat vs Backyard Betty This is one of the best mash Ups I have ever heart. Spank Rock's dirty words mashed with Ratatat's amazing WildCat.

3) Bonobo - Sugar Rhyme One of my fav DJs in the world. His music always relaxes me.

4) Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan My fav song from this astonishing film. I get goose bumps when this song is on, even now after 4 years.

5) Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days This is a song I will always love. It was the theme song of VICE CITY. And everytime i hear it on Radio, it transports me to my apartment in Bombay with Diggy & Hitsie.

JAI HO!

Week 6 2009

This week I was still listening to songs from past weeks listed here. Esp BLOW THE WHISTLE & LITTLE THINGS. But this was a week of Aeroplane. This Begian DJ duo have taken the Dance World by storm. Their remix of the Friendly Fires song PARIS is I think the best remix of 2008. And one of those rare occasions when a remix makes the Band that did the original a success. Nothing that Friendly Fires have done so far has become as popular as this Aeroplane mix.

1) The Shortwave Set - Now til '69 (Aeroplane remix)

2) Grace Jones - Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix Dub)

3) My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

4) The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (Aeroplane Bootleg Remix)

5) Don Diablo vs Missy Elliott - Working Out Is Overrated

cheers

The Best Pregnant Grammy performance - M.I.A

MIA
She is probably the most famous South Asian in the world right now. And she rocked Grammy with the most pregnant Live performance ever. My fav is still Amy Poehler's rap about Sarah Palin on SNL.



I also watched MIA on Tavis Smiley show a week back & I was floored by her. She is what they say "Keeping it Real".

Week 5 2009

This has been a week of Hip hop for me. I was listening to Power 106 a lot in my rental car over the weekend. This weekend also happened to be Grammy Night. And M.I.A just blew everyone away with her pregnant performance.

1) Swagga Like This - M.I.A, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Li'l Wayne & T.I

2) Blow the Whistle - Too Short. This song has one of the best Hip Hop beats I have ever heard in my life.

3) Crack A Bottle - Eminem ft. Dr. DRE & 50 CENT

4) A Love Bizzare - Sheila E & Prince

5) I Love To Move In Here - Moby

Hindu Moral Police beats Girls out of a Pub

Forty activists from the right-wing Sri Ram Sena barged into a bar in the city of Mangalore and attacked the women 2 days before we celebrated our Republic Day. And they were released yesterday.
While we are criticizing Taliban for its medival rules & slamming Danny Boyle for potraying poverty, who is going to deal with the Hindu Moral Monster?
This stuff makes me so angry.
What kind of morals are they advocating by beating up women in the streets?

Barkha Dutt & NDTV crushes Blogger & Freedom of Speech

Its really amazing how Ego can make someone lose it. Barkha Dutt is a pioneer in many ways & a role model for many girls in India. She had started out so well.
But for past 2 years whatever little glimpses I've seen of her, if doesnt doesn't make me laugh it certainly annoys the hell out of me. She has this air of superiority about her that is really Irritating. Her coverage of the Mumbai Terror Attacks were the peak of this. She kept instructing her cameraman/woman to focus there, to shoot that. It was quite a bizzaire kind of TV reporting.
At one point it seemed to me that she even staged a crowd of people in the streets to do a thank you gesture for the leaving Armymen in the busses. (I could be wrong, but thats how it felt)
Seems like lot of people are finally getting fed up of her. Blogger Chyetanya Kunte is one of them. Now Barkha with the help of her NDTV lawyers has gone ahead & made him apologize on republic day. The language of his apology is very professional. Must have been written by NDTV's lawyers. You can read the criticism by Kunte that led to this action in the Google cache of his blog (scroll to the bottom).
If journalists themselves start crushing bloggers, then who will defend our freedom of speech?

Week 4 2009

This week I was bombarded with Kanye's new song on the radio. They literally played that song every 15 minutes on 3 different stations. I loved that song. I wonder if I can deal with it if they keep doing this.

1) Sapno Se Bhare Naina - Luck By Chance - What a video. This song's video was the best i have seen in a bollywood film.
2) Heartless - Kanye West - Another great video.
3)Love Lockdown - Kanye West
4)The Wrestler - Bruce Springsteen . What a movie. I was moved to tears. Best film of 2008 for me.
5) Day by Day - Femi Kuti. KCRW is heavily promoting him.