Song Of The Week X

An Evening in December is an awesome a cappella album. I had the audio cassette of this one but have never been able to find the CD. If you like Christmas songs or a capella, you should try this now! If you don't like either, try it and it shall convert you! In case you're still against it, I'll have to personally visit you and convince you, but I highly doubt that would be necessary.
This is the title song, the only one from the album I found online, and it's not even complete :( I wish I could find the "O Come Emmanuel" from this album. That one is simply... beautiful.

An Evening in December - Kelly Nelon with First Call



Heres the link to the full song performed tolerably well by a high school choir http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGxL5b9ZMg

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Last Saturday evening as I was listening to some music, I had the sudden urge to sing along with "Have Yourself..." As I was listening to the song, I took down the lyrics on a piece of paper and it's been in my head ever since. Oswin and I have officially declared it to be the theme song for this Christmas and we went out and got a star to "...hang a shining star upon the highest bough..."
Going along with the consumerist spirit, many Chinese shops have switched to Christmas colours with Santa hats and paper snow flakes on windows. After all, Christmas is just another commercial festival, right? The upside of this sad turn of events is that you can buy Christmas decoration in communist China. So getting a star at "Underground" was not a problem. [For the uninitiated, "Underground" is what we call the bunch of shops under the little park near the city centre]

In a sense, it's not a traditional christian christmas song - just a sad song from a musical [and the original doesn't even have the "shining star" line!] So it's the Frank Sinatra version I give to you here. [I was really tempted to put up the Twisted Sister version but didn't like the "hohoho here we go" line, maybe you could check it out on youtube]

Song Of The Week IX

Almost all movies made in India have songs in them, be it in any language. This huge market for singers, lyricists and composers makes it very diffcult for stand-alone bands to survive, especially with the lack of a strong live music scene.
"Silk Route" has just faded away now, but they made great music when they did.

Sapnay - Silk Route





Sorry about the sound quality, but this is the only video of this song on Youtube. Apparently they aren't very famous.

A Song A Week VIII

Someday - Michael Learns to Rock

This is one of the more famous English language bands in India. I don't know why this band from Denmark is not more popular in other parts of the world... sad.

A Song A Week VII

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

There are quite a few Metallica songs I like like King Nothing, Fade to Black, Unforgiven... and of course this one.

"...trust I seek and I find in you..."

A Song A Week VI

Chinna Chinna Asai - 'Roja', A R Rahman

AR Rahman is arguably the best Indian music director today. This is the first song of his first film 'Roja', which catapulted him to a National celebrity status.
For those who like references, 'Roja' was listed in the "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of all Time" released by the Time magazine in 2007.

A Song A Week V

Ohne Dich - Rammstein


I liked this German song long before I knew what it meant or I ever saw the video. Don't ask me why...

A Song A Week IV

Praise You In The Storm - Casting Crowns

A Song A Week III

I realise that with my present internet connectivity options, if I keep doing the Song a Week feature, this whole blog would end up being a video music blog because I just can't get online long enough for any other blogs. So even though I won't rename this little blog, it will not be a song a week anymore... more like a fortnightly...

This week features Eminem. I don't listen to rap much but I really like Eminem, and that's probably because I can understand what he says :)
This one here is my favourite Eminem song. I personally think that the song really dosen't need this elaborate video because the words themselves tell an excellent story.

Presenting.... Stan - Eminem

A Song A Week II

Dumb - Nirvana

I started listening to to Nirvana about 5 years after they had stopped making music because of Cobain's suicide.
What I like about their songs is that carelessly lazy feel that you get when you listen to them. I think that if you try to dig deep into their lyrics, which a lot of people have done, you miss the whole point.
Some of my favourite quotes from Nirvana...
"I'm so ugly, but that's ok 'cause so are you" - Lithium
"It is now time to make it unclear, to write off lines that don't make sense, I love myself better than you, I know it's wrong so what should I do?" - On a Plain
"Who needs action when you got words" - Plateau

And here's the song...
"..I think I'm dumb or maybe just happy.."

A Song A Week I

I know I should be posting here regularly and now I've come up with an idea to do just that. Each week I'll upload a song I like. Yes, it's the easy way out but then I can tell myself that I am indeed updating this place regularly.
So I had to decide which song would officially kick start this "A Song A Week" fixture and I thought of the Beatles. But making a desicion about which song to play was really hard. There are a lot of Beatles songs I like though I finally picked "Yesterday". This was the first Beatles song I heard, just before they released "1", which of course I bought without another thought.
This song really made a good first impression but that's not my only reason to choose this song. I generally like sad songs and this is just so good! The music and lyrics are not only beautiful but they also captivate you in their simplicity.
"Yesterday, All my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay..."
And this makes me smile - "Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say..."
All in all a very good song. 10 out of 10 for you!

The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You

"...Nothing you confess, could make me love you less..."



My first time uploading a video... lets see how it works. Just thought it should be this song because it gets mentioned in the previous post ;)
The video let me down though :( They really should come up with an alternate video coz I really like this song!