Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
Rob Zombie pumps me up. I believe I actually swept the floor faster because of listening to Living Dead Girl and my spindly arms felt like supersteel when cleaning up the piles of grit, newspapers and assorted unused clothing that had littered the Big Room. ( The Big Room is my term for what you would call your drawing-cum-dining room in your house. We don’t draw, and we don’t have dinner in anyplace other than our own rooms, so the Big Room largely remains unused. ) I associate Dragula with the Matrix, because that was the first Rob Zombie song I heard on the Matrix soundtrack, and also with Ninja Scroll – I have this neat reworked clip of scenes from NS with this song playing in the background.
Runner up: Bappi Lahiri – Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer is music from my childhood, music I needed to gulp down my milk every morning ( That’s what my mother tells me ) Apart from remembering every line and every musical note, I was also a fan of Mithun’s “moves” in the movie, and there was a time when I used to “move” in front of the mirror. *shudder* Heaven bless songs that teach impressionable four-year olds phases like these:
D se hota hai Dance,
I se hota hai Item
S se hota hai Singer,
C se hota hai Chorus
O se Orchestra. para-para-pa-para-etcThis, you will agree, is a very good alternative to your usual “A for Apple, B for Boy” stuff one learns in school.
Now, after buying a cd from Planet M, Bappida‘s music makes me wanna MOVE, bay-bee. It makes me wanna shake my booty when I clean out my books and …er….shake the dust off the cds. You can’t believe how catchy the songs are, the bass riffs, the trumpet, the drums and congas, everything eighties.
Vijay Benedict ( the guy who sings “I am a Disco Dancer” ) pronounces Hindi atrociously!!! He can give Hemant Birje a complex when he does crowd-talking ( “Meri Yeh zindagi geeton ki amaanat hai, main isiliye paida hua hoon” sounds like Marvin the paranoid android on one of his good days )
Did anyone realise it was Suresh Wadekar singing Goro ki na kaalo ki? Usha Uthup singing the Video Killed The Radio Star copy Koi Yahaan Aaha Naache Naache ?
Shpongle – Are You Shpongled?
Has to be one of the weirdest electronica albums I have listened to. This was the third time I listened to this album, and to get a proper “feel” I arranged my speakers and sound settings very properly, sat in the centre of the room and put it on. It was something like 1 AM, so I was periodically falling asleep and waking right up whenever the temp changed. The music invoked some fantastic dreams, very colourful and floaty stuff. Funny, because the last time I listened to this album, my sleep just vanished.
Don Davis/Juno Reactor/Various – The Matrix Reloaded
Interesting factoid – Don Davis assisted James Horner on the Titanic soundtrack. Listening to the brass ensemble and the percussion hits on the second half of Titanic, the sinking of the ship part, that is, and comparing it to the Matrix OST, the similarities become very obvious. Tense orchestral passages, mixed with Juno Reactor’s beats and a mind-numbingly beautiful chorus makes Davis’s works worthy of repeat listens. “Monalisa Overdrive”, the extended freeway chase scene is scored by Juno Reactor, and it gets very repetitive, even by electronica standards. Does not help when Juno Reactor uses the same driving beat everywhere – this might be something like a musical cue, but it just devolves into a routine chase scene music. Overdrive, indeed. The songs in the album ( Deftones, Marilyn Manson, Dave Matthews (????), RATM, Linkin Park, Rob D ) are just fluff. I don’t remember hearing them anywhere in the movie, except for the Rage song Calm Like a Bomb which comes at the end credits. And that has none of the emotional impact of Wake Up from the first movie.
Current music: H Jahangir – Hawa Hawa
:-” No details of how, where, when, why you got Hassan dude’s album?
That’s a story for some other time. :-)
ah thankyou… just what I needed.. :)
Er?
( Music to Clean My Room By )
( Music to Get Weird Dreams by )
;)
This is the new sh*t
About the Reloaded.. ost.. I actually quite liked the music. I think it was a step up from the first compilation, and while not as fresh as the first time round, enjoyed Oakenfold here. But I think the Manson song is fabulous: the groove is very infectious, and [this might purely be put down to an overactive, sleep-deprived imagination] the lyrics are arranged in such original sequence with the music that the rhymes, while superficially obvious, are often quite implied, even if not sung. I’m not sure what that meant, but give the song, in absolution, a good listen.
Re: This is the new sh*t
Oh yes, all the songs are infectious, alright. Just that I don’t understand why something like Linkin Park’s Session would figure in the Reloaded soundtrack. Or even Manson’s song, or people like POD. Did those songs show up anywhere in the movie?
Yes, that chorus “Babble babble bitch bitch rebel rebel etc” is very catchy.
I think it was a step up from the first compilation
Er, why? The only good thing was them including the score cd with the fluff songs. and i found the songs in the first cd a more balanced list than this one, which is more electronica/less metal.
Maybe because i was a newbie back then .:)
..speaking of really good OSTs in the same genre,
SPAWN. :: bows ::
Re: ..speaking of really good OSTs in the same genre,
SPAWN ::bows too::
Marilyn Manson + Sneaker Pimps = WAY COOL!
I am still looking for a Crystal Method album, any Crystal Method album.
“Those lies have torn my life apart” – Insane, man.
Yup, i recognised Suresh Wadkar & Usha Uthup’s voices – pretty distinctive, wouldn’t you say?
I almost fell off the chair (that i wasn’t sitting on) when i recently heard some ‘Bhajan Rap’ in Wadkar’s voice !!
I rate him one of the unluckiest singers in the history of Hindi film music – far better than the Sanus, he never got a fraction of their hits/money/recognition.
Sanus?
Nasal attack ?
Sanu of the Kumar kind.
Re: Nasal attack ?
There’s only one, isn’t there? I thought when you said Sanus and they, maybe there were other members of his family.
I meant it the way people say things like ‘the Sanus of the world’, ie singers who weren’t a patch on Wadkar but saw far greater success.
I like Suresh Wadekar’s voice on Vishal Bharadwaj albums – the only composer who’s used the guy’s voice well.
He also has some fabulous songs from late 70s/early 80s – have you heard the songs of Gaman, for example?
Some great songs like Ajeeb Saaniha, Seene mein jalan …..
Do you have a dressing room? Or is it that you don’t dress?
*blush*
Fie, Sir! You take many liberties in my journal.
Hey, I love that hawa hawa stuff!
“hawa hawa, yeh hawa, khushbu luta dey!”
I saw that guy on the cassette cover and wanted a mullet and wanted to hold a Yamaha keyboard like him and look cool like he did! :)
I was in love with the Yamaha keyboard too. The one you can hold like a guitar, right?
“Rob Zombie pumps me up. I believe I actually swept the floor faster because of listening to Living Dead Girl and my spindly arms felt like supersteel when cleaning up the piles of grit, newspapers and assorted unused clothing that had littered the Big Room.”
A study states that termites destroy wood 3 times faster when heavy metal musick was played.. its aggressive n pissed off thats what makes it all the more enjoyable.. Zombie’s a relic from my newbie days..
Have you seen The Zombie’s videos? :D
yea, a few of em.. from his days in White Zombie to the present..
the last one was the OST to Rollerblade i think..
the Zombie implyin an ode to A Clockwork Orange with the make-up..
not interested in his brand of music these days..
but, wanna c ‘The House of 1000 Corpses’ , just for the gore!!!