| Song: Uptown Girl Album: Billy Joel – Greatest Hits, Vol 2. Type: Rock Artist: Billy Joel Rating: 3.8 Upbeat and eminently hummable |
| Song: Beete Lamhein Album: The Train Type: Bollywood Singers: KK, Kshiti Tarey Music Director: Mithoon Lyricist: Sayeed Qadri Rating: 3.5 Melancholic and mellow. Awesome crooning by KK and nice backup vocals. |
| Song: Jhoom Jhoom Album: Fuzon Type: Indie Artist: Fuzon Rating: 2.6 An interesting experiment of rock-Hindustani (or Pakistani?) classical fusion but too much going on |
| Song: Friends Will Be Friends Album: Queen – Greatest Hits – Vol II Type: Rock Artist: Queen Rating: 3 Not the best Queen number but still worth listening to for Freddie Mercury’s searing vocals |
| Song: Hey Goodbye Nanba Album: Ayutha Ezhutha Type: Koliwood Singers: Sunita Sarathi, Shankar Mahadevan Music Director: A.R. Rahman Lyricist: Vairamuthu Rating: 3.8 Sensuous and still upbeat composition with a bunch of musical influences packaged in typical ARR style |
| Song: Ahista Ahista Album: Bachna Ae Haseeno Type: Bollywood Singers: Shreya Ghoshal, Lucky Ali Music Director: Vishal-Shekhar Lyricist: Anvita Dutt Guptan Rating: 3.8 Melodious and very addictive. A song custom-made for Lucky Ali. |
| Song: Katril Album: Varalaru Type: Koliwood Singers: S.P. Balasubramaniam, Sadhna Sargam Music Director: A.R. Rahman Lyricist: Vairamuthu Rating: 3.0 Awesome, melodious mukhda and silken Sadhna Sargam vocals lift up an otherwise ordinary song. |
| Song: Suryakireedam Album: Devasuram Type: Mollywood Singers: M.G. Sreekumar Music Director: M.G. Radhakrishnan Lyricist: Gireesh Puthenchery Rating: 4.5 A sweet and sad song. One of the songs that sealed M.G. Sreekumar’s position as the voice of Mohanlal. |
| Song: Thandi Hawa Kali Ghata Album: Mr. & Mrs. 55 Type: Bollywood Singers: Geeta Dutt Music Director: O.P. Nayyar Lyricist: Majrooh Sultanpuri Rating: 3.8 Cool and carefree. Deadly Geeta Dutt and O.P. Nayyar combination. |
| Song: Anbe Album: Rhythm Type: Koliwood Singers: Sadhna Sargam Music Director: A.R. Rahman Lyricist: Vairamuthu Rating: 4.2 Terrible Tamil diction but oh, such a lovely voice in this western classical influenced score. ARR was the second music director to truly leverage Sadhna Sargam. The first was Viju Shah. Don’t scoff, check it out. |