| Song: Tubthumping Album: Tubthumper Type: Rock Artist: Chumbawamba Rating: 4.1 Inane and repititive lyrics notwithstanding, this is a cracker of a party song. |
| Song: Khalbali Album: Rang De Basanti Type: Bollywood Singers: A.R. Rahman, Nacim, Mohd Aslam Music Director: A.R. Rahman Lyricist: Nacim Rating: 3.6 Interesting song with an Arabic base but does not stand up to the brilliance of the rest of the album. |
| Song: Gana Mere Bas Ki Baat Nahin Album: Astitva Type: Bollywood Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Sadhna Sargam Music Director: Sukhwinder Singh Lyricist: Shrirang Godbole Rating: 3.8 A really sweet song with Hindustani classical and jazz influences. Shankar Mahadevan sounds so fresh and light. |
| Song: 100 Years Album: The Battle For Everything Type: Pop Artist: Five For Fighting Rating: 4.0 An extremely pretty and easy to listen to song. John Odrasik knows that his falsettos sound really good and uses them liberally. |
| Song: Muthu Onru Album: Kushi Type: Koliwood Singers: Hariharan, Sadhna Sargam Music Director: Deva Lyricist: Vairamuthu Rating: 3.6 Melodic in parts, lack-lustre in others. |
| Song: Main Duniya Bhula Doonga Album: Aashiqui Type: Bollywood Singers: Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudval Music Director: Nadeem-Shravan Lyricist: Sameer Rating: 4.3 Aashiqui is a musical landmark in Bollywood. Despite plagiarism accusations against Nadeem-Shravan. Despite the singers’ B-grade (at that time and even now among the high brow) credentials. The songs (including this one) of Aashiqui are melodious and heart-felt. |
| Song: Rola Pe Gaya Album: Patiala House Type: Bollywood Singers: Mahalakshmi Iyer, Hard Kaur, Shankar Mahadevan, Master Saleem Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Lyricist: Anvitta Dutt Rating: 2.8 A tired, disappointing Bhangra-Rap-Sufi kichdi. |
| Song: Maanazhago Album: Boyfriend Type: Mollywood Singers: Yesudas Music Director: M Jayachandran Lyricist: Kaithapram Rating: 3.5 Good composition, nice instrumentals, past-the-prime vocals. |
| Song: Jab Deep Chale Aana Album: Chitchor Type: Bollywood Singers: Yesudas, Hemlata Music Director: Ravindra Jain Lyricist: Ravindra Jain Rating: 4.7 Very beautiful, classically influence song. If you need to get a sense of how perfect Yesudas’ voice is, you just need to contrast it with the couple of lines Hemlata sings. |
| Song: Tere Bin Album: Delhii Heights Type: Bollywood Singers: Rabbi Shergill Music Director: Rabbi Shergill Lyricist: Rabbi Shergill Rating: 4.0 Lovely love ballad. Punjabi pop? Who would have thunk? |