| Song: You Got It Album: Roy Orbison: The Anthology Type: Pop/Rock Artist: Roy Orbison Rating: 5.0 My favorite Roy Orbison song. Vibrant and energetic. Bridge at 2:05 guaranteed to induce raptures. |
| Song: Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera Album: Swades Type: Bollywood Singers: A R Rahman Music Director: A R Rahman Lyricist: Javed Akhtar Rating: 5.0 A song capable of moving you to tears, specially if you happen to be away from India. Rahman’s voice, soaring harmonies and a delectable shehnai – bliss! |
| Song: Percentage Album: F.A.L.T.U Type: Bollywood Singers: Neuman Pinto Music Director: Sachin-Jigar Lyricist: Sameer Rating: 3.4 Starts off with promise as an alt-rock song but loses its way as it becomes a parody. Need to look up Neuman Pinto. Like his voice. |
| Song: Marakkam Album: Swapnakoodu Type: Mollywood Singers: Vidhu Prathap Music Director: Mohan Sithara Lyricist: Kaithapram Rating: 4.4 A soulful song. Vidhu Prathap rocks! |
| Song: Aiza Des Hai Mera Album: Veer Zaara Type: Bollywood Singers: Gurdas Mann, Udit Narayan, Pritha Mazumdhar, Lata Mangeshkar Music Director: Madan Mohan Lyricist: Javed Akhtar Rating: 3.6 Don’t know why but Punjab and Patriotism go very well together! |
| Song: Dil Pukare Album: Jewel Thief Type: Bollywood Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd Rafi Music Director: S.D. Burman Lyricist: Majrooh Sultanpuri Rating: 3.8 North-east folk influenced song. Cool alaaps, specially by Mohd Rafi. |
| Song: Ishq Hua Album: Aaja Nachle Type: Bollywood Singers: Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam Music Director: Salim – Sulaiman Lyricist: Jaideep Sahni Rating: 4.2 Amazing vocals by Sonu and Shreya but I felt the percussions were excessive for this kind of song. |
| Song: Zinda Hoon Is Tarah Album: Aag Type: Bollywood Singers: Mukesh Music Director: Ram Ganguly Lyricist: Behzad Lucknavi Rating: 3.8 Can a song better express a broken heart? Manic depressives should keep away from this one. |
| Song: Kora Kagaz Tha Album: Aradhana Type: Bollywood Singers: Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar Music Director: S.D. Burman Lyricist: Anand Bakshi Rating: 4.5 An evergreen love song. If I had the choice of one 20 second song clip to represent Kishore Kumar’s essence, it would be his vocalization at the beginning of the song. |
| Song: Yeshu Album: 7 Khoon Maaf Type: Bollywood Singers: Rekha Bhardwaj Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj Lyricist: Gulzar Rating: 2.8 A little too experimental for me. The music as well as the lyrics are not accessible. |