Asha Bhosle u must hear

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I just got this disk (Best of Asha Bhosle, it's from 2001): and it's fantastic - the best introduction to Indian filmi/pop music I can think of! the weirdest Bollywood song structures! take Richie Untenburger's word for it if not mine :

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=10:14:21|PM&sql=A2r62mpmj9fco

and Richie Unterburger (sp?) is a boring rockist who usually only likes obscure 60s bands no one remembers! You can find it on Amazon I know, but either way you MUST hear this, especially if you liked Lata's vocals on that Truth Hurts song. There ar like 2 reconstituted tracks that suck but otherwise most are original, straight out of the 60s/70s w/ originally shoddy/scratchy production quality. Travk # 13 is AMAZING - yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana is one the best disco songs ever, download it asap

ok i'll stop the infomercial voice now. but seriously, it's v good

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i think all of these were composed by RD/SD Burman so that's why they're so good

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird. I was listening to this last night. Much of it is fantastic. Especially Dum Maro Dum and Chura Lya. That 60s/70s Bollywood rock stuff is wonderful. Easy to see how a fan of obscure 60s psychadelia would dig it.

What do you mean by the reconstructs? Nothing on the sleevenotes of my version suggest this. And nothing sounds very different?

Also check out Bally Sagoo's remake of Chura Lya as contender for the best single evah!

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

If you could only see the movie clips of the actresses like Zeenat Aman lip-synching these songs (they nonchalantly "play" the guitar as well - but only on some verses...apparently the sound comes from the ether on the rest!) in the original Hindi movies, you'd like them even more since they're so fab! Both of the songs you mentioned were mammoth singles and most of these (except #7, I never heard that one before) are indisputed classics, I mean everyone just knows these songs, that's why it's great to have them collected on one collection, after such a long time (they left out Piya Tu Ab Tho Aaja -look for that online, it's ridiculously over the top cabaret style, from '70 or so)

Raaton Ko Chori Chori (#9) is obtrusively remastered and the new instrumentation is showy and shadowd the original melody; the zylophone-like bells on #2, Yeh Hai Reshmi, are also an addition and hamper the original composition. Aside from a few more snippets here and there, the rest is mostly untampered with, and the "older, scratchier" cuts, as mentioned in the AMG review, are thankfully well-preserved (like #14, Jhumka Gira Re, the least-Western song on there).

Now if only the had a companion DVD of all the film clips of these songs - infinite dancing fun! Maybe vid files are also on the web, somewhere, I'm sure - if you liked the beginning of Ghost World, it's worth a look (I should look myself)

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 24 December 2002 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I'm listening to tracks, posted on the Nonesuch website, from the upcoming collaboration with the Kronos Quartet ("oh, I guess it's okay if she's recording with the Kronos Quartet") and I am surprised by how much I like them, since I'm not a fan of Bhosle or filmi music (or even the Kronos Quartet, really). But I do like a certain international psychedelic ethno-fusion sound from the 60s and 70s and this fits that pretty well.

(I was there looking for info. on the release of Miguel 'Anga' Diaz's Echu Mingua, but I've already ordered a used review copy from someone overseas.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 15 August 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Hello, Asha ji
H R U I HPE U R FINE THERE ACTULY MEM I M FROM BHOPAL (MADHYA PRADESH)AND MEM AND I M ORGANISING A EVENT FOR HANDICAPPED AND POOR CHILDREN SO I JUST WNT TO SAY MEM IT IS ONLY FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND POOR CHILDREN IT IS A GREAT SURPRISE FOR ME TO GOD SELECTED ME TO DO THIS TYPE OF WORK AND MY AGE IS ONLY 21 AND I JUST WNT TO DO SOMETHING EXTERNAL FOR CHILDREN SO PLZ MEM GVE ME UR CONTACT NUMBER AND MY REQUEST IS THAT PLZ COME AT THIS SPECIAL EVENT AND GVE ME THE RIGHT RESPONCE . I M WAITING FOR U R ANSWER
THANK YOU
NAVEEN VISHWAKARMA

― Naveen Vishwakarma, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

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― LC, Friday, 13 January 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

one of my favourite singers ever

― okok, Friday, 13 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

asha is wow

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I especially like "Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke)" from the CD released last year.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

best thread bump ever

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised by how much I like the Kronos/Bhosle disc too. Definitely not the sort of thing I usually go in for.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

What does it sound like, in comparison to her solo stuff?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard much by her, and it seems like the people (here) who have, haven't bouoght this Kronos disc (or aren't talking about it). Aside from "Dum Maro Dum," I think my favorite tracks might be the instrumentals (which sound more obviously Kronos-y).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah that asha bhosle/kronos disc snuck into my top ten last year

and it mostly just sounds like a little better (sound quality-wise) produced version of her old stuff. a little "updated" in spots, but pretty faithful - which i was scared wouldn't be the case with the kronos dudes

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

2 1/2 hour concert at Carnegie; voice is still beautiful but SO MUCH TALKING

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Kind of shocking that this is the only general Asha thread on here.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.bollyspice.com/view.php/4794-review-asha-bhosle-in-concert.html

A review of her DC show on her current tour. I missed the show alas.

― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 April 2010 04:58 (fifteen years ago)

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