Book of Love - Peter Gabriel

I was just watching the movie "Shall we dance" over the weekend (my wife loves the movie) and when I came to the spot where the Peter gabriel Song "Book of Love" played... I was in romantic heaven. Today as I sat down to do a bit of blogging... I searched if any blogger had written anything on this song and I came across a beautiful note on this song. Please read this and appreciate the beautiful presentation of a wonderful song. I need not write anything of my own on this song.

http://muzakforcybernetics.blogspot.com/2006/07/peter-gabriel-book-of-love-magnetic_23.html

Tanita Tikaram

I was listening to James Blunt today and just remembered one of the songs that I used to listen to all the time. The song in question was “Twist in my Sobriety” by Tanita Tikaram. I ways more than one the song, the feel and the context were much ahead of its time and that is what struck me as I remembered and started humming the song. I went around digging and found the song. Refreshing …

Artists like Tanita do not come everyday… It is a pity that her volume is work is not as expanded as that of Sir Cliff… I would have loved to have hours and hours of unbroken playlist of her songs but alas, she has not made that many records. Here is a list of al her releases

Ancient Heart (1988)
The Sweet Keeper (1990)
Everybody's Angel (1991)
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1992)
Lovers In The City (1995)
The Best Of (1996)
The Cappuccino Songs (1998)
Sentimental (2005)

It came to me as a surprise when I came to know that her latest album “Sentimental” was released just on one French lable “Naïve Records”. She should have had a worlwide release.
A good place to get a capsule information on her is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanita_Tikaram
Her official website is http://www.tanita-tikaram.com/ Check it out….

Sir Cliff and Ridley Scott

I got hold of one of the podcast interviews of Sir Cliff and on it he has said how much he would like to meet Ridley Scott and how much he admires his work. This is uncanny... I admire Scott's worka nd I am particularly fond of his movie "A Good Year" . It is surprising how much I have in common with Sir Cliff (including liking for Indian food).



Ridley Scott is a director who has churned many great movies, none greater than Gladiator, and has been one of the most admired directors in Hollywood today. I am not too sure about Cliff's observation about him and Scott doing something together. A fan of Cliff I am, however, even I agree that his appeal to a non-cliff admirer today is close to zero. He is giving us great music but nothing that the generation Y wants. Howevr, just for the sake of Novelty I do hope that they come together and do something. If nothing do something for the sake of You Tube and Rapidshare...

I will be away on vacation for a few days and will start posting again on the 16th. meanwhile I just wanted to talk about a website that I am trying to build. It can be found at http://abybaby.wetpaint.com/ All of you who do know about The Big B. Please share your views on the wiki that is coming up on this website.

On this not... enjoy some good music over this weekend... And for all Indians Happy Independence Day.

Frankly Speaking

Overheard someone playing a song of Talat in my office and then sat down to download a few songs while my work suffered! What a voice. He had the power to bring melody to almost any song that he sang. He was certainly not versatile, in fact he was a very limited singer, if you ask me... It is only natural that people find a better choice to listen to Rafi or Kishore who had more range of songs and who could emote much more in their songs.

Talat, will always be a companion for the soft moments when you are alone in your room, with a cup of tea maybe, and looking out of the window.

Make My Day

I was dusting my old tapes when I came across a cassette that I had almost forgotten about. It is an old compilation that I bought for about 15 Rs. (about $0.40) way back in the 80s. One of the songs on the tape was "Meet me halfway" by Crystal Gayle. It is a beautiful song that I think should be hall of fame but I was surprised to see that it has never been included in any of her "Best of" compilations.

I guess no one works better with "best of" compilations than Cliff Richard. I have three of his best of compilations which are just a song or two away from each other. Why would someone with more hits than any other artist not be diverse in his song choice for the compilations.