We’ve listened to Ain’t No Mountain High Enough a million times.
No, we’re still not tired of it.
Au contraire, we can’t get enough of this extraordinary song.
Because there’s magic in that song, originally sung by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
The song was also featured in the Hollywood film Step-Mom, remade by Bollywood as the awful We are Family.
Sadly, both Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell are no longer with us. Long gone from our midst.
Tammi died of brain cancer and Marvin was tragically shot by his dad (no kidding).
But their magic endures, as it will for all eternity.
According to the folks at Wiki, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough is an R&B/soul song penned by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla Motown label.
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Even by the bizarre theatrical standards of entertainers these days, American pop queen Lady Gaga is sui generis for her outrageous attire and antics (she came to the Grammys function in a huge egg carried by four men).
Upon seeing Lady Gaga in her de rigueur skimpy attire, the late night TV host David Letterman rightly asked her the other day, What are you not wearing ?
Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, the 25-year-old New Yorker is today a household name sensation in America.
Is Lady Gaga a path-breaking pop-star or just the hit of the season?
Oh, what a silly, lowbrow, middle-class question.
Who knows? And does it even matter any more given the worshipful throngs flocking and genuflecting at Lady Gaga’s altar.
Her latest album Born This Way debuted May 23.
And Billboardis projecting it’ll sell 1.15 million albums in the first week.
In a bow to popular taste, SI purchased Lady Gaga’s Born This Way from Amazon.com the other day.
(By the way, if you have iTunes installed on your PC, the Amazon MP3 tracks download directly into your iTunes software. Cool.)
Having listened to all the tracks in Born This Way, we confess that SI has joined the unwashed masses, the screaming hordes, the ecstatic devotees in paying homage to this savvy entertainer.
If you quidnuncs insist on knowing our favorites from the album, they are Government Hooker, Americano and Judas.
Americano is a clever fusion of English and Spanish lyrics designed to appeal to both the English-speaking and the growing Hispanic population in America.
With pleasing beats and frequent shouts of ‘America’ and ‘Americano’ in a come-here-my-man-let-me-deep-throat-you vocals, the track not surprisingly endeared itself to us, particularly in our inebriated state.
Our soused mind also read a not-so-veiled reference to immigration authorities with its taunt of Don’t you try to catch me.
Our second favorite track turned out to be Judas. With its refrain on a figure, whose recognition to the Western mind is second only to Jesus Christ, the track with lyrics such as the following is bound to easily strike a chord with the babe’s fans and previously non-fans like us:
I’m just a Holy fool, oh baby it’s so cruel
But I’m still in love with Judas, baby
Other interesting tracks include the funky Government Hooker with its outlandish references to John F.Kennedy, who died 23-years before this smartalec Lady Gaga was born.
Hoo-ooker
(Yeah, You’re my hooker)
Hoo-ooker
(Government Hooker)
Hoo-ooker
(Yeah, You’re my hooker)
Hoo-ooker
(Government Hooker)
Bloody Mary is a quieter, softer, sombre number that harks back to a slower era.
At the end of the album day, music is something that strikes at your heart and makes it skip a beat or two or three.
With Born This Way, Lada Gaga made our heart skip, skip, skip many, many, many beats.
By the way, the word Chola appears twice in the title track Born This Way. Whatever the hell Chola means to Lady Gaga!
Now, if you’ll excuse us, Scheiße scheiße be mine, bullshit be mine. (a line from the Scheiße track) is playing in the background.
Folks, the new Pirates movie, Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides, is nigh upon us.
The fourth installment in the popular Pirates franchise releases on May 20, 2011 in the U.S. and Canada.
And just three days before the movie hits the screens across the U.S., the much anticipated soundtrack will debut.
(Image Courtesy: Wiki)
Hans Zimmer at the Musical Helm
Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globes winner Hans Zimmer (“Inception,” “The Lion King,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “Gladiator,” “The Thin Red Line,” “Rain Man,” “As Good as It Gets,” “The Preacher’s Wife,” and “The Prince of Egypt.”), composer for the three previous Pirates of the Caribbean films, has again captained the musical ship.
Given the Latin flavor of the movie (remember Penelope Cruz plays Angelica, a Spaniard), Hans Zimmer has collaborated with guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela for the soundtrack, which also features performances by legendary trumpet-player Arturo Sandoval.
The soundtrack album is also supposed to showcase songs re-mixed by top DJs (including Adam Freeland, Photek, and Static Revenger).
Here are the track listings for Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides:Continue reading »
These are the dark ages as far as the Tamil film industry.
Forget Thirutu Nais like Venkat Prabhu, even veterans like Kamal Haasan have stooped to stealing. When they’re not stealing, these Kollywood rascals are churning out unendurable trash like Sura.
If there’s been a Renaissance in Indian arts and culture, it has not touched Tamil shores yet.
The other day we committed the deadly sin of buying the Evan di Unna Pethan track from the upcoming movie Vaanam (Simbhu) on iTunes.
Keeping in line with the current rage of remaking movies, Vaanam is a rehash of the 2010 Telugu film Vedam.
Misery, Unending Misery
Folks, a lot of ugly sights and discordant sounds have fallen on these fading eyes and these old ears but few have caused us as much agony, so much grief as Evan Di Unna Pethan.
The ne plus ultra of trash, this excreta of a song and its diarrhea of lyrics has few parallels even in a Tamil movie industry lorded over by thieves and halfwits making films for imbeciles and crackpots.
We listened to Evan di Unna Pethan repeatedly to see if we could salvage some element of sanity from it.
Hard as we tried, we came a cropper.
From the babyish first line to the sophomoric middle to the depressing end, it’s all one dystopian nightmare.
Our biggest issue was to discern which was worse – the music or the lyrics. A tough one, an impossibly odious task this business of finding the lesser evil!
Of course, something so obscene, so bereft of any redeeming features would perforce find favor with the Tamil audience.
So, it’s hardly with any surprise we note that the song is resonating well with its intended audience.
These stupid Tamils deserve the crappy music, the trashy movies and the crooked leaders thrown at them with monotonous regularity.
With one foot in the grave and lingering in the twilight years of our life there are few solaces left us save music, movies and books.
Here are some of the tracks we’ve purchased over the last few months (all from iTunes):
* Tere Bin Zindagi Se (Hindi) – A Lata Mangeshkar-Kishore Kumar charmer from the old Hindi film Aandhi (the peerless Sanjeev Kumar and Suchitra Sen). One of the finest Bollywood songs ever.
No surprise that this song has over four million views on YouTube.
That *#&$%#@ like XXXXXX should live and Sanjeev Kumar die, we ask y’all: Is that fair?
What did JFK say: Life is unfair. Say that again. Say that a million times.
* Daddy Cool: An old Boney M favorite of ours from the 1980s.
* Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell are the duo behind this classic. The Susan Sarandon movie Stepmom gave it a fresh lease of life. We dare you chutiyas to watch Stepmom without crying. Bollywood made a sick remake of this film recently.
* Poongatru Poongatru (Tamil) – This one is from the Karthi-Tamanna Tamil movie Paiyaa. Did we tell you we love Karthi not his older chutiya brother Sori Padam Surya.Continue reading »
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