As my favourite season is already on the way, I’d like to share with you my playlist-to-be so that you also can pick and choose songs. Songs that you can play on while sipping a hot cup of coffee, while you stare and revel in nature’s spectacle, stuff that we call the rains!
To listen to the songs, please click on the song title. To download the required song, just right click it and select ‘save link as…’ option.
Believe me, this has got nothing to do with it’s astronomical title that gets it on top of the list. I have literally danced on my terrace to this song a few nights ago (danced all alone, mind you!), walked innumerable distances listening to only one song and thus it makes it to the top of the list. I have absolutely no words for this song, I say just give it a listen! Jack Johnson, Salaam to your surf rock!
The Call – Regina Spektor
To not love this song, you’d have to be really deaf. This would be the one song I’d choose to define this playlist. It’s a song of ultimate hope, the first track that people ever hear when it comes to Regina Spektor. No need to say goodbye to this song!
32 Flavors – Ani DiFranco
This is one song that can be heard anytime to lift up your mood. One of the best in my collection, I value it a lot as it was my window to the world of alternative music. It is rumoured that the song’s title is meant to be a parody of Baskin-Robbin’s, but do check out this gorgeous track!
Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield 
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else…
If you do not fin the chorus of this song really familiar, I bet you are not having your recommended dose of television watching! Soul-pumping and mind-blowing are the only the two phrases that can describe this song. I bet you’d get hooked onto the beats in no time at all! If you know where you have heard this song, do post it in the comments section!
Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world – Aselin Debison
As if the name didn’t indicate it to you, this song has got the feel of the rains written all over it! This melodious medley by Aselin Debison combines two of my most loved tracks. I am sure you must have heard the classic ‘What a wonderful world’ in the Aircel Wifi advert, but this is the same song with a unique ukulele twist! Go ahead, float in the air!
Let go – Cover by Boys like Girls
Yeah, It’s from the same band that gave us the romantic hit ‘Two is Better Than One’. Just that I prefer this one as it really helps you let go from everything that holds back form being yourself! It was just meant to be a cover song to get a contract which is now going to steal your heart!
Across the universe – The Beatles
This song by the most rocking band in the history of music, is a marvellous piece of music which just flows and flows down the way to your heart. Check out if you can find out the very much Indian/Hindu influence in the song! One of the best pick to get lost in the gloomy atmosphere of the rains!
Hey there Delilah – Plain White Tee’s
Being a song that is one of the most popular amongst today’s college going youth, one can’t just avoid listening to this classic tale of struggle for love the ‘Maine Pyaar Kiya’ style! It soothes you, it gets you addicted to it. A more than perfect song to listen to during the monsoons! And mind you, this song is inspired by a real life girl named Delilah DeCrescenzo! Isn’t that great?
Annie’s song – John Denver
For those inclined towards Western music from the last few decades, this song will always linger in your ears. A must have song on every love song collection, it really ends up filling up your senses like a walk in the rain, so much so that you'll hit the repeat button!
The Best Day – Taylor Swift
Being such a huge fan of TS, it might come as a pleasant shock that I have included only one song of hers. But the one that I have included is justified. An ode to her father, who she describes as very supportive in the song, this song perfectly fits in the progressive mood of the rains and will surely will make its way to your heart!
1,2,3,4 - Plain White T’s
Their second listing in this playlists comes with a magical song that is an ode to love. Written with one of the best lyrics possible in the recent times, it’s another song that you are unlikely to forget very soon! (Last minute inclusion, thanks to Shubhankar!)
In my heart – Moby
I was introduced to this song from the Nokia adverts a few years ago, and has been one of those songs that you listen to while walking alone in the streets at night! (unless you are Amitabh Bacchan in Shehenshah!). Besides Owl City’s Adam Young, Moby is one of the best in the Electronica genre!
Here I am – Bryan Adams
Here is a guy who has been known to deliver hits all the time, hits that make you want to live life at the edge! Here I am is another such track which perfectly suits the mood at the onset of the monsoons! It’s just magical.
Come away with me – Norah Jones
One can’t make a playlist for the rains by excluding jazz, one of my favourite genres. A song from the Grammy nominated singer, which trickles down your heart and makes you feel at ease like no other. Music runs in her blood, she being Pt. Ravi Shankar’s daughter and Anoushkar Shankar’s half sister! Come away with me does manage to take you away to dreamland!
Against the wind – Bob Seger
A song as old as I am doesn’t mean that it is out-dated. This song is from the OST of Forest Gump, a top rated movie. A classic number on the guitar, it is his recollection of the past gone by.
Sovay – Andrew Bird
A truly alternative track, with a pinch of much required salt. Have a go at it!
You're Beautiful – James Blunt
Blunt, who started off as a second lieutenant in the British Army delivered this hit song in 2005 and from then on, has never looked back. I remember me and a friend of mine requesting this song on the radio every weekend for quite a long time! Such is its appeal, that it deserves a listing in this playlist.
The Reason – Hoobastank
“I’m not a perfect person, there are many things I wish I didn’t do”. This song is dedicated to people who want to break open, at the end of a frustrated walk down the street in heavy rains! If you are the kind of person who is going through a roller coaster called life, you’d better give .jpg)
this a listen!
Rhythm of Love – Plain White T’s
This chartbuster has everything in it to get you swaying in a trance, a song so beautifully played out that you’ll be left humming it for days to come. It’s Plain White T’s third listing on the playlist, and they totally deserve it for the number of peaceful nights they have given me!
21 guns – Green Day
If you have got into a sad mood, or have reasons to make your mood sad and pay a tribute to yourself, give the lyrics a listen. Or, try to not focus on the lyrics and go, enjoy the pumping track! Slightly on the rocking side, but it helps to break the monotone!
Hindi
Iktara – Wake Up Sid (Album)
Simple. Think rains, think Iktara! When it comes to the recent hits in Bollywood, Iktara is one song that has already carved its niche in the hearts of millions, no questions asked! I doubt whether you’ll have any need to download it, as you must be already having it! It’s still the king!
Sham - Aisha (Album)
Personally, I consider this to be the best bolly track of the year 2010 especially because I won a Bru mug supposedly signed by Sonam Kapoor herself, all thanks to this song! Nothing can match the serenity that this song brings to you, the crisp voice and guitar chords make you really want to enjoy a cozy night out with the best of your pals!
Dil Mein Jaagi – Dev D (Album)
When I first listened to the intro of this song, I was blown off to listen to Hindi lyrics to such a marvellous piano background, a thing that is completely unheard of in Bollywood. If you think you have traversed the length and breadth of Bollywood soundtracks, wait till this song changes your notion! Three cheers to Anusha Mani and Amit Trivedi!
Zara Zara – Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mey (Album)
For the romantics, here is one of the most suiting songs that one can find to listen to with your loved one, during the rains!
Kya Karoon – Wake Up Sid (Album)
A perfect addition for predictably, a long drive or so. Consider yourself lucky if you get to do this thru a sun-roof!
Phir Dekhiye – Rock On!! (Album)
This is just another song from an already power-packed album which is truly rocking! The wonderful guitar and Caralisa Monteiro’s crisp voice make it even good to listen to. The most suitable song to play back while you get nostalgic about the way you spent your monsoons making paper boats! (Thanks again to Shubhnakar!)
O Meri Jaan – Life in a... Metro (Album)
You might call Pritam a chorr but you can’t deny him the right to one of the most amazing pieces of music that people still tend to carry around in our country (unless he has done it again, without my knowledge!). A pure feel-good song, give it a listen if you have not heard it as of now!
Dhoop Ke Makaan Sa (Acoustic) – Break Ke Baad (Album)
Although the title reads ‘Dhoop’, no need to take it so literally! There are a lot of ‘boonds’ and ‘tapkofying chhats’ that keep you tuned in to this song. For more beats, listen to the original version.
Still writing descriptions and getting links for ‘Kahi toh Hogi Woh’ – JTYJN , ‘Is this Love?’ – Kismat Konnection, ‘Roobaroo’ and ‘Lukka Chuppi’ – RDB. Blame it on my bad memory that I forget these songs and thank Shubhankar for reminding me back!
Others
Rylynn – Andy McKee
The only instrumental piece on the playlist, that too coming from the person touted to be one of the best living guitarists ever, this song is nothing less than magic. If you ever wished to visit heaven on Earth itself, this is the song to listen to!
Le Festin – Camille
It’s a French track that I fell into love with, and is picked right from the OST of Disney’s Ratatouille. As they say, music has no no borders, no language to bar the feelings! This song is a testimony of the very same fact!
On this note, I take your leave.
Mid@$ Touch
2 comments:
Thanks Mid as touch......
@A.A.J
I was slated to give you songs a month back!!! :D
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