My Top 5 Favourite Singles
Look what I’m holdin’ in my hand – Pariah HeapThe falsetto beginning that merges with the solo lead guitar so fluidly and reaches the crescendo with the Spanish and Latin Guitar doing a November Rain... this is juxtaposition in the truly funky Heavy Metal tradition at its breathtaking best. In rock terms, ecstasy and pure bliss! Pity it got only 3 Grammys.
Like a hymen – Mad Donner
Mad Donner simply gets better and better and the title track of the album just blows your mind. One of the most original voices in the post-Streisand era this side of the Atlantic, aided by the most powerful lyrics that would have made a Dylan proud ..what more a music aficionado could ask for?
Bermuda! Bermuda! - Cappuchino Chicks
Not since ‘Macarena’ a song from our Spaniard Amigos has got us stirred and shaken up so much. The beat is furiously rhythmic and the tune is delectably danceable. Doesn’t impress you on your first take but grows on you with repeated hearing and surely hits you hard with the ‘blood-on-the-dance-floor’ kinda feeling.
(But the lyrics are so inane that it makes you want to bash up the lyricist. But, surely you don’t want to manhandle up a Grammy winner!
Bermuda Triangle
It’s so mysterious..oooooo I want to get there
Bermuda Triangle
It’ so fascinatin’…ooooooo I want to get there
Bermuda Triangle, Bermuda Triangle
Inside her Bermuda Trousers
It’s so mysterious..oooooo I want to get there )
It’s not gonna hurt you one bit- Systematic Jones
One of the most soulful ballads written and sung ever and surely this must rank high up there with the likes ‘Imagine’ and ‘Another day in Paradise’. A great plus is the 70-second beginning with the bagpiper music setting the tone for the mellifluous interlude. Jones has one of the most charismatic voices of the last decade or so and no wonder, his albums are chartbusting everywhere. ( Trivia: This number has been selected to figure in the next James Bond flick as the opening song. And if this happens, this will be the first time a male voice is being used in a James Bond movie!)
Come, read me in Braille – Hot Tomato
Not a politically correct title for a British group making their debut, but the rocking music compensates for the raunchiness of the lyrics. There’s a claret like quality to Veronica’s voice and when that combines with a gut wrenching, harrumphing tenor of Orlando, then you can justifiably expect some fireworks. This is a great album and must-buy for any one who cares for some eclectic combo of Caribbean calypso and the old ol’ R&B.
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