Music!

[raven]

I've wanted to make a music post for a while and the lunatunes theme this week is "favourite song(s) off your favourite albums." I'm not much of an album person - I tend to download single songs off iTunes when I want new music - but I do have a few albums I love.

As well as that though, I've always wanted to make a Hindi music post. I know none of you guys are really into it, and to be honest neither am I, really, but I do like it sometimes.

Fumbling Towards Ecstacy, Sarah McLachlan:

Fear
but I fear / I have nothing to give

Possession
and I would be the one / to hold you down

Wait
you lay down beside me then / you were with me every waking hour

Eyes Open, Snow Patrol:

Make This Go On Forever
the weight of water, the way you told me to look past everything I had ever learned

Set The Fire to the Third Bar
their words mostly noises / ghosts with just voices

Retrospective, The Indigo Girls:

Devotion
I would sing a song of devotion

Avalanche, Thea Gilmore:

Have You Heard
have you heard that the Messiah / went and joined the other side?

Mainstream
and another kind of war that is raging in your bloodstream

And the Hindi music. If you download just one thing from this post, download this:

Ik Onkar (Rang de Basanti)

For the record: I love Rang de Basanti. (See icon for two of the shallower reasons why.) It's just... it's so epic, and beautiful, and sure, it's flawed like whoa and I ache to rewrite the last half-hour of it, but for all that, it's so lovely. And this bit of music (just a minute and a half) is part of the background music, and it gives me this quiet peace whenever I hear it.

And this is the title track: Rang de Basanti. Bouncy in a way only Hindi music can be.

Barso Re (Guru)

I've never actually seen this movie, but I love this song. It has a soaring quality that tends to make me turn up the volume.

Ghanana Ghanana (Lagaan)

Another film I love, but the music is just... whoa. I played it on repeat for months. This is the opening of the film, and it's a rain song, under billowing clouds, and it's, oh, gorgeous.

Radha Kaise Na Jale (Lagaan)

My mum and I dance around the kitchen to this.

Comment and tell me if you like. :)