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Monsoon — Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version)
Album: Monsoon (featuring Sheila Chandra)
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Released: 1995
Length: 5:49
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 ratbbb2 wrote:

LOVE THIS TRACK.
I bought the single in the 80s and have never heard it other than in my home.  Now that I now its been reissued other than the 12" single I will look into getting it again. Yes I still have the original 12" dance mix and plan to play it soon.




I have the 12" 45 rpm (English, dub version) single from back in the day as well; it's a trip and three-quarters, for sure. Long-time Monsoon / Chandra fan.
LOVE THIS TRACK.
I bought the single in the 80s and have never heard it other than in my home.  Now that I now its been reissued other than the 12" single I will look into getting it again. Yes I still have the original 12" dance mix and plan to play it soon.
Love this! Freakin' amazing to my ears....
I'd never heard this version of Ever So Lonely. Reminds me, sadly, of Sheila Chandra's stilled voice. We are fortunate to have so many recording of her.
 (anonymous) wrote:


This is just cool...  love it...

 
 

You have good taste.
Thanks again Bill.
WOW. I had this EP (English version). Sends me right back to Los Angeles 1981 ... LOVE this. Thanks for playing it! 
 Orodrigues wrote:
'Within You Without You'  (Beatles) a little bit faster...
 
Yeah, who knew that George Harrison invented Indian music?
Dang, this is fantastic. To use an American jazz assessment: it really swings
Bought this on 12" single (English version) when it first came out and was working in a record shop so most of my salary was consumed this way. Still love it and still regularly one of the few records I play.
She is no longer able to perform, as the result of burning mouth syndrome, which she has had since 2010... What a pitty!
Okay, woah!  this is amazing.  I actually really like the "soporific" version but really like this version of it too...you find the BEST STUFF!!

This was actually the original version of the song, sung by Sheila Chandra when she was lead singer of the group Monsoon. The English version was a bit of a hit in the UK. She later went on to a solo career, and redid the song in the (to me, having grown up with the original), soporific and boring version most people know. I didn't know there was a Hindi version, kind of miss the original English one. 
 

The non-Hindi version is way better than this.
Excellent! {#Meditate}
 AvoidingWork wrote:
I was SHOCKED!!  
Here I thought I was about to hear the same song twice on the same day on RP. (7:40 am - Sheila Chandra - Ever So Lonely / Ocean)   But true to form it's a cover.  Or maybe the other is a cover of this.  Does it still count as a cover if it is sung in a different language?  
Anyway kudos Bill.

 
This was actually the original version of the song, sung by Sheila Chandra when she was lead singer of the group Monsoon. The English version was a bit of a hit in the UK. She later went on to a solo career, and redid the song in the (to me, having grown up with the original), soporific and boring version most people know. I didn't know there was a Hindi version, kind of miss the original English one. 
Love this following Within You Without You! {#Guitarist}
Good stuff, love me some Sitar! Though I actually don't like that it follows Tomorrow Never Knows, they are too similar.

TERRIBLE!
'Within You Without You'  (Beatles) a little bit faster...
I was SHOCKED!!  
Here I thought I was about to hear the same song twice on the same day on RP. (7:40 am - Sheila Chandra - Ever So Lonely / Ocean)   But true to form it's a cover.  Or maybe the other is a cover of this.  Does it still count as a cover if it is sung in a different language?  
Anyway kudos Bill.


Wow, I've been at work long enough to hear this TWICE today...not that I"m complaining....it's Fantastic!
I just knew there was a techo version of this song. Thanks for playing it RP!!
Brilliant segue from "Tomorrow Never Knows". Thank you!
Enchanting.  I could listen to this all day. 
Been said before, but great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows.
To UBANTOURIST:  "What ever happened to Weasel?
This tune brought back memories of 102.3 as well.

From an April 10th article in the WashPo, he's playing on WTMD, Towson, MD, 89.7 FM

Had the same thought. I even clicked to see if it was the same song, as it sounded like it but I hadn't remembered this part.

 Barek wrote:
It is always played on RP right after "Tomorrow Never Knows" from The Beatles. I don't know if it's on purpose or not {#Angel} but it results in a great transition. Actually I thought it was still the same song, until the vocals came in (and I checked the playlist)..
 


It is always played on RP right after "Tomorrow Never Knows" from The Beatles. I don't know if it's on purpose or not {#Angel} but it results in a great transition. Actually I thought it was still the same song, until the vocals came in (and I checked the playlist)..
I thought this might have been Ekova for a moment.
once again. an incredible segue!
+1 just because she doesn't sing in English ;-)
...shiela chandra does a great cover of song to the siren on realworld's gifted compilation...
 ubuntourist wrote:
Hey thanks for the flashback on WHFS Indy Radio in good ol Maryland! I interviewed the girl DJ when I was at UofM and she was so foxy!
I wonder what/where Weasel and Damien is today?

Weasel! Damien! Oh yes! ;-)
 


I hear a Supertramp jam in there
I agree....smooth like a mayonnaise sandwich.

 
Jeff09 wrote:

Did it again...sitar/tabla of Tomorrow Never Knows to Ever So Lonely.

 


Nice segue!
 linzie wrote:

4get the song...she's friggin' purty!!


 
And she's friggin' TALENTED.  I still think someone needs to bring the world into the current century regarding the sitar ("It's not your father's Oldsmobile.") While every time I hear it, it makes me want to wear my tie-dyed T-shirt, my macramaed headband, my knee-high fringed leather moccasins and my short denim skirt, it also makes me want to learn Yoga, do Tai-Chi, drink green tea, and maybe practice peace.

Love this song. {#Meditate}

4get the song...she's friggin' purty!!


 miahfost wrote:

I used to listen to HFS in college (I went to college on the Eastern Shore.) It was fantastic; great music and real DJs. The only thing that comes close that I can tolerate is RadioParadise.
 
Weasel! Damien! Oh yes! ;-)
 Jeff09 wrote:
Oh man.  One of the slyest segues of all time...
 
Did it again...sitar/tabla of Tomorrow Never Knows to Ever So Lonely.

Brilliant transition from Beatles. It was as if the two songs were actually one...
Oh man.  One of the slyest segues of all time...
 Tippster wrote:

...back before they went corporate.  I miss the 'HFS of the 70's and 80's.  When they were still on FM102.3, broadcasting from Cordell Ave. in Bethesda, and had Damien getting stoned on the air nightly they were the best radio station on the planet.
 
I used to listen to HFS in college (I went to college on the Eastern Shore.) It was fantastic; great music and real DJs. The only thing that comes close that I can tolerate is RadioParadise.
 brewgoat wrote:


I'm with you there.

Lot's of HFS'ers around these here parts.

 
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
 
 
...back before they went corporate.  I miss the 'HFS of the 70's and 80's.  When they were still on FM102.3, broadcasting from Cordell Ave. in Bethesda, and had Damien getting stoned on the air nightly they were the best radio station on the planet.

she does an astonishing acapella version of this as well.
quality segue there Bill ...


I'm with you there.

Lot's of HFS'ers around these here parts.

 
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
 


 jadedragon wrote:

It bears repeating: WHAT an incredible segue from "Tomorrow Never Knows"!



 
Ditto.

Wow, that is indeed an amazing segue from Tomorrow Never Knows. I almost sounds like a remix from the Love album at first.

It bears repeating: WHAT an incredible segue from "Tomorrow Never Knows"!



There's also a track called Tomorrow Never Knows on Monsoon.  Hmmm....
 LisaLu wrote:

Yes...just logged into to applaud that lovely segue - you're awesome Bill!

 

Bill rocks!!!
It is interesting to note that this was recorded back in 82 while the hindi/psychedelic revival went popular in the late nineties.

Lovely segue from beatles by the way.
Kinda sounds like they got Stephen Hawking to sing backup.  At least it gets him off campus for awhile.

It does feel kinda weird making fun of S.H., even if Ricky G. did break the ice... did anybody else see that, hilarious!

Enough!!!


nice match up but I find this very derivative... It's a disco version of "Within You, Without You."
Interesting version of this song!!
 countyman wrote:
SMOOTH segue from the Beatles there Bill.{#Clap}
 
Indeed...brilliant.

SMOOTH segue from the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" there Bill.{#Clap}
And a good tune also.

ps - Romeotuma, one "good for the ears" per page thank you.

 ugly wrote:
If this whole set is made with a person using medicinal cannabis in mind this evening, I would say that it is 100% correct.
 
I resemble that, time to twist one up.   {#Good-vibes}

If this whole set is made with a person using medicinal cannabis in mind this evening, I would say that it is 100% correct.
k, this one goes on the trippy mix :)
Perhaps it's because my mind was poisoned by the awful version of this that was something of a dance hit (shudder) in the UK a while back, but this is absolutely horrible. {#Stop}

Yes - nicely done!

 
helloitsme wrote:
Transition from "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a marvel — couldn't tell where one song ended and the next began.  Great job, Bill, of making this connection.
 


 Karmala wrote:

 

i happen to like this as well - but i wouldn't have reposted the image

cool song - RP expands my horizon again

join and support   RP  today !
 helloitsme wrote:
Transition from "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a marvel — couldn't tell where one song ended and the next began.  Great job, Bill, of making this connection.
 
Yes...just logged into to applaud that lovely segue - you're awesome Bill!

Transition from "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a marvel — couldn't tell where one song ended and the next began.  Great job, Bill, of making this connection.
great to hear it again, excelent
All right-what Moody Blues song is this a lot like?
This song is very cool. It has good energy with a great sense of occasion. Fantastic percussion, too!
Seg from "Tomorrow Never Knows" into this=genius. Now let's see the trifecta, sgue FROM this into "Within You Without You." I know it's another Beatles song--but wouldn't it work?
ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote:
Great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows!!
Seamless!!
ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote:
Great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows!!
George would have loved it! I love Shelia AND tabla...
Gosh, seems like Bill is a magician. Poof . . . out of nowhere, a wonderful song appears. This is a fun set.
Echoes of Within You and Without You
serenity NOW!!!
Great segue from Tomorrow Never Knows!!
Man!
Oh man!
This is good! Particularly the percussion.
Anyone know of great Indian food in Atlanta? For some reason, I've got a serious craving.
rowdydaisy wrote:
Awesome! It keeps getting better. Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version) Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Kula Shaker - Tattva
I am so digging this set!
Awesome! It keeps getting better. Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version) Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Kula Shaker - Tattva
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
Yeah, and anyone remember WEER from Warrenton ("The Oasis of Music") with Jeff Harper? Farm reports during the day, cool music at night - got me thru graduate school.
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
I miss those days too. I saw that Jake died recently, he was 90 years old. Sad to say the station died long before he did.
Most excellent!
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
Absolutely
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
Ahh, Washington's High Fidelity Stereo... Those were indeed the days. Ciento Dos Punto Tres...
Brilliant segues this morning. Great way to start the day.
doobes wrote:
Oh my! This is a miserable redition of the haunting song from the 1999 Moonsung CD. The original is LIGHT YEARS better. Icch!
The original is from 1982... at least!
sounding good to me!
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
Word to that.
Sheila Chandra has her own website!!! Click here. Click here for a Wikipedia entry on Sheila Chandra. Sheila is now (as of hearing this piece of music) one of my favorite singers. Thanks RP! Thanks for putting my credit card even further into the red! I have listened to excerpts from this and Sheila's other albums on Amazon.com and am truly enchanted. She does not stick to one genre but explores many even within each album. On Monsoon, for example, she not only (clearly) does Indian music (and the usual instrumental accouterments of Indian music), but she also does medieval music and, I swear, Scottish folk music. I only say the last because she was raised in Britain (and would therefore be acquainted with Scottish folk music) and because of the way she sings some songs - with a decidedly Scottish lilt, exactly the same way Scottish folk singers sing their songs. She also does A Cappella music which is hard to pull off in today's world where instrumental accompaniment is almost demanded. Anyway, I love her music. It is highly original and often very experimental and very melodic all at the same time. I am definitely going to be buying several of her albums!
One of the most unusual and successful singers of the '80s and '90s that has attempted to fuse the music of non-Western cultures with Western pop, Sheila Chandra began recording as a teenager in Monsoon. Of Indian ancestry, but born and raised in Britain, Chandra took lead vocals in the band, which pursued a sort of new wave-tinged raga-rock along the lines of George Harrison's explorations on Beatles tracks like "Love You To." The combination yielded an album and an unexpected British hit single, "Ever So Lonely," in the early '80s. Chandra, however, felt limited by the label's pressures for more commercial product, and signed to a small indie label, Indipop, which she felt would offer more freedom for her explorations as a solo artist. In the mid-'80s, Chandra was astonishingly prolific, releasing five solo albums over a period of about two or three years that drifted away from the Asian dance-pop of Monsoon into a more personal sort of world fusion. Chandra also began to write much of her own material, usually in collaboration with producer and husband Steve Coe; Coe had also helped produce, write, and perform the music in Monsoon with Martin Smith, who also assisted on Chandra's early solo records. Indian instruments were still usually employed, and electronic rhythm tracks still sometimes used to guarantee some measure of danceability and pop-rock appeal. But with increasing frequency, Chandra was pushing herself beyond the parameters of pop-rock with wordless pieces of both melismatic singing and percussive mouth noises, ambitious song cycles, interwoven overdubbed vocal tracks, and a 27-minute track based around a raga. (Her mid-'80s Indipop albums have been reissued in the U.S. by Caroline.) Chandra truly matured as an artist, however, with her '90s albums for Peter Gabriel's Real World label (distributed in the U.S., again, by Caroline). As proof that adulthood doesn't have to mean tamer and more mainstream product, these found Chandra achieving a true world fusion that drew from Indian ragas, elements of British folk, Middle Eastern chants, sophisticated studio overdubs, and more vocal percussion compositions, the last of which bordered on the downright experimental. Chandra and Coe were now almost solely responsible for the music (Martin Smith no longer being an active participant), constructing drone-like instrumental textures to suitably complement Chandra's oft-wordless singing. Pop and rock were hardly factors anymore; Chandra was primarily interested in extending the limits of vocal expression, whether applied to Indian, Spanish, or Islamic forms, or the kind of material that could find a suitable home in the repertoire of June Tabor or Laurie Anderson. These recent works have firmly established Chandra as one of the principal boundary jumpers of contemporary music, but she's not a dilettante, and she imbues her music with a haunting, spiritual grace.
From All Music. (Click here.) By the way, Sheila's vocal music sung without words (read the quote above for an explanation) is very similar to the lady that does the vocal, non-word singing on the theme music to Battlestar Galactica (the currently running series, not the older series)... and that is pretty cool too!
Kdubba wrote:
I miss WHFS
Me too, those were the days. WGTB was another great station.
Monsoon is another RP discovery for me. I liked this song well enough to explore some of Sheila Chandra's more recent efforts.
algrif wrote:
Gawd she's right in me ear - luvit. AND it speeds up ... 7 up to 8, Bill">
I miss WHFS
DrLex wrote:
Yeah, Segue-Man does it again!
I'm picturing those annoying Fandango puppets right now
Definitely the rev'ved up version...great follow up to Within you Without you...
bev wrote:
Oh yes. Wondrous transition from Beatles Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows...
Yeah, Segue-Man does it again!
Damn, I feel like having a curry now...
Oh yes. Wondrous transition from Beatles Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows... Monsoon's version of Tomorrow Never Knows is also quite good. Struck me as quite a good tribute. George Harrison made me fall in love with sitar music. So transporting, meditative and seductive...
brewgoat wrote:
Ah, so reminiscent of WHFS in B-Town MD.
We recorded an earlier version of this song off the radio (HFS) in the early 80's for a party mix tape. Tape palyer ate the tape decades ago and never thought to hear/find the song again.
Helloooooo RP! I've got to pee and you play this! Now I have to wait till it's over. me likes....
please stop this song....
Ah, so reminiscent of WHFS in B-Town MD.
Professor_C wrote:
You just have to embrace the pain. Ascetic practice. Very indian.
I have so much to learn....
phineas wrote:
I respectfully disagree -- at least on 4+ hour trips.
You just have to embrace the pain. Ascetic practice. Very indian.
Egrey wrote:
I am enjoying the Indian seg here. Makes me long for a poolside gin tonic at the Oberoi .
Professor_C wrote:
This is good - not standard Hindi Pop at all, though standard Hindi Pop is to be loved, too, even through warped Indian bus speakers.
I respectfully disagree -- at least on 4+ hour trips.
I am enjoying the Indian seg here. Makes me long for a poolside gin tonic at the Oberoi.
This is good - not standard Hindi Pop at all, though standard Hindi Pop is to be loved, too, even through warped Indian bus speakers.
Oh my! This is a miserable redition of the haunting song from the 1999 Moonsung CD. The original is LIGHT YEARS better. Icch!
Despite coming to abhor standard issue HindiPop after too many long bus rides in India, I love the feel of this piece. This is the first time I've heard the Hindi version -- like them both.