Lyrics:
There’s dancing behind movie scenes
Behind the movie scenes, Sadi Rani
She’s the one that keeps the dream alive
From the morning, past the evening
Written by: Tjinder Singh
To the end of the light
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
And singing, illuminate the main streets and the cinema aisles
We don’t care about no government warning
‘Bout that promotion of the simple life
And the dams they’re building
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom, mine’s on the 45
Mohammed Rafi (45)
Lata Mangeshkar (45)
Solid-state radio (45)
Ferguson mono (45)
Bande publique (45)
Jacques Dutronc and the Bolan Boogie
The heavy hitters and the chi-chi music
All India Radio (45)
Two-in-ones (45)
Argo Records (45)
Trojan Records (45)
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom, mine’s on the 45
77, 000-piece orchestra set
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Mine’s on the RPM
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Brimful of Asha on the 45
Well, it’s a brimful of Asha on the 45
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom, mine’s on the 45
Album: Brimful of Asha
Released: 1997
From Wikipedia:
Brimful of Asha” is a song by British alternative rock band Cornershop from their third album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time(1997). The recording originally reached number 60 on the UK Singles Chart in 1997. After a remixed version by Norman Cookbecame a radio and critical success, the song was re-released and reached number one on the UK chart[3] and number 16 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The lyric is a tribute to Asha Bhosle.[4]
Background
This song is based on the history of film culture in India. Since their beginnings, Indian films have relied heavily on song-and-dance numbers. The singing is almost always performed by background singers while the actors and actresses lip sync. Asha Bhosle is a playback singer who has sung over 12,000 songs and is referred to as “Sadi rani” (Punjabi for “our queen”) at one point in the lyrics. In the slower, original album recording, playback singers Lata Mangeshkar (her elder sister) and Mohammed Rafi (one of the top male playback singers of the mid-century) are mentioned. The lyrics in the bridge contain a number of references to non-Indian music, including Georges Brassens‘ song “Les Amoureux des bancs publics”, Jacques Dutronc, Marc Bolan, Argo Records and Trojan Records.[5]
Critical reception[edit]
British magazine Music Week rated the song five out of five, writing that “the Asian-rock outfit deliver their most compulsive slice of pop to date, mixing a Velvet Underground-style groove with a truly ticklesome lyric, strings and a top tune.”[6] A reviewer from NME commented, “… Sadly not a song about the joys of chain-smoking, but in fact a celebration of the Asian music and films of our Tjinder‘s youth. The cognoscenti of the youth revolution will no doubt have heard this already on either its previous release or the album, but this may be the record to take the ‘Shop into the crazy Global Hypermarket of the Top Ten. Not because it’s a marvellously infectious good-time dance pop number, but because it repeats the line, “Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow”.”[7] David Fricke from Rolling Stone said, “You can almost smell the weed that went into the rhythms and smiles of “Good Shit” and “Brimful of Asha”.”[8]
Music video[edit]
The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Phil Harder and produced by Harder/Fuller Films. It was filmed in a house in Lewisham, London.[9]