The 20 Best Pakistani Pop Songs … ever!

i have to say biggest crap list i have ever seen. I seriously believe this guy knows nothing about music.

it wud b really nice if mr. nadeem wud pay more attention to the lyrics/music of the song rather then the personnal lives of the stars... and one more thing ``not the popular tracks r always the best`` mr. nadeem do think upon it

Hi nadeem,
Cannot believe you left out nusrat !!!!!!!!!!! (agreed his music was sufi but the remixes count dont they?) He HAS to be THE most high profiled musician yet out of pakistan. Whether it was `sannu ik pal chaain na aave` or `mast mast` or then `afreen afreen` his contribution to the world of music is invaluable.
Also please upgrade nazia and zoheb yaar :) rewind to `zara chehra to dikhao` - the zoheb singlet or then to `dum dum de de ` - nazias solo to get a wiff of the 80`s. god i miss their music..........
cheers

NFP

You missed on one of the most ground breaking and record breaking song i.e. Chief Saab by Sajjad Ali. I think it deserves the place in top 5.

And the order in which u have placed top 20, makes me wonder why r u obliging ur friends.

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NFP,

I only disagree with you on the top nine!

Ras

ooooh this must be the melodrama *rubbing hands excitedly*

it`s nice to know that some people come on chowk and certain boards solely for the purpose of sticking it to someone.

Okay Nadeem let`s just say I`m not good at sarcasm, it sucks as you put it, and everyone knows you are a vicious bastaard when it comes to sarcasm. I just asked you simple question. Why as a college student did you keep going up and down India and now when you were graciously invited by some well meaning individuals to Mumbai for the WSF you rudely refused calling the whole thing as knee-jerk bull. I think that`s a very hipocritical thing to do.
Anyways, it is however good to see your upbeat side finally coming out in this thread, because your super sarcasm skills aren`t always so cool. They can be totally rude.
What was the point of bashing The News here in public? You wrote for that paper for ten years and it paid your bills even when you turned into a major pain in their backside. They stuck by you with all the way. Think about it. Cheers.

ana,
Sheikhi mattered a lot to the scene between 1980 and `85, after which I think it was his volitile wife who asked him to start working the gym. After the Signs hit the scene in the late `80s, Sheikhi was seen more in a gym than the studio, even though the early Signs weren`t more than 125Ibs each! Insecurity and a Rambo-fan as a wife became his downfall. And he looked rather silly with all that brawn compared to his slight, kurta-jeans early `70s look.

Naqshbandi,
Ah, yes, Mhedi Hassan. Anytime, sir, anytime. But let me tell you a very interesting thing. So many of today`s Pakistani pop singers have covered his songs and in all this hulla-gulla, people forgot the brilliant cover of his ``Jab Tumain Koi Pyaar Sey Bolai Ga`` by JJ way back in 1993. Now THAT was doing true justice to a meastro.

bongdong,
Not if you also have a CD or two of Madamn Noorjehan`s Punjaby filmy naghmay. ;)

for there having been NOTHING to talk about in this article, we`ve certainly continued to talk about music, be it boney m. or fuzon. i like this. :)

i was thinking earlier about mohammad ali sheikhi being mentioned a couple times (once in jest by meself), and while i think he sang some soulful ballads pre- zia, i don`t know how he fits in this list. . well not in this top ten at least. perhaps our own lists. this is NFP`s list afterall, and while he`s adding some interesting social and political commentary alongside his choices, it`s somewhat tongue-in-cheek as well. . .i mean the title: ever!?

i find some of sheikhi`s later music to be rather contrived personally. problem, admittedly was funny but what kind of impact did it have really, other than probably giving the nurses complexes about their `soorat`?

and before sheikhi fans jump on my case for blasphemy, this is my opinion, na? :) having been crazy about the dude once meself, i totally respect your admiration for him. i did like the songs he did with allan fakir. :)

#66

I must protest, I am a true son of the revolution and no counter-revolutionary.

I profer the current set of mix CD`s in my car for inspection. Everything from Dancing Queen to Mama Mia to Sayonee to Boom Boom to Aap jaisa koi to music from ``Saathiya and Hum Tum`` can be found there-in.

baaghiraja would probably jump out of the window after the first 50 miles of a road trip with me :)

and i totally missed out on the rest of your post baaghi. . .nazia and zoheb were trying to emulate the OTW era michael jackson???? they didn`t do all that well in that respect, did they? :)

An interesting choice of songs Paracha sahib. I agree with a lot of the songs being there but not the order. As for Fuzon, I think the song Khamaj deserves to be number one...

Still, give me Ustad Mehdi Hassan anyday...

#63
Quite the opposite, bongdong. I loved The Carpenters. ABBA? Naaaaa. I`d rather spin an old Bee Gees album instead. And it wasn`t ghusa as much as it was sheer apathy. Just can`t get those damn TC squeaks out of my head. Always need a Slyer record to make them go away! Not a pretty sight, mind you.

rgds,
NfP

baaghiraja #61.

perhaps thankfully, i don`t remember tina charles. when you were eight, i was. . .oh never mind, but when you were eight, i was, oh yes, grooving to the beegees, boney m. and ABBA! *grin*

maybe it was white forest. *ponders*

bongdongs. . .

he was dissing tina charles, not the techno-synthetic boney m. ;)

bongabandhu
``Yaar, why so much ghussa againt Tina Charles and Boney M? What next, how Carpenters were talentless or (gasp..) ABBA were synthetic :) ``

as a mebmber of a working proleteriat, i am very offended the way the rich (opressors) and their bourgoise (sp?) lackeys look down upon us poor working people music, as if their music, which anyways is a symbol of vulgar consumerism is somehow higher.

i resent this and when the revolution comes, first this that will be done is that scratches will be added to all the opressor`s music, and as a reward to them, after their re-education each will be given an abba or boney m album.

#61

Yaar, why so much ghussa againt Tina Charles and Boney M? What next, how Carpenters were talentless or (gasp..) ABBA were synthetic :)