Essential Guide To Bollywood, The - Various Artists

Advantages: Good Songs, Nice Music, Clear Sound
Disadvantages: None

...The CD 'Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold' is an audio CD produced by the Rough Guide Ltd, a Company based at London, UK owned by Pearson PLC .This is a company which initially started to publish books on travel and it has added publication of books on Music and production of CDs in the recent past. The company does have worldwide distribution and this helps in procurement of either the books or CDs produced by hem at any place in the World. The CD 'Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold' seems to be basically produced for those Indians and other people staying out side India. This becomes evident from the Commentary given in the CD about the performers and their career details. This CD is produced by the company under the guidance of Ritu a famous DJ in UK. She has handpicked the numbers of this sound track in enhanced format to make it complete CD... Read review

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Advantages: A quality CD with lots of varied songs.
Disadvantages: None.

...As an indian I really know the importence of music in the daily life of the people.They just cant live without it,there may be lot of poverty or anxiety in their mind but the essence of music seems to tranquilize it all.At every aspect of life music has its own part to play.From born to death,from marrige to seperation there are all sorts of songs to suit every mood.One can hear song on the way in a auto,or a taxi,on a bus,or may be from a road side shop.You cant ignore it by any means. The latest one named asThe Essencial Guide To India is in a CD format.The songs are sung by various artists,and it is devided into three sections,Bollywood gold,Classic accoustic and Desi Beats.In the Bollywood gold section the songs ar all from famous hindi movies,some of them are my favourite.In the Classic Acoustic section the songs are classical... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: great selection, good variety
Disadvantages: somehow mistitled, mostly traditional stuff

...Rough Guide, best known for their budget travel guides, has been steadily expanding in other areas, and has been responsible for quite a few musical "guides" over the years. This 1998 album, marketed as "Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe", does pretty much exactly what is says on the package: provides quite a wide ranging overview of folk and (occasionally) folk-inspired music of Eastern Europe. This is an album that pretty much started my liking for "world music" coming from my part of the world, and despite its age it remains a good compilation which really does showcase the variety of what's on offer quite well. One thing that this "Rough Guide" album needs is perhaps a better definition of what is considered Eastern Europe: this is a surprisingly woolly category (I always remember somebody commenting than Poland... Read review

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