The Independent on Saturday will include a free cd called Indie Cool...

'This Saturday The Independent print edition is giving away a CD featuring some of the best indie tracks from the past 20 years.'

Kula Shaker - Govinda

This track, with its heavy Indian influence, is notable for being the only UK Top 10 hit to be sung entirely in Sanskrit. Reaching No.7, this track brought Kula Shaker to the forefront of the post-Britpop movement.

Nice to see Kula Shaker getting some credit rather than the usual history rewrite makeing them out to be a joke/embarrassment. (The cd is a Sony/BMG promo though so they are unlikely to badmouth there own artists but you know what I mean!)

Check out this link for the rest, not a bad selection.

Interesting list of songs - and yeah, it's great to see a Kula song lsited as "one of the best indie songs of the past 20 years" rather than as a joke...

(even if htere's a chance they got in only because they were signed to Columbia, ownedby Sony BMG - it seems all the songs are by bands signed to Sony).

Yeah, this CD is a positive sign. Also worth noting that they chose "Govinda" rather than "Hush" for once.

I think they chose something that can be seen as an originak - Hush migth have been a bigger hit, but there are a thousand songs that were bigger hits than the songs on this CD. But it's basically a cover version for a song that's been covered 5 times befor (at least), ansd at that not very different than Deep Purple's vERY famuos version.... Govinda, on the other hand, as they say, is sung solely in Sanskrit

I believe Hey Dude was their second biggest hit? But Govinda has the cool sanskrit angle and, at least in the UK, it is well remembered I think.

It's great that "Govinda" is included on the CD

I just wish I could buy the newspaper here!

Nice!
"Place your hands" is a great song as well.

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"Place your hands" is a great song as well.

I hadn't heard it for ages before playing the CD today. It's a good song, but I'd forgotten how much the opening couplet sounds like "place your hands on my hole / run your fingers through my soul" ...

As for the rest of the CD, "Govinda" is the single version, needless to say. There's also four bonus tracks (by what I assume are new Sony bands) that aren't mentioned in the link above. I say "assume" because I haven't actually heard of any of them.