Panjabi MC — Duniya
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Total ratings: 680
Length: 3:49
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planet_lizard wrote:
Amazes me that all the low-raters don't just go and find a rock-mix or mainstream station to listen to. Why stay and moan?
Don't be so dogmatic. I gave this song a 2. I've been an avid RP listener since around 2002 and can safely say that in my view there is no better station. That being said, I feel under no obligation to like absolutely every song ever played here. Once in a while there's something I don't like and I skip it, perhaps after giving it a low rating. That's what the rating button is for.
Do you feel obliged to love every single dish ever offered on the menu of your favourite restaurant? I doubt it. So don't make everyone here feel like they automatically have to love every single song played on RP. The fact that the occasional person dislikes the occasional song is absolutely normal and even desirable, because otherwise we wouldn't have the range of music we do here. The bland homogenization offered by most commercial radio stations is precisely what minimizes the chance that something may really grate on someone.
Amazes me that all the low-raters don't just go and find a rock-mix or mainstream station to listen to. Why stay and moan?
Don't be so dogmatic. I gave this song a 2. I've been an avid RP listener since around 2002 and can safely say that in my view there is no better station. That being said, I feel under no obligation to like absolutely every song ever played here. Once in a while there's something I don't like and I skip it, perhaps after giving it a low rating. That's what the rating button is for.
Do you feel obliged to love every single dish ever offered on the menu of your favourite restaurant? I doubt it. So don't make everyone here feel like they automatically have to love every single song played on RP. The fact that the occasional person dislikes the occasional song is absolutely normal and even desirable, because otherwise we wouldn't have the range of music we do here. The bland homogenization offered by most commercial radio stations is precisely what minimizes the chance that something may really grate on someone.
Not an accordion , a harmonium .
In the name of all things unholy !!!
no mas por favor
no mas por favor
Sounds old school Punjabi- like in the movies.
Like it-7
Like it-7
The accordion sound that Bill referred to is almost certainly a harmonium, a type of pump organ. It is one of the main instruments in North Indian classical vocal music as well as Qawwali music and is now used in many genres of South Asian music to give songs a more traditional feel.
I don't love it, but its a solid 7. New eclectic music is a reason for listening to RP every day.
Just open your mind
Love this. Thank you for keeping the Main Mix eclectic and entertaining! 
First time hearing this, and I'm with you Bill. I like this very much. Always count on RP to offer something "not for everyone, but wonderful to some".
Stylist wrote:
play it on the global mix if you have to but not on the main mix
Amazes me that all the low-raters don't just go and find a rock-mix or mainstream station to listen to. Why stay and moan?
play it on the global mix if you have to but not on the main mixAmazes me that all the low-raters don't just go and find a rock-mix or mainstream station to listen to. Why stay and moan?
So annoying 
I work in an ED and play RP in the physician's office. Been doing it for over twenty years and have made many converts. It's perfect for most - and when this came on, a few of the Punjabi (heritage) staff perked up with surprise. Not my fav but there is something for everyone here at RP.
Oh no, my ears! Bill! 
Interesting! Not just the music...but the word "duniya" itself, derived from the Arabic "dunya," is so full of meanings and interpretations... Though Arabic in origin, it seems that it was also absorbed and spread among Indo-European languages and cultures. I encountered it often in the songs I heard in my adventures through Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal -- and I recall that Dunya was a woman character's name in famous works by Dostoyevsky and Pushkin. It was explained to me to mean "the world we live in here and all its trappings and temptations," and that, for me, is quite a Quantum Web, literally and figuratively, just like the kakejiku on my wall that Emi-san from Kobe taught me when I was 16 that says, "Juu Zan, Fuku Kai," or, Great Mountain, Happy Ocean, or, more precisely, "The great mountain is fortunate and majestic in its height, while the vast ocean is quite happy and content in its depth..."
~ Dig! Thanks, RP!
~ Dig! Thanks, RP!
play it on the global mix if you have to but not on the main mix mxflash wrote:
Seems it was the late Kuldeep Manak. Quite enjoy his singing and this song as well.
Anyone know who is doing the singing? Is it Sufi devotional music? Good stuff.
Anyone know who is doing the singing? Is it Sufi devotional music? Good stuff.
glassman wrote:
You've got to have some sense of humour. Visiting India might help.
horrible
You've got to have some sense of humour. Visiting India might help.
The effort, pain and passion living in this song is only offset by it's complete confusion on what is being said. quite a contrast.
horrible
Quite the accordion action here.
Anyone who remembers "Knight Rider" should listen to the Panjabi MC song "Mundian To Bach Ke."
Segues amazingly well into 'Israelites' :)
Interesting mix of sound from different cultures. Start it with a 6 from Napoli on the Gulf. Need a few more listens to really make sense of it.
Interesting! Not just the music...but the word "duniya" itself, derived from the Arabic "dunya," is so full of meanings and interpretations... Though Arabic in origin, it seems that it was also absorbed and spread among Indo-European languages and cultures. I encountered it often in the songs I heard in my adventures through Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal -- and I recall that Dunya was a woman character's name in famous works by Dostoyevsky and Pushkin. It was explained to me to mean "the world we live in here and all its trappings and temptations," and that, for me, is quite a Quantum Web, literally and figuratively, just like the kakejiku on my wall that Emi-san from Kobe taught me when I was 16 that says, "Juu Zan, Fuku Kai," or, Great Mountain, Happy Ocean, or, more precisely, "The great mountain is fortunate and majestic in its height, while the vast ocean is quite happy and content in its depth..."
~ Dig! Thanks, RP!
So...not looking for Denny...got it.