Songs with a Middle Eastern sound 🧕🏻🐪🕌🪬

[RS]

This one samples a very famous old Arabic song

 

[Rita]

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

Anyone got any by Madonda? Quite the omission thus far

 

[RS]

I’m not sure if we should accept the Indian/Asian sounding songs (as fine as they are) but then the line between Middle Eastern and South Asian is not totally defined so everyone is welcome to the bazaar.

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

I’m not sure if we should accept the Indian/Asian sounding songs (as fine as they are) but then the line between Middle Eastern and South Asian is not totally defined so everyone is welcome to the bazaar.

I must say that the buffet is a bit dry and disappointing. All that Ryvita but no creamy or exotic dips. Also @Martha Skidd appears to have emptied herself on the tablecloth

 

[VoR]

Another undeserved FLOP

 

[The Unholy Ghost]

This doesn’t count at all as Ahmet was far from Western but it IS one of my all-time favourites

 

[funky]

FESTIVE!

I love this song, but then it is the greatest Christmas album of all time, so…

 

[RS]

Another undeserved FLOP

This must have been released after Ofra’s breakthrough, no?

 

[VoR]

Long after, it was released in 1995!

I've always enjoyed the contrast between Ofra's rich, sultry ethnic wailing and poor old Paula's reed-thin lead vocal.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

My Love Is For Real is so iconic and such a great song. Should have been a huge hit.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I made MISTAKES when I PLAYED with your MIND
GAVE you excuses with EACH story LINE
If you'd ask me HOW I FEEL
My LOVE is for REAL

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

 

[BoysForSeles]

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[jyxz]

 

[Pipo]

I still have PTSD from this not being a hit

don't forget the instrumental remake

 

[Pipo]

omg I loved this back in the day

 

[Pipo]

would you say this is more on the Hindi side of things rather than Middle East?

 

[Pipo]

same with this

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[RS]

REPEAT!

 

[Marina Salty]

 

[Mike(y) W]

As you'd expect from the title, pretty much the whole of her 'Harem' album fits the brief for this particular thread - this is probably my favourite track on it after 'Free' and the Ofra collaboration.

 

[GNL]

I’m not sure if we should accept the Indian/Asian sounding songs (as fine as they are) but then the line between Middle Eastern and South Asian is not totally defined so everyone is welcome to the bazaar.

Poor Up! (Blue Version)