![]() Discography "GOAN CRAZY! " (GOANA, 1984) A collection of original satirical songs in English about life in Goa; includes the hit "Ode to Graham Bell", "O Panjim", "Navhind Times Blues", etc. "OLD GOAN GOLD" (GOANA, 1985) Songs which Remo had grown up listening to on the radio and in his father's record collection; side A in Konkani, side B in Portuguese; nostalgic songs which he could not find in record shops anymore. Includes the following originals: the mando "Panch Vorsam" [sung by Alisha & Remo and composed by Remo for Shyam Benegal's film 'TRIKAAL'], "Soiri", "Konkani" [a theme song for the Konkani movement of 1985], and "Fado Goa". "PACK THAT SMACK" (CBS, 1986) The fame Remo had gathered by now brought the very same record companies who had first said 'no' back to him with contracts in their hands. He was presently in a position to choose the best one, and "Pack that Smack" became his first album to be released on a national level. The album outsold all Indian albums in English released till date. The main theme was against drugs, which were beginning to ravage Goan and Indian youth, specially those exposed to the coastal beach areas; Remo had experimented with comparatively harmless marijuana in college, so he wasn't just a preacher who didn't know what he was talking about; but the new drug young Indians were exposed to was a killer: Heroin. The album includes "Down with Brown", "Just a Hippie", "Mr Minister", "So Wie Du" [the song which brought Remo his first three international awards in Dresden, then East Germany], etc.
"JALWA" (CBS, 1986) Although this Hindi film song became a mega-hit (eleven years later, audiences still don't let Remo
get off a concert stage without singing it, and the 15-minute marathon piece has become a sort of trend-setting milestone in
modern Indian music, going Double Platinum in no time), Remo still resisted the commercial temptation of going fully into Hindi
film music. The reasons: a) he did not have much respect for what was happening in the Hindi film world at the time, and felt
that he would have to compromise his artistic values to suit that scene; b) being quite unexposed to Hindi in Goa, his command
over the language was practically non-existent, preventing him from writing his own lyrics or judging the adequacy of the translations.
"BOMBAY CITY" (CBS, 1987) This album broke all known boundaries and achieved what record industry experts had termed as impossible for an Indian album in English: it went Gold. Includes the hits "Ocean Queen", "Against you/Against me" , etc. "POLITICIANS DON'T KNOW TO ROCK'N'ROLL" (MAGNASOUND, 1992) India was going up in flames. The Ayodhya mosque was being destroyed. Rajiv Gandhi was blasted. No Indian could remain unaffected by the horror, frustration and depression of the times, and Remo expressed them all through an album aimed straight at the culprits: corrupt, communal politicians. Includes "Don't kick up the Rao", "A song for India", "How does it feel?", and the hit "Everybody wants to" [a safe sex message given much before the trend-setters in India gathered the guts to talk about AIDS], etc. This album broke further barriers and went Gold in just three days of release. "HUMMA HUMMA" (POLYGRAM, 1995) This song sung by Remo, composed by the south-Indian music wizard A. R. Rahman for Mani Ratnam's film "BOMBAY", became the Mega-Hit of the year. It went to # 1 in all Indian charts, and stayed there for weeks. Like "Jalwa", it is a song audiences demand as soon as Remo climbs on stage. It went Double Platinum. "HUYA HO" (POLYGRAM, 1996) Composed by Remo for the famous film "KHAMOSHI" , this song too went Double Platinum, climbed all Indian Charts to # 1, and is yet another hot concert favorite of the Indian rock audiences. |