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Where to start with S. D. Burman
Start with Dance Music - Jewel Thief — Jewel Thief, 1967. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 S. D. Burman tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 10 S. D. Burman tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 10 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 5 of the 10 tracks come from Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) alone.
The dates here run from 1958 to 2021. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 63 years is still more than one version of the artist.
Every track is filed under bollywood; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The mood knob swings 83 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Dance Music - Jewel Thief — Jewel Thief, 1967. Of the 10 S. D. Burman tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the melancholy end
Gambler Faces Another Problem - From "Gambler" — Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 1971. The lowest mood reading of any S. D. Burman track in the room (13 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Music - Kala Bazar — Kala Bazar, 1960. The highest mood reading here, at 96 out of 100 — a 83-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where S. D. Burman sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are S. D. Burman's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 62 | 13–96 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 52 | 28–75 | ambient → driving |
| density | 34 | 11–55 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 51 | 31–68 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 | 5 |
| Jewel Thief | 1967 | 1 |
| Kaagaz Ke Phool | 1959 | 1 |
| Kala Pani | 1958 | 1 |
| Barood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2021 | 1 |
| Kala Bazar | 1960 | 1 |
Every S. D. Burman track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Title Music - Kala Pani | Kala Pani | 1958 |
| Title Music - | Kaagaz Ke Phool | 1959 |
| Music - Kala Bazar | Kala Bazar | 1960 |
| Dance Music - Jewel Thief | Jewel Thief | 1967 |
| Gambler As Trumpeter - From "Gambler" | Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 |
| Gambler Faces Another Problem - From "Gambler" | Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 |
| Gambler In Danger - From "Gambler" | Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 |
| Gambler's New Year Party - From "Gambler" | Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 |
| Title Music (Gambler) - From "Gambler" | Gambler (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1971 |
| Samandar Samandar - Instrumental | Barood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2021 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to S. D. Burman's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Laxmikant–Pyarelal — bollywood, 17 tracks
- Where to start with R. D. Burman — bollywood, 33 tracks
- Where to start with Kalyanji-Anandji — bollywood, 25 tracks
What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for S. D. Burman, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many S. D. Burman tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 10, across 6 albums. 10 of them carry a date, running from 1958 to 2021. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 10 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 10 of these 10 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.