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August 30, 2007

Music Can!

— devadutta @ 9:08 am, GMT -0700 ( 1188490100 )

When a famous Bengalooru (Bangalore) based band came up with this song (1),
1.

Microsoft is said to have got this band (2)

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to compose this song (3)
3.

Identify 1,2 and 3.

Hint: One of the members of the band which played song 1, now plays for the band formed by the dude who is on the lead vocals for this song
4.

If you are still wondering (unlikely), the dude who sang the above song (4) looks like this

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This question was a tribute to our favorite Indian bands
Cracked by:

Srikanth , udupendra , bs , ram , prasanth , Preetish , Piyush , Srichand Pendyala , Abhishek and yaksha ( Congrats to our new top scorer! )

Others came really close.


1. “Linux Can!” by Phenom. We love this band :)

2. Parikrama . I love this band, except for the song “Superhero” which was clue 3.

4. Is “Mysore se aye” by Antragni. I love this band too. Gaurav Joshua Vaz who played for Phenom now plays for the raghudixit project. The dude in the pic is Raghupati Dixit.

14 Responses to “Music Can!”

  1. Srikanth Says:

    (1) Phenom - The song “Linux Can”
    (2) Parikrama
    (3) Superhero
    (4) Antaragni??

  2. udupendra Says:

    1. Linux Can! by Phenom
    2. Parikrama
    3. The Superhero
    4. Mysore se aayi ho by Raghupathi Dixit

    udupendra
  3. Poornima Says:

    1) Antaragni?
    2) Parikrama band
    3) Parikrama composed the song “The Superhero”. This was in due course of the visit of Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates to the IT capital of India, Bangalore.
    4) Raghupathy Dixit is the singer

  4. bs Says:

    Parikrama came up with Superhero on Microsoft’s behest in response to “Linux Can” originally composed by Phenom and later rendered by Thermal and a Quarter

  5. insufferablejake Says:

    The band (2) - Parikrama
    The song for Microsoft (3) - Superhero

    Now I dont listen to Parikrama, think they suck actually :P So I dont know what (1) is.

    Half a brownie then massa ?

    insufferablejake
  6. Arun Krishnamoorthy Says:

    The answer to the question is parikrama.

  7. ram Says:

    Song 1: “Linux Can” Band : Phenom performed at Linux/Bangalore 2002

    Image 2 : “Parikrama”(Big daddy of indian ROCK)

    Song 3: “Superhero”(Commisioned by microsoft: A horrible song with god knws wat lyrics)

    Image 4: “Raghu Dixit” ( Lead vocals Antaragni)

  8. prasanth Says:

    (1) the band - phenom, song - linux can!
    (2) Parikrama
    (3) Superhero
    (4) Antaragni(maybe)

  9. Preetish Says:

    1)”Linux Can” is the song. It’s by Bengalooru based band Phenom
    2)parikrama
    3)Superheroes: The Developer’s Song

    P.S : DEVADUTTA SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE SPELLING OF BENGALOORU AFTER LEAVIN THIS PLACE :D

  10. Piyush Says:

    1) Phenom ’s Mrinal K came up with this song - ‘Linux Can’ to show that it was possible to compose music on
    Linux.
    2) Parikrama came up with a song ‘The superhero’(3) for a M$ event in Bangalore.

  11. yaksha Says:

    1>phenom-somg “linux can”
    recomposed later by tony and gaurav for the foss.in event
    2>parikrama
    3>superhero

    yaksha
  12. Srichand Pendyala Says:

    1. Song (1) is “Linux can” by Phenom

    2. The band is Parikrama

    3. and the song is ‘The Superhero’

  13. Abhishek Says:

    1. Linux Can
    2. Parikrama
    3. The superhero

  14. Abhishek Says:

    1. Linux Can
    2. Parikrama
    3. The superhero
    4. Mysore se aayee

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