Brimful of Asha

Brimful of Asha is a tribute to the Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, who sang over 12,000 songs. Singh also drew on his love of Trojan Records and vinyl culture. The slower album recording names two other playback singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi, and its bridge nods to Georges Brassens, Jacques Dutronc, Marc Bolan, Argo Records and Trojan Records. The Guardian wrote in 2020 that it propelled the names of Hindi film singers into the non-Asian British mainstream, and noted that it did not pass the band by that the name Asha also meant hope.

Released in 1997 by Wiiija, the original reached number 60 on the UK singles chart. The Guardian's Malik Meer wrote that it barely scraped the top 70. Norman Cook, known as Fatboy Slim, then remixed it by speeding it up and raising the key, using samples of the Dave Pike Set's Raga Jeeva Swara from 1970 and the Monkees' Mary, Mary from 1966. That version went to number one in the UK in February 1998, and to number 16 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It topped John Peel's Festive 50 in 1997, and NME placed the remix at number 2 in its list of the 50 best remixes ever.

The video was directed by Phil Harder and filmed in a house in Lewisham, London: a teenage girl dances to 45 rpm singles while the band performs on their sleeves. Music Week gave the original five out of five, and Rolling Stone's David Fricke said you could almost smell the weed behind the rhythms and smiles of it and Good Shit.