Eleven, that's how old I was when it started. Let me stop you before I go any further with this. If you are thinking this will be an article on how I started a path of drugs and alcohol at such a tender age you will be disappointed. This was an addiction, which in some cases might have been more expensive than a pack of Cigarettes or Weed for that matter especially if you are trying to buy an import. Music people!, well its kind of obvious that it would be the main topic in this article it is a Music blog.
So my lovely five followers who I feel probably stopped reading my posts a long time back let me get down to the topic of my addiction. Eleven that's where my addiction with music started, though if you go by what my mother has to say my addiction started with Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album, which is a really good album if I do say so my self, any ways back to the point.
At eleven what would most kids ask for, a new bike, a new game console or Pamela Anderson (I was eleven in 1999, give me a break and she was so fine on Baywatch), well I did ask for her but sadly I was disappointed, so I settled for the second best thing to give me happiness Music.
I had just started listening to music cause the Big kids on the bus kept talking about all these artist, I will give them credit, I was intrigued by this band called Guns and Roses. So for my birthday I told everyone I wanted Vouchers to this Music store in Delhi, in the excitement of the present I remember ditching my own birthday party early cause well the store would close and went to buy music. I think I spent close to four thousand rupees (Back in the day that was a lot of money), and I'm not saying like I bought CDs we are talking Audio Cassettes. For children reading this blog picture of an Audio Cassette can be found below.
Yes! children this beautiful piece of machinery was both epic and the most annoying shit at one point at time. Yet there was something about the sound of an Audio cassette that was so rough that it just added to the feel of a song. But I get the feeling that older the method of listening to music the rougher the sound, at least in my opinion. The other day I was at a store that also sold music (Sadly they had to diversify their portfolio, because of Music Piracy, and on-line streaming of music) THANK GOD FOR APPLE MUSIC! But we digress that's another post. So I was listening to that Guns and Roses album I was talking about earlier "Appetite for destruction" one of my all time favourite albums and the rawness of Slash on Vinyl is just beautiful. Hey Kids this is a vinyl player.
So my lovely five followers who I feel probably stopped reading my posts a long time back let me get down to the topic of my addiction. Eleven that's where my addiction with music started, though if you go by what my mother has to say my addiction started with Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" album, which is a really good album if I do say so my self, any ways back to the point.
At eleven what would most kids ask for, a new bike, a new game console or Pamela Anderson (I was eleven in 1999, give me a break and she was so fine on Baywatch), well I did ask for her but sadly I was disappointed, so I settled for the second best thing to give me happiness Music.
I had just started listening to music cause the Big kids on the bus kept talking about all these artist, I will give them credit, I was intrigued by this band called Guns and Roses. So for my birthday I told everyone I wanted Vouchers to this Music store in Delhi, in the excitement of the present I remember ditching my own birthday party early cause well the store would close and went to buy music. I think I spent close to four thousand rupees (Back in the day that was a lot of money), and I'm not saying like I bought CDs we are talking Audio Cassettes. For children reading this blog picture of an Audio Cassette can be found below.
The point I'm trying to make is that if you love music, if you truly want to hear the emotions of an artist, try not to listen to a digitally remastered version of a song. Look for the original even if it's not the best sounding it's how it was actually recorded. Well not for EDM and any of that because lets face it there is no actual music in that (Come at me bro!)!
Here are my top 5 recommendations for songs to listen to without the digital remastering:
5. Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
4. Eric Clapton - Layla
3. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
2. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
1. Jimmi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Also guys if your town has a record store that even sells CDs please go support it! You never know when digital media will go down, so please support these stores! We need more CDs, Audio Cassettes and Vinyls in our life!
