For me, songs are wonderful reminders. When one gives it a thought, a particular song reminds him of a particular moment, in the timeline, or even places, for some. It is when you first heard that song, in general, and where you heard it, in particular.
I have (and I bet even others also do) some beautiful memories attached with some lovely songs.
My one of the first acquaintances with music (songs) was in my school bus. I think, then I was in 1st std. The bus had a stereo and the driver used to play good, recent (of that time) songs on it. I used to learn some of them and surprise my mother by singing them to her.
With time I started listening more songs and my next set of memories take me to my boarding school, Oak Grove (junior) school. There, we were allowed to relish the biweekly Chitrahaar on Wednesday and Friday. The Friday one used to show old songs and on Wednesday recent ones were aired.
Really, it was a rare luxury as most of the times the boys were barred (as a punishment) from watching, much owing to their naughty behavior. The girls being more decent and well behaved rarely missed them. Some students who had good voice also used to sing in our leisure time and I still remember some favorite songs, my friends used to sing.
Next noticeable change came in the Senior Boys School, where we tasted independence for the first time. Seniors used to play songs on the deck (music system) and the whole building seemed to dance, such was the intensity. Now even when I listen to songs of 'Dil to Pagal Hai', my class sixth days flash before my eyes.
But back then, music was a sort of accessory; it became a necessity not until when I entered my second year of college. A PC (personal computer) was bought as my branch was Computer Engineering. Though it was meant for study purpose, one of the first files I loaded on my hard disk were that of music.
The database started growing and I started enjoying every bit of it. Ironically, the system was rarely used for academic purposes. Not a single day has passed without songs being played on my computer. The video songs which I first uploaded still take me back to second year.
Now that my hard disk is running short of space I am planning to buy a new one... and would like to carry on my music journey.
PS:
I love Kishore Kumar as he is my favourite singer. I also like Lata, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Sunidhi,Shreya....I like almost all of them as they all have sung some of my fovorites.
One of the first english songs I heard was 'Saturday night' by 'whigfields'.I think it was class third and the place was school auditorium. I liked it though only words which I could interpret were 'Saturday' and 'night'.
The first audio cassette which I bought was "Phool Aur Kaante" as it had my favorite song(Maine Pyar tumhi se..) which I used to listen to in my school bus.
Some of English songs which I have developed a liking for, of late, are
Linkin Park, Bryan Adams, Avril Lavigne.... I think there are many...
quite a improvement from where I started...
"During the Indo-China War when Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, visited some of the dying Indian soldiers in hospital, one of their last wishes was to hear Lata Mangeshkar sing... “Aye Mere Watan Ke logon”. Such was the power of a song
Sometimes songs aren’t just songs, they are a lot more than that...”
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