We didn't start the fire ... we just weren't there

On this year's edition of the annual Goa trip, we landed up in this place called "Lounge Fly, (thanks to 3 always drunk, late 30s, masti Bangalore guys we bumped in to at our shack, it is at Baga, near Tito's and a must go-to), Mim and me had this very interesting conversation with the DJ there.

It was about old music v/s new music. We were just casually discussing the music he was playing there, which was basically lounge and world music types, I must admit the music was realy good there. He asked me what kind of music do I listen to and "rrrreeeetttrrrrrrroo" was the quick reply, bands like The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, etc. He asked me why I listened to older stuff and not the newer stuff like the ones he was playing. I said "I said I donno ... I guess I don't like the music today's industry comes out with.. ". The conversation went on from there, he drew corollaries from there about how he thought people who listened to older stuff were people who were caught in the past and could not appreciate what was happening today, may be didn't want to accept the revolution that was probably was happening today.

It still gets me thinking sometimes, are we too scared to may be make a choice about today's stuff and are happy accepting what has already been declared to be "God-level"? Or are we just disgusted by the media and the over-exposure it gives to the shitty music of today gets rather than the good music that is churned out which is probably played on the radio at 3 in the morning or stacked away in some dark corner of the music store?

I guess, I probably just can't relate to today's stuff... to the commercialisation of it, thanks to the media. I'm sure the music of the yester years was also made with a grave commercial interest but I am not exposed to that aspect of it. I just see the music for what it is. We do hate hyped up things .. we want to read the "Da Vinci code" after the hype has died down ... we don't want to go to the INXS concert because it is too hyped (though they might have made some good music in the 90s).

Actually, its paradoxical I have been using "we" in the previous paras. "We" comprises of the smaller percentage of the (the retro-liking) population. Most guys as the "we" percieve are sell-outs. Sold to the circus the media is running. This takes me back to one helluva drinking session I had with Sid and Nitish at TC, Gurgaon. We were discussing about how it was so hard to find people who had the same interests as we did. The movies that we watched, the music we listened, the books we read, the sports we watched. The 3 of us are the retro types (Nitish, I'm taking the liberty of classifying you here!). We were kidding about how it would be easier to find friends if we were the Bollywood types :-).

It is each one to his own. I guess I like old stuff and most of the others don't. I am in the small minority that would have loved to be a part of the 60s, be there at Woodstock, be there when Beatles ruled the world (they still do ;) ), be a part of the revolution. Today's revolution??!!! We all are a part of ... but in a little more cosy manner ... in our armchairs.

P.S: The picture is of "Lounge Fly"... super place!

P.P.S: Finally .. TC in my post :-)

P.P.P.S: Sorry bout the long posts... just bored in life .. lot of time to think of junk