music growth

phases of music…
lullaby : as a tiny tot, most of the music you’d have heard (though u dont remember any of that now) would be mom singing lullaby or some lullabies playing in the cassette player

rhymes :in kindergarten, nursery rhymes like Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty and some other rhymes in Hindi and our mother tongue

mom’s collection : in primary school, the music that we heard would mostly be stuff like Abba, Boney M and some regional stuff

dad’s collection : as we grow bigger and into higher primary/middle school, thats when the real ‘music education’ starts… this is the phase when we started listening to rock… experimenting with listening to new kinda music… MJ, Elvis, Boy Bands (now dont deny u ever listened to boy bands like BSB, BoyZone, MLTR, etc) and easing into some rock (relatively) like Stones, Led Zep, Def Leppard, etc… this is the start of the big rock addiction…

head banging : a couple of years from then and probably the loudest music phase ever… literally… because this is the time when we got introduced to stuff like Metallica, Maiden, Megadeth, Sabbath and all the other loud guys… when people would tell us that all these ‘loud’ bands were anti-religion but we hardly cared… its the music that we wanted to listen to… headbang to… and search for the lyrics on the net and made sure we could sing along everytime the song was played…
also, this was the time when there was a different ‘favourite’ song for different moods… like when u’re just in a relationship… those were the times of people falling into relationships for the first time… there would be different tapes in the audio systems at different times in the relationship… initially some boybands belting out meaningless love songs… a few weeks later, the relationship matures and the tape player graduates to Bryan Adams… and a few weeks later, the relationhip is on the verge of a break up and thats when hate songs like limp bizkit kicks in…and 2-3 days after break up, the Linkin Park tape is played so often that u dont even need to download lyrics to know them by heart… and finally… a few days after that, its back to good ol’ heavy metal… back to head banging…

Mosh Pit-ting : around the time that we were in college… this is by far the most violent music phase, and probably the most violent music made… stuff like Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Rage against the Machine, Death, and so on… but u realise that in time, you grow out of this music… almost everybody… its fine to listen to such stuff once in a way, but one thing is, this kinda music never sticks on… u listen to it at that time and thats it… u cant listen to it all the time… sounds good at times but frankly gives a headache after a while…

Genre/Language no bar : so finally… the last phase, and probably the music phase that will last for ever starts from just at the end of college… when we’re listening to ‘good’ music… doesnt matter which language it is, which genre it is, who’s made the music… that is the time we develop an ear for music… when we can listen to anything as long as it sounds good… so, many people who would turn a deaf ear to regional music a few years ago are now saying, “dude regional music is really maturing man”