When my time’s up, I trawl. I can feel when the time to trawl is nigh. Everything upto then has been leading up to that one moment when you decide to just go find new music. You scrounge the internet. You scowl, you snivel, you scurl.
The situation is grim. Work has piled up, your guilt mixed with healthy doses of irritation make your near and dear ones side step your presence faster than a Kobe cross-over. The computer welcomes you into its arms. You watch a movie to kill time till dinner. You get sicker. And then when all hope is lost, you seek and find and become a trawler (sounds fishy).
Music zaps through bandwidth, the hard disk juices start filling. Then you find them. The gems, amongst several tons of chaff. And you become yourself once more. Light, cheerful, relaxed and full of sound. You turn to your bed and sleep like a log. Next day you work like never before and put up the life changing music for everyone to hear.
So here it is. Diamonds are forever by the Arctic Monkeys is bound to superb, the Dandy Warhols have been around for Dandy’s years, I have always liked them.
Shilpa is to thank for MIA’s Paper Planes from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, my days are now as groovy as hers are. All I wanna do is….take your money. MIA, third world democracy, I got more records than the KGB, so no funny business. The song is played in the beginning when the kids are running from the cops disrupting their cricket match on Juhu airfield. MIA is Sri-Lankan. Go girl.
Then there is total randomness. A band called Dengue Fever. I take my shirt off and yoddle along this song in my room during the afternoon. Its makes everyday memorable. I don’t even know what language it is, Korean probably.
Finally some sense and Lou Reed. Live in the magic moment.
Diamonds are Forever (Shirley Bassey) -Arctic Monkeys cover [mp3]
The Dandy Warhols – Hit Rock Bottom [mp3]
MIA – Paper Planes [mp3]
Dengue Fever – Seeing Hands [mp3]
Lou Reed – Magic Moment [mp3]
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