Hi Guys!
Music has always been an integral
part of our lives. It starts from the time when our moms used to sing lullaby
to make us sleep during our childhood. As we grow older we came across
the music through Radio, TV channels, Music concerts, movies and various
other platforms. I have seen myself running to
music stores every sunday to check
on any new cassette tapes released for the upcoming movies. Those were
at that time priced around Rs. 20-25/- and after discount I could buy three
of them in Rs. 50/-. For that Rs. 50/- I need to work hard on my studies
so that mom allows us to spend the same on cassettes.
When I was doing Engineering during
1997-2001 years, my mom dad gifted me a personal walkman and I cherish
it throughout and it really made my travel comfortable. I used to purchase
blank cassettes and then ask local music shop to fill in my favorite songs
into the same. In those days, whosoever has the cassette and the latest
songs asap was considered the COOLEST among his/her peers. I used to stay
on the top and used to lend my cassettes to my friends and family. I have
innumerable number of cassettes still today and I bought a special Sony
Walkman from London to play all my oldies. The same is with my father who
is easygoing in terms of technology to play his religious music early mornings
with attached external speakers. In between I spent some time in Delhi
NCR for some training so I bought this FM tuner small radio which really
made me glued to box of songs – you never know what you are gonna listen
to next kind.
As the number of years increased,
desktop computer became more popular in households and I too bought one
with good speakers. There started the path of MP3 CD's made available in
the market at Rs. 25-50/-. It will have atleast 10 movie songs and
I collected a lot of songs. I shared my Hard disk with other computer holding
friends and put all the songs in 80gb hdd. It was a regular routine fetching
songs from people all over in my city. Finally HDD crashed and all my data
was lost.
As I entered the years of job as
a lecturer I had this personal stereo from Philips accompanying me wherever
I worked. As I entered my MBA college in Hyderabad in 2005, my brother,
mom dad came to meet me and brought me a Nice MP3 – 256mb player operating
with AAA size battery. This one really helped me with my docs of MBA and
also could play music as and when required. The same only worked for a
year with replacement.
I went to Singapore to meet my
brother & he gifted me Motorola Rokr phone basically meant to play
great music. It was an awesome phone and I really loved all my favourite
songs on the same. Meanwhile, my brother reached USA and came in touch
with Apple iPOD Nano 4gb and purchased the same with engravings on my bday.
I had to pay Rs. 2300/- in Hyderabad to FEDEX for the customs duties. Apple
device was awesome and it played continuous music for 14 hours at a stretch.
All my train journeys from Hyd to Delhi – the music was always available.
As I joined the job in 2007, my
Motorola Rokr died and I was gifted Nokia N73 Music edition by my soon
to be Brother-in-law. The phone is still one of the best music phones with
good speakers. As I grew older changed several mobiles to reach Nexus One
and iPod Shuffle but music has been with me throughout. Ipod Nano gifted
by my brother on my 26th bday was lost last year by my wife.
I felt immensely sad and devastated.
This is the journey of my life
which has been made very easy with Music. It has been an important part
of my life. With the growing storage capacities of the memories inside
the mobile/MP3devices my memories too grew immensely. Music makes life
live as the Aashiqui logo goes and it remains my favourite album till date.
As the music of Aashiqui 2 is picking up so is the love for music.
I still remember the time when
I was preparing for the MBA exams and used to listen to movie - Lakshay
– haan yehi rasta hai tera, tune ab jaana hai! for all the motivational
aspects.
When I was hurt in love or separated
from my gf, I loved to listen – Musafir – zindagi main kabhi koi aaye
na rabba.
When it's raining – Tip Tip Barsa
paani – Mohra because of Viju Shah's music. I always loved the music of
Viju Shah in many of his movies.
The album which I can listen to
again and again is “Yeh Vaada Raha”. I feel great to listen to all the
songs from this movie.
My other favourite songs are -
1. Tujh
mein rab dikhta hai – Rab ne bana de jodi
2. Haal-e-dil
tumko sunata – Murder 2
3. Chehra
hai yaa chand khila hai – Saagar
4. tu
jaane na (unplugged version) – Ajab Prem ki gazab kahani
5. Chak
de India – Chak de India
6. Kal
ho na ho – Kal ho na ho
7. Isq
risk – Mere brother ki dulhan
8. Pehli
Nazar mein – Race
9. Give
me some sunshine – 3 Idiots
10. Yunhi
chala chal – Swades
11. Tu
jo Nahin – Woh Lamhe
12. Roobaroo
– Rang De Basanti
13. Mitwa
– Kabhi alvida na kehna
14. Pehla
pehla pyar hai – Hum Aapke hai kaun
15. Kahe
toh se sajna – Maine Pyar Kiya
16. Aaja
meri jaan – Aaja meri jaan
The list goes on and on.
My favorite artist has been Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan and I loved his album SALAAM very much. I can listen to
Mera gham aur meri khushi / Yeh shaam phir nahin aayegi many time a day.
As my interest in music increased
I also felt that I am inclined to love Earphones and Headphones a lot.
I have bought a lot of earphones and headphones (Sony, Sennheiser, Panasonic, Philips etc) but the search to find
the best one is still far as I have not used Beats or Bose or Ludicrous
etc.
But as I look backwards I do realize
that knowingly or unknowingly I have been part of Music Piracy. As in this
new world where you have thousands of websites offering free music to download
and increasing libraries of songs we need to come in terms with this and
stop this misuse of music services.
HP has come with HP Connected Music
service in partnership with Universal Music & Hungama where they are
offering unlimited download to users who have purchased their new laptop
HP ENVY 4 – 1105TX Sleekbook. This service will even let you listen to
songs offline on your devices. This music library has wide collection of
various genres from Bollywood films and regional films & international
music too. I hope these steps will definitely reduce Music Piracy and will
make people aware that they are doing theft in case they are downloading
songs from the sites offering them at no cost.
More details are available at https://ssl.www8.hp.com/in/en/ad/hp-connected-music/overview.html
We say Music is our life and when
we ask ourselves, have I ever bought any song online or have bought OST
CD/Cassette? The answer will be very less number of time. I will say that
I don't download myself, I take it from my friends through NFC/Bluetooth/data
cable or whatsoever communication medium but the truth needs to be faced
that we don't respect the creativity of all the people involved in creating
the same. Thanks to all the online stores which now have made it easy to
purchase the music online and jobs that are paying us good amount of money
to enable us to either buy our fav Artist online or wait for the song to
be played on TV/Radio.
HP has launched a great service
with more than 1 Million songs with 20000+ artists of your choice and you can have this service at
no charges for the very first year with no limit on downloading. May be
in the future the app will be available on various devices as we now run
in this world of 3G/4G and always connected & then we will be #HPCONNECTEDMUSIC.
Moreover this app will help you see your favourite artist live and a lot of goodies from the one you listen to most. Winning is an art and not a science and few will be lucky ones who will really keep themselves connected to their passion of life - MUSIC.
I hope to live my dream of music through whatever I can do and to enjoy at the upcoming live Indiblogger meet with #HPCONNECTEDMUSIC to learn more about the same.
It is really gonna be fun as PSY takes on the Indiblogger stage with Gentleman in Gangnam Style on Chikni Chameli or Fevicol se songs! Oh...Balma...
Thanks All!
Update:- This post is a prize winning entry #HPConnectedMusic
Indiblogger meet at Gurgaon. Thanks a lot to all from HP India as well as Indiblogger team for this HP Laptop. I am very happy to won this with an year of subscription to #HPConnectedMusic App to download all my favorite songs for free!
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