Hindustan Times
As a compulsive hoarder of music, I have a confession to make. I often acquire albums and songs that I don’t get down to listening to. Not even once. Not even cursorily. Yes, it’s true and it does make me feel a bit silly. I mean I don’t display my music on racks and shelves as some hoarders of books do, ostensibly to impress visitors although they may not have read even a page of most of them. I can’t really do that, unless I offer people my iPods, hard drives and pen drives or a peek into the virtual cloud—places where most of the music I hoard are stored—but the fact is I do have countless albums and songs that I’ve never heard. I’ve downloaded them with all good intentions of listening to them but never got around to doing so. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Charles Bradley, Don’t Worry We’ll Be Watching You, Download Central, Dylan, Gotye, Jethro Tull, Jim James, Kate Bush, Making Mirrors, Merill Garbus, Newport Folk Festival, Peter Gabriel, R&B, Sanjoy Narayan, Thick As Brick, tUnE-yArDs, Twitter, Wally De Backer, Wilco and My Morning Jacket, Wonky Pop, Woody Guthrie
One simple rule: when the editor of a magazine drops a subtle hint to a columnist, he better heed it. So when the editor of Brunch handed me a CD she had bought on a recent trip to the US, I got the hint. Translated into words, that gift of a CD obviously meant: “Here, listen to this. Your columns are getting too obscure!” The CD she gave me was a re-issued decade-old album by a musician of whom I had never heard, Stephane Wrembel. I am glad that I wasted no time in listening to Wrembel’s album (Introducing Stephane Wrembel 2001). Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Billboard 100 charts, Brooklyn bars, Brunch, David Bowie, Django Reinhardt, Download Central, Fanny, gypsy jazz, Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, June and Jean Millington, Midnight in Paris, Music, Opportunity Knocks, Play Like A Girl, Sanjoy Narayan, Stephane Wrembel, Todd Rundgren, Twitter, Woody Allen
“But let’s talk about you for a minute, with the vomit at your gullet, from a half bottle of vodka that we’d stolen from the optic. On the back seat of your car because it wasn’t safe to start it, you were ‘far too f***ed to drive’ were the words that you imparted. And the woolen dress that clung so tight, to the contours of your body. And the dead grass stuck to fibers from us rolling in the layby, were passed to dog-hair blankets that protected the bench seat covers, and a crucifix was hung from rear-view mirror by your mother.” Read more
(3 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Passion Play, argus48, Craig Finn, Daft Punk, Download Central, Gareth, Ian Anderson, In Media Res, Is Love Forever?, Jethro Tull, Los Campesinos!, Morrissey, Moullinex, old on Now, Plan A, Romance is Boring, Sanjoy Narayan, Spoon, The Hold Steady, The Hype Machine, The Lover in Me, Transference, Twitter, We are Beautiful, We are Doomed, Youngster...
