Hindustan Times
I don’t know why I went into a sudden R.E.M. phase a few weeks back but it could have to do with the fact that a colleague had acquired their new box set of re-mastered (with bonus and live tracks) versions of their first three albums—Murmur, Reckoning and Fables of Reconstruction. I dusted off my old R.E.M. studio albums, all 14 of them, and began listening to them after ages. Then I tried buying that box set but I still haven’t located a music shop that has it. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Accelerate, argus48, Around The Sun, Backspacer, Bright Eyes, Collapse Into Now, Conor Oberst, Dan Bejar, Dark Sunrise, Destroyer, Download Central, Eddie Vedder, Fables of Reconstruction, Guided By Voices, Jim James, Kaputt, Leaving New York, M Ward, Michael Stipe, Mike Mogis, Murmur, Music, My Heart, My Morning Jacket, Oh, Patti Smith, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Reckoning, Rikki Ililonga, Sanjoy Narayan, Shell Games, The People’s Key, Trouble In Dreams, Twitter, Zamrock
My trainer is an ogre and I’m his guinea-pig. Or, his lab rat at the gym. What else could explain the torture he subjects me to every morning? Pull-ups, push-ups, presses of different kinds, squats, deadlifts…. till everything becomes a blurry haze and my body feels as if someone’s put it through a sugarcane juice maker. Of course, I willingly do his bidding—in what you could call a valiant attempt at postponing the sag of age with the help of a quotidian dose of extreme physical discomfort. It would be unfair to blame my trainer for what I go through every morning because the poor chap is only trying to help me do what I’ve signed up for. But it is a tough proposition: he is an insistent coach, firm and no-nonsense, but that alone is not nearly enough to see me through my workouts. For that I have to reach out for music. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, October 22, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged About Face, Actor Out of Work, All Things Go, Antenna, argus48, Barbara Streisand, Black Keys, Crystalised, Dear Science, Download Central, Duck Sauce, Fables of The Reconstruction, Genius, Grizzly Bear, Horehound, I Saw The Light, Indrajit Hazra, iTune, iTunes music library, Jack White, Kid Cudi, Ludacris, Modest Mouse, Murmur, R.E.M., Reckoning, Sanjoy Narayan, So Far From Your Weapon, Sonic Youth, Spoon, St. Vincent, Surkin, Temper Trap, The Dead Weather, The Eternal, The Radio’s Crying, The XX, Transference, Twitter, Veckatimest, White Knight Two
