Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Does Music trasport you back in time or elsewhere?

Yes definetly. I can hear a song from years ago and it transports me right back to a particular moment. Usually good times, but occasionally a sad time. I love it when I hear a song and can remember when I first heard it and the good time I was having..;
When a really favourite golden oldie plays on the radio, I am transported right back to the exact time in my life that it first came out, very easily! Yes, in some cases, decades! They don't make music like that anymore...;
I slide back so easy to decades gone by....;

All the songs I remember from my teen years , have a memory. I can associate most songs with where I was, and what I was doing at the time I heard them...as they say,music is the food for the soul..We all like to go back to our own special time in life and if the music doesn't take you back far enough in your time it fails you. As people get older they understand better and better that time passes on and reminiscing is written in chapter after chapter and your chapter is perhaps your favorite but, all chapters are worth reading...

I remember the first time i listened to 'Apne toh har aah ek toofan hai', when i was a little girl..
and can still feel the magic of 'O sajnaa barkha bahaar aayi', when i listened to it on the radio years ago, and ' Nain ka chain churakar le gayi' and 'Chale jaa rahe hai muhobbat ke maare'
and Asha's soul stirring 'O Kis jagah jaaye kis ko dhik laaye zakme dil apnaa..incomparable melodies.
Then there were all those melodious duets, so many of them ' Mil mil ke gaayenge' or 'Aaja re ab mera dil pukare' or 'Yaad kiya dil ne kahan ho tum' , 'Raahi matwale', Dekh hamen awaz na dena' so many more, each one a masterpiece ..;These melodies have been giving a new meaning to our lives ..makes life worth living..;

1 comment:

  1. That is so true. Every single song has a memory tag attached to it..the first time we heard it and went spellbound...or the place where we were able to get it recorded..even the voice of the compere when he played that song on Radio Ceylon. My very first memories are of the Record player which our elder brother had and how he used to play the song " Badan pe sitare lapete hue" .. :-)

    Even now, these melodies have the ability to give me immense solace in times of agony...and inner peace when am in turmoil. Ofcourse they give that incomparable companionship too..

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