I don’t know if it’s just a Delhi thing, but every other store I go to seems to be tuned in to the mid-nineties-suckfest radio channel. Worst offenders are:
- ALL the coffee shops (Barista, Coffee Day, Costa)
- The new swanky retail chains (Shoppers’ Stop, 24×7, Pantaloons)
- Fast food joints (McDonald’s, KFC, Yo China)
All are playing one hit wonders from 10 years back. Last week I was dining in Ruby Tuesday and they were playing Ice Ice Baby.
It’s got to be one of these explanations:
- These are the only songs the store managers know because they stopped listening to new music once they got out of college.
- New songs are not allowed to be played publically by the record companies.
- Retail Experts believe since most of the customers are in the 30-40 age group, they can identify these songs, because (as with point 1), they stopped listening to new music once they got out of college. And these songs bring back good nostalgic memories.
- Nobody really cares as long as there’s a continuous stream of sound.
Some solutions:
- All music released before 1980 is cool to play.
- All music released after 2000 is cool to play.
- All music released in the 80s should be destroyed.
- All music released in the 90s should be saved, but not played.
- All music released in the 60s and 70s is super cool, and should be played more often.
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this is so so true. and heaven help you if you are the kind who actually listens to the music that plays where you walk in because not everyone does. lucky them. its not just delhi, while in bombay it was hard for me to find anyplace that played good rock music. so i moved to bangalore. didn’t work. will someone please tell all the pubs that rock is not just the eagles, def leppard and (shudder) bon jovi.
@whateveryouwantittobe:
Rock was NEVER Bon Jovi. Seriously… with a name like Bon Jovi?? Didn’t think so.
It’s not that music isnt available. Browse any music store and you can find Creedence, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin.. the works. But retail stores sure love their barbie doll.
Pico’s in Bangalore had good music.
Dude, the main problem is that we Indians are so tuned to “evergreen” that we don’t ever want to go beyond the 12-track cassette that big brother had. Even with old Hindi songs it’s the same, people would rather stick to sameness than change.
true to some extent ….. but some
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it’s a polarized world… on the one hand you have these places that play the backstreet boys side of things and on the other, you have the places that play only metallica, maiden and pink floyd. and on yet another hand/leg/whatever, you have the places that play utter torture like kenny G’s instrumental version of ‘my heart will go on’.
but one point … Guns N Roses(and blondie and the police) were around in the 80s, and Cobain was around in the early 90s.. so not ALL such music is bad. most of it, yes… all of it, no.
Happens everywhere! Not just Delhi.. seen it in Bangalore/Hyderabad!
haha, it’s not just delhi.. its mumbai also.. fuckin suckers.. also, i’m a BIG FAN of this comic strip.. start making those T-shirts already..!
Haha. Good one, but I kinda liked the fruity music choices. Of course, there was QJam for a while. Brilliant. I wonder where that went