A Child Of The 80's

It's been a pretty boring day for me at work. And to be honest I'm VERY thankful for that. After the hectic three weeks I've had, this boredom is very much welcomed. I had practically nothing much to do at all and managed to catch up with all the blog hopping I missed the past week or so. Gosh and some of you guys sure update your blogs regularly that I had trouble catching up ... LOL!

Anyways, since I had loads of time on my hands, I've been going through my song list in my office computer and gosh I have so many of them that it's begining to take up valuable space on my PC. I never realized I downloaded so many songs over the years I've worked here. Gotta burn them to a CD sometime soon.

I'm a guy who has a diverse taste in music. I like all kinds of genres. As long as they appeal to me, I'll listen to them. I listen to things like soul, rap, slow rock, pop, you name it I'll listen to it. But only if it appeals to me. There are some songs though that should be banned for all eternity cos it's absolutely horrid!

But the music genre I relate the best with are from the eighties. I grew up with music from that generation. The time of baggy pants and big hairdo's. It's no wonder that when I looked through my list of songs, they were all leaning more towards the eighties.

Who can forget songs like Culture Clubs Karma Chameleon from way back in 1983, I think. Or even Love of the Common People from Paul Young. What about Howard Jones and his New Song? I'll bet some of you from the younger generation would right now be going 'Culture who? Paul What? What new song?' LOL! But songs from that era were absolutely brilliant .

I use to follow the latest songs from this show called Top of the Pops. Anyone remembers this show? Awww come on, am I the only old fogey around here from that generation? LOL! We didn't have it on TV here but I always watched it on video back then. I used to borrow the video every week from a close friend who had access to it. It was my generations MTV and it featured the songs from the top of the charts.

I also remember going to this record shop called Victoria Station in a mall called Pertama Complex to record all the songs from the top of the charts into a cassette and it would cost me around RM10.00 or so a cassette (I can't really remember anymore). They had this state of the art sound recorder and were pretty famous back then. That was my days version of CD ripping ... LOL! They would record the songs from vinyl records into cassettes and you could chose the songs you want saving you a whole load of money having to buy the whole album or even single which cost quite a bit.

It was pretty popular back then and this record shop had loads of people wanting them to record their favourite list for them that you had to wait a minimum of a week and only then could you collect your recorded cassette. I used to hurry them along cos I always wanted the latest songs so I could show off to my buddies in school how cool I was ... hahaha ... And besides having to wait one week was like an eternity cos by then there would probably be a new number one at the top of the charts.

Those were fun days, music wise. I used to follow the music charts real close and would always try to be as updated with the music scene as I possibly could. It wasn't easy being in the loop mind you, we didn't have things like the internet back then. I had to rely on magazines, videos and snippets of information that I could dig up from here and there just to be updated on who was number one for the week.

It's so much easier these days. Let's say if I hear a song I like, all I'd have to do is probably do a search online and I could probably get tons of sites where I could download a free MP3 and create my own top ten selection of songs. No need to go to a record shop and wait one week for them to get it done and stuff like that. The current generation is so much luckier than my time.

In fact, with people like Blaze Media Pro offering state of the art, all-in-one multimedia applications, you can even convert, rip, edit, record or even burn your own selection of favourite songs to bring along with you on your little tiny iPod or something. And their easy to use yet powerful software can even support all your data CD, VCD, SVCD and DVD burning needs that even a blur case like me would probably be able to use it with ease.

I mean, It's so easy to do especially with the advanced features of their software that includes video capturing and creation, video editing, copying of music CD's and video merging, lyric searchers, audio tagging and so much more that I could probably set up my own little mini studio at home ... LOL! And I wouldn't even have to worry on what kind of format to chose cos practically all formats such as CD, MP3, WAV, WMA,MPEG-4,AIFF and a whole load more are supported as well.

You younger generation really have it so easy these days. Everything is just at the touch of your keyboard or mouse. I wish I had stuff like these back when I was heavily into the music scene. What a blast it would have been. Imagine being able to instantly download songs like Shout by Tears for Fears, Duran-Duran's The Chauffeur, and who can forget Wacko Jacko's Beat It or Billie Jean?

But then it's not to late cos I'm happily downloading tons and tons of songs from the eighties that soon I'm going to have problems just storing them. Guess it's time to get myself one of those iPod things where I can store a gazillion songs on it or something close to that amount I am told.