Thursday, February 22, 2007

Weather the storm

The early 90s was a perfect time to grow up young! Pepsi was marketing the Generation-X, the age of the youngsters. It was time for us to take our place in society, to make things our own.

Barcelona were winning the Primiera League in an emphatic style, crushing other teams with great disdain and arrogance. Leading this red'n'blue army was Romario and Stoichkov, my favourite footballers of all time.

Ace of Base had just entered the musical stage, and became instantly popular around the world, with their up tempo music.

  • All That She Wants
  • The Sign

These songs became so popular, it was the only thing playing on the radio for a while!

A song worth special mention, is one that my Dad, sis and I would enjoy singing all the time.

  • Take The Weather With You- Crowded House

"Wherever you go, always take the weather with you"

Nice line.

My Dad would sing his own rendition: "Wherever you go, always take an umbrella with you". His reasoning being, that if it were raining, and you were always taking the weather with you, then you would have to always take an umbrella with you.

Roja came out in 1992, and we flipped on the music.

  • Roja Janeman
  • Choti Si Asha

Fantastic songs. Very atypical of conventional Bollywood music.

There was also this phase where I was crazy about this band called:

La Onda Vaselina

Their album happened to be the first CD I ever bought, and the first thing I bought with my own money, which I had saved up, peseta by peseta. When I went to the store and bought the CD, I gave the guy a bag full of coins, and it took him close to ten minutes to count them!

That about wraps up the Spanish episode of my life.