English music

December 22, 2007

Listening to the compilations of songs on my mobile phone suddenly reminds me of how I first started listening to English songs when I was in Malaysia. At the time I think there was only one English radio channel. Most of the time they either broadcast news or advertise. Songs were few and far between. I remember trying to record songs when they have the weekly top 40, on cassettes, yes cassettes. It was a mess, and the quality was poor. Can’t believe I actually bother to do that at that time. But I have to admit that I prefer listening to western music than chinese music. They were love songs all the time, until only recently few years ago.

I could buy music cassettes from music store, but they were not easy to get to, and I couldn’t afford to buy cassettes at that age. I remember that I was still buying cassettes when I was studying college. Music CDs were still very expensive for me. So I was surprised to see British teenagers so willing to fork out so much on CDs when I first came here. Just different culture I guess. Maybe I should start listening to more music again, now that it’s so easy to get our hands on music from all over the world.

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