Stereo

I started listening to music when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I remember I used to dig through my brothers’ CDs and cassettes (Carey, Houston, Boyz II Men, NKOTB and a rare GnR) back then when they weren’t around. I didn’t want to be caught dead listening to their music because back then, I like to annoy them saying music are noisy. I was happily to stick my taste to Super Mario’s or Donkey Kong’s theme songs.

But of course I gradually picked up my own taste in music shortly after my brothers left home. My first ever album I bought with my own allowance money was Smashing Pumpkins‘ Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness double cassettes and I love the Pumpkins ever since. I also started to buy cassettes on a weekly basis, until I discovered the wonders of Internet.

There was one program that was on air on the local Radio 4 station (now Traxx FM, I believe) on every Thursday 9pm to midnight that I would never missed back then. It was called the Modern Rock Chart Show and was hosted by Godfrey. I would tuned in and try to get every song titles played by him. And he had this Top-10 chart that was voted by callers right there and then. I was one of the voters as well. I actually recorded myself being aired on the radio, my own 15 seconds of fame. Now I wonder where that recorded cassette had gone to.

A trip back to the good old days. They were indeed good old days. Mid-90s, that was when alternative rock was at its prime. And to celebrate the journey down memory lane, here are 5 random tracks that I was totally hooked to back then. And they were actually played on the Modern Rock Chart Show, something you’ll never get from today’s local radio stations.

Download:

• Klover - Our Way
• Nerf Herder - Sorry
• Super Deluxe - She Came On
• The Martinis - Free
• Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl (MP3 format)