What's in today's papers

In today’s Sunday times I happened to chance upon an article elucidating why international pop and rock acts don’t attract large crowds in Bombay anymore. One Vishal Dadlani who’s the singer and composer for our desi act Pentagram claimed that bands like Iron Maiden and Roger Waters who fail to attract audiences abroad land up on our shores almost like flotsam and draw crowds because our audiences are still stuck in the past. Well Mr. Dadlani, if Iron Maiden goes into that category for you then you’re unceremoniously kicked out of my favorite musicians list pronto. Period.

Who wants to listen to the same hook or riff like a million times in your retarded songs anyway? I’ve heard Voice and Electric by Pentagram and personally I wasn’t too impressed by either but the fact that Pentagram were a desi act drew me to them. Your song construction is repetitive and boring to say the least. No good song consists of once catchy bar played over and over to fill the entire length of the song. Heck even your lyrics are repetitive, all you do is basically say the same thing over and over again like it’s some sort of mystic chant or something.

Maybe that’s why Pentagram are not too big on the international stage yet and maybe that’s why they’ll never be. At least now I hope they never make it any bigger.

If you can say such utter rubbish about a band the size of Iron Maiden, who’ve sold millions of albums compared to your few thousands, well you suck. Big time. Desi rock is getting bigger by the day and I relly hope that some people who respect the dinosaurs of heavy metal make it big internationally. Not you guys. Period

Peace