Back then when we were kids or rather teenagers' Enigma was still an enigma. This song would occupy the mainstay of many a audio systems of people, even precisely car audio.
Guess what, there was no internet those days, lesser awareness of western music. How would anyone know this song is by whom, which artist, which language etc. It took me quite a while to figure out the band and song. Now when I see in my playlist, it reminded me of the good old days.
There is a super incident associated with this song which I remember. We used to cycle as kids and even though we were 14-15 we still chose to cycle. But some of the rich kids amongst us had transitioned to motor vehicles (illegally of course).
One such person, had transitioned not to two wheelers but a four wheeler. Its hard to believe how a 15-16 year old would get hold of a car. But it was true, true because he used to drive around playing this very song.
It was an Hindustan Ambassador which had an engine change from BMC 1.5 L Diesel to an ISUZU 2.0 Diesel or may be a Toyota 2.0 L Diesel.
Can you imagine a 15-16 year old teenager boasting about a modified car with an upgraded engine back then when I was struggling to find out this specific enigma song.
Even after many years, the aspect of having an engine change for a car is much unheard of in India. It is attempted only by people who have sufficient resources and willing to take up the challenge.
But for a 15-16 year old to do it back then - and know what's under the hood to tell others, it is definitely worth a blog post.
These days kids, teenagers are addicted instagram, food, porn, tobacco other stuffs which sounds silly when you have a look at what our generation did to amuse themselves.
Cheers,
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