New age IR's Raga Choices

Suresh, I know.. we already agreed to disagree. :) So, both are not trying to convince the other party. At least I was not. ;) Just expressing our perspectives more clearly. Two points:

i) I liked both 'ennai thaalatta' and 'thendral vandhu' songs but not the albums. To be more specific, not even the bhava version 'ithu sangeetha'.

ii) Genre is a key point of mine. What is 'good' or not critically hinges on that. I am only talking about film music genre, and here what's good is clear according to the parameters I specified. And, accordingly snehaveedu can only be called good - not excellent.

Pls don't bring harris, etc into the topic. That'll be an insult..

RR,

Again, we will agree to disagree on the parameters of the 'film genre' as well. I do hold that 'good' and 'popular' need not be synonymous. They were in South Indian film music but not a necessity. And yes, 'Snehaveedu', according to all my parameters is a top class album. With that I too will rest my case. (Atleast till I see the next post :D )

.. and I got in Harris because he is 'popular', 'catchy', liked by a lot of people and is being heard in the tea kadais :)

Come to think of it, there are more 'coffee shops' than tea kadais now and Raaja is kinda outdated for them (yo dude! Raajuh? whadya talkin! Play some kewl stuff, man!) And for the smaller town tea kadais, he's possibly become too modern! Raaja fans maadhiriye avarum ingittum illa anguttum illa nu aaitaaru. :grin:

Plum, your offer's way too tempting, but like the others, manasula heavvya beedhi. Nonetheless, I'd still want to meet him personally, at least once. I'd probably make a fool of myself in his presence, but the 'moment' would surely be something to cherish, I'm quite sure.

Jai, your approach actually sounds interesting, I'm game for it (ennoda aragora tekkinikki-a vechchu). I really don't know how fruitful the effort would be, but one can bet that we'll end up unearthing some lesser heard numbers in the process. That itself would be worth the time.

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Originally Posted by RR

Good point :thumbsup: (You can also add 'or else tfmpage/hub will not thrive' ;)) Fully with you on this one.

On the 'free meals', that's true for the whole film industry and i agree that significant fraction are enjoying it. But I think IR fans are better. Just see how fast the live concert videos were taken off youtube recently. Forget the kids who fight just for the sake of it. No point worrying about them. But, ithu thaan saakku-nnu, aNNe endru solli en vayasu-ai increase pannidaadheenga..

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RR, neenga kids'nnu sollumbodhe vayasu slightá theriyudhu... :-)

Anyways, all is well ! As i said, having disruptive members on board is a good management practise !!

Your parameters are still unclear, but let's take a brether.

guys, pls throw in another 'chandrabimbathin' and let's dissect it..

@RR - nicely generalized - but pls move it to a diff. thread - when we are talking about raaga choices, lets stick to just them - coz this thread by the very definition says "Raaga choices" - not "popularity measure" .
as regards to that - nembave discus panniyaachu. It needs to be seen along with the trends in taste and preference changes in a mass market segment - MBA case study evanaachum pannuvaan adhula..

Jai,

I want to start a thread on Raja's 90s song, rarely heard ones. I did put out around 80 songs on twitter before work pressure overtook me. Will start this here after some time. I don't want to restrict it only to raga choices there but we can discuss ragas when it is relevant.

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Originally Posted by Sureshs65

Jai,

I want to start a thread on Raja's 90s song, rarely heard ones. I did put out around 80 songs on twitter before work pressure overtook me. Will start this here after some time. I don't want to restrict it only to raga choices there but we can discuss ragas when it is relevant.

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That is very sensible Suresh....we can change the thread title to IR's Composing Methods and Raga/Genres (post 90s).

http://www.musicplug.in/multiple_son...am&page=movies

Kolusu konjum Raagam from Chinna durai , it is popular, I remembered hearing during some India trip early 2000.
It is the same tune as kaadhal vaaniley... or mayilaadum solai......or kaalaiyil kettadhu koyil mani...... etc..sudhdha dhanyasi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5r5H5VMtTM

S.P.Bala's voice in the similiar tune.....:-D, makes me giddy!


vinatha.