Though there's this dazzling array of 100's of top-class-duets by rAsA, there are not many that can match 'pAda vandhadhO' or 'isai mEdaiyil' of IK.
manushan ennA mood-la pOttArO andha rettu pAttum :thumbsup:
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Though there's this dazzling array of 100's of top-class-duets by rAsA, there are not many that can match 'pAda vandhadhO' or 'isai mEdaiyil' of IK.
manushan ennA mood-la pOttArO andha rettu pAttum :thumbsup:
I too like the songs, App. Poonthendral kaatre vaa vaa is among my all time favo IR songs, not just PS or PJ. Just that her voice in this time period doesn't work much for me. Avalo dhaan.
I agree with venkki here. When it comes to any (semi) classical delight or any soothing (happy or sad) melodies like 'gori tera gaon' or 'vaa vaa anbe anbe' or 'mogham ennum theeyil' or that infinite number of malayalam melodies, all fits to his voice like a 'T' and no singer can even come close to him, here I even mean SPB. That is his forte. But when it comes to these peppy or energetic numbers like 'kaattukkuyilu', definitely KJY should not have been there at all. Even there is fire power and all, I can still feel he is not 100% free and uninhibited when he sings those songs. I can hear that restraint clearly. Even 'Thannithotti' for that case. Those songs are not for him. His majestic voice and singing does'nt help him much there.
#199 கவிதை பாடு குயிலே குயிலே இனி வசந்தமே
(தென்றலே என்னைத்தொடு, 1985 )
A guitar / flute / trumpet / drum / synth delight with thuLLal SPB voice. The saraNam is close to a "remix" of nee thAnE enthan pon vasantham's saraNam and the pallavi is not that catchy but SPB gives the required enthu to make the song above-average overall! The rhythm arrangement for the pallavi is another highlight of the song - first of its kind when arrived and made us embrace the song happily!
A song made for the buses :-) I enjoyed this most when heard in buses that also ran fast. Well, even in those "stop-dur-bur-go" town buses, the journey was made more tolerable by songs like this that gave briskiness to the body and mind. Naturally, I get reminded of a number of bus travels and travails :-( Having used public transport almost all the time for the first half of my life (i.e. , so far), I can't believe the fact that in the last 8 years I've used the bus only once in this motor city :shock: This is perhaps the only metro area in the world with > 4 million people with just a namesake public transportation! Lacking automobile is like lacking legs in Detroit!
Anyways, that 15 k.m. bus travels from Trichy to the college were typically the most irritable experiences of the life there. chOzhan / DCTC buses never had cassette players. Among private buses, those that had music stopped at BHEL (often I switched buses at BHEL for this reason, even willing to wait there for the next thuvAkcity bus for a long time, or leaving the bicycle in the "stand" at BHEL).
Then there was this "last-bus" issues :-( Those who used town buses in the 80's can probably relate to this very well. All those school years in the village were spent with this restriction. (Till my 8th grade or so, the last bus from town was at 7 PM. Later, another bus came, that went thru our village which relaxed the curfew by 8 PM. The college days were also restricted by some 9:30 thingy and the latest to even BHEL was 10:30 for many years until they introduced the 'nadu nisi service'. After reaching BHEL, the bicycle ride).
The worst experiences in Trichy with buses, however, were with the conductors who were among the rudest in the world. The arrogance with which they treat passengers who didn't have "change" was to be experienced to be believed :-( Within Trichy, I had been asked to get down at least a couple of times. The worst experience was in Singarathope when I was reluctantly moving toward the steps when ordered to get down. With a big grin, the conductor was giving change to a female for Rs 20...when I mildly objected telling 'enna sAr ippO thAnE sillaRai illainnu ennaiya eRanga sonneenga', loud came the reply : 'nee enna pombaLayA'?
:lol: punchline-la mudichittingga. As usual app, those are gems of cultural information for non-TN dwelling folks like me. This is one of "skip" for me though. Thendral vanthu is good for Tabla and bongo players who want to relax after maybe some heavy playing. Love the slow duets between these two when KJY and SJ does the vocal part. (Veetula session irunthA, I'd do the bongo, dad - tabla, younger brother does excellent KJY).
Very nice bus travel reminiscence App!. :thumbsup: Yes, superb punchline at the end (only for reading)! Aana enna sir, intha paattaye above-average'nuteenga.:sad: Everything about this song is just amazing, especially the sycopation. I am still waiting to hear such a light, casual and gentle compositions with a heart of indian city today, without any luck. Yes only luck can get us such a song today. We are in a very sad state today. The way SPB ends the charanam is just dashing. I don't have any complaints in this song.
groucho & V_Sji,
adhu actual sirs, exact words thrown at me and no spice added...
BTW, Coimbatore was just the opposite (in my experience). Extremely polite ones!
(Palakkad buswAlAs even better...)
Another peculiar thing with some 80's Trichy buses was one peculiar horn :shock: High frequency-la 'veer veer'nnu kaththum...one should experience that in the hot summer on WB road for the max irritation...
Yes App sir, I just put that emoticon at the wrong place just for the post. I know and can completely understand your situation. Sometimes these conductors don't have a heart. I too experienced like this many times.