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My first walkman had a tiny hole thru which a "watch screwdriver" can go in and adjust the cassette reading "head". Some cassettes (especially those "pre-recorded" ones) had issues with the locating of the tape and often only one ear will have sound with a "hiss noise" in the other. Without that screw-driver thingy, I would've been driven mad:-)Quote:
Originally Posted by KV
(The contact problems that develop with the headphone wires is another horribly irritating factor :-( )
V_S,
Please take your time and we know it will be worth all the wait :-)
nAn konjam nallA irukkaRadhu pidikkalaiyA :-) j/kQuote:
Originally Posted by baroque
Yes, I love that song. Actually, all the songs of IK - not one can be tossed or can be called boring (OTOH, I don't relish anymore 'ennOdu pAttuppAdungaL' or 'padippula zerO' kind of songs from prior Motherland pictures movies).
Just that I was in a job for the first time in life -morning 7.15 bus catching, 8 O'clock testing-shop-floor opening, leaving the premises after roughly 11-12 hours etc was a big transition from years of a different kind of life : lazily getting up after 8, gang-A messla pOy break-fast, 1 hour indhu paper in common room, 3 hours carrom, another gang-A lunch, konja nEram library-la reading all kinds of mags / books except the subject items, chAyA, playing outdoor for a couple of hours, arattai, meesic, gang-A dinner, cinema, again arattai finally dropping in bed after 1...
Well, two songs are due today and needless to say both are from IK...and we'll have IK for a few more days as well :-)
#211 இதயம் ஒரு கோவில், அதில் உதயம் ஒரு பாடல்
(இதயக்கோவில், 1985, ஜானகி ஹம்மிங் உடன் )
Simple pallavi melody combined with rich saraNam melody and three delicious interludes :-) Standard / typical / singnature but very effective tablA accompaniment that is always palatable for people like me. Simple lyric with no earth-shattering thoughts but no irritating or repetitive phrases either. rAsA gets greater marks for music and pass marks for lyric, SPB sings without much ado (some prefer rAsA version, to me both are good) and SJ's humming is sweet.
padam pArththa ganavAnkaL please post about the storyline, song sichchuvEshans etc as I may not visit this movie in any foreseeable future. Is this number a name-credit-title song? Or, situational? I can't imagine any other situation than a stage-mike-singer-thingy. And, like many say here, this was a typical MP movie and not in the 'later-day-MR' style.
His prior movie, pagal nilavu, also wasn't like the later day MR movies per my feeble memory. I watched that in a 'deck' in the college common room and guys who organized the deck informed us that the main character - Sathyaraj - was moulded by the main character of 'officer and a gentleman' as per magazines. I couldn't find that kind of similarities, however. While 'poomAlaiyE' song was awesome on screen, there's also 'mainA mainA mAmen pudichcha mainA' which was more like the kuppai movies of that time period. So, PN too was a mixed bag and MR arrived big in TF only in MR.
That way, IK is something that 'happened in-between' and possibly a typical MP movie. Well, the big change from udhaya geetham is not that many songs with mAnE-thEnE business :lol2: Still, I don't think we can accord a lot of credit to the director for the songs of this album as even K Rangaraj kind of remakers were given superb numbers when Kovaiththambi produced the movie and placed IR-pic on the poster. Possibly the producer's last movie with IR (unless he took an u-turn sometime later which I'm not aware of...the next movie of Motherland pictures was 'uyirE unakkAga' where Lakshmikanth-Pyarelal were the MDs).
And, like V_S mentioned, the recording quality was great and the songs sound grand in huge-speaker-hi-fidelity kind of systems.
#212 வானுயர்ந்த சோலையிலே நீ நடந்த பாதையெல்லாம்
(இதயக்கோவில், 1985 , ஜானகி ஹம்மிங் உடன் )
Somewhat old fashioned song (engE nimmadhi / dEvadhai iLam dEvi kind of sounds here and there and "Avi" sounding humming etc) with certain terrific musical twists. Especially the first interlude where rAsA switches off the strings, jumps to flute and makes a sudden shift to 'percussion-only' mode, delectable! Also, the second humming in the prelude with sweet guitarish accompaniment! The whole song boasts of sweet-sounding guitar chords but the 'max-treble-less-bass' kind of tablA sound is not my personal preference. I don't know how MR felt at that time (as he seems to have a keen interest for 'sounds' thru out his career :wink:)
Possibly MR didn't have much say on that aspect at that point of time but definitely was in command by the time 'O priyA priyA' happened. Accomplished much by the time IT arrived and could demand things from his team members including IR, MR had terrific tablA work for OPP IMHO. hA, how sweet it is for the saraNams! (I'm taking that song for comparison as both vAnuyarndha & OPP fall into the same "category" of songs in my book, i.e. they have a common "feel" though I cannot explain how in musical or lyrical terms...ofcourse, OPP suffers from Mano but KSC is awesome!).
This song was a regular on buses and I don't know how many times I would have heard it that way! I can't help but repeat that IK is perhaps the 'most listened to' album on buses in my life :-)
This song also evokes strong memory of frequently hearing it from a distant place (possibly the Walayar theater) when getting down from the bus at night after work and walking into the Malabar cement quarters, to my friend's room where I stayed for a few months, until I got a monthly-rental room in the town...tall teak trees, darkness, strong possibility of snakes on the ground with lot of dry teak leaves lying around...such foresty environment itself made the walk of that few hundred meters eerie, with hardly any people around. On top of it, hearing this song coming from a distance could often send a chill up the spine :-) Fortunately, I never had to jump and cross a snake all those months (interestingly, I had to jump off snakes a couple of times in the dry REC campus - that had some really bad vipers, one of them bit our badminton captain which made him bleed non-clot and with great difficulty doctors saved him).
People used to warn that the snakes of Palakkad are extremely venomous and many die each year! (Well, they also opened a snake park in the Malampuzha dam during my stay and I had taken everyone visiting us there) and we had a few frequenting our backyard in the later years including moorkhans (cobra) but I was fortunate not to get into any accidents :-)
app,
Thanks for the Great picks. indha padathula ellamae GEMS dhan. adhuvum SPB nala.
Paatu thalaivan paadinal - kudichitu padara expressions and the ragalai.. SPB is Great.
Vanuyarndha solaiyilae - Bhavam. Thaniya thannoda sogatha nenachu padara style......... He is the King.
idhayam oru kovil - Affectionate Renditiion. idhilum.. He is the Best............
Ella paatukum.. SPB..anal. konjam bore adikadha oru Renditiion................ wat about
kootathila kovil pura.. something spl to me.. oru Innocent a sandhoshamana expression.. to her Lover..............
idhaiyum solungo app.
indha paatula.. 2 stanza .. 2 sorgam. kaathoda satham.. adhu kuda music a , inimaiya varadhu. Raja kite dhan............
app. unga detailed post a padika ipo time illa. mor la power cut.. home work madhiri serndhu pochu. complete pannanam
unga writings a......
nanRi UshAkkA :-)
mella, time kidaikkum pozhudhu padiyungaL...
(appadiyE Shankarji kitta oru invertor-kku application pOttu vainga :-) )
heavenly Rag sivaranjani pathos of S.P.Bala Subramaniyam.:bluejump:
Who can resist!:musicsmile:
ஒரு ஜீவன்தான் உன் பாடல்தான்.......நான் அடிமை இல்லை.
உங்களோட சிவரஞ்சனியே உங்களுக்கு சமர்ப்பணம்...எங்க கிட்டே ஒன்னுமே இல்லை உங்களுக்கு கொடுக்க, only love and affection !:redjump:
tere mere beech mein...Ek duje Ke Liye
rhim jhim ke geet sawan....romance in the air with Rafi and Lata!
Mysterious Kahin deep jale.....Lata's haunting humming composition.
:ty: I will return to your thread tonight , App_eng.
vinatha