Listened to both albums once at a single go! I love them :)
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Listened to both albums once at a single go! I love them :)
I have not heard the albums yet. But i dont quite agree with the way the INETK Karthik reviews IR albums( i dont read other MD album reviews). So my post is directed towards his reviews as i have read a lot of them by now.His frequent use of phrases like Outdated or Archaic is silly. No music becomes outdated, one can never say at any point of time that only a certain kind of music will appeal to the people. Good music will always draw people. So just because you think IR's tune sounds like 80's does not mean it will not appeal. If the tune is good and orchestration is catchy(who cares if its 80 or 90's do common people really care?) the song will work. and also no one grows out of listenining to good music. SO when say we have grown out of it, please include only yourself . You are not representing the views of the people .You never grow out of a listeniing to a particular style of music, you only become more adaptive in enjoying other styles of music as well. Try to be open minded when it comes to reviewing an album. Music should always be reviewed to as either being good pleasing to the ear or soulful or on the other hand does not appeal at all, no melody or no rythm. There is nodate stamp or expiry date for good music. I think you should keep this in mind when reviewing future albums.
Raja_fan,
Thanks for the SMS. Unfortunately, the volume sounds weird on my player. sort of volume goes up and down. is it something with my pc or others have seen this too?
I think this is the same as 'naan yaaru enakkE theriyalaiyE, enakkEta naa solla vazhiyillaiye'.Quote:
Originally Posted by raja_fan
kasturi - we have heard this, almost exact tune from IR before. the other one - I dont know why IR likes to do these kinds of experiments.
I like SMS better. Some songs have real acoustic instruments instead of synth. Actually both albums seem to be dominated by synths. With IR's tunes (indian/folksy) synths dont go very well.
Where is the IR who did Vikram, Sigappu rOjaakkaAL etc ? Is the concept of a 'westernised' song difficult to grasp now - piano/guitar song of yesteryears vs jazz, rap, techno of today, so that IR is at a loss , in search of a modern rhythm arrangement..??
After repeated hearings,
1. "Manasiloru poomala " sounds like a recycling of "Oru thuppaakki kaiyil eduthu.." from Kodai Mazhai.
2. "Kadappurathu.." seems to be another form of "Malai nila" from KKP. Same raga used ? But this is far better with catchy rythm and flow.
2. "Subha niyogam" resembles "Hridaya rangoli" from Kannada "Pallavi Anupallavi" atleast in the begining.
Madhu Balakrishnan's "gambeera" voice in the songs is notable and should be a good choice for IR's melodies here after..
Overall, I am satisfied with both albums. Not very great, but definitely listenable again and again :)
I think we all know that IR has experimented in so many forms over 8000 songs that asking him to prove himself one more time is a waste of time. Everytime he sees a film he doesnt see the content to merely fill it up with songs but rather enliven it with the appropriate background score. If he was interested in the songs department he would have still continued with Rajini sir's films. As i said after nothing but wind and thiruvasagam his desire has mainly been instrumental music and background music but never songs. And i dunt think he himself is bothered about it.
Hulkster,Quote:
Originally Posted by Hulkster
I understand your point (futility of expecting 'change' in his songs) but its rather sad, isn't it? He's done it all and asking him to "prove" something is funny alright but then, if he is still composing songs, it is for others and one cannot say "His interest is only in BGM and he has lost interest in songs" right? As long as he is composing songs, he is fair game IMO. If he's no longer interested, he can stop doing songs.
P.S: Just when we kind of write him off, he comes with a Pithamagan or Virumaandi, Mumbai Xpress or Cheeni Kum. Atleast andha madhiri edhavadhu nadakkuma nu oru nappasai :razz:
Interesting Post. I feel Karthik ( inetk) is very much open minded having read , almost all of his reviews. if you see his review for some of other mallu IR movies,chennikum , you can see his appreciation for his music.Quote:
Originally Posted by rprasad
Music is not outdated nor is archaic- but film music has to be contemporary to an extent. We can hear 800 carnatic songs with similar orechestration, but 800 film songs! Personally, i love raaja using 80s orchestration now, but i think it is the lack of 'obvious' experimentation and predictable interludes is what bores me. Just hear the second interlude of 'ramamin mohanam' - would you guess that ? Of course music is not about guessing, but it finds a twin with the word energy!
I do agree raaja's music is still soothing, but with our ears getting resonant more with clarity of sounds rather than the melody, it is unavoidable that we expect something different from raaja !
But what really irritates me is that while 'our' raaja doesn't experiment much in songs these days ( in general) , he just goes crazy with BGMs. I was literally flabbergasted with chennai kum's BGM ..wow !
Soulless album(s). IR please please please stop the irritating synths and pauses.
Kandu kandu was the sole bright spot.
Atleast five songs are good - Kandu, Manasil oru, Subha niyogam, Kadapurathu , Ponathevide.
Kadapurathu is definitely vintage IR !
The problem with us is that we expect all the songs in a album to be likeable..
But IR has never been like that in most of his albums even in the eighties. One or two songs in a film would be time less..others will be just situational.