Neethane En Ponvasantham | Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu | Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

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I also liked Ennodu Vaa Vaa. Idhula enna retrograde amnesia irukku? ? I am reminded of Cheeni Kum hai. Infact, adhula oru interlude varum, with plucking of guitar. andha plucking idhulayum irukku - plus andha interlude-ai konjam stretch paNNinA indha song varum pOlirukku. I think I said it before - Cheeni Kum interludeai echE oru song pOttudalAmnu. Looks like (one great mind and one fool) can think alike

Yes, of course, the 2nd interude does hark back to Cheeni Kum! I was kasakkifying my little mooLai about its similarity to some other song!

Another (mis-guided possibly) suspicion I have: the charanam of kaatrai konjam reminds me of some other IR song (possibly sung by Hariharan)...can't put my viral on it, yet.

Gokul

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Oh Srikanth Devarajan ...gave up on Raja two decades ago almost.

Objection your honor...
1. He gave a glowing review for TIME on tfmpage
2. Another very appreciative review for Bharathi
3. Wrote extensively on his blog appreciating TbI
4. Even posted on his blog about his discussion on IR/TbI with Sujatha during their meeting

So, avar eppavumE orE mAthiri thAn (means trying to maintain MSV-IR-ARR-fandom, he even wrote glowingly about vaseegarA of minnalE...must be scrutinizing NEPV, it would be interesting to see his total view of this score).

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

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Also, how do you guys date music? andha carbon dating technique dhAan enna?
When I listen to music, i can think of hundred critcising points but "dated" apdingaRA conceptE enakku varradhillai.
Malayalam pAttellAM (Ravindran mash etc) kEkkaRAchE ipdi dhAn dated-nu solluvIngaLA?

I think this whole thing of calling music dated should be made a jailable offence.

Flau, Good that NEPV bitten you too! ammiye parakkum aadimaasa kaathu ithu

And that dated is about Retro feel EVV song had. Its almost sure that its wantedly done. May be something like the old song in VA where surya simran dances! And also a old vintage synthesizer called Yamaha DX7, sounds which can be generated with that, similar sounds are used in EVV. Thatswhy some ppl comment so. But again its only instrument! the Tune, and every other thing cannot be called Dated!

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From Sunithi Chauhan's twitter:

vadanika‏@vdu9390@SunidhiChauhan5 Mudhal murai is makin me sleepless.. Ilayaraja is the best and ur vocals r pure magic
Retweeted by Sunidhi Chauhan

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That was a sample ; there are so many tweets like that to her.

Her acknowledgement :

Sunidhi Chauhan‏@SunidhiChauhan5 So many Flattering tweets for "Née Thane En Pon Vasantham" Yay!! I'm so glad.. Thank you Raja sir thank you all

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Spotted Sunithi's retweet of our Sureshji's tweet, embedding the youtube of 'mudhal muRai pArththa gnAbakam' :

Suresh‏@Raaga_Suresh Impressive. Sundihi is impressive in this superb song. Will do a post on this tomorrow: )
Retweeted by Sunidhi Chauhan

Nice to see good artists who are also net-savvy

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And that dated is about Retro feel EVV song had. Its almost sure that its wantedly done. May be something like the old song in VA where surya simran dances! And also a old vintage synthesizer called Yamaha DX7, sounds which can be generated with that, similar sounds are used in EVV. Thatswhy some ppl comment so. But again its only instrument! the Tune, and every other thing cannot be called Dated!

I am just wondering - is this whole dated thing more about the feeling one gets by comparing with other songs in the album?? Probably it is a case of poor articulation compared to shock value in other songs? ! For me, I feel Mudhal Murai & Satru Munba to be extremely modern, from Raaja's offerings context. those songs are very different from what I usually expect from him. From that perspective, I might feel Ennodu Vaa to be dated - no negative label attached to the word here. Or to put it more clearly, I can imagine Ennodu Vaa coming out of Raaja's stable in 80s also, but I cannot imagine other songs like that. If I take a time machine, I can very well imagine a SPB singing Ennodu Vaa with those expressive smiles/laughs (like he does in Eppadi eppadi or Paattu thalaivan). In that imaginative sense, it is song that is slightly dated.. where as.. no matter what time machine I take, it will take me to 2012 only.. if its Mudhal Murai.

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aakarsh,
In some ways, 'saRRu munbu' creates a mild 'idhu oru nilAkkAlam' (tik^3) feel in me...and the first listen of 'mudhal muRai' gave me the exactly same exhilirating feel I got when I listened to 'chinna maNikkuyilE' (AKK) for the first time.

I'm not getting into any comparisons / genre etc. Just to state a point that IR's 80's are so diverse that one can always find a few samples to map to any new song that comes out

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I agree. Not just 80s, but his entire body of work. Infact, different people perceive his music differently. You could connect Satru Munbu to Idhu oru nilaa kaalam feel but I cannot. I feel it is more international (the 1st interlude is kickass awesomeness that can probably be used for the titles of Sherlock Holmes films probably) . I always believed that Raaja music is of that calibre that people can do thesis/Ph.D on it. And not just the music, but even fans. A Ph.D can be done on fans' perceptional patterns generated by his music

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ivlo seriousaagakkoodaadhu.
free country anybody with heartbeat has an opinion and if we 'pounce' on every opinion,
discussions get muddled into unnecessary debates and degenerate soon into a internet pub brawl.
Lets put some pants on and behave as gentlemen pls.