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New Releases by ARR??

Topic started by Srikanth (@ passport.proxy.lucent.com) on Mon Sep 15 10:23:15 EDT 1997.
All times in EDT +9:30 for IST.

Any new album by A. R. Rahman generates lot of buzz. Share some of it here. Review, discuss or comment on ARR's new albums.

Check the ARR reviews page

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• From: yaaro-yaarodi (@ abd6cb79.ipt.aol.com) on: Mon Feb 28 00:56:46 EST 2000
  
  STS,
  
  This sort of comparison makes me really laughing.
  The comparison of Alaipauthey with Tirunelvi, Kanukul nilavu also makes me LAUGHING.
  
  Even now, you havent admitted that your remarks "Is IRs recent hits like Hey Ram, Kannukkul Nilavu, Tirunelveli make ARR nervous?!?" were in bad taste!! Can you admit these statements werent warranted? And as aruvi pointed out, you are trying to come up with lame excuses, and give advice to all saying "take it easy", "be sportive" etc. And you need to take these advice yourself before preaching others. People in glass houses cant throw stones.
  
  
  
  
• From: kk (@ bbndrel5.net.external.hp.com) on: Mon Feb 28 02:23:51 EST 2000
  
  STS,
  If you are a IR fan what are you doing here?
  why make worthless remarks and get cross posting nonsense. One more deaf head is posting what u said in IR thread. If you dont like ARR's stuff, say so, why are you taking IR into it. Sorry pls. Dont over do things. People like you get deaf heads in to IR thread, barking there.
  
  
• From: KK (@ tower.ti.com) on: Mon Feb 28 03:13:06 EST 2000
  
  STS,
  Please, don't disturb the dogs which are all
  barking in this thread.
  
  
• From: cram (@ 206.103.12.102) on: Mon Feb 28 04:57:36 EST 2000
  
  pOchchuda, alaipayudhe paththi comnments padikkalaam-nu vandha, discussion engEyO poikittirukku. pls friends, let's stick to commenting on the album's merits, or lack of it. sts, since i think u began it all, u ought to end it too.
  
  
• From: G.Ragavan (@ ppp-89-24.bng.vsnl.net.in) on: Mon Feb 28 07:13:21 EST 2000
  
  In alaipayuthey, shekithane song is good. The voice is also very much suitable.
  
  
• From: rkay (@ 202.9.144.3) on: Mon Feb 28 09:29:58 EST 2000
  
  Why unneccesarily compare IR with ARR.
  BE PROUD THAT WE HAVE GOT TWO GREAT MUSICIANS,IN TWO DIFFERENT STYLES.
  
  
  
• From: neruppu (@ hofner.tch.uc.edu) on: Mon Feb 28 09:41:22 EST 2000
  
  I wanted to go to the vending machine. Needed 'sillarai' for a five bill. inge neraya kidaikkumnu sonnaanga!-))
  btw, can somebody give the lyrics for the starting chorus of the 'snehidhane' song? I am not able to get it beyond "netru unn..". my speakers are bad!
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.22.112) on: Mon Feb 28 12:19:21 EST 2000
  
  Please let mutual respect prevail.
  
  
• From: Swami (@ proxy2.ericy.com) on: Mon Feb 28 13:15:15 EST 2000
  
  I go with MS. People please maintain the "sabhai mariyadhai" while delivering comments. Its pretty disgraceful to read comments with such words. Mr.Ravi please remove some of the above comments you find not appropriate.
  
  
• From: pal (@ wstisp1c01.ml.com) on: Mon Feb 28 13:43:32 EST 2000
  
  Here comes Review in Rediff
  
  http://www.rediff.com/tamil/2000/feb/28news3.htm
  
  
• From: IQ (@ dialup-209.245.132.147.sanjose1.level3.net) on: Mon Feb 28 14:01:40 EST 2000
  
  rajaG saar:
  
  If you are reading this, then my vedikkai time has begun! And I hope to God you are not biting on a kaaramaana molaga while reading this! :)
  
  
  As for Alaipayuthey, I think its a decent album and with songs like Pachai Nirame and Snehidhane (The opening lines are a treat!), I guess the album will become a hit(duh!). I only wish Sadhana Sargam had doen some homework on her Tamil, so that Vairamuthu's weird lyrics became more intelligible, and we could crucify him for one more song! What is that crazy man thinking? Most of 'em songs sound like prose set to tune, rather than poetry! I guess you have to grant ARR a few more points for Alaipayuthey just because he 'tuned' such lyrics!
  
  
• From: Anand Mahadevan (@ hoproxy2.proxy.lucent.com) on: Mon Feb 28 14:52:14 EST 2000
  
  Sashi,
  I read your review of "AlaiPayuthe" which was interesting but your scoring pattern seems to be paradoxical in the sense that you have rated "Alaipayuthe" as 8/10 ,which deserved no rating as its an adaptation of a classical song with absolutely nothing altered except a synth beat follows the song. Does the song deserves 8/10. "Uthukaadu" would have cried foul if he had seen your review.
  
  Anand
  
  
• From: neruppu (@ abd17e4f.ipt.aol.com) on: Mon Feb 28 19:39:44 EST 2000
  
  rediff review says:
  "asha bhonsle-vai thamizhil pAdavaikka ivarai thavira veru yaaral ninaikka mudiyum?"
  hmm..is it a case of short memory or selective amnesia?
  
  
• From: Arun (@ natsemi-bh.nsc.com) on: Mon Feb 28 19:57:05 EST 2000
  
  Can Some1 translate the rediff review.
  
  Thanks in advance.
  Arun
  
  
• From: kiru (@ surf0004.sybase.com) on: Mon Feb 28 21:30:13 EST 2000
  
  Shashi,
  Your reviews are making my musical eyes open wider (if I had one :)). One thing that I seem to be missing in ARR is the flow in the melody. Even the seemingly un-connected interludes seem to be nicely connected to the main melody.
  Am I really missing it or is it that I have become a IR-fanatic without my knowledge :) ??
  So I am suggesting that you rate the songs on the strength of the melody also. It seems to be a ambigous thing at first but probably with your musical knowledge you could come up with some parameter to rate it.
  Thanks for your contribution to this forum.
  
  
  
• From: nvd (@ bkj-cache82.jaring.my) on: Mon Feb 28 22:19:35 EST 2000
  
  I would render 7/10 for AP because of the musical arrangement. Melody is there but not up to what the trio-combination has supplied is in BOMBAY! Anyway, let us wish goodluck to Maniratnam and ARR for their latest effort!
  
  
• From: ss (@ 202.9.164.29) on: Mon Feb 28 22:55:01 EST 2000
  
  alaipayuthe is a some what a disappointment.i expect something in the range of "bombay" or "dilse" but in this film except one or two songs others sounds like deva's.
  
  
• From: paandee (@ fuzzy1.ece.sc.edu) on: Tue Feb 29 00:45:07 EST 2000
  
  a happy news to rehman fans.
  
  Alaipayudhey songs now available in mp3 format.
  
  so enjoy the songs in cd quality.
  
  the site is www.ulaavi.com
  
  
• From: saj (@ spider-ti084.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Feb 29 11:27:03 EST 2000
  
  if you want to see ALAIPAYUTHEY trailer go to the
  www.alaipayuthey.com
  
  
• From: Shashi (@ eed01773.mayo.edu) on: Tue Feb 29 11:49:22 EST 2000
  
  Hi Anand & Kiru
  
  Thanks for your comments. I will try to explain.
  
  Regarding rating the song Alaipayuthey as 8/10. IMO this wonderful song of Uthukaadu has been used as such. There is no alteration to the melody.
  
  Even in carnatic music, rhythm accompaniment is very subjective and within the same 'tala' cycle a mridangist/ghatam player chooses his own patterns so as to improve the 'total experience' of the song/composition. Sometimes, it does happen that the percussionist gets carried away and instead of accompanying, tries to lead or at least co-dominate. For example--Zakir Hussain, the excellent percussionist he is, at times tends to get carried away!
  
  What ARR has used in Alaipayuthe song is a simple rhythm (pattern is actually quite indigenous) played on western sounding rhythm machine. Overall, the rhythm continues to remain in the background so as to accompany and not be intrusive to the melody.
  
  My exact comments-"Otherwise the song has been quite aesthetically adorned by ARR without spoiling the innate beauty of this song." I have tried to say that this song has innate beauty (attributable to Uthukaadu) and that ARR has by keeping it simple bought out the sweetness of the composition.
  
  How did I rate the song? Well, a songs' rating in my mind is the level of enjoyment you obtain when listening to it. In that sense, this song rates at a 8/10. Although I try to score the composers imagination in all original compositions, in this particular case, obviously I did not try to score ARR's imagination. Also, in the overall album rating, which is an average of the ratings of the songs, I dropped out this song. Interestingly, in this case the album rating is 8/10 as well, it does not matter if this song is included in the overall album rating (just a coincidence).
  
  Regarding Kiru's comments-I did not understand your statements completely. Yes, I do give importance to the melodic content of a song, but interludes are also taken into account (with respect to imagination, instrument usage, correlation with the melody and mood of the song etc). If this does not answer your questions, could you please restate them
  
  
• From: Shashi (@ eed01773.mayo.edu) on: Tue Feb 29 11:52:29 EST 2000
  
  Correction
  
  I should have said--ARR by keeping it simple brings out the sweetness of Uthukaadu's composition.
  
  
• From: Kamesh (@ hlr-42-189.tm.net.my) on: Tue Feb 29 22:48:23 EST 2000
  
  http://www.dinmani.com/newsItems.asp?id=DNC20000227223451&title=%A3%B2U%F4&eTitle=Dinamani+Cinema+Page
  
  Read the above for a review on alaipayudhae by dinamani
  
  
• From: Bhaskar (@ host34.unify.com) on: Wed Mar 1 03:48:42 EST 2000
  
  Alai Payuthey is bound to be a big hit for ARR.
  
  Shashi,
  
  Your review of the AP songs made for a good reading although I had my own doubts regarding your ratings. I think I'll buy your argument above on the way you have judged the various songs.
  Keep up the good work.
  
  Bhaskar
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.22.145) on: Wed Mar 1 12:17:05 EST 2000
  
  Review of AP in rediff:
  
  http://www.rediff.co.in/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/TheRediffMusicShop/music_content.d2w/report?fname=0103mani.htm
  
  The reviewer does not seem to obviously be vey knowledgeable about who composed the carnatic song. He has attributed it to Muthuswaami Dhikshithar.
  
  
• From: IQ (@ dialup-209.245.139.88.sanjose1.level3.net) on: Wed Mar 1 14:41:05 EST 2000
  
  Decent review....but the last line says..."Who else would think of using Asha Bhosle in Tamil!"
  
  
  Well, I can think of atleast one person who "thinked" of using Asha in Tamil before this! :-)
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.22.112) on: Wed Mar 1 15:16:56 EST 2000
  
  Infact he used her just now in Hey Ram !
  
  

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