I agree with almost every points made by you .. Except .... 1. From Blue .. I really Like Fiqrana & Blue theme .. I can't tell about anyone else , but i will listen to it after 10-12 years !! 2. I really think ARR Signature is very much there @ Pappu too ... 3. I have liked Blue , and I think Raavan might be his best work ever !
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:08 AM, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > Several members had appreciated Blue music. And now, the same members > are immersed in Raavan and praising it. > > I wonder what exactly one sees/ listens in an album to appreciate it? > > Blue and Raavan are quite different. And the difference in them is not > just technical difference like a difference in classical or bolly > songs that one can like some of both categories. There are deeper > differences. > > I think the difference in blue and RAavan is that Blue was technically > great without a soul, there was no inherent unity in those songs to > weave the songs as a single fabric > > On the opposite extreme, Raavan is a unified album. There is a > underlying common theme in all songs that suggests it could be a > single song running for 30 minutes in raavan. Raavan is earthly. > Raavan has given us our ARR of 10-15 years ago back to us. > > Raavan has generated a long thread on thiruda thiruda and all movies > of ARR-Mani got discussed. > > Raavan is launching people on a rendezvous, down memory lane, old is > gold, back to the basics. > > Raavan is making people rediscover and re-explore ARR. > > What else was discussed with blue? Nothing at all, except that it was > a technically great album having new types of sounds. > > I think all those great and novel sounds are still there in raavan, > but hardly anybody is talking about greatness and novelty of sounds in > raavan - because there are so many things in raavan to be talked about > that its technical supremacy seems to have taken a back seat low down > in the list of priorities of things that we love to discuss about > music, about ARR's music. > > Nobody has so far asked "where is ARR's signature in Raavan", the way > we had asked where ARR's signatures were in Pappu. Why so? Because we > all see ARR's signatures in each and every millisecond of Raavan. > > At the time of release of Blue, ARR had given a message about people's > high expectations after his oscars. > > I had written then here that if ARR is thinking of people expectations > and about oscar, it is a wrong step. I had said that ARR should forget > people and forget oscars when he enters his studio and he should > create what his heart says. > > Oscars didn't make ARR creative, ARR's creativity brought Oscars to him. > > Compare that to Raavan release. No statement by ARR, no mention of > people's expectations, no mention of oscar (and even grammy) now. > Raavan got released without a word from ARR. > > And Raavan has stirred the ARR-fandom like none of his albums had > stirred in last 10 years, may be after Dil Se. > > I think, with Raavan, ARR has forgotten about people's expectations > and he has put his awardee status in a corner. He is back to become > pre-oscar ARR. And his creativity is evident in every beat of Raavan. > A creativity that has a soul, unlike the sheer technical creativity of > blue. > > Why should ARR explain his music the way he did in Blue? His music > explains itself to us fans and we understand by listening his music > when our souls are in touch with ARR's souls and when we are not in touch. > > Blue was a album composed by an Oscar winner whereas Raavan is an > album composed by a humble human being who is a music lover. > > It can be said that ARR experimented a lot with Blue. And, an > experiment never fails. It just gives feedback about our theories, > confirming some, disproving some other. Seems ARR has taken that > feedback of blue and has incorporated it in his style of composition > (not the blue style, but the feedback on blue style) to come up with > Raavan that has turned out to be abashed heart-stealer. > > With so many conceptual differences in Blue and Raavan that make both > the ablums almost mutually exclusive, how can a person liking blue can > now like raavan also, and how can a person liking raavan might have > liked blue also? > > Those persons who appreciates everything, their appreciations get > discounted and they are seen as creating a hype. Everything can't be > equally great. Such persons need to individually introspect and find > what he stands for and what he doesn't identify with, and then > appreciate certain things that he stands for and criticize certain > things that he doesn't identify with. People can make out what is > forced appreciation and what is undue criticism. > -- > > Thanks a gig to Mani, he had given us ARR for the first time 18 years > ago. And he has now re-given us our very same ARR, cured of oscar > aberration. > > -- > Rawat > > > ------------------------------------ > > Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? > <b> > Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. > Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. > > Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com > Admin: [email protected] > To Subscribe: [email protected] > To Unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups > Links > > > > -- - Regards ~ ~ A.R.Rajib ~ ~
