" . . . but for my money, the best song in Raavan will hands down beat the best song on VTV."
Agreed! Raavan is by no means an average album for me. What did you make of the movie, Triply?! ________________________________ From: sreedhar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 26 July, 2010 11:55:03 Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? Well, it's a matter of preference. I mean, judging solely based on Komaram Puli, you just have to look back at Aa Aah and Nani/ New. I don't know if H. Sridhar was the engineer for those 2 albums, but the same complaints of cachophony hold good for them also. Ditto Godfather. And I do love the so-called noisy Blue and Raavan soundtracks! For the record, I think the only person who can have a massive impact on a Rahman album is Rahman himself. The loss of one technician or musician, no matter how good they are, does not adversely impact Rahman's output. For example, I feel Chitra is the best female voice Rahman has worked with. But her not collaborating with Rahman off-late has not hampered Rahman's output of melodious songs. The problem, and I felt this on several occassions, is that Rahman has, to put it across sensitively, a multi-tier approach. Directors like Kadhir, Shankar or Gautham Menon get songs of one tier, whereas directors like S.J. Suryah and K.S. Ravikumar get another tier. Then you have Mani who has a tier to himself. And whether you feel Raavan isn't as good as Bombay, or AE isn't as good as Roja, or Alai Paayuthey isn't as good as Thiruda Thiruda, the comparison is always on the one tier. Maybe one song from Raavan isn't as good as a certain song from VTV, but for my money, the best song in Raavan will hands down beat the best song on VTV. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Indmov Buff <indmovb...@yahoo. com> wrote: >Raavan was no average flare, in my opinion. Was more appealing to me than VTV >and VTV was a great album! Just my two cents. > > > ________________________________ From: Gopal Anandan <agop...@yahoo. com> >To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com >Sent: Sun, 25 July, 2010 3:17:52 >Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? > > >I was coming back from the B'lore airport last night and the playlist switched >songs from an old composition (Sridhar times) to the most recent ones Blue, >Pulli etc...and I felt exactly the same!! Many of the recent compositions are >becoming noisy and needless extra techno-sounds - the balancing of >instruments, >layers is only visible in the melody oriented songs. That way Couples Retreat >is >far superior than some of the recent albums. > >I guess ARR is in a major experimenting mode these days - not just with his >compositions but also with his entire team. But the gaps are well filled in by >Amit, Anandh and Mithoon...! > >A neutral and unbiased view of bulk of the songs of films like Shivaji, Blue >or >Raavan (and would add Pulli as well) from any of us fans is really tough...by >Rahman standards these are to say the least average compositions compared to >Delhi 6, VTV, Pudhiya Mugam, Dil Se, Taal, Rangeela, Duet - the old time >compositions! > >ciao / Gopal > >--- On Sat, 24/7/10, kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ gmail.com> wrote: > > >>From: kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ gmail.com> >>Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? >>To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com >>Date: Saturday, 24 July, 2010, 10:36 PM >> >> >> >>It's ok..that was understood bro.. >> >> >>On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jafar K <gentlej...@yahoo. co.in> wrote: >> >> >>>Sorry... I mean after Delhi 6. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ From: Jafar K <gentlej...@yahoo. co.in> >>>To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com >>>Sent: Sat, 24 July, 2010 12:55:29 AM >>>Subject: Re: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? >>> >>> >>> >>>Agreed. >>> >>> >>>Actually I feel some tracks are noisy Delhi 6 (except VTV) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ From: kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ gmail.com> >>>To: arrahmanfans <arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com> >>>Sent: Fri, 23 July, 2010 6:15:23 PM >>>Subject: [arr] ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR hurting ARR albums? >>> >>> >>>Komaram Puli songs....esp. .peppy ones Maham Maye juz amazing >>>But, the ABSENCE of H SRIDHAR is really hurting ARR soundtracks. .. >>>See, the AMAZING intro piece in this song...Juz imagine, how it would have >>>been >>>if H Sridhar was there.... >>>ARR's old film Tehzeeb, had a couple of songs, of this kind.. But , u can >>>feel >>>the amazing difference !!!!!! >>> >>> >>> >> > >
