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Which Combi Is Better: SPB & IR or SPB & ARR

Topic started by WhyNot (@ 203.24.100.131) on Fri Nov 30 15:19:50 EST 2001.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

There have been many hits by both combinations.
In a way it is hard to compare bcos SPB sort of grew up wit IR and is more like maturing wit ARR.
But i'd like to hear some opinions and a list of personal favs from each combi.

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• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Tue Jul 1 05:03:38 EDT 2003
  
  Maddy,
  
  I also hear that IR has an ego problem, well if he has , then that is such a bad character, one should be a good human b4 anything to succeed in life!.
  
  SPB is too good, honest, humble, very friendly, no ego, he probably does not know what ego means :))
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Tue Jul 1 10:45:08 EDT 2003
  
  Read this article from SPB!
  
  "'Each singer's voice has its distinct fingerprint, its own speciality and timbre. There should be no propensity to mimic.'
  
  AN ENGINEER by qualification, a world record-holding playback genius, an actor in over 60 films, and a music composer all bundled into one. There are not many men with such versatile talents and are yet so humble at heart, like the multi-faceted S.P. Balasubramaniam.
  
  Guinness Book of Records entrant for having rendered the highest number (over 36,000) songs in languages ranging from Telugu and Tamil to Hindi, Malayalam and Oriya, six-time national award winner, and Padmashri awardee in 2001, the man's easy-going and down-to-earth manners are as incredible as his phenomenal feats.
  
  S. P. Balasubramaniam, or Bala as he is fondly known in the circuit, was in the city last weekend for hectic recording sessions for the Asianet channel's musical, `Sangeetha Saagaram', which is featuring the playback legend on its forthcoming Friday episodes.
  
  No other duo had so completely dominated the playback scenario in the Tamil film industry through the Seventies and Eighties as Ilayaraja and SPB had done. Banking on a talent pool of gifted lyricists such as Kannadasan and Vairamuthu and singing sensations like Janaki, Suseela and Vani Jayaram, the Ilayaraja- SPB combine had blazed ahead to produce a string of seemingly endless hits.
  
  "There will never be another Ilayaraja. He was par excellence as a self-taught, versatile and complete composer," Bala declares. Given SPB's known penchant for improvising, how did he fare under the daunting baton of a tough task-master like Ilayaraja?
  
  "Improvising on the original compositions of someone like Ilayaraja is always a dicey proposition.
  
  "Some of my touches would go well with him, but whenever I went overboard, he would step in with a figurative spank in the ear," says Bala.
  
  Does he feel happy about having inspired a generation of singers who revel in imitating his style? "I am happy, but only to the extent of having provided inspiration to new talents. But, this inspiration should not be overwhelmed by a propensity to mimic. Each singer's voice has its distinct fingerprint, its own speciality and timbre. The last thing I wish is for SPB clones burgeoning in the music world."
  
  The veteran crooner says he has sometimes even personally raised these points with some singers who were known to take after his style of rendition.
  
  "One can understand if Jesudas's scion's singing closely resembles that of his father because it could be in the genes. But, look at what happened to the scores of talented Malayalam singers who started aping the incomparable Jesudas. They all slid into oblivion. By comparison, Tamil singers like Mano are fortunate to have succeeded thus far in spite of his style being said to closely resemble mine," says Bala.
  
  What about technology-driven music that seems to be the craze these days? "Technology has its advantages and dangers. A singer is benefited by having the option of going back to make corrections at places where he has gone off-key.
  
  "But, having said that, one must say that technology is also being misused to mask the defects of new singers. But, the worst part of it all is that the importance of good lyrics has been virtually displaced in this dizzying mix of fast-paced rhythm and heavy sounds," says Bala.
  
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• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Fri Jul 4 07:14:49 EDT 2003
  
  dear all,
  
  check this out
  
  >>http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/lf/stories/2003070101250200.htm<<
  
  
• From: raj (@ 211.28.96.70) on: Fri Jul 4 09:13:16 EDT 2003
  
  kalai nera poonguyil from uyarntha ulam is awasome song.. ir + spb combination.. kalyana malai, keladi kanmani, ithayam oru kovil(class), thuli thuli nee padama, kalukuley vantha eeram ena both from sirpikul muthu etc etc its countless.
  
  
• From: Ram Lakshman (@ 195.92.198.72) on: Sun Jul 6 12:51:43 EDT 2003
  
  Yes, Raj.
  
  The songs u have mentioned are indeed awsome. but what went wrong, with SPB +IR??
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Mon Jul 7 09:11:23 EDT 2003
  
  Ram,
  
  no one knows!
  
  
• From: Jag (@ 35.11.98.63) on: Mon Jul 7 13:13:03 EDT 2003
  
  Ram,
  I don't think anything went wrong with them (songs like paadi thirantha prove this). It's just that the quality of the movies and the situations in them do not deserve the combination of these two legends . Also, as has always been IR tries new singers and gives them encoragement. Moreover nowadays directors want MD's to use people like Udit, Sukhwinder etc since their name sells the cassettes. We can only hope and wait for these SPB and IR to team up again.
  
  
  Jag
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Tue Jul 8 04:11:46 EDT 2003
  
  Jag,
  
  I am eagerly waiting 4 that day!
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Thu Jul 10 11:15:28 EDT 2003
  
  Jag,
  
  Do u know any websites, wher I can download SPB's songs as MP3 format?
  
  
• From: Jag (@ 35.9.26.160) on: Thu Jul 10 13:48:30 EDT 2003
  
  Raghu,
  There is www.telugustation.com, some of the songs can be freely dowloaded ( just move your mouse over the mp3 link and see the status bar to see if it says membersonly). For tamil songs coolgoose.com has plenty of songs, search with movie name or MD name. Again coolgoose membership is free but the site is very slow.
  
  Jag
  
  
• From: Raghu (@ 212.134.69.162) on: Mon Jul 14 06:14:43 EDT 2003
  
  Jag,
  
  thanks for the link
  
  
  

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