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1 | Satissh

July 12th, 2008 at 7:50 am

Wow Karthik, that was kwik! Thought you’ll take time till noon to post a review.. Super cool review I just love Taxi Taxi.. Blaaze Rocks!! Naan eppodhu and Marudhaani are super but for the diction. Rahman at his best again.

2 | rafee_a

July 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am

taxi taxi will rock as athiradi
marudhani mindblowing song
rahman at his best worth for waiting
rahman genius
sakkarakatti super duper hit

3 | rafee_a

July 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am

chinamma song even its remake from hindi song its nice to listen in tamil rahman rules the music word

4 | viraajan

July 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Best album of the year in tamil so far. 4 good nos and 2 avg nos.

Something is missing tamil chinnamma song. Am still in love with its hindi version.

5 | nitin

July 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Fantastic album. The best in Tamil this year.

Amazing how he churns out a Jaane Tu one month, and a Sakkarakatti the next month.

Hats off to ARR..

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7 | Arun

July 13th, 2008 at 10:20 am

Terrific Album! Better than JTYJN, IMO!

Marudhani and I Miss You Da rock bigtime. The orchestration in ‘Elay’ is brilliant indeed.

8 | ck_ssn

July 15th, 2008 at 10:04 am

Hey sorry but can i post two links here from where Elay and Taxi are inspired from? Just inspired nothing wrong in it i guess.. I am a Die Hard Rahmaniac so I would like to post my boss’ inspiration..

Taxi’s initial humming and the beats are inspired from Daddy Yankee Rompe Check out this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHan4p58hKs

Elay’s violin bits sound similar to the violin bits in Corrs “Toss the feathers”

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjS8Oz8Gkg

Very slight similarities…

9 | ck_ssn

July 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am

But the album rocks big time… Super duper hit.. Taxi and Elay are out of the world.. Marudaani is awesome…

10 | musicfan

July 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am

ck_ssn: Don’t you ever think Rahman is too original. He gets his inspiration from a lot of western albums, but they are just inspirations that’s it. He transforms them in such a way that they look only little similar to the original tune, unlike the bollywood counterparts who blatantly reproduce the original tune.

11 | ck_ssn

July 15th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Hey seriously no offenses. Just put up some inspirations.. Rahman rocks and he is totally original in this damn lifting era. Vidyasagar is the next decent MD with only a few lifts against his name.

12 | Raju

July 17th, 2008 at 4:13 am

Rahman always gives quality and variety albums…and he maintains the same every time..sakkarakatti is stylish and i love it…

13 | srivats

July 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

OK album by ARR’s lofty standards… Elay is a Corrs song in Tamil…well executed!! Taxi is a throwback to the Roxette-ish 80s… nothing wrong with it…. nothing extraordinary either!Marudhaani is brilliant!! unlike other ARR albums it might not be an album you’d pick up a year down the line to listen.. too many cliched bits in the songs..

14 | viraajan

July 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am

Taxi song has been inspired from this track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cnG_Al9qY

source: Anandhansubbiah.com

15 | viraajan

July 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Sorry guys. Dint see Ck_ssn comment. Posted my comment wrongly.

its inspired but not blatantly copied.

16 | callchandru

July 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

I think it is even unfair to call ‘Taxi Taxi…’ as an inspiration from those youtube songs listed here. If you had heard of Reggaeton genre, you wouldn’t be saying this. Most of the Reggaeton songs have similar beats and that is what defines the genre. ‘Taxi Taxi…’ song is based on this Reggaeton genre and I don’t see it as being inspired from one particular song.

Read more about Reggaeton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggaeton

Another sample of a Reggaeton song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5zdwImXOuo

17 | SRINIVAS

July 20th, 2008 at 9:24 am

good album yes but ..two songs from his own compositions in Hindi and two inspired from others .. If ARR does not have time for Tamil Movies ..its better he sticks to Hindi .. recycling will not help beyond a certain point.

18 | mhafeez

July 21st, 2008 at 6:19 pm

Not sure how right I am but I find a similar pattern of I miss you da Rhythm in Ilayaraja’s - Sundari Neeyum from Micheal Madana Kamarajan. The 3 beat thing is a hi hit snare in Ilayaraja’s song and kind of Perc Pad in Rahman’s. Also the initial piece is kind of harmonics in both the songs. Getting paranoid over Rahman’s music these days

19 | narasimman

July 22nd, 2008 at 6:16 am

srinivas..

ARR didn’t want to take this movie at all. But the director was so adamant to have ARR that he asked him to reuse his hindi songs for the movie. ARR accepted this and started composing 2 songs , but was so involved in the project he decided to do the rest originally.

This was revealed by ARR in the music release function.

20 | PonzIe172

July 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm

ARR is able to flavour the encore ‘Suger Cube’ with six distinct tracks.There used to be a time when movies had ARR delivered every track with substance.
He’s back with full swing here. He’s turned the clock a decade back with trackes like ‘Taxi’ and courageously experimented ‘I miss you da’ which seems to have mixed reviews, though.
With Harris seems to have elapsed in ‘Satyam’ , Guru stands unique and is able to exude great confidence.
Karthik did justice in the review of his. Great dude!

21 | mumbaiRamki

July 24th, 2008 at 8:29 am

musicindiaonline also lists another song ‘good morning’ sung by harish . Forgot to review that song?

22 | Karthik

July 24th, 2008 at 8:38 am

I don’t know who started this rumor - ‘Good morning Tamil Naade’ is a song from the film, ‘Azhaippidhazh’ with music by Athish Uthirian. Not sure why MusicIndiaOnline lists it under Sakkarakatti!

23 | viraajan

July 24th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

I guess, good morning tamilnade song is from the movie ‘Thalaikeezh” muisc by Athish.

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