thai beat
* sodsai chaengkij: shake baby shake (4.5 mb)
* starlights: daytripper (4.5 mb)
* johnny’s guitar: klongyao (5 mb)
from va - thai beat a go-go, vol 1 : subliminal sounds : subcd11
ok. i don’t know what’s goin’ on here. but i’m getting frustrated. this was actually posted hours ago, but all of a sudden it disappeared?!!? so. if this post seems short, that’s why.
so, to start the weekend off right, we’ve got a couple of barn stormers straight outta thailand. about a month ago, i was shopping at my favorite music emporium, browsing through the cds thinking “boring, boring, already have it, boring” when i chanced upon this groovy drawing of a half-naked lady with a guitar. i was hooked. i immediately knew that i’d love this album. as i popped the cd into the player, i was awash in a sea of exotic rock n roll.
what you are about to hear is a collection of rare and unusual, mostly western-influenced and western-styled, songs concocted in thailand during the 1960s. very little is now known about the thai rock n roll scene of the 1960s, an era that now seems hopelessly lost in the past. the original records are so scarce that they practically never turn up, even in their native thailand, and sadly few people remember the original artists.
(from the liner notes
to start off with, we’ve got sodsai chaengkij, a cute thai gal who’ll make you want to shake baby shake. next we’ve got the starlights performing a phenomenal cover of the beatles’ daytripper. and lastly, we’ve got johnny’s guitar, fronted by organist noparatana tipayaosot donning his psychedelic glasses and reinterpreting traditional thai melodies in klongyao
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whew! there’s been too many technical difficulties. hopefully everything is ironed out now, and we can put all that behind us…well, we can always hope.
