When I came to Thailand in 1992, the songs that were playing all the time in the go gos were "One Night in Bangkok" and one about "Alice".

 

On the islands, Bob Marley was always playing but the one that was a hit at the time was the following and always reminds me of when I came here.

 

What about  you? 

 

 

The Thai National Anthem.

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The crappy stuff they blast out so loud that make your ear drums bleed at 5 am when someone has died or is getting married. 

Thank (whoever) that doesnt happen too often around here but its a sound that you wont forget thats for sure.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQQpwwvSh4

" Fun loving Criminals "

15 hours ago, CharlieH said:

The crappy stuff they blast out so loud that make your ear drums bleed at 5 am when someone has died or is getting married. 

Thank (whoever) that doesnt happen too often around here but its a sound that you wont forget thats for sure.

 

Just for you because I know you secretly like it. This is the one we get  most often around here. Someone pops their clogs so regularly I have grown to sort of like it :

 

 

 

9 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

When I came to Thailand in 1992, the songs that were playing all the time in the go gos were "One Night in Bangkok" and one about "Alice".

 

On the islands, Bob Marley was always playing but the one that was a hit at the time was the following and always reminds me of when I came here.

 

What about  you? 

 

 

Just this week, i clicked on a number of vids, referred to in news articles, e.g The Animals, this one and so on. There is no sound. I read up on problem solving. But no joy. Anyone advise me, in plain English, ? tia.

 

For me this song always makes me think of Thailand. I was stuck in England for two months sorting out some business when this came out. The lyric " everything you want is just a dream away " really made me miss my wife and home here.

 

 

"Hotel California" which has been overplayed, and more than often massacred, at every single place with a band all along the banana pancake trail.

One night in Bangkok....

The Carrot Song!

 

 

Before I came here, I was in a rehab one miserable day in Aberdeen, with sideways snow and this song was on the radio often. Then I decided I would go to Thailand, which I did the next year. This was exactly 30 years ago, actually. 

 

25 minutes ago, paddypower said:

Just this week, i clicked on a number of vids, referred to in news articles, e.g The Animals, this one and so on. There is no sound. I read up on problem solving. But no joy. Anyone advise me, in plain English, ? tia.

Is the MUTE icon showing an x.

Hey handsome, handsome handsome, where you go go go. Don't go, stay here handsome, come here.

Me, yes me, I take good care of you my handsome. Please come here and let's go to the nearest ATM, my handsome, yeah yeah yeah...

 

Written by Willy Banilly 

 

When I arrived here, I stayed in Khao San Road, a wonderful place in 1992. 

I went for a walk to Sanam Luang and there was a band playing, they were protesting about a law to wear helmets. They were called "Carabao". When they were playing, armoured vehicles/tanks started surrounding the whole area. I was <deleted> scared as there had been a massacre there a few months earlier; I quickly made my way back to the infamous hole in the wall bar and got <deleted> on Sang Thip and coke. 

 

39 minutes ago, Bangyai said:

 

Just for you because I know you secretly like it. This is the one we get  most often around here. Someone pops their clogs so regularly I have grown to sort of like it :

 

 

 

Dont you like posting here ? YOUR BANNED !....55555555???????????? Sadist 

 

Around and Around

Thermae sometime after 2am

 

Rainbow 1 in Nana all night long

 

Love You Long Time - Black Eyed Peas

In the year 2000 a song called "Sim Salambim" was everywhere all the time.

It was by a girl from Holland I think, used to be on YouTube but not anymore.

 

"Zombie" which I rarely hear in the US I hear all the time in Thailand.

 

Madonna's song "What It Feels Like for a Girl" when I hear it I have a little flashback to Bangkok what ever year that was popular.

What often surprises me is how clueless---or maybe it's willing----to play songs whose lyrics (in English) are as prurient and foul as can be. Perhaps the words do not strike their ears the same way they do native English speakers.

 

I remember driving to Pattaya a few years ago, with one of the local stations on the radio, playing "Short (nickname for Richard) Man". Afterwards the DJ, speaking in Thai, said something I did not understand recounting (I assume) what was just played and who sang it, then with a perfect English accent said the name "Short (nickname for Richard) Man" in the same tone he would have used in commenting on "Hey, Jude" or the Titanic song. Nothing in the song was bleeped out, either, so every swear and every description was played over the airways for all to hear.

 

For those who don't know the tune, and if a YouTube link can be noted, here it is:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrexKS8kxA

 

I suppose another song that is done to death here by anyone who thinks they can sing or play an instrument.......heard everywhere in bars etc.......Hotel California ! God that song is like nails on a blackboard now, but is "Thailand" whenever I here it.

Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire......for the morning after I've been on the Thai food.