Why Is Thai Music So Boring

[Jai Dee]

Check out the Thai pub scene and you'll find that Taxi and Potato songs always get the crowd on their feet.

What about Job 2 Do???

Excellent Thai reggae.

[Neeranam]

http://www.fodderstompf.com/ARCHIVES/REVIEWS/molrev.html

This is a great album

Does anyone know of any Thai reggae bands?

[dbm]

Cool and thanks. I've been a Wobble fan for ages but havent checked out this cd. Certainly will though. The only thing I have about this though is it's still not originating from here. Wobble's great for exploring the world and incorporating himself and his genius into a genre, but I'm wondering where are the Thai/ SE Asian musicians exploring the world like Wobble and bringing it into their indigenous culture?I'd like to hear some fusion created by Thai's. And not just reggae sung in the Thai language for example but maybe reggae beats with traditional Thai instruments on top. Hundreds of tracks in this way come out of India every day. Take some dub, or hip hop, fuse it with some raga, sitars and loads of percussion etc.., throw some loops and samples in and then sing a traditional Punjabi verse on top. Now that's fusion,man! And we can dance like dervishes too!

[Mid]

Does anyone know of any Thai reggae bands?

What about Job 2 Do???

Excellent Thai reggae.

[Berty]

I'm surprised. I thought everyone would up in arm saying how great Thai music is, and how lucky we are to be living in Thailand blah blah blah.

Personally Thai music is like listening to a cat being swung around by it's tail, but I may be tone deaf!

[Neeranam]

What about Carabao? They are great!

What about Loso, Silly Fool?

[Neeranam]

Nok Noi?

[Jai Dee]

Endorphine???

Job 2 Do???

[chiliwasabi]

Aaah yes! Job 2 Do!!!

Excellent Thai reggae.

[meemiathai]

Why is golf so boring yet people play it?

Why do they show crap tv shows like "Survivor"?

Why do they play jazz, house..... in farangland? They make me sick!

I was in a club in London and I guessed the people were so bored of the music everyone had to take ecstasies and cocaine. I don't even need to drink to dance when I am in a thai disco. So why do they play those music in England? Anything to do with creativity?

[meemiathai]

One more thing, House music REALLY REALLY SUCKS!!!

Listening to planes taking off is more enjoyable!

Edited June 28, 2007 by meemiathai

[Tarragona]

T-Bone, reggae/ska, are fun and have just been playing Glastonbury for the 2nd time.

But for great Thai reggae, you can't beat Job 2 Do.

[draggons]

Some good Issan music

Job2do-great Thai reggae

[wave]

I don't think Thai music is boring, the problem is you tend to hear the same stuff over and over again.

There is good Thai Rock and Indie music it's just finding it. Myspace.com is a good starting point.

Some friends of mine put on a night of signed and up and coming Thai bands.

Look here

myspace.com/mindthegapbkk

[Jockstar]

All of it is painful to the ears apart from, maybe, Loso, well some of it anyway.

I dont generally like Thai music. But my favourite band is Acappella 7.

[meadish_sweetball]

I don't know if they've already been mentioned, but I just thought this might be a good time to mention Job 2 Do - excellent Thai reggae.

[mssabai]

Loso (I love you Pi Sek!)

Job 2 Do

Marijuana (check out the album Ling)

Carabao (though I do always feel like my dad would like them more than I do)

There is some well produced emo style rock stuff coming through now, but it isn't my cup of tea - Bodyslam, Slot machine and the like. Very commercial though.

There isn't a lot, but what is good is really good. My advice is get yourself down to a good Country pub, have a few nights on 100 pipers there and pretty soon you will be singing along and making requests for your favourites like the rest of the pub.

[TheDon]

I love Thai music, you know the one when there on the bus in the bush? (probably 100's like that) but there are some great Thai songs.

And who cares if they copy some farang songs, farang copy farang songs too.

[burman]

If you can't dance to morlam you must be clinically dead, but don't expect snobby Bangkokians to play it.

I enjoy Morlam and I'm a Bangkokian. Bit snobby out in the countryside it seems?

[pampal]

I like the Thai (Isarn) country music they play in most taxis, at first I hated it, but now after much conditioning, I have come to appreciate it.

Edited March 11, 2008 by pampal

[Jockstar]

Not really dance music. But the best band i heard in Thailand was a band called Acapella 7.

[BFD]

Any thread about Thai music would be completely remiss if they didn't mention one band:

Job 2 Do

Excellent Thai Reggae.

BFD!

[Payboy]

you might enjoy

this

[toptuan]

If you can't dance to morlam you must be clinically dead, but don't expect snobby Bangkokians to play it.

[game4shame]

I can't stand thai ballads.

I'm not as bad these days but they used to make that 'going home' feeling 10 times worse IMO - in the taxi to the airport and some soppy thai song comes on = instant depression.

[0Mix1up]

Why are peoples limited personal opinions of music so boring?

[lioness]

Personal choice of course, but I love Thai music and have no problems dancing to it, of course as with anything you get the odd bit of crap in there too, although not as much as you get in the UK.

[markcnx]

Thai music is boring due to the lack creativity. There just aren't any bands that have done things like the Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Marilyn Manson, The Cure, Placebo, etc. They all like to stick tightly to specific musical genres and don't dare to break boundaries.

Sorry, but Marilyn Manson is a creative project? Or Placebo? Sonic Youth were great...2 decades ago.

They are not all that popular, and their distribution isn't great, but Goose are a fine band.

Saw them a number of times when we still lived in Bangkok.

[markcnx]

how can you classify an entire country's music as 'boring?' based on hearing 20 songs in a bar?

Thai music is not familiar to the western ear, in many respects. be it thai traditional or luuk thoong. so it's easy to dismiss if you don't want to do a little work and want things to sound like what you've heard before. my friend says everything sounds like a chicken. music is an individual choice. I own about 75 thai cds: luuk thoong, classical and 'indie' pop. my thai is not very good, but I can now distinguish between korat style, lanna and isaarn luuk thoong. go to a bar that doesn't cater to expats who want to hear journey and listen to what they like; listen to everyone singing and clapping the same as if it was 'we are the champions.' and notice it is less generational--the 55 yr old bartender and the 22 yr old lady both know the words. I love chiang mai, but I really miss going to the big isaarn style music halls in bangkok and seeing the live music. where a house band plays and there's a new singer every song. great fun. if you can't dance to that, sorry friend.

[bendix]

To say Thai music is boring is fatuous in the extreme. To learn that that conclusion has been come to by the OP with his mates in the pub tells me all I need to know.

Is there such a thing as 'thai music'? Is there such a thing as 'English music' or 'American music'?

Sure the manufactured pop is trite and bland, but so is the manufactured pop of Korea, Japan, HK, Australia, the UK and the US.

If there is anything that can broadly be defined as quintessential Thai music then I guess it would have to be morlam and I actually really enjoy listening to that. I don't pretend to understand it, but it's lively, upbeat and fun.