What Are You Fav Thai Bands/singers/songs?

[kanatip]

Do expats in Thailand listen to Thai music?

[davethailand]

yes

[Tarragona]

yes

Is the correct answer.

[davethailand]

Seriously, i don't listen to alot of thai music but i have some Carabao albums aswell as Bird/sek, bird & loso.

[Tarragona]

I've got dozens of Carabao albums and really liked Malihuanna - shame they split up.

[ZOVOX]

Do expats in Thailand listen to Thai music?

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Yes, the wife insists on blasting it out at full volume every morning. to be fair, some of it ain't bad, but i don't know the names of the artists. The only one i know is Tata young, but her stuff is very western, so i'm not sure if it counts.

[davethailand]

I've got dozens of Carabao albums and really liked Malihuanna - shame they split up.

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Carabao hav'nt split up.

[erasmus]

My farang children like Endorphine and Bird.

In my case, I like Tata Young.

Not really a band, not really singing too much in Thai either but well...

[thaiflyer1]

I've got dozens of Carabao albums and really liked Malihuanna - shame they split up.

Carabao hav'nt split up.

Must admit i didn't think they had either.........."Welcome to Thailand"

[davethailand]

I saw them about a month ago and we are due to stop at Ad Carabao's birthday on the way to Chiang Mai.

[Tarragona]

Carabao hav'nt split up.

No, I know Carabao haven't split up. I see them 6 or 7 times a year. But Malihuanna have.

[kanatip]

I saw them about a month ago and we are due to stop at Ad Carabao's birthday on the way to Chiang Mai.

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But they do not make any new album in ages

[Tarragona]

I saw them about a month ago and we are due to stop at Ad Carabao's birthday on the way to Chiang Mai.

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But they do not make any new album in ages

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The last full Carabao album was "Nak Su Phu Ying Yai" in 2002 which was the 23rd full Carabao album. This year Ad released "OTOP" as a solo album and there have been a few live albums plus a reworking of "Made in Thailand" over the last couple of years. There will be a new Carabao album out very soon.

[kanatip]

I saw them about a month ago and we are due to stop at Ad Carabao's birthday on the way to Chiang Mai.

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But they do not make any new album in ages

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The last full Carabao album was "Nak Su Phu Ying Yai" in 2002 which was the 23rd full Carabao album. This year Ad released "OTOP" as a solo album and there have been a few live albums plus a reworking of "Made in Thailand" over the last couple of years. There will be a new Carabao album out very soon.

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really? I did not know

[sonthaya]

My Thai favorite, Fon Tanasoontorn.

[konthai]

I like Silly Fool. Absolutely love them !

[lambous]

I love Thaitanium. Top Thai Hip hop

[sonthaya]

Just listening to Annita, she's great too, nice voice.

[kanatip]

Modern Dog is one of good Thai bands

[Jai Noi]

I like Modern Dog too

[davethailand]

Have'nt thai bands got the daftest names ever?

We should start a topic- Daft band names.

I'll start- Potato and Modern Dog

[davethailand]

double post, sorry

[Jai Noi]

I add Blackhead

[jackr]

Tai Tanawut

[samee]

I like LOSO,but Silly Fools really rules!

[thai3]

My Thai favorite, Fon Tanasoontorn.

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What a depressing collection of favourites, I like none of them, with the exception of Fon. But her latest valentine CD is a bit disappointing compared to earlier ones. Maybe the writers at Sure are giving their new singer Air the better songs? Fon's outstanding tracks are Jai Orn and Ab Rak Khow. She is greatly respected as a good role model and all round Jai dee. I love some of the duets she did with Monsit Khomsoi and and with the original cha cha cha girls.

As well as Air another great newish singer is Tai Orantai, her latest CD will be a classic. Not only a good singer but with Grammy's writers behind her she cannot go wrong.

My favourites change all the time but presently include:

Jintara Poonlap

Pumpuang Duangchan

Sunaree Rachesima ( very nice to her fans)

Deang Jitakorn

Mike Piromporn (best male singer since surapol)

Siriporn Ampaipong

Banyen Raggen

Job and Joy

Tai Orantai

-peter

[jackr]

My Thai favorite, Fon Tanasoontorn.

What a depressing collection of favourites, I like none of them, with the exception of Fon. But her latest valentine CD is a bit disappointing compared to earlier ones. Maybe the writers at Sure are giving their new singer Air the better songs? Fon's outstanding tracks are Jai Orn and Ab Rak Khow. She is greatly respected as a good role model and all round Jai dee. I love some of the duets she did with Monsit Khomsoi and and with the original cha cha cha girls.

As well as Air another great newish singer is Tai Orantai, her latest CD will be a classic. Not only a good singer but with Grammy's writers behind her she cannot go wrong.

My favourites change all the time but presently include:

Jintara Poonlap

Pumpuang Duangchan

Sunaree Rachesima ( very nice to her fans)

Deang Jitakorn

Mike Piromporn (best male singer since surapol)

Siriporn Ampaipong

Banyen Raggen

Job and Joy

Tai Orantai

-peter

And people may find your choice depressing. Don't knock someone's choice of music. Take the piss out of their clothes, hair or whatever but flatly telling someone that there favourite music is crap is downright bad mannered

[timonase]

loso are quite cool unless you see them in singburi and are trapped in the annual bottle throwing contest by drunk teenager.

I also like clash.

but carabao are the masters.

[thai3]

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And people may find your choice depressing. Don't knock someone's choice of music. Take the piss out of their clothes, hair or whatever but flatly telling someone that there favourite music is crap is downright bad mannered

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I did not say anyone's choice of music is crap did I, just that in a land with some of the best music in the world to listen to it is depressing when it is largely ignored in favour of the most commercial string and pleng chewit- names. Also it would be nice to hear why people think Loso, Carabao and all the other usual names are 'cool', just saying I like silly fools etc seems a bit pointless-peter

[Tarragona]

Thailand does have some of the world's greatest music and one thing I love about Thais is that they can be fans of all of it without saying this is cool, this crap etc. etc. I love the local village festivals where you can go from a number on the khaen to 'look tung' to 'peua cheewit' to 'pop' to 'rock', one after the other.

I like Carabao. Once upon a time Carabao really stood for something. And although that is mainly in the past, they are nice guys who will still give you the time of day. I learned a lot of Thai through their songs and other "peua cheewit" bands. If you listen to the long-established 'peua cheewit' bands, you'll find they incorporate a lot of Thai musical tradition into their songs and were nearly all inspired as kids by the great 'look tung' singers.

Malihuanna had two very haunting vocalists and were extremely innovative musically. I have never heard another band like them, which is rather unusual in itself here, as clones tend to appear on the scene very quickly. None of the pub singers I've heard doing their songs get anywhere close. Still worth seeing even though the advertised concerts are no longer the full band.

I've been to many 'look tung' / 'morlam' concerts and invariably had a good time. The wife's personal favourite is Chalermporn Malakham and I've seen Siriporn a few times.

The khaen is my favourite Thai instrument and there are few musical experiences in the world that can better getting pissed to an Isaan village band who are themselves getting pissed up.