Any know of some cool '80s and '90s Thai music? Most I find on YouTube are boring ballads. Please add the year for the song if you know. Here is one to begin with, from 1989. The lyrics for this is just the full name of Bangkok in Thai.

 

no, its either soppy love song cack boy meets  girl or a copy of a western song,  but im no  expert, this  one sounds like a  Russian  communist era type song.................needs  some heroic pointing

Does "One night in Bangkok" by Murray Head count?

Does "One night in Bangkok" by Murray Head count?

Barely accepted, but bored of it already.

pomphuang duanchan, a really beautiful voice. early carabao,some good instrumental tracks. joey boy for some early rap stuff and thongchai McIntyre with some songs in English. these were on the radio alot from mid 80's to early 90's. 

There was an album out in the late 80's called เสือตัที่ 11. It has no English name. My favourite is track 6 called ตลอดเวลา which translates as All the Time. It is in folk song style of the 60's for all you oldies out there.

I've always been partial to Loso, particularly Som San and Pantip (particualrly the live version. It rocks!) There's a lot of clips on YouTube. Check them out.

 

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Here are 2 links to Pongsit Kamphee from the album I referred to.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioibZRWb8ko

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB6fG3wWj8&list=RDMOB6fG3wWj8#t=3

 

Thai Music in the mid to late 80's in Thailand was really memorable...   while the Bars were playing Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen, Stevie Wonder's   "I Just Called To say I Love You",  Madonna's  "Like A Virgin" and  Leo Sayer's  "I Love You More Than I Can Pay"..  the big Thai songs were mainly the country "Lukthung" music.

Big ones at the time were "Boomerang" by Bird,  "Made In Thailand" from Caribou...   some great single tracks were titled  "Sao Borsang" by Zu Zu,  also "Sao Lomvong",  "Ow Pai Loei",  "Boruk See dum".

I can remember in the old Oasis Bar in Chiang Mai a Tomboy lady used to play all these requests on her 12 string guitar in the Bar.   I used to love "Bung Ern, Bung Ern"...    great old days!

These days the music isn't as memorable.

I can remember the old Peacock Café (Coffee Shop) under the Montri Hotel in Chiang Mai in the 80's.  When everything closed you would go to the Kai Thong outdoor restaurant on Kotchasarn Rd for a Snake Steak then stagger over to the Peacock.  I was there on it's very last nite of operation...  we watched the sun rise in the morning opposite the Tapae Gate.....    Oops, I've veered from the topic.  Yes, The Peacock played all these favourite Thai songs of the mid to late 80's.  In the 90's it was Jintara, Youi Yardyer, Soonaree...     

I would try those CD shops that sell Thai Music from the older recording artists. There is one in MBK in Bangkok for example ,and there and they are also in other shopping centers. They are often surprised that a falung is interested in old Thai music and sometimes there is nobody who speaks English but there is a wealth of old time Thai music from a whole range of genres.

Also in Yaorawat (Chinatown) there are a couple of shops with old music...  and on one corner, a shop that sells Thai vinyl from way back!

China Dolls and Tata Young had some hits around that time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4k4nvTPjYI (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJilLm3cX5g (1997)

Try " sounds of siam"

Patchara Waengwan - Rak Lae Kidthueng (1982)

Micro - Rak Khunn Khao Laew (1988)

Pongpan Wachirabanjong - Jai Nak-leng (1992)

 

I am still, and forever more will be inundated by Sayan Sanya songs

 

although his are more so classified as Thai Country genre

 

Nak Long Horse is ringing in my ears, right now!

Don Sonrabiab - Hak Gan Bordai Dok (1990)

2 minutes ago, Trembly said:

Don Sonrabiab - Hak Gan Bordai Dok (1990)

 

 

wowee a thai Criff Lichard

 

 

 

ฺBusaba Attitan - Johnny Teerak (1988)

And now for some spicy old skool molam from by particular Chaiyaphum enchantress . . . 
 

Pimpa Pornsiri - Sao Molam Jam Dai (1987)

It's a song about a molam dancer whose band was hired for a big shindig in honour of some old government teacher, who's probably about to be promoted or retired, way out in the sticks. It turns out this teacher was her teacher when she was only a little girl . . . how could she ever forget him. The lyrics are at once enigmatic and hinting. 

Teh Utayn - Gohok Na Tai (1991)

9 hours ago, alofthailand said:

Try " sounds of siam"

If you mean The Sound of Siam compilations, then I have both CDs, but they are off-topic as that is morlam and luk thung from '60s-'70s.

Really good live performance.

Pongsit Khampee - Smoeh (1993)

 

 

Is there any Copyright complication? in having so many Thai-origin songs, - all embedded in this one Thread??

 

Someone may come calling for Royalties...

 

Foreign stuff is fair game, but all this so is 'Local Commercial Content' IMHO

 

...and, Yes I know it is on Youtube, but Youtube is based outside the 12 mile limit

 

(not that I am saying to stop it - as wifey is happy wacthing the vids  Posted so far...   )

 

2 hours ago, Trembly said:

And now for some spicy old skool molam from by particular Chaiyaphum enchantress . . . 
 

Pimpa Pornsiri - Sao Molam Jam Dai (1987)

It's a song about a molam dancer whose band was hired for a big shindig in honour of some old government teacher, who's probably about to be promoted or retired, way out in the sticks. It turns out this teacher was her teacher when she was only a little girl . . . how could she ever forget him. The lyrics are at once enigmatic and hinting. 

Hi Trembly,

I looked through the lyrics on the Youtube page.

If I understood it correctly, she was in his class from ป.1-ป.4 (5-9 years old) before she moved away with her Mum to Maha Sarakham province when her dad died .

What was the thing hinted at?

There are some great current Thai bands

Check out  "Part Time Musicians"

The Only One - 

Vacation Time 
 

 

Montonn & Hannah