Thread: Why are Thais completely immune to musical repetition?

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I just watched the "Raping of Nanjing" special on TV and you can add vicious, callous and without remorse to your list of good points mate. I have also worked with them and one on one they are as dumb as fvck.

I'm surprised at you Loy Toy - you are usually much more tolerant

I am very tolerant mate but when it comes to the Japs my experiences have not been wonderful.

As a supplier I have never been fvcked around so much by "one on one" stupidity (whereby not one of them can make a decision) and as a customer they have fvcked us around regarding machine supply that has cost me and my customer one years lost production.

Nah mate the Japs are not my cup of tea.

Indians are right up there with them Loy.

yeah, every one of those other bastards are thick as shit

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I just watched the "Raping of Nanjing" special on TV and you can add vicious, callous and without remorse to your list of good points mate. I have also worked with them and one on one they are as dumb as fvck.

I'm surprised at you Loy Toy - you are usually much more tolerant

I am very tolerant mate but when it comes to the Japs my experiences have not been wonderful.

As a supplier I have never been fvcked around so much by "one on one" stupidity (whereby not one of them can make a decision) and as a customer they have fvcked us around regarding machine supply that has cost me and my customer one years lost production.

Nah mate the Japs are not my cup of tea.

They are human traits mate, Japs are human.

I'm not saying they are perfect, but when it comes down to it there's very little you can slag them off for without digging into the history books.

When is the capsule warming party ?

yeah, Japs rule!!

esp the ones on DVD

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

I'm not saying they are perfect, but when it comes down to it there's very little you can slag them off for without digging into the history books.

In all my years living and working in Asia I have found no reason to endear myself with the Japanese and in fact based upon my most recent experiences rate them the second most arrogant Asian race after the younger South Koreans that have been visiting Thailand of late.

Are the JAP ONLY CLUBS still hanging their signs outside around Soi 33+ ?

Oh jeez...musical repetition...

Witches Tavern the other night.

Band finished, cue the same old techno versions of the Macarena, I will survive and Can't take my eyes off of you amongst others.

Cue the same old dancing from Thai girls, is with no style or grace whatsoever, like a 5 year old.

The brain thing is the key here. They have nt got one so the muzac just rattles about in thier head.

They are imune to all noise.

Originally Posted by chitown

Move all you want sCamp, it is the same all over Thailand. Loud music, loud tv's, loud speakers, loud motorbikes, loud buses, loud cars and loud people.

You are likely to change one problem for another.

Perhaps in more densely populated areas. It is possible to modify such 'annoying' stimulation by relocating to the bush {aka countryside, rural, etc}.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

your OP sounds like Smegal, Scampy

Applied only to Smegs....??

Could be worse Scamp

Listening to the Thai bands play Hotel California every night in the restaurant is a killer

Or this everywhere......



Numa Numa

Originally Posted by klongmaster

Originally Posted by forreachingme

Is there any Thai singer / music worth listening ?

Palmy is well fit...I went to a concert of hers and she's a great entertainer...guess she's about as Thai as DJPrat...

Palmy was born Eve Pancharoen on 7 August 1981 to multiethnic parents - her mother Thai and her father Belgian. Educated in Australia.

Palmy is simply awful in my opinion and along with many other Thai 'singers' such as the almost as bad Tata Young have only been signed up for thier looks-half farang.Had the misfortune of seeing another, this time the girl who played Yawadee in the monkey lakorn, think her name is Amarita, again half farang. For some reason she was singing at a Nopporn concert on saturday, or trying to but it's not so easy with no ability what so ever, but then they get by with no acting ability in lakorn so why should thst stop them. The trend of preety faces never mind abou the voice in Thai music is one of it's more regreatable features.

Originally Posted by kmart

My favourite Thai restaurant has abandoned the pleasant pop song backing music in favour of "traditional" Thai music which sounds like a rabid cat scrambling over milk bottles. . Honestly, it sounds utterly fucking awful, like a classroom of retarded kids all trying to play different songs on xylophones or something. All percussion with no discernible melody.
I asked one of the staff if they minded listening to the same music all day / every day, and they just smiled at me. Business seems to be as good as before, so what the heck do i know..?

Sounds like pong lang, wheres the restaurant?

Pop music around the world has a one formula. Simple lyrics and repetitious rhythm. Thailand no different. This is why most modern pop is tripe and has no staying power.

If you can get through that whole numa numa video without cringing I'll get the next round.

I'd imagine it's like eating sugar donuts without licking you lips though

Originally Posted by Norton

Pop music around the world has a one formula. Simple lyrics and repetitious rhythm. Thailand no different. This is why most modern pop is tripe and has no staying power.

Spot on, string is as unbearable to me as nails on a chalk board. Evey other line seems to end in 'rak ter'

Originally Posted by crazy dog

but then they get by with no acting ability in lakorn so why should thst stop them.

True, as much as I don't want to sound racist, they couldn't act their way out of a paper bag.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Cue the same old dancing from Thai girls, is with no style or grace whatsoever

When it comes to dancing, Thai girls in clubs have about as much grace as a chainsaw.

Our all-farang band is almost ready to start gigging in Bangkok.

Not sure about playing Hotel California though. That song really has been played to death by so many Thai bands.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

Since the weekend I have been awoken by the sound of rather calming, chanting music emitting from the tannoy speakers situated in and around the market area of Mueng Thong Thani.

The thing is, the music has no beginning or end - it is there when you wake up between 0700 and 0800 and plays on a relentless loop until well after dark. Today I found out that I have to put up with this until the 26th, so I have just viewed a room in Ekkamai and will be moving in at the end of the week.

Earlier I tried to locate the source of the music so that I could sabotage the cables or something but to no avail. Apparently the music is 'for' the Chinese vegetarian festival which is what, exactly - to do with Thailand?

Why does it have to be played in public with no escape? ...Sure it's just not one of many ways that the government distracts and hypnotizes it's people and keeps them happy subdued cattle?

Anyway, back to the music - a Thai could be subjected to a thousand back to back plays of Hotel California and still have a smile on their face, why is this?

Has part of their brain been removed? ....The same part that gives normal people a sense that somebody is behind them trying to get past on the pavement?

Usually playing good Western music to most Thais is like trying to feed steak to a baby.

However, I will never forget the time I stayed in my wife's village in Ubon and took a load of DVDs with me to stop myself getting bored. I was watching a Queen DVD. After about 30 minutes, I was coming to the end of We Are The Champions and I turned round to see about 20 Thai kids sitting behind me, glued to Queen with their mouths wide open - they literally could not believe what they were watching - classic moment!

Originally Posted by kmart

My favourite Thai restaurant has abandoned the pleasant pop song backing music in favour of "traditional" Thai music which sounds like a rabid cat scrambling over milk bottles. . Honestly, it sounds utterly fucking awful, like a classroom of retarded kids all trying to play different songs on xylophones or something. All percussion with no discernible melody.
I asked one of the staff if they minded listening to the same music all day / every day, and they just smiled at me. Business seems to be as good as before, so what the heck do i know..?

What's your band called?

Originally Posted by puppy

Usually playing good Western music to most Thais is like trying to feed steak to a baby.

Maybe they just don't think it is good western music. If you want them to really love you learn a Thai song or two. Thai music is far more sophisticated and variable than most western music classical excepted, certainly where western pop/rock is concerned. why should we expect a western band to go down better here than a Thai one in the west playing Thai music? the west is not musically superior to the East.

That fucking music sounds like it might be the national anthem, 8 and 6 for sure, what a bloody nerve these people have
When it come to repetitive it does not get worse than lakorn where the theme is played endlessly throughout the show, barmy. An interesting article on lakorn last week in the BP, amazingly 90% of this shit is taken from novels, they could get a monkey to write this crap, it's all the same stuff with the same actors anyway. Also most of it is just redoing the same stories from years ago, any producer who does something different is looking for a new job pretty quick.