When the music just stopped.
When the music just stopped.
I was talking to a Khmer musician on the weekend. He is a guitarist, in his forties and stated he loved the blues. I mentioned George Thorogood. I got a blank look. Same for 'bad to the bone' or 'one bourbon one scotch, one beer'...no recognition from him.
I remember showing a Khmer ages ago a video clip of ACDC in their prime belting out Thunderstruck. She had never heard of them or the song. My kids know these songs because they were forced to listen to them (and many others from that era) on cassette or CD when I did school drop offs in the car.
Seeing old youtube clips of Phnom Penh in the late sixties and early seventies, rock and roll was arriving in Cambodia. They were dancing like westerners and bands were starting to belt out covers of rock songs in Khmer and English.
Then, with the Khmer Rouge in 1975 the music stopped playing. Until when? 1991....UNTAC...introduction of the internet...youtube music videos coming online in 2004 or so? My point being, the Khmers missed a whole generation, twenty or more years of music that us Westerners grew up on. Plus..the kids of these Khmers during this period....never got to hear their parents playing it either.
Ask a Khmer if they know who the "Boss' is I think HE will be the most popular answer ahead of Bruce. U2 is just bar girl talk. Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tina Turner, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, Led Zep, the Police...I could write a huge list. So a whole music generation was lost. Is this why so many Khmer bands play old music that all ages know the words to? Songs from the past...family songs...broken heart songs? I remember I was on a boat once for three months back in the nineties. No TV or music. When I got off the boat that song the' Macarena' was being played everyday everwhere. Another three months on the boat and I would have missed it...forever.
An expat awhile ago told me that Cambodians are an 'un-educated' lot. Yeah sure their education system here is far from perfect but they missed twenty plus years of education from TV, newspapers, and radio that most of us did not and grew up with. Music was just a small part of it.
I remember showing a Khmer ages ago a video clip of ACDC in their prime belting out Thunderstruck. She had never heard of them or the song. My kids know these songs because they were forced to listen to them (and many others from that era) on cassette or CD when I did school drop offs in the car.
Seeing old youtube clips of Phnom Penh in the late sixties and early seventies, rock and roll was arriving in Cambodia. They were dancing like westerners and bands were starting to belt out covers of rock songs in Khmer and English.
Then, with the Khmer Rouge in 1975 the music stopped playing. Until when? 1991....UNTAC...introduction of the internet...youtube music videos coming online in 2004 or so? My point being, the Khmers missed a whole generation, twenty or more years of music that us Westerners grew up on. Plus..the kids of these Khmers during this period....never got to hear their parents playing it either.
Ask a Khmer if they know who the "Boss' is I think HE will be the most popular answer ahead of Bruce. U2 is just bar girl talk. Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tina Turner, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, Led Zep, the Police...I could write a huge list. So a whole music generation was lost. Is this why so many Khmer bands play old music that all ages know the words to? Songs from the past...family songs...broken heart songs? I remember I was on a boat once for three months back in the nineties. No TV or music. When I got off the boat that song the' Macarena' was being played everyday everwhere. Another three months on the boat and I would have missed it...forever.
An expat awhile ago told me that Cambodians are an 'un-educated' lot. Yeah sure their education system here is far from perfect but they missed twenty plus years of education from TV, newspapers, and radio that most of us did not and grew up with. Music was just a small part of it.
Looking at that list....thanks christ it WAS lost.Chris K wrote: Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tina Turner, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, the Police...I could write a huge list. So a whole music generation was lost..
Rated R for Ricecakes
Ha ha...yeah ok....u are right. They must be the ones the ex liked. I will add ACDC, Black Sabbath, Lou Reed, Bowie, Guns and Roses for a while, Cold Chiselricecakes wrote:Looking at that list....thanks christ it WAS lost.Chris K wrote: Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tina Turner, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, the Police...I could write a huge list. So a whole music generation was lost..
Actually....you'd think given UNTACs presence here in the 90s that Khmer bands would all be doing covers of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc..
Now THAT would be something !
Now THAT would be something !
Rated R for Ricecakes
I was in Thailand in the 90's and no Thai knew who Take That or Wham was. Some generations are not interested in the current western trend of music. Most 20 something's know who Adele is but ask them who the The Foo fighters are and you will get a blank look.
Don't blame the KR rouge for everything that is not what your western ideals should assume is the case.
I know plenty of 40+ somethings who don't know who Pharrell Williams or Timberland are. So what?
Don't blame the KR rouge for everything that is not what your western ideals should assume is the case.
I know plenty of 40+ somethings who don't know who Pharrell Williams or Timberland are. So what?
pew, pew, pew, pew!
So what? They were not given the choice...they were given instead the revolutionary KR songs as the one and only choice instead YaTingPom. Have you ever listened to those lyrics in that crap? Do yourself a favour...don't. Angkor didn't provide like the KR said he would in all the songs.YaTingPom wrote:I was in Thailand in the 90's and no Thai knew who Take That or Wham was. Some generations are not interested in the current western trend of music. Most 20 something's know who Adele is but ask them who the The Foo fighters are and you will get a blank look.
Don't blame the KR rouge for everything that is not what your western ideals should assume is the case.
I know plenty of 40+ somethings who don't know who Pharrell Williams or Timberland are. So what?
Outdoor apparel .YaTingPom wrote: 40+ somethings who don't know who.....Timberland are.
BAZINGA !!!!
Rated R for Ricecakes
- vladimir
- Feminist Watch List
- Reactions: 4
- Posts: 34235
- Joined: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:43 am
- Location: mod edit
Something terrible...Walkabout version: Ibin threw the dara with a whore with no name..ra rara rararra arararicecakes wrote:Actually....you'd think given UNTACs presence here in the 90s that Khmer bands would all be doing covers of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc..
Now THAT would be something !
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
You are either a Luddite or an old crusty.Chris K wrote:So what? They were not given the choice...they were given instead the revolutionary KR songs as the one and only choice instead YaTingPom. Have you ever listened to those lyrics in that crap? Do yourself a favour...don't. Angkor didn't provide like the KR said he would in all the songs.YaTingPom wrote:I was in Thailand in the 90's and no Thai knew who Take That or Wham was. Some generations are not interested in the current western trend of music. Most 20 something's know who Adele is but ask them who the The Foo fighters are and you will get a blank look.
Don't blame the KR rouge for everything that is not what your western ideals should assume is the case.
I know plenty of 40+ somethings who don't know who Pharrell Williams or Timberland are. So what?
Suck it.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Or is it Timberlake?!ricecakes wrote:Outdoor apparel .YaTingPom wrote: 40+ somethings who don't know who.....Timberland are.
BAZINGA !!!!
pew, pew, pew, pew!
- ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ
- Daylight, I need Daylight !?!
- Reactions: 686
- Posts: 4718
- Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:42 pm
I'd suggest the internet has more to do with spread of western music now than the KR had to do with the lack of it.
Classic 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' analysis. Correlation does not equal causation
Classic 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' analysis. Correlation does not equal causation
- Hanno
- I am a Special Snowflake !!?!
- Reactions: 206
- Posts: 8103
- Joined: Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:07 pm
- Location: Siem Reap
- Contact:
Not sure if the KR are to blame, nobody in Vietnam knows any of the bands you listed either.
Abba
Abba
"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
Well George Thorogood isn't really strictly blues, more a sort of hybrid with rock and roll. I am actually pleasantly surprised at some Khmers being able to namecheck some of the original blues names. One of them even introduced me to Cambodian blues in the shape of Yos AlarongChris K wrote:I was talking to a Khmer musician on the weekend. He is a guitarist, in his forties and stated he loved the blues. I mentioned George Thorogood. I got a blank look. Same for 'bad to the bone' or 'one bourbon one scotch, one beer'...no recognition from him.
I remember showing a Khmer ages ago a video clip of ACDC in their prime belting out Thunderstruck. She had never heard of them or the song. My kids know these songs because they were forced to listen to them (and many others from that era) on cassette or CD when I did school drop offs in the car.
Seeing old youtube clips of Phnom Penh in the late sixties and early seventies, rock and roll was arriving in Cambodia. They were dancing like westerners and bands were starting to belt out covers of rock songs in Khmer and English.
Then, with the Khmer Rouge in 1975 the music stopped playing. Until when? 1991....UNTAC...introduction of the internet...youtube music videos coming online in 2004 or so? My point being, the Khmers missed a whole generation, twenty or more years of music that us Westerners grew up on. Plus..the kids of these Khmers during this period....never got to hear their parents playing it either.
Ask a Khmer if they know who the "Boss' is I think HE will be the most popular answer ahead of Bruce. U2 is just bar girl talk. Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Tina Turner, the Eagles, Linda Rondstadt, Led Zep, the Police...I could write a huge list. So a whole music generation was lost. Is this why so many Khmer bands play old music that all ages know the words to? Songs from the past...family songs...broken heart songs? I remember I was on a boat once for three months back in the nineties. No TV or music. When I got off the boat that song the' Macarena' was being played everyday everwhere. Another three months on the boat and I would have missed it...forever.
An expat awhile ago told me that Cambodians are an 'un-educated' lot. Yeah sure their education system here is far from perfect but they missed twenty plus years of education from TV, newspapers, and radio that most of us did not and grew up with. Music was just a small part of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWpyEokvN1I
“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
Neither do I Does anyone remember any of these!Hanno wrote:Not sure if the KR are to blame, nobody in Vietnam knows any of the bands you listed either.
Abba
00:00 CBC Band - Tinh Yeu Tuyet Voi (The Greatest Love)
03:50 Elvis Phuong - Bai Ca Ngong (The Crazy Song)
07:38 Carol Kim - Cai Tram Em Cai (Your Hair Clip)
12:12 Thanh Mai - Toc Mai Soi Van Soi Dai (Long, Uneven Hair)
16:50 Carol Kim - Noi Buon Con Gai (The Sadness of Being a Girl)
20:42 Bich Loan and CBC Band - Con Tim Va Nuoc Mat (Heart and Tears)
24:28 Phuong Tam - Dem Huyen Dieu (Magical Night)
29:07 Le Thu - Sao Bien (Etoile Des Neiges) (Starfish)
33:59 Minh Xuan & Phuong Hoang - Mat Troi Den (Black Sun)
37:00 Thai Thanh - Bung Sang (Dawn)
41:30 Bang Chan - Nhung Dom Mat Hoa Chau (Fireballs)
45:16 Giao Linh - Chuyen Tinh Sao Ly (A Love Story From Sau Ri)
49:57 Elvis Phuong - Kho Tang Cua Chung Ta (Our Treasures)
52:44 Thanh Lan - Hoai Thu (Autumn Memory)
56:54 Hung Cuong & Mai Le Huyen - Hon Anh Gian Em (Jealousy)
1:00:14 Mai Le Huyen - Duyen Phan Con Gai (A Girl's Destiny)
1:05:03 Phuong Dung - Do Ai (Riddles)
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
-
Explore music by spinning the Globe
by dv8inpp » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:49 pm » in The IT and Techy Forum - 4 Replies
- 1498 Views
-
Last post by violet
Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:39 pm
-
-
-
Solution to play and store MP3 music
by STEVITO » Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:45 pm » in The IT and Techy Forum - 14 Replies
- 5022 Views
-
Last post by STEVITO
Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:00 pm
-
-
-
The death of popular music in Cambodia
by Bong Burgundy » Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:26 pm » in Cambodian History and Culture - 1 Replies
- 392 Views
-
Last post by drazilovich
Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:14 am
-
-
-
Cambodian music -bass and kick-beats
by AnassRamaIV » Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:09 pm » in Questions and Answers - 1 Replies
- 1459 Views
-
Last post by maxx
Sat Apr 18, 2020 8:50 pm
-
-
-
$4,000 music player stolen by The Hangout nightclub
by Bong Burgundy » Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:24 am » in Cambodia News - 5 Replies
- 1419 Views
-
Last post by Spigzy
Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:29 pm
-