Cambodian Rocks Volume 2

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: December 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Khmer Rocks
• ASIN: B000198P84
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,917 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > Cambodia

Track Listings

1. Always Hope [Sinn Sisamouth]

2. If You Wish to Love Me [Ros Sereysothea]

3. Women of '72 [Sinn Sisamouth]

4. Hippie Men [Pan Ron]

5. Missing Tender Care [Sinn Sisamouth]

6. Bachelor Without Worry [Yol Aularong]

7. Waiting For Moon [Sinn Sisamouth]

8. Sweet Sixteen [Ros Sereysothea]

9. Beloved Girlfriend [Sinn Sisamouth]

10. Dance Soul [Leiu Thaert]

11. Apart From Beloved Lover [Sinn Sisamouth]

12. Monkey Dancing Monkey [2.35]

13. I Love Women [Yol Aularong]

14. Wolly Polly [Ros Sereysothea]

15. Do You Remember [Leiu Thaert]

16. Haircut [Ros Sereysothea]

17. Rainy Night [Sinn Sisamouth]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good choice to expand you horizons, October 23, 2004

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Matthew Cordeiro - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cambodian Rocks Volume 2 (Audio CD)

This album is a great follow-up to Volume 1. It has a better mix of artists. Personally, I like the songs on Vol. 1 better, but you can't go wrong with this one either. The sound quality is similar to Vol. 1 - it sounds like a vinyl record. If you liked Vol. 1 or Parallel World's Cambodian Rocks, then this is a good choice. If you're looking for more music from this genre, check out khmerrocks.com. They produced both of these albums and offer Best Of albums for several artists featured on these compilations.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Music!, June 1, 2010

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NYKhmer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cambodian Rocks Volume 2 (Audio CD)

I love listening to Cambodian oldies, especially the first track, a remake of the Beatles "Hey Jude"! So catchy and beautifully written. Sin Sisamouth vocals is also great in this one. I listened to that track like a hundred times within the first few days of hearing it. Music is about a man longing and hoping to be with his love again. Basically there are a lot of analogies and metaphors used to describe his emotions and feelings. He's comparing his feelings like a bee without honey and flowers drying out and decaying. Mainly expressing hope that love will blossom again soon. His choice of lyrics are so well composed that ordinary young Cambodians don't really understand it because of the depth of poetic wordings. I really had to listen to it carefully many times before actually understanding what he's really saying and trying to express. It's ashamed he and many other great singers didn't survive during the Pol Pot regime, otherwise there would have been so much more great music produced. Overall, great stuff for those fans of 60's and 70's rock and roll with Asian flare.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the "Cambodian Rocks" series., July 13, 2007

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R. Rittenhouse (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cambodian Rocks Volume 2 (Audio CD)

The other three volumes of CAMBODIAN ROCKS are interesting, but this one is far and away the best, and if you buy only one CD of Cambodian music, this should be the one. All of the songs are excellant, including Sinn Sisamouth's Spaghetti Western-ish "Beloved Girlfriend", Ros Sereysothea's bouncy "If You Wish To Love Me" (a song that would fit right in a Quentin Tarantino movie), Pan Ron's delerious and infectous "Monkey Dancing Monkey" (once heard, it will never leave your head. NEVER.) and Sisamouth's "Tender Hands", a strangely eerie cover of the AM radio standard "Streets of San Francisco". A haunting, hypnotic, and strange collection, made even more poignant by the fact that none of the major performers featured here made it out of Khmer Rouge regime alive, all of them murdered by the state for the "crime" of playing pop music.