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Thai Pop Spectacular: 1960s-1980s

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feel good tunes, that place where you remember from back in the day but couldn't get there. this helps you do that.

When I put this on the stereo my wife crunched up her nose and said "Why did you buy THAT?" I showed her the cover art, and she said, "Oh cute girls."

That's not the whole story. I was hoping a 20 year retrospective of Thai music would have some unusual sounds and maybe pathos. Unfortunately, this music did not speak to me at all. I could not find a way into the harmonies and keys used by the musicians--it just sounded out of key to me. And I can often do this with non-Western music, so I was a little surprised by my failure. The audio quality is also pathetic, some of the worst recorded music I have heard. Finally, a really strange sense of humor seems to propell some of these songs--personally I just found it annoying.

I am writing as a Westerner who has fairly broad taste in world music--for example, I love Bollywood, and kind of like the old Cambodian stuff. If you are unfamiliar with this music, you may want to download a track or two and listen to it before you buy the whole CD, cause frankly, the picture of the girls is pretty small and won't compensate you for buying the whole CD if you never listen to it.