When my old man wanted to indicate something was truly bad he would compare it to something he called ‘Malaysian Brass Band Music’. There was nothing worse – even a dog turd on a stick or John Howard was better than ‘Malaysian Brass Band Music’. Having heard it a long time ago, I believe I’ve found the culprit – although I now have so many cassettes in my studio that you could hide a small car under them & there is the possibility that this is only the second worst music in the world and the real thing is lurking about a metre down.
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Yes it shows classical Thai musicians on the front. That is simply to fool you into listening to it. The contents have no connection – although the cassette definitely came in this cover.
Really, if you can handle the first few minutes it starts to take on a charm. I still hum the melody every now and then – possibly because it repeats for about an hour. In fact when you consider the Amen style beat and the looping riff it’s really no worse than most techno music… played on brass instruments in a psych ward outside Bangkok.
Damn
If anyone feels that they have worse music they should let me know and I will link to it so all may judge.
UPDATE: Stewart says: http://www.aprilwinchell.com/audio/
Oh BTW: anyone who starts a dialogue about being culturally insensitive should (a) recall that Australia invented the Lagerphone and (b) go play with their own collection of weird cassettes. We here are having a K7 party and you’re not invited!
