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Smee
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:34 am Post subject: Korean oldies / classic rock? |
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I know there was a thread about this a couple of years ago, but I can't find it.
Can anyone recommend any good Korean classic rock or "oldies" artists? I'm not talking about trot. Every now and then I'll catch a decent song that sounds older, but I can never get the name of the singer.
There's also an interesting cover of "Rolling on the River" that I heard a year or two ago on the bus, but I didn't catch the name. Any help with that would be appreciated. |
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guido
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:06 am Post subject: |
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| horang nabi...pm me and i can send it, its a classic |
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RACETRAITOR
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Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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There's a lot of good stuff from before Park Junghee started clamping down. I think if it wasn't for the Yushin Constitution Korea's music scene would be almost as strong as Japan's.
Check out this link and browse through all the songs.
http://blog.naver.com/kurt0181/20019672477 |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Is that a genuine song, or the junior high version of "Proud Mary"?[/quote] |
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jaganath69
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
There's a lot of good stuff from before Park Junghee started clamping down. I think if it wasn't for the Yushin Constitution Korea's music scene would be almost as strong as Japan's.
Check out this link and browse through all the songs.
http://blog.naver.com/kurt0181/20019672477 |
Care to elaborate on why this is so? I have another theory as to why the two scenes have miles between them. |
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Smee
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Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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| "Rolling on the River" |
Is that a genuine song, or the junior high version of "Proud Mary"? |
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An, yeah, it was Proud Mary. I forgot that was the name. I definitely don't want to hear "Rolling on the River," a la Tina Turner. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
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There's a lot of good stuff from before Park Junghee started clamping down. I think if it wasn't for the Yushin Constitution Korea's music scene would be almost as strong as Japan's.
Check out this link and browse through all the songs.
http://blog.naver.com/kurt0181/20019672477 |
Care to elaborate on why this is so? I have another theory as to why the two scenes have miles between them. |
I'd like to hear yours.
Mine is simply that at one point, Park Junghee didn't like these musicians singing songs about basically what rock and roll is about. He asked a few of them, including Shin Joong-hyun, to write pro-government songs for a change, and that didn't work. He started locking up musicians (often enough on legitimate crimes like drug use) and that caused a culture of repression. People acted conservative, played conservative, and listened and read conservative things, because they were afraid of being sent to some secret prison. They became afraid to express themselves musically and experiment with music. Musical evolution basically ground to a halt for several decades, leaving the country far behind today. |
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2tnvols
Joined: 15 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: Korean Song |
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I was in Korea for 6 weeks this summer (back in Arizona now), and I heard this one particular song twice while I was there. The first time I heard it was at one of the many beer festivals that are popular at hotels. These two guys on guitars played it, and the crowd (of Koreans) started hooping and hollering when they began playing it... Everybody (the crowd consisted of people 30+ years old) sang along and clapped, etc... so it was obviously pretty popular. The second time I heard it was on the radio...
Anyway, I'm trying to find out the name of this song. It sounds like it might be an oldie, but I'm not sure. The best way I can describe it is a "summertime surfing song". It sounded similar to the Hawaii Five-O theme song. I'm really losing hope that I'll ever hear the song again!  I want to buy the CD if I can just find out the name of the song and who sings it.
If you could give me some names of popular oldies that sound similar to the Hawaii Five-O theme song, maybe that could lead me on the right track. The only popular song that has been mentioned online is Horang Nabi, and I haven't yet found a clip of that to hear how it sounds... I don't know if this is 'my song' or not.
Thanks!
Doug |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
There's a lot of good stuff from before Park Junghee started clamping down. I think if it wasn't for the Yushin Constitution Korea's music scene would be almost as strong as Japan's.
Check out this link and browse through all the songs.
http://blog.naver.com/kurt0181/20019672477 |
Nice page. Thanks for the link. |
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Smee
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| Sort of rock, but you might try looking for stuff by Shinchon Blues Project, a musical collective with varying members who made, unsurprisingly, blues-influenced music in the 70s. One of my favorite Korean singers, Han Young Ae, was a member. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
There's a lot of good stuff from before Park Junghee started clamping down. I think if it wasn't for the Yushin Constitution Korea's music scene would be almost as strong as Japan's.
Check out this link and browse through all the songs.
http://blog.naver.com/kurt0181/20019672477 |
Care to elaborate on why this is so? I have another theory as to why the two scenes have miles between them. |
I'd like to hear yours.
Mine is simply that at one point, Park Junghee didn't like these musicians singing songs about basically what rock and roll is about. He asked a few of them, including Shin Joong-hyun, to write pro-government songs for a change, and that didn't work. He started locking up musicians (often enough on legitimate crimes like drug use) and that caused a culture of repression. People acted conservative, played conservative, and listened and read conservative things, because they were afraid of being sent to some secret prison. They became afraid to express themselves musically and experiment with music. Musical evolution basically ground to a halt for several decades, leaving the country far behind today. |
Did a quick google of Park Jung Hee; music wasn't the only thing he screwed up I guess--
http://www.kimsoft.com/1997/jptraito.htm |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| No, he screwed up a lot of other things. I guess democracy is more important than music. |
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