You can't beat the smell of a horribly charred Cambodian in the morning, especially if he's been playing a plethora of Psyched up garage tunes in what sounds like an empty School hall on the outskirts of Phnom Penh during Year Zero.
The original Nuggets involved suburban american teenagers trying to sound like British Invasion groups and failing, all in mom and Dad's Garage.Not sure they have Garages in Cambodia? However This jolly fine compilation of acne scarred Cambodians doing their fuzzy take on the genre, including, yes, a rip-off of Sixties Punk Garage classic, Them's "Gloria", and chucking in a few Surf numbers for fun with a hint of Paint It Black?
Which is rather strange, 'cus we all know "Charlie Don't Surf".....even if the tiresome 'Apocalypse Now' quotes probably refer to the Vietnamese rather than their Kymer-Rouge Kampuchean cousins.It was set in Cambodia after all.
Tracklist:
A1 Ros Serey Sothea–Jam 10 Kai Thiet (Wait 10 More Months)
A2 Yol Aularong–Yuvajon Kouge Jet (Broken Hearted Man)
A3 Pan Ron –Why Follow Me
A4 Tet Somnang & Meas Samon–Khnyom Jah Karake
A5 Houy Meas & Dara Chom Chan–Nek Na Min Rom (Who Isn't Dancing)
A6 Choun Malai–Jomreang Oun Chreang
B1 Sinn Sisamout –Navy A Go Go
B2 Liev Tuk–Rom Sue Sue (Dance Soul Soul)
B3 Thra Kha Band– (Do You No Wrong Again)
B4 Yol Aularong & Liev Tuk– Sou Slarp Kroam Kombut Srey (Rather Die Under The Woman's Sword)
B5 Eng Nary–I Wonder
B6 Baksey Cham Krong & Mol Kamach– De Quoi Pleures-tu
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