| Various Artists / Pop Yeh Yeh-Psychedelic Rock From Singapore And Malaysia: 1964-1970 |
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| Album: | Pop Yeh Yeh-Psychedelic Rock From Singapore And Malaysia: 1964-1970 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | 04/2013 | |
| Label: | Sublime Frequencies | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-05-05 | Pull Date: | 2013-07-08 |
| Week Ending: | 14 Jul | 7 Jul | 30 Jun | 23 Jun | 16 Jun | 9 Jun | 2 Jun | 26 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 06, 2015: | Mix Tape: 1005 W Burnside St., PDX 97209 Oh Ya Ya | 4. | Oct 02, 2014: | The Fishbowl Bersiar Siar, Temasah Ria | |
| 2. | May 30, 2015: | Mix Tape: 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, PDX Budi Bahasa | 5. | May 15, 2014: | Stringless Balloon Ayah.. Kini Ku Bercinta | |
| 3. | Mar 10, 2015: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand [W1509] Kisah Disampang | 6. | Mar 26, 2014: | Sublime Frequencies 10 Year Anniversary Surat Ku Untuk Mu |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2013-04-30 | ||
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Pop Yeh Yeh Reviewed by Sadie O., 4/30/13 Great early rock (some of it is actually “Psych”, but not all) from Singapore and Malaysia. Apparently “Pop Yeh Yeh” is the name of a movement, fairly analogous to Tropicalia in Brazil. Everything’s loud, a lof of it is offkey, and these folks mean every word! All tracks are at least “keen”, some are “ultra-ginchy”. 1. 2:52 ***chugging guitar and squeepy farfisa, probably recorded in a bathroom. Finger right on the pulse of 1964 rocknroll! And yet, it’s about good manners… 2. 2:02 ***fast frug-a-gogo, twangy guitar, a bit surfy. Upbeat, yet all about teen heartbreak. 3. 3:18 **upbeat, twangy, female vocals, another upbeat song of lost love. 4. 2:58 ***upbeat with atmospheric keyboards, female vocals, love song to a bachelor. 5. 1:31 ****fast, driving, twangy, female vocals, playing hard to get. 6. 2:46 ****uptempo pop, vocal harmonies, great energy. Not so much ability, but hey. 7. 2:03 *****dischordant, fuzzy, psychy, screamy, reverby – yay! 8. 3:01 ****impossibly happy and bippity-boppity, female vocals, very teenerific. 9. 2:49 ***upbeat, surf guitar, male vocals and female chorus. Happy happy. 10. 2:55 ***BIG DRUMS, Dick Dale guitars, female warbly vocals. 11. 3:30 ***goofy farfisa, twangy guitar, rather odd vocal chorus, love song. 12. 2:23 ****twist-worthy, disturbing female vocal harmonies. I’m easily amused, and this does the trick. 13. 3:28 ***do the Pony. Pretty male vocals – almost a bit Bollywoody. Good twangy surf guitar solo. 14. 2:59 ***midtempo surfy sound, far away male vocals, rockin’ and yet piquant. 15. 3:05 ****seriously garage rock, stuttering guitar, pretty yet offkey vocals. 16. 1:50 ***the mysterious chord of death. Midtempo pop with rather rubbery bass, rather formless song. Twang. Twang! 17. 2:39 *****fuzz, farfisa, fast pysch. Woot! Hella deep lyrics, if you know Malasian… 18. 2:35 *****wow! GNARLY guitars! Midtempo march, female vocals, every possible psych effects on the guitars. 19. 2:51 ***Yardbirds guitar riff, uptempo romp, male vocals, groovy and psychy. 20. 1:56 ***psych sax? Huh! Female vocals – quite pretty, almost Motown. 21. 3:24 *****profoundly weird keyboards, very fast and rather syncopated, female vocals. Make that female yodeling. GNARLY. 22. 3:09 ****doing a pretty good job of channeling the Count Five. Male vocals, deep longing in a Bollywoodish vein. 23. 3:19 ****weird every which way. The drums are weird, the keyboards are weird, the vocals are weird (at least at the beginning.) 24. 2:28 ***very pretty male vocals, midtempo sashay. Wild guitar solo. 25. 2:54 ***rather downbeat, but not slow, pretty male vocals. 26. 2:39 ****rather “normal” music – midtempo, guitar and farfisa – but rather special female vocals. | ||
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