Mga Pinoy Rock Bands--Daw

Shitty pinoy rock bands should be annihilated because:

1. They are everywhere.
2. They produce 1,000,000,000 of their kind faster than a virus.
3. They cause ear bleeding and deafness.
4. They cause death.
5. They cause dead people to rise from their graves.

Whenever I see or worse, hear these "rock bands", I feel doing nothing but impaling my eardrums with a 10-foot long nail.

First there's Hale who can't seem to break out of their own little teeny-emo world. All of their songs sound and feel the same--only the lyrics differ. Add Champ Lui-Pio's whiny vocals which seems to come from his sinuses, and you have a song ruling the top of radio and music charts.
Hale also has a penchant for writing songs which your two-year-old brother can compose while sucking on his pacifier.

There's a blue sky waiting tomorrow
Waiting tomorrow
Shining, shimmering...

Every time I hear this song I'm always tempted to add "splendid" on that last line.

Oh, and having a squid as a drummer doesn't help.

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Lagi na lang umuulan
Parang walang katapusan...

You saw this coming didn't you? Well how can we forget the band which got its name from no less than the amazing Filipino afternoon snack, banana cue.

CUESHE(t)! Kyushey, kyushe, kweshee...it's up to you how you pronounce their band name.

Now this is a band whose career depends on the sopport of Ati's and Koya's in every households in the archipelago through text messages they send to Myx.

The success of this band can be attributed to its handsome, sexy and charismatic lead vocalist--Jay. Behold the object of lust of all the Ati's in the Philippines...

Their songs, like all other pinoy rock bands, sounds the same. Repetitive guitar riffs, twanging sound effects, oooohhh-ing back-up singers and Ruben's vein-busting vocals (complimented of course with Jay's smooth, suave and sexy voice).

This is an example of a snail mail sent to My Myx:

hi myx viowirs and veejees. m lilibith frm the meeds quarter of a mansion in wack-wack. i wud like to rikwist the song Stay by cueshe. i didikit dis song to my amo who not yet gave me yet my swildo for the months of eeprel and mee.

pls grit my bstprend rosalie who's amo mik her it dog fod. and also to my labs Jun-Jon. i love u to d ind of my brith.

Tnx Myx. hogs and kisses.

Lilibith

PS. pls show my pickchor in your show

There are a lot more bands but this post would go on forever if I don't stop now. Rest assured, 6 Cyclemind, Sponge Cola and a pile of others are included in the list.

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Okay, back to the topic.

Another thing I hate is the current fad of reviving old songs. It all started with Ultraelectromagnetic Jam, which should really be Ultraelectromagnetic Junk.
Fuck almost all the renditions suck!

Now, even Nora Aunor's song that goes Parang kailan lang, ang mga pangarap ko'y kay hirap abutin... is being revived.

Just shows how low the music industry is right now. They can't make decent songs so they use revivals as scapegoats. Easy production, easy success, easy money.

Now, if revivals can't be helped, at least make it as good as the original. Making it better, in my opinion, is asking for too much.

I'm waiting for a band to revive "My Way" and perform it in the UP Fair with the Sunken Garden filled with various "punx" groups such as: Punks of Antipolo, Punx of Taguig, Punks of Malabon and Rakizta ng Makati.

Whoopee! Prepare for stray bullets and bottles filled with punk pee. Whoopee! I can smell bloodshed!

I'm hoping that band would be Hale but Cueshe is not so bad.

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The difference between the music before and the music now, is that the former is regarded as art; the latter a commodity.

Old songs until now, are being sung--and revived. The new breed of songs meanwhile only lasts until the public consumes it. Or until it reaches its expiration date.

The Day You Said Goodnaaaaaaahhhhhhhhaaaaayt!