Eraserhead/s

In the news today is Lifehouse with vox Jason Wade in the Philippines for a gig on July 26 at the Araneta Coliseum. He was shown in a photo with a black Eraserhead shirt...

Eraserhead is a David Lynch weird movie... David Lynch did weird movies and he is quite more popular for discouraging diminutive electronic visual communication or media (stoopid hi-end, mobile phones and gadgets, to be exact). Anyway, Lynch uses a lot of audio dynamics and tells his stories in dreamlike fashion you end up like waking up after a vivid nightmare in most of his movies...

What a prelude... to the Eraserheads "reunion" concert on August 30 at CCP Open Grounds. Eraserheads is the most commercially successful band in the Philippines. (PERIOD). I might be going. I like the band, or Ely Buendia's quirky vocals.

The '90s Rock Bands

By the time anybody gets to read this, Yahoo! must have pulled out Rob O'Connor's "The 25 Best Alternative Rock Bands Of The 1990s" as if there was alternative rock in the '90s. Alt was mainstream in the '90s.

Here's his list:
25. Sebadoh. I've heard their music or album. Bleech.
24. Dinosaur Jr.
23. Sonic Youth, at 23? Should be top 3 or lower.
22. Pavement. Heavy for me is heavy, and a headache.
21. Flaming Lips. I guess, I liked them, too.
20. Cracker. I did not have nothing against this group, but not enough for me to have them stand out. Jesus, I was listening to loads, like a thousand tapes more to play...
19. Beck. Beck, a Dylan? of course not! But he sure should be on # 2.
18. Weezer. I like 'em, too, with a stupid grin plastered on my cheek.
17. Giant Sand. I am ignorant about a lot of things, including this dune.
16. Afghan Whigs. I am not sure now whether I liked 'em or not.
15. The Breeders. Who didn't like the Breeders?
14. Belle & Sebastian. If ignorance is a mortal sin, I should be shot.
13. Elliott Smith. Or hanged.
12. Mudhoney. Of course I love this band!
11. PJ Harvey. Did she emerge in the '90s? I have this nasty feeling of associating her with Linkin' Park. And it's not an easy feeling.
10. Nirvana. Why the hell... this ain't no alternative in the '90s. They DEFINED THE '90s.
9. Guided by voice. Am ignorant, shoot me again.
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Yeah.
7. Vic Chestnutt. Yes, he's good.
6. The Fall. I already had 3 bullets in.
5. Mark Lanegan. Make it five bullets.
4. Julian Cope. Six bullets.
3. American Music Club. Duh!
2. Red House Painters. I'm riddled, brought to the emergency room.
1. Tom Waits. Declared dead.

Here's My '90s list in no particular order nor label:
Alice in Chains
Sonic Youth
Nirvana
Live
Weezer
Tori Amos
Collective Soul
The Breeders
Jill Sobule
Cypress Hill
Beastie Boys
Sugar Ray
Beck
Soul Asylum
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Lenny Kravitz.

But many in my albums' list are compilations I should be posting sometime. And all these are of course western. I have my own local list listed elsewhere... Without time frame.

I've reacted because this is a Yahoo! list. While Microsoft may have pretended not to have any interest on Yahoo!, Yahoo! still tops personal e-mailing in the world.

AfterImage

And they usually announce it "Wency Cornejo and the AFterImage" like "Bamboo and the Bamboo band..."

'Nuff with the tele-prompt readers. hey, we voted one for vice president, hehe!

So, now that I am back in Quezon City, am still waiting for Club Dredd or Red Rocks to return to Timog... although if you'd check in this posts, Myra Ruaro (formerly Put3ska, because for me, that's their best group, OK?) has opened a joint in the scout areas... haven't check 'tho.

So, there... AfterImage reunited, belting out, perhaps, a new single Musikero from their album Our Place in The Sun(ouch!!! sorry to admit but I was not able to take a hold of any of their albums, they were too popular before I started reviewing, way back...) "Awitin Natin" fashion to the tune of U2 (ooooh-Bono and the keyboards distinct U2 tunes... didn't like U2, but my hubby's in love with the group I am almost jealous of Bono.)

I can't believe GMA (AfterImage was at Mel & Joey promoting) has got such a lousy sound. Hehe. I mean, sound should be a major investment by broadcast companies, and should come at least close to half the quality of MTV... Sure the band may not be a live band, and I don't mean here they were lip synching, NO! There are recording bands (their albums sound good) and there are live bands (their live shows kick ass)... And I haven't been checking these new (and old) bands in the metro, yet. Although it's in my itinerary. I have actually grown old, am now taking my time.

Beck's Black Tambourine

So OK, Loser's got us all --- mentally. But Beck's Beck on my list. I always get tipsy and dancing...

B52's Rock lobster

BJ the punk called me a lousy deejay. Good thing I never attempted to be one... I mean, deejaying is one thing and doing a playlist is another. Nevertheless, I'd be lousy in both.

But still one of my all-time faves. I'd skank on this! Pardon me.

Rancid - Time Bomb

Be posting music I really enjoy... although honest, I like a load like an addict.

Screwed

Top Music Industry Gaffes (International) (Source: Reuters through Yahoo)

1. Major labels for driving file-sharing service Napster out of business in 2001, instead of figuring out a way to make money from its tens of millions of users. Napster multiplied like gremlins with a population of about millions to date.
2. Talent scout Dick Rowe of Decca Records turning down the Beatles, saying "groups with guitars are on their way out," to the band's manager Brian Epstein.
3. Berry Gordy selling the money-losing Motown Records, home of the Supremes and Marvin Gaye for about $60 million in 1988. In 1989, A&M Records sold for about $500 million, and David Geffen got about $700 million for Geffen Records.

Local:

Record companies including the then Octoarts turning down Eraserheads. The band became the best-selling Pinoy band in local history, under BMG Records Pilipinas.