Rainbow

Lest you get the impression that I don’t patronize OPM, I’m also listing down my favorite Pinoy songs.

---Tuwing Umuulan At Kapiling Ka.

Still My Favorite Pinoy Song. It’s just so happy that my favorite band, Eraserheads, also did their version of it, so I could love song and singer together. Haha. It’s a screaming happy song, an ode to both love and the rain, and the lyrics are a testament to the Pinoy’s poetic genius (specifically Ryan Cayabyab’s). I love this song SO MUCH I insisted it be played in church at my wedding (....everybody is entitled to dream right?)

---Umagang Kay Ganda.

This song is so bright and uplifting, you can almost feel the morning sunshine filtering thru the
windows. Wait, that’s so not typical of me, right? I’m more angry Goth Evanescence kind of thing. Haha. Whadahell, don’t put me in a box. I love this song, bright, happy people vibe notwithstanding. We played it at my wedding, too, of course.

---Rainbow.
Whatever to happened to South Border? They used to come up with amazing songs like Rainbow and Kahit Kailan. Rainbow was what Paula, Thom, Beavis, and I used to sing to make ourselves feel a little bit better, that year in Scudo when not one of us was promoted - and this girl we didn’t like was. Haha. It takes a true singer to pull off a decent rendition of Rainbow, which I have no illusion of being, but never mind - I majorly love Rainbow, anyway.

---Salamat.

This song speaks for itself. It’s brilliant and heartfelt, it rocks and soars. If it’s the only song The Dawn ever did, it would’ve been enough. Nothing I write can do justice to the greatness
that is this song.

---Tulog Na.
It was Beavis who introduced me to Sugarfree. He also gave me CDs of Hale,Soapdish, Spongecola, Kitchie Nadal. (Beavis is so young, I swear. Haha.) My favorite of all the songs from him is this. It’s a lullaby and love song at the same time. You can sing it to your hubby or kids or both. I love that it’s so sweet and gentle, and suddenly turns rock in the chorus. Haha.

---Harana.

My love Parokya ni Edgar more than you can imagine, but I also like them, especially bcoz Chito Miranda looks SO MUCH like "J". Ches and I also both like Silver Toes – it’s too mean. We used to call a girl in accountancy school Silver Toes. Haha. Rino and I also like Gising Na – the melody and lyrics are just amazing.

---Wala Nang Hahanapin Pa, Pag-ibig, Tuyo Nang

Damdamin. My favorite of the APO songs. Wala Nang Hahanapin Pa is like
the Pinoy equivalent of Billy Joel’s She’s Always A Woman To Me. Both songs are so honest, right? I love them. Tuyo Nang Damdamin is one of those songs I love bcoz they’re
poetic and too sad.

And here we go with the Eraserheads songs. It’s hard to choose one over the other – I love almost all of their songs – but just off the top of my head, these are my favorites:

---Shake Yer Head.
Still my favorite Eraserheads song. It’s so in-your-face and so UB.

---Alapaap.

Ode to youth, dreams, and joy. The opening song at the first Eheads reunion concert in the Fort. Ely sang this like a dirge in the Final Set. Perfect in every way.

---Magasin.

If you ask me what I really, really want, it’s not world peace, or social justice, or an end to hunger - all I really, really want is to make Ely ‘napatingin, natulala sa iyong kagandahan’ like the centerfold girl. HAHAHA.

---Fill Her.

It’s a testament to the genius of the Eheads that they can come up with a quiet, little song, lovely and heartbreaking in its simplicity, when it’s supposed to be just a filler in the album. This is epic Ely.

---Lightyears

(yes, written as one word like this in the album). Probably the saddest Eheads song, followed by Buddy’s Tama Ka. ‘Doesn’t really matter where you are, it always seems so very far. It’s like you’re light years away. You’re light years away … from me.’ It’s also what Ely sang right before he collapsed at that fateful reunion concert. Sigh.

---Spolarium.

Full of images and details yet cryptic and ever more profound than what it seems. So typical Eheads. When they sang it at the Final Set, it sounded a lot like Strawberry Fields Forever. Amazing.

---Tikman.

Forget that they used it for a Burger Machine commercial. This is one of those love songs that are just too perfect in their simplicity and poetry. This would’ve made it to our wedding music, too, if it weren’t too irreverent for church. Hahaha.

---Balikbayan Box.

This song is about nothing, really. I like it just bcoz somehow it was perfect when it played while the credits were rolling in Rakenrol.

---HA HA HA.

Typical witty but nonsensical Eheads song. The boys and I love playing with this song and changing the lyrics to whatever. And yet underneath all the shallow chatter is a
gem: ‘Di maaaring ariin ang pag-aari ng nagmamay-ari.’

Makes sense