Hot tea up my nose
I have no quarel with Brown Man Revival’s revival of the Eraserhead’s Maling Akala into a so sweet reggae tune. Ayos tayo diyan.
But hot black tea shot into my nasal cavities early this morning when, while having breakfast, I saw this band, 6 Cycle Minds yata sila, tried their version of Alapaap on live morning TV.
The lead singer attacked the piece ala Martin Nievera crossed with Jaya. May papikit-pikit at pailing-iling pa.
The E-heads singing their orginal songs slightly off key is cool. Kanta naman nila yun e. But having a talent-challenged band do a more off-key cover of an already off-key original song is, like Gloria, sobra na.
So perfectly mindless, six times over. (Pun intended.)
I can’t carry a tune myself and I can only play a few notes on a guitar. But I certainly know how good and bad bands sound like. Too many The Dawn, E-heads, Yano and Gary Granada concerts in my youth, you know.
What the Sony/BMG people had in mind–other than potential profits of course–when they thought of reviving 17 E-heads songs and let some (not all but some) hard luck bands do the singing, I don’t know. So uninspired, they even named the album "UltraelectromagneticJAM".
Judging from the album reviews I read, that album is a Voltes Bazooka directly aimed at our senses.
And now I hear they are having a concert to launch the album.
Will there be more of these mindless revivals? Will Lito Camo team up with Dong Abay? Is Judy Ann Santos coming out with another album? Are Filipinos in deeper trouble?
