Local Music

[NiX]

How do you feel about the local music scene in general?

From novelty songs to Sarah Geronimo to whatever.

I personally have probably less than a handful of local artists that I actually respect.

Go rant about it here too.

[Grim]

I feel as if the latest really great, really original OPM we have was made around 10 years ago or so, during the great Francis M/Eraserheads/Parokya ni Edgar era. That's probably a real curmudgeon type of answer, and there are exceptions, but generally I feel like the local music industry is quite content to crap out copies of whatever's going on on the other side of the Pacific.

And what's with the actors launching albums full of cover songs/badly written originals? Man. Piolo Pascual? Gabby Concepcion?

Generally though, I like the work of the following contemporary artists (times when they produced work I like is in parentheses):
Bamboo (circa 2008-2009)
Nina - great voice!
Paolo Santos - (a few years back at least)
Rico Blanco (sometimes)
Sheila and the Insects
Taken By Cars
Up Dharma Down (always and forever! )
Urbandub (circa 2004)

[NiX]

Yeah, Up Dharma Down is like single-handedly keeping Filipino music respectable. -__- Problem here is that the majority of people have no taste for this kind of "music". Hardly anybody appreciates it. We basically have a society that encourages churning out CRAP.

Sinosikat is also pretty good. I also like The Dawn. Problem with our rock bands is that hardly any of their frontmen can actually sing well.

[Sforza]

OPM stuff I listen(ed) to, not really sure who's active and who isn't aside from the really obvious ones like the E-Heads and HYP. My comments in parenthesis. Anything I didn't list down, I probably never listened to at all.

Eraserheads
Wolfgang
Hungry Young Poets
Alamid
POT
Bayang Barrios
Kitchie Nadal
Barbie Almalbis (up until the 2nd Barbie's Cradle album only)
Imago (just the FIRST album. current stuff is shite)
Cynthia Alexander
Sinosikat
Urbandub (Have all their cds. They just released a new album, it's not bad)

Up Dharma Down (Please stop being like 2 bloody hrs. late to your own gigs. You lose fans that way.)

Noel Cabangon
Taken By Cars (Please make songs that don't all sound alike)
Sugarfree
SATI
Wickermoss
Paroyka ni Edgar (until around 2001 or so)
True Faith
Itchyworms
Slapshock
Rivermaya
Teeth
Yano

oh. and JOSE MARI CHAN!!
and Lea Salonga if she still counts

[Serene]

PnE - Makulit. Atenistas, Survivors nung Dark Ages ng OPM.
Kamikazee
Juan Dela Cruz Band - Never say die men
Giniling Festival
Bamboo - FOR THE REPUBLIC!
Ehehe... Michael V.

TVJ - for their spoof on 'Anak'

I usually enjoy songs that are funny, spoof or no spoof.

BTW, I heard Ka Freddie Aguilar's composing a new song entitled 'Pamangkin'

Joke

[iraya-sama]

Radio Active Sago Project
Giniling Festival


well.. that's about all the local bands i actually follow ;o;

[Serene]

I had a classmate who looked like Radio Active Sago Project's Lead.
Mas matangkad nga lang ako...

[Sforza]

BTW, I heard Ka Freddie Aguilar's composing a new song entitled 'Pamangkin'

Joke

Really? I thought the title was going to be 'Kapatid'

[Serene]

BTW, I heard Ka Freddie Aguilar's composing a new song entitled 'Pamangkin'

Joke

Really? I thought the title was going to be 'Kapatid'

Tapos maglalabas pa yata ng Album, yung title: Pamilya.

Maria: Jobet... Tama na... Corny na...

[Fox]

Di ba dapat may follow-up single na "Anak sa Labas"?

[HayWire]

Callalily and Parokya ni Edgar always(or usually) performed in our school variety show

Kamikazee started to perform in our varie show too.
Also Taken By Cars (...speaking of which...Di ko type music nila >_< )

Well for the music itself...

I only listen to Kamikazee out of these four XD;;

[clonezero]

as most of my favs have already been said (special mention to the Eraserheads ockandroll: )
I just wanna add this guy

Ryan Cayabyab
and
Smokey Mountain

I also liked "High School Life" by Sharon Cuneta

lol special mention to Hagibis!!!!

[Serene]

APO is timeless too.

Fox, pinapasok na.

S-I-L-I-N-G-G-I-L-I-N-I-N-G!
S-I-L-I-N-G-G-I-L-I-N-I-N-G!
SILING GINILING! SILING GINILING! HA! HA!

[Shintetsu]

Ahaha, tanginang siling giniling yan. LSS nanaman ako >_> Siling giniling, siling giniling, ha! ha!

For the artists, I like listening to Slapshock, Kamikazee, Radioactive Sago Project(Astro, and a couple more), Greyhoundz, and some other specific songs. APO's tunes are cool too.

[NiX]

Another rant:

The problem with a lot of local music is that it's either too gimmicky or too cheesy.