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Listening to a classic Filipino rock album, which conveniently has ten songs (and an unlisted eleventh track). It's from the local group The Youth, and the album is titled Album na Walang Pamagat (trans. Album With no Title), released in 1994:

1. Kapag Nagunaw Ang Mundo (trans. If the world ends)
   
2. The Alphabet Song (Mother Funker)
   
3. Supernova Scum
   
4. Multo Sa Paningin (Multong Bakla) (trans. Ghost in Appearance (Gay Ghost))
   
5. Payo (trans. Advice)
   
6. Anak Ka Ng Ina Mo (trans. You are Your Mother's Child)
   
7. Magulo Buhay Ng Tao (trans. Life is Chaotic)
   
8. Mukha Ng Pera (trans. Look of Money)
   
9. Takbo (trans. Run)
   
10. Basura (trans. Rubbish)
    

It's an odd mix of hard rocking beats and light-hearted (even comedic) lyrics. Really great stuff. I watched the band perform live just once, in 1994 or 1995 at the Ateneo de Manila University gymnasium. The production wasn't top notch, the show had a garage-band type feel, and the venue was thrashed by people jumping over fences to get to better seats and the mosh pit. But it was still very entertaining. They brought the house down as they belted their hits from this album.

<Soapbox>Times have changed. Fourteen years on, we're subjected to manufactured bubblegum "rock" music on the radio. Sure, the newer acts are good musicians, and some of their hits are tolerable to listen so. But I really miss the Pinoy bands of the 90s. Edgier lyrics, "raw" sounds, eccentric personalities. I guess Pinoy rock sold its soul just to be admitted to the mainstream. </soapbox>

Back to the album. Kapag Nagunaw ang Mundo is my favorite track. The Alphabet Song is just that, the letters of the alphabet sung to rock music. Supernova Scum is the only English track. Multo sa Paningin was their most popular single. The rest are standard fare rock songs.