Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Triangles

currently listening --

Habang may tatsulok
At sila ang nasa tuktok
'Di matatapos ang gulo.

The passage above is from the new angsty cut from Bamboo's latest album, which features covers from different rock legends like Pearl Jam. Tatsulok is from an underground band whose name escapes me now.

update: The band's name is Buklod,
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, March 21, 2007 7:36:00 PM

    tatsulok...gustong gusto ko ang meaning ng kanta na yan ni Bamboo.

    nakibasa dito..nindot imo post!keep it up!

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  2. bananasThursday, March 22, 2007 1:56:00 AM

    how can one not know buklod? of course that is if one never digged buklod in the first place and only discovered tatsulok because of bamboo.

    and just what bamboo wants us to think of him when he decided to sing tatsulok, a song that speaks of volumes of societal realities and political statements?

    and for that, the song doesn't invite one to be angsty because that would be an understatement--something that threatens to insult the feelings harbored by the artists the time the song was still being written or their feelings when it was first sang.

    to say that the song is angsty because it is included in an angsty album is, i guess, bordering in as an insult to the decade when the song was conceived--the time when angs is a non-word because of the raging anger felt by the people.

    ...so like now.

    PS
    I guess bamboo is too old to be angsty btw.

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  3. jayclopsThursday, March 22, 2007 2:07:00 AM

    thanks for pointing it out bananas. admittedly, i am short on the context on which the song was helmed. but i like the song as it is, bamboo or nothing.

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  4. isko b. dooThursday, March 22, 2007 11:39:00 PM

    it's by the activist rock group "Buklod." And I agree with Bananas, angst wasn't the whole point of the protest song but it does enjoin us to be critical and to do something.

    Whatever is the purpose for reviving the song, the timing speaks volume for the social realities we are experiencing now.

    The only way for evil men to succeed is for good men to do nothing.

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  5. jayclopsFriday, March 23, 2007 12:02:00 AM

    @ ev: daghang salamat.

    @ jo: gosh, i feel stupid that i should've known its buklod. the only activist songs that retains in my mind are from the Rosas ng Digma album. i agree that whatever motives bamboo has for covering the song, it will always speak of the realities that this nation has been eternally struggling.

    thanks sa lahat for the enlightenment.

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  6. roanjeanFriday, March 23, 2007 9:30:00 PM

    Duo ang Buklod dba? Si Noel Cabangon ang isa.

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