[audio:http://thesoundtripper.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/03-Listen.mp3]
Your Song Sung
by R.C. Avellanosa
These are three songs from the Filipino new wave group The Thought. The band was featured on “Ballad Of The Times” radio show last January 27, 2010. That’s how these tracks came out. Among the 3 tracks that were recorded, only 2 got airplay - Listen and Mirrors of Conscience (1989). Mirrors of Conscience got the most airplay on DWNU 107 and stayed in the Sprite 7 at 7 segment for 3 months. I Am Was Not What, apparently which NU turned down, actually made it big in Boston college radio stations. The most familiar track “Listen” is featured on DWNU 107’s NU-Rock, The Album.
Not to be mistaken for that other early 80s band from Netherlands, The Thought is proudly from the Philippines. They met at a high school fair and formed The Thought on 1987. None of the original members stayed on the band. The track Listen I’d say is one of the best crafted 80s song I heard from a Filipino band. I read that the song was recorded for only a day at a 16 track RJ recording studios along Makati. Only three members recorded that song namely Boy, Jojo and Joel Yu and engineered by Voltaire of Warhead. OctoArts then passed it on NU-107. It's a very good find. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Tracks:
1. I Am Was Not What
2. Mirrors Of Conscience
3. Listen
Members:
Jojo Armas
Boy Ramos
Guitars:
Jonathan Khonghun
Uri Djemal
Bass:
Robert Dungca
Derek Ileto
GJ Torres
Frank O' Connor
Drums:
Ned Javier
DLink
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