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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

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NU ROCK - THE ALBUM

New Rock
by RC Avz 

This compilation changed my life. The first record on cassette I bought when I was just thirteen. This album was released around 1989 if I'm not mistaken. I heard somewhere that the songs on this album were apparently the production of DWNU 107's band auditions. Carefully selected by pioneering rock and new wave enthusiasts. The result was Filipino's pride, a statement to the world and age of New Wave. Modern Rock at its raw and finest. I could still remember the humble cassette tape copy I had, waned and lost in time. I really did looked up to these bands. That time when OPM bands were hard to find. The Dawn was around, as well as Deans December Violent Playground...

But this is different. This release was so obscure that there never was a follow up to this. Most if not all the bands here never made it to make their own albums. Now I still can't make out the words of the songs. Thanks to a friend, never really thought that a day would come for this record to come my way once again. Good things really come in small packages.  I only wished I still had that issue of Jingle Magazine where the bands here are featured.  I could've put some pictures here.  At one time it was pointed out that a foreigner who heard this release thought he was listening to British New Wave music.  The music is pure New Wave rendered by emerging Filipino bands of the 80s.  Eight of them has shared that same feel, and eventually called the new rock.  The 80s was clearly one colorful decade.