I thought it's best to start this blog with a lame excuse.
Hey! I am so back. :)
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| The Missus, Aileen Baes. Yes, it was a double celebration for the power couple. |
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| 3 cakes, 2 celebrators. Alvin's got too much hyper cells thus the blur. |
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| The Conti's cake was actually enough to make me burp out loud. Yum! |
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| If it's not Iron Man, it's not Alvin. :) |
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| Mad. |
Alvin's list is a very interesting mix of ROCK "genres" (or phases at that) from the very-far past to the not-so-far past. It's as wild as a 16-year-old boy's raging hormones. Oh, he said this is actually IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, so don't blame me if you'd get confused somewhere. :)
Fasten your seat belts, sweeties. This is one loud rawr-uhmp-aaah!
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 10 MY IMMORTAL by EVANESCENCE
I was not really shocked that this is on his list. Why, Amy Lee is hot!
FAVE LINES: I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone | But though you're still with me | I've been alone all along
FUN FACT: They sold their souls to a goblin named "Bawg".
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| Evanescence. Or caption this yourself. |
Orgasmic.
FAVE LINES: Hail Thor and the fallen | Join with Odin at slain hall
FACTS UNLEASHED: According to their website, the band's musical vision was to keep to the roots and develop within their own style instead of changing with the winds. They call their genre Viking Death Metal.
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| Rocking Sweden and the world since 1989. |
Songs like this are considered noise by some but when you go through the lyrics, it actually makes perfect sense.
FAVE LINES: Cleanse this world with flame | End this, cleanse this | Rebuild and start again
HATEBREED FACT: "Our music brings people of all races together over the world," answered Hatebreed after being "cyberbullied" by a CNN writer in August.
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| Love Hate. |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 7 NOW YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO DIE FOR by LAMB OF GOD
You've got to love this band because I do. Great reason, yes?
FAVE LINES: Stoke the flame of the empire | Live to lie another day | Face of hypocrisy | Raping the democracy | Apocalyptic, we count the days
FUN FACTS: The lyrical themes of the band often have a double meaning. They frequently use biblical references, but often convey anti-religious sentiment.
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| And your boy bands giggle... |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 6 OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY by THE MISSION
From UK with love... and rollin'.
FAVE LINES: A fleeting glance upon your silken face Medusa | And you can turn my heart and soul to stone
FUN FACTS: The Mission UK is a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy. Like them on Facebook: The Mission.
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| UK Men. Hot and Bloody Talented. |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 5 TEARS by THE CHAMELEONS
It wasn't only Harry Potter. UK has come a long way since The Beatles and Rolling Stone.
FAVE LINES: Well we were younger then | And the days were long and slow | But were we wiser then? | I couldn't say, I wouldn't know
CHAMELEON FACT: The dream pop/ post-punk band was formed in Middleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England in 1981.
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| You don't need to pluck your brows just to be handsome, roight, guys? |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 4 I MELT WITH YOU by MODERN ENGLISH
It's almost on the top of my Make Out Songlist. Har!
FAVE LINES: Moving forward using all my breath | Making love to you was never second best | I saw the world crashing all around your face | Never really knowing it was always mesh and lace
ME FACT: They were originally known as The Lepers.
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| Bad hair day, eh? |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 3 BOYS DON'T CRY by THE CURE
Every man knows this song by heart... to hide the tears in their eyes.
FAVE LINES: Now I would do most anything | To get you back by my side | But I just keep on laughing | Hiding the tears in my eyes
THE CURE FACT: They were originally called the Easy Cure and was formed in 1976 by schoolmates Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Laurence Tolhurst.
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| You don't mess with the messy-haired. |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 2 EVERYBODY'S FREE TO WEAR SUNSCREEN by BAZ LUHRMANN
The first time I've heard this I fell in love with it. It's one of those "narrative" songs that are funny yet describes the ill truth about life.
FAVE LINES: Respect your elders | Don't expect anyone else to support you | Maybe you have a trust fund | Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse | But you'll never know when either one will run out
FUN FACT: The song is actually based from an essay written by Mary Schmich in 1997 published in the Chicago Tribune. Baz Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer. Luhrmann explains that Anton Monsted, Josh Abrahams and he were working on the remix when Monsted received an email with the supposed Kurt Vonnegut speech. They decided to use it but were doubtful of getting through to Vonnegut for permission before their deadline, which was only one or two days away. While searching the internet for contact information they came upon the "Sunscreen Controversy" and discovered that Schmich was the actual author. They emailed her and, with her permission, recorded the song the next day.
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| Sunscreen. |
MUMOMOMENT HIT# 1 PAGDURUSA by RUMBLEBELLY
This is a different Mumomoment... it's Mumemetal. Music at its finest.
FAVE LINES: Anuman ang ginawa nuong una | Pagsisisi ang pumapangalawa | Kasalanan at katawang pagnasa | Pansarili at walang awa
RUMBLEBELLY FACT: Xzander, Jimmy, Tatel and Alvin (yes, the birthday boy himself) formed the band in 1993. They originally wanted to play grunge but they discovered that they all share the same passion with death metal music. They made a total of 4 official recordings for Ivory and Vicor records across 4 compilation albums. Man, institusyon kayo! ^_^
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| 1994. Ang pogi ni Tatang Madstick. |
That's it, pancit. Thank you, Alvin, for sharing your list. See you again very soon!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Alvin's Multiply Account, E-Lyrics, Wikipedia, Take 40, Metal Archives and Metro Lyrics.
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