The Eraserheads, Eraserheads, or E-Heads was one of the successful Pinoy rock bands of the 90’s. Dubbed as the “Beatles of the Philippines,” its original members were Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro. The band is one of the most successful, critically-acclaimed, and significant bands in the history of Original Pinoy Music.
The band released several different singles, albums, and EPs that reached with ther debut album UltraElectoroMagneticPop who gathered multi-platinum awards with their unforgetable hits songs like “Ligaya”, “Tindahan Ni Aling Nena”, and “Pare Ko” which became Sultans’ favorite band and songs around that time. It was followed by 10 times platinum album if I remember right “Circus” with their songs like bato, sembreak, alapaap, hey jay, insomya, minsan, with a smile, alkohol, wishing wells, kailan, magasin, sa wakas. me paningit pang punk zappa monologue.
The Eraserheads‘ tapes we had before certified hits are most often played in our cassette players in our boarding house. Sadly the Eraserheads disbanded when Ely Buendia left the band in mid-March 2002. He continuies his career with and the band also continues with different members.
The year 1990’s were the era of alternative bands in the Philippines. They were the one who captured the top hits during this time, from FM to Music Records together with rock music of foreign group and artist. I remember this was around the time every afternoon after our class that we were preparing our food for dinner together with Arvin, Arnel, Misael and me and later with Joseph too. Members of Sultans are living in one boarding house. While waiting for our rice to cook, we were sitting waiting in a long wooden chair listening to one FM station playing from slow rock to heavy metal music while we were banging our heads together.
It’s our routine every afternoon after class. Sometime it is our music while others were playing chess game with Arnel and sometimes while playing pusoy or poker game.
On my next post I will write about those Filipino bands who were popular during the 90s and their music that still captures our heart.
