I heard this in a Side A con­cert sev­eral years ago. I know it’s not their song, but I loved their ver­sion. The other day, I was dri­ving through EDSA and heard this song again over the radio. It reminded me of a life that was more sim­ple, less complicated.

Just the other day, my office­mates dis­cussed the movie Toy Story 3 over lunch. I haven’t had the chance to watch it, but they were all rav­ing about it. For some rea­son, and buoyed by the con­ver­sa­tion about Toy Story, we started talk­ing about change. And for some strange rea­son, we started talk­ing about this par­tic­u­lar song by Jose Mari Chan. The song accom­pa­nied the dis­cus­sion and I just had to write about it now.
Change is dif­fi­cult. But it is nec­es­sary. It is the stuff that makes life move …

I woke up to this song some weeks ago. That was a very good mem­ory. I have since played this Bea­t­les song every time I need to be psy­ched about work, or life in general.

This was a song I became quite enam­ored with sev­eral years ago. I’ve always loved Kitchie’s songs. It helped that when I lived in Makati, Kitchie lived in the same build­ing. But besides that, I love her songs because of the beauty of its lyrics.

This is an iconic song by an iconic band that grew in phe­nom­e­nal pop­u­lar­ity dur­ing my younger years.

Eraser­heads, or E-Heads was a promi­nent Fil­ipino rock band of the 1990s, formed by 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 Pilipino Music, earn­ing them the acco­lade, “The Bea­t­les of the Philip­pines.” Eraser­heads are also cred­ited for spear­head­ing a sec­ond wave of Manila band inva­sions, paving the way for a host of influ­en­tial Philip­pine alter­na­tive rock bands.