The Ballad of Phylum Band

I’ve been playing this video by Phylum for the past two days. Played it over and over again. Not sure why but I think this song should be in the top ten of every hopeless romantic’s list of hopeless romantic songs. lol.

A character in Beck, one of my favorite animes of all time said that music has the power to change the world. Perhaps that’s a rather lofty ambition but I do think that it can change an individual. If anything this song has made me a firm believer of Phylum Band’s music. I checked out all their other songs and I thought it’s such a shame that these guys are not doing any gigs in Manila. I would move heaven and earth just to watch them (lame).

For those who don’t understand Bisaya, the band has come up with a tagalog version of the song titled Laro Laro. I still have to hear the song and I’m searching high and low all over the internet and couldn’t find it. I hope it gets published online soon. If you want to know more about the band, they have their own website at http://phylumband.multiply.com. It’s a crappy site though. lol. I think I can do better and for free at that. Heck I’ll even create a .com site if they want.

Sabot Sabot is about a guy and a girl who had an affair with the condition that once the girl’s boyfriend comes back from somewhere they’d end it. When the bf returned, the guy actually ended the relationship as agreed and hoped that he will be able to forget the unique kind of happiness he felt whenever he’s with her. But wait, theres more! Now the guy feels hurt everytime he sees the girl and the boyfriend together and asks the usual universal question:

Why only now?

Cheesy na kung cheesy, but the singer’s voice captured all the prerequisite emotion to convey the song’s message. The song also has a good ebb and flow melody that carries the listener to the depths of the hurting guys pain (argh, somebody stop me!).