Sticker Happy
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Sticker Happy is the Eraserheads' fifth album, released by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. (Formerly BMG Records Pilipinas, Inc.) in 1997. At the time, the album cover courted a healthy amount of controversy as to the identity of the nude woman playing an upright piano in the middle of a field (later revealed to be then-Channel [V] VJ Joey Mead
Joey Mead
Joey Mead or Rosa Josefa Mead is an Australian television personality and Model born in the Philippines.-Personal:Mead has a Filipina mother, Josephine del Pilar Mead. Her biological father is of Persian descent. When she was 6, she and her mother settled Adelaide, Australia,with her Australian...

).

Musically, the album is heavier as the band brought to the fore various guitar effects purchased during their New York visit. Although still retaining the signature "E-Heads" sound, 'Sticker Happy' is very much influenced by mid 90's techno and also featured a heavy amount of sampling, most notable on the tracks "Maalalahanin", "Downtown" and "Everything They Say".

Track listing

Title Duration/Notes
Prologue 0:27
Futuristic 2:51
Kaliwete [Left-handed] 3:07
Also comes in a music video.
Milk and Money 4:41
Bogchi Hokbu 4:18
A song sung using Filipino
Filipino language
This move has drawn much criticism from other regional groups.In 1987, a new constitution introduced many provisions for the language.Article XIV, Section 6, omits any mention of Tagalog as the basis for Filipino, and states that:...

 pig latin
Pig Latin
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Maalalahanin [Anxious] 3:13
The title is a reference to Maalalahanin Street in Teachers Village, Diliman, Quezon City
Quezon City
Quezon City is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila, the National Capital Region. The city was named after Manuel L...

 where Ely Buendia owned a home studio that the Eraserheads used to rehearse in.
Balikbayan Box 5:13
Andalusian Dog 5:01
The title is a reference to Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

 and Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

's short film Un Chien Andalou
Un chien andalou
Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 to a limited showing in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months....

. While the Eraserheads mostly play alternative rock
Alternative rock
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 music, this song may be the only one that would qualify as heavy metal
Heavy metal music
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. Title not mentioned in lyrics.
Ha Ha Ha 4:42
Downtown 4:31
Kananete 3:17
The title is supposedly "right-handed" (a possible opposite reference to Kaliwete) but doesn't exist in Filipino dictionaries.
Hard To Believe 3:31
Covered by Cueshe
Cueshé
Cueshé is a Filipino pop rock band from Cebu, Philippines, currently based in Manila.-Background:In March 2005, the group decided to move to the Philippine capital of Manila...

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Everything They Say 3:54
Spoliarium 5:26
Named after the famous painting of the same name
Spoliarium
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino artist Juan Luna. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884, where it garnered a gold medal. In 1886, it was sold to the Diputación Provincial de Barcelona for 20,000 pesetas...

, by Filipino artist Juan Luna
Juan Luna
Juan Luna y Novicio was an Ilocano Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century...

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Ambi Dextrose 4:56
Title not mentioned. The words aloha milkyway near the end became the name of the following compilation album
Aloha Milkyway
Aloha Milkyway is a compilation album from the Filipino pop-rock band Eraserheads in 1998. It was released under Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. and contains 14 tracks, five of which were new songs recorded for this album, and the rest were remastered versions of songs from their previously...

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Para Sa Masa [For The Masses] 4:57
Sticker Happy 2:29
Third and final song of the band to share the name of an album.
Tapsilogue 0:39
The album's closure containing the same melody as the first track. Title also not mentioned.

Trivia

  • The name of the album is most likely a spoof of the word "trigger-happy." It can be noticed that the band's piano has lots of stickers on it as well. It was also the product of a nation-wide contest that the band organized in mid-1997.
  • "Tapsilogue" is a wordplay of Epilogue
    Epilogue
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     and Tapsilog. In the album, however, Ely gives a kind of message which parodies the outcome of every Sesame Street
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     episode.
  • Raimund Marasigan joked about Sandwich
    Sandwich (band)
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    's Five on the Floor
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    Five on the Floor is the fourth studio album released by the Filipino alternative rock band Sandwich in 2006. The album contains the singles "Sugod" , "Sunburn", "DVDX" and "Walang Kadala-Dala". This is the first album without Marc Abaya as lead vocalist of the band and the first featuring Mong...

     album as "Sticker Happy" because it included free stickers in the packaging.
  • The actual piano featured in the album packaging was burned by Ely Buendia during the band's legendary Final Set
    Eraserheads: The Final Set 03.07.09
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    , as if to say that they have all moved on; hence the burning of the iconic piano and all the memories associated with being the Eraserheads.
  • The CD version features an image of a small dog that's embedded on both the CD and inside the case. This image isn't seen in the cassette tape version.
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