Sticker Happy

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Sticker Happy
AlbumArt (Sticker Happy).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 11, 1997 [1]
Recorded1997
StudioTracks Studios
EJL Recording Studios
Cinema Audio Inc.
Genre
Length67:13
Label Greater East Asia Music
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BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc.
Producer Robin Rivera
The Eraserheads chronology
Bananatype
(1997)
Sticker Happy
(1997)
Aloha Milkyway
(1998)
Singles from Sticker Happy
  1. "Kaliwete"
    Released: August 1997 [2] [1]
  2. "Hard to Believe"
    Released: January 1998 [3]
  3. "Para sa Masa"
    Released: April 1998 [4]

Sticker Happy is the fifth studio album of the Filipino rock band Eraserheads. It was released under BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc. on September 11, 1997. [1] Produced by longtime collaborator Robin Rivera, the album contains eighteen tracks with a 67-minute runtime. The album cover generated controversy due to its content, which features a nude woman playing a piano while holding a red balloon in an open grass field. The woman was later revealed to be Filipino-Iranian television personality Joey Mead King.

Contents

While still retaining their classic alternative rock sound, the band infused elements from techno and experimental rock music, leading to sonically different and expansive themes compared to their previous efforts. Additionally, the band had taken a different approach to their composition, incorporating a wider range of instruments, guitar effects, and cryptic lyrics.

Sticker Happy was moderately successful in the Philippines, it has sold 55,000 copies nationwide. The album received a platinum certification from the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI).

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Prologue"0:27
2."Futuristic"Buendia2:51
3."Kaliwete"Buendia3:07
4."Milk and Money"Buendia4:41
5."Bogchi Hokbu"Buendia4:18
6."Maalalahanin"Marasigan3:13
7."Balikbayan Box"Buendia5:13
8."Andalusian Dog"Buendia5:01
9."Ha Ha Ha"Buendia4:42
10."Downtown"Marasigan4:31
11."Kananete"Buendia3:17
12."Hard to Believe"Buendia3:31
13."Everything They Say"Marasigan3:54
14."Spoliarium"Buendia5:26
15."Ambi Dextrose"Buendia4:56
16."Para Sa Masa"Buendia4:57
17."Sticker Happy"Marasigan2:29
18."Tapsilogue"
  • Buendia
  • Marasigan
0:39
Total length:67:13

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Additional personnel

Reception

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David Gonzales of AllMusic gave Sticker Happy three out of five stars and wrote that "While the album is not as enjoyable nor the melodies as uniformly strong as on Cutterpillow, which remains the band's best album, Sticker Happy has its fine moments." [5]

An urban legend popular among fans alleges that the song Spoliarium, one of the album's tracks, is a reference to the Pepsi Paloma rape case. [6] In 2021, Buendia later revealed in an interview that the song is all about a drunken session with the band's roadies in a condominium in San Juan. [7]

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