Boys Don't Cry

A cover of The Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight Tonight

Tonight Tonight

A cover of Bic Runga's Sway.

Joanne Lim - Vocals & Keyboards
Chuck Baclagon - Guitar, Bass and Drums

Sway

Fuck You

Because prayers has always been used as a convenient excuse for inaction and well wishes online has become benign substitutes for empathic presence.

Lyrics:

Night falls upon
This restless sky
That was my youth
On a sea of embers
My heart burns
Longing for possibilities
On what could’ve been
But never did
For my weak heart
Never ever dared
Dared to find the confidence
To put emotional
Impulses into words
I’m hanging on a thread
I’m holding onto life
I’m lost in this endless
Space in between
The tension of the now
And the not yet
On what could’ve been
But never did
For my weak heart
Never ever dared
Dared to find the confidence
To put emotional
Impulses into words
Fuck your prayers
Show me solidarity
Fuck your prayers
Show me solidarity
Fuck your prayers
Show me solidarity

Personnel
Joanne Lim - Vocals/Keyboards
Chuck Baclagon - Bass/Vocals
Simon Tolentino - Guitars
Doms Grimaldo - Drums
Recorded and mixed by: Emmanuel Aguila
Composer: Chuck Baclagon

Solidarity

End Of An Era

A song about resolution that comes from substance abuse and rare moments of clarity.

Lyrics:
On the brink of tears
In a string of bad decisions
In. dance of vice and substance
And years of indecision
Unspoken words
A silent refrain
Hearts bespoke
And the chill of this occasion
In the midst of tears
On a night of poor decisions
In a haze of vice and substance
From years of indecision
I’ve spoken words
To silent refrains
Hearts unbespoke
In the chill of this occasion
On the brink of tears
In a string of bad decisions
In. dance of vice and substance
And years of indecision
Unspoken words
A silent refrain
Hearts bespoke
And the chill of this occasion


Personnel

Joanne Lim - Vocals/Keyboards
Chuck Baclagon - Bass/Vocals
Simon Tolentino - Guitars
Doms Grimaldo - Drums
Recorded and mixed by: Emmanuel Aguila
Composer: Chuck Baclagon

Turmoil

A lo-fi, chaotic reimagining of Seona Dancing’s More to Lose—every instrument and off-key whisper tracked by Chuck Baclagon on a weather-beaten iPad during a rain-soaked weekend in Quezon City. Sad pop for sad times.

more to lose (seona dancing cover)

A lo-fi, chaotic reimagining of Seona Dancing’s More to Lose—every instrument and off-key whisper tracked by Chuck Baclagon on a weather-beaten iPad during a rain-soaked weekend in Quezon City. Sad pop for melancholic times.


More To Lose (Seona Dancing Cover)

I Melt With You (Instrumental) sounds like something you’d find on a dusty cassette in the glove box of a car that doesn’t exist anymore. It was stitched together out of weekend boredom and the kind of longing that only comes when you realize the past wasn’t perfect—just simpler. No vocals, no pretense—just guitars doing their best to say everything that words can’t. All instruments performed, recorded, and mixed by Chuck Baclagon.

I Melt With You – Instrumental Cover of Modern English

This is an instrumental cover of Pretty in Pink I recorded years ago, back when my old band thought we could sneak a New Wave anthem into our mostly garage-punk-shoegaze setlist and make it work. We never actually played it live—something about the tempo always felt like it belonged to a different kind of heartbreak than we were used to performing. Still, I held onto this version. It sounds like 2 a.m. in someone else’s kitchen, the party long since over, with cheap strings of fairy lights still on and no one bothering to turn off the amp. It’s less about nostalgia and more about that fleeting moment where you thought reinvention was still possible—before the morning came and reminded you otherwise.

Pretty in Pink – Instrumental Cover of The Psychedelic Furs

An instrumental cover of Seona Dancing’s More to Lose, lovingly stripped of its synths and rebuilt with jangly, melancholic layers of guitar—because sometimes heartbreak sounds better on six strings. A sonic time capsule from the ’80s, reimagined in a bedroom studio three decades too late, hoping somewhere out there, Ricky Gervais pauses, smirks, and almost remembers being in a band.

More to Lose – Instrumental Cover of Seona Dancing

An instrumental cover of Boys Don’t Cry—the song that first tricked me into thinking new wave was a lifestyle choice and that playing guitar could solve emotional repression. I found it a decade late in the mid-‘90s, when it already sounded like a postcard from someone else’s youth. Still fun to play, even if I’ve long outgrown the whole “emotions are embarrassing” thing. It’s like visiting your teenage bedroom and realizing you turned out okay anyway.

Boys Don’t Cry – Instrumental Cover of The Cure

Nearly a decade ago, I recorded an instrumental cover using a guitar, bass, drum pad, and a synth module on GarageBand for iPad—meant for a girlfriend to sing over, though that never happened, the way the relationship didn’t quite either. It sat unfinished, waiting for a voice that kept postponing itself, much like we did. Now it’s just a loop of almosts: a space left open for something that never came, a quiet timestamp of a feeling that tried to become a song but settled, instead, into memory.

Bizarre Love Triangle – Instrumental Cover of New Order


In early 2013, I recorded The Pain of Indigestion under the one-off project name The Loperamides. It was my only metal composition—part experiment, part parody. Coming from a DIY punk and indie rock background, I wanted to see if I could pull off something heavier and more technically demanding. At the same time, the track pokes fun at the over-the-top seriousness of extreme metal, a genre I could never fully connect with. All instruments and vocals were performed and recorded by me, Chuck Baclagon.

The Pain of Indigestion

Out of Reach—Gabrielle’s ballad from the Bridget Jones’ Diary soundtrack—reinterpreted by Chuck Baclagon, with all instruments and vocals performed and recorded by him. Rendered as a shoegaze lullaby, it captures the quiet resignation of loving at the wrong time, carried by hazy layers of sound and the steady hum of distance.

Out of Reach (Gabrielle cover)

Ellen Degenerate is a Metro Manila, quartet that plays music of the indie-rock persuasion. This is their take on My Parasol's Spacetalk.

Ellen Degenerate | Spacetalk (My Parasol)

Bizarre Love Triangle (punk rock demo)

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