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The Filipino music scene will never be complete without mentioning this triad group named the APO Hiking Society. this group is composed of three members namely Jim Paredes, Danny Javier and Boboy Garrovillo. Their songs and music are hitting the airwaves for the last 30 years until today. The generation today is still humming to their wide range of hits. The group is touching everyone with their music with recent gigs and concert. The APO Hiking Society is really making effort to revive sounds that can reach out to anyone.

The music industry has paid tribune to the works of this triad by creating the KaminAPO Muna album. The top songs of the APO were revived by popular groups of today and compiled them to an album. The album also has an additional bonus tracks that includes songs sung by the APO themselves. it become popular as it was constantly played on TV and radio. People really gave support to this album as it became one of the top selling when it is first released.

The trio was very happy with the turn out and massive support from the people. MYX, a local music channel paid tribune to APO in Megamall. Popular bands serenaded people with classic songs of the APO. it was truly a successful event. aside from the tribute, the APO become busy with own concerts and guest appearances in some TV programs. They also received an appreciative plaque from ASAP, a noontime show that has audience here and abroad.

The highly talked about album, Kami nAPO Muna is available in every record bar nationwide. for those who have an Ipod or MP3, the album can be downloaded via I-Tunes. it is a tool from the Apple Company that can help download songs to an Ipod. all one needs to do is go to the homepage, type in the name of the album and viola every one can have an access to APO’s music.

The album has 18 tracks with the performance of top bands from local music scene. for months the album has been rating number one in top charts. it also has been the number one selling album in record bars. There are also four newly made music videos for some of the songs that have been hitting the charts. it included Yakap sa Dilim, Nakakapagtaka, doo bi doo and a favorite wedding love song Panalangin. these songs are not only popular in the form of videos and cds but also it has become a number one downloaded ring tones for cell phones.

The APO also has an official website where anyone can subscribe to recent updates from the group. Danny, Jim and Buboy are really a legend in the music industry. one can never get enough of them. They can never go out of the picture. They would continue to reign in the hearts of their fans and people who can be touch by their sounds

The majority of the song/chorus is "I believe"
A female sings the song and it's not on the charts nor has the song just come out. However, it was on the radio in Brisbane Australia, if that helps anyone.
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I didn’t think this day still would be happening in 2011, in fact I thought it was going to stop in 1997 and again in 2000. but here we are, March 8, 2011, and R.E.M. has a new album out for the masses to consume.

Of course the album has been out in pieces for months now, I heard the whole album last week on NPR, so the official release date is a misnomer – especially in a world where Radiohead announces a week before it sends out a new release, then sends it out a day before it said it would. Regardless of when the release really happens, it’s still somewhat shocking the Athens band is still making records 31 years after its first show in an abandoned church.

I’ve been buying R.E.M. albums on the release date since 1986, when I waited with anticipation for Life’s Rich Pageant. back then there was no Internet or YouTube videos to capture an audience, occasionally a single would be sent out to radio to entice fans, but R.E.M. wasn’t a singles band then (nor is it now). one of the band’s first charting singles would be on Pageant – Fall On Me – but being part of top 40 music was not part of R.E.M.’s thing in the 1980s.

Upon first listen of Pageant, I had two immediate thoughts – I can understand what Stipe is saying, and this thing is AMAZING. Pageant is, for those not in the know, a stunning piece of work with varied songs throughout. how they get from begin the begin to Flowers of Guatemala to These Days to Swan Swan H in the same album is breathtaking. as is everything in between.

I had all the previous R.E.M. albums leading up to Pageant (Fables would wind up being my all-time favorite), but since that June day in 1986, I’ve been heading to the record store for the new release. There’s no store to go to now, I got the album sitting on my living room couch, but I got it just the same.

Is it as good as Pageant? I’ll get to that later, suffice to say the memories of youth, and what the music meant to me back then, never stays the same. but it’s always a good day when R.E.M. puts more music out to the world. so today I celebrate.