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The Animals are an English band famous in the 1960s for their beautiful song “House Of The Rising Sun”. This song is one of their most popular and it became number one in 1964. I recently found this song on YouTube with the original band playing. The sound quality of the video is very high; its really nice; its just sound live, although it was made and recorded over forty years ago; the sound itself is really good, plus the guitarists are amazingly incredible. The quality of the picture is quite good; its not too bad for four decades from the making. Behind these successful great artists is the deep- voiced frontman Eric Burdon. Thank you to the person who uploaded the video.

Another video of the “House Of The Rising Sun” on Youtube is almost exactly the same performance the slight difference on this video is the quality of the picture; it looks really old and quite blurred. It doesn’t surprise me though since it was made many years ago; things changed in different way and sometimes colour fades. What I liked about this video is that the lyrics are written below; it’s much easier to follow the tunes and know exactly how to sing with it with lyrics on it like as you expect on a karaoke machine. Apart from that I do like the song very much.

There is a lot of information on the WikiPedia about the Animals.
“House Of The Rising Sun” is very popular on the karaoke especially in the Philippines. Most cafes and pubs have this song on their videos; it’s many peoples’ favourite song.

ASIN is a Filipino folk rock group musicians from the Philippines. The band are well known for their beautiful songs such as “Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran” it is the first song they released in the 70s. The YouTube video contains various pictures from the Philippines showing how the people are suffering. It is very difficult to understand why the situation is not getting any better.

I really like this song but in some ways it make me feel very sad though; to think that our country the Philippines is still coping and struggling with the difficulties on the whole situation on how to improve people lives. The whole idea of the this song is sending a clear message to everybody how we can help solve poverty. The Philippines will only be rich if we have a good and honest government. It would be nice if the poor people and the low income would get benefits from the government like giving them some money each month to pay for some of their needs. Here comes the problem not everybody pays tax so, how can the government look after everything else when there’s not enough income. Very difficult.

LolitaCarbon.com has a biography of female artist and lead vocalist Lolita of the band ASIN, which describes a brief history of her life when she started making music and also when the three musicians started and became famous.

YouTube has another version of “Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran”, which is an original version with the lyrics on the screen so you can sing along with it, which is quite amusing; it’s better than seeing silly things on the screen.
There is a song called “Himig ng Pag-ibig” on YouTube, which I like to watch. It’s the original version and the video recording quality is good, which is always nice. I’m glad I found some Tagalog songs to play,
I really hope that ASIN is still making music. I think that many Filipino considered them great and some of the most talented artists of all time.