Pare Ko

"Pare Ko"
Single by Eraserheads
from the album Ultraelectromagneticpop!
B-side	"Tindahan ni Aling Nena"
Released	1993
Genre	Pinoy rock
Length	5:26
Label	Musiko Records BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc.
Songwriter(s)	Ely Buendia
Producer(s)	Ed Formoso
Eraserheads singles chronology
"Toyang" (1993) "Pare Ko" (1993) "Shirley" (1994)

Pare Ko (English: "My Pal") is a song by Filipino alternative rock band Eraserheads from their debut album, Ultraelectromagneticpop! (1993). It was the band's third promotional single.

Controversy

The single and the album was nearly censored by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI) due to the Tagalog profanity "‘Tang Ina" (Filipino slang whose rough English equivalent is son of a bitch, shortened from 'Putang Ina'). Swear words were unheard of in Philippine music at the time,^[1] and as such their record label asked them to record a radio edit of the song; they retitled it "Walang Hiyang Pare Ko", where "Tang Ina" was changed to "'Lang Hiya". It can also be found in Ultraelectromagneticpop! but not in the remastered 25th anniversary version of the album.

Covers

• APO Hiking Society covered the song in 2001 for their 17th and final studio album Banda Rito
• Sponge Cola also covered the song for the 2005 cover compilation album Ultraelectromagneticjam!: The Music of the Eraserheads
• Johnoy Danao covered the song once again for the 2012 compilation album The Reunion: An Eraserheads Tribute Album
• Rivermaya lead vocalist from 2007 to 2011 Jason Fernandez covered the song as a Wishclusive on Wish 107.5 last 2018.

In popular culture

The song was adapted into a Star Cinema movie in 1994 starring Claudine Barretto, Gwapings members Mark Anthony Fernandez and Jomari Yllana along with Jao Mapa, Victor Neri and Gio Alvarez.^[2][3]

On the June 2, 2019, episode of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, this was played as the background music.

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