Sticker Happy is the fifth studio album by the Philippine alternative rock band Eraserheads, released on September 11, 1997 by BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc.
The album saw the band experimenting with techno and experimental rock genres, incorporating a wide range of instruments and guitar effects.
Buendia called it their most personal to date: “Most of our songs speak about our own experiences…Nag-iba ang takbo ng utak namin because of all the traveling (Traveling [overseas] opened up our minds).”[9] Some of the tracks in Sticker Happy, including “Balikbayan Box” and “Downtown”, were inspired by the band’s recent US tour in which the former were based on Buendia and guitarist Marcus Adoro's psychedelic experience in San Francisco.
[11] Another Marasigan composition, “Maalalahanin”, was inspired by trip hop and drum and bass, particularly David Bowie’s album Earthling which was released earlier that year.
[13] Described as a “violent little ditty”, “Andalusian Dog” was also an early composition from the band and named after the 1929 silent short film by Luis Buñuel.
[14] Buendia wrote the lead single "Kaliwete" ("left-handed") as well as "Kananete" ("right-handed") and "Ambi Dextrose" (a pun on "ambidextrous") as a challenge to himself after drunkenly telling his friends at a party.
With its cryptic lyrics describing a drunken night out, it became the subject of an urban legend referencing Pepsi Paloma’s rape case in 1982 until Buendia disproved the theory in a podcast interview in 2021.