In 1992, after three years, Café Tacvba and released their eponymous debut album. The band, originally from Satellite, Mexico state, was formed in 1989 by Ruben Albarran, Emmanuel Meme-o-the Real, and brothers, Jose Alfredo, or Joselo, and Enrique Rangel. On this album, Ruben changed his name to "Juan", funny because people will call you so, believing that the song "Pinche Juan" was upon him. Since then, Ruben adopt the habit of changing the name on each disk. quickly became popular thanks to a unique sound in Mexico and around the rock in English, although they were not a traditional rock band. In the band had low or no electric guitar or drums, but a drum machine, keyboards, piano, guitar, tololoche and a curious instrument called melodión.
I can not keep talking about Café Tacvba without exposing how was my admiration for them. One of my cousins \u200b\u200bbecame the first album, not knowing that I would end up hearing a lot more than him. I had eleven years, and I was very appealing to the sympathy of this band that was very close to me, as a resident of Mexico City, it talked about places like Garibaldi, the Alameda Central, Cathedral, Bellas Artes, or secu 23, all very angry about the Guerrero neighborhood, in downtown Mexico City, where I grew up with my brother and four cousins. Even the band name was taken of a downtown cafe.
I also enjoyed the "audacity" to include profanity in the songs, at my age was something daring to include the word "click" in the title of a song, as well as stories of characters as peculiar as Rarotonga, The Dandy, the Chica Banda, Labios Jaguar, the black cowboys drowned in alcohol and the ghostly Mary.
CaféTacvba debut album took Mexico by surprise because of its originality, vitality and good humor. Recall that at the time the dark Caifanes remained the standard of the Mexican rock band. But questions about whether they were born rock or not, to what they always answered that were not considered so, but as a mixture of sounds and Mexican influences. In short, even they know how to qualify.
And it really was not important, what mattered was that their debut album was a phenomenon thanks to the singles "Rarotonga" Blinds "(both songs were heard shouting guttural sounds that appear in nearly every rhythm songs the album, and they are extremely sticky) and the beautiful "Mary", a ghost who seeks to revive past loves: "It is Mary who suffers in the street under a street lamp, stolen kisses and people's lives, while she lies in a drawer "- And "The Battle" with her solo melodión by Meme. At that time know it was a song based on the classic book of Mexican literature in the Desert Battles of José Emilio Pacheco.
simpatiquísima Less known are the "Commit Suicide," about a self-destructive guy who just wants attention ("nostalgia has overwhelmed me so many times that I have fear of hurting myself, do not you see I want to save me before that achieves commit suicide ");" Labios Jaguar ", which talks about a guy who changes his girlfriend" very refined, well-mannered, very French style "by the Indian girl cleaning as well as "The Dandy" which runs through the historic center pending his blind date.
Moreover the songs are less friendly, as it somehow, but anticipated a maturity of composition. "The zoning" and "Bar Tacuba" talk about the excesses ethyl and less pleasant effects (later we would know that Joselo suffered from alcoholism), while "Under the Sea" ghosts reappear in a love song with a surrealism that seal is back Emmanuel del Real ("I walked with an old woman weeping for her children, I spoke from your eyes, tenderness color ... I talked everyone only you, the scents of your flowers, and she explained that eternity was you. ") Café Tacvba
was one of the first records I listened to incessantly. However, he feared that they were just a fad, because I wondered how these four guys could repeat a work so great. Two years later, we demonstrate that the quality of this band knew no bounds.
Examples of this album, and later would not make much sense to refer them to the classics, so I put the songs are not as popular, but that show why Café Tacvba is one of the best bands in the world.
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