Soda Stereo & Gustavo Cerati

Never listened to or even knew about this early live album Ruido Blanco before today.

Then found another live recording from early on, this one simply called En Vivo, which has a lot of noise. Seems to be the soundtrack of a performance, the first night in Viña Del Mar in 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZsMmket4e0

Guess they were promoting Signos, which was released the previous November and then had the three singles coming out throughout the year.

Crowd noise on this sounds like some Beatles stuff#onethread

Crowd doesn’t quite know “Persiana Americana” yet. There is some screaming when he starts singing but that’s it.

Somos cómplices los dos

My music listening in general lately has been slow, but I did finally hear Amor Amarillo (hooray for titles even I can understand). "Lisa" and "Te llevo para que me lleves" are good, the latter a cool take on Isn't Anything MBV, but thought the rest was pretty sluggish. I will give Bocanada another listen eventually but so far I much prefer Soda to Cerati solo

Think the production is less dense on his solo stuff but his singing, songwriting and guitar playing is still strong.

That could be it. I think I tend to like fuller productions in general

Too much time on this thread:

Just a few hours ago I overheard someone saying “Gracias” and my mind automatically added “Totales!”

Soda getting a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

https://www.grammy.com/news/latin-recording-academy-announces-2023-special-merit-award-honorees

Just read more about when he did that Police tribute song. Pretty interesting.

Heh, can you guess who were the Top Two artists in my Spotify 2023 Wrapped?

Had to step away for a bit but now I’m back

good timing, I just dug out Canción Animal for the first time in a while. for some reason I have a hard time remembering its tracks (apart from "De Música Ligera"), so I forget how good it is

Ha exactly! That album is full of great tracks, many of them also live staples. Often I forget “De Música Ligera” is even on there.

Also many of these tracks not so uptempo so kind of heavier but still really cool.

Yeah they play with time signature, mood, tempo to create a pretty diverse set of songs. Though they throw "Cae el Sol" at the end so you get an anthemic chorus

Also wtf... 9 of the 10 songs were released as singles??

Forgot about that.

What an amazing album Bocanada is.

OTM. Kind of amazing how his solo career was a match for his band years and how many there are who prefer the solo stuff.

Top 10 latinamerican albums of all time and Cerati probably a top 3 latinamerican artist.