a thread for no hay nadie como tu by CALLE 13 & CAFE TACUBA

so i heard this on the radio tonight and can't get over it

rev aren't you the official calle 13 guy up in this

The official Calle 13 guy up in this is here!

It's not really my favorite song on their new album or my favorite single of theirs, but it's pretty damn good. Really feeling "La Perla" with Ruben Blades right now, which I'll find a youtube of in a sec. I've been thinking I need to investigate Cafe Tacuba for a while, and never really gotten around to it.

searching for "La Perla" on Youtube gives you a whole bunch of clips of lingerie models

Yeah I saw them live a couple years back and got bored and went and bought a Nortec Collective album instead. xp

Trying to find the Cafe Tacuba song from a while back I really liked. This is complicated by the fact I have no idea what it was called.

i think my favorite line in this song is the bit about sex in pyjamas

hey i guess you must speak spanish rev?? this has never occurred to me until just this moment

a bit, not as much as I would like, but yeah the "sexo sin ropa, sexo en pajamas" line is great, also the bit about "capatalismo y comunismo"

what the shit i just spelled pajamas like a british person

I think I'm going to take this occasion to post a whole bunch of my favorite calle 13 jams. Thanks for giving me an excuse to do this, Hoos.

"Atrevete-te-te"

"La Jirafa"

"Mala Suerte con el 13" f/ Mala Rodriguez (who is pretty damn awesome herself)

"Un Beso de Desayuno"

"Bienvenidos a Mi Mundo"

woooooo

more

There's a new Calle 13 album, you know, and it's not bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgeaREAVgG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jh2nIXrRSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKpyrC47Jcg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H_8Pedi63M

Can someone explain to me the proper usage of "cabron"? I find it confusing

You calling me a cabron?

But apparently among friends it can be used in a more nuanced way

lol at their album starting with 50s generic happy modern machine music

this isn't doing much for me so far

ok i got to "vamo a portanos mal" and i am taking that back for now

still the fact that it took til track 6 to really grab me isn't a good sign

this has picked up deffo. maybe i'll like the beginning on repeat listen

Yeah I listened to this album the other day on La Lechera's recommendation and was mostly unfazed.

why do i like this so much? i mean, i don't like it in the same way i like the new swans record, but it's appealing to another part of me, esp. baile de los pobres, portanos mal y calma pueblo. i guess if i am in the mood for anthemic people-uniting music, this is what i want to hear.

latinoamerica is kind of disappointing though -- entiendo

oops

i meant the song, not the region

Yeah, that song doesn't quite hit the anthemic mark it's aiming for, somehow--and I like Maria Rita. But the female vocal parts seem too spliced in after the fact, or something. I think it's okay, but I agree it's disappointing.

I just figured if I like this more than I usually like a Calle 13 album, then Reverend would have to like it too, since he usually likes what they put out, but that was a faulty leap I guess. I would still tend to say it's more consistent than anything else they've put out, and I like it more overall, but it is lacking in real standout tracks. Works better as a whole album.

The new Daddy Yankee is way better than this, but I've kind of given up trying to draw attention to it.

Not that Calle 13 and Daddy Yankee are in the same genre at this point, they sort of were initially, or at least Calle 13 gave that illusion.

hey, i'll check it out. i only know daddy yankee from the radio.

i guess calle 13 has way more interesting things to say lyrically than a lot of other acts that are thrown in the same basket with them. maybe that's why i like them more.

I still consider the Calle 13 one of my favorite albums of the year (but maybe that just means I need to get out more). It's something about the overall sound of it that I like, I think, but I don't know which tracks I'd point at as stand-out, or especially stand-alone, tracks.

ok i got to "vamo a portanos mal" and i am taking that back for now

I don't like that one. I'm not really into tongue-in-cheek merengue that doesn't actually sound much like merengue (not after listening to Fuego and Juliana a lot this year).

On the other hand, I like "La Vuelta Al Mundo" quite a bit. Maybe it's more chilled out than what people want from Calle 13, although it's not as though they haven't had songs like this all along.

I'm not really into tongue-in-cheek merengue

Especially when it's skarengue

i guess calle 13 has way more interesting things to say lyrically than a lot of other acts that are thrown in the same basket with them. maybe that's why i like them more.

As someone who speaks a little Spanish but can't really understand much of it when spoken/sung, I like this about Calle 13 but by necessity only in a theoretical way.

A couple things about the DY album: (1) a few of us have found we didn't like it that much until after a few listens (2) it's pretty pop (lots of vocoder, for example, which I know people kind of hate, though I think it's well-used here). Despite being poppy, though, there's certainly some harder DY delivery, and there is usually something going on in songs that pumps up the rhythmic side of the equation and doesn't just leave you with a blur of synth and sweet melodies.