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Cancion Animal

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Soda Stereo is quite posibly the best Spanish Rock band that ever existed and this is, in my opinion, their best album. All songs but one made hit singles in my home country and they stayed in lists for over two years when combined. I even remember that at one time 6 of the 10 most played songs in radio stations came from this record. To this day, 12 years later, these songs play anywhere where there's people from Latin America and you see people singing along and jumping around. It is that good. One of those records that you always remember and cherish, not only for the music, which is exquisite, but for the great memories it brings back.

Others have said it better: this record is outstanding. I am not into Latin Rock. If anything I am into Rock from the late 60s, 70s, and early 80s: The Who, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, etc. (plus the unclassifiable Frank Zappa) What I like about Soda Stereo, and this album in particular, is that it is rich and subtle at the same time - blending traditional Rock sounds with original variations. It is unfortunate that Gustavo Cerati's creative days are most likely over: he was hit by a stroke right after a concert and has been in a come for months now.

This album is full of hard rocking riffs, and memorable melodies. It is probably the band's best album, and for good reason.

The opening track is in 7/4 tempo, which will have you addicted to the beat, plus the guitar riff is to die for.
The lead singer is a real guitar magician - the guitar work alone is phenomenal, and hard to believe this guy can sing on top of it all.

This has to be a top 100 album in anyone's rock collection!

Without any doubt, this is definitely the most retro-sound influenced project from Latin America's Soda Stereo which, by the date it was launched (1990) till the day today, has became their best career-wide album available out there.

Sound colour swings between Beatle's mono recordings to Luis Alberto Spinetta's acoustics, over a simple rock band trio setup which resulted on a true raw rock texture.

If you're a spanish spoken pop/rock music follower, this one's a must. If you're not, then you'd rather get ready to become one soon right after listening this masterpiece - newcomers won't be disappointed almost for sure.

The pinnacle album from the pinnacle band throughout the whole latin american / spanish spoken rock market.

A+++

Este es probablemente el mejor cd de Soda Stereo. Lo sigue muy de cerca el Sueño Stereo del '95 y el unplugged. No digo que sea el mejor solo por que contenga música ligera en su tracklist. De hecho el album tiene sorpresas incluso más agradables. Mucho Rock, solos de guitarra y bateria. Gran trabajo en Hombre Al Agua y Sueles Dejarme Solo. El album más rockero de Soda Stereo, sin perder la sutileza que los caracteriza.

This was the first album I listened to while I was in South America. Forget the Beatles and Stones. These three guys have a sound as fine as any we ever heard in the north. If like me the words made no sense, let the melodic rhythms drag you to another place. Listen close to ' un millon de anos ' and before you can catch your breath ' de misica ligera ' has you in a trance. Soda Stereo left us with many great songs.....this is the one all others were measured by.

The other reviewers have pretty much said it all: signed and delivered. This production by extinct Argentinian super-band Soda Stereo, marks the peak of their creativity. Their work can almost be defined as pre-Cancion Animal and post-Cancion Animal. With some the band's most solid works, such as "El Septimo Dia" (the Seventh Day), "Un Millon de Años Luz" (A million lightyears), the track that gave the album its title, "De Música Ligera" (Made of Light Music) and "Hombre al Agua" (Man Overboard), this production is as solid as any Rock en Español act can aspire for, but also it marks a musical landmark that should serve as a reference for Rock music at large.

By blending styles gradually from Ska, Punk Rock and a sound that resembled The Police in Spanish in their first years, the band rised up to the ocasion during the years when music in English was not well regarded in Argentina (after the war in the Falkland Islands). Later on, they took on a particular-yet-ever-evolving style that would only belong to them, as the best Rock act in Latin America, during most of the eighties and the first part of the nineties, something that not even Mana or Cafe Tacuba can come remotely close to. If you want to get into Soda deeper, get this album, get Signos, and get "El Ultimo Concierto" (A and B). You won't regret it ever.

Para este disco, sencillamente sobran las palabras. Para mi, este es el mejor albun de Soda, grabado en estudio.
Respecto a la compra por Amazon, es excelente, pues, en mi país, por Internet fue imposible conseguirlo, busque en muchas disco-tiendas virtuales y nada, lo busque en varias disco-tiendas en físico y tampoco. De verdad que todo lo que he buscado por Amazon (y sus socios comerciales), lo he conseguido, es excelente el servicio, perfectamente rastreable, accesible en cualquier momento, y a muy buen precio. Movie Mars fue muy rápido para enviarme la mercancía (este y otros tres cd's adicionales), lo único que, cuando empacaron los cd's, las carcasas plásticas se cuartearon un poco.
Recomiendo 100% este servicio.

Sin lugar a dudas, en este disco, Soda expone toda la creatividad y la pasión lograda en el punto más elevado de su carrera. Un disco en el que cada tema es un verdadero HIT. Tiene una onda totalmente coherente, de principio a fin y las melodías y los arreglos, así como también el sonido general del disco son insuperables. Realmente, lo mejor en la carrera de la banda de rock argentino de Gustavo Cerati y Zeta Bosio.

I agree 100% with all the good reviews of the CD. The best in my opinion.
You simply enjoy all the songs. There is not a bad song.
Is like "Hysteria" from Def Leppard or "Machine head" from Deep Purple there is not a bad song!