Tiempo Transcurrido: The Best of Café Tacuba

Café Tacuba

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 21, 2001)
• Original Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Music Latina
• ASIN: B00005NQIW
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,091 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, April 24, 2003

By	bobby peru "inspiromaniaco" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

Cafe Tacuba have a kind of childish mood that may bother some people. If there is a basic story in their lyrics is about the problem of love among younsters, the simple desire for dance, and the weird aspects of love and reality. However, their strenght is their high quality as musicians. Mainly, what should be stressed is both their high capacity for styles mixture and their highly creative covers. They jump from "ranchera" to ska, or reagge , or trash , or disco. Their covers of "Ojalá que llueva café" (Juan Luis Guerra), "No controles" (Mecano) or "Cómo te extraño" (Leo Dan) demonstrate both their creativity and exploration over different kind of music. Tiempo transcurrido is probably the best example of all their "chamaleonistic" capacity. Undoubtely, one of the best recopilation in the rock en español era.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you were only going to buy one Café Tacuba CD..., February 10, 2002

By	Idiosyncrat "casillas8" (California) - See all my reviews

...then this would give you the widest choice of material. Frankly, I would recommend that if you're going to get just one Café Tacuba album, you should strongly consider getting "Re" instead-- good as though the material compiled on this album is, it is a best-of, while "Re" is a mind-blowing, carefully put together album that has to be ranked as one of the best of the past decade.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great compilation, September 5, 2001

By	Toufic Hanono (Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A really good compilation of more than 12 years of music, although it's not something the band thought about but merely a contractual request to finish the relationship with their record company they did pick not only the singles and hits but the songs that helped define their style through the chronology of the group.
Unless you have every album, this is a must for your collection. Cafe Tacuba is probably one of the groups which better integrates the folklore of mexican music into the rock in spanish scene.
¡Viva Mexico!