Customer Reviews

Uno

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I wandered into the world of La Ley by accident-flipping through my digital cable channels I ended up on MTV-S and saw the video for "Siempre" off the "Crazy/Beautiful" sndtk. All I could think was "wow"! Bought that disc and I havent looked back. I speak minimal spanish at best, it doesnt matter. This band totally rules. You couldnt ask for a better disc (unless its La Ley Unplugged!"

Let me start off by saying that "Uno" won the grammy for best latin rock album of 2000, so really how bad can it be? I think that the album shows how much the band has evolved and it demonstrates their HUGE range in music going from their earlier stuff like new wave/ punkish to electronics to straight out classic/soft rock mixed with pop elements in their most recent release, "Uno". I swear that Beto Cuevas has to have the most passionate voice in rock today, with an amazing range. The drumer Mauricio is one of the best in the game and guitarist Pedro is amazing! The whole album is arranged in an excellent way and I really don't know how La Ley can get any better than this (but I KNOW they will!) I look forward to their future albums and I highly recommend La Ley's "Uno" to any one who is just being introduced to rock en espanol or any one who just wants to listen to great music!

THE VOCALS OF BETO CUEVAS ARE LIKE NO OTHER SO- ANYTHING THAT HE SINGS SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL. THIS ALBUM YOU HAVE "FUERA DE MI" WHICH IS ONE OF THE BEST SONGS ON THIS ALBUM. YOU HEAR THE INTENSITY OF HIS VOICE ON THIS SONG AND YOU CAN'T HELP, BUT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HIS VOICE. FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT HARD UP ON WHAT THEY SOUNDED LIKE 8 OR 10 YEARS AGO, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SINGING FOR YEARS -I THINK THIS A WORTH THE MONEY AND YOU WILL BECOME A FAN. THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE NOW BECAUSE THEY HAVE GROWN AND I HOPE MORE PEOPLE START TAKING NOTICE OF THIS TALENTED BAND SO, THAT WE CAN KEEP HEARING BRILLIANT MUSIC FROM LA LEY. BUY MTV UNPLUGGED IN DVD AND CD THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT BUY HE SINGS BETTER THAN ANYBODY I'VE HEARD UNPLUGGED.

La Ley sets the standarsd for the new millenum Love and Faith.

La Ley just gets better each time. Great album, I enjoyed each song. Beto's voice is amazing. He can do so much with it. The lyrics are profound and smart. "Aqui" and "Fuera de mi" are only 2 of the many you'll fall in love with. "Al Final" is about drug addiction and you would never forget it.

After listening to La Ley since 1989 and watching this band mutate, grow and chomp the head out of other latin rock artists, from the tame and pophook-filled "doble opuesto" to full on creativeness of "Invicible" to the underrated, more intellingent (and darker even) than "Vertigo",let me tell you my friends, this is a HUGE let down.
La Ley has been known to push latin american music forward. The use of electronics and production gadgets to create warm, intense, beautiful and ethereal atmospheres with great beats and amazing guitar work is just a memory.
"Uno" pales next to any of these albums.
Now don't get me wrong... 75% of this album is as epic and gorgeous as the rest, but the latter half of this album sounds like filler. You can almost catch glimpses of what could have been on "Verano Espacial" (which is about safe sex, believe it or not).
But considering all they were doing with music, it seems they're more interested in making mainstream marketable records than actually exploring they potential, which I am sure, had they continued down the path they were going, they would have made the best album in latin rock history.
It's really a shame...
Nonetheless, they're still great musician. My problem with this record is that after listening to INVICIBLE and VERTIGO (my favorite) this just doesn't hold up, neither does all the new music it's been putting out.
On the other hand it's completly understandable since latin artists are sort of force to put out commercial music. It happened to mexican popstar FEY, whose bubble gum, preppy, teenage music morphed into sophisticatedly dense and cerebral tecno, which got her fired from Sony Music and whose album "VERTIGO" was acclaimed by critics as her best and boo-ed by latin audieces.
Either way, this album is still likable. But not anyway near their best.

La Ley, empezando con "Doble Opuesto" y terminando con este disco, ah cambiado mucho su estilo musical e fisico. Pero algo que sigue constante es que su sonido esta igual de bello que cuando eran un grupo tratando de crecer. "Uno" fue el que hizo la barrera entre los viejos fans y los fans por venir que tienen puntos de vista muy distintos. Pero sin ver diferencias, ni comparar un disco con otro, (porque siempre se comparan todos los discos de La Ley con "Invisible" sin escucharlo por lo que es) "Uno" es una maravilla. Es un album con canciones muy diversas y con un tema dedicado a su paiz. Este disco es el numero tres en los mejores discos (sin contar el Unplugged) superado por "Invisible" y "Vertigo". Este es un de los que se debe tener seas fan o no.

A 180 degree shift from Vertigo, Uno is more of Invisible, but with greater mainstream sound. Dont get me confused, "Fuera De Mi" and "Al Final" are two of La Ley's best songs, and the album maintains a good complexity around itself, but it lacks that power Invisible left in aura after you were through with it. "Aqui" and "Eternidad" are great songs with simple chords that allow Beto's voice to reach a great potential. Uno is an album less upbeat than Vertigo and it concentrates more in the after life and spirit like themes, but it does not lack power. It opens and ends great. Look out for the song Garden not listed in the tracklist, but definately added after the end of "Al Final", just keep you Cd player rolling. With a new "European" look la Ley leaves behing their Gothic apperance, and concentrate in new endeveaors, following them are a diverse audience they have captivated from their different styles of music and looks.

Se acerca a Invisible, y deja de lado el sonido electronico que caracterizó a Vertigo.
Canciones como Eternidad, Aqui, Paraiso, Fuera de Mi, ya tienen indicios de ser clasicos de la banda.
Se puede decir que este disco tiene influencias notorias de Duran Duran, y algunas otras bandas de la talla de ésta misma.
Si les gustó Invisible, tienen que comprar este disco. Y si pueden verlos en vivo, no se pierdan la oportunidad, porque suenan muy bien...

Wonderful cd. I love the whole thing. Bye it. Plus if you get stuck in a song they have the words to the music. My faviote song is Verano Espacial. If you bye it you won't be dissapointed.