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Café Tacuba

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 5, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Music Latina
• ASIN: B000005TLT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,957 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A quite enjoyable surprise, May 6, 2005

By	Raul A. Suarez Giacoman "Alex G" (Mc Allen, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have never been a fan of cover albums, and I must say that in 1996 when I heard that Café Tacvba's next album would be full of covers, I was quite disappointed. Especially when a couple of years ago this same band criticized other bands for doing covers, now they were releasing an album full of those!

I am not sure but I believe that for this album the vocalist changed his name to `Anonimo', the album includes covers from Flans (an 80's pop band), Botellita de Jerez (another mexican rock band) and Leo Dan among others. It has only 8 tracks, but the eight of them are quite enjoyable.

Even though the songs were not new, what I never considered was that they changed the original music to the Café Tacvba style, which is totally unpredictable. Their version of `Chilanga Banda' made me buy this album, very different from the original, you basically know is the same song because of the title and the lyrics, everything else is totally café Tacvba. Their rendition of `No controles' was another pleasant surprise, especially when I never liked Flans, there's also an instrumental version of `Perfidia' which is one of my favorites, but the song that is really worth of mentioning is `Ojala que llueva café' (original by Juan Luis Guerra), the arrangement they made I promise you no one saw it coming, the last part of the song is now a classic thing an cheered in every concert they give.

If you can buy the special edition they released I would recommend it, it is a carton paper case with a very interesting work of design (as most of their albums)

Maybe not their best album, but a very rare and interesting piece of music that should be a guide to other bands on how to do a cover song, the only thing you need to do is adapt it to your style to make it different from the original and unique, and that's what Café Tacvba did in this album.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars un cd tibiri tabora (moves with the groove), March 19, 1999

By	[e-mail] (MIIS, Monterey,CA) - See all my reviews

the genius of this group is that they take a world sound and make it uniquely mexican in an infinitude of ways. and if you listen to "chilanga banda" you'll learn a whole new vocabulario que ni parece a espanol, porque no es. es el son de la calle chilanga. no te lo pierdas.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tacuba means love, February 19, 2001

By	joakinn sola (Miami , FL USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon, Amazon what a good choice of an album to add to your extensive collection of goods to buy! This is the best spanish covers album ever made! No controles and Ojala Que llueva Cafe are excellent cover songs. Trust me Tacuba does a better job than The Group 440 on Ojala Que Llueva Cafe. It almost seems as if it is there own song. I could never put this album away just like I cant put MEM away! What can I say I love this stuff. Good job by Cafe Tacuba and a better job to Amazon for carrying such a brilliant piece of musical art. I say order it from Amazon before it runs out! bye MEM.