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Avalancha de Éxitos (Avalanche of Hits) was Café Tacuba's third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed Re, the band had ammassed enough new music to fill four CDs, but couldn't winnow it down to a single album. So instead, they covered eight songs by other Spanish-speaking artists, who ranged from totally obscure to well-known.
Track listing
- "Chilanga Banda" (Mexico City Band - "Chilanga" is a slang term probably meaning People from Mexico City´s Barrios. Originally by Juan Jaime López.)
- "Metamorfósis" (Metamorphosis. Originally by Axis.)
- "No Controles" (You Don't Control. Originally by Flans.)
- "No Me Comprendes" (You Don't Understand Me. Originally by Bola de Nieve.)
- "Alármala de Tos" (A made word coming from the title of Alarma!, a yellow journalism magazine, and mixed with a slang term used when you are threatening someone to don´t say a word. Originally by Botellita de Jerez.)
- "Perfidia" (Perfidy. Instrumental. Originally by Alberto Domínguez.)
- "Ojalá Que Llueva Café" (If Only It Rained Coffee. Originally by Juan Luis Guerra.)
- "Cómo Te Extraño Mi Amor" (How I Miss You My Love. Originally by Leo Dan.)
All the covers are very different from the originals - and from each other. "Chilanga Banda" is a hip-hop piece in Mexican slang (featuring the sound "ch"), and "Ojalá Que Llueva Café" is marked by fast-paced fiddle and rapid switching from chest voice to head voice - reminiscent, in fact, of yodeling. This is a continuation of the precedent the band established with Re, their previous album, of constant genre-shifting.es:Avalancha de Éxitos