Mexico often thankless, we never remember anything, we prefer above all things to the music that we are passing on the outside, we know that we have a rock collection as Chile or Argentina (although all of a sudden these two points are adjacent waves but with the pop) and much less we can compare with orbs rockers like the USA and England, yet in Mexico has been a rich tradition of stale bands, new bands, projects by grace or unfortunately did not pass a first album, these days no longer required to use a recording studio to produce music, perhaps the merit of many of the recordings presented here is that they were drawn from the most unexpected ways even with mega budgets of the major labels in an effort redeemer, scholar and simple pleasure of giving to know the maximum or works best attempts have been made in this country, Decireves , high-born music blog, oblivious to any commitment that is not the music itself has a PC all fifty albums in rock history in Mexico, perhaps the view is too simplistic and no desire to anthropology, but this is not about is the simple pleasure that makes the make known those classic albums, cutting-edge, fun and who already have a place in the library all that claims to be a music lover, is in my all responsibility and (tastefully of course) on this list, I hope you will like or dislike, that good music in Mexico last for ever and ever as this is a good way to enter.
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Luis Alberto Gonzalez
(the list is based on very personal taste of the owner of this little shop, so you know where you are going to be clobbered)
50.-Bam Bam-Bam Bam
From the best to come out on rocanrolera in the city of Monterrey, with a brash and antisolemnidad in which many bands fall suddenly, however outstanding production work sound sequences and some traveled to refer to many times of rock, quantum leap we will see this band in 2011, will be able to see that.
49.-M is correct-The Mocks
perfect marriage of electronic music, experimentation and vitamins to the dance floor, The Mocks is a challenge in its simplicity , his polished claw instrumental fills every corner of the album, the first step to immortality of these weevils that now operate outside of this country with contempt and indifference of local and foreign.
48.-Katy-Mr Racoon
One of the most personal records without a doubt that of this young and active regional talent, Katy goes through the same thing as the electronic melancholy folk with excellent results, a jewel misunderstood by the public regional rock.
47.-Cancer-Album Baby
The album idem more pop , some idea that exudes self-confidence in this magnum opus tanning in Monterrey, glitch pop, heavy, stoner rock , electronica furious and tricky in collusion with the pop filigree, make a will some people can not fully understand today.
Matraca-46.-World Leticia Servin
A sui generis singer in the genre of "women in rock" Leticia Servin an entity that seems to be overflowing the limits of the so-called nueva trova or new song but its brash and antisolemnidad you a place in store by Tough and Acidito those letters, without a doubt the most of outsiders in this country rockers.
45.-Muna Zul Muna Zul-
A point to be considered a curiosity in the list of eccentricities Tzadik (the label of John Zorn ) this defense trio breaks into the parsimony of a scene (the rock) to deliver a recording more akin to contemporary music with the rhythm 4x4, eccentric handling of voices, rhythms, jazz, all an impressive wall of sound made of something so primordial and organic as it is the voice.
44.-1981-Carrie
Electronica as packaging and folk to accentuate the melancholy, the second studio album by this author tapatia, a paragon of well arranged pop tunes , subtle electronic sequences that seem simple, but behind all her jewelry seems a lost world is in chaos, a jewel to revalue in coming years.
43.-Kinky-Kinky
An album about ten years old have been released, well positioned influenced electronic music, the bad music called "America" \u200b\u200band a carefree necessary, these five musicians give the improvised no exact point tecnorteño style that same alongside Fat Boy Slim that Bronco. Never been able to overcome their debut album.
42.-I was not a teenager terrorsatanica-The Ultravox
Before becoming a cover of "X" rock magazine these furious chamaconas tupieron him with faith to the garage wave The Sonics (hence the reverence in his name) songs that despite the low fi heard to today with more pose pergueñan nothing much middling indie bands. Disco singular, solid puncher and produced by former Caifan Alejandro Marcovich.
41.-Free and Locos-El Gran Silencio
As children Piporro futuristic, five dudes who mixed as anyone redoba the shotis, hip hop skaseros riffs and rock music, lyrics panegeristas, praises radical movements, chuntaro primitive style liquefied exact drops of humor without being pedestrian.
-40.-Caifanes Caifanes
The first record of this defense, more akin to the post punk and new wave and Afro-Caribbean, a curious phenomenon of mass emergence and cumbia with a unanimous blessing of the stokers who still think they were the The Cure Latin America.
39.-Harpy-Cecilia Toussaint
first record of this interpreter which relies on solid and heartfelt compositions (Valgame redundancy) interpretations Cecilia Toussaint is beyond good and evil with their work without the great wonders never cease to move the listener through a great interpretation of this rare bird of rock made in Mexico.
38.-Los de Abajo-Los de Abajo
chilangos first record of these have come down, like many bands that have migrated and have done in another country, these fusion of rhythms "Latino" some rock, a pinch of ska threw a disc is unsurpassed by the same band, and after all the conglomerate praise from various sources (foreign media like BBC London) while the broth is placed just at the moment.
37.-switch-Artefakto
Last album by this band, switch is the sum of all the vagaries instrumental talents today Nortec directed, but then was a wave but by pulling to break dance or break very core in the vein of what we were doing from 96 the Chemical Brothers with Exit Planet Dust , avant-garde rock 100% Mexican maquiladoras in Tijuana that then explode under the wave of techno and northern obviously entitled Nortec Collective.
36.-Milk-Phobia
A amasiato Latin rhythms, but by pulling the funk and pop filigree, these timeless patterns of television, developed a wave hipster and produced by a madman named Marteen Bissi be tossed and left out the stereotypical rockers shells and teponaztles and Cantaritos blows and chest to make a record that begins with flutes and Andean flutes and ends with a masterful sequence type bow " A day in the life " beatlera, that hair is the disk.
35.-Elevator-Titan
maquiladoras in 1999 Disco, electronica very kitsch, peeled trio that make a fun music and nothing more cerebral (more akin to Sukia, Gentle People, Fantastic Plastic Machine that say Aphex Twin), music, partying, seventies, lounge, easy listening , Carole King, sample from a topic and are dedicated to breaking mothers while shouting "Fuck goeis I was in a dragster! "... fine Electronica mexinaca hundred percent.
34.-Makeup-Zurdok
Third and last album by this legendary group royal Zurdok arrival at the scene of more mainstream rock by way of the disk that contains snapshots of a moment in which the rock seemed made in Monterrey off entity to be consolidated as purely rock, there was no Zurdok, there is no royal scene, only pieces of something that ultimately did not work. Tremendous fired accidentally, much smell to Supertramp or Beatlesque as appropriate.
33.-Aural, Aural.
From Tijuana BC this band recording an album with gentle sounds, textures and jazz suddenly a sense of melody barbaro for the time he left, while in the year this masterful album appeared, a crowd of musicians under the jip jop Mexican label stunned ears aside this show maxima of musicality which fortunately was installed in the musical evolution of this country. A gem.
32.-The wheel of time, "La Barranca
The most poppy album of the band, but pop is not a wimp like you suddenly heard in certain seasons radio or what some call rock but is nothing but disguised as pop bembo or Hispanicized, La Barranca reaffirmed their creativity with this combo of dark melodies, fast and effective, containing a maximum of their live performances, the immeasurable " Internal Pop . " Not the first time in this band in this list.
31.-Restaurant-Jumbo
In Monterrey, the world, first record of these baths to be raffled with the disk without following a conceptual line reaffirms its intrinsic quality gems in perfect poppy rock, ballads Powerpoperosas , almost epic songs (Photographs ) rock pastiche of electronica and the maximum Bugs when he sang at infinity " I want to fly, I'm electric! "a classic of the so-called Advanced Regia.
30.-Tattoos Powder-Cabrito Vudu.
For many, the best record of these regal, an amalgam exquisite yet powerful of what experts call fusion, rock, jazz, pop, swin, to subtle electronic elements, but nothing like the Guapacha and taste rich without sounding to "curious latin mexican " humor may well be the main ingredient of this album but also imposes the final maturity of these baths proud of the Sultana del Norte.
where they play 28.-Girls-Molotov
In 1997 the world of rock majacano sank in the creative void framed in the Latin hip-hop label, these baths, chilangos strain that assembled a network of qualifying pace but with naive syncopated rhythms, Latinized and most importantly, the humor run riot, political criticism but more like, "shit" great album that never able to overcome his humor is still present, but this record is the best of them.
Music 28.-Horizontal-Laba
disc that reflects the music without restrictions, with a layer of musical partners of different nationalities, abstract music, heavy, dense, complex passages arise suddenly instrumental chaos, special mention how so new as it was distributed and the phenomenal and almost handcrafted interior and cover art, a gem that is worth everything.
27.-The-Los Shajatos Shajatos
An assembly that takes issues of popular song to clothe impressively, as in the famous 1996 album Avalancha de Exitos Café Tacuba, these musicians so can grab a Billy Joel theme , or Aphex Twin (Flim) and deconstruct it in a way say unorthodox, a jewel revalue these days of inanity.
26.-Lotofire-Ely Guerra.
sensuality, mystery, punchy instrumental finesse, momentum, soul, Lotofire this and more is the most accomplished album from this singer-songwriter whose disparate Arropaje in this material is fed by syncopated rhythms, electronic , acoustic, for give body to this assembly of precision almost triphopera the interpret the obtained cachondisimas of Ely remain for posterity, she is sexy without showing, her voice says it all.
Murcof Cosmos-25.-
From Tijuana for the world, Murcof (Terrestre or as the case) threw the shot dyes disc epic, monstrous, a space opera that bridges with chamber music and symphonic some winks, a stellar soundtrack that NASA should Murcof losing to good for that adorn one of the only documentaries on the Cosmos.
24.-Fractals-Alejandro Otaola
Alejandro Otaola is a fearless kind, smart, intelligent, musical taste and daring in their daily work, Fractals runs along the path of music they liked to do the good Frank Zappa and King Crimson , like his teammate Jose Maria Arreola (LABA) will look with live music ensembles where risky, but progressive dye become shocking to the ears, polyrhythms for posterity.
23.-The Tijuana Sessions Vol 1-Nortec Collective.
marriage that was left for posterity between northern music, band, with more experimental electronica weevil result in fiscal Mogt Pepe and his henchmen musical an unpublished document the history of rock made in Mexico, paces "Latino" electronica that feels warm, resonant, powerful, XXI century Northerners seize the throne for not releasing, is not in the future movement with visual and musical scope chingon group that has emerged over Tijuana.
22.- Gerardo Enciso "Tarara
A rock apparently simple and unpretentious, but behind this album is a splendid framework that makes the songs of this classic singer-songwriter with the rumble Jalisco strength of a song to the Jose Alfredo Vicente Fernandez or plan but rock, mambo, danzon, analog electronics, exquisite corpses very poetic texts make Tarara a record without equal in the world of rock in Mexico.
21.-Babel-Santa Sabina
After their first albums where waves converge vampire (due to the lyrics of the great Adriana Diaz Enciso ) the capital city engaged in a drive that urges reassessing today, nothing cutting-edge sound, but if a given piece of timelessness the fusion of a band of excellent musicians and one of the most charismatic singers of the world rockin in Mexico, the great (and now going through a problem derived from breast cancer) Rita Guerrero.
Bueninvento-20.-Julieta Venegas
If Here Tijuana 1997 the most beloved melodies of the universe gave us unusual northern rhythms, progressive chords and lyrics are not easy to understand, this Bueninvento appeals to the listener with melodies more intricate, complex layers of sound that they attack the listener, the album is less accessible in recent times rocker reviro to more music poppy, but without the grace and the risking of this classic.
19.-Synthesizer-Zurdok
In the 90's what was the alternative raffle, music grunge, stoner rock the and something dangerously approaching the pompous label Indie , these royal understood in 1999 that was separate and mixed it with certain chords of music do you like Radiohead five years ago, the result is an album that denies the hitherto done in Mexico , an experimental album on your bill yet with a charm that makes it a gem with its own merits, a gram of a pound of those who are not very common.
18.-Just ...- The Tri
Tri The group is perhaps the more enduring political and police repression in the sixties and seventies , its leader and soul, the ancient Alejandro Lora pergueñando come from far and psychedelic blues rock sixties their cardboard, but they did well, now his music is the same lap trarroscada, changed their names (Three Souls in My Mind) added one of the more rhythmic sections known as a second character as is Rafael "the Wea" Smith in the unmistakable harmonica, the result, songs timeless, classic, without risking but encased in the mother so despised by hipsters today strain called rock'n'roll.
17.-No-Tijuana No.
From the most famous border of Mexico, a combo that has its debut album packed with unreleased surprises for the rock sound made by academic, rock, ska, pop, a cross between reggae with punk as we loved listening to The Clash in the old decade of seventies, contains one of the songs most emblematic in the history of Mexican rock, the sensational and furious " Poor you" sung, they say, by Julieta Venegas punks and a yet unknown (and now also poperita) Ceci Bastida, a grouping of worship without a doubt.
16.-Aquamosh -Plastilina Mosh
Aquamosh is the breaking point of rock in Mexico, worked more than efficient in studies of Monterrey, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico, this dish exalted by monsters consoles like Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf and people's mood of Sukia and Café Tacvba with grace and genius of Alejandro Rosso in the string arrangements and jazz spasms live with the arrangements electroacoustic music and the lighthearted counterpart Jonas Gonzalez result in a waiver of the disc to become more universal patriotism, by dint of bossa, easylistening and sixties pop. An enduring and classic of our times.
15.-Duda-Duda Mata Mata
A very rare and hard sui generis in the sometimes gray rock scene, Duda Mata is one of more hard-disks of Mexican rock, apocalyptic tunes, tapes and continuous replay, as advanced electronic effects of its time that you assume that a disk is completely out of fashion, but are only vocalizations seudoperisticas Jose Fors ( La Cuca) for everything else worth diving into that sea of \u200b\u200belectronica fat and pasty pacheca.
14.-Rock! "Los Locos del Ritmo.
The most important merit of this album is to be the first formal recording of a sixties pop rock band, Toño de la Villa was our Gene Vincent or Jerry Lee Lewis in plan Totonac music is something that came pergueñando in the United States but tinged with subtle hints of what might be a purely Mexican rock, look to do pieces of songs with titles like Pedro Guns, Powder, A glass of water , has also a classic such as immortal Eyes and large and rocanrolera (honky tonk piano) I'm not a rebel without a cause .
13.-The revolution of Emiliano Zapata, Emiliano Zapata La Revolucion
A record that in the time it was created was on a par with ranchero rock, hard rock and country rock of Creedence Cleartwater Revival or Flying Burrito Brothers, with the creativity to stop these masters of rock cannedheatesco put together a network of simple songs, rhythmic, groove and ready for the pot, a rock so mellow, enveloping envervante, chingonometrico, Outcome Pacheco, a masterpiece that precedes the seventies ballads (not gruperas) of these masters packers green hash.
12.-Scars-Real de Catorce
The quintessential blues is what passes Real de Catorce, but is not a stagnant blues to Alex Lora , it requires concentration and effort and a poetic vein deep to get ahead with music dense, dark, smelling of mezcal, which reminds Ogarrio , friends dead, disco intricate and clinging to one of all older rhythms in the history of mankind, Jose Cruz y Cia with a piece of pure gold transmuted into melancholy for which they are driven.
11.-No Mouth-black eyes Oxomaxoma
One of the discs but transgressors of good conscience in MEXA rock, an absolute record and tremendously devastating, spasms , afraid, noisy, disturbing, dark and dense atmospheres, Oxomaxoma is a group that turns the unit of rock in this country, something that other countries failed to recognize as art rock or "opposition" diamond in the rough and which many indies should learn.
10.-Julieta Venegas Aqui-
First meeting in plan Julieta Venegas solo disc with potential gems who transgress the boundaries of rock, with accordion interesting arrangements that provide colorful atmosphere to a scene (the rock MEXA) despite its image darkie that pergueño until Afresa thanks to albums like "If" the music of Julieta Venegas is anything belonging in this genre but certain chords and progressions can sound even denser than anything done until then, say it is dark pop.
09.-Flüght-Flüght
Records totally submerged in the forefront, Flûght was a group called ephemeral in the Mexican progressive rock, this long duration is an outer journey and cosmic rarely used as the possibilities of the recording studio, providing the features almost baroque music and grand, an album that should be raw materials for schools of music in this country, forced to have him and keep him.
08.-Hurbanistorias-Rodrigo Gonzalez
Our Mexican Bob Dylan, the great Rockdrigo Gonzalez, first and only album of the great chronicler of the old Iron City, an album that smells like rust to iron rust, smog and smog, guitars stick, and the classical harmonic and bulletproof Distante Instante, Old Iron Town, Oh I do not know! and Metro Balderas immortal, the same address entelechy melancholy hearts and the lives of the prostitutes that are sold to the highest bidder. Insurmountable.
-07.-El Circo Maldita Vecindad and Sons Quinto Patio.
A Must in the history of Mexican rock, full of images that refer to many things (films, literature, pop culture mexicana) a hybrid of ska, punk, reggae, Afro-Latin rhythms, ease, praises moves and unparalleled radicalism, from danzon, a bolero and a kind of alchemy of thousands of sounds and rhythms make Circus, the Achilles heel of the Maldita Vecindad, never again generate as many ideas as in this album certainly has become of Tiki?
06.-The Ritual-The Ritual
For many and without a tie and no pardon the best band that best contains the essence of the Mexican rock born in the sixties and seventies, psychedelic, pachecones, with mystical lyrics, images that refer to things one hundred percent Mexican, solid as a rock touch of churro, peyote trip ready to board a ship with a pre-Hispanic astronaut to travel intergalactic no return.
05.-am-I Staff
Direct from Guadalajara, Staff learned to develop a previously unreleased album in the rock scene in Mexico, points irreverent songs that talk about sexuality repressed, a mocking and antisolemne rock bordering on the wrong plan reggae but fart, July Haro is the undisputed frontman of this band, and enduring classics of today should revalue in the right dimension as "Feed him the bunny "," Boy let yourself there! "" La Tapatia "speak of a proviniciano Guadalajara, hypocritical but also fun and substantial, this is not rock type chistosito Fancy or The Garigoles , here is more fun and an unusual melancholy that is felt in every track on the album.
04.-hate Fonky-Jaime Lopez and Jose Manuel Aguilera
If Jaime Lopez is a great lyricist and Jose Manuel Aguilera also a great guitarist and songwriter of the first level that there would be Fonkie hate sublime disc bill? Notebook that became a cult album and one of the seminal pieces of rock today, unjustly cast aside by those journalists who give them the pundits with their facts and figures of new bands (Anglo), without inquiring the past and making it known that in Mexico there is no musical quality is not a disc from the first listen, it takes several hearsay for grasp and understand that this was up to par, mambo, progressive rock, spoken words, sound experiments, low profile, dark and gloomy readings on the power chilango sublime and supreme "Malafacha" Chilanga Banda "Moros tranchetes "" Fame Fatal dark disc that makes see Mexico as a crowded city of smog and smog but fun in its decay.
-03.-El Silencio Caifanes
Caifanes more creative at the zenith of its history, Silence is an album that marks the breaking of the most famous quintet in the history of rock in this country, there is everything in this dish delicious and very rock and roll, Latin rhythms to support more ringtones are progressive suddenly, unexpected sound effects as part of the weirdest music in the minds of these five crazy, flamboyant guitar Alejandro Marcovich without great blowjob body endowed almost all the compositions on this album, good Sabo on bass and tempering of iron, the atmospheres of Mars Diego Herrera on keyboards (and in the melancholy jazz with tufa Let's make a Silent ) the rhythmic drums of Alfonso Andre and impressive percussion work that may sound the same a son huasteco that punk and reggae and Saul Hernandez and his metaphors made this amazing single disc, exciting, powerful, a testament that even getting into the mainstream was the soul and the hope of many rockers in this country. The highlight and metaphors of Banda Sinaloense album is fused in a fade out at the end of Stone (a song about drugs) when the climate record and the history of rock made in Mexico.
02.-Tempest-La Barranca
La Barranca , may say that the voice of Jose Manuel Aguilera is not the best but it is not being prejudiced when you sat down to hear music so dense, Mexico could not sound more dark and La Barranca is what gives the appearance of one hundred percent Mexican rock without sounding to huarachazo, hard rock but without being heavy metal, resembling a mariachi extracts but dark side plan, guitars sharp and hurtful, strangers alone, the best definition of federal law in 1997 in the journal Switch ingesting peyote an electric guitar as he plays his guitar up a Aztec pyramid in the light of the night "or that other stale-Fly on the Wall, which says that Jaguarcitos not have anything, the fact is that this tunnel called Tempestasd , rages against good conscience, the most mature album of this band, a masterpiece that gives identity to the homemade rock, hipsters refrain.
Reves 01.-I Am Cafe Tacvba
Reves Because I'm not Re ? is what you have to ask the purists of rock made in Mexico, the group's previous album ( Avalancha de Exitos ) put them in evidence as a band reinvented songs with its musical eclecticism, Re of two years ago plunges as any other disk ls Mexican roots music but not in anthropological zeal, if not as a crazy way to take the compositions, there are the son, the Huasteca, Mambo, Danzon, the honky tonk, rockabilly the , pop amalgamated into a unique and enjoyable album, but that this other song, I'm Reves is a record that history in Mexico has not understood and not understood, it is known advance that the band members were involved in heavy existential problems due to say: fame, egos, etc. services, agreed to the idea of \u200b\u200bdoing an instrumental album as hence jam to build compositions, Ruben Albarran (or NRU that disc) is removed from the spotlight and made the songs were those who spoke, the label did not understand or a cucumber, they speak of a counterpart, a second disc of songs more "traditional" and that understanding of this writer are the most autobiographical songs, melancholic, personal and universal, explore the parent / child relationship (Father ) human evolution ( Locomotive ) lovers who are separated ( The Rio ) travel introspective ( Pollen ) children ( Two Kids ) Death as a life behind ( La Muerte Chiquita ) astral travel ( space) noise as a destabilizing element ( War) distant love (Fruit Trees ) hymns to the mother's iron defense (The Bird) despair as one of the fine arts ( impassive man) etc, the second album is an ode to the delusional thoughts of the four, compacted so it does not sound like a collage awkward, if not On the contrary, there are ballets carefully recorded and twisted by machines, music that reflects the obsessive behavior that was composed, there are crazy things, from the Kronos Quartet playing insurmountable MC in an array, the clarinet quartet Arghul making mischief, Reves classic that has a guitar arrangement for posterity, the unspeakable title as numbers, the luxury package edge, the whole record is a structured chaos so that no one today can deny the intrinsic quality of the album is a step with blinders on vacuum from members of the band level results economy were disastrous, at Café Tacvba art can claim to be the watchword of many Mexican rock bands unconventional sound bet for the Reves and now proudly display and say " was an influential album that allowed us to understand how you can make music for the fun of it, without accountability to anyone " An album quite absolute, experimental, avant-garde, which radiates genius and sadness in each of his cuts, an ode to the personal hell each of the members of the group.
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