Yes, I am. And I guess you also, since your avatar is a drawing by Quino.

^ Well done! In seven years, you are the first person on MB to identify the artist of my avatar! :clap:

In fact, I'm from England, but I've lived for 25 years in Mexico. When I first arrived, Quino was very popular, and you could find all his Mafalda and other books in the bookshops. He's probably my favourite cartoonist ever.

Payaguaya is a new Juana Molina song for me, thanks! ...and I put some words of Cocaine Taxi in the rock section, ok?

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I cannot tank you enough.

This are things I hear in the radio today. Is not the kind of music I choose, but I liked it.

Please, clarify. ¿Is not that way in Britain? ¿How do you tie women in poles?

Today's radio

Thanks for showing us what's on the radio in Argentina;it's quite exotic for us as we don't have many members in the Southern Hemisphere.

I think these two were my favourites:
^ Haha! When we thought they were witches, we tied women to poles and burned them to death, but that doesn't happen so much today! ;)

If you want to know about English culture through music, this might be a good place to start. It's about our affection for things that are disappearing in the modern world:

I would say that English, British and Commonwealth realm music had ever been highly appreciated here. It is our north and our school, and something that needs to be preserved and cultivated.

In case of doubt:

Here is some reggae, to illustrate this post

This one is old (2008)


These are on the radio

I haven't checked out all the recs here, but I liked the ones by 42 Decibels, Dubies and Faauna.

Here you will find music from Spain and Chile, heker, so if you want to plant the flag of Argentina in this thread, you are very welcome:-

http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...und-world.html

Done. I think.

I'm not certain about progressive music, because I never classified music as in/out progressive.

To mix with some country: Vicentico and Willie Nelson

This is also on the radio.

The videos make some winks to the Clockwork Orange, and the Shinning.

chillout reggae

^ This vocalist is a real character! I liked the video; I wonder if the song is also about (without actually mentioning), the expression "Buscando mi media naranja" which in Mexico means "Looking for my soulmate, or life partner."

The instrumental reggae tracks are pretty good too, but perhaps a little too "chill" for my usual tastes. If you like that sound, you should check out:- http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...t-ranglin.html

Don't dare to ask!

There are many theories. Some say he's speaking about his dog because "he loves to leave, usually escapes; such fleeting remedy..:"

Some say he's speaking about his son (the boy on the second video).

Another explanation I heard is that he's bantering his fans, claiming to return to his former band "Los Piojos", which is a theme I heard from many solo artists.

...but none of that explains the oranges

That's a nice album of covers, so I will post some covers of Spinetta

^ HaHa! That's a lot of interpretations for one short song!

I'm barely surviving a heatwave. It was 40 °C today, and the thermal interrupter was shutting down every 10 minutes because it doesn't like air conditioners.

Meanwhile this song was playing a joke on me. It was released at winter, when nobody cared.

It curses "the cun*t of god", because there is so much heat, and he doesn't have money for "the split" (AC), and can't sleep, and he will be fired from work.



Is no more winter, and some dude at the radio is laughing at our a*ses.

At least this looks "latin"



(But is actually a "cumbia" version of a rock song)

There is a new song from Octafonic (two actually, but the last one, days ago, was universally despised :( )



And 42 Decibel uploaded an entire concert

This emotional roller coaster is a concert of Indio Solari

Here's a nice, relaxed song: an unadorned delivery and a voice which works as a foil to lyrics that are on the point of getting too saccharin:-



Like Zarbaqal, who has sadly left us it seems, I'm putting up the Spanish and English lyrics:

Me gusta el Sol, Alicia y las palomas /I like the sun, Alicia, and the doves,
El buen cigarro y las malas señoras / A good cigar and bad ladies,
Saltar paredes y abrir las ventanas / Jumping walls, and opening windows,
Y cuando lloro, una mujer / And a woman when I cry

Me gusta el vino tanto como las flores / I like wine as much as flowers,
Y los conejos pero no los tractores / And rabbits, but not tractors,
Y el pan casero y la voz de Dolores / Homemade bread and the voice of D
Y el mar mojandome los pies / And the sea wetting my feet.

No soy de aquí ni soy de allá / I'm not from here nor am I from there,
No tengo edad ni porvenir / I don’t have an age or a future,
Y ser feliz es mi color de identidad / And being happy is my color of identity.

Me gusta estar tirado siempre en la arena / I like lying forever on the sand,
En mi matungo perseguir a Manuela / On my horse following Manuela,
Por todo el tiempo para ver las estrellas / Or all the time to watch the stars,
Con la María en el trigal / With Maria in the wheat field.

Jorge Cafrune has turned up a couple of times in a comment or list here, but I think this is the first time anyone has posted a song of his. To find out more, you can do what I'm doing, checking wikipedia:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Cafrune

Thanks for that. I can't believe this guy was only 40 when he died, looks about 60 in all the photos.

Speaking of Argentinian musicians, may I interest you in some Mercedes Sosa?

Yes, he looks and sounds much older doesn't he? And not your typical rock-n-roll death: "run over while riding a horse" is a sudden and tragic way to die at just forty.

And thanks for the reminder about your neglected Mercedes Sosa thread. :thumb:

:d

One of my fav. ( feel good songs) ! :love:





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MULjbUhIz4

Here are a few from my cumbia thread...


La Delio Valdez - La Delio Valdez (2012)

La Chicharata - La Chicharata (2015)

Agrupación Ilegal Los Imparciales - El Sonidero (2016)

La Walichera - La Walichera (2016)

Various Artists - El Nuevo Sonido de la Cumbia Psicodelica (2017)

yes, there's huge bunch of music in that thread, and of the ones you selected here, I'm particularly enjoying this one, with its retro guitar and organ sound:-

Maca Mona Mu is not a mega-star, perhaps that's why she hasn't been mentioned here yet. Here are the best tracks from her third "album", Kalanchoe. Album in quotation marks because it only has 7 tracks and may not have like an official physical edition for all I know:




To me, her earlier albums, Semillas and Bambu don't seem to have the same power as the songs I've put here. Their arrangements are simpler and the songwriting more subtle - well, who on earth wants sublety in music ?! Not me.