Avalancha de Éxitos

Avalancha de Éxitos (Avalanche of Hits) was Café Tacuba's third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed Re, the band had amassed 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

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 register to head register - reminiscent, in fact, of yodeling. This is a continuation of the precedent the band established with Re, their previous album, of constant genre-shifting.

Band members
 Anónimo (Rubén Albarrán): vocals, guitar
 Emmanuel del Real: keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, vocals, melodion
 Joselo Rangel: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
 Quique Rangel: bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals

References

Category:Café Tacuba albums
Category:1996 albums