By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
And today we felt like missing the most popular rock band of all time in Latin America. Today we woke up feeling nostalgic, thinking about how many times we saw them. Soda Stereo Playing in our cities, how many times did their hits explode on commercial radio stations, how many official copies were sold in official stores, How many pirated publications circulated in the black markets, How many cassettes were distributed out there, first, second, third and nth generation, so that the copy, of the copy, of the copy, of the copy, sounded horrible, but those who obtained it sang anyway «"From that love / From light music / Nothing frees us / Nothing else remains"» with a wounded cry and regardless of the usual out-of-tune singing.
Today we woke up singing, as if nothing had happened., «"You wouldn't believe the things I've done for her / Cowardly, but without shame / She was a stone in dry water inside.". It must be acknowledged that Gustavo Cerati wrote good lyrics (Some seasoned critics accuse him of stealing texts from books and passing them off as his own without the slightest attempt at dissimulation, but we won't delve into that silly controversy.) By the way: Here at Zonagirante.com, our favorite Soda Stereo album is DynamOr, and one of the reasons is because of the power of his words: «"The sun turns / The world turns / God turns.".
We set out to find 20 good (in some cases, excellent) versions of the songs this trio released throughout their career. We've struck gold. We have material from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico And, of course, Argentina. We include well-known names such as Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Fabiana Cantilo and Aterciopelados, And we also rummaged through the trunk and found experiments in which, for example, Lucrecia Pinto invites the philosopher Darío Gabriel Sztajnszrajber to introduce their interpretation of The Tell-Tale Heart. We have a splendid instrumental production of Primavera 0, by Mario Sanguinetti. We even indulged ourselves by closing the list with the live recording that he made Catupecu Machu of American Blind, in the company of the very Zeta Bosio.
In short, there's never a wrong time to pay tribute to Soda Stereo., And it's even better if we do it with this brilliant group of guests.