Re (Café Tacuba album)

Re
Studio album by Café Tacuba
Released July 22, 1994
Recorded Cuernavaca and Los Angeles, in studios CAN-AM and DEVONSHIRE
Genre Alternative rock, Rock en español, norteño, pop, trio, grunge, Latin, jazz
Length 59:53
Label Warner Music Mexico
Producer Gustavo Santaolalla
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Café Tacuba chronology
Café Tacuba
(1992)		 Re
(1994)		 Avalancha de Éxitos
(1996)

Re was Café Tacuba's second and perhaps most important contribution to Mexico's music scene. The album was called "the equivalent of the Beatles 'White Album' for the rock en español movement" by the New York Times. The name probably comes from the second syllable in Solfege, perhaps because it was their second album. It was released in 1994 and consisted of twenty songs.

Track listing

  1. El Aparato (The Machine) – 3:19
  2. La Ingrata (The Ingrate) – 3:32
  3. El Ciclón (The Cyclone) – 2:55
  4. El Borrego (The Sheep) A derogatory Spanish term for people who do everything they're told to. – 2:08
  5. Esa Noche (That Night) – 3:27
  6. 24 Horas (24 Hours) – 2:19
  7. Ixtepec (Ixtepec is a city in Oaxaca) – 3:21
  8. Trópico de Cáncer (Tropic of Cancer) – 4:38
  9. El Metro (The Subway) – 3:46
  10. El Fin de la Infancia (Childhood's End, named after the book by Arthur C. Clarke.) – 2:19
  11. Madrugal (Song For Dawn as the lyrics describe dawn (madrugada) in the Mexican capital) – 1:08
  12. Pez (Fish) – 2:18
  13. Verde (Green) – 1:55
  14. La Negrita (The Little Black Woman, a diminutive) – 3:05
  15. El Tlatoani del Barrio (The King of the Neighborhood. Tlatoani is a Nahuatl word, used to describe Aztec emperors. Cuauhtemoc was the last.) It is also a nod to Ruben Albarran's father, who was a boxer, as pictured in the booklet. – 3:27
  16. Las Flores (The Flowers) – 2:16
  17. La Pinta (Skipping Class) Also refers to one of Christopher Columbus' vessels. – 2:49
  18. El Baile y el Salón (The Dance and the Ballroom) – 5:08
  19. El Puñal y el Corazón (The Dagger and the Heart) –4:22
  20. El Balcón (The Balcony) – 1:41

This album established Café Tacuba's style of genre-switching, which hadn't been as prominent in their debut album, Café Tacuba, released two years earlier. Its sheer length - an hour long - and experimentation with musical styles has made it a favorite among fans. One notable aspect of the album is that it contains several parodies of musical genres, notably "La Ingrata", a parody of norteño music, "El fin de la infancia" which parodies Banda Music, "Las flores" which parodies Son Jarocho and "Esa Noche", which parodies Boleros. That song also showcases dramatically the vocal capabilities of Rubén Albarrán, credited on this album as "Cosme". Finally, the song "El Borrego" (literally "The Lamb"; but also "The Poser") is an industrial metal song that tells the story of a man who enjoys every musical and fashion trend, regardless if they're contradictory.

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