Agila (album)

Agila
Studio album by Extremoduro
Released 23 February 1996
Recorded 1995, Estudios BOX
Genre Hard Rock
Length 43:22
Label DRO
Producer Iñaki "Uoho" Antón
Extremoduro chronology
Pedrá
1995		 Agila
1996		 Iros Todos a Tomar por Culo
1997

Agila (Spanish dialect Castúo[1] for "Liven up")[2] is the sixth studio album by Spanish hard rock band Extremoduro. Recorded in 1995, produced by Iñaki "Uoho" Antón and released on 23 February 1996.[3]

It's often considered as their breakthrough album. Published in 1996, a year after its preceding album, Pedrá, it featured instruments that hadn't appeared before on any of Extremoduro's albums. It includes some of the most famous songs by the band: "So payaso", "Buscando una luna", "Prometeo", "Sucede" and "El día de la bestia", which was included on the movie of the same name soundtrack.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Buscando una Luna"  Roberto Iniesta 4:13
2. "Prometeo"  Roberto Iniesta 3:29
3. "Sucede"  Roberto Iniesta 3:09
4. "So Payaso"  Roberto Iniesta 4:43
5. "El Día de la Bestia"  Roberto Iniesta 4:46
6. "Tomás"  Roberto Iniesta 1:29
7. "¡Qué Sonrisa Tan Rara!"  Roberto Iniesta 3:18
8. "Cabezabajo"  Roberto Iniesta 3:42
9. "Ábreme el Pecho y Registra"  Roberto Iniesta 3:32
10. "Todos Me Dicen"  Roberto Iniesta 4:13
11. "Correcaminos, Estate al Loro"  Roberto Iniesta / Ramone 2:34
12. "La Carrera"  Roberto Iniesta / Zosi Pascual 2:18
13. "Me Estoy Quitando"  Tabletom 2:12
2011 edition bonus tracks
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
14. "Sucede (Nueva Mezcla 2004)"  Roberto Iniesta 3:05

Personnel

Extremoduro
Additional personnel

Charts and certifications

Chart performance

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Spanish Album Charts[4] 13

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[5] 2× Platinum 200,000^[5]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Reception

Rolling Stone magazine referred to it as a masterpiece of the Spanish rock.[6] In 2007 it was ranked by American magazine Al Borde as the 227th best rock en español album of all time,[7] a position likely to be relatively low because at the time of the album's release the band was still unknown to Latin America.[8] In 2012 was ranked as the 12th best album of the Spanish rock according to Rolling Stone.[9] Agila reached 300,000 copies sold.[9]

The track "So payaso" was ranked as the 103rd best song of the rock en español ever by the magazine Al borde,[10] in addition to winning the award for best music video of the Spanish Music Awards in 1997.[11] Likewise, it was included as DLC in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "'Agila': el disco con el que Extremoduro subió a los altares del rock". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 23 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Billboard". 17 June 1996.
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Agila-Extremoduro/dp/B000059QJX/ref=pd_sim_m_3
  4. ↑ Sánchez, J.M. (7 June 2011). "Extremoduro, el valor de lo esencial" (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Biografía de Extremoduro" (in Spanish). Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://rollingstone.es/noticias/view/las-10-razones-por-las-que-extremoduro-arrasa
  7. ↑ "250 albums del Rock Iberoamericano" (in Spanish).
  8. ↑ Menéndez Flores, Javier (23 May 2013). Extremoduro. De profundis. La historia autorizada. Grijalbo Ilustrados (in Spanish). p. 210. ISBN 9788425350337.
  9. 1 2 "Los 50 Mejores Discos Del Rock Espanol" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "Las 500 del Rock Iberoamericano: 50 Años Para No Olvidar (200-101)" (in Spanish).
  11. ↑ "Premios de la musica 1997" (in Spanish).
  12. ↑ http://majornelson.com/2007/12/20/guitar-hero-iii-tracks-one-free-12-20-07/

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