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Ultimo Tren a Londres - Los Clasiqueros

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Friday night I was at Niceto Club photographing the Tranqui Yanqui fashion show [photos to come]. One of the musical acts was Los Clasiqueros. They're a band that reworks popular international hits into cumbia songs. Two of their most popular covers are ELO's Last Train to London and Modern Talking's Brother Louie. Both songs totally work as cumbias. Bizarrely there's a copycat cumbia cover band called the Klaziqueroz who also have a version of Brother Louie. Finally I cracked up reading the following comment on YouTube, which is obviously not known for it's intelligent discourse. The comment typifies many Argentine's opinions regarding cumbia as a musica genre:
esto es una reverenda mierda!! por favor!! matenlos!! y si vas a postear algo bueno hacelo pero no esta mierda!! y encima lo haces con seriedad!!

Having developed an ear for Rio Platense Spanish, imagining the preceding being spoken brings a smile to my face.

1 comments:

Mordi said...

jajajajaja

¡Genial el comentario!
Es que a los ochentistas nos cambiaron el rocanrol por la cumbia... y aún al día de hoy no lo podemos digerir.

Sin embargo, las "cumbias" (no confundir con el folkore colombiano llamado así) de algunos buenos artistas, sí suenan bien y resultan divertidas.
Ejemplos: canciones de "Agrupación Mamanis" (banda paralela de "Las manos de Filipi") y la canción "La buena reputación", de Leo Maslíah. Suenan bien, creo, porque son parodias de cumbias.
Alguna vez tendrías que ver algún recital de Leo Maslíah, Tom.

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