Avalancha de Éxitos

Infobox Album
Name = Avalancha de Éxitos
Type = cover
Longtype =
Artist = Café Tacuba


Released = November 5, 1996
Recorded =
Genre = Rock en español, Mariachi, Electronica
Length = 31:25
Label = Warner Music Latina
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Re"
"(1994)"
This album = "Avalancha de Éxitos" "(1996)"
Next album = "Revés/Yo Soy" "(1999)"

"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

# "Chilanga Banda" ("Chilanga Band" - "Chilanga" is a slang term referring to people from Mexico City's barrios. Originally by Juan Jaime López.) – 3:31
# "Metamorfósis" ("Metamorphosis". Originally by Axis.) – 5:46
# "No Controles" ("Don't Control". Originally by Nacho Cano.) – 3:07
# "No Me Comprendes" ("You Don't Understand Me". Originally by Bola de Nieve.) – 4:43
# "Alármala de Tos" (A made-up word coming from the title of Alarma!, a yellow journalism magazine, and mixed with a slang term used when you are threatening someone to keep quiet. Originally by Botellita de Jeréz.) – 4:03
# "Perfidia" ("Perfidy". Instrumental. Originally by Alberto Domínguez.) – 3:08
# "Ojalá Que Llueva Café" ("Hopefully It Will Rain Coffee". Originally by Juan Luis Guerra.) – 3:27
# "Cómo Te Extraño Mi Amor" ("How I Miss You My Love". Originally by Leo Dan.) – 3:40

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