Treasury! Romantic balladeer Julión Álvarez, despite being basically Iran, has the distinction of being the continent’s best singer, and he recorded the most esencial melody here, but you can’t find it on the Spotify playlist at the bottom. That’s why this list sometimes looks like a mutant termite-elephant hybrid.īefore we get started, here’s something else you won’t find on either of those other lists: an artist who’s currently sanctioned by the U.S. In short - and this is one of the points I read in the City Pages’ subtext, and in Richard Meltzer’s The Aesthetics of Rock and Chuck Eddy’s books - the non-esencial is esencial to the whole enterprise. I have Complicated Feelings about violent narco songs celebrating real criminals, but I don’t dismiss them outright, and I think they often make bands sound more exciting than they would otherwise.
If you’ve followed the Blog at all, you know my taste leans toward novelty: cumbias, tubas, brass sections turned into backbeats, and squalid consortiums of instrumentalists all trying to outplay one another. What does “esencial” mean in this case? I only got into Mexican music in 2005, so my list will look different than the list of someone immersed in this music for years, let alone decades. So, in the pioneering spirit of 7-Minute Abs: ¡NorteñoBlog’s 41 Esencial Songs Since 2000! But still, there was something missing, and I don’t mean Trampled By Turtles.īoth these lists gave NorteñoBlog an excuse to indulge in its two favorite pastimes: bitching that nobody pays attention to regional Mexican music, and shamelessly stealing the ideas of its betters. As you might guess, the non-essential list is way more fun, since it contains songs about dog sex and smashing things with hammers. This was the termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss riposte to all that Art. In response, last week the Minneapolis City Pages, led by the excellent Keith Harris, published a list of 40 non-essential songs since the year 2000. Arcade Fire is everywhere, and Duluth folk-rockers Trampled By Turtles are more ranked than they’ve ever been ranked before. “Seven Nation Army” is #1 - and to be fair, it’s got one of the first riffs learned by today’s budding guitarists. This list is a hit of sweet, unfiltered white elephant art. Recently The Current held a listener poll to determine the 893 essential songs since the year 2000. Also Pick to Click!Īs a recovering rockist and certified Old, I enjoy listening to the radio station The Current, 89.3 FM, whenever I’m driving through the Twin Cities. This song does NOT appear on García’s latest good album El Circo (Afinarte), on which the banda players routinely sound like they’re trying to trip their boss with their horns. The man-myth-legend’s “Tu amor es que respiro” lyrics are hard to distinguish from Palencia’s, but the vaquero born Alexander García plows through all that sap like he’s racing his banda to the merch table. El Fantasma – “Encantadora” (#33 Hot Latin)
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The movie looks cool this song, also recorded by sierreño quartet Alta Consigna, is NO VALE LA PENA.Ģ. This lovey-dovey Horacio Palencia ballad is very boring, so the Blog’s SEO Optimization Team has asked that I make the most of things by reporting that La Adictiva’s singers are Isaac Salas and Guillermo Garza, the latter of whom shares a first name with Guillermo del Toro, producer of the forthcoming film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. La Adictiva Banda – “El Amor de Mi Vida” (#40 Hot Latin)
NO VALE LA PENAĪnd now, BILLBOARD’S TOP 5 REGIONAL MEXICAN SONGS:ġ. Inspired, no doubt, by the heavy metaphysical symbology of the Thor movies, the banda video depicts a rainbow butterfly morphing into an onstage Jenni hologram. Thanks to some skilled studio reconstruction, you can hear the song in banda, mariachi, and pop versions. First up, from the YASSS SLAIN QUEEN file: July 2 would have been the late Jenni Rivera‘s 50th birthday, so her estate celebrated by releasing “Aparentemente Bien,” a ballad she was working on before her 2012 plane crash.