tacuba!

Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Musicians.

After last night's show at Hammerstein, I am as confirmed in my opinion as I can be: Café Tacuba (aka Café Tacvba) are the greatest rock band in the world: the most exhilarating combination of energy, invention, and breadth of style currently going. I can't imagine that the language difference is that big a barrier to their being better known in the states, but apparently it is. That and the fact that, for all their variety of form, they aren't trying to break or deconstruct any forms, which makes them of less interest to the indie press than weirder foreign-language stuff.

If you remain interested in where rock and roll is going, not just the underground stuff but the bands that play arenas, I urge you to try Café Tacuba. Robert L, you especially. Try Re first if you can, but try anything. Maybe it won't move you, but you should find out.

3 comments.

Martin Kelly

Comment on November 22nd, 2007.

ah, scraps. i first saw cafe tacuba opening for beck in san francisco. had never heard of them before. energy, invention and breadth of style really does describe that show, but not in a *good* way.

the music seemed like what rock would be, if only it were played by bad west coast jazz musicians. playing different songs, in different keys, in different tempos. there was a cello involved. meanwhile, a guy dressed in a giant bumblebee costume sang/yelled at the audience through a megaphone.

the thing is, i could see how that could *work*.

in this case it just didn't

so while i take every other piece of musical advice you give, with some of your tips becoming all time favorites (the ednaswap rock-ballad version of "torn") and you have rarely if ever steered me wrong.. in this i must say DUDE YOU ARE SO SMOKIN' IT!

Scraps

Comment on November 22nd, 2007.

I wish I'd seen the bumblebee suit tour.

Martin Kelly

Comment on November 23rd, 2007.

If I could do some magical xkcd-style time-travel so you could go instead of me I would. Plus you could enjoy the excellent ali's company, and I wouldn't have lost my cellphone when we left.

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