(Almost) Forgotten Classic
Trolling through my CD collection I stumbled upon one of the true classic albums of the 90's: "Todo Historias" by Eros Ramazzotti. From the first track "Cosas de la Vida" this album was positioning itself to take us on a wild ride. For the next four songs this album does not take breather, only to take the energy level up a couple of notches with the rebel song "Un Fuerte No" - a concert closer in its own right.
As we saw in the remainder of the 90's, most albums started strong only to fizzle out on the flip side (that is true only if you had vinyl or tape - on a CD, the fizzle came about 30 minutes into it - Richard Marx, I am looking at you.) Yet, "Cosas de la Vida" keeps going strong. The rest of the albums builds towards the second rebel song of the album "La Ultima Revolucion" a song that can make you take up arms against whatever is oppressing you.
But here is where things get weird. After such a tour de force and almost finishing the album on a very very high note, the last song of the album, "Silver y Missie" leaves one empty, almost hungry. I can not prove this, but I have a feeling that this song was a bonus track slipped into the CD version (remember that back in the 90's the music industry was still trying to convince listeners to switch to CD format and what better way than dangling the carrot of bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere? But I digress.) I am still coming to grips with having such a great album end with "Silver y Missie" instead of "La Ultima Revolucion", in fact, in my humble opinion, "Silver y Missie" does belong on the album at all and forces me to remove 1/2 star to this otherwise 5-star album.
Regardless of the drawbacks in song selection and arrangement, this album is a solid work which to my surprise has made its way into some Italian restaurants as part of their background music.
4.5 Stars
As we saw in the remainder of the 90's, most albums started strong only to fizzle out on the flip side (that is true only if you had vinyl or tape - on a CD, the fizzle came about 30 minutes into it - Richard Marx, I am looking at you.) Yet, "Cosas de la Vida" keeps going strong. The rest of the albums builds towards the second rebel song of the album "La Ultima Revolucion" a song that can make you take up arms against whatever is oppressing you.
But here is where things get weird. After such a tour de force and almost finishing the album on a very very high note, the last song of the album, "Silver y Missie" leaves one empty, almost hungry. I can not prove this, but I have a feeling that this song was a bonus track slipped into the CD version (remember that back in the 90's the music industry was still trying to convince listeners to switch to CD format and what better way than dangling the carrot of bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere? But I digress.) I am still coming to grips with having such a great album end with "Silver y Missie" instead of "La Ultima Revolucion", in fact, in my humble opinion, "Silver y Missie" does belong on the album at all and forces me to remove 1/2 star to this otherwise 5-star album.
Regardless of the drawbacks in song selection and arrangement, this album is a solid work which to my surprise has made its way into some Italian restaurants as part of their background music.
4.5 Stars
posted by Tranka at 8:42 PM
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