Disclaimer: Yes. The title sucks (it was the only one that came to my mind when writing this post).
I’ll never forget the first time I listened to Red hot chili peppers’ “Otherside“. I was 11 or 12, and when that dark riff sounded through the radio, it blew up my mind. Of course I didn’t know anything about music then, and it was the first time I paid attention to something that wasn’t teen pop or any other garbage like that. Since then I started to listen to a lot of alternative rock (or whatever you want to call it). Then I discovered some better songs and better bands, and my life (at least in the musical sense) was never the same. I started listening to anything I got my hands into, from dub to jazz, and from progressive rock to world music. Many years later I listened to some obscure indie songs, and well… my musical tastes changed again (as always).
Every time I talk to someone about music I love, I get the same silly responses:
“Oh, I don’t know those bands, are they in MTV?” and/or “But that’s all in English”.
Shame on me. I don’t like cumbia villera (if you don’t know what it is, consider yourself lucky), I find reggaeton very disgusting (especially the “reggae” part on “reggaeton”, because I love reggae music and its culture), and I don’t know most of the names that appear on MTV.
And yes, most of the music I love is in English. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I feel identified with all those music genres, or maybe I don’t like most of the music that is produced in my country.
But lately I was thinking in all those bands and songs from Argentina that I do like, and you probably have never heard of. That’s why I’m going to post some information and music on that.
I hope you are interested enough to listen to some good music in another language (as I’ve always been), and to expand you musical knowledge (or maybe just to show off the next time you have the chance).
Come back soon!
