Avalancha de Éxitos

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{{Infobox album
| name = Avalancha de Éxitos
| type = studio
| artist = [[Café Tacuba]]
| cover = avalancha exitos.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 5, 1996
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Latin Alternative]], [[Rock en español]]
| length = 31:25
| label = [[Warner Music]] Mexico
| producer =
| prev_title = [[Re (Café Tacuba album)|Re]]
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = [[Revés/Yo Soy]]
| next_year = 1999
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r249422|first=|last=}}</ref>
| rev2 =
| rev2Score =
}}
'''Avalancha de Éxitos''' (in Spanish: ''Avalanche of Hits'') is [[Café Tacuba]]'s third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed [[Re (Café Tacuba album)|''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 [[cover version|covered]] eight songs by other Spanish-speaking artists, who ranged from totally obscure to well-known.

== Background ==
After the publication of ''Re'', the band was between the releasing of the album and the subsequent tours as well as the fulfillment of the contract with Warner also continue in the scene while have proper time preparing their formal third LP. After their performance at Viña del Mar Festival in 1996, producer Gustavo Santaolalla proposed them a "transition album" made with covers, an idea that the group accepted. Since its formation the group used to perform versions of other bands that they liked.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Blanc|first=Enrique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFLKDAAAQBAJ|title=Café Tacvba: Bailando por nuestra cuenta|date=2016-09-15|publisher=Grupo Planeta - México|isbn=978-607-07-3092-4|language=es}}</ref>

== Composition ==
The concept of the album allowed Café Tacvba to focus on the creativity of the music, so they agreed to start the rehearsals by each member of the band bringing ideas of what songs would be included on the album. The group chose several songs related to the rock of Mexico of the 80s:<ref name=":0" />
{{Quote|text=because we are sons of that. We feel that we are a link that is tied to that generation. They gave us the spark so that something in us could grow (...) It was also to say "this is, raw, what we gave us the music "|author=Emmanuel del Real|title=|source=}}
The first round of songs chosen for the album included "Chilanga Banda" ([[Jaime López (songwriter)|Jaime López]]), "Estás Perdida" ([[Ritmo Peligroso]]), "Planet Earth" ([[Duran Duran]]) and "Una Mañana" (originally "Morning" by [[Clare Fischer]], popularized with lyrics in Spanish as "Una Mañana" by [[José José]]), the same that the group had already performed for their 1995 MTV Unplugged and which would be published in [[Un Tributo (a José José)]] in 1998. Of the latter, Clare Fischer told to Warner production that he hated José José version and he agreed with the recording but with another lyrics so the band then refused to include the song, "we said that for us Clare Fischer did not mean anything, but José José yes", said about Joselo Rangel.<ref name=":0" /> Just Jaime López's "Chilanga Banda" remained, a song that the band met by Octavio Hernández, a journalist and cultural promoter from Tijuana.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Café Tacvba, la chilanga banda que marcó al público con su ritmo|url=https://www.milenio.com/espectaculos/cafe-tacvba-chilanga-banda-marco-publico-ritmo|access-date=2020-11-24|website=www.milenio.com|language=es-MX}}</ref>

"Metamorfosis" is a song by the Mexican band Axis, which performed at the concert venues in Ciudad Satélite area where the early band attended and which won the First Youth Rock Festival organized by Peerless label in 1985. [[Juan Luis Guerra]]'s "[[Ojalá Que Llueva Café]]" was chosen by the band as it was a song they liked from the time they were students and was remade at the initiative of Meme as a [[son huasteco]], given the previous work that was done by the band with ''maestro huapanguero'' Alejandro Flores in "Las flores" for the band's MTV Unplugged. "No me comprendes" by Bola de Nieve was Quique's suggestion, while the band unanimously decided «Alármala de tos» by [[Botellita de Jerez]] and "No controles", one of the hits in Mexico by [[Flans]] in the 80s —version to Spanish band [[Olé Olé (band)|Olé Olé]]— and that the group chose to listen to at the parties they attended. "[[Perfidia]]" published in 1939 by Alberto Domínguez was chosen from the beginning as an instrumental track in tribute to the instrumental music of the 60s such as [[Santo & Johnny]] and [[The Ventures]]. "Cómo te extraño", a 1964 song by [[Leo Dan]] was included at the suggestion by Warner executives.<ref name=":0" /> The title of ''Avalancha de éxitos'' is a [[word game]] that by one side pay homage to 60s and 50s names of compilation albums that only included hits of some musical groups and by the other refers to ''Avalancha a'' popular soap-box cart that is depicted on the front of the album artwork.<ref name=":0" />

Among the rhythms included in the album are ska, bolero, heavy metal, post-rock, hip-hop, punk and son huasteco.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Alonso-Minutti|first1=Ana R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IgJCDwAAQBAJ|title=Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America|last2=Herrera|first2=Eduardo|last3=Madrid|first3=Alejandro L.|date=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-084274-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Beebe|first1=Roger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odY9sbcvwjUC&pg=PA276|title=Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture|last2=Fulbrook|first2=Denise|last3=Saunders|first3=Ben|date=2002-04-23|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-2915-2|language=en}}</ref>

== Recording ==
Unlike their previous album ''Avalancha de éxitos'' was recorded in Mexico, at the band's first rehearsal venue in [[Naucalpan]]. The band used a console with equalizers provided by [[Gustavo Santaolalla]] with two microphones using an [[ADAT]] portable recorder.<ref name=":0" /> [[David Byrne]] participated in "No Controles".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Avalancha de Éxitos {{!}} In Short|url=http://davidbyrne.com/explore/cafe-tacuba-feat.-david-byrne-no-controles-from-avalancha-de-exitos|access-date=2020-11-24|website=David Byrne|language=en-US}}</ref> Some incidental noises caused by recording in a rehearsal room were left in the final product.

== Promotion ==
''Avalancha de Éxitos'' was the band's first album to reach a high place on the US Billboard chart, peaking number 12. In Mexico, like the previous album ''Re'', it would have a moderate reception.<ref name=":1" /> Outside of Mexico the album opened the doors to the Spanish-speaking market, taking them in addition to the United States and Chile, where they had already performed, on a two-and-a-half-month tour of countries in which they had not performed, including all of Central America, South America and Caribbean countries like Cuba and the Dominican Republic.<ref name=":0" />

The promotional video for the album was that of "Chilanga banda" which was directed by [[Ángel Flores]] with art by [[Eugenio Caballero]].<ref name=":0" />

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| title1 = Chilanga Banda
| note1 = Chilanga Gang - "Chilanga" is slang for people from Mexico City's barrios. Originally by Juan Jaime López
| length1 = 3:32
| title2 = Metamorfosis
| note2 = Metamorphosis. Originally by Axis
| length2 = 5:45
| title3 = No Controles
| note3 = Don't Control Me. Originally by [[Nacho Cano]] and Olé Olé
| length3 = 3:07
| title4 = No Me Comprendes
| note4 = You Don't Understand Me. Originally by [[Bola de Nieve]]
| length4 = 4:43
| title5 = Alármala de Tos
| note5 = A made-up word coming from the title of [[¡Alarma! (magazine)|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]]
| length5 = 4:06
| title6 = Perfidia
| note6 = Perfidy. Instrumental. Originally by [[Alberto Domínguez (songwriter)|Alberto Domínguez]]
| length6 = 3:08
| title7 = Ojalá Que Llueva Café
| note7 = I Hope it Rains Coffee. Originally by [[Juan Luis Guerra]]
| length7 = 3:27
| title8 = Cómo Te Extraño Mi Amor
| note8 = How I Miss You My Love. Originally by [[Leo Dan]]
| length8 = 3:39
}}

==Band members==
* Anónimo ([[Rubén Albarrán]]): [[vocal]]s, [[guitar]]
* Emmanuel del Real: [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic guitar]], [[piano]], [[Programming (music)|programming]], [[vocal]]s, [[Melodeon (organ)|melodion]]
* Joselo Rangel: [[electric guitar]], [[steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic guitar]], [[vocal]]s
* Quique Rangel: [[bass guitar]], [[electric upright bass]], [[vocal]]s

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1996)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|BillboardLatin|28|artist=Café Tacvba|rowheader=true|access-date=March 30, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardLatinPop|12|artist=Café Tacvba|rowheader=true|access-date=March 30, 2025}}
|}

==References==
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