Amazing song from one of the best albums of all time. I can't believe it's been 20 years since this came out. Rock on Los Lobos!

 grant wrote: 
zactamundo!  great bassline

 Jelani wrote: 
Hoping that will be in the future - we all could probably relate to the subject. Right now, it's 89 degrees, and no relief in sight here, but I'd love to hear a "snow" song...

Do they have a song called "Wicked Snow"? 

Haha, good choice, Bill! It's rainin' WICKED in LA tonight...

Los Lobos continues to demonstrate their versatility - this is different from some of the stuff I've heard them do, and it's definitely a departure from "Will The Wolf Survive?"  I really love their music.

My kids were 10 and 8 and listened to the CD nonstop.  I found out Los Lobos will be coming to a music festival our town has each year.  I'm pumped.  The kids, who are now in their twenties, will be in town for that one ;^)

Very nice!!

Nice. And just as the rain starts falling in Alice Springs for the first time in months...

Just turned up the subwoofer.  Their best album.

The bassline sure sounds like "Smooth Criminal" to me. Inspiration, mayhaps?

I said it on another thread, but another thanks to RP for making me pay attention to these guys. Great stuff!!

grant wrote:

Yes! Spotlessly clean stuff!!

This song rocks so hard - got the headphones on and the volume way up.

I have Kiko and, although none of the songs contain my favorite elements of music, the album is so good and so unique all the way through that I recommend it to all my friends.

Gregorama wrote:

This is still my favorite Los Lobos album.

one of the more under-rated bands i know of. i especially love this album and this song in particular.

OK Bill,

We know you love Los Lobos... give 'em a rest.

Belize???!!!

Los Lobos is an accomplished genre-bending band that does Latino roots music as good as anyone, but to me they are emphatically Borderlands and el Norte de Mexico. I don't see how you get Central America from this or other of their songs. In my travels around southern Mexico and Centroamerica I usually get a mishmash of cumbia, musica tropical, trovas, the usual salsa and merengue borrowed from el Caribe, and of course the everpresent Latinpop. Shoot, Belize has more musical connections with reggae and Jamaican dancehall than it does with the rest of centroamerica.

Maybe I am taking you too literally. But I do think its important to get our words and imagery right with what other places are really like.

At any rate, LL is one damn good band.


pianocomposer wrote:

RParadise wrote:

ANSWER: Los Lobos is one of the few popular bands I listen to that has a powerful central american feel...like you have travelled to Belize or Southern Mexico. The work is unusual sounding, with solid musicianship and somehow strangely accessible. As a composer, I listen to LL to absorb the eccentric timing, instrumentation, and the vivid imagery of their dreamlike lyrics.

redeyespy wrote:

What he said. I agree.

I find Kiko odd, but brilliant.

FlakCat wrote:

Yes, that's perhaps my favorite, although I haven't heard the latest two they've put out.

Now that's a bassline. (as a bass player, i appreciate the minimalist, clean, supportive line there... dead on, strong, and clear. It holds the whole piece together)

RParadise wrote:

Let's see: evocative, drifting guitar; interesting percussion, stark vocal, overall curious mood, I could go on. Works well for me.

Still another thing I love about Tucson: the Lobos visit every year. Hopefully, they won't be doing a duet with Everlast or Rob Thomas any time soon...

Great band, likeable tune.

KevDog wrote:
I agree - Cesar has always been my favorite Lobo.

Agreed. Taken as a whole, Kiko is an outstanding album.

A song like this seems to be strengthened by the other songs on Kiko. So maybe it'll help when you listen to that album as a whole and not just to only one song on it.