redtex wrote: 

Ugh...I'm with you.  I like it a lot until the Muppet-voice starts.

I can't handle the scratchy sh-stuff at the end......please make it stop.

Nice!

I'll just put this right here: http://www.elguerocanelo.com/index2.html  Get the Sammy Dog.

 vandal wrote:  You sir....are correct!

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Calexico soundcheck at the Fillmore.

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I got the munchies.

http://elguerocanelo.com/

my dog is named "Canela" they said it meant cinnamon. She's a brown chihuahua. Guero means white dude, right?
So, I'm thinking a brown (or tan) white man.

 spaceman wrote: 
true - but it could be a restaurant in S. Tucson?? - apparently quite a popular expanded taco stand - and a place where the lyrics of this song would make some sense - a lot more than cinnamon colored. 

We just flew out to Tucson for the Calexico Flor de Muertos concert and the next day checked out this place - best Sonoran hot dog in town we are told. 

Best band in the world in my opinion.  I hope they don't catch on too much though, ya know? . . . .

 

 spaceman wrote: 
hahaha gotta love those automatic translators

I'm btw hablante nativa but still don't quite get it... appart from knowing that it's the name of a bar/eating place?

But especially güero is a Mexican word,
I'm from the other side of the ocean...
At this side, canelo means, among many other things, silly...

((just seen that güero means blond?, it'd be funny if canelo means the same there as over here hehe but I don't expect so...)

I've got the Panoptica mix of this on my iPod and I haven't got a bloody clue where it came from. Great rhythm tho.

alux wrote:

I was looking for the same thing...
The Babel Fish is not very helpful:

"guero canelo" = "güero cinnamon-coloured" (sic)

Can any hablantes nativos in RP land provide a translation of this song title?

Anyone else think the guy sounds like Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers?

Always love it when Bill follows Iron & Wine with Calexico (or vice versa).

...this was the song which bumped me from fascinated curiosity over one or two obscure plays i'd heard of calexico to taking the plunge and buying two of their albums sight unseen - i've added a lot more calexico to my collection since then...

slartibart_O wrote:

She looks quite pallid. I fear for her health.

There is a scene in the movie "Collateral" where a petrified Jamie Foxx, a taxi driver, is walking through a club, pretending to be Tom Cruise's character, a stone killer. In the background, Calexico is on stage playing "Güero Canelo" from "Feast of Wire."

It's a freaking brilliant scene, primarily because of the dark & eerie mood set by the song. However, the effect is heightened by the lyrical content - "Güero Canelo" is a hyperbolic recap of the stereotypical inner city Latino lifestyle (sex, drugs, fighting, cars, machismo).

I think Calexico are an underrated genius team. . .

I've heard this song so many times and it never crossed my mind that there even were lyrics. I always just thought to myself how much it sounded like a digeridoo


lol

the first calexico track i do not find completely banal ...

nice!

Now THAT'S a cowbell!

love the cover illustration, is that by Coop?

Duncan54 wrote:

Speaking of live...just saw them live in Utrecht, Netherlands with Iron & Wine and they were fantastic. This is an incredible band to see live. Amazing energy, mariachi horns, and a huge band (at one point with 13 people onstage). If you have the chance to see Calexico live, I recommend it highly.

One more point than the last song. After all, they are Calexico and Gomez isn't.

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... Superb lyrics, so cheeky and clever and loaded! ...

The guitar is a ringer for the playing of Marc Ribot on many Tom Waits albums.

jump, scrape, break the switches
coast low wit da bitches
funky pop, drop 'n hop
here come the cops
güero canelo

gangs, guns, knives, thugs
chumps, chops, chill, chug
drink malt, smoke mota
i like you mucho
dame un beso

soma, valium, oxycontin
reds, whites, speed, vicodin
t's, b's, thorazine
screamers, pleasers
güero canelo

freak, tweek, week 2 week
kneel, feel, seek the geek
pump da bass in yo' face
contrabasso
how low can you go?

belladonna, mescaline
psylocibin, peyote
mda and dnt spells ecstasy
güero canelo

coil spring, bounce, crank
pumps, shocks, struts, tanks
psychoactive electroplade
it's necesito
dame un beso

impala, caddy
el dorado, comet
galaxy, el camino
chevelle, caprice
monte carlo
so low six fo'
how low can you go?

tweezer, teaser, tiger weezer
rusty, crusty, skuzzy skeezer
chuy, chata, cholo, chico
flaco, chucho
only at pueblo
molé y güero canelo

güero canelo
güero canelo