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Buena Vista Social Club — El Cuarto de Tula
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xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 21:07
 
In a just world, the average rating for this song would be well over 8 along with all those Beatles and Stones tunes.  This is every bit as much of a masterpiece.  

JIan
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Jan 11, 2013 - 12:51
 
 sssterling wrote:
Great album, great song - awful transition from Portishead's Dummy directly to this. Totally jarring.
 
{#Rolleyes}

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Dec 11, 2012 - 03:46
 
 valeriogonzalez wrote:
{#Bananajam}Viva Cuba!
 
I wholeheartedly support this. I spent some time researching the history of Cuba and (as usual) found what we have been spoon fed by popular media and western governments at odds with the facts. I look forward to visiting some day.

sssterling
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 00:02
 
Great album, great song - awful transition from Portishead's Dummy directly to this. Totally jarring.

joelbb
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 19:15
 
This entire album is terrific dance music.  Esp. when Ry gets outta da way.

bluecshells
Posted: Oct 17, 2012 - 15:25
 
Thanks RP...nice song for the exit from my cube!

Stingray
Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 10:29
 
 hightail wrote:
Excellent. This always makes me want to dance. (sometimes I do, just in my living room or kitchen) 
 
Ask Romeo for an invitation to his Hotel-room! Why dance alone...?

Stingray
Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 10:27
 

The imaginairy soundtrack to:

"How we survived American attacks on our integrity!"



hightail
Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 02:11
 
Excellent. This always makes me want to dance. (sometimes I do, just in my living room or kitchen) 

RoaldSchuring
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 02:09
 
haha this came right after roads by portishead. interesting transition

Easyrider
(Portugal)
Posted: Aug 15, 2012 - 14:47
 
Me encanta esta música.

bluecshells
Posted: Aug 07, 2012 - 09:21
 
{#Sunny}

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 12:46
 
 jen3005545 wrote:
LOVE this!!!  {#Bananasplit}
 
That's gotta hurt.

Pura Vida!!!

Close to Cuba anyway

 

valeriogonzalez
(Quito, Ecuador)
Posted: May 12, 2012 - 17:37
 
{#Bananajam}Viva Cuba!

eroz
(Boston)
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 10:37
 
Wepa!!

Easyrider
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 10:35
 
Me encanta la canción.

muratalptunca
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 10:34
 
tooday  is my birthdayyyy yeahhhhhhhh .. entretenimiento :){#Bananajam}

jen3005545
(Fort Worth, TX)
Posted: May 04, 2012 - 10:33
 
LOVE this!!!  {#Bananasplit}

Lumberg
(Chicago)
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 15:49
 
A great film. Worth watching.

RedTopFireBelow
(Jersey shore, USA)
Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 10:28
 
almost broke my office chair dancing to this tune...      love it!

{#Dancingbanana}

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Sep 25, 2011 - 14:28
 
Please follow this by something from Senor Coconut.


Neil66
((stav) anger)
Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:52
 
 januismer wrote:
I gotta hankering for Miami.
 
I got a hankering for a cuba libre


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 10:49
 
These guys are awesome!

laurie_keller
Posted: Aug 25, 2011 - 05:47
 
From my tent in the hills of south dakota ... thankful for radio paradise.

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jul 24, 2011 - 20:50
 
EXCELLENT!  Almost exactly a year ago, I was dancing all night every night to music JUST LIKE THIS at the Havana Club in Cartagena, and whoah, the memories are as sweet as the mojitos that went down like water, and — ay, Margie, I'm sorry, the maid at my hotel tossed the paper with your contact info on it and then I had to go to Mompos, and ...  and Cuban music is hard to top wherever one goes!
I love this vibe, and play more of this anytime, RP, please!


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 15:50
 
 catnip wrote:
So you wander along to the Casa de la Trova in any Cuban town, and you'll find pretty much the same scene all over, a bunch of cool dudes playing all varieties of musical instruments, belting out this tune to a packed room, some of the audience nursing mojitos or Cuba Libres, others dancing like they were made for it, bodies suddenly touching, swinging, swaying, arms locked and twirling in impossible shapes. Every time the song changes in an imperceptible way, every time different, every time good, more sax, less guitar, more percussion, all possible combinations. You come away feeling like you never want to hear the tune again, so many versions have you heard; Havana, Remedios, Santiago, Barracoa, Trinidad, Viñales, and then the rest.

And then this comes on RP, and it all comes flooding back, and you realise that you were wrong; it is an astonishing song, place and country.

Can I go back, please? 
 
Yes - go back. And please take me with you!!!!!! {#Pray}  What a wonderful story for an armchair traveler like me.  Thank you.

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 15:45
 
Can't imagine anyone who can help dancing to a song so full of energy and passion.  C'mon, people - Tula's Bed is on Fire!!

tompoll
(Seattle WA USA)
Posted: Jul 01, 2011 - 15:45
 
One of my favorite albums! Now available in hi-def (at HDTracks) for all you audiophiles out there.


meauclaire
(AZ....the land of misfits)
Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 08:06
 
El-sucko

gabrielle7nt
(okidoki)
Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 08:05
 
Que chevere.

dxc
(Latvia, Liepāja)
Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 11:51
 
A year ago this I would have found this song below likeable. After having taken salsa dancing classes and participating in salsa festival, this song made me very happy. I could say I relived those great moments I've had (and will be having) {#Hearteyes}

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe)
Posted: Apr 29, 2011 - 11:47
 
This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends, this is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends, this is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends....

sandymac
Posted: Feb 25, 2011 - 10:09
 
This was playing the very first time I logged onto RP 5 years ago.  Happy Anniversary to me!  Thank you, Bill.  {#Heartkiss}

MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 05:11
 
Luv this stuff. I'd sop it up with a beeskit if I could.
 
 


januismer
(SW Michigan)
Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 05:10
 
I gotta hankering for Miami.

dave216j
(DC)
Posted: Jan 25, 2011 - 03:36
 
This is the sunniest and warmest thing I've felt in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in several months!{#Sunny}

catnip
(just about... there.)
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 13:36
 
So you wander along to the Casa de la Trova in any Cuban town, and you'll find pretty much the same scene all over, a bunch of cool dudes playing all varieties of musical instruments, belting out this tune to a packed room, some of the audience nursing mojitos or Cuba Libres, others dancing like they were made for it, bodies suddenly touching, swinging, swaying, arms locked and twirling in impossible shapes. Every time the song changes in an imperceptible way, every time different, every time good, more sax, less guitar, more percussion, all possible combinations. You come away feeling like you never want to hear the tune again, so many versions have you heard; Havana, Remedios, Santiago, Barracoa, Trinidad, Viñales, and then the rest.

And then this comes on RP, and it all comes flooding back, and you realise that you were wrong; it is an astonishing song, place and country.

Can I go back, please? 

Bleyfusz
Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 13:34
 
Yo siempre estoy al loro con lo de "Se volvió loco Barberito, hay que ingresarlo!" Makes me smile each time I hear it. {#Tongue-out}

nelsonha
(NOR ¤ CAL)
Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 16:51
 
This came out appropriately for when I lived in South Florida.  It was played in all the Cuban restaurants around.  What great memories!

maggie6969
Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 16:51
 
The making of the album was VERY interesting....love this music!

ginniet
(Spokane, WA)
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 16:07
 
{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananasplit}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananasplit}

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 16:07
 
 socalhol wrote:
This whole album is excellente!  Always takes me back to 2001 having dinner with friends at the "Havana Club" (2nd floor balcony) in Puerto Vallarta.  Nice background music to enjoy Mojitos & Paella with friends while watching the sun set over the Pacific.... {#Sunny}

 
I'm experiencing severe vacation envy...sounds incredible (as does the album)...



dasfeuer
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Posted: Aug 19, 2010 - 16:05
 
¡Ay, Mamá!, qué pasó. 8/10
 

calypsus_1
Posted: Aug 14, 2010 - 22:24
 

Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto de Tula, Live

"Nada como la forma de antaño para cantarle al sexo con esta descripción tan hermosa que te dice y que no, pero que sabes de qué se habla y canta. Quizás sea el tiempo de retomar lo antiguo para sentirse estimulado al natural y no por comerciales. "

"They are masters of music! It wolud be one of the biggest tragedies of the world if nobody continue their art. It should become parth of the world heritage! "

"Esta es la verdadera música cubana. No la cagada actual de reggeton. " 



kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Aug 11, 2010 - 19:48
 
 mgkiwi wrote:
This has brought some sunshine into a dreary Geneva day - thanks RP. Off to Cuba this summer - will pay my respects to FC! They need our support due to hypocritical sanctions!
 
Hope you had a great time there and had plenty of opportunity to listen to music as good as this!


socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jun 08, 2010 - 14:46
 
This whole album is excellente!  Always takes me back to 2001 having dinner with friends at the "Havana Club" (2nd floor balcony) in Puerto Vallarta.  Nice background music to enjoy Mojitos & Paella with friends while watching the sun set over the Pacific.... {#Sunny}


Randomax
(Wimberley, TX)
Posted: Jun 08, 2010 - 14:40
 
I am so jonesin' for chips, salsa and a giant Margarita!!!!!!!!

surfergirlsc
Posted: Jun 08, 2010 - 14:39
 
Love love love this whole album. I am not a dancer...but I could dance to this all day long!! Great afternoon music! {#Dancingbanana}

dcuenc
Posted: Mar 05, 2010 - 13:13
 
maestros del SON —- thank you Cuba for making the world dance

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Mar 05, 2010 - 13:12
 
Man, these guys are good!{#Clap}