Dance Mania

Solid

💃 Favorite track: Mi Chicquita Quiere Bembé 3.5/5

gawd I wish I could dance

Me gustó mucho el estilo. Gran álbum.

8.5/10. Really solid dance mambo, love the Latin grooves found in this style. Slightly hindered by my lack of understanding the language.

Mambo salsa chachachá no es lo mío

Que chulada!!!

Sure, it's nice enough if you like this kind of thing

Mania!

Backgroud music, not very memorable, each song sounds similiar to me

Enjoyable latin music.

Day 84 Music like this is why I get up in the morning every day. This is dopamine more powerful than any orgasm Fav track: Hong Kong Mambo

fun album, interesting to listen to, kind of a fun party album. Not anything that I will listen to on my own. I'll listen if someone else puts it on but that is it.

Absolutely joyful. No bad vibes.

#512/1001. At the midpoint of this project I was hoping we get more latin america. I guess this can be counted, although it is already polished enough to appear on this list. Hoping for a new mambi craze.

It didnt do anything for me, it went on, it played and it finished. I barely noticed it and hadnt realised it was finished until I was a few tracks into the follow on queue. harmless.

Reminds me of The Sims, but also pensioners. I guess this was their music for a night out. This was quite fun in places. I'd have a bit of a shuffle to it if I was around in the 50s.

This was a fun listen. I was driving, but I could picture this playing in the background when cleaning the house or cooking dinner. Chores would lead into a little dance in the kitchen with my wife. It's just upbeat and fun time. It does get a little repetitive at times, but for 38 minutes, was pretty joyful.

This was good. It put me in a good mood and made me want to dance. 3/5

No es mi estilo

4. Why not. It made me happy even if I didn’t know what was going on.

Really love this album, great discovery, did not realise I enjoyed Latin music so much, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This dude definitely shot Mr. Burns -- because this album begs for some excitement.

4,5

Not really my thing, but an enjoyable listen!

Pretty fun

Fascinating rhythms galore!!

Good music, fun listen! I was definitely bopping.

I feel like I would appreciate this album more if I knew how to dance to it like the celebrities in the tv show Dancing with the Stars. I enjoyed that it was different it just wasn't something I would seek out again.

This type of salsa/latin vibe is not exactly my thing, but I definitely didn't mind. It did make me want to go back ad go to the dance club with my high school friends. Good nostalgia.

Nope!

This is probably very well performed for exactly what it is. It's just so narrow this music has never appealed to me. I'm curious if it was groundbreaking in Latin jazz land?

Just wonderful. I love mambo.

Fav song: El Cayuco

Nice and relaxing

I've been listening to a lot of Latin influenced music recently, so this album being served up was a pleasant coincidence. It's a very strong album, plenty of good tracks.

Nice, smooth, had me boogying in the kitchen. I'm still not familiar enough with the genre to be able to tell what sets this apart as a particularly good album, though.

Just another simple case of I can appreciate this, it's just really not my thing. To give credit where credit is due, her voice is absolutely amazing, and I can really hear the passion even if I can't understand a word she is saying. But to be completely honest, outside of that I just found this really boring. Every song sounds pretty much exactly the same, and her beautiful voice really isn't enough to carry the whole album.

Helt greit å ha i bakgrunnen men selv for det formålet ville jeg foretrukket noe annet.

Yeah, it’s good, but its background. Scene 1: Perched high in the hills of Southern California, the evening glow from shimmer Los Angeles far below providing backdrop for the spacious hillside villa and the boisterous 1960’s era cocktail party in full swing. The air is warm and dry. The men in chinos, linen, and loafers. No hats, no beards. Plenty of smoke and cologne. The women in sleeveless evening dress. Makeup just right, best jewels, and not a hair out of place. Caucasian all. Everyone was three deep into their rums, their gins, their bourbons. No business tonight, this was pleasure. The music is loud, the chatter and laughter raised to levels to match the volume from the 10 piece salsa band playing in the corner by the pool. Perhaps 75 guests in attendance, with another 15 Mexican servants dressed in white with trays of offerings, swaying through the throngs to the beat of the drums. Everyone is having a wonderful time. Their guard down, the evening has promise. As if on cue, the band breaks into a lively number. Tito Puente’s Mambo Gozon, and the guests surge toward the stage, ladies in full gyration, fellas flapping their arms in awkward acceptance. White people dancing has never been pretty. No one payed much attention to the 6 men working security around the perimeters of the house. They knew they were there, and that was good enough. Thus it went unnoticed as each man fell silently at their posts, all within seconds of each other, as the band thundered to a finale and the crowd begged for more. A quick transition into a lively Variety Drag had the dance floor full, and even those reluctant to join before soon caved. Bodies were tight. People were feeling great. Sins of the past forgotten. For a moment, all was as before. Innocent. A small army of men move carefully down the dark hillside in spread formation towards the bright lights of the villa. Dressed in black. Automatic weapons held at the ready. Quietly the servants slip unseen and out a side door and into waiting vans at the bottom of the driveway. The men in black reach the low fence that surrounds the grounds and pause. They don’t crouch; there is no more threat. They wait for the order. The band’s leader steps to the front of the stage, smiles broadly, and points toward an older man standing at the rear of the crowd. The man squints back at the stage with unexpected confusion, his smile slowly slipping from his face. The dancers shout for more, unaware of the sudden tension around this man. The band leader stares, smile gone, and blows a kiss. The crowd roars, and the band tears into Tito’s Cuando Te Veo! The dancers scream with approval, and the floor jumps! The older man pales, his drink slips silently from his hand. No one noticed it shatter at his feet. No one noticed the men in black slipping soundlessly over the fence.

311. nice

Makes me want to play the sax again, which is probably the highest praise I can give in this genrr

Faded into the background pretty quickly

So my only knowledge of Tito Puente was his appearance on The Simpsons many years ago. His song on that, Señor Burns, is an absolute banger. This album however was completely banger-less. I’m writing this three hours after finishing it and I remember absolutely nothing about it.

Extremely fun listen.

El Cayuco - 8/10. Smooth Latin dance music. Complicacion - 8/10. Three D Mambo - 9/10. Llego Mijan - 9/10. Cuando te Vea - 9/10. Hong Kong Mambo - 8/10. Feels like a Mambo in a Bond Movie. Mambo Gozon - 9/10. Mi Chiquita Quiere Bembe - 9/10. Varsity Drag - 9/10. Estoy Siempre Junto a Ti - 8/10. Agua Limpia Todo - 8/10. Saca tu Mujer - 9/10. Overall Rating - 4.21/5 (8.42/10). Somehow, I feel like both dancing and writing a scandalous, slanderous Latin tune about a multi-billionaire who owns a nuclear power plant. In seriousness, though, the brass cooks, the percussion is tight, the rhythm varies, but always has a swing to it. Would listen to this again, many times.

I can understand it has importance in the history of music, and it is well made and played. But, it feels a little like elevator music to me at this point

I don't know how many tracks I listened to on Spotify after the album finished because it all sounds exactly the same. If music is primarily your soundtrack to dancing then it's fine, but if you want to sit down and listen to something that genuinely moves you then this style is unlikely to be it.

Catchy and makes me want to dance!

Now I want Mexican for lunch.

Sounds of a 60s Spy movie where a Latino detective with a pencil thin mustache tracks down French bank robbers to a villa on the island of Mallorca

This was delightful, made me want to jump on a plane to Puerto Rico!

Muy entretenido. La rompe Tito. Puro vacile 7/10

Man there is just so much influence this album had on things to come. Its fingerprints on modern Latin music can be seen coming from pretty much every track. It’s catchy and does this amazing balancing act with the horns between dissonance and perfect tight harmonies, often within seconds of each other. Also love how the horns often join the rhythm section.

Just a lovely album that feels like a slightly earlier Juan Esquivel sort of space age bachelor pad deal. I, for one, really love that stuff. Four stars.

Typical 1950s South American music

ok

A bit unusual to me, but in a good way?

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Que Rico

Si si siiiii! A very fun listen.

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Didn't do anything for me in this pass. Would give another chance, but not as a priority

A vibe. I’m not often in the mood for this vibe, but it’s nice regardless. I mean you can’t deny the musicianship

qiaqiaqia

Nice

Technically awesome but not my jam

I called out the list's lack of Puerto Rican artists earlier this month and the list has delivered again. Thank you.

Ah this reminds me of my salsa dancing days. Good times. It feels like the sort of album you’d only listen to while dancing, not relaxing at home on a record player. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this with my morning coffee… and it gave me just as much energy!

not for me

listen again next time you see this

First Listen Favorites: El Cayuco Complicacion Mi Chiquita Quiere Bembe Honorable Mentions: Varsity Drag Estoy Siempre Junto a Ti Llego Mijan

I'm just not into fun/samba/dancing music. I really couldn't wait for this to finish. Thanks for the suggestion, album generator, but this is not for me.

This is one of the albums that where ment to reduce a sound of a culture into a mass produced product. But you know what? It fucking worked. From the very start it just sounds great. It employs the great art of big band arrangements to latin grooves. The vocals are incredible, check out track 5, for example. Very cool marimba on other tracks. There's not a lot of innovation in here, but it's really enjoyable. The sound is warm and detailed. The harmonies lovely, and the rhythm gives it a lot of life. Not much else to add, a lovely lovely listen. It's a 4 from me.

Great Latino vibes

I like this style of music, but this album isn’t doing much to draw me in. It’s decent but I don’t think I’ll be coming back to it

This was a fun pull. I don't know enough about mambo, or Latin jazz depending on how far down the genre rabbit hole we want to delve, to have any firm opinions about quality of music presented. What I can say is for the most part, while the songs tended to sound extremely similar to my ear, there were only two tracks that didn't work for me. "Three D Mambo" had the off-beat percussion lines that threw me for a loop, and the slower "Estoy Siempre Junto a Ti" just didn't match the energy and tempo of the rest of the album.

As an anglophone living in Belgium I often find myself using invented words and descriptions to try to communicate words I don't know. If I ever found myself in Spain trying to communicate the word 'nipple' there is a real possibility I would say 'Tito Puente'.

Wallpaper

Probably a fine album but not for me

Well ok

Gut

To quote the movie "Stripes": "Y'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, 'Oh, yes, I've been listening to his work for years.'" it's catchy. feel like having some chips and SALSA.....

This was shockingly good! Wow! Loved the brass! Loved the songs. Loved the energy. Loved the singing. I can think of a dozen bands that borrowed this sound one way or another.

I liked it. Very fun alblum. Enjoyed. I would describe as Spanish Jazz. I wouldn't purchase but would definitely listen to again. Sort on a precursor to Santana

I kind of enjoyed this… I’d listen to it again when I’m in the mood.

I'm still sick but I really enjoy that it's something new and different

Great music!

Really liked this one, easy listening, every song was on a consistent level of quality, nice to hear some diverse instruments. Would be a good album to have on vinyl.

I think I'm going to be unfair on this one. It's come off the back of an Iron Maiden album and never stood a chance. Sorry Tito

Such a fun album - got my toes tapping and my hips swinging!

Not my thing. Nice to hear in the background of a hotel lobby for a few seconds before moving on to other things. I didn’t need to listen to this album. The horns and voices are so shrill and constant it honestly became painful to listen to pretty quickly.

AY DIOS MÍO 4/5

Day991 - everything i know about tito puente is from the simpsons. uno, dos, tres. slanderous mambo time. and this is good too

I genuinely don't know if this music existed before him and he made it popular, he invented it, or was just capitalizing off an existing genre, but... It's fine? I listened to volume 1 for over an hour in the car and had no idea when I one song ended and another started. But it wasn't terrible or worse brain melting boring. But it was just like having white noise on. It was. Fine.

9/10

Great percussion. Very lively. Hard not to move to this.

A surprisingly great listen. When it started, I figured it was gonna be an easy three. Didn’t think I would hate it or love it. But I liked it more than I thought I would. Never got boring.

Loving the latin America vibes. Would listen to this again when I am in the mood for some Spanish music

Any given Tito Puente song is a nuclear beam of fun and you have to have a heart of stone too not enjoy it. Any subsequent Tito Puente song, you are either teaching mambo to masochists or working on a torture tape.