Canciones 1989-2013

3h 38m. Rethink your continued existence.

Fuck you

Canciones 1989-2013 is a 3.5 hours (what the f... !!!) compilation album of Extremoduro, a Spanish rock band. This is a compilation album, but what is a compilation album of 3.5 hours? A best of...? A worst of...? All of...? Or none of these options, but I think it's certainly too much of. Much and much too much of a very mediocre rock band with songs that are also much too long (average song length is around 5 minutes). The awful album cover really brings the album to a new low in this list.

25 years of music in one album. And it’s in Spanish. And it’s pretty bad. This is one of maybe three albums I just couldn’t finish. I gave it a good shot hut boy this is not enjoyable. Huge compilation albums like this shouldn’t be allowed. 1.5/10

This is a compilation, not an album. I promise life will be much easier if you learn how to read!

Sorry friend, compilations shouldn’t count. Not devoting 3.25 hours of my life.

I started listing to this and got 7 songs in before I realised it's 3hrs 38mins and 44 tracks long, fuck off.

As a matter of principle I have to give this a 1. It's over 3.5 hours long and is just a compilation album which absolutely does not and should not count. Yes there is a long Ella Fitzgerald album on the OG list and someone has added a Louis Armstrong compilation, which are acceptable as they both come from a time before an "album" really existed. This band clearly has albums. Pick one of those. Instead we are subjected to over 3.5 hours of mediocre bland shit. I'm always advocating for more music from non-English speaking countries, but pulling this kinda stunt doesn't help. The music is itself is bland and boring. Non-offensive and dull. Mediocre. It's acceptable but 3.5 hours of it makes me hate it. My personal rating: 1/5 My rating relative to the list: 1/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No. Don't submit compilation albums.

Gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins. 2/5 for extremely generic Spanish hard rock and then minus 1 point for failing the assignment.

Scored at 4, because the songs and lyrics are great. But I believe that the inclusion of Anthologies goes against the purpose of the page.

Whoever thought it was a good idea to add a 3 hour 39 minute career spanning compilation of some of the most generic rock music known to mankind ought to be ashamed of themselves.

This may be the very 1st (ok, maybe 2nd) album that I just won't finish. It's the principal. F whoever picked this one. First of all, it's a compilation, so it shouldn't have been approved. 2nd, it's 3.5 hours of Spanish music. F aaaalllll the way off.

The one and only album I have skipped in the whole project. Expecting anyone to sit through 3 and a half hours of any artist is just insulting.

Very very long, but also very good. Sounds like a compilation album, which I suppose it is - all good bands evolve a ton over 20+ years! I might have preferred a single album, but then I wouldn't have heard all these songs (yet). An absolute joy, from a band I would never otherwise have heard of! ¡Gracias!

So apparently I'm one of the only people to actually finish listening to this album among the people who were assigned it. It's good. End to end. If you're enjoying the first normal-length album's worth of song you'll like everything else you hear. Yes, the length wore on me. It's really long. I've given albums half this length points off for being too damn long. The difference is I wasn't *enjoying* those albums along the way. Guys, you know if you think it sounds fine but it's just too long you can take a break, right? Stop listening for a few. Go watch/listen to something else for half an hour or something, then jump back in? You don't need to keep going until you're actively miserable when you'd otherwise be having a good time.

Listen people... a nearly 3 and 3 quarters hour compilation album is a pretty aggressive way to introduce us to your favorite Spanish punk band. Aside from that, it has become a repetitive theme of course but lack of a real command of the language is a big barrier for this kind of music. The style of the singing varied very little and got pretty old at length. The music was solid and stretched interestingly into a lot of adjacent rock, hard rock, and metal territories, which helped, though it also adopted some of those genres' tendency to overlong songs. Overall positive though and I did end up listening to the whole thing which says something.

If you had given me one 40 minute album and not a three hour compilation I think we find ourselves in a different position. Usually not finishing auto equals a one but I still listened for a good while and was enjoying so it gets a plus one

This isn’t really in the spirit of the list as it seems to be more a boxed set highlighting all the music from a group rather than an album. This isn’t available on Apple Music, but I was able to piece together the collection by finding the individual songs off the various albums. I started doing this but once I hit the first hour of music stopped. This band has a solid rock sound, although the lead singer’s vocal delivery wasn’t always my favorite. Some of the songs really stood out to me. I really liked “Sol De Invierno” for example. If this had been one of the actual albums instead of a huge compilation this could have appealed more… It’s a lot to hand over 3.5 hours of music from a multi-decade career to a new listener as their introduction to a band. This really doesn’t fit in with the spirit of this project. Still, some solid songs here.

Kinda curious how OP thinks this would be received. Musically this is decent, vocally one dimensional, and it's every close minded music lover's enemy... non english... oh no. But that's not the criticism here. It's that it's the entire catalog of this band running 3 and a half hours. This is longer than the Godfather 2, and that's what I was gonna do after today's album, but guess what? I didn't have enough time anymore...

Hard rock, punk rock, progressive rock. Grande el Robe. Vinilo.

ja ganz gut würd ich wieder hören abrr das spanisch nicht gut

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Segundo movimento, Amor castuo, Sol de invierno, Tango suicida

Some good stuff here, and has a nice vintage rock feel, but vocals are annoying (though seems like a legit frontman). Disqualifying because a compilation.

Average Spanish rock music

Yea, pretty good, but I couldn't get through the whole thing.

Ignoring the extreme breach of etiquette of submitting a close to 4-hour compilation album, the music is pretty good and thankfully varied

While I enjoy listening to albums that are non-English and trying to find something awesome in them I draw the line at a 3:40 long compilation. keeping with the mission of these lists I decided to listen to the most popular record they had on Spotify. I really enjoyed it. If I understood the lyrics I might have thought it very awesome. I think if I had listened to the full compilation here I would have found it too much and probably would have had a very different experience.

You know, there are some good sounds here. It has some good rock, grunge, punk tracks. I don't understand enough Spanish to enjoy it fully unfortunately and being 3 hours I gave up after a while as there's only so much I could listen to. It's not really album either is it, but hey ho.

I honestly didn't listen to the whole thing but after 18 tracks, I got the gist of it and it actually wasn't too bad. It's a shame the the user chose this compilation when they could've chosen a proper album and it would've gotten much better reviews. Due to the length of this one I gotta give it a 3. But a shorter album would probably have potential for a 4.

It was alright at first, but it's way too long.

Too long

How is this so popular?

Way too long of course, probably what kept it at a 2. It wasn’t that bad, but it also wasn’t that good.

Compilation album? It's pretty long and filled with lots of different styles- some I liked but overall it's 2nd rate and uninventive to my ears.

A 3-hour near-comprehensive compilation of Extremoduro's Spanish rock music career. Similar to Extrechinato y Tú (also on the user's list!), Extremoduro existed within the Rock urbano español revival of the '90s. As you can tell by the compilation's title, this expanded far into the 2000s with their studio output effectively concluding by 2013. Wikipedia tells me that Extremoduro planned for a farewell tour, but COVID effectively botched those plans, so the band called it quits without much of a hurrah. Too bad! While I will agree that Extremoduro is a pretty good and regionally important rock band, I don't think an overly long compilation gets the point across all that succinctly. Other reviews have belabored this issue so I won't dwell on it too much, but there are certainly better choices to communicate the musical legacy of a band so revered within Spain's borders. Extremoduro's 1996 album Agila, for example, is a clear highlight of the band's career: it's their best-selling album, praised by Rolling Stone on multiple occasions, and is a clear breakout success amongst Extremoduro's discography. The first five songs from Agila run from tracks 21-25 on the compilation, and I feel they're an excellent example of the band's unique and innovative songwriting. Regardless, over 210 minutes of material can be difficult to digest all in one sitting, and I believe it requires a fairly strong justification for its inclusion on the user's list. Future users that are equally enterprising and malicious could find reason to submit one of Bull of Heaven's particularly notorious albums, unless we start implementing more rules for submission or, at the very least, request the site admin's professional judgement be exercised on a case-by-case basis. I think he's a reasonable man, but I've also never met him! Are these good songs? Yes, certainly. Is this a good album? Not particularly. I appreciate that the songs are organized chronologically, at the very least. Of course, it's still far longer than it needs to be and doesn't really execute a cohesive singular artistic vision like a standard album might. This compilation is best-suited for those who are already dedicated fans of Extremoduro who wish to celebrate the band's career, rather than for newcomers who are largely unfamiliar with their work. Regardless, I can say I've had plenty of exposure to Extremoduro's music now! CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: No, and I think I've made that clear.

This must be a troll selection. 3.5 hours.

Imagine an okay song but it's nearly 4 hours long.

As a matter of principle, I refuse to listen to this thing. It will be a first in FOUR YEARS of using this generator. I was wondering about taking a short break anyway... So thanks, ha ha. No best of, no greatest hits, it's a golden rule. What's so difficult to understand here??? I'm pretty sure that Alexander must have specified this requirement to the person who suggested this, but they insisted anyway. Honestly, I can't blame Alexander for letting it go, why should he waste his time with a stubborn person? But I do blame the latter, however, to the point where I can understand people using expletives against whoever was thick enough to suggest this. The album format is a real thing, and users in here have put a lot of care and time trying to define what a good album is, because for them, it is a distinctively different experience from a streaming service's artist playlist or an official compilation. If you can't understand this after listening to 1089 albums from the original list, I don't know what to tell you. 🤷 Heck, and even if you start to include compilations, there are so many better options to explore first, with examples that are considered iconic now given that they very often were the clear entry point into an artist's discography for a whole generation of listeners. Out of the top of my head, you have *Legend* for Bob Marley, *Chronicles* for Creedence, *Greatest Hits I* and *Greatest Hits II* for Queen, *The Immaculate Conception* for Madonna, Leonard Cohen's own *Greatest Hits* documenting his early career, or Minor Threat's *Complete Discography* -- which, crucially, can be gathered inside *a single CD*... This last example also reminds me that *Canciones 1989* is apparently *a 3.5 hour compilation* to boot! Like, there's not even a clear willingness to "personalize" this compilation through a selection that would follow a specific mindset. Compilations can be exclusively made out of singles ; they can be choice cuts instead, gathering both hits and deeper cuts ; or they can favor less known songs and B-sides... Here you seem to have an "all in the pot" selection that isn't even interesting tracklisting-wise. So yeah, I still wrote a long-ass text for something I'm not gonna listen to anyway. All the more reasons for me not to waste my time going through this thing. I'll get acquainted with Extremoduro when someone suggests a proper album. ---- NON PERTINENT / NOT RATED ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 78 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 98 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 193 (I could have added one here with this non pertinent choice, but I'm not even gonna do that, I'm gonna just pretend this thing doesn't exist) ---- Émile, tu trouveras ma dernière réponse sous le *Inside* de Bo Burnham

Compilation albums are cheating. Even more so, in my opinion, than live albums. Both usually receive a one or two star rating from me. The maker of the album gets to pick and choose what songs do and don’t make it on the album, which is not unlike the making of other albums, admittedly, but in cases of live and compilation albums, they have knowledge of what their best and most popular songs are. Of course the album is going to be full of bops. These songs are fine and I probably would have given any of his albums a four star review as I enjoyed every song individually. Put all together, this 44 track 3.5+ hour album destroys any chance I had at enjoying the artist. These guys don’t have the range to sustain that length. I’d be willing to bet they don’t perform this long live. They were set up for failure and I can’t tell if the submitter was making a joke, getting revenge, or genuinely believed that this was an album worthy of the list. As if a compilation album could ever compare to the likes of Kid Rock, Throbbing Gristle, or Joh fucking Zorn. I’ll let you know, I plan on listening to this whole album. I’m currently four songs in. I believe that I’ll be able to accomplish this feat. If, however, I am unable. You will find a “DNF” tacked on to the end of this review. Good luck to anyone out there that is attempting the same. May luck be on your side. Finished. It’s not bad, it just doesn’t count. 1/5

This is supposed to be *albums* to listen to before you die, not *artists*. A 3 hour 38 minute compilation is taking the piss. If you can’t choose one album as an example maybe they aren’t that good, I shouldn’t have to listen to the whole back catalogue to get the essence of who they are. This one star is for the person who suggested it, not the artist.