Extremoduro (Spanish pronunciation: [e(ɣ)stɾemoˈðuɾo]) was a Spanish hard rock band from Plasencia, Extremadura. The band was led by Roberto Iniesta, also known as "Robe", who is often referred as "El rey de Extremadura" (lit. 'the king of Extremadura'). The name Extremoduro is a pun on the band's home region in western Spain, Extremadura, and may be translated as "extremely tough", "rough edge", or "hard extreme".
The band was created in 1987 and is regarded as one of the most influential bands of the Spanish hard rock scene, besides being a symbolic representative for their region. Influenced by the Spanish literature, Iniesta's lyrics are often described as rude street poetry, with frequent allusions to drugs, sex and self-destruction.
Songs by Extremoduro include "So payaso", "Golfa", "Salir", "Extremaydura", "Puta" and "Jesucristo García". The highest moment in the band's career was probably reached with the release of their album Agila, which was awarded a prize for best video in the first edition of the Spanish Music Awards in 1997.
It is considered one of the best Spanish bands ever by several music magazines. They were ranked number 6 on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Spanish rock bands".
In December 2019, the band announced a farewell tour of eight cities for May and June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tour was first postponed to autumn 2020, then cancelled and the band officially disbanded.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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