La cagaste... Burt Lancaster

Great album to get when you’re on vacation in the Dominican Republic. No notes

It has at least 6 tracks that are not wasted, pop rock that crossed borders from Spain to Latin America in the eighties and that persists to this day transgenerationally. With a bit of punk, pop, rock and ballad influences, Hombres G gave us a small album but one of the most solid and memorable among his discography.

Spanish jangle pop. I'll take it. Sounds a little ahead it's time actually. Indie before indie.

Spanish 80s rock is a yes

Couldn't understand a single word of it but still a really good album!

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Visite nuestro bar, Te quiero, Marta tiene un marcapasos, El ataque de las chicas cocodrilo

This album is a little jangle pop, a little new wave, and a bit ska. It’s a good distillation of guitar centric music in the 80s and comes from a band I’ve never heard of. Overall, it’s really enjoyable and has a great sense of melody with solid backing musicianship. I’m not sure it adds anything new to the conversation, but I’m glad I was exposed to it.

Damn, this is a pretty fun album. Lots of strong tracks with a fun beat, melody and energy. En La Playa, Te Quiero, and Marta Tiene are my favorites, but it has a fun pop bubbly vibe with some decent hooks that make it a nice surprise.

Catchy and upbeat. Very Spanish poppy, if there's such a thing. Would definitely listen to again.

This album is a lot cooler than the cover suggests, really enjoyed it.

I am not a fan of Hombres G, but I can’t denied that this album was incredible popular and very catchy when I was growing up. Again, also having more Spanish variety is something I really appreciated.

Smooth and shiny rock album with an easy listening voice. I would probably give this a 3 as it didn't completely blow me away, but gets a boost from me because: A) I always appreciate music from countries/cultures not well-represented on the list B) I literally just got off a plane from Spain today so this feels like serendipity.

A little ray of bouncy Iberian sunshine and good times. Great fun! Rating: 3.5 Playlist track: Visite nuestro bar Date listened: 22/08/24

Fun, disposable pop in a language I don't understand. Fair enough!

The significance of Burt Lancaster and/or that cover is totally lost. On the other hand, just the sound - pop-rock, slightly beachy, with just-incongruous vocals - works well. The Hombres don't demand much space; There can always be room for light punned tunes.

Fine, but didn't particularly grab me. Not getting much out of the lyrics with my very rusty high school/college Spanish. Otherwise the music seemed like pretty straightforward pop, and I wasn't a big fan of the lead singer's vocal stylem

I like the more upbeat tracks here, they really stand out for me. The Downtempo stuff is fine, but maybe a little tired.

Not bad, but not super interesting either. 3 stars.

Banger 4 3

It was all in Spanish, so I did not understand a word of it. It was alright. I wouldn't revisit it, but I would listen to it again.

Pretty good. I enjoyed this one.

Fun 80s light rock. Raspy singing brings to mind French band Telephone.

fun, high energy

Kinda cool

A perfectly pleasant album that fits in with a lot of what was going on musically with pop-rock in the mid-80s. I would have enjoyed this better with another vocalist. Fave Songs: Te quiero, El ataque de las chicas cocodrilo, Un par de palabras, En la playa, Visite nuestro bar

Unexpected!

Hmmm… I liked some of this but wasn’t blown away by it.

What WAS this? I kinda enjoyed it…

Pretty fun

Nice tunes let down by a weak vocalist.

This is more what I wish on the original list. An album by a band I've never heard of from a country that I don't think of when thinking of rock music. Now saying that, it was a curiosity to say the least. I'm happy to have listened to it but it isn't that special. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Sure. We had enough boring British garbage, why not something from Spain instead?

Fun and lively 🙌

Those vocals sounded like they were recorded at a bachelor party that ended up in a Karaoke bar. And for that matter, so did the music.

I don't get the Burt Lancaster reference; he's too old for me (I'm 40!) and I don't speak Spanish. But I'm guessing that's a great gag. Or is it? Music is alright. Ska-ish? A bit monotonous, every song sounded the same. Probably one of those things that no one outside Spain (maybe also South America?) knows about. Like Cold Chisel, but nowhere near as good. 2/5.

Failed to make an outstanding impression on me – most songs feel quite similar, and the vocals are cloying and flat. The Spanish songs that came on rotation after the album ended felt much more vibrant than anything displayed in the 35 minute runtime on this LP.

When I saw the album cover I knew this would be either very good or very bad. It's the latter. The songs are mediocre, the singer sings off key a bit too often and the performance is uninspired. A third rate Manu Chao with incompetent singer.

I love the title. The album itself was tight enough, but didn't find a way in with me, which is a shame

World music is always appreciated, but this was kinda annoying.

Not bad, but didn't leave much of an impression for me. I welcome the variety though! 2.5/5

Dated but an interesting non-US non-English blend of styles

Not really for me, but it was something different at least.

La cagaste... Burt Lancaster has a catchy name but only really delivers soft Spanish easy listening rock stylings. Visite nuestro bar teases you with some ska sounds opening up but it doesn't carry through, La carretera is a lovely closing track but really sums up the overall theme, it's just fine, it's unremarkable, just a basic 2/5.

It has been a while that I stopped listening after 30 seconds. The first thing I thought was: is this some kind of bad cover band from South America. In any case, enough for me to come to this quick conclusion.

Pop. ¿Pero cómo se puede proponer esto para una lista de los mejores discos? ¡Menudo truño! Es que ni como broma... Un 1.

Not your traditional Latin music here. Basically a pop Latin album from the 80s. Definitely one of a kind but as upbeat as it may sound, it’s still music I don’t understand and that doesn’t have to bring it down but when it’s 80s pop it does. Maybe a classic but I’ll never know. 3.0/10

kms

I have rarely heard something as ludicrous as what I'm hearing now. The instrumentation is hackneyed. The style is quaint at best. And the vocal performance is appalling. So weak. I'm actually staying in Spain for reasons related to work right now, and even this coincidence can't possibly redeem such a lame album. This utter catastrophe is not even ironical. It's in earnest! At least from what I can gather about *Hombres G*'s intentions... Including in that goofy, ugly-ass artwork... Parody or not, it doesn't matter anyway, this is just bad music, period. I listened up until "Marta tiene un marcapasos" because I've read it was a huge hit in its country of origin, during the eighties. Yet there's nothing to save in that single either. This is just a complete waste of time. And then I went to the profile of the person who submitted this LP. You gotta check it out for yourself, it's quite unbelievable. Turns out that the tone-deaf summary created by this user is ten times more appalling than the vocal performance on *La cagaste...*. I'm a huge Nirvana fan, believe me, yet having *Nevermind* as the *only* highest-rated album, then choosing so many hackneyed, heavy handed acts for half of the high-rated album, to finally shit on so many legendary musicians in the lowest-rated section (including quite a few that Kurt Cobain actually loved), is not only cringeworthy. It also deserves contempt. Add this dumb LP to the equation, another single highest-rated LP, in that person's user's list this time -- THEIR choice, of course -- and contempt turns to you face palming your forehead in front of such a farce. So obnoxious. Whoever you are, I never want to discuss music with you. Ever. Glad we'll never meet, I guess. 0/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums 1 or 2/10 for more general purposes? Who the f*ck cares anyway? 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: 14 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 24 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 43 (including this one) ---- Émile ! J'ai répondu à ton message. Regarde trois reviews au dessus !