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Re (Album)Re was Caf Tacuba's second and perhaps most important album - and arguably the most important album in the history of Mexico's music scene. It has been compared to the White Album, by The Beatles. The name probably comes from the second syllable in Solfege, perhaps because it was their second album. It was released in 1994 and consisted of twenty songs. Track listing - "El Aparato" (The Apparatus)
- "La Ingrata" (The Ingrate)
- "El Cicln" (The Cyclone)
- "El Borrego" (The Lamb)
- "Esa Noche" (That Night)
- "24 Horas" (24 Hours)
- "Ixtepec" (Ixtepec is a city in Oaxaca, Mexico)
- "Trpico de Cncer" (Tropic of Cancer)
- "El Metro" (The Subway)
- "El Fin de la Infancia" (Childhood's End, named after the book by Arthur C. Clarke.)
- "Madrugal" (Madrigal? "Madrugal" isn't actually a word in Spanish.)
- "Pez" (Fish)
- "Verde" (Green)
- "La Negrita" (The Black Woman, a diminuitive)
- "El Tlatoani del Barrio" (The King of the Neighborhood. Tlatoani is a Nahuatl word, used to describe Aztec emperors. Moctezuma was the last.)
- "Las Flores" (The Flowers)
- "La Pinta" (The Make-Up)
- "El Baile y el Saln" (The Dance and the Parlor)
- "El Pual y el Corazn" (The Dagger and the Heart)
- "El Balcn" (The Balcony)
This album established Caf Tacuba's style of genre-switching, which hadn't been as obvious in their debut album, Caf Tacuba, released two years earlier. Its sheer length - an hour long - and brilliant experimentation with musical styles has made it a favorite among fans. One notable aspect of the album is that it contains several parodies of musical genres, notably "La Ingrata", a parody of norteo music. That song also showcases dramatically the vocal capabilities of Rubn Albarrn, credited on this album as "Cosme".
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