sublime.

the horns...perfect. the orchestration. perfect. the vocals. perfect. syncopation, the rhythm.

im done.

listen to this in some good headphones & be transported

im done



do or die

(including Fania)

my favorite is calle luna calle sol
the lyrics are gangster as fuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bcq3NXomaQ

dethroning el cantante

its the name of the movie for a reason


do or die

favorite prince song

or walk the line your favorite johnny cash song

but i SHALL return


do or die

do or die

should be the same with Salsa

that would be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3OGsqHRjxQ

i thought marc anthony killed that soundtrack, and both he and his (then) wife did nice portrayals in tough roles -- altho i may be in the minority here.

when you listen to the originals tho -- hl >>> ma

peace.

one.

im surprised us Latin folks didn't support it more. When it dropped I thought it was gunna do Selena numbers, but i got to the theater with my hefa and there was like 15 people in there :(

say that they felt that the drug parts of it overshadowed the music parts. I liked it, but then again I was born in Puerto Rico in the late 80's and mostly raised in Florida, i.e. if something is seriously misrepresented, it wouldn't immediately pop out to me.

that movie was a farce

only j-lo can make a movie about hector lavoe from the perspective of his mistress who he knocked up, got married and basically lost everything for...( his first wife, his kid, neither who they talked about in the movie )

Did they make Malcolm X from the perspective of Betty?

This is why folks didnt support that shit...Hector Lavoe and Marc Anthony are big enough stars that they dont need J-LO as the star of the film for us to support it...that shit was an insult...


>im surprised us Latin folks didn't support it more. When it
>dropped I thought it was gunna do Selena numbers, but i got to
>the theater with my hefa and there was like 15 people in there
>:(

got any good juicy back stories on lavoe? i thought the j lo character WAS his wife/woman...she was his mistress? weird

and at the hospital...no one came to visit him....all these folks doing tributes and making loot off of hector remakes...pretty much shunned him when he needed them most

aside from the son he has from his first marriage, apparently hector also has another daughter...not sure from who....

everyone pretty much said that puchi drove hector insane...el cantante being from puchi's perspective is like making a movie about whitney houston from bobby brown's perspective...do u really think he is going to make himself look like the bad guy


>got any good juicy back stories on lavoe? i thought the j lo
>character WAS his wife/woman...she was his mistress? weird
>
>

Awesome piece of music.. Can't even consider it a "song."

That description is just too limited.

This right here is nothing short of an incantation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HVbYcvLto

You gotta listen thru the breakdown that starts at 2:24 to understand why.

& yes that piano breakdown is just flames


do or die

I believe that was Pulpo on keys.

I used to live next door to a spot where alot of HL's former band members jammed at..

hector montalvo...jimmy delgado....pulpo...etc

Dope songs fellas, but if you really wanna know what's up about Hector:

El Cantante is a beautiful song, but i love El Periodico de Ayer; just as beautiful but shorter:

http://youtu.be/PuAPeEvAyiw

Of course there is "Mi Gente", but I find the live version he did at the Ali-Foreman fight-music festival in Zaire to be a very moving, transcendent performance:

http://youtu.be/QBuueYkmYVI


But my all time favorite recording is on Willie Colon's "Timbalero" off of the El Juicio Lp. This is an 8 minute recording that has everything, from bongo/conga madness, and an acapella/horn section breakdown. Here is the studio recording: http://youtu.be/XGHVQeVs4RI

And here it is performing it live on the NYC public tv show "Soul" in '72 (The latin episode featuring Willie and Tito Puente ad Felipe Luciano is just pure gold): http://youtu.be/Cb7xtfVSQyo

FYI, the "Soul" episode can be found here:
http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/04/november-15-1972/

put it on & let it bang out


do or die

Both are the centerpieces of their albums, the club bangers so to say. Poth songs are lyrically-written perfectly by intelligent, prolific (Cantante is written by Ruben Blades, almost like a "Pagliacci-content-type song, Periodico is by C. Curet Alonso, a very nasty, bitter song about a girl who's love is as useful as "yesterday's newspaper"), and no one else can execute these better, artistically since it imitates his own life story, better than Hector.

Also, both songs are produced and arranged by Willie Colon, so along with his trombone lines, he knows how add that over-the-top elements of those sweeping strings to turn these suckas in to full blown-street dramas, very true to the Salsa Brava nature.

Man, I love they we're talking about this.

and lol @ ur avy

shit is mad appropriate

when said..."parece una puerrrca"...right after gassing up the bitch, i had to stop and rewind...



>Dope songs fellas, but if you really wanna know what's up
>about Hector:
>
>El Cantante is a beautiful song, but i love El Periodico de
>Ayer; just as beautiful but shorter:
>
>http://youtu.be/PuAPeEvAyiw
>
>Of course there is "Mi Gente", but I find the live version he
>did at the Ali-Foreman fight-music festival in Zaire to be a
>very moving, transcendent performance:
>
>http://youtu.be/QBuueYkmYVI
>
>
>But my all time favorite recording is on Willie Colon's
>"Timbalero" off of the El Juicio Lp. This is an 8 minute
>recording that has everything, from bongo/conga madness, and
>an acapella/horn section breakdown. Here is the studio
>recording: http://youtu.be/XGHVQeVs4RI
>
>And here it is performing it live on the NYC public tv show
>"Soul" in '72 (The latin episode featuring Willie and Tito
>Puente ad Felipe Luciano is just pure gold):
>http://youtu.be/Cb7xtfVSQyo
>
>FYI, the "Soul" episode can be found here:
>http://www.thirteen.org/soul/2009/02/04/november-15-1972/

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and at $20 it's a steal... I've never gotten to see the entire movie, and I would certainly love to own it.

not the best in the entire Fania catalog.

Like papo aka lito said, "Periodical De Ayer" is among those...but you did mention the "ENTIRE FANIA CATALOG" soooo...

Justo Betancourt "Pa Bravo Yo"

Hector Lavoe "Que Lio" <--Deep song

Willie Colon "Timbalero" ft. Hector Lavoe

Angel Canales "Hace Tiempo"

Ismael Rivera "Las Caras Lindas" "Mi Negra Es Espera" & my personal favorite "El Nazareno"

Jimmy Sabater "Salchicha Con Huevo"

There's countless joints that I think are too great of songs to just choose ONE. I just don't think "El Cantante" is it though.

>Angel Canales
>
>Ismael Rivera
>Jimmy Sabater
>

well really angel canales and jimmy sabater... just heard ABOUT Ismael Rivera as being an undiscovered underappreciated salsa great.

haven't heard his music yet

co-sign on "El Nazareno" and especially "Las Caras Lindas (de mi gente negra)"; an achingly beautiful song.

http://funkmass.com

Increible is THAT CRACK
>
>co-sign on "El Nazareno" and especially "Las Caras Lindas (de
>mi gente negra)"; an achingly beautiful song.
>
>http://funkmass.com

.

El Cantante is damn good, but no best.

To add to that. Muchas gracias a mi pai, que es loco con la salsa y siempre taba escuchando salsa en la casa y en el carro.

Hector Lavoe - El Malo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT77krRcVIA
Good lyrics, nice sound.

Hector Lavoe - Che Che Cole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgId1N1UbLs
This one is so festive sounding and immediately catchy I think people who don't give a shit about salsa would even like it.

Hector Lavoe - El Dia De Mi Suerte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZK2wCpvwZg&feature=related
Moving lyrics, great rhythm.

Hector Lavoe - Ausencia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_WPfOiHYY
Emotional as hell and perfect

And if we're talking whole fania catalog...

Cheo Feliciano - El Raton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4icTc0gOY

Ruben Blades - Plastico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCv7e_TNTnY
Exceptionally smart lyricist.

Ruben Blades - Pedro Navaja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdjEsbpWx9o
Pretty sure it was already mentioned. I think that'd definitely be in the running for best (and most popular) songs in the catalog.

One of the best ballads ever. We can hear that heartbreak in his voice, but the best part is that percussive piano transition between the verses and the chorus; that is some heavy shit:

http://youtu.be/4338zGAbFvM

indeed.

been on repeat since the weekend

Probably the first slow one that I heard. I knew the major hits and a lot of album cuts from my dad, but I never really delved into it for myself until I was like 20 (3 years ago or so).

It's funny, I guess I had a similar path to a lot of people regarding their parent's music. I hated all Salsa and Merengue throughout my teenage years and would complain during car rides or put on headphones and listen to my underground rap shit.

Then as a young adult, I started to appreciate Salsa and found myself going back and asking my dad about songs and albums he used to play lol.

I love Larry Harlow's "La Cartera"

http://youtu.be/HHDUWfwQXKc

Cheo Feliciano's "Salome"

http://youtu.be/bJrkMZuB_qk

Azuquita's "Azuquita-California"

http://youtu.be/bJrkMZuB_qk


I would also suggest if you're new to Fania, or Salsa music in general, a nice place to start is that 1970-1973 Willie Colon album run featuring Hector Lavoe as his singer. This is like the equivalent to any important album run from any genre's most important artists. Really innovative stuff Willie was doing by exploring further than mambo/son/rumba/guaguanco/boogaloo canon by paying homage to the direct Afro influence on his music:

1970: La Cosa Nuestra
1971: La Gran Fuga/The Big Break
1972: El Juicio
1973: Lo Mato

Every track on these are a killer; even his 1972 Xmas lp "Asalto Navideño has "La Murga" which gives any of these Fania songs a run for their money:

http://youtu.be/B_gbgRgJQqw





http://kfai.org/radiopocho

any place to cop all of em or should i just google it?

I have them at home, but one day i was at work, and then it struck to make a mix cd of these albums, so of course, I needed to download them now!


http://kfai.org/radiopocho

i dunno what you'd call that progression, if its just the horns in the round or what...but when the strings come in around 3:05?

then the trumpet stabs around 3:20 or so SMH

so nice they got to repeat the sequence twice.

now THAT is music

What makes Willie's arrangements unique is his brass section, and he usually beefs up on trombones to give it that badass "brava" sound. Not only that, the trombones will be trading different lines back and forth, like how Marvin multi-tracks his vocals.

You're right on about it evoking those feelings.


http://kfai.org/radiopocho

wonder if its too late for me to make a salsa record

seeing as how i speak no spanish & dont know how to play a recorder much less a trombone...*shrug*

>What makes Willie's arrangements unique is his brass section,
>and he usually beefs up on trombones to give it that badass
>"brava" sound. Not only that, the trombones will be trading
>different lines back and forth, like how Marvin multi-tracks
>his vocals.
>
>You're right on about it evoking those feelings.
>
>
>http://kfai.org/radiopocho

best song of the entire genre. fuck a label

El Cantante isnt the best song of Hector's catalog...lol

Bandolera is absolutely fuckin epic, my favorite of his danceable songs...( el retrato de mama might be my favorite slow song of his )

his boleros are actually as good or even better than most of his jams



>sublime.
>
>the horns...perfect. the orchestration. perfect. the vocals.
>perfect. syncopation, the rhythm.
>
>im done.
>
>listen to this in some good headphones & be transported
>
>im done
>
>
>
>do or die

Together is my favorite Ray joint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze4xTXI-xU

Going strong since the early 60s, not to mention all of the session work he did for Fania, other latin labels, and non-latin artists.

Who could forget his cover of "Pastime Paradise"? Stevie was originally going for a "Latin" feel when he first recorded, but then it took a life of it's own. Perhaps Ray's version is something he had in mind...

http://youtu.be/-laS4m-Y5LA


http://kfai.org/radiopocho

If so, I pick that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmSELi54vQQ

It definitely was, and you maybe right...


http://kfai.org/radiopocho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHiTkb7j-iU

this one of those joints you have heard a bunch of times but never knew what it was

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