Ten years after...
R. Suarez Giacoman | Mc Allen, Texas United States | 09/08/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This album has been released trying to commemorate the first 10 years of the artist as solo performer since the disintegration of `Heroes del Silencio'. Two editions were made, a single and commercial-friendly edition of a single disc with the most known hits, and the double CD plus DVD edition I am to talk about. The last one, besides being more comprehensive, has been personally reviewed by Enrique Bunbury, who selected the tracks and videos to include.
The Albums
The two CD's contain many of the most representative songs of his solo career, though only one song from his debut album is included (Salome) which comes as no surprise as Bunbury himself has said it is his least favorite album. Also, considering this is supposed to be the comprehensive anthology, it comes as a surprise that only three of his alternate projects are featured.
"Bushido" is present with three tracks: `Sex food' (not a favorite of mine),' L'amour' (extracted from the `Freak Show') and an incredible live version of `Desmejorado' (to me, the double album is worth because of this song)
The box of "Los Maxis" had many great songs and rarities that I feel could have been included, instead of that, only one song made it (El viento a favor, opcion Barcelona) which in my case disappointed me. The song almost at the end has many noises and skips recorded in it. I went to the store and tried to have it changed but it seems all the copies that made it there had the same recording error.
"Que te vaya bonito", also known as tribute to Mexico, is also included and a studio version of `Aunque no sea conmigo' is finally available. Enrique performed this song many times on his live concerts and even included it in the DVD release of `Una cita en flamingos'. Well, a studio version with a nice sound quality is now available here.
Other projects, like `Panero', `Tatuaje' or all the participations he has recorded with other artists (such as Elefantes, Pereza, Quique Gonzalez and many others) are not included. For fans that would have been great as many of the songs that actually made it to the album were already in our collection.
Overall, a good selection of tracks that I believe could have been more comprehensive than what it actually is. The recording error in `Viento a favor' was something I did not enjoy at all.
The DVD
The videos are a total letdown. But the interview with Enrique en Cuba proofs to be reason enough to buy this edition. First of all, there are many videos missing in this DVD, `Pequeno' for instance, had three alternate versions recorded and only one was included (the Oasis version included previously in the `Pequeno Cabart Ambulante' DVD)
And that is, I guess, the main flaw of the DVD, most of the songs are extracted from the previous DVD releases, both `Una cita en Flamingos' and `Freak Show'. There is little video material unreleased before and the quality with which the transfer was made was not best. I tried looking at this in my HDTV and the image looked awfully pixel-distorted.
The highlight of the DVD, and I will not deny that, is the interview in Cuba. It is quite interesting to see a retrospective of his albums in his own words, many facts are brought up here (such as the fact that the partnership in Bushido ended in not so nice terms) that make this document a must for fans of Enrique. So if you always wondered what his opinion was on his albums, here you will surely find that, among other interesting information.
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After heroes del silencio, bunbury steps on
A. Castro | mexico city | 08/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"i found this cd, better than the 1 disc version, in this double cd well actually cd+ dvd, you get by far the most comprehensive compliation on enriques work, on the period 1996 to 2006, with his band "el huracan ambulante" who are such a talented musicians, such songs as: "el extrangero", "sacame de aqui", "al final" and others make this cd the best cd by far of enrique, and also you get the plus of having all of enriques videos from radical sonora to his latest cd freak show its worth every track in it so do yourself a favor an go and buy it if you liked heroes del silencio this cd wont dissapoint you
viva enrique forever"
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1