Los Petardos! featuring A Coco -
Rokanrol con Gandules
Rock, Puertorican Rock, Surf Rock, Garage(?)
2010
I went to see
Capital Cities in concert and ended up buying a CD of a local opening act. They were that good.
Two bands, one album.
Petardos mean
firecrakers.
A Coco is a bit more complicated. It probably has something to do with coconuts and/or heads and feeling good. Not sure what meaning the band has given it.
The title is our tongue-in-cheek way of spelling and pronouncing rock 'n' roll. "Translated", it would mean
"Rock 'n' Roll With Pigeon Peas"... which sounds way less appetizing. Pigeon peas, seriously? That's the best English name you Anglo-saxons could come up with?
Themes range from not taking any more crap from people you can't stand, to social-political stuff that only countrymen stuck under a foreign government can relate to.
Makes me proud to call them my countrymen.
Eurobeat Masters Extended Versions - Vol.14
Electronic, Italo-Disco, Hi NRG, Eurobeat
2008
Been awhile since I've listened to my
Eurobeat Masters collection. You'd think you'd get tired of it and yet you end up listening the CD over and over. The first song is has a different flavor when compared to the rest, making it the perfect choice as song #1. The last two were also great. It may have needed at least one more song featuring a male singer to balance things out.