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Latin Playboys - Latin Playboys (1994)
Cover Front Album
Artist/Composer Latin Playboys
Length 37:27
Format CD
Genre General Rock
Label WEA/Warner Brothers Entertainment
Index 585
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Jewel Case
Track List
01 Viva La Raza 02:48
02 Ten Believers 03:17
03 Chinese Surprize 03:07
04 Mira! 01:25
05 Manifold De Amour 02:02
06 New Zandu 03:13
07 Rudy's Party 02:31
08 If 01:41
09 Same Brown Earth 03:45
10 Lagoon 02:27
11 Gone 02:52
12 Crayon Sun 03:09
13 Pink Steps 02:06
14 Forever Night Shade Mary 03:04
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Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
UPC 093624554325
Notes
NOTES Date: March 8, 1994 Length: 37:09 minutes Label: WEA/WARNER BROTHERS Genre: ROCK Category: Rock/Pop CREDITS Production Credits Tchad Blake Mitchell Froom David Hidalgo Latin Playboys : Main Performer, Producer Louie Pérez REVIEWS Exclusive Review While Los Lobos have peeled back their roots-rock skin on occasion, revealing parallel streaks of artiness (on Kiko) and ethnic pride (see La Pistola Y El Corazon), it took this side project from Lobos singer/guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Perez to force an intersection of a twain that seemed destined to never meet. The Latin Playboys, made up almost entirely of four-track recordings that recall, alternately, classic Latino garage rockers like the Premiers ("New Zandu"), the more dissonant work of Tom Waits (the chamberlin-based "Chinese Suprise" and "Viva La Roza") and an imagined Angeleno Fellini (the surrealistic audio verite of "Dumbo"), makes for distinctly uneasy listening. At times, the pair (abetted by producer Mitchell Froom) strive a bit too hard in their attempts to capture the moment: "Manifold D'Amour" and "Pink Steps," in particular, could have been done with a second coat of polish. Hidalgo and Perez pull off a rare feat, however, by making The Latin Playboys at once positively otherworldly and utterly natural. © 1978-1999 College Media, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.