Dr. Dani SanchezMay 7, 2024
First we have Alejandra Guzmán AKA La Reina de Corazones with her take on “La Plaga” AKA “Good Golly Miss Molly” (https://youtu.be/I80g5eo71Yo?si=lLqafTuEpa6T2q8t). Some of y’all will remember her father Enrique Guzmán y Los Teen Tops and their version of the song (https://youtu.be/JfNhew2Wu-U?si=qOdeX_86WDQH_P0s) from our first #RetroView Cinco de Mayo party playlist (bit.ly/3w5mAR7)
Alejandra Guzmán | La Plaga (Good Golly, Miss Molly) (1989)

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Next we have the CDMX-based early new wave/post-punk band Size with “GoGo Girl”. They were only together for a few short years but their impact on Mexican music is pretty undeniable
#RetroView #Size #80smusic #punk
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There’s a really good in depth documentary about Size from 2018 titled “Nadie Puede Vivir con un Monstruo” but it’s tricky to find☹️
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Next Monterrey, Mexico’s dance-rock party band Kinky returns to #RetroView’s Cinco de Mayo Party with a clip they shot themselves for one of the Online editions of SxSW (https://youtu.be/im5G056n4iE?si=0oFFQfrk_8F6sBUN)
#RetroView #KinkyBand
Solo Tú | Kinky at SXSW Online 2021

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In 2023, Café Tacvba were selected as the Arts Award Honorees at the 36th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. They performed a couple of songs (“Futuro” & “Volver a Comenzar”) and did a sit down chat,etc. (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoYciWIG45QMQHN7BNeApK2hzO_0ZmWv0&si=qTiF3sM_DAtZNfjE)
#RetroView #CafeTacvba
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Next we have the legendary punk goddess Alice Bag with the anti-ageism anthem “Se Cree Joven”. She’s still rocking at 65 yrs young!
#RetroView #AliceBag #punk
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The Warning is a band from Monterrey, Mexico comprised of sisters Daniela, Paulina and Alejandra Villarreal Vélez. If you like hard rock, or y’know music in general you should definitely give them a listen!
#RetroView #TheWarning
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The Mars Volta has a revolving door policy RE: membership but at its core is Mexican-American Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Puerto Rican-American Omar Rodríguez-López. Sit back and enjoy the journey (https://youtu.be/Hd8Wq7xpSc4?si=C4jmtgZiDhqDerbp)
#RetroView #TheMarsVolta
The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes (Yahoo! Live Sets)

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Durango, Mexico’s Los Dug Dugs were considered one of the wildest Mexican rock bands of the early 1970s and were one of the first Mexican rock bands to write their own songs in english. Times, sounds and lineups change but some iteration of Los Dug Dugs are still at today!
#RetroView #LosDugDugs
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? And The Mysterians- Michigan based kids of migrant workers who hit it big young and were the first all Latinx rock band to have an original number one song on the charts (“96 Tears”)
#RetroView #QuestionMarkAndTheMysterians #RockMusic
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I know people think of Tejano Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs as a novelty/joke band but they have some legit rocking song like this (https://youtu.be/atBVm7IYHas?si=MfWXANkDtSFxSfr7)
#RetroView #SamTheShamAndThePharaohs
Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs - Ain't Gonna Move - 1965 45rpm

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Annnd what’s more important in Mexican culture than familia? Nothing. Like… seriously. Nothing. So, here’s Alejandra Guzmán dad Enrique Guzmán and his early band Los Teen Tops (https://youtu.be/tKzTAPyeUVk?si=0eteTJ6rDytq-4gW
#RetroView #LosTeenTops
Enrique Guzmán - Popotitos (Con Los Teen Tops)

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It’s illegal to have a #CincoDeMayo playlist without music by la Reina Selena Quintanilla-Pérez and keeping with the family theme many members of her backing band were members of her family. Here she with two of her popular hits “Amor Prohibido” y “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” (https://youtu.be/yw2UPqSJUeU?si=LBBTb3kw4itJXA-S)
#RetroView #Selena
Selena Quintanilla - Amor Prohibido - Bidi Bidi Bom Bom (Live 1994)

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Los Apson and Los Hitters are both bands that like many early Mexican rock bands that worked for tv stations as house bands doing Spanish language versions of english rock & roll songs
#RetroView #LosApson #LosHitters
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Rosie & The Originals were a California-based teen band (Rosie was just 16 when she wrote their huge hit single “Angel Baby”) that made bilingual music
#RetroView #RosieAndTheOriginals
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Baja California-based Singer-Songwriter Carla Morrison is a Grammy and Latin Grammy award winning artist. Here she’s teamed with Venezuelan-American Devendra Bandhart for a beautiful duet at the Hollywood Bowl (https://youtu.be/hLgpvkQoIno?si=49r2ehgfKZd95DC1)
#RetroView #CarlaMorisson #DevendraBandhart
Diamantes - Carla Morrison & Devendra Bandhart desde el #HollywoodBowl

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#RetroView’s Mariachi mainstay Flor De Toloache with their Spanish language cover of No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak”: “No Sigas” (https://youtu.be/sTTZ3GvkxAc?si=APW4YnBmMGyLIsAY)
#RetroView #FlorDeToloache #NoDoubt
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70s era Linda Ronstadt. Bringing down the house. (https://youtu.be/Ee_JltI6rHg?si=4ZXbQS_lO-SpkmZS)
#RetroView #LindaRonstadt
Linda Ronstadt In Atlanta 1977 19 Tumbling Dice & You're No Good

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Linda Ronstadt, of course, has been our “End of Hispanic Heritage Month” artist in 2022: (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTfszyrOeFKKhTVIV8i0lwcex&si=x4E_Ev5nslkz45tZ) and 2023: (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Zslnc5XTftmJ9CM30nZ2dBNxmipyoSO&si=QRURccsiUFwk0nvN)
#RetroView #LindaRonstadt
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Show threadDr. Dani SanchezMay 7, 2024
Just a head’s up: This year’s Hispanic Heritage Month will have some great music AND will also be ending with some Linda Ronstadt in “The Pirates of Penzance” (1983).
#RetroView #LindaRonstadt
Show threadDr. Dani SanchezMay 7, 2024
Los Lobos were already a legendary Mexican American band when they released what has become their greatest work: 1992’s “Kiko” (Album: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l6yzSgRFxT_gmB_I5vApNUvGLljFayW3w&si=9fkBujh4SYSwn6sg)
Live (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZyU18U9YnjqAK_Z86UyeItDcloebbAbA&si=2JjtodfgucRXk0Tc)
#RetroView #LosLobos #Kiko
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Santana. Mana. 2 legends of Mexican Rock & Roll. A song with something for everyone but especially for Mexican dads (https://youtu.be/t6omUxqhG78?si=VSVNXP0oEZgyJlQi)
#RetroView #Santana #Mana
Santana - Corazon Espinado (Video) ft. Mana

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And finally: a jam session with none other than Rodrigo y Gabriela and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on Bass (https://youtu.be/E59tfIxlasI?si=JpGPUs9-YlE4L0_P)
#RetroView #RodrigoYGrabriela #RobertTrujillo
Rodrigo y Gabriela with Robert Trujillo - Orion live at Radio City Music Hall

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