Video of the Day: Soda’s back!

Tonight marked the first concert in the reunion tour of legendary Argentine rockeros Soda Stereo. A crowd of over 70,000 fans in Buenos Aires’ Estadio Monumental marked the triumphant return of the seminal rock group for the first time in a decade. Two more concerts will take place over the weekend at the Argentine capital before the “Me verás volver” (“You will see me return”) tour makes stops in Peru, Colombia, Mexico, ands the U.S. over the next two months.

Argentina’s Telecom Personal created an ad in honor Soda’s return that highlights the impact the group has had on music. It’s a smart, touching, and fantastic commercial that hits all the right notes (pun intended).

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(By the way, we happened to catch the piss-poor tribute to Soda Stereo at the end of Thursday’s MTV Latinoamerica Awards. Click here if you masochistically want you ears to bleed).

Don’t forget to send in your suggestions for the fifty greatest songs of the 1990s in the Americas! (More details here).

p.s. Please sign this “petition” to suggest that Soda Stereo perform in New York. (If they can have gigs in Los Angeles and Miami then surely they can stop by La Gran Manzana!!!)

Sources (English)- The Latin Americanist, YouTube, NYRemezcla.com

Sources (Spanish)- La Tercera, Clarin, La Razon, sodastereo.com

Help us select the fifty greatest songs of the 1990s in the Americas!

Q: What do Gloria Trevi, Sergio Vargas, and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs all have in common?

A: They are all possible finalists to our survey of the fifty greatest songs of the 1990s in the Americas.

In an idea inspired from a similar survey by music channel VH1, we want to compile a list of the fifty best and most definitive songs from the Americas during the decade of the 90s. Despite having our own favorites we want your help in choosing lo mejor de lo mejor from that decade.

Perhaps they were songs that you couldn’t stop hearing on the radio. Possibly it was a specific tune that you absolutely adored and will never forget. And yes it may have been an annoying song that you couldn’t get out of your mind.

Whatever your musical tastes may be all suggestions will be placed into consideration as long as they meet the following simple criteria:

• The song must have been officially released during the decade of the 1990s.
• Musicians can be from anywhere so as long as their music was a hit in the Americas during the 90s.
• Only songs sung in Spanish or Portuguese.
• No remakes of tunes originally sung in another language then converted into Spanish/Portuguese. (i.e. Christina Aguilera’s “Genio Atrapado” would be disqualified).

E-mail us with your picks before November 1^st to ourlatinamerica@yahoo.com. We hope to have a list of finalists published next month where you can choose the fifty greatest songs of the 1990s in the Americas!

Image- Ultrasonica (Late 1990s photo of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs)

Source- VH1