Signos

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Signos
Studio album from Soda Stereo

Publication
(s)

November 10, 1986

admission

1986

Label (s) Sony Music (formerly CBS )

Genre (s)

Rock , pop-rock , dark

Title (number)

8th

running time

39:59

production

Soda Stereo

Studio (s)

Fantasy Studios

chronology
Nada Personal
(1985) 		Signos Ruido Blanco
(1987)

Signos is the third studio album by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo . It is considered by most critics to be one of their best records alongside Cancion Animal. In Rolling Stone magazine, the album was ranked 25 in the list of best albums of the Argentine rock.

history

According to the band guitarist Gustavo Cerati, the band was in a depressive phase during the pre-recording, caused by the constant touring. While the music material was already determined, the texts for the respective tracks were still missing. One sleepless night, Cerati wrote the lyrics for all the songs on the album. Compared to songs from other stages of the band, these are relatively pessimistic ("One day we planned to do all the pain to each other at once"), albeit with a touch of optimism ("You expect a labyrinth without surprises and yet you can escape the darkness" ). The album went platinum three times and is considered to be one of their most important records with which the band not only found their own sound, but also conquered the Latin American continent at the same time. The Argentine music magazine Cantarock wrote about the "Rock Nacional" boom in South America triggered by Soda Stereo: "Rock pays the foreign debt!".

Tracks

# Song name (translation) composer length
1 Sin Sobresaltos (Without Terror) Gustavo Cerati / Hector Bosio 4:24
2 El Rito (The Ritual) Gustavo Cerati 6:07
3 Profugos (fugitives) Gustavo Cerati / Carlos Ficicchia 5:20
4th No Existes (you don't exist) Gustavo Cerati 4:42
5 Persiana Americana (American blackout) Gustavo Cerati / Jorge Antonio Daffunchio 4:52
6th En Camino (On ​​the way) Gustavo Cerati / Isabel de Sebastian / Carlos Ficicchia 4:31
7th Signos (characters) Gustavo Cerati / 5:17
8th Final Caja Negra (Last Black Box) Gustavo Cerati / Hector Bosio / Carlos Ficicchia 5:42

Signos tour

After the album was released, the large-scale Signos tour began, which was to cover several countries. A disaster struck on May 2nd during a concert in San Nicolas: While the band, Persiana Americana was playing, a spectator balcony collapsed, causing people to fall into the crowd and bury others. The consequences were 5 dead people and several dozen injured. A few days later the group continued the tour, but for the time being, due to great dismay, gave up their big stage shows. A positive highlight of the Signos tour were the appearances at the "Festival de Viña del Mar" in Chile, where there was a real "Sodamania". Excited female fans were waiting for the band as they drove in and threw themselves on the tour van. Even during the performance, the noise level caused by the hysteria of the female fans made it harder to hear the music than usual. Since the group was exclusively on tour in 1987, they decided to record a live album of the Signos tour in the same year. The result was the album Ruido Blanco.

The Signos tour began on December 3, 1986. There were a total of 92 concerts.

  • Argentina: 32
  • Ecuador: 6
  • Uruguay: 2
  • Chile: 11
  • Paraguay: 3
  • Peru: 8
  • Bolivia: 3
  • Colombia: 5
  • Venezuela: 4
  • Mexico: 18

Singles

  • Profugos
  • Persiana Americana
  • Signos

occupation

Soda Stereo

  • Gustavo Cerati: guitar; Singing; Background singing; Percussion; Roland drum machine 707
  • Zeta Bosio: electric bass
  • Charly Alberti: Drums & Percussion

Guest musician

  • Fabian von Quintero: Keyboards
  • Richard Coleman: guitar
  • Celsa Mel Gowland: background vocals
  • Diego Urcola : Trumpet
  • Pablo Rodriguez - alto saxophone
  • Sebastian Schon - tenor saxophone
  • Marcelo Ferreyra - trombone

Others

  • Signos was the first album to be released in CD format in Latin America. The production took place in the Netherlands.

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