Best Of Tito Puente, The - Tito Puente

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...takes it’s power out of the correlation between quiet parts and quite hard rock. Without doubt one of the best songs ever written for a movie. 5) “Angry Cockroaches” was written for the first bar scene in “FDTD” and was thought to strengthen the atmosphere in the Titty Twister. So this fast, punky, part-instrumental song dealing with smoking grass came into being. 6) “Back to the house” is another song from “Desperado” and the best song the band ever wrote. Just great rock music with excellent guitar work. 7) “Jupiter” features Tito’s most ardent singing parts. 8) "Sweet cycle" and 9) "Flying in my sleep" both jump the queue, being very slow songs with almost poetic lyrics. Nevertheless good music. 10) "Killing just for fun" starts as a quite slow song... Read review

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...sensing the opportunity to make a bit of extra money, the creators decided to release a series of albums, one for each radio station, highlighting the songs of Vice City. And this is the Greatest Hits collection, a compendium of Vice City's best moments so that you can play it whenever you feel nostalgic for rampaging through the streets with a handgun and blowing the heads off anybody in sight (as we all feel from time to time, naturally…). As said, the collection is quite diverse, with artists ranging from Judas Priest to Tito Puente to Mr. Mister. This reflects the diversity of the stations on the Vice City radio, and in the sleevenotes there is even a little message from each of the (imaginary) Vice City DJ's. The opening track ('The Theme From Vice City') opens up the album in magnificent style, feeling like the soundtrack to one... Read review

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...The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," tembracing instrumental jazz-rock on "Incident at Neshabur" and "Samba Pa Ti" or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman," the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana... Read review

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