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Yendo de la cama al living
Charly García · 1982 · Track 8
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The story behind
The first time Inconsciente colectivo was played live was at Luna Park during a Serú Girán show in 1980. Charly García introduced it as a song the audience was already requesting, even though it didn’t yet exist in a studio version. Two years later, in 1982, it was recorded as the closing track of Yendo de la cama al living, his first solo album. What’s curious is that the album version is a tone lower (in G) than the one he premiered live (in A). But the detail that most sets it apart is its ability to transform: in December 1982, Mercedes Sosa took it to the stage at Club Ferro Carril Oeste, where she turned it into a political symbol during the democratic transition. That night, the song ceased to be just rock and became a bridge between genres and generations.
The song’s 1982 recording coincided with the end of Argentina’s last dictatorship, a context that seeps into its lyrics. Charly composed it during the Falklands War and mixed it at Estudios ION with Amílcar Gilabert. The album featured collaborations from Luis Alberto Spinetta, Pedro Aznar, and León Gieco—the latter credited as "Ricardo Gómez" due to contract disputes. At 3:45 in length, the track was recorded amid a tense atmosphere but ended up being one of the few to transcend that era without losing its power. Later, in 2000, the album Yo no quiero volverme tan loco included a live version where Charly sings it in A, as he did originally. Today, the song continues to be covered by artists of all styles, but its essence remains untouched: that call to the collective that, unintentionally, became prophetic.