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El milagro argentino
Los Auténticos Decadentes · 1989 · Track 11
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The first time you listen to Loco (tu forma de ser), Gabriel "Chiflo" Sánchez's saxophone grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. That opening line, which seems plucked from a street rehearsal, is pure contained energy: Diego Hernán "Cebolla" Demarco and Jorge Aníbal "Perro Viejo" Serrano on guitars give it that punk-and-ska edge that always defined Los Auténticos Decadentes. But what’s most surprising is how all of this holds together in a time signature that isn’t the typical four-four: there’s a sway in Braulio "Barulio" Aguirre's drums and Gastón "Francés" Bernardou's percussion that keeps the track from fitting neatly into any mold. It’s as if the song breathes to its own rhythm, neither rushed nor dragging.
Recorded in 1989 for El milagro argentino, this track emerged at a time when the band still hadn’t pinned down the sound they wanted to solidify. The album, first released by Radio Trípoli and later reissued by RCA and Sony Music, was their calling card: a raw record, cut in just a few days with borrowed gear, where every instrument sounds like it’s on the edge. Gustavo Daniel "Cucho" Parisi and Eduardo Alberto "Animal" Trípodi share lead vocals, and that duality gives the song a unique contrast: the urgency of the former and the more relaxed cadence of the latter. The five-minute-and-ten-second runtime isn’t accidental: it’s the exact amount of time this melody needed to strike a balance between chaos and melody.