Juanes - La Vida... Es un Ratico
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Artist: JuanesEdition: Music CD
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Music Label: Universal Latino
Product features:
- JUANES LA VIDA ES... UN RATICO
- No Creo En El Jamas
- Clase De Amor
- Me Enamora
- Hoy Me Voy
- La Vida Es Un Ratico
- Gotas De Agua Dulce
- La Mejor Parte De Mi
- Minas Piedras
- Tu Y Yo
- Bailala
- Difícil
- Tres
- Bandera De Manos
- Bandera De Manos
Music reviews of La Vida... Es un Ratico
Music Review: Juanes comes back big with a message!
Rating: 5 Stars
Mi Sangre was a great album, Un Dia Normal was his masterpiece and one of the greatest rock/pop albums in any language of all time.
How good is this album? Better than Mi Sangre and may just be as good as Un Dia Normal, that's how good this album is.
One of the things I first noticed was his voice. He is singing better than he ever has... His voice has more range than it ever has and he has worried much more about phrasing this time around.
Lyrically this album is closer to 1st album Fijate Bien than anything. It is full of message songs. He touches on topics such as terrorism, peace, making a difference, poverty, unity, etc. It is just amazing lyrically this album. I guess he decided that he'd done two albums on love and it was time to bring on the social message again. Thank god he did!!!
The other thing I noticed was the guitar solo is back this time around! Remember back in the 80's just about every song had a guitar solo. Juanes wants to bring it back, this album is full of them and they are all fantastic to listen to. He flexes his guitar playing muscles and does a great job.
The other amazing thing is the absolute diversity of the tracks, probably his most diverse album musically. But the diversity is heard in the chords he is playing rather than in the instruments themselved. Instrument wise it's the same Juanes, mainly guitar-drum-bass setup. But listen to the chords he is playing and he is playing blues, bossa nova, country, as well as his normal Columbian infused rhythm, etc. It is just fantastic. You'll also hear the odd hammon organ, slide guitar, and accordion throughout the album in subtle ways to compliment rather than overpower.
Alot of people no doubt want to know if there is another Camisa Negra or A Dios Lo Pido... there are... Me Enamora, Tres (which is as vallenato as Juanes will ever get), Clase de Amor.
As much as I love those songs (and they will be played all over the place) it's his quieter tunes that really linger in your head...
- The gorgeous bossanova rhythm'd Hoy Me Voy.
- The grandiose message song La Vida Es Un Ratico with a haunting piano arrangement.
- Another message song in Minas Piedras with a beautiful slide guitar, banjo, and violin arrangements.
- Bandera de Manos, yet another message song... with a faster rhythm behind it.
Go out and buy this. If you don't understand Spanish, buy it because of the musical brilliance. Si hablas Espanol compralo porque es el mejor disco del ano. Tenemos que dar apoyo a artistas latinos como Juanes que estan sacando discos de tan gran calidad.
BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!!
Description of La Vida... Es un Ratico
La Vida...Es un Ratico (Life is a moment) is the follow up to Juanes' globally multi-platinum release Mi Sangre. In La Vida...Es un Ratico, Juanes once again teams up with co-producer Gustavo Santaolalla, Double-Oscar/Grammy winner. In his first single "Me Enamora," Juanes shows us his intimate personal thoughts on love and relationships. In songs like "Minas Piedras" and Bandera de Manos" he tackles themes of both the hope for peace and social change. With this release, Juanes works to continue to perfect his distinctive fusion of rock with traditional Colombian rhythms and other international styles.Despues del exito de "Mi Sangre", Juanes nos presenta "Me Enamora" el primer sencillo de su tan esperado nuevo lanzamiento "La Vida...Es un Ratico. "La Vida...Es un Ratico" fue producido nuevamente por Juanes y Gustavo Santaolalla, ganador de dos premios Oscar y multiples Grammy's. Juanes escribió letra y musica de todos los temas durante los dos ultimos años, entre la etapa final de la gira de "Mi Sangre" y un periodo sabatico en el que se concentro en la composición de "La Vida...Es un Ratico". En "La Vida...Es un Ratico" hay canciones que hablan de temas sociales como "Minas Piedras" y "Bandera de Manos" y otras como el primer sencillo "Me Enamora" relacionadas a temas personales y del amor. En este lanzamiento Juanes consolida sin duda alguna su idea musical de fusionar rock con ritmos Colombianos, y ritmos internacionales.
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 La Vida...Es un Ratico CD/DVD Limited Edition |  Mi Sangre |  Mi Sangre Limited Deluxe Edition |
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The career of this singer/songwriter has made huge strides in the last five years, and it shouldn?t surprise anyone that the Colombian singer?s style has become unique. If this were his first CD, Juanes could be labeled as genial, because no sound can even get close to what we hear here. But this is his fourth album, and it sounds exactly as the previous ones. Produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, La vida has a fantastic sound and an impeccable production. Yet originality is not precisely its mark. --Ernesto Sánchez (People en Español
) La carrera de este cantautor ha crecido a pasos agigantados en los últimos cinco años y no es como para extrañar a nadie, el colombiano tiene un estilo que lo hace único. Si este fuera el primer disco de Juanes se podría catalogar como genial, porque no hay nada que suene parecido, pero este es el cuarto álbum del colombiano y suena exactamente igual que los anteriores. Hay que decir que el disco, que es una producción de Gustavo Santaolalla, tiene un sonido fantástico y una producción impecable. Pero la originalidad no es precisamente su sello. --Ernesto Sánchez (People en Español )
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