I rarely, rarely listen to the radio of an evening anymore, but for reasons that’ll become evident in the next post, I’m listening to WBEZ tonight. At the moment, the show that’s on is called Sound Opinions. The two hosts discuss rock music and pop and usually have guests on where they talk about music, play a few songs, and give a lot of in depth background on today’s best new and veteran artists. Tonight’s program is about the
genre of “Rock En Espanol,” and the guest was mentioning various bands, including one from Argentina that he thought was one of the most important early bands in this style, The Fabulosos Cadillacs.

I thought I’d never heard of them, but then the sample they played galvanized me, because it’s one of my favorite tracks on iTunes; “El Matador.” It’s off of the Grosse Pointe Blank sound track, and it does, indeed, totally rock. You may have heard this song; it’s got what sounds like massed drummers, a driving, jungle-like march beat, and a break before the chorus where the musicians shout out “Hey! hey!”

The rest of the show’s gone on to discuss a bunch of other groups and their songs, and it all sounds like music I’d like to have.

iTunes: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs: El Matador: Grosse Pointe Blank [4:34]