Canción Animal

1990 studio album by Soda Stereo

Canción Animal

Studio album by

Soda Stereo

Released

August 17,1990

Recorded

Jun/Jul 1990 at Criteria Studios, Miami, FL

Genre

Alternative rock, pop rock, hard rock

Length

41:18

Label

Sony Music
Columbia

Producer

Gustavo Cerati and Zeta Bosio

Soda Stereo chronology

Languis
(1989)

Canción Animal
(1990)

Rex Mix
(1991)

U.S. cover version

Singles from Canción Animal

"Canción Animal"
Released: 1990
"De Música Ligera"
Released: 1990
"«(En) El Séptimo Día»"
Released: 1990
"Un Millón de Años Luz"
Released: 1990
"Sueles Dejarme Solo"
Released: 1990
"Hombre al Agua"
Released: 1990
"Té Para 3"
Released: 1991
"Cae el Sol"
Released: 1991
"Entre Caníbales"
Released: 1991

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Canción Animal (Spanish for Animal Song) is the fifth album released by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, released in September 1990 (see 1990 in music). Many of the songs on the album are among the band's most popular, such as one of their biggest hits "De Música Ligera", the last song played in Soda Stereo's last concert in 1997, "Hombre al agua", "Un Millón de Años Luz", "Te para tres" and others. It is considered one of the best and most influential albums in the history of Latin American rock music. The anthemic status of the album, and specifically "De Música Ligera", is perhaps due to the band's ability to tap into a feeling experienced by almost every Spanish-speaking nation of going from dictatorship (and thus censorship) to freedom at some point during the 20th century.^[2] Many regard it as the best album to ever come out of South America.^[3] In 2007, the Argentine edition of Rolling Stone ranked it 9 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock".^[4] The album sold 500,000 copies in Argentina alone.^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Gustavo Cerati, except where noted^[6]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(En) el Séptimo Día" ((In) The Seventh Day)		4:23
2.	"Un Millón de Años Luz" (A Million Light Years)		5:03
3.	"Canción Animal" (Animal Song)	Cerati, Daniel Melero	4:06
4.	"1990"		3:39
5.	"Sueles Dejarme Solo" (You Tend To Leave Me Alone)		3:46
6.	"De Música Ligera" (Of Light Music)	Cerati, Zeta Bosio	3:32
7.	"Hombre al Agua" (Man Overboard)	Cerati, Melero	5:53
8.	"Entre Caníbales" (Among Cannibals)		4:06
9.	"Té para 3" (Tea for Three)		2:26
10.	"Cae el Sol" (The Sun Sets)	Cerati, Melero	4:24

Chart performance

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Argentina (CAPIF)^[7]	2

Personnel

Soda Stereo

Gustavo Cerati – Lead vocals, guitars
Zeta Bosio – bass guitar, backing vocals, Chapman Stick on "Canción Animal"
Charly Alberti – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Alfredo Lois – art direction
Mariano Lopez – engineer / mixing
Pedro Aznar – vocal arrangement
Daniel Melero - Keyboards and arrangements
Tweety González - Keyboards
Andrea Álvarez - Percussion
Peter Baleani – production coordination
Roger Hughes – assistant engineer
Vanessa Eckstem - assistant
Adrian Taverna - Band assistant
Caito Lorenzo & Alfredo Lois - Photography

External links

Lyrics
Coveralia - Cancion Animal (album)
Rate your music - Cancion animal by Soda Stereo
CDUniverse - Soda Stereo, Cancion Animal CD Album

References

^ Allmusic review
^ "ARGENTINA: Canción Animal- Soda Stereo". www.200worldalbums.com. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
^ Un viaje por los 250 discos del rock Iberoamericano Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine Revista AlBorde
^ "Los 100 mejores discos del rock nacional". Rolling Stone Argentina (in Spanish). Publirevistas S. A. April 2007.
^ mdzol.com. "A 30 años de "Canción animal": la historia detrás del disco fundamental de Soda Stereo". MdzOnline (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-06.
^ list^{[permanent dead link]} AllMusic
^ Revista Pelo (in Spanish)