Your favorite Spanish/Lating pop song (within certain parameters)

Hi all,

I need the hive mind.

This summer La Vuelta (the Tour of Spain - cycling) is coming to the Netherlands.

With others I run a small movie theatre, and we're organizing a little festival in july with movies about cycling. In between films we want to rock some Spanish tunes.

So, what's your favorite Spanish song? I think I'll need about 100, i'll put them in a playlist (preferably Spotify) and run them as the 'DJ'.

It (obviously) needs vocals in Spanish, and it should be suitable for grannies too.

Help me out. Gracias!

Especially for grannies
Juan Luis Guerra - Burbujas de amor
Sergio Mendes - Mas que nada
Antonia Rodriguez - La Bamba
Paco Paco - Taka, Takata
Van McCoy - Soul Cha Cha
Elli Medeiros - A bailar calypso
Gary Low - La colegiala

Pop classics
Becky G - Todo cambio
Nelly Furtado - No hay igual
Belle Perez - El mundo bailando
Enrique Iglesias - Subème la radio
Gente de Zona - Algo contigo

90's Indie
Le Mans - Un rayo de sol
Nosoträsh - Voy a aterrizar
Gustavo Cerati - Tabú
La Buena Vida - Desde hoy en adelante
Le Mans - Por tres años
Caifanes - Hasta morir
Me Enveneno de Azules - Imagenes
Soda Stereo - Nuestra fe

Funny covers
Azuquita & Mattias Reim - Te queiro a veces (Verdammt ich lieb dich)
Guianko - No puedes comprarme (Can't Buy Me Love)

many thanks!

Some good ones from the granny generation:

Los Brincos - Lola
Cecilia - Nada de nada
Juan y Junior - La caza
Karina - La fiesta
Marisol - Corazón Contento
Encarnita Polo - Paco, Paco, Paco
Joan Manuel Serrat - Tu nombre me sabe a yerba
Camilo Sesto - Fresa salvaje
Los Stop - Tres cosas (Salud, dinero y amor)

R.Valens (or Los Lobos) La Bamba is too old skool, I guess ?

Oups sorry, I hadn't seen it suggested already !

You have the Buena Vista Social Club that could basically rock your party all night long !

Oh and another one from the movies : "Arranca" from Manzanita (from Miami Vice !)

Some oldies :
Mala Vida - Mano Negra (I don't like solo Manu Chao but he has some popular tunes too).
Porque te vas - Jeanette
Cuando caliente el sol - raffaella carra
Don Quichotte No estan aqui - Magazine 60

A few ideas with no geographical limit

Guillermo Portabales - El Carretero
Willie Colón - Che Che Cole
Willie Colón - Te Conozco
Willie Colón - Tiempo pa matar
Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas
Camarón de la Isla - La Leyenda del Tiempo
Joan Manuel Serrat - Mediterraneo
Silvio Rodriguez - Cancion del Elegido
Silvio Rodriguez - Ojala
La Dama se Esconde - Amenazas
Toto la Momposina - El Pescador
Bomba Estereo - Fuego
Bomba Estereo - Sintiendo
Bomba Estereo - Al Alma y el Cuerpo
Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raiz
Natalia Lafourcade - Ella es bonita
Natalia Lafourcade - Un derecho de nacimiento
Javiera Mena - Luz de piedra luz de luna
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Rosalía - Di mi nombre
Rosalía - Malamente
Rosalía - A Palé
Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés - Tras de Ti
Los Rakas - Abrazame (Uproot Andy remix)
Carla Morrison - Diamantes
Lido Pimienta - Nada
Bad Bunny - Hasta que Dios Diga
Anuel AA - Reggaetonera
Rauw Alejandro - Todo de ti
Karol G - Bichota
Karol G - Provenza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unbjv-zz-mY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba8VUOc7LOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAydImm-IJg

Awesome Spanish pop songs not actually sung by spanish/latinamericans:

Paradisio - Bailando
Righeira - vamos a la playa

Jeanette - porque te vas

Is an awesome tune and popular with grannies too.

celia cruz - la vida es un carnaval

Los Angeles Azules, Juan Gabriel and Luis Miguel are extremely popular in every age gap in Mexico. Not sure about the first two in Spain, but at least Luis Miguel is pretty well known.

Three of his biggest early hits are also covers of well known English artists:

No culpes a la playa (Jackson 5)
Ahora te puedes marchar (Dusty Springfield)
Cuando Calienta el Sol (Engelbert Humperdinck)

And he has many classic bolero and mariachi covers as well that most spanish speaking grannies would recognize.

Super! They will all go in the playlist and be shuffled in july.

:-)

This playlist:

60 70 80 España
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3dpXVg7Al9m402uhNXHY6w?si=ZYuo3cnkS3GUppy4eYfs_w

Has several hits that you can pick from

Plenty of good spotify playlists if you search 60s or 70s España

Azúcar Moreno • Bandido

“Sera que no me amas” is the actual title of the “dont blame it on the boogie” cover not “no culpes a la playa” sorry lol

His bolero albums are easy to distinguish they are a “Romance” series: Romance, Segundo Romance, Romances, Mis Romances…

Those Luis Miguel covers are great, Moka!

Paradisio - Bailando

Also, I have a big soft spot for Hijo de la luna by Meccano.

Hijo de La Luna is great. Most Mecano hits would be winners in my book, every Spanish speaker in the 30-60 year age gap knows plenty of their hits by heart.

Hombres G haven’t been mentioned yet and they are also really well known in different generations. I’d pick “el ataque de las chicas cocodrilo” because it’s my favorite one.

Regarding Paradisio: I had never heard the Loona track before! That’s interesting… I’m guessing it was a successful cover in countries where the original wasn’t a hit. The one that was massively popular in Mexico and most of Europe is the Paradisio one.

Let me check the spotify numbers… Paradisio version has 89M streams vs Loona with 16M. On youtube official videos are currently 50M for Paradisio vs 800k for Loona.

That's funny, because *I* had never heard the original before this week!

It looks like Loona was only a hit in the Netherlands and German speaking countries: it reached number 1 in Switzerland and Germany and 3 in Austria.

Paradisio has never been played on Dutch radio in the last few years, Loona a couple of times.

But anyway, Loona's is the better version because of the extra synth line after the chorus.

And they even made a 'Hijo de la luna' cover!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwosbctPjoQ

added everything, at 5 hours and 18 minutes atm. Should be enough for 2 days of after-movie-partying. If anyone wants to make it 6 hours with obscure personal favourites, be my guest.

I'll quit adding after 6 hours of music :-)

Muchas gracias ILXos!

And I'm sure movie buffs will agree we're playing Breaking Away too!

https://www.filmhuisbreda.nl/programma-2021-2022/wielrenfilmfestival/

can't find playlist link

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5N8V4jkUiI1gVMlcYZWXG7?si=1d8183ef69c44659

Rosa Rosa by Sandro