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Manu Chao - Classic or Dud

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So, what you think of him?

― victor campos, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prefer La Mano Negra, but Chao did a great job in bringing a "pan- latin" sound to the French (and world!) audiences. Good records to smoke joints and drink sangria when it's really hot outside. La Mano in the early 90s was just such a powerful machine...

― Simon, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bad-ass classic! His first solo album was scavenged from my friend's mother's independent folk-and-world focused radio station and I was completely blindsided. Multilingual Beckosity without the pseudo- hipster pretentiousness, Clandestino was even something of a concept album; it felt to me like a (less depressing) companion piece for the film El Norte or something. Unfortunately, I haven't heard his latest release yet, but I really hope it isn't as bad as "they" say it is.

― Dan I., Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This has already been discussed, no? Or was that Nelly Furtado? What do I think of him? Not much. I like to think about pleasant things. ;-)

― helen fordsdale, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

me gustas tu sounds pleasant enough but I tired of it after about 3 plays. the rest of the latest album sounds like lazy crap reaggae to me.

― philT, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like his version of Light My Fire

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

big in Italia, went to a gig of 100,000 plus people at the piazza del duomo in Milano. Clandestino is a great album.

― Ed, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

see laos tonino caratone

― Ed, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

see also tonino caratone

― Ed, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

carotone

― Ed, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

Just saw him outside DC last night

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 June 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

What was he doing?

― Matt #2, Sunday, 24 June 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh! If you hung around with certain hippie/alternative types (at least here in Finland) in the late 90's and the early 00's, you couldn't escape hearing his music... I remember feeling very alone in hating him, when everyone else in the world seemed to be in love with him. He's one of those artists who siphons influences from everywhere and everyone, yet ends up sounding totally bloodless and soulless and harmless. His stuff is like elevator music to hippies.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 24 June 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like his music, be it in small doses. Actually, my favourite is the album with Amadou & Mariam, Dimanche a Bamako.

― willem, Sunday, 24 June 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Apart from that precisely, which he just produced or something remote like that, SOFUCKINGDUD

http://www.bubblegoose.com/Poop/poop_06-23-2003.JPG

― blunt, Sunday, 24 June 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

feelin' bettah now, blunt?

― t**t, Sunday, 24 June 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

slightly. clearly Manu Chao brings out the best in me.

― blunt, Sunday, 24 June 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

He was onstage at Merriweather Post Saturday night.

Several other threads on him (with several folks saying they hate him because of his audience not because of his music)

Manu Chao RFI,C/D, S+D, whatever

who is Manu Chao anyway?

Manu CHao??

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 June 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

images off. yeesh

― mitya, Sunday, 24 June 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

true, but a turd is worth a thousand words

― blunt, Sunday, 24 June 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Several other threads on him (with several folks saying they hate him because of his audience not because of his music)

Haha, it's the exact opposite with me: I hate his music, but I have nothing against his fans, since many of my friends belong to that category. Unfortunately this also got me exposed to his music much more than I would've ever cared for.

― Tuomas, Monday, 25 June 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

I like his more subtle music on his studio cds, and despite the formulaic nature of his thrash-ska numbers, even find those fun thanks in part to some of his vocal melodies(also live when he's jumping around his energy helps make his approach work).

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

haven't been to a show like that in a looong time

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with blunt.

― kenan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

This shit is hot garbage.

― kenan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://hotgarbage.org/img/hotgarbage.jpg

― Oink Administrator, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

ooh. The one on the bottom is making a big wet messssss.

― kenan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

It's gross that I liked Manu Chao so much when I was 19.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 27 June 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)


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