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| You click on the song title, it starts downloading the song. Play it after it downloads. Then look above. It's a video. These are .mp3 files. It's in mono (buy the CD cheapskate). For those of you who don't want to deal with mp3, or prefer an audio stream, 4 of these songs, Hello, Must Go Fangalank, El Barbaro and Going Away are in real audio format. If you don't have Real Audio yet, you can download the free Basic Real Audio Player 8. |
| Other underlined text and images are links--try clicking them for a link about that topic or bigger images. We've made Beny Moré, Ray Baretto and Willie Bobo pages so far--click their images below, Ray's is linked on the Spiel page. |
| Internet Explorer users: If you have Windows98 installed the Windows Media Player should play MP3s automatically for you. You can also download the Windows Media Player by clicking here. Not that I like windows, mind you, it's just that it's free. I still hate Microsoft for forcing me to use their software. They can go to hell. |
| Other users should right-click on the song titles to download, then play from your hard drive. |
| -Must Go Fangalank.mp3 (2.4 MB) | -Must Go Fangalak--Real Audio |
 This is Riq's
theme song. The best part is slide under chorus. You hear studio we recorded
it at, Trax East.
Trax East is a really good studio and cheap considering how hard it rocks.
This is a heavy stoner rock song with cool congas. This is kind of like
Melvins'
Hooch but jammy and trippy. It probably comes more from Kyuss or Eyehategod. Actually all those guys are just fakers.
The best rock singer ever was Captain
Beefheart. Click his name or image for a nice page. |
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| -Hello.mp3 (2.2 MB) | -Hello--Real Audio |
  This is also like bolero-rock. The ending is another
ripoff of a Horace Silver tune called "Song for my Father"--damn
that's a beautiful song. The best part here is the bass line--probably
cus it sounds like Horace Silver. Click his name or image for some
audio of Horace. This song is about Cuba. Riq's trying to sound like Patti Smith.
Click her her name or image for nice fan page. |
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| -El Barbaro.mp3 (2.3 MB) | -El Barbaro--Real Audio |
Jorge wrote this instrumental. He's real steady.That's a big complement
to a bass player.
This is like a Santana song (Riq's trying to sound like Alvin
Lee)
. The best part is the Beny Moré sample in the beginning. Click his name or image
for my page for him. That's him saying "Barbaro!" which is like
an exclamation like "fuckin groovin." He is the real Barbaro.
You have to search with "
é" (Alt-0233) to get results looking for Beny Moré websites).
He is my all-time favorite Cuban singer. Hey the "website" link
is our buddy Bruce at picadillo.com. He has a lot of afro-Latin music
up in real audio (.ra) format. Click here for a text file instructing how to type Spanish characters on an English keyboard--got
the idea from Bruce. |
| -Going Away.mp3 (2.6 MB) | -Going Away--Real Audio |
 This is a rock-bolero. The best
part is the guitar solo cus Riq did it nice. The ending is a ripoff of the
late great Willie Bobo's tune called "Fried Neckbones and Some Home
Fries,"--no joke. Buy Willie
Bobo. He rocks. Click his name or image for my page for him. |
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| -Rockero.mp3 (2.5 MB) |
| This is a pretty rock-son. The coolest sound is the conga "puy" between verses. Here's a story: In Cuba when AIDS first came, they put people with AIDS in segregated prisons. Later, they made these prisons nicer than other prisons. At the same time there was a government crackdown on non-conformity. They saw kids who liked rock music as a threat to the state. A bunch of these kids got kicked out of school, lost jobs, got beat up and were seen as pariahs. All because they wore ripped up blue jeans and listened to Iron Maiden. Over a dozen of these kids injected themselves with the AIDS virus intentionally to escape from society and die slowly in the AIDS prisons. This song is about them sort of. I just saw the movie that's sort of about it called "Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar)". It was preachy. |
| -Once in a While.mp3 (1.9 MB) |
| This is a slacker-hip-hop-rock song that shuffles. My favorite part is the tambourine in the middle. We don't rip off anyone in particular in this song that I know of. Actually, it sounds like a Pharcyde song a little. |
| -Not the Sun.mp3 (2.4 MB) |
  This song is in 5/4
time I think. The coolest part is the melody the congas make during the
intro. Sort of sounds like Gil-Scott
Heron, but more rock, less talent. Click his name or image for
a funky bio page. Maybe the Minutemen is a stretch, but we love the Minutemen. Click the name of the band for a
nice fan page. Click D. Boon's image for Mike Watt's (the bass player's)
Hootenanny page. |
| -Wherever You Go.mp3 (2.7 MB) |
The Jersey City boys, Riq & Jorge have been playing this song since our Jack Shit
days. I think this is inspired by Fela Kuti,
which inspired us integrating Latin music into rock in general. All-music guide has a nice
commercial page for Fela, though they don't tell you he spent 5
years in prison for running for president of Nigeria. Amnesty International got him out.
We love Fela, unfortunately he died of AIDS a few years ago. Click his image for a bio of
Fela. |
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| The midi is Jimi Hendrix's "Fire." Other credits here. This work is copyrighted, © 2001, by Bay of Pigs. These MP3s are for 1 individuals personal use only. Don't be such a cheap bastard, buy a CD, $10. You get cool samples, artwork, and a thing in your hands that makes my apartment bigger. |