La voz de los '80

La voz de los '80
Studio album by
Los Prisioneros
ReleasedDecember 13, 1984
RecordedMarch–December, 1984
VenueSantiago de Chile
Genre
Length40:22
LabelFusion
EMI
ProducerJorge González
Los Prisioneros chronology
La voz de los '80
(1984) 		Pateando piedras
(1986)

La voz de los '80 is the debut studio album by the Chilean band Los Prisioneros, released independently under the Fusion label on December 13, 1984. Produced by leader, vocalist, and songwriter Jorge González, who credited it to the name of the band.[1] A thousand copies were released in cassette format at its launch, today these cassettes are considered cult objects of Chilean rock.[2][3] In 1985, Los Prisioneros signed a contract with EMI Odeón Chilena, who re-issuedLa voz de los '80 nationally and with Latin American projection that year, managing to sell around 100,000 copies in Chile.[4][5]

The album was recorded initially and for the most part at Francisco Straub studios, but it was finished and mixed at Caco Lyon studios. It was characterized by combining the simple sound of guitar, bass and drums.[6][7] The songs are critical of the world during the 1980s, managing in the song "Latinoamérica es un pueblo al sur de Estados Unidos" to capture the atmosphere of US imperialism and the omnipresent Cold War in the subcontinent.

It is considered the most important rock album in Chile and also the most important youth album in Chilean music, since the members of the band were no more than twenty years old at the time they began recording.[8] EMOL included the album in its selection of 35 fundamental albums of Chilean popular music,[9] Al Borde placed it in position 131 of the "250 albums of Ibero-American Rock",[10] it was chosen as the third best Chilean album of all time, according to Rolling Stone Chile magazine, surpassed by Alturas de Machu Picchu, by Los Jaivas, in second place, and Las últimas composiciones, by Violeta Parra, in the first place.[11] It's placed in the position 33 of the "600 Discos de Latinoamérica" list. [1]

  1. ^ González & Aguayo 2005, p. 178.
  2. ^ Stock, Freddy (9 December 1994). "Los Prisioneros a una década". Wiken. El Mercurio. p. 20.
  3. ^ Inostroza, María Ignacia (13 December 2019). "Objeto de culto: El cassette original de La Voz de los 80". Rock&Pop (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  4. ^ Jürgensen, Mauricio (22 November 2009). "A 25 años de La voz de los 80: la carátula, el estudio y los temas perdidos de Los Prisioneros". La Tercera. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Hoy se cumplen 30 años de La Voz De Los '80, el disco más emblemático de Los Prisioneros". La Tercera. Copesa. 2014-12-13. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  6. ^ Narea 2009, p. 78.
  7. ^ González & Aguayo 2005, p. 251.
  8. ^ "La voz de los 80". Televisión Nacional de Chile. 2012-03-02. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  9. ^ "Especiales_EMOL". www.emol.com. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  10. ^ "250 albums del Rock Iberoamericano". Musiteka (in Spanish). 2 April 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  11. ^ Parraguez, Monserrat (February 14, 2011). "Jorge González revive "La voz de los 80". El Mercurio de Valparaíso.