Los Treinta Principales. #22. Los Planetas "Super 8"

#22. Los Planetas "Super 8" (p)1994 BMG

"Super 8" was not the first experience of planting the contemporary british/american alternative rock sound onto the fruitful lands of Iberian Peninsula. It was not the most successful guitar album of the time in terms of revenue. Arguably, it was the first truly creatively successful effort - successful to such level where it might sin duda compete with the 'inspiration sources'.

But, what is significantly more important, it was the album that stabbed the polemark of the audience attention to the whole (pretty much burgeoning at that time) Spanish scene of guitar-driven music in the vein of american 'smart' alternative rock (in the range from Dinosaur Jr to Mercury Rev) as well as of pre-'Cool Britannia' post-psychedelic quasi-shoegaze model (from Spacemen 3 to Swervedriver).

So, it was not the album that spawned the 'underground movement' - it was the album that started something on macro-level.

The best tracks: Brigitte, Estos Ultimos Dias, De Viaje