In 1981, Menudo released an album that doesn’t really fall within the line-up of albums, but it does. When Miguel Cancel entered the group Menudo they released in the limited release an album called “Menudo,” which fans have penned as Xanadu. The album featured a couple of new songs as well as some favorites from past albums.
If you missed that album, we fast forward to 1983 where Menudo released De Collecion. This is the group’s first greatest hits album or compilation. This album contained songs from the “Xanadu” album like “Cosita Loca Llamada Amor,” a cover of Queen’s hit “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “No Se Puede Para La Musica,” a cover of The Village People’s song, “Can’t Stop The Music”.
Here is where you would have heard the songs for the first time. Like myself, I thought these songs were new when I purchased it in the mid-80s. Without the internet, you didn’t know much more than what was in front of you. The album came with a full-color poster if you purchased the album new. Out in the wild, I doubt you will get the poster as fans hung it on their walls. I know I did.
There are a couple of different versions of De Collecion. The Mexican edition has other songs on the album including “No Que No” and “Cielto Lindo.” Other editions contained a sticker on the cover stating it comes with a poster. In the US, the cover had a pink graphic in one of the squares stating it came with a poster. This album also came in cassette and 8-Track and was reissued in the late ’90s in CD.
TRACK LISTING
- No Se Puede Para La Musica
- Ensename A Cantar
- Soy Natural
- Ella-A-A
- Dos Ninos
- Voulez Vous
- Me Voy A Enamoriscar
- Chiquitita
- Cosita Loca Llamada Amor
- Libre Mi Corazon
- Voy A America
- Quiero Verte Feliz
- Los Fantasmas
- Mas Mucho Mas
2021 Edit: As we are moving to our new server and new name, I gave this review an overhaul. It is one of the first reviews I wrote. It was featured on a website I created to document all the different versions of album. Almost like a Wikipedia. The website never went very far and only a few reviews survived over the years. I edited the grammar and a cleaned up the wording. Overall, it wasn’t a review to state if the album was bad or good. Essentially, all “greatest hits” albums are good because they are the best. It was released after the album Quiero Ser, which makes me wonder why songs like “Quiero Ser” and “Subete A Mi Moto” were not featured. There’s no real rhyme or reason for the tracks they chose for this album because most of them were not the hits. It’s definitely not an album on would need if you had all the other Menudo albums.
Since that day, I have been study Latin pop and rock music and have become a Latin pop music historian through the publishing of articles, fanzine, and websites. My goal is to teach people about Latin pop music and the history behind it with my website, Siempre En Domingo.
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