One of the reasons I love this site is because I can go back in time and listen to music or albums that I might overlook while jamming to new music on a daily basis. Sometimes, we need to go back in time to appreciate where we come from. Timbiriche was my gateway into Latin pop. When I saw them in 1985 on Siempre En Domingo for the first time, I fell in love and spent my weekends in Tijuana hunting down anything I could find on the group. It was a time before the internet, where you could just look up everything you wanted to know about the group and have it at your fingertips. Instead, I went to every record store (even the shady ones down back alleys) to find all the albums of Timbiriche. Being a white girl who didn’t speak Spanish, it was a little strange back then to walk into a record store in Mexico and only be able to say, “Discos Timbiriche.”
This album was one of the first albums that I found and probably the easiest to find at the time. I thought it was cool to find a “concert” album of Timbiriche, but it took a while for me to realize this is not really a live album like we know it now. It seems to be an album that was based on a television special. Even so, it was pretty cool and it’s the only place to be able to find a lot of these tracks.
It starts with a badly edited potpourri of the songs from their first album, but being the white girl I was, it was fun to hear the kids singing songs I grew up with. “Noches De Verano” is a Spanish version of “Summer Nights” from the soundtrack, Grease. Then you have, “Mickey” that made US Top 40 charts by Toni Basil. How about “Baile De Sapo” which is a cover of “The Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Add a couple of classic rock covers…How can someone not love this album, especially the 14-year-old “gringo” who is drooling over Timbiriche?
Musically, I would have rather heard actually live versions of the songs, but it is what it is. It wasn’t like 1983 Timbiriche was a solid pop group. They were a kids’ group back then and showed. Their voices were still evolving.
“En Concierto” is a must to finish your collection and another definite must to get “rare” tracks like “Sueño Con Volver A Verte” which is a sweet little ballad sung by a young Benny Ibarra. The album is pretty easy to find and has been reissued on CD a couple of different times for easy collecting.
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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