Artist: Haragán y Compañía
Album: Valedores juveniles
Year: 1990
Genre: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Folk Rock, Hard Rock
Country: Mexico
Source of analysis: Original LP (1990), Discos y Cintas Denver [L.P.DCD-1024] + CD reissue (1992), Discos y Cintas Denver [CD-DCD-3004] + CD reissue (1992), Discos y Cintas Denver [CD-DCD-3004].

Tracklist:

SIDE A

1. Juan el Descuartizador 00:00
2. La Perra brava 02:38
3. Mi muñequita sintética 05:54
4. No estoy muerto 09:06
5. Él no lo mató 12:09

SIDE B

6. El chamuco 16:25
7. Antes me gustabas 19:24
8. A esa gran velocidad 21:50
9. ¿Qué va a ser de él, Dios? 27:30
10. Basuras 30:31

Members:
Luis Antonio "Haragán" Álvarez - acoustic guitar, lyrics, vocals
Juan "Yey" Mejía - bass guitar and guitar
Jaime "Yey" Mejía - drums
Rodrigo "Nopal" Levario - electric guitar, backing vocals
Octavio "Sopas" Espinoza - saxophone
Jaime Rodríguez - bass on "Juan el Descuartizador", "A esa gran velocidad" and "El chamuco".

The song "Basuras" was recorded with Banda Bostik.

About the album (by Muciño from "La rara radio" on NoFM*):

Anecdotes season any activity, in rock they are not few, one among many, that of the first album by Luis Álvarez "El Haragán", who entered a talent contest organized by the Bacardí y Cía. company, the name of the contest: "Valores juveniles". Álvarez was rejected because of his face, not according to the standards of the brand, from this incident was born the name Haragán y Cía. and the album "Valedores Juveniles", in clear allusion to the said contest, but not only that, with the play on words the group painted a line, declined by the worth and camaraderie of the word "street": valedor.

It was 1990 when it appeared, with a simple cover: a red background and Luis Álvarez in the foreground, long hair, black shirt and vest. The album took root in the collective, most of them know at least 20% of its contents: "Él no lo mató" and "Mi muñequita sintética".

And the fact is that El Haragán fully fulfills the intentions announced in the title, throughout the thirty-two minutes of the recording the group tells us the story of different "valedores", urban stories set to music with a blues that oscillates between classic rock roll, rockabilly, ballad and some heavier passages, but always talking about characters that populate what they call "the neighborhood".

But who are these characters, which youths does the album portray? A perverted murderer, then a prostitute, followed by a drug addict, a gangster and a thief who died on the run. In those years people reproached Alex Lora for making songs taking advantage of tragedies and miseries ("San Juanico", "Hasta que el cuerpo aguante", "Niño sin amor"). To this add other songs that speak of loneliness, of uprooting.

Valedores juveniles may have meant a respite for the followers of the urban genre, because they found songs that once again spoke of specific realities but without generating a value judgment, and also extremely transmitting. There are only ten tracks and in them there is cohesion, there is no chaff, something not very common in an album.


- We complement with the comment of our friend Gusdan:

The best era of urban rock is over. Now they're all balladeers and versioners of the most sappy songs of Mexican popular music. They have devolved into a kind of decaffeinated soft rock, or they do the impossible to make a name for themselves. The less worse keep repeating themselves over and over again.

"Valedores Juveniles" by Haragán y Compañía is gold in the trash. So barrio, so basic, so convinced of itself, although with a lousy production -a special mark of the label-, the songs shine by themselves. No marginalized rock album can boast three anthems, three instant classics: "Mi muñequita sintética", "No estoy muerto" and "Él no lo mató". In addition to a song that seemed inconceivable in an album like this: "A esa gran velocidad", a very sincere, visceral and emotional song. A great album.

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