primer

para ti alex, con cariño. feliz cumpleaños :)



image : anti-fascist school primer, spain 1930s


in 10th grade my friend katrina handed me a zine called an anarchist primer. i don't recall much of the content, but i do remember it had a picture of jerry falwell* with a swastika drawn on his forehead. that was exciting. that was also my introduction to the concept of primer. like the first coat of paint that prepares a surface for future coats, that little text aimed to prepare my 14-year-old brain and heart for anti-capitalist theory & practice.

following are tracks from a rock en español primer that i compiled recently for friends. at first i was going for a sort of kitchen sink approach. but then i thought, no, that's not a primer, that's like a colección de oro vol. i, ii, & iii or las 100 mejores canciones or something. that's not what i want, i'm not making any claims of essential or best of. i just want to give a little taste, strong & sweet...


* remember that guy? right-wing lunatic televangelist, defender of apartheid in south africa, the state of israel & zionism, racial segregation in u.s. public institutions, patriarchy, and theocracy. died in 2007. good riddance, hijo de ___!



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bueno, aquí está. ¡buen provecho!

primer :: rock en español **





a la orillita del mar : los de abajo (méxico)
bolita de trapo : cabas & enrique bunbury (colombia, españa)
va a escampar : la vela puerca (uruguay)
la dosis perfecta : panteón rococo (méxico)
mc dollar : ska-p (españa)
pobre de ti : tijuana no! (méxico)
de música ligera : soda stereo (argentina)
tu cárcel : enanitos verdes (argentina)
esa noche : café tacuba (méxico)
cumbia lunera : el gran silencio (méxico)
sin documentos : los rodríguez (argentina)
veneno es antidoto : división minúscula (méxico)
la colina de la vida : ataque 77 (argentina)
20 de abril : celtas cortos (españa)
electricidad : los abandoned (chile, eeuu)
el listón de tu pelo : jarabe de palo & julieta venegas (españa, méxico)
padre nuestro : fabulosos cadillacs (argentina)
amargo adios : inspector (méxico)
yo tomo : bersuit (argentina)


** countries of origin listed for identification purposes only, and not intended as a scorecard. pero que viva méxico lindo y querido, jajaja!