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Summary: This papis sing like beautiful greek gods would if they spoke spanglish
Comment: I love how these guys sing! Growing up and being an LA Spanglish speaker myself, it's great to actually see it make sense on a cd. (Not all the songs are Spanglish, though) If I was guy there would be a couple of songs on here that I would use for seranading my girl! :> For now I just imagine a guy playing it for me. Sofie
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Summary: Outstanding bachata album
Comment: Es una pasada de album de bachata. Amor y Odio. La vida misma hecha bachata. Conciencia, Hermanita, Guerra y Pelicula son las mejores bachatas que nunca he oido.
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Summary: sin titulo
Comment: Bachata... de esa que puedo decir? la musica es bien buena. me encanta. PERO, lo unico que no me gusta es la letra de la mayoria de las canciones. a veces ellos dicen cosas muy buenas pero la mayoria de las canciones hablan de mujeres, sexo y de ser infiel. todo eso esta bien... de vez en cuando. sin embargo, me siento que ellos pueden ser un grupo magnifico por su abilidad musical.
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Summary: Love & Hate
Comment: I don't even speak Spanish and I love this CD. The singing is beautiful, great melodies, beats, etc. Great CD, even coming from a white girl.
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Summary: Tryna be down?
Comment: I must admit, I do like Aventura at least more songs than not. Ok so they may have their image geared towards "las mujeres" but image aside...they some tight musicians! I respect them for their body of work thus far and like that they at least make a go for originality...even if it doesn't always go that way. I copped "Love and Hate" when it first came out and liked what i heard, what I didn't like and also in agreeance with another reviewer is that, there is some wack "self promotion" and skits that just suck. Aventura has an urban flava but they aren't hip hop or reggaeton, or even bachata for that matter, but when they throw rhymes in their songs, it just kills it for me. I don't care that they are from El Bronx... Aventura aren't gangstas and they are sure as hell don't come off street or hip hop!! Hahaha they throw a lil guest appearence from a no name mc( like on the "Obsession" remix which I actually do like ) and it's your typical syndrome of trying to reach the realnesss la gente. other than some tired tricks the songs here are cool but this is not on par with "We Broke the rules" and they seem like they are tryna be down and should just stick to playing from the heart. Anthony is a cool singer but all the self hype is wack, but then again what do you expect? He is the lead singer and feel he MUST call himself Romeo and liken himself to The Beatles circa 1964, cuz all you'll hear at a live gig is AHHHHHH AYYYYYY ROMEOOO!! But I'm not hating on Romeo his singing voice is tight and, frontin or not, he still does a good job on "Love and Hate" with singing and vocals. Lenny is a good guitarist and Mikey is a good, fluid bassist, I don't know what the hell Henry's role is in the band he could be a bachata "hype man" like a Flavor Flav to a Chuck D or a Proof to Eminem, Henry to me is the "Romeo hype man!" I wish Lenny and Mikey would get more love because they are really the "musicians" in Aventura and if you really pay attention can see they can play their guitars and bassies respectively. Besides obvious faults this is a solid album and they cross modern bachata with some worthy rock n perico ripiao riddims. Hooking up with accordianist El Prodigio works on "Me voy" and they should do more "tipico" joints i was feeling this. Tego Calderon toasting "Envidia" is aight but reggaeton sounds tired when Aventura attempts it, I am not a fan of 'ton so thats my opinion, the only good reggaeton flavored song I heard from Aventura was the remix to "Obsecion. So I'm curious to see what Aventura does next as a new album is expected and should be in the works. this came out in late 2003 so maybe by the summer they'd drop an album, get all the nalgitas hanging out!! Hahaha what I would do is recommend this if you have enjoyed aventura so far, in my opinion they have potential to go even furthur than they have, as they are only about 6 years as a band now. some bands don't get real smoking 10 years into their careers! Let's see what happens...in the meantime this album is good but not great, they could tighten things up and top "We Broke the rules" easily if they stay REAL and forget what the modern trend dictates.
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