Legendary Rock Songs: JESUCRISTO GARCÍA: EXTREMODURO.
Hello my beautiful people, I hope you are super well, well here I present a band in what has rock in Spanish is referred because if most of the bands of legendary songs that I have shared are of Anglo-Saxon bands, but there are also some bands of rock in Spanish that have legendary songs, especially in what are cult bands that not everyone listens as for example the one that I present to you below.
Hymn of the underworld turned into a song for all audiences. Roberto Iniesta in one of his most inspired moments, doing his thing with his rogue prose. Until it became a recurrent song in the first drunken teenagers' get-togethers when Extremoduro reached their peak of popularity in 1996, with those two consecutive nights with the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid packed to the rafters, “Jesucristo García” had been a cursed song.
From then on, a whole generation that discovered the “wild side” of the hand of the former junkie Robe and his tortured poetry praised it to a level that transcended in young people of any status and social class. A paradox for a theme that spoke of marginality, with a metaphor of Jesus Christ taken to the urban context of the underprivileged that society considered as dangerous offal.
Here, the main character was Evaristo, with a life on the razor's edge full of potholes and suffering in the purest style of the agonized and misunderstood Jesus. Robe's Jesus Christ (García, to bring him even closer to the common people and demystify the idea of an all-powerful god far removed from his fellow men) had tricked Satan himself to cheat his death and now survived by getting by as best he could, falling into drugs and ending up in jail.
If the one in the Bible was the “son” of a carpenter, Evaristo had been a sheet metal worker, was crucified for narcotics instead of being tortured on the cross by the Romans, and had a peculiar way of resurrecting. Crude autobiography of Mr. Iniesta? Extremoduro recorded “Jesucristo García” for their debut album, “Tu en tu casa... Nosotros en la Hoguera”, which was released in 1989, this is perhaps the version most loved by their fans, because after all the horrible sound gave it an extra dose of rawness.
Then they reworked it, like most of the songs on that album, to make it part of their elemental “Rock Transgresivo” (1994), a title more than adequate to define the vein of an outcast who was crowned king. It was his own story... Jesus Christ, Evaristo and Robe... the holy trinity. As Fito once said about his friend, “Robe says he is everywhere. He says he is God”. Recently the band has given the song a facelift, and we find it included in that compilation of revised songs called “Grandes Éxitos y Fracasos” (Greatest Hits and Failures).
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