Rock's Best Supergroup was from Argentina - 'Serú Girán'

They're pretty cool

Some vague chapter things:
00:00 Intro
02:46 Charly Garcia and the start of Seru Giran
06:45 First album
11:03 Censorship
14:06 More stuff idk how to divide it up

[lao-grotten]

Honestly i hate rock music but Serú Girán's music I hate even more.

[rashotcake]

It’s pretty rare to see anglophones talk about rock en español, even tho there’s tons of awesome artists within the genre, so thank you so much for making this video!! Charly Garcia is amazing

[alienduce-unocero]

_"While they might be called the argentinian Beatles, I still haven't seen an english Serú Girán"_
Omfg, that ending phrase is so beautiful and portrays so well what many of us think about Serú.
Brilliant video man. Thanks in name of all us argentinians who enjoy this kind of Rock and feel that they're unfairly underrated.

[ZephyrineTW]

Every video of Argentinians I see, I click. It's amazing discovering stuff from their culture and it always gets better and better. Definitely a top level country, GOAT. Also one of the most beautiful. I'd love to visit Patagonia again sometime. Greetings from Argentina

[Emi_Alvarez]

Oh fun fact, in Argentina July 11th is Drummers Day after Oscar Moro, thats how important he was.

[brunomoreno]

am glad that little by little, the work of charly garcia is becoming known in the world. It's a treasure waiting to be discovered

[claudio]

Argentine rock is top level, a jewel mostly undiscovered by the mainstream Anglo music world simply because it was in Spanish and in Argentina. If not, it would be considered at the level of the gods of rock.

[juanmanuelpachecomartinez]

"I still havent seen an english seru giran"... that must be the greatest frase i've heard about an argentinian band, and they diserve it. Thank you for listening to our music, you have a lot to choose from ❤

[lemonkey]

Never heard of this band before, but here I am 1 week later. Pure gold.

[Henrik]

Great video! I'm brazilian and i don't think argentinian music is recognized as much as it should around here, even though we're neighbors, the language barrier kept us apart, which is a shame. I genuinely think guys like Charly Garcia, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Gustavo Cerati would have been regarded as high as Lennon/ McCartney/ Dylan/ Bowie if they were born in an English speaking country. Would love to see more of your insights on their music, as you're kind of an outsider like me. Spinetta is my favorite and an absolute hero of mine, would recommend you to check out Almendra's debut, El Jardín de los Presentes ( by Invisible) and Kamikaze, i think these greatly display his genius. Keep up the great work!!

[gotchab]

An interesting tibdit about "La grasa de las capitales": the album cover is meant to look like a extremely well known paparazzi magazine in Argentina. Charly was insanely popular after Sui Generis broke up, and with the release of La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros's and the first Serú Girán albums, fans and the press were a bit confused by his new artistic direction. Mainstream media started critizing him pretty harshly, with Revista Gente (literally translates to People Magazine) publishing an article titled "Charly García: ¿Ídolo o qué?" ("Charly García: Idol or what?") in which they talked about his declining popularity and suggested he was losing a step and would soon be forgotten.

That's why they included that exact sentence in the album's cover, among other fabricated articles refering to each band member. That's why the song also includes the lyrics "Gente revista, gente careta, la grasa inunda cual fugazetta", which would translate as "Magazine people, fake people, fat overflows like a fugazzeta" (with "fugazzeta" being a kind of greasy pizza with plenty of cheese and onion and "careta" used as slang for poser or fake), which talks both about people who read dumb magazines but can also be interpreted as "People Magazine, fake people...", refering to the actual magazine that published the article. That was the band's way of giving the middle finger to the press that doubted them.


I absolutely love Charly and most of his projects. I particularly love Serú and La Máquina, and would suggest to anyone interested in giving them a listen.

[waltero.]

I'm from Argentina and been a fan of your channel for a while now. So I'm super stoked and gladly surprised to see this video. Loved it. Seru Girán was so important for me as a music fan. I remember going to school early in the morning and listening to a local pirate radio with my cellphone and they would play Eiti Leda every single morning. One of the best bass solos in history. Anyways, I hate to be THAT guy who comes begging for videos, but Charly definitely deserves his own video.

[TomiPalese]

Like a lot of people have already said, it's very unusual (and a little bit shocking) to hear someone outside not only Argentina, but the Latin American cultural sphere talk about Serú Girán, much less giving them this much praise. Still, this was an incredible video. I'm glad to see how much you enjoy their music, and I hope this will lead more people around the world to discover the untapped wealth of Argetinian popular music.

PD: the ninth floor, he jumped from the ninth floor...

[SimplementeDamian]

Argentina has music that should be better known outside of its native language. Iconic albums like Clics Modernos, Bocanada or Artaud, great artists like Gustavo Cerati, Charly Garcia, Spinetta and the bands where they participated, Soda Stereo and their peculiar MTV Unplugged that is not Unplugged, etc. Gracias totales for making this video.

[ferdipaolo]

"while they're called the Argentinian Beatles, I still haven't seen an English Seru Giran" the most epic ending! Thank you for this video. Aguante Seru!!!

[valentinvazquez]

Investigate about Luis Alberto Spinetta, he was the other big man in our rock scene in those years. A very sensitive man, he made very poetic and complex music

[eclipsedbadger]

Charly was the first ones to bring synthesizers down here and play with them, and he was having all the fun in the world with them and trying them out along the keyboards. The band was down to play along, you can feel them obviously enjoying too!
Charly is SO eccentric because he knows he is one of the best around, he has a huge ego and why shouldn't he? He has perfect pitch, studied music since a kid, had been in almost every music genre he was interested in and was an important part of 4 bands that absolutely made a revolution in Argentinean and Latin American rock. He knows he is THE Charly Garcia. LOL

Also he jumped to a pool from the 9th floor because a cop was at his door, and he just went "not my fault you didn't finish school" and JUMPED! Then he went and made a song about it, the same day. I just want people to know that he can have his faults but Charly is just SO ridiculously awesome, I think we argentineans can forgive he has the giant ego of a zeppelin.

[santiagofari]

Hey man, as an argentinian let me tell you, this is a really well documented and insighful video. Not being a spanish speaker I can´t imagine how hard it was to gather all the information and footage but you really nailed it. Also, your pronunciation is just fine, never mind.

A few bits: Pedro Aznar´s playing was very influenced by Jaco Pastorius so there you go with the flash - fast sixteenth note funk, the mellow lines and the fretless bass. He´s still around and has tons of stuff to check out if you dig his playing (to any bass player aroud, you should). He has a nice way to fusion argentinian folkloric music with pop, jazz, rock which I find really accesible if you haven´t heard any of it beforehand. His first solo album from 1982 is really illustrative of where his influences came from (he also played all the instruments and sang!).

As for Charly, well, he is one our rock and roll star and superhero. I asume by this that you are well versed into his craft, but to anyone out there, don´t sleep in his 80's records. He had a crazy run, releasing one legendary album after another (Parte de la Religión, Clics Modernos, Piano Bar, the list goes on). The combination between complexity, melodic taste, intelligent lyrics and pop sensibility is out of the chart. He does deserve his own video (and maybe a few lol).

If you are willing to go on a beautiful, deep rabbit hole, you should check out Luis Alberto Spinetta. He stands along with Charly in the Mount Rushmore of Argentinian Rock, and as Charly he had lots of bands, periods and styles, but with a nice surreal touch. I´m sure you´ll enjoy it.

[PlayTheGuitarra]

As Argentinians we have the biggest privilege to enjoy British and American Rock but also our own Rock Nacional or Argentinian Rock, I'm glad to see English Speaking People discovering our Musical Treasures, I can assure you that Charly García and Spinetta are up to the level of someone like Paul McCartney or even higher...Enjoy it!

[SamuelBorda]

The Argentines who made me touch the sky with my hands, I am happy to see that their talent is recognized in other parts of the world. Thank you very much for making this video!