Simplemente (1984) is the sixteenth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by the band originally known as Three Souls in My mind and the first one as El Tri

El Tri

El Tri is a Mexican rock band from Mexico City fronted by Alex Lora. Founded in 1968 as Three Souls in My Mind, the group is regarded as influential in the development of Mexican rock music....

. The name come as a direct reference from the way the fans called the band tri is the way Three sounds in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, hence Simply The Tri.

The album was well received with "Triste Cancion" becoming a hymn in Latin rock and by far the most recognized song by the band, just like "Metro Balderas" and "Vicioso" received big success as singles.

In the song San Juanico 84 Alex Lora

Alex Lora

José Alejandro Lora Serna , better known by his stage name Alex Lora, is a Mexican musician and composer. He has been the frontman of the Spanish rock band El Tri for over 40 years...

 makes a salute industrial disaster caused by a massive series of explosions at a liquid petroleum gas tank farm in San Juanico, Mexico on November 19, 1984; this being one more of the songs dedicated to social reality, a characteristic in the songs of the band.

Track listing

1. "Sopleme Usted Primero" (_{You Blow me First}) (Alex Lora
   Alex Lora
   José Alejandro Lora Serna , better known by his stage name Alex Lora, is a Mexican musician and composer. He has been the frontman of the Spanish rock band El Tri for over 40 years...
   
   , Sergio Mancera) - 4:25
2. "San Juanico 84" (Lora) - 5:15
3. "Vicioso" (_Vicious) (Lora, Mancera) - 2:19)
4. "Juanita" (Lora, Mancera, Mariano Soto) - 3:50
5. "Triste Canción" (_{Sad Song}) (Lora) - 5:25
6. "Agua, Mi Niño (La Curva)" (_{Water, my Child (La Curva)}) (Lora, Mancera) - 3:26
7. "Violencia, Drogas y Sexo" (^{Violence, Drugs and Sex}) (Lora, Guillermo Briseño) - 3:40
8. "Metro Balderas
   Metro Balderas (song)
   "Metro Balderas", as it is generally known, or more precisely, "Estación del metro Balderas" , a song by Mexican Rock Musician Rodrigo González or "Rockdrigo" González, refers to a man looking for a woman who got lost in the crowd at Mexico City Metro station Metro Balderas.This song, along with...
   
   " (_{Balderas Subway}) (Rodrigo González
   Rodrigo González
   Rodrigo González, better known as Rockdrigo or El profeta del nopal , was a Mexican musician and songwriter. He founded the Movimiento Rupestre , a voice-and-guitar folk music scene that strongly influenced Mexican rock...
   
   ) - 3:40

Personnel

• Alex Lora – guitar, vocals
• Rafael Salgado – harmonic
• Sergio Mancera – electric & rhythm guitar
• Arturo Labastida – sax
• Mariano Soto – drums

External links

• www.eltri.com.mx
• Simplemente at Musicbrainz
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• [ Simplemente] at Allmusic