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Cuatro Caminos
Cuatro Caminos
Studio album by Café Tacuba
Released	July 1, 2003
Genre	Pop rock; Latin alternative;
Length	53:13
Label	Universal Music Mexico
Producer	Gustavo Santaolalla; Andrew Weiss; Dave Fridmann; Tony Peluso;
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Cuatro Caminos (English: Four Roads) is the fifth album by Mexican rock band Café Tacuba, released in 2003.

Background

Cuatro Caminos was produced by Gustavo Santaolalla, Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Weezer) and Andrew Weiss (Ween).

The title Cuatro Caminos references the name of a major road intersection and metro station in Mexico City. The album is marked by wordplay,^{[citation needed]} as in the song titles "Hoy Es" (sounds like "Oyes", meaning "You're Listening"), "Soy o Estoy", and "Hola Adiós" (sounds like "Hola a Dios", meaning "Hello to God"). Lead singer Rubén Albarrán was credited on this album as "Élfego Buendía". This was the first Café Tacuba album to use live drums instead of drum machines.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Austin Chronicle	^[2]
Blender	^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+^[4]
Los Angeles Times	^[5]
Mojo	^[6]
Pitchfork	8.7/10^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]
Spin	A^[9]

Cuatro Caminos was featured on year-end lists of the best albums of 2003 by several publications, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Blender. In 2004, it won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album and two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Album and Best Rock Song for "Eres". Music website Club Fonograma named Cuatro Caminos the best album of the decade.^[10]

The song "Eo" appears in the soundtrack to the soccer video game FIFA Football 2004.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Café Tacuba

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Cero y Uno" ("Zero and One")	3:52
2.	"Eo" (aka "Eo (El sonidero)"; "Eo (The Disc Jockey")	2:14
3.	"Mediodía" ("Midday")	3:56
4.	"¿Qué Pasará?" ("What Will Happen?")	2:20
5.	"Camino y Vereda" ("Path and Sidewalk")	4:05
6.	"Eres" ("You Are")	4:28
7.	"Soy o Estoy" ("Am I (in essence) or Am I (in state)")	2:48
8.	"Encantamiento Inútil" ("Useless Enchantment")	6:29
9.	"Recuerdo Prestado" ("Borrowed Memory")	3:30
10.	"Puntos Cardinales" ("Cardinal Points")	4:43
11.	"Desperté" ("I Woke Up")	3:09
12.	"Tomar el Fresco" ("To Take Fresh Air")	2:57
13.	"Hoy Es" ("Today Is")	5:01
14.	"Hola Adiós" ("Hello Goodbye")	3:41

Personnel

Elfego Buendía (Rubén Albarrán) – vocals, guitar
Emmanuel del Real – keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, vocals, melodeon
Joselo Rangel – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Quique Rangel – bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals

Guest musicians

Victor Indrizzo - drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13)
Joey Waronker - drums (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
Alejandro Flores - acoustic guitar, violin (track 13), jarana (track 4)
Dave Fridmann - ensemble (track 14)

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Mexico (AMPROFON)^[11]	Gold	50,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "Cuatro Caminos – Café Tacuba". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Hernandez, Raoul (19 September 2003). "Cafe Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos (MCA)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Lavin, Enrique. "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Blender. Archived from the original on 13 June 2004. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Futterman, Steve (15 August 2003). "Cuatro Caminos". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Gurza, Agustin (29 June 2003). "They rock or, at least they did". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Mojo. 2003. p. 106. [I]t's immediately accessible and wears its discontent in a convincing snarl.
^ Linhardt, Alexander Lloyd (16 October 2003). "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Kemp, Mark (2004). "Café Tacuba". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 129–30. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ "Breakdown". Spin. Vol. 19, no. 11. November 2003. p. 117. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
^ Club Fonograma's Best Albums of the Decade. 2000-2009 Archived 2012-08-27 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Type Tacvba in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Cuatro Caminos in the box under the TÍTULO column heading.

[1] Jurek, Thom. "Cuatro Caminos – Café Tacuba". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[2] Hernandez, Raoul (19 September 2003). "Cafe Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos (MCA)". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[3] Lavin, Enrique. "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Blender. Archived from the original on 13 June 2004. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[4] Futterman, Steve (15 August 2003). "Cuatro Caminos". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[5] Gurza, Agustin (29 June 2003). "They rock or, at least they did". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[6] "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Mojo. 2003. p. 106. [I]t's immediately accessible and wears its discontent in a convincing snarl.

[7] Linhardt, Alexander Lloyd (16 October 2003). "Café Tacuba: Cuatro Caminos". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[8] Kemp, Mark (2004). "Café Tacuba". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 129–30. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[9] "Breakdown". Spin. Vol. 19, no. 11. November 2003. p. 117. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

[10] Club Fonograma's Best Albums of the Decade. 2000-2009 Archived 2012-08-27 at the Wayback Machine.

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-'''''Cuatro Caminos''''' (English: Four Roads) is the fifth album by Mexican [[rock music|rock]] band [[Café Tacuba]], released in 2003.
+'''''Cuatro Caminos''''' (''English'': Four Roads) is the fifth album by Mexican [[rock music|rock]] band [[Café Tacuba]], released in 2003.
 ==Background==
-''Cuatro Caminos'' was produced by [[Gustavo Santaolalla]], [[Dave Fridmann]] ([[The Flaming Lips]], [[Weezer]]) and [[Andrew Weiss (guitarist)|Andrew Weiss]] ([[Ween]]).
+''Cuatro Caminos'' was produced by [[Gustavo Santaolalla]], [[Dave Fridmann]] ([[The Flaming Lips]], [[Weezer]]) and [[Andrew Weiss (musician)|Andrew Weiss]] ([[Ween]]).
-The title ''Cuatro Caminos'' references the name of a major road intersection and [[Metro Cuatro Caminos|metro station]] in [[Mexico City]]. The album is marked by wordplay, as in the song titles "Hoy Es" (sounds like "Oyes", meaning "You're Listening"), "Soy o Estoy", and "Hola Adiós" (sounds like "Hola a Dios", meaning "Hello to God"). Lead singer [[Rubén Albarrán]] was credited on this album as "Élfego Buendía". This was the first Café Tacuba album to use live drums instead of drum machines.
+The title ''Cuatro Caminos'' references the name of a major road intersection and [[Metro Cuatro Caminos|metro station]] in [[Mexico City]]. The album is marked by wordplay,{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} as in the song titles "Hoy Es" (sounds like "Oyes", meaning "You're Listening"), "Soy o Estoy", and "Hola Adiós" (sounds like "Hola a Dios", meaning "Hello to God"). Lead singer [[Rubén Albarrán]] was credited on this album as "Élfego Buendía". This was the first Café Tacuba album to use live drums instead of drum machines.
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-''Cuatro Caminos'' was featured on year-end lists of the best albums of 2003 by several publications, including ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''. In 2004, it won a [[Grammy]] Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album and two [[Latin Grammy]] Awards for [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]] and [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song|Best Rock Song]] for "[[Eres (Café Tacvba song)|Eres]]". Music website [[Club Fonograma]] named ''Cuatro Caminos'' the best album of the decade.<ref>[http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html Club Fonograma's Best Albums of the Decade. 2000-2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827014718/http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html |date=2012-08-27 }}.</ref>
+''Cuatro Caminos'' was featured on year-end lists of the best albums of 2003 by several publications, including ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''. In 2004, it won a [[Grammy]] Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album and two [[Latin Grammy]] Awards for [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Album]] and [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song|Best Rock Song]] for "[[Eres (Café Tacuba song)|Eres]]". Music website [[Club Fonograma]] named ''Cuatro Caminos'' the best album of the decade.<ref>[http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html Club Fonograma's Best Albums of the Decade. 2000-2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827014718/http://www.clubfonograma.com/2009/12/club-fonogramas-best-albums-of-decade_23.html |date=2012-08-27 }}.</ref>
 The song "Eo" appears in the soundtrack to the soccer video game ''[[FIFA Football 2004]]''.
 ==Track listing==
+{{track listing
-{{tracklist
 | all_writing     = Café Tacuba
 | title1          = Cero y Uno
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 | length5         = 4:05
-| title6          = [[Eres (Café Tacvba song)|Eres]]
+| title6          = [[Eres (Café Tacuba song)|Eres]]
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 * Joselo Rangel – [[electric guitar]], [[steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic guitar]], [[vocal]]s
 * Quique Rangel – [[bass guitar]], [[electric upright bass]], [[vocal]]s
+==Guest musicians==
+* [[Victor Indrizzo]] - [[drums]] (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13)
+* [[Joey Waronker]] - [[drums]] (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
+* Alejandro Flores - [[acoustic guitar]], [[violin]] (track 13), [[jarana]] (track 4)
+* Dave Fridmann - [[Musical ensemble|ensemble]] (track 14)
 ==Certifications==

v t e Café Tacuba
Rubén Albarrán Emmanuel del Real Enrique Rangel Joselo Rangel
Studio albums	Café Tacuba Re Avalancha de Éxitos Revés/Yo Soy Cuatro Caminos Sino El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco Jei Beibi
Extended plays	Vale Callampa
Live albums	Un Viaje MTV Unplugged Un Segundo MTV Unplugged
Compilation albums	Tiempo Transcurrido
Singles	"Eres" "No Hay Nadie Como Tú"