La voz de los '80
La voz de los '80 (English: "The voice of the 80's") is the debut studio album by the Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros, released on December 13, 1984 by the Fusion label, in August 1985 it was relaunched by the EMI label with a new cover. "EMOL" included the album within of his selection of the "35 discos fundamentales de la música popular chilena" (35 fundamental albums of Chilean popular music), the magazine Al Borde placed it in position 131 of the "250 albums of Ibero-American Rock", and "Rolling Stone Chile" ranked the  albums as the third best Chilean record of all time. Background. Jorge González, Claudio Narea and Miguel Tapia met in March 1979, at Liceo № 6 for men (current Liceo Andrés Bello) in the commune of San Miguel. This high school was not only representative because it was the place where they met, González explained in a visit they made to his establishment in 1987, it was also transcendental for the creation of the band's first album. In 1982, when they were in their last year of high school, they learned to play guitar, it was at that time  that González began to write the first songs that would be part of the debut album. In March of the following year, after having taken the Academic Aptitude Test (PAA), González entered the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile to study for a degree in music, being a classmate of those who would later be part of the scene of the new Chilean pop: Igor Rodríguez (future member of Aparato Raro), Robert Rodríguez (future member of Banda 69) and Carlos Fonseca, with the latter two he quickly struck up a friendship. For his part, Fonseca first became friends  with González and Igor Rodríguez, since their musical preferences were similar and differentiated them from the rest. "I found myself in a country where there was nothing and the relationship between people and music was very light", declared Fonseca in his first impression upon arrival. The website NaciónRock.com reported that culture, bohemia and youth had been annihilated by the shock politics implemented by military fascism. That year that Fonseca returned to Chile, he began to study commercial engineering —as in Argentina— at the Catholic University, at the same time that he opened the Fusión record store. However, with his father 's approval, he dropped out to study music. Thus, in 1982, he devoted himself completely to Fusion, and gave the PAA to enter the Faculty of Arts the following year. González immediately stood out as a sharp and brilliant student. He used to annoy the music reading teacher by making all his classmates laugh; one of the first times that Fonseca spoke with González was after disturbing said teacher. One afternoon, according to the journalist Freddy Stock, while they were waiting for the audition teacher, Juan Amenábar, Jorge was writing concentrated in his notebook, Carlos approached and read, they were  the first "scribbles" of "Latin America is a town in the south of the United States." Fonseca would later tell the newspaper La Tercera: «When I saw him writing the lyrics for "Latinoamérica...", (I found him) originally talented». On July 1, Jorge González, Claudio Narea and Miguel Tapia made their debut using the band's definitive name, "Los Prisioneros", for the first time at the Miguel León Prado School's Song Festival where they premiered a new repertoire with old songs by his previous groups: Los Pseudopillos and Los Vinchukas, and the songs that Jorge had written in recent weeks  motivated by university experiences. Artwork and title. Two covers were made, the first for the Fusión label and the second for the EMI reissue, the latter being the best known. The photograph for the first album cover was taken by Cristián Galaz (who also made the second cover) in February 1984 in an abandoned factory belonging to the Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas (CCU) at Fonseca's idea. "I like that half-destroyed environment that surrounds the group in that photo," Galaz said. «I was older than them, I was about five or six years older, and it seemed to me  that the best concept was that half-punk thing and not at all glamorous or colorful, considering that that was the aesthetic that was imposed at that time of the 80s. This is raw and black and white. Very “Prisoners”. Release. For its launch on December 13, 1984, a thousand copies were edited and sold in cassette format at its launch, today these cassettes are considered cult objects of rock Chilean, his cover photo It was taken in February of that same year by Cristián Galáz. Others were distributed to other record stores, including Feria del Disco, and in March , 1985 Fonseca made another 500 copies. In its first edition, the album was not well received. Fonseca recalled: "It was difficult for people to grasp it right off the bat, at Fusión we were surrounded by people who knew about music, I recommended many artists, most of them were surprised but they did not take the weight as I did. Starting with the broadcast media, the radio was not interested in Los Prisoneros at first". In August 1985, the EMI label, reissued the album, with a new artwork, which also was photographed by Galáz, but this time it was in  La Vega Central. Managing to sell in Chile around 100,000 do you copy. Track listing. Side A Side B