![]() Soda Stereo maintained its status at the forefront of the Latin-alternative scene for several more years when American critics began embracing the genre (and the group) as music's most promising. ![]() And Soda Stereo didn't limit their innovations to sound, either–other groups mercilessly ripped off the baroque aesthetic of the video for Sueño Stereo's first single, the Revolver-inspired (and awesomely named) “Ellá Usó Mi Cabeza Como un Revolver” (“She Used My Head Like a Revolver”), obsessed with the mini-matinee's tableaux of protagonists dressed as vortexes. Album after album introduced more and different instruments, chord progressions and philosophy-stretching lyrics to the genre their 1995 release, Sueño Stereo, soared over U2-esque rancor with humanistic electronic touches and brazen hooks that every Latin-alternative group quickly copped. ![]() First an Argentine phenomenon, then the South American nation's finest non-soccer export, then–by the early '90s–one of the first Latin American rock bands to fascinate Anglo ears, the Cerati-led trio had, over the course of a decade, expertly guided Latin-alternative music in epic directions. The rock en español galaxy sputtered a collective gasp of disbelief in 1997 when Gustavo Cerati dissolved Soda Stereo.
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