Soda Stereo releases unreleased song from the band’s early days

The remaining members of Soda Stereo look back on the band’s illustrious career and give a taste of a never-before-heard song. In a new interview with BillboardThe Argentine rockers announced that they will soon release a song that they discovered in the treasure trove.

During the interview, drummer Charly Alberti would not reveal the name of the song, but said he discovered the track on a tape that contained another version of the first song from their first album, “Por Qué No Puedo Ser del Jet Set?” Alberti said the song’s lyrics are “about a kid staring at the sky” and someone who is “very youthful” and “very naive.” “It was the first thing we did,” he said.

Alberti teased that they would “master a little bit” of the track, but would forego further mixing. “The audio is pretty good,” he said. “I think it would lose the essence of what it means.”

“It’s important that people understand how we started, what the band sounded like back then,” he added. “Of course we’ll arrange it to sound more modern, but not much more.”

Soda Stereo’s interview with Alberti and Zeta Bosio coincides with the 40th anniversary of the band’s eponymous debut album, released in 1984. The duo spoke about their heyday and how their music appealed to young people who were “not interested in” Latin music and were more interested in bands like U2, The Cure and The Police. (The group’s frontman, Gustavo Cerati, died in 2014 at the age of 55.)

“The songs were very special because they actually came from the three of us,” Alberti said. Billboard. “We were composing and creating song bases all the time, we rehearsed all week long, including Saturdays and Sundays, and the song bases came out of those rehearsals. And Gustavo added the melody and lyrics to those bases to complete the songs.”

Last year, the band received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy. The group disbanded in 1997 after seven albums and numerous tours. Rolling Stone Soda Stereos Reviewed Lyrics and TranslationAnimalher fifth album, as the 16th best Latin American rock album of all time, while Cerati’s solo LP Bocanada came in second place.