![]() ![]() ![]() The album’s pièce de résistance, for me, is “Fotos y Recuerdos” - the Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang” here subjected to Tex-Mex metamorphosis. The rest of the album is the stuff of memory, released just a few months before Selena’s assassination by her fan club president. The silvery electronic synthesizers that open Selena’s Amor Prohibido usher listeners into a sweet, but not treacly aural landscape every bit as unpredictable as the South Texas coastal shores that gave birth to this singing goddess of conjunto tejano. A new installment in this series will appear each Wednesday during 2018. One in a series of enthusiastic posts, contributed by HILOBROW friends and regulars, on the subject of our favorite albums of the Nineties (1994–2003).
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