Mecano discography
The discography of Spanish group Mecano.
Mecano (1982)
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar". About a hangover after a weekend of partying.
- "No me enseñen la lección". Teenager boredom with school.
- "Perdido en mi habitación". Teenage angst and lack of direction.
- "Cenando en París". Dining in Paris.
- "Maquillaje". About disguising one's true appearance through make-up. A reference to the superficiality of modern society.
- "Boda en Londres" (instrumental). Wedding in London: Prince Charles and Lady Di.
- "Me colé en una fiesta". About party crashing.
- "La máquina de vapor". A fantastic tale of love between a scientist and his steam machine.
- "Me voy de casa". Teenage desire for independence.
- "254.13.26". Teenage angst from having to study mathematics. The title is the telephone number of the person to relieve it, apart from a reference to numbers.
- "El fin del mundo". About the end of the world.
- "Sólo soy una persona". I'm just a person. About Jean-Paul Sartre, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he declined it.
¿Donde esta el pais de las hadas? (1983)
- "¿Dónde está el país de las hadas?" (instrumental).
- "Este chico es una joya". A teenager gets fed up with responsibilities.
- "La bola de cristal". The aliens are coming.
- "El amante de fuego". A rather morbid tale. A fire breaks out killing everyone inside. A girl who saw someone die becomes the obsession of the spirit of the man. She ends up either dead or completely possessed. Talking about schizophrenia and alleged spiritual possession.
- "Madrid". An ode to the inconveniences of modern life in a big city like Madrid.
- "Barco a Venus". About drug addiction.
- "La fiesta nacional". A criticism of bullfighting.
- "Un poco loco". Being quirky.
- "No aguanto más". Being in jail.
- "Focas". The seals take up the world.
- "El balón". About being overwhelmed from everywhere; in reference to the complexity and competitiveness of modern society, mixed with cultural references to soccer.
- "El ladrón de discos". About a record thief.
Ya Viene el Sol (1984)
- "No pintamos nada". On Cold War.
- "Ya viene el sol". About the summer.
- "La estación". Leaving parents' home.
- "Hawaii-Bombay". Dreaming about visiting Hawaii and Bombay.
- "Mosquito". A mosquito in the room.
- "Busco algo barato". Shopping in the sales season.
- "Aire". A song about a nightmare.
- "Me río de Janeiro". About carnival and independence of mind. The title is a pun on Rio de Janeiro.
- "Japón". About the ultra-modernization of contemporary Japan.
- "El mapa de tu corazón". A love song.
Mecano: En Concierto (1985)
- "Japón" (live – introduction).
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar" (live).
- "Quiero vivir en la ciudad" (live; "Desire to live in the city".
- "Aire" (live).
- "Me colé en una fiesta" (live).
- "Hawaii-Bombay" (live).
- "Ya viene el sol" (live – introduction).
- "La estación".
- "El amante de fuego" (live).
- "Barco a Venus" (live).
- "Maquillaje" (live).
- "Me Voy de Casa" (live).
Lo Último de Mecano (1986)
- "La extraña posición". Crime over an infidelity.
- "Napoleón". A silly song on Napoleon Bonaparte.
- "Viaje espacial". Space travel.
- "Super Ratón". To Mighty Mouse.
- "No pintamos nada" (En Concierto – "live").
- "La Fiesta Nacional" (En Concierto – "live").
- "Busco algo barato" (En Concierto – "live").
- "Me Río De Janeiro" (En Concierto – "live").
Entre el cielo y el suelo (1986)
- "Ay, qué pesado". A love song about leaving past behind.
- "Angel". About apocalypse.
- "Hijo de la Luna". The tragic story of a Gypsy woman who was eager to be a mother, but was killed by her husband when she gave birth to an albino baby (a "son of the Moon"), whom he mistook for a bastard son.
- "50 palabras, 60 palabras o 100". A breakup.
- "Te busqué". A spiritual quest for God ends inside oneself.
- "Me cuesta tanto olvidarte". After a breakup, the protagonist cannot stop thinking of the ex-lover.
- "No tienes nada que perder". A man going through ups and downs after breaking up with his girlfriend and later becoming a hero.
- "Las curvas de esa chica". About love attraction.
- "No es serio este cementerio". The dead in a cemetery get to party.
- "Cruz de navajas". A crime of infidelity. The song was later covered by Celia Cruz.
- "Las cosas pares". Happy love song with sexual overtones, literally "things which come in pairs" meaning sexy body parts.
- "Esta es la historia de un amor". A mad story of love.
Descanso Dominical (1988)
- "El cine". A homage to cinema.
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York". New York City is not so up there.
- "Mujer contra mujer". About lesbian love.
- "Los amantes". About the adventures of a galant lover who wants be noticed by a girl, but cannot attract her attention; based on Los amantes de Teruel.
- "La fuerza del destino". About Nacho's love story with Coloma Fernández Armero.
- "Quédate en Madrid". About a beloved moving to another city.
- "Laika". About The cosmonaut dog and what she might think when seeing the planet Earth from the space.
- "El blues del esclavo". Sad but funny bluesy song Tango style about slavery in the American South.
- ""Eungenio" Salvador Dalí". A homage to the Spanish artist. The title makes a pun on one of his first names, Eugenio ("Eungenio" = "E[s] un genio", meaning "He's a genius" in Spanish).
- "Por la cara" (instrumental). Flamenco featuring guitar star Tomatito.
- "Un año más". New Year's Eve on Puerta del Sol.
- "Héroes de la Antártida". The death of Robert Falcon Scott during his voyage to the South Pole.
- "Hermano sol, hermana luna". About Saint Francis of Assisi and his spirituality of universal brotherhood of all creatures.
- "Fábula". A fable about everyone's dissent with him of herself, and how we always envy what others have.
Aidalai (1991)
- "El fallo positivo". Being HIV-positive.
- "El uno, el dos, el tres". About Mecano's members, and what life has been like for them as a group through the years.
- "Bailando salsa". A salsa about a couple dancing salsa.
- "El 7 de septiembre". After love, this song is dedicated to Coloma Fernández Armero.
- "Naturaleza muerta". A tale of love between a girl and a sailor and the revenge of the sea who was in love with her.
- "1917" (instrumental); dedicated to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
- "Una rosa es una rosa". A rose is a rose is a rose and has thorns. About a difficult love.
- "El lago artificial". About drug addiction.
- "Tú". Love song.
- "Dalai lama". The life of the Dalai Lama.
- "El peón del rey de negras". The hilarious adventures of a lowly black chess pawn and all the injustices that he has to put up with, but also the perks of working for a royal family (like sleeping with the Queen). An allegory of social classes and class struggle.
- "J.C.". Song dedicaded to Jesus Christ.
- "Sentía". After love.
Ana Jose Nacho (1998)
22 Greatest Hits + 8 new songs.
CD1
- "Cuerpo y corazón". A prostitute tells her story.
- "Otro muerto". On murder and religious extremism.
- "El club de los humildes". Based on Nacho Cano's causes for returning to the group.
- "Aire (nueva versión)". Another live version of "Aire".
- "Un año más".
- "Naturaleza muerta".
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar".
- "Eugenio Salvador Dalí". (In this album, the song is simply retitled "Dalí".)
- "El 7 de septiembre".
- "Me cuesta tanto olvidarte".
- "La fuerza del destino".
- "No es serio este cementerio".
- "Hermano sol, hermana luna".
- "Una rosa es una rosa".
- "Maquillaje".
- "Hijo de la luna".
CD2
- "Stereosexual". Am I bisexual? A guy wakes up after a one-night stand and is not sure if the person next to him in bed is a man or a woman.
- "El mundo futuro". "The future world"
- "Esto no es una canción". "This is not a song" follows a person's life of addiction to drugs.
- "Los piratas del amor". Going out for girls.
- "El uno, el dos, el tres".
- "Barco a Venus" (live 1984).
- "Cruz de navajas".
- "Ay, que pesado".
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York".
- "Perdido en mi habitación".
- "Hawaii-Bombay".
- "Dalai Lama".
- "Mujer contra mujer".
- "Me colé en una fiesta".
Mecano: Grandes Exitos (2005)
2-CD compilation with accompanying DVD
Track list CD 1:
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar"
- "Me colé en una fiesta"
- "Maquillaje"
- "Barco a Venus"
- "Hawaii-Bombay"
- "Aire"
- "Ay qué pesado"
- "Cruz de navajas"
- "Me cuesta tanto olvidarte"
- "Hijo de la luna"
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York"
- "Los amantes"
- "Mujer contra mujer"
- "Un año más"
- "Por la cara" (instrumental)
Track list CD 2:
- "Eungenio" Salvador Dalí
- "La fuerza del destino"
- "Quédate en Madrid"
- "El cine"
- "El blues del esclavo"
- "El 7 de septiembre"
- "Naturaleza muerta"
- "Dalai Lama"
- "Una rosa es una rosa"
- "El fallo positivo"
- "Tú"
- "El uno, el dos, el tres"
- "J.C."
- "Bailando salsa"
- "1917" (instrumental)
DVD (20 videoclips):
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar"
- "Perdido en mi habitación"
- "Japón"
- "Hawaii-Bombay"
- "No es serio este cementerio"
- "Hijo de la luna"
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York"
- "Mujer contra mujer"
- "La fuerza del destino"
- "Figlio della luna" (Italian version of "Hijo de la luna")
- "El 7 de septiembre"
- "Naturaleza muerta"
- "Dalai Lama"
- "Dalai Lama (club remix)"
- "Una rosa es una rosa"
- "El fallo positivo"
- "Tú"
- "El club de los humildes"
- "Stereosexual"
- "Otro muerto"
Mecano. Obras completas (2005)
A compilation of 8 CDs.
- "Mecano"
- "¿Dónde está el país de las hadas?"
- "Ya viene el sol"
- "En concierto"
- "Entre el cielo y el suelo"
- "Descanso dominical"
- "Aidalai"
- "CD bonus"
- "Cuerpo y corazón" *
- "Otro muerto" *
- "El club de los humildes" *
- "Aire (1998 version)" *
- "Stereosexual" *
- "El mundo futuro" *
- "Esto no es una canción" *
- "Los piratas del amor" *
- "Quiero vivir en la ciudad"
- "Viaje espacial"
- "Hawaii-Bombay" (remix)
- "Canción cortita para antes de que nos abandone el mar". On the death of the sea"
- "Figlio della luna". Italian version of "Hijo de la luna"
- "Une femme avec une femme". French version of "Mujer contra mujer"
- "El 7 de septiembre" (acoustic version)
- "La extraña posición"
- "Croce de lame". Italian version of "Cruz de navajas"
* From Ana|Jose|Nacho.
Mecano: Siglo XXI (2009)
2-CD compilation; special edition includes a book and 2 bonus DVD's
Track list CD 1:
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar"
- "Me colé en una fiesta"
- "Maquillaje"
- "Perdidio en mi habitación'"
- "Barco a Venus"
- "Japón"
- "Hawaii-Bombay"
- "La estación"
- "Aire"
- "Cruz de navajas"
- '"No es serio este cementerio"
- "Me cuesta tanto olvidarte"
- "Hijo de la luna"
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York"
- "Los amantes"
- "Mujer contra mujer"
- "Un año más"
Track list CD 2:
- "La fuerza del destino"
- "Eungenio" Salvador Dalí
- "El cine"
- "Quédate en Madrid"
- "El 7 de septiembre"
- "Naturaleza muerta"
- "Dalai Lama"
- "Una rosa es una rosa"
- "El fallo positivo"
- "Bailando salsa"
- "El uno, el dos, el tres"
- "Stereosexual"
- "Cuerpo y corazón"
- "María Luz" The story Maria Luz who fell in love with a gypsy that later left her, and led to her becoming a nun.
- "Un año más" (Pedro Del Moral/J.Jacobsen/Kung Foo & Anzwer remix)
- "La fuerza del destino" (rmx ed. Catcomplex & Sidechains)
DVD 1
- "Japón"
- "Hijo de la luna"
- "Figlio della luna"
- "No hay marcha en Nueva York"
- "Mujer contra mujer"
- "La fuerza del destino"
- "El 7 de septiembre"
- "Naturaleza muerta"
- "Dalai Lama"
- "Dalai Lama (club remix)"
- "Una rosa es una rosa"
- "El fallo positivo"
- "Tú"
- "El club de los humildes"
- "Stereosexual"
- "Otro muerto"
- "Perdido en mi habitación" (live 1982)
- "Boda en Londres" (live 1982)
- "Quiero vivr en la cuidad" (live 1982)
- "Super ratón" (live 1982)
- "Por la cara" (live 1989)
- "Mujer contra mujer" (live 1989)
- "Eugenio Salvador Dalí" (live 1992)
- "Dalai Lama" (live 1992)
- "Tú" (live 1992)
- "Barco a Venus" (live 1992)
DVD 2
- "Hoy no me puedo levantar" (live 1984)
- "No pintamos nada" (live 1984)
- "Hawaii-Bombay" (live 1984)
- "Me río de Janeiro" (live 1984)
- "Aire" (live 1984)
- "Busco algo barato" (live 1984)
- "La estación" (live 1984)
- "Me colé en una fiesta" (live 1984)
- "Barco a venus" (live 1984)
- "Ya viene el sol" (live 1984)
- "El mapa de tu corazón" (live 1984)
- "Japón" (live 1984)
- "Maquillaje" (live 1984)
- "Me voy de casa" (live 1984)
- "Cruz de navajas" (live 1988)
- "Mujer contra mujer" (live 1988)
- "Los amantes" (live 1988)
- "Un año más" (live 1988)
- "Hijo de la luna" (live 1991)
- "Dalai Lama" (live 1991)
- "Eugenio Salvador Dalí" (live 1991)
- "La fuerza del destino" (live 1991)
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