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The Iguanas — Para Donde Vas
Album: The Iguanas
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Released: 1993
Length: 3:15
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Para donde vas
Para donde vas
Para donde vas, donde vas

[repeat chorus]

Si vas al baile, baila conmigo
Si vas al carnaval quiero ir contigo
Si vas a donde quiera
No me quedo atrás
Porque quiero amarte
Más y más

Para donde vas
Para donde vas
Para donde vas, donde vas

[repeat verse]

Para donde vas
Para donde vas
Para donde vas, donde vas

[repeat chorus]
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This seems to be a good page for the band; the one above takes you to the lizard. https://www.iguanas.com/about....
I had an Iguana once, it lived in a big igloo outside
 Skydog wrote:

.......and again, listening to  “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello! right now

 
c'mon, he can't be a live DJ 24 hours a day
give him a break
So I clicked on the Amazon MP3 link over in the sidebar to get this, and it took me to a page for:

Best For My Pets Best Natural Tripe Sticks Chews, USDA/FDA-Approved (6 Oz Bag)

 Skydog wrote:

.......and again, listening to  “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello! right now

 
Bump it up !!!
 
 Skydog wrote:

.......and again, listening to  “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello! right now

 
RIGHT! :)
 justin4kick wrote:
FrankRizzo wrote:
 SoundThinker wrote:
SoundThinker wrote:
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 

  
And it will be again!

And again. {#Wink}


 
gmichaelt wrote:

"Oh, Boy! Right, again!" — Laurie Anderson

 
And much to my surprise, again!

 
.......and again, listening to  “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello! right now
and the dancing begins....
para donde vas, donde vas. #cha-chas away#
This is one of those songs that makes me tap my feet… {#Dance}
In a Combi-van

{#Daisy}
FrankRizzo wrote:
 SoundThinker wrote:
SoundThinker wrote:
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 

  
And it will be again!

And again. {#Wink}


 
gmichaelt wrote:

"Oh, Boy! Right, again!" — Laurie Anderson

 
And much to my surprise, again!
 FrankRizzo wrote:
 SoundThinker wrote:
SoundThinker wrote:
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 

 
And it will be again!

And again. {#Wink}



 
"Oh, Boy! Right, again!" — Laurie Anderson
 SoundThinker wrote:
SoundThinker wrote:
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 

 
And it will be again!

And again. {#Wink}


SoundThinker wrote:
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 

 
And it will be again! 
Of course the next song will be “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello!
 
Salsa dancing with a broom in the kitchen!
 SoundThinker wrote:
The next song will be Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up”!!!

 
I do love this sequence: it leaves me with visions of the opening credits of PCU in my head, but I don't mind that either.
The next song will be Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up”!!!
 cathiedee1 wrote:

Hmmmm...I bet any money the next song is Elvis Costello....



 
i will see your costello and raise you an escovedo

Hmmmm...I bet any money the next song is Elvis Costello....


Can't help but sing along with that chorus! 
Catchy tune, even if I can't understand what they're saying.  The same can be said of a lot of Talking Heads songs, too. {#Lol}
 TerryS wrote:

Yup, sure is.

 

indeed......{#Cowboy}
these guys kik butt.....{#Dance}{#Dancingbanana}
 Businessgypsy wrote:
 jpfueler wrote:
I remember when they were just a paper ad on the phone poles in N.O. playing Tips or The Howling Wolf or one of the smaller joints that infested the area(Jimmy's Cooter's). . .
"It's time for the WWOZ Live Wire, at the top of each odd hour. Appearing live tonight is ... {insert a huge list of incredible acts appearing in a venue the size of a large closet during a weekday} ...go see some LIVE local music!"


 
Tower of Power at Tips uptown (the old original at the end of Napoleon) ... A jazz player I knew asked "Where'd they fit the people? The band fills the joint to over capacity!".
When I rode by on my bmx bike the sounds from the opening door about knocked me over.
 d-don wrote:
What great Friday afternoon music! Come on, people...6.1?!! You gotta be kidding me.

 
Agreed.  Clearly worth of an average of at least 7.5 (only to account for those people who are unable to move their hips).
Ah, dangerous music...I once had "Oye, Isabel" in my head for a couple of days. Earworm-torture, yes, but at least the song is a great one.
What great Friday afternoon music! Come on, people...6.1?!! You gotta be kidding me.
Really love the EQ on the bass guitar in this song.
 unclehud wrote:
So ... is that timbales and cowbell in the background, or the clicking sound of Iguana claws on saxophone keys?

 
Yup, sure is.
So ... is that timbales and cowbell in the background, or the clicking sound of Iguana claws on saxophone keys?

"Para Donde Vas" does not appear on this CD. As mentioned in an earlier post, it does appear on the "Phenomenon" soundtrack.
 jpfueler wrote:
I remember when they were just a paper ad on the phone poles in N.O. playing Tips or The Howling Wolf or one of the smaller joints that infested the area(Jimmy's Cooter's). . .
"It's time for the WWOZ Live Wire, at the top of each odd hour. Appearing live tonight is ... {insert a huge list of incredible acts appearing in a venue the size of a large closet during a weekday} ...go see some LIVE local music!"

 jpfueler wrote:
I remember when they were just a paper ad on the phone poles in N.O. playing Tips or The Howling Wolf or one of the smaller joints that infested the area(Jimmy's Cooter's). . .
 

New Year's Eve at Rock 'n Bowl - the old one on top of the bowling alley.  The whole floor would shake from everyone dancing.
Smokin'...{#Fire}
 ce wrote:
 Misterfixit wrote:
And if you really have some lungs, try this baby on for size. My dad played one when he was with Spike Jones.
https://www.contrabass.com/pages/sarrus.html

Cool!

I just discovered that the sax family is a lot bigger than I realised:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Saxophones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranissimo_saxophone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranino_saxophone
And my new favourite at 190cm: {#Wink}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_saxophone
(BTW also more saxy weirdness, including sarrussophones, on this page)
Just look at the size of that stand, you could mount a small cannon on that.
 
There's a guy who does a whole show based on all these different saxophones


Music from New Orleans comes in many wonderful flavors. ¡Muy Bueno!

Mucho gusto!!
WooHoo!
Oh man, this is good stuff!!!{#Bananapiano}
Mas y mas!
 ce wrote:



Just look at the size of that stand, you could mount a small cannon on that.
 

Wow!! Look out folks...it's the sax that ate Cleveland!

{#Notworthy}
{#Dancingbanana_2}
A decent band but this song isn't the best sampling of their music. Better representations of their music might be "Fortune Teller" or "Benny's Cadillac". The former being on the slower/darker side and the latter being a fun party song showing the band's potential. Just my $.02 though.


 Misterfixit wrote:
And if you really have some lungs, try this baby on for size. My dad played one when he was with Spike Jones.
https://www.contrabass.com/pages/sarrus.html

Cool!

I just discovered that the sax family is a lot bigger than I realised:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Saxophones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranissimo_saxophone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranino_saxophone
And my new favourite at 190cm: {#Wink}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrabass_saxophone
(BTW also more saxy weirdness, including sarrussophones, on this page)


Just look at the size of that stand, you could mount a small cannon on that.


Now, I know this song isn't on RP too frequently — but it feels like it is to me. I wonder why that is? Perhaps it's played on the radio here in the Bay Area.

Maybe if I liked Spanish. Or FAT. . . .
OOOKKAAYYYYY having some fun now!
LOVE this song!
 ce wrote: 
It is also on the Phenomenon soundtrack (1996 movie with John Travolta. Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall).

I actually have the cd and listen to it fairly frequently. It also has songs by J.J. Cale, Jewel, Bryan Ferry, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal, Marvin Gaye, and others.


 Dr_SAS wrote:
Was this song in a movie or commercial or something? It sounds very familiar. Me likey.
 
Yes, it was in "Fools rush in" with Salma Hayek and that bloke from "Friends".
Fun! {#Bananasplit}
 Baby_M wrote:
¡Viva Iguanas!
 

Si!

Really glad to hear the Iguanas here again after a L-O-N-G absence!

 olsaltybastard wrote:
Nice horns!!
 
Definitely.

Hah, I haven't heard this song in like a decade! ^_^
 panoskatos wrote:
Not a "paradise" song, for sure. Cheap latin music...
 
?
You must not know a whole lot about "Latin Music".
The idea, generally speaking, is to have fun and dance - for which this song is very well suited indeed!

I wasn't aware that there was a "cost" factor involved in the quality and enjoyment of RP music.


{#Puke}Bill
Not a "paradise" song, for sure. Cheap latin music...
si
Nice horns!!
Can't say I've ever heard this song on the radio before...It's one of my favorites on the Tin Cup sound track. No joking. The golf movie with Kevin Costner and Cheech Marin.
¡Viva Iguanas!
struts wrote:
metoo
usually stapled over Shot Down In Ecuador Jr.'s ads.
jpfueler wrote:
I remember when they were just a paper ad on the phone poles in N.O. playing Tips or The Howling Wolf or one of the smaller joints that infested the area(Jimmy's Cooter's). . .
metoo
I remember when they were just a paper ad on the phone poles in N.O. playing Tips or The Howling Wolf or one of the smaller joints that infested the area(Jimmy's Cooter's). . .
Was this song in a movie or commercial or something? It sounds very familiar. Me likey.
And if you really have some lungs, try this baby on for size. My dad played one when he was with Spike Jones. "> " ...Both Milt Hinton and Sidney Bechet played sarousaphone in addition to their other instruments. Bechet takes a bass sarousaphone solo on "Mandy Make Up Your Mind" with Clarence Williams, Louis Armstrong,, and Eva Taylor circa November 11, 1924 with Louis playing a delightful obbligato to Bechet's low note foray. (Okeh label) I believe this is the only recording of jazz sarousaphone. Cheers, Steve Barbone ..." You can also find the Double B Flat Contrabase Sarousphone in museums. It could hit the lowest possible audible base note -- about 32 cycles per second. Made people lose control of their bowels, it did. https://www.contrabass.com/pages/sarrus.html
stickers11 wrote:
There's one larger still....Bass Sax. Someone please upload a picture.
Baritone sax on the left, bass sax on the right. That's BIG. And rare. Take a deeeep breath: Here's one complete with a saxophone player attached, and the same player with a soprano sax (James Carter, found (click here))
Thank god I'm allowed to travel to....
Hmm... A man called adam, and then the Iguanas. Today is May 11 revisited?
strick wrote:
Posted: Oct 27, 2005 - 07:53 Jesus, for everyone's sake, don't sick George on anybody else!!!!!
Alas, Al Quaida was operating under Hussein's direct collaboration and building Weapons of Mass Destruction. Thus we HAD to invade Iraq. It's all in the security briefings, haven't you heard? Great follow to A Man Called Adam and quite the infectious tune. Likeable, certainly.
srbarry wrote:
I thought it was "gonna bomb de bus" Probably some darn Al Qiada plot.
That is really funny. And this is another one of these gems that Bill pulls out that just gets me up dancing around the office...
*sigh* New Orleans JazzFest starts this weekend and this song REALLY makes me want to be there!!
bobrk wrote:
Tenor or Bari for me, please. ¡CHA CHA!
There's one larger still....Bass Sax. Someone please upload a picture.
The United Colours of Bananatton! (Where DID you get those?)
most enjoyable! everybody - salsa! aha!
I'm having a horrible day at work and I actually found myself 'lightening up' as this song went on. Thanks, Bill!
dionysius wrote:
Shall we chip in to buy you a saxophone? Soprano, alto, tenor or bari?
Tenor or Bari for me, please. ¡CHA CHA!
I'm luvin it
This calls for a dancing banana ...
very high level! keep it up, bill!
catmaven wrote:
(I will try to ignore the vexatious and needless brass intrusions.)
Shall we chip in to buy you a saxophone? Soprano, alto, tenor or bari?
I'll have that tall fruity drink shaken, not stirred. and by the pool james.
sutcliff wrote:
feliz cinco de mayo
Feliz diez y siete de julio! Now where are we going?
feliz cinco de mayo
hcaudill wrote:
Pendejo.
I wasn't sure until that horn kicked in, but that made me happy
As soon as it started playing, I added to my I-like-a-lot lst. :D
Deja de pensar en los subtitulos y baila. Es buena.
trekhead wrote:
Too many subtitle songs.
Pendejo.
BluEyes wrote:
¡Bailamos!
Of course, bella muchacha!
Muy divertido
Let's get up and dance! Failing that, let's bop up and down while seated in chairs! Work out those shoulder muscles so strained from computer slavery! (I will try to ignore the vexatious and needless brass intrusions.)
Not bad, but where was he going (translation roughly of "Donde Vas?")
srbarry wrote:
I thought it was "gonna bomb de bus" Probably some darn Al Qiada plot. George! Get em!
Jesus, for everyone's sake, don't sick George on anybody else!!!!!
ahhh i thought of Drake and Zeke as soon as I heard this!! I used to live in Memphis and loooved that show. very sad that they got booted. i remember that usually the Spanish quote always ended with "whore".
Chips! Salsa! Margaritas!
me gusta mucho
maLeFunKtion wrote:
"para donde vas" hehe... I thought they were saying "gonna boom da bass"
I thought it was "gonna bomb de bus" Probably some darn Al Qiada plot. George! Get em!
triviagal wrote:
I liked this when I heard it on the Phenomenon soundtrack.
I liked this when I heard it on the Fools rush in soundtrack. Matthew Perry following Salma Hayek: "Where are you going?" :-)
BluEyes wrote:
¡Bailamos!
"para donde vas" hehe... I thought they were saying "gonna boom da bass"
There used to be an afternoon radio show here in Memphis and the hosts would do "Time out for Spanish," where they would generally say something terribly offensive in Spanish. The evil empire (Clear Channel) bought out the station and sent the guys packing. This song reminds me of that because they would always play this as the opening to that segment of their show...
hmmm.....
these guys were pretty much discovered by Jimmy Buffett, I first saw them when they played in the parking lot preshow for buffett around 93, or 94. They have better songs than this, but still a keeper.
trekhead wrote:
"Pair of dandy vases??" Wha? Too many subtitle songs. A 2.
Solo 2? Oye buey, no hagas pendejadas... Better get used to it. Its a big world out there. A 10.
awsome song!!!!! yeeeeeeeaaaahhhhh
trekhead wrote:
"Pair of dandy vases??" Wha? Too many subtitle songs. A 2.
Shhhhhh! Nice little groove.
triviagal wrote:
I liked this when I heard it on the Phenomenon soundtrack.
Oh, yeah... :nodhead:
edechewe wrote:
me voy para blah blah blah
cierre la puerta quando usted se va! - Riff
me voy para vomit
Horns are great.That's all.
Oh yeaaaa these guys are great in a small club atmosphere. You can catch them quite often at Mid City Lanes bowling alley in the Big Easy! Yeaaaa party on!!!!
"Pair of dandy vases??" Wha? Too many subtitle songs. A 2.
Excellent. Quieremos mas Iguanas.
Just what I need, who said I was tired. Great band. Great Sound
Great Drummer too - Doug Garrison, One of the most low-key people you'll ever meet. He used to practically live at the bar/resturant I worked at in Downtown Memphis when I was in college (The North End)