Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. No Creo En El Jamas
2. Clase De Amor
3. Me Enamora
4. Hoy Me Voy
5. La Vida Es Un Ratico
6. Gotas De Agua Dulce
7. La Mejor Parte De Mi
8. Minas Piedras
9. Tu Y Yo
10. Bailala
11. Difícil
12. Tres
13. Bandera De Manos
14. Bandera De Manos

Disc 2:

1. Juanes: A Musical Journey (The Director's Cut)
2. Behind The Scenes Of The Video (Me Enamora)
3. La Vida...Es Un Ratico (Special Interwiew With Juanes)
4. Juanes: Un Viaje Musical (Edicion Del Director)
5. Detras De Camaras Del Video (Me Enamora)
6. La Vida...Es Un Ratico (Entrevista Especial Con Juanes)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47000 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Limited Edition

Amazon.com
Born in Colombia, Juanes (Juan Esteban Aristizabal) has achieved the high profile of a pop idol coupled with the esteem tendered to a cultural hero due to his thoughtful and courageous stance against violence and injustice. His sales have been stratospheric, his presence on Billboard and other charts prolonged; the multiple Grammy winner has also racked up a growing presence in the Anglo press and media. Juanes learned to play guitar from his late father and grew up surrounded by traditional forms like cumbia, bolero, and guasca, which he would later update and make his own. After youthful experiments with heavy metal (which live on in his affection for roiling electric guitar breaks), he moved to Los Angeles, where he reinvented himself as a singer-songwriter. His solo debut, Fijate Bien (Listen Closely), appeared in 2000, and each subsequent release was similarly fuelled by an ardent musical imagination, a gift for poetic, barbed but nonetheless conciliatory lyrics, and a tenor voice that sometimes recalls the heyday of Nuevo Cancion or a Latin John Lennon. On Vida...Es un Ratico (Life...Is a Moment), his fourth studio album, Juanes is once again revealed as a rare combination of guts and glamour, ardor and activism, beauty and brains. From the anthem-like title tune, to the tender, lushly orchestrated balladry of "Dificil," the accordion-fronted vallenato friskiness of "Tres," and the Santana-like conflagration of "Bailala," the momentum never flags. Fans of trad-based pop should snap one this up, especially as the limited edition package includes a DVD containing interviews and performance footage that can be viewed in either Spanish or English. --Christina Roden

Amazon.com
La Vida...Es un Ratico (Life is a moment) is the follow up to Juanes' globally multi-platinum release Mi Sangre. In La Vida...Es un Ratico, Juanes once again teams up with co-producer Gustavo Santaolalla, Double-Oscar/Grammy winner. In his first single "Me Enamora," Juanes shows us his intimate personal thoughts on love and relationships. In songs like "Minas Piedras" and Bandera de Manos" he tackles themes of both the hope for peace and social change. With this release, Juanes works to continue to perfect his distinctive fusion of rock with traditional Colombian rhythms and other international styles.

Despues del exito de "Mi Sangre", Juanes nos presenta "Me Enamora" el primer sencillo de su tan esperado nuevo lanzamiento "La Vida...Es un Ratico. "La Vida...Es un Ratico" fue producido nuevamente por Juanes y Gustavo Santaolalla, ganador de dos premios Oscar y multiples Grammy's. Juanes escribió letra y musica de todos los temas durante los dos ultimos años, entre la etapa final de la gira de "Mi Sangre" y un periodo sabatico en el que se concentro en la composición de "La Vida...Es un Ratico". En "La Vida...Es un Ratico" hay canciones que hablan de temas sociales como "Minas Piedras" y "Bandera de Manos" y otras como el primer sencillo "Me Enamora" relacionadas a temas personales y del amor. En este lanzamiento Juanes consolida sin duda alguna su idea musical de fusionar rock con ritmos Colombianos, y ritmos internacionales.

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Customer Reviews

Not as good as the previous 2
I was really looking forward to this release. Un dia normal and Mi Sangre had really catchy melodies, excellent guitar parts and good rhythm. I had to listen to this CD 3 times before I started liking 3 of the songs. For my taste, the vocal melodies aren't as good as the first two CDs. But, I'm a huge Juanes fan, so I would have gotten this CD either way.

Nice
I love it, i like every single song, and i like the video and the pictures, very good

La Vida....Es un Ratico by Juanes
This is typical Juanes. You can't stop listening to it and it makes you want to go back and listen to his other CDs too. If you love Spanish and you love good music, you can't beat Juanes. He and John Mayer would make a great duet. I hope they get together and develop a few songs. WOW! You wouldn't be able to beat it.