Artaud
by Pescado Rabioso

Artaud by Pescado Rabioso
Year: 1973
Release date: 1973-10-00
Overall rank: 703rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 264 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1973 (19th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (155th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (703rd)

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Pescado Rabioso bestography

The best album by Luis Alberto Spinetta is Artaud which is ranked number 703 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,460.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 703rd | 1970s rank: 155th | 1973 rank: 19th
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2026pinkfreud1981Top 100 Greatest Music Albums84/10017
2026pinkfreud1981Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s41/10012
2026javicho07Top 41 Music Albums of 19734/415
2026 CrhmgsTop 100 Greatest Music Albums19/10082
2026bonnequestionBest Albums From Countries other than the UK, USA or Canada43/100 -
2026leniadTop 100 Greatest Music Albums77/10024
2026 HeliosTop 60 Music Albums of 19731/605
2026pinkfreud1981My 25 favorite Latin American albums15/35 -
2026javicho07Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s17/10017
2026cicadelicTop 84 Music Albums of 197331/843
2026pinkfreud1981Best 100 albums ever. ( 1 per artist)63/100 -
2026 RockdrigoTop 100 Greatest Music Albums9/10091
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 197310/1005
2026bonnequestionTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s100/1000
2026bonnequestionTop 53 Music Albums of 197313/534
2026FelipeBoorkesTop 100 Greatest Music Albums14/10086
2026 DommeDamianTop 78 Music Albums of the 1970s65/784
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s55/1009
2026 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 197318/1004
2026sweetnessTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s9/10018
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 256
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 2,460
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81/100 (from 264 votes)
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02/07/2026 16:21 Martini  Ratings distribution  75095/100
 
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01/25/2026 20:42 brent13  Ratings distribution  1,94068/100
 
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01/03/2026 08:52 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  1,90870/100
 
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11/23/2025 07:17 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.5/100, a mean average of 80.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.7.

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From 07/12/2025 08:23 | #310070
Obra maestra del rock en español, grande Spinetta!
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From 07/31/2023 21:44 | #298431
Obra-prima!
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From 05/09/2023 16:59 | #296813
Something different for a change, after all these albums sung in English., sweet
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From 01/13/2023 12:01 | #292795
A thoroughly enjoyable album that has a lot of unique and interesting moments to keep you engaged throughout. The acoustic and electric guitars play off each other well and create a unique dynamic in the sound. The vocal added on top of this makes for a fantastic combination that sounds raw and passionate. The performances all round on here are great with each instrument being given the time to shine and be admired by the listener. There are a few songs that do feel a little slower and weaker but they don't take away from the phenomenal tracks or suck us out of the album. Overall, a great album that is enjoyable to listen to and explore this unique and wonderful record.
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From 09/07/2022 22:38 | #289485
Un gran disco de principio a fin. Merece un puesto mayor en el ranking.
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From 08/27/2021 14:21 | #272919
90.6

Hasta que al fin me animo a comentar este fenomenal album. Qué decir? Comenzar con honestidad, y es que la primera vez que lo escuché, no me tocó por completo, claro, entendía lo que representaba y yo que no soy argentino, había visto en mi DVD unas 10 veces El Último Concierto de Soda, y por ahí que entre unos compañeros de la secundaria había escuchado el nombre de Spinetta, pero jamás me había preocupado por escuchar uno de sus temas. Pues decidí aventurarme con el que es considerado el mejor album de la historia del rock argentino, Artaud de Pescado Rabioso (que en realidad solo fue compuesto por Spinetta).

Lo escuché por primera vez hace ya un par de meses, y percibí un sonido melancólico, esperanzador, muy experimental y algunas canciones me sorprendieron mucho, como "Superchería", que hasta hoy es mi favorita, otra que me sorprendió fue "Por", cuya letra está explícitamente formada por palabras sueltas que evocan el significado que cada uno le pone. Esta canción es muy corta pero me parece una genialidad. La otra que me sorprendió fue "Cantata de Puentes Amarillos" al presentar diversos fragmentos de canción y además que es la más larga del album. Nada, como dije no conecté al principio, pero unas dos semanas después volví a escuchar y escuchar y escuchar y me enganchó. No me costó mucho para amarlo. Además, de solo ver en youtube el live de "Bajan" de Spinetta con Cerati... ufff no tengo palabras, es de esos momentos indescriptibles que se viven una sola vez en la vida.

Otro aspecto que me encanta es que el Flaco era un fan acérrimo de los Beatles que tanto amo e incluso tiene la sutileza de incluir "She Loves You" en el que considero el tema más flojo del album, "A Starosta, el idiota" (pero igual disfrutable). En fin, Las Habladurías del Mundo es otra genialidad, con las vocales sincronizadas al ritmo del riff de la guitarra. "Cementerio Club" es la que probablemente me tomó un poco más de volverme fan y ahora la amo completamente, una canción de casi 5 minutos donde hay poca letra pero que cala perfectamente en lo justo y necesario que requiere.

En fin, así podría extenderme y remarcar todo lo que me parece genial de este album, no nos olvidemos de la poesía en general de todos los temas, y de la poesía especial y dulzura que me genera "Todas las Hojas son del Viento". En mis reviews de albums siempre menciono mis canciones favoritas, pero ahora tengo que decir que son TODAS, porque dejar fuera una sola me costaría mucho, además de que son 9 y las 9 son tremendas.

Artaud es actualmente mi #2 album favorito de todos los tiempos.
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80/100
From 04/23/2020 18:22 | #250441
A fairly enjoyable rock album. I like the somewhat seamless blend of psychedelic, blues, and prog rock on this project. The guitar work is fantastic, as well as the songwriting. The somewhat bare instrumentation on some of the songs on this album, like on the song Cantata de puentes amarillos, is quite interesting and works surprisingly well. I couldn't tell you if the lyrics are bad or not, as I do not speak Spanish. I do think the singing is a bit weak and timid, sort of like Neil Young, but Young's arrangements and visions aren't as ambitious, which is why it works for him. It does not work as well for Luis Alberto Spinetta. That being said, it's not too much to complain about here, because Mr. Spinetta treats you to some fantastic and winding compositions.

One last thing, the original packaging for this record seems pretty cool if you were to think of it in your head, but it is very impractical and ugly in reality. That doesn't really effect my listening experience for this album, as I am streaming it, but it is something to take note of.
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From 02/23/2020 16:23 | #248182
Great
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From 02/18/2020 05:01 | #247927
People should stop rating with just a quick and superficial listen. If you're commited to connect with an album in spanish language, and maybe to do some research regarding lyrics an context, you wouldn't give 40/100 or 60/100 to this masterpiece.
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From 11/25/2019 20:40 | #245167
Masterpiece of all times. I wish people from this page would understand the importance of this album. Isn´t just the best album in Argentinian history: this is the best ever album sung in spanish lenguage.
A concept album composed by the great Luis Alberto Spinetta in a difficult moment of Argentina and on a folk style. After his broke-up from them band mates he decides to keep using the name Pescado Rabioso and record this solo album.
The lyrics are so fantastic as the music. A whole album about the impact of Antonin Artaud on Spinetta views about everything arround him on those days.
A classical album in music history that it´s unique even on the shape of the art cover, being an irregular form. As Spinetta said, "The album suicided by society" in allusion to Artaud´s book, "Van Gogh: the man suicided by society".

I hope that people from English-speaking countries will one day understand the value of this album and, that it has nothing to envy to the albums of European / American / Canadian / Australian artists. It is at the same level and even surpasses to many of them.
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Best Albums of 1973
1. The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
3. Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin
4. Selling England By The Pound by Genesis
5. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
6. Quadrophenia by The Who
7. Band On The Run by Paul McCartney & Wings
8. Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
9. Raw Power by Iggy And The Stooges
10. Future Days by Can
11. (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd
12. Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
13. For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
14. Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
15. Closing Time by Tom Waits
16. Berlin by Lou Reed
17. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
18. Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye
19. Artaud by Pescado Rabioso
20. Larks' Tongues In Aspic by King Crimson