Or worked in an apple orchard.

Sacramento is crawling with them. I had some serenade me with a Mariachi version of Lionel Richie's "Hello" last weekend while I nibbled my basket of free chips and waited for my dinner and margarita refill to arrive.

I live in Crackerville USA near a Mexican family so no subby, a summer of car stereos tells me it can't vanish quick enough.

Why can't it be ranchero music? That is unbearably bad music.

Quick, someone call profesor Harold Colina.

Denver also has plenty of Mariachi music. Traditional and Nuevo. Also, Casa Bonita has a live band AND fire juggling cliff divers. Beat that, Pheonix.

glad to see our UN dues going to study such important things instead of saving lives.

/the UN, how does it work? No, really... wtf is it good for?

Damnit and I was hoping it was Tejano that would die off...

Learn to play more then one tune on the frikkin accordion you lousy imitation polka players

I love me some Mariachi. I has a sad.

El Bravo Mexican Food FTW!

Jake Havechek: I'm looking for a man who calls himself Bucho. That's all. And you had to do it the hard way.

beat me to it

What about Peruvian Flute Bands?

ecmoRandomNumbers: /to be fair, I DID teach music in Phoenix

Which school?

Fading away? No Way!

In a West Virginia rest stop / visitor center they had a frigging mariachi band going. The last thing I would associate with WV is mariachi.


/// get off of my south lawn.

My friend manages this band.

Mariachi El Bronx

The shiat is El Dope.

T.M.S.: My friend manages this band.

Mariachi El Bronx

The shiat is El Dope.

i just recently heard about them...on npr i think...and they were talking about how well they do mariachi, not in a mocking way but they actually take a fairly traditional approach

Is Los Dos Molinos still in a Phoenix (well, Mesa) strip mall? good eating there.

This justout in: The UN has no idea the city of San Antonio even exists.

I have no idea why my auto-correct did that...

After living in Las Cruces for 3 years next door to some people who really liked to stay up late and party in their yard, I assure you, this is not true.

/I hate mariachi, too.

/oblig

I grew up in the Phoenix area, and whenever I hear mariachi music I both crave Mexican food and feel some nostalgia for my youth. True story.

i went to a wedding on sunday. guess what?

a freacking mariachi band played there!!!

it was cool though. we got mexican like paraphernalia.

got two kickass maracas. now i just have to attach thme to the wiimotes and play samba de amigo like a pro

Joe Blowme: glad to see our UN dues going to study such important things instead of saving lives.

/the UN, how does it work? No, really... wtf is it good for?

With the population at 7 billion, I'd say they've saved enough lives to last quite a while.

Please, Dear God, let it vanish.

AcneVulgaris: Joe Blowme: glad to see our UN dues going to study such important things instead of saving lives.

/the UN, how does it work? No, really... wtf is it good for?

With the population at 7 billion, I'd say they've saved enough lives to last quite a while.

They have killed morethan they have saved.

Joe Blowme: AcneVulgaris: Joe Blowme: glad to see our UN dues going to study such important things instead of saving lives.

/the UN, how does it work? No, really... wtf is it good for?

With the population at 7 billion, I'd say they've saved enough lives to last quite a while.

They have killed morethan they have saved.

citation needed

I'm one of those assholes who loves mariachi music. There are vast stretches of I5 in California where your radio options are:

1. Jesus stations.
2. The other Jesus... playing mariachi music.


#1 panders to the ignorant who want to firmly believe educated people are going to hell, corporations are good, fetuses are more important than ambulatory and complete human beings, and that you are just crap.

#2 sings about "amor y mi corazon" and makes me crave things cooked with ancho and chipotle chilis

I take great comfort in amor y mi corazon.

Mexi-Clown music cannot disappear fast enough in my opinion.

i call bs.In my neighbourhood alone I hear live mariachis all the time. Sure, the tuba gets a little annoying but I have never had a problem with litter or fights or gunshots... Now the little brown wanna be gangbangers with the very very loud rap at their parties have forced me to call the cops as few times.I just dont like gunshots .

"UN officials say mariachi music is a vanishing cultural tradition. Obviously they've never eaten at a Mexican restaurant in any strip mall in Phoenix"

Well, it's a good thing that guy that lived across the street from my old apartment has a van with a stereo loud enough to broadcast some sweet tuba sounds across the globe.

ecmoRandomNumbers: alienated: i call bs.In my neighbourhood alone I hear live mariachis all the time. Sure, the tuba gets a little annoying but I have never had a problem with litter or fights or gunshots... Now the little brown wanna be gangbangers with the very very loud rap at their parties have forced me to call the cops as few times.I just dont like gunshots .

That's not mariachi.

coldones: Well, it's a good thing that guy that lived across the street from my old apartment has a van with a stereo loud enough to broadcast some sweet tuba sounds across the globe.

That's not mariachi.

nope...definitely not mariachi! is it tejano? i agree with someone who referred to it as mexican polka

I once wound up attending a Cinco de Mayo party in Jakarta, Indonesia which included some of the staff of the Mexican embassy. Yes, there was a mariachi band. It was comprised purely of Indonesians who learned the lyrics phonetically and spoke ni una palabra of Spanish. They were surprisingly good.

This year's phonebook for Arequipa, Peru contains four full pages of ads for mariachi bands. A friends comment was, "Wow, that's a lot of sombreros."

UN officials say mariachi music is a vanishing cultural tradition. Obviously they've never eaten at a Mexican restaurant in any strip mall in Phoenix anywhere on the west coast.

There, subby, that should work!

schnee: Is Los Dos Molinos still in a Phoenix (well, Mesa) strip mall? good eating there.

Wow, so you know of the greatness that is 'Los Dos Molinos'? They have a few locations in the valley now, and I visit the one in Ahwatukee quite a bit. It's actually New Mexican cuisine, which is much different than the standard (some)Berto's Mexican that you find all over Phoenix. Further, and back to topic, the mariachi bands they have at the restaurant also play the New Mexican style music which has a bit of a 'twangy' guitar sound to it which sounds awesome.

And everyone should watch this (new window). Even if you hate mariachi music, any Breaking Bad fan can appreciate that.

This is another reason why we should stop supporting the UN!