Nuestra canción para este episodio es del año 1989 y se titula El límite. Es un tema de La frontera, un grupo de rock madrileño de gran éxito en España durante los años noventa.

Javier Andreu, Tony Marmota y los otros miembros integrantes del grupo se conocieron a principios de los 80 en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información – Media Studies – mientras Andreu estudiaba publicidad (advertising) y Marmota y los otros periodismo (journalism). Todos ellos tocaban la guitarra, they all played guitar, so they decided to find a place to rehearse, instead of going to classes, and to form a band. Eventually they called themselves La frontera, after the title of one of their songs.

El límite es probablemente la canción más icónica del grupo, su tema más recordado – their most remembered song –  y uno de los clásicos del rock español de los años noventa.

The song was a massive hit in the early 90’s and it really helped to put the band in the map of mainstream Spanish rock. Andreu has indeed claimed that he practically owes his career to this one song.

El límite es la primera canción de La Rosa de los vientos, un álbum de 1989 que incluye otros clásicos del grupo como Nacido para volar (born to fly away), La reina del ragtime o la ya citada Juan Antonio Cortés, que es el tema que cierra el disco.

El límite, de La Frontera: curiosamente, el nombre de la canción y del grupo en este caso son casi iguales – both words mean practically the same thing. El límite: the limit, the border, the boundary, or even the edge. La frontera: the frontier, the borderline, also the edge.

We can see the association with life on the edge, or living dangerously – a theme common to many of their songs.

The name La frontera makes us think also of frontier life and the far west, which has also been a great inspiration on the group, in terms of their aesthetics and the country and western flavour of much of their music, including their lyrics.

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