Pignoise is a Spanish

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band comprising three members: Álvaro on

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and vocals, Polo on

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, and Pablo on

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Beginnings

After Álvaro, a former soccer player for teams such as

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and

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, suffered a serious injury, he began to play guitar and compose songs during his rehabilitation period. He finally quit football and created a band called PIG NOISE. The group later used many of the songs he composed while in rehabilitation. Later Polo, another former soccer player for

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and other teams, joined the group. The last to join was Pablo, a student who had come from

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to study

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. Their popularity increased sharply after appearing in a very well known Spanish show,

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. During the elections in the

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the band played in a meeting created by the conservative Spanish political party Partido Popular. The band has been heavily criticized after that, but during an interview for 20minutos.es, the bandmembers said that they thought it was just an event for young people created by Partido Popular and concluded saying that they'll never play in a political meeting again.

Musical style and influences

Pignoise is described as a

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band. Even though they have been seen wearing

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shirts in music videos, their light

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characteristics and their predominant

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sound makes them clearly a

band. They may also be considered

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. The band cites

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and

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as some of their main influences.

Discography

The group has released seven discs. The first two were ''Melodías Desafinadas'' (''Out-of-tune Melodies'') and ''Esto No Es Un Disco de Punk'' (''This Is Not a Punk Disc''). Their third release is titled ''Anunciado en Televisión'' (''Advertised on Television''), which became a hit in Spain and whose first single, "Nada Que Perder" ("Nothing to Lose"), is the theme song of the television series ''

Los Hombres de Paco ''Los hombres de Paco'' (English: ''Paco's Men'') is a Spanish television series that originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on Antena 3. A tenth season was aired from 10 May 2021 to 16 December 2021. Created by Daniel Écija and � ...

''.

Studio albums

* ''Melodias Desafinadas'' (luno Records) - 2003 * ''Esto no es un disco de punk'' (luno Records) - 2005 * '' Anunciado en televisión'' ( Warner Music Spain) - 2006 * '' Cuestión de gustos'' ( Warner Music Spain) - 2007 * ''Año Zero'' (

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) - 2010 * ''El tiempo y el espacio'' (Pignoise Records) - 2013 * ''Lo que queda por andar'' (Pignoise Records) - 2015 * ''Diversión'' (Pignoise Records) - 2022

Compilations

* ''Cuestión de directo'' ( Warner Music Spain) - 2009

EPs

* ''Maqueta'' (self-released) - 2001 * ''Pignoise por dentro'' (

) - 2011

Singles

* ''Nada Que Perder'' - 2006 * ''Te Entiendo'' - 2006 * ''Sigo llorando por ti'' - 2006 * ''Sin ti'' - 2007 * ''Sube a mi cohete'' - 2007 * ''Pasar de cuartos'' (created to the

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) - 2008 * ''Estoy enfermo'' (feat.

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) - 2009 * ''Todo me da igual'' - 2010 * ''Cama vacía'' - 2010 * ''Quiero'' - 2010 * ''Bajo tu suela'' - 2010 * ''Nubes de algodón'' - 2011 * ''La prisión del tiempo'' - 2011 * ''La gravedad'' - 2013 * ''Prométeme'' - 2015 * ''Interrogante'' - 2017

References

External links

* {{Authority control Spanish pop punk groups Spanish punk rock groups Musical groups established in 2002 Rock en español music groups