Sin Documentos is a landmark album in Spanish popular culture and
continues to maintain considerable popularity more than two decades
after its release. The characteristic guitar riff of the title song, a
kind of rumba-rock, still occupies a place at every party in Spain. Los
Rodríguez's success came after a decade
characterized by the rise and fall of local-language punk and new wave
bands. By the time Sin Documentos appeared, however, rock journalism
was fascinated by the thriving indie scene, where the bands were singing
in English and had turned to grunge and noise rock.
This book evaluates the influence of Latin American pop-rock in the
modernization of Spanish popular music from the 1950s, despite the
Anglophilia of Spanish rock scenes, especially in the 1990s. Through
interviews with members of the band and members of the record label DRO,
analysis of the media coverage of the album and
a cultural analysis of its meanings, it delves into the cultural trends
of Spain throughout the 1990s and beyond.