Canción Animal

Canción Animal (pronounced [kanˈsjon aniˈmal]; transl. Animal Song) is the fifth studio album by the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Released on 7 August 1990, the album features a rock sound, a change from the band's previous new wave and funk albums.

To create Canción Animal, the band drew inspiration primarily from the sound of Argentine rock bands from the 1970s that they had listened to during their adolescence, such as Pescado Rabioso, Vox Dei, and Color Humano. Apart from the alternative and hard rock from the album, Canción Animal features country, folk, psychadelic, and acoustic songs.

The album was recorded in Criteria Studios in Miami between June and July 1990. The demos of the album were recorded by Soda Stereo in Gustavo Cerati's flat in Buenos Aires, and the album featured the help of singer Daniel Melero, who collaborated in the writing of the tracks in the album with Cerati. Melero wrote the track "Canción Animal" as a request by Cerati to describe his relationship with his girlfriend Paola Antonucci. Other guests were present, like Tweety Gonzalez, who played the keyboard in songs like "Un Millón de Años Luz" (lit. 'A Million Light Years'), and the acoustic guitar in "Hombre al Agua" (lit. 'Man Overboard'). The sound engineers were Mariano López and Adrian Taverna.

In 2006, Canción Animal ranked second on Al Borde's list of the 250 best Ibero-American rock albums, and it ranked ninth on Rolling Stone Argentina's list of "The 100 Greatest Albums of National Rock" in 2007. The album sold in total 500,000 copies in Argentina. In 2024, it was ranked 21st on the "Los 600 de Latinoamérica" list compiled by music journalists several from countries of the Americas, curating the top 600 Latin American albums from 1920 to 2022.