Discography:
- El Cuarteto de Nos - Alberto Wolf note (1984)
- Soy una arveja note (1987)
- Emilio García (1988)
- Canciones del Corazón note (1991)
- Otra Navidad en las Trincheras note (1994)
- Barranca Abajo note (1995)
- La misma porqueríanote (1995)
- El Tren Bala note (1996)
- Revista ¡¡Ésta!!note (1998)
- Cortamambo (2000)
- El Cuarteto de Nos (2004)
- Raro note (2006)
- Bipolar (2009)
- Lo mejor de... Cuarteto de Nos note (2010)
- Porfiado note (2012)
- Habla tu espejo note
- Apocalipsis Zombi note (2017)
- Jueves note (2019)
- Lámina Oncenote (2022)
Current Lineup:
- ''Roberto Musso
- ''Santiago Tavella
- ''Álvaro 'Alvin' Pintos
- ''Gustavo 'Topo' Antuña
- ''Santiago Marrero
Former Members:
- ''Ricardo 'Riki' Musso
- ''Andrés Bedó
- ''Leonardo Baroncini
Contains examples of:
- The '90s: The Song "Invierno del 92" note , about the disgraces the singer faced in the aforementioned winter.
- Abusive Offspring: In the song "Presentación del Cuarteto Los Bedronclos"note the singer talks about how he's been mounting an old ladywho happened to be his mom.
- Abusive Parent: In the song "La pequeña Leti" Leti's father jumps on her out of anger made even worse in the last verse where it's revealed he's also Dr Fagundez, the pedophilic photographer and the caretaker from the nursing home
- A Cappella: "Ea Ea" from Otra Navidad en las trincheras
- Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: "Usted se piensa que soy ciNIco ¿Qué culpa tengo yo de la casuisTIca? si mi apellido es idenTIco es lógico dice la estadisTica and "No entiendo nada de geneTIca pero aún no estoy tan escleroTIco para creer que soy la rePLIca en mi basico arbol genealoGIco"
- Age-Gap Romance: Natalia's father is worried because her boyfriend is 20 years older than her
- Air Guitar:... And air drums,and air bass and air keyboard and air mic, all present in the video for invisible
- All Drummers Are Animals: Averted, as Alvin is rather quiet and calm
- Alternate Album Cover: While the official album cover for Cortamambo is a nude female torso, Riki originally had a beach scenery with a couple of palm trees in mind.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: In Mabel it’s not clear whether Mabel is a transgender girl or a crossdressing boy.
- Animal Motifs: Sheep, in every Album they release there’s a sheep bleat hidden somewhere, as well as a ram being in the band’s logo.
- Antagonist Title: "Buen Día Benito" [[note]] Good morning Benito
- Ax-Crazy: In "Ya te vas a mejorar" the narrator goes around mutilating everything that comes across with a chainsaw.
- Babysitter from Hell: The babysitter from the protagonist of "Hoy estoy raro" gave him valium and sacrificed his hamster and fed it to him
- Badass Boast: "Gaucho Power" starts with one of these
- Este Gaucho no se agacha,con la frente en alto marcha
- Badass Unintentional: Morcillo Lopez was just walking in the streets when he got sent to Russia because of a mistake and ends up being the first Uruguayan man in the moon
- Bad People Abuse Animals: In "Maten las Ballenas" the extremely anti-ecologist narrator tortured his pets as a child for the hell of it.
- Barbaric Bully: Benito from "Buen día Benito" if the protagonist is telling the truth
- Black Is Bigger in Bed: In "Fui Yo" the narrator says that he killed Martin Luther King Jr. because he had a bigger size than him
- Bedlam House: "El Psiquiatrico"
- The music video for "Rorscharch" is set in one
- Bestialityis Depraved: In "Enamorado de un Pollo" and "El Apareamiento de la Morsa"
- Beware the Nice Ones: "La Bestia" from "Apocalipsis Zombi" is all about this.
- Big Eater: "El Gordo y el Alfajor" deconstructed since it's shown to lead the man into a destructive path he narrowly escapes
- Blood Transfusion Plot: "El tío Calambres"
- Book Ends:"La Bestia" starts and ends with "Hay Alguien ahí?"(Is someone there?)
- Bread and Circuses:"Maldito Show"
- Broken Record:Has its own subpage
- Call It Karma: "Hola Karma" talks about this.
- Coinjoined Twins: Roberto Musso and Santiago Tavella have this role in Cortamambo's "Intentaron Separarnos"
- The Cover Changes the Meaning: "Bo Cartero" cover of "Please Mr Postman" is much more aggresive towards the postman
- Darker and Edgier: "Habla tu Espejo", the most serious and introspective work to date in El Cuarteto's repertory, with songs such as the titular one, "Roberto" or "No Llora"
- Death Seeker: In Barranca Abajo's "Vino en Mi Jeringa" José Barrancas wants to die, to escape all the troubles in his life
- Demonic Possesion: In the Album Barranca Abajo, the protagonist gets possesed by the devil by the song "El Diablo en mi Corazón"
- The Dentist Episode:"El Gordo con dolor de Muelas"
- Determinator: In "Buen Día Benito" the narrator got obsessed with the titular bully and wanted to confront him for a long time
- Downer Beggining: "La Pequeña Leti" starts with the eponymous little girl coughing and stated to have lung cancer
- Dying Alone: Palomontio Ñu from the eponymous song in Barranca Abajo drowns alone.
- The Dentist Episode:"El Gordo con dolor de Muelas"
- Dies Wide Open: "Topo" in the video for "Rorschach" is lying motionless on the floor.
- Double Entendre: In an extremely rare non-sexual version,"Punta Cana" note
- Dumb Blonde: Alluded in "Invierno del 92"
- Dysfunctional Family: La Familia Berrantes from the eponymous song in the album "Canciones del Corazón"
- Enemy to All Living Things: In "Maten las Ballenas"note the narrator talks about how he hated nature ever since he was a child and that he tortured his pets and watered plants with kerosene and how he loves seeing nature suffer.
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: The whole concept of "Revista Esta"
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Gee,I wonder what "Yo me agarré el pitito con el cierre"note could be about...
- Extreme Omnisexual: Roberto, according to "Presentación del Cuarteto Los Bedronclos"
- Everything Is an Instrument: Riki famously used his voice for the solo in "Autos Nuevos" with some distortion for it to sound like an electric guitar.
- Evil Laugh: in "El Psiquiatra" and "Bipolar"
- The End of the World as We Know It: "Revista ¡¡Esta!!"' has the appropiately titled El Fin del Mundo
- Precision F-Strike: "El Tren Bala" has Bacalao Beach "Fucking Beach!"
- Face on the Cover: "Emilio García","Otra Navidad en las Trincheras", "El Tren Bala",and most famously "Raro", which had a fusion of the then members of the band (Roberto,Riki,Santiago and Alvin)
- Fake Band: "Los Bedronclos" played by the same members at the time
- From Bad to Worse: José Barrancas' from the album "Barranca Abajo" 's life.
- Groin Attack: Riki is said to have been subjected to this in "Presentación del Cuarteto Los Bedronclos". Topo is a victim of this in the video for "Me Amo"
- Harsh Vocals: Parodied in "Mamá el Bajista me está pegando"
- Heartbeat Soundtrack: "Calma Vladimir", fitting for a song where the narrator tries to calm the titular Vladimir down
- Hell of a Heaven: Alluded to in "Al Cielo No" where it's said to be an incredibly boring place
- Humans Are Bastards: Discussed in "Contrapunto Para Humano y Computadora" where the Computer argues that humans are violent hypocrites
- Identical Stranger: The whole plot Morcillo López narrates in his song starts just because he happened to look just like a russian astronaut
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: "Revista ¡¡¡Ésta!!" has no less than three songs with a violent outcome ("Maté a la Maestra", "Que los Cumpla Feliz","Ya te vas a Mejorar")
- Impossibly Delicious Food: In "El Pelo Jamón" note , but it's not enough to prevent the place going bankrupt
- The Jinx: "El Innombrable"
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life : It satirizes the trend in their song "Ya no sé qué hacer conmigo" ("I don't know what to do with myself anymore"). The song carries the trope to the logical extreme: when one tries too many (often contradictory) things, one tends to end as a Stepford Smiler of the mask-only type.And I hear a voice who without a reason says
"You always changing; now you won't change anymore"
And I am becoming more the same
I don't know what to do with myself anymore - Magnificent Moustaches of Mexico: Roberto is dressed as a Mariachi in the video for "El Payaso Carambola", complete with moustache.
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: "Habla tu Espejo".
- Mind Screw: "La Vieja del Zaguán"
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the booklet for "Revista ¡¡¡Ésta!!!"'s "Maté a la Maestra" its said that the boy who killed his teacher is completely regretful of his actions.
- Newspaper Backstory: The booklet of "Revista ¡¡¡Ésta!!!!"
- Nobody Loves the Bassist: Averted. It is the drummer who's the one that gets forgotten about.
- "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: "Siempre que escucho al Cuarteto" "I have a dolly dressed up in blue. White shoes and tulle socks. My uncle grabbed her and he penetrated her. and he says the Dolly enjoyed it"
- Ode to Intoxication: "Grappa Con Limón"
- Fictional Province: Tajo, where most of the pre-Raro songs take place
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Mírenme" is a whole song with this.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: Mario Neta from the eponymous song
- Roger Rabbit Effect: In the video for “Cinturón Gris-En Vivo ” Cris, the animated character goes to a concert of the band in the real world.
- Safety in Indifference: “Así soy Yo”
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Riki, as shown in "Siempre que escucho al Cuarteto" or "Presentación del Cuarteto Los Bedronclos"
- The Show Must Go On: In "El Payaso Carambola" the titular clown repeats this every time he's informed of a tragedy that happens with a loved one deconstructed later since he ends up hanging himself
- Special Guest: Santullo in "Bipolar"'s "Mírenme"
- Step Up to the Microphone: "Yo soy Alvin El Batero", sung by the band's drummer, who up to that point didn't have any songs for himself.
- Suddenly Shouting: In the last part for "Calma Vladimir"
- Two First Names: Inverted with Morcillo López
- Inkblot Test: The song "Rorschach" talks about this
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Mongo from "Mongo el Oficial" unless his parents were mean enough to call him that
- Softer and Slower Cover: Parodied. The live version of "Me agarré el pitito con el cierre" is sung by every member at the time, in the style of a romantic ballad.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: One of the interpretations of "Enamorado Tuyo" is that the singer is deeply in love with someone else but refuses to admit it, as such the singer admits "I almost never see your photo on my cell phone. It's still there because I'm too lazy to press "delete" " and "I almost never call to say I love you and more than once I did it to the wrong number"
- The Unfavorite: "Revista ¡¡Esta!!"'s "Nadie me quiere" has the protagonist being sold by his parents as soon as he's born .
- Uninvited to the Party: From Porfiado’s “No te invité a mi cumpleaños” from the perspective of the party organizer and birthday boy.
