Trivia / Los Prisioneros

• Banned In Chile:
  • A lot of themes that were literally against Pinochet and the regime in general, like Zombie, most of these songs were released for Ni Por La Razón Ni Por La Fuerza Greatest Hits Album.
  • A special case was We Are Sudamerican Rockers which was banned in Chile, but was known for all the rest of Latin America, especially since this song was the first music video exhibited by MTV LA. After the return of democracy, this song was unbanned and was released with the first Greatest Hits Album of the group.
• Breakup Breakout: Jorge González's solo career in The '90s, which overcame Narea's (Profetas y Frenéticos^note Prophets and Frenetics) and Tapia's (Jardín Secreto^note Secret Garden) solo projects.
• Died During Production: Somewhat subverted with Jorge González, who had a stroke at the first months of 2015 with risk of death. After that, he becomes stable but weak until today. In November it was made a In Memoriam concert with a pseudo Posthumous Collaboration with Narea and Tapia as the only reunion of the group after final breakup in 2006, as a way of retribuition in life of his work and after Gustavo Cerati's death, where this trope was played straight.
• Fountain of Expies: Los Prisioneros was THE most influent Chilean band of The '80s and in general for Chilean Rock, having influenced a lot of bands in their time and also after them, including referent bands as La Ley, Lucybell and Glup!.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: A lot of songs of the group were unreleased with demos, live recordings and songs from their Fake Band "Gus Gusano y sus Hemofílicos Necrofílicos", very few of them saw the light in Ni Por La Razón Ni Por La Fuerza Greatest Hits Album. Actually this trope is averted since most of these recordings were Rereleased for Free after the second breakup of the group (see What Could Have Been).
• No Export for You: We Are Sudamerican Rockers as well various re-recording of their songs, made for Latin American versions of some of their albums only, which were later re-released for Chile in their Greatest Hits Album.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There was a demo cassette that was given from González to a fan with various demo songs from all albums as well some live recordings and unreleased songs (especially from the Fake Band "Gus Gusano y sus Hemofílicos Necrofílicos"), which was cataloged as an Urban Legend by the fans and only mentioned in some of the group's biography books. Just like Beaucheff 1435, finally the disc also was Rereleased for Free on the internet by the fan who owned the cassette under the name of Raspando la Olla^note Scratching the Pot, a chilean slang about getting the leftovers, after the final breakup of Los Prisioneros in 2006.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally the fourth album was supposed to be Beaucheff 1435 of 1989, a Darker and Edgier album contrasted with the happiness of the declive of Pinochet's dictatorship. The name came from the address González had these years and where most of the song were made. After the fight with Narea, González discarted this whole album and went to New York to create Corazones in 1990, the real fourth album. Later 4 of the songs from this album were remastered for Ni Por La Razón Ni Por La Fuerza Greatest Hits Album. Like most of the bootleg albums, Beaucheff 1435 was Rereleased for Free on the internet after the second (and final) breakout of the group in 2006.
  • Los Prisioneros tried to make their own movie called Lucho, un hombre violento^note Lucho, a violent man in which González, Narea and friends tried to film an unorthodox movie. Tapia didn't appear as an actor, so it's supposed he probably could be the cameraman. Being made in the late 80s close to the first departure (Narea's), the film went unfinished and unreleased. In 2013, one of the friends who was in the film edited the filmed parts and released the "movie"^note Lucho lasts 15 minutes, so it's more considered as a short movie via YouTube (it's in Spanish, but it's inexplicable even for those who manage the language). Also, some of the "original soundtrack" songs of this movie are included into Beaucheff 1435 and Raspando la Olla bootleg albums.

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