Tango Music Fail

So we went to Clásica y Moderna last night thinking that there would be some tango and milonga but perhaps we read too much into the term "espectáculo" because when the 5 piece band started and the slightly Robert Smith/Morrissey-like singer Alfredo Piro stepped up to the mic, what we got at first was a Spanish version of "Close to Me" by The Cure. Not bad in and of itself, just NOT what we were expecting. After that, they played originals for a while (which sounded like a mix of Blur and The Cult) before busting out some very liberal interpretations of a couple of classics like "Unicornio" and "Cambalache."

Pirlo encored with an acoustic "Space Oddity."

Not how they sang/arranged "Cambalache":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kTiKCC3UI

Not how they sang "Space Oddity":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY

Pretty much how they played "Close to Me":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQPpvdVoZYQ


*Special bonus*

The Cure doing their own song... but in Buenos Aires...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cttfc2tbmw