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{{Infobox Album |
{{Infobox Album  
|  Name        = Welcome to Vas Llegas
|  Name        = Welcome to Vas Llegas
|  Type        = Album
|  Type        = Album
|  Artist      = [[Carnival Art]]
|  Artist      = [[Carnival Art]]
|  Cover      = Welcome-To-Vas-Llegas-front.jpg
|  Cover      = Welcome-To-Vas-Llegas-front.jpg
|  Released    = October 9th, 1992
|  Released    = October 9th, 1992<ref>''Carnival Art - Welcome to Vas Llegas''. The Arkive. https://archive.beggars.com/carnival-art-welcome-to-vas-llegas/#</ref>
|  Recorded    = Cherokee Recording, LA/A&M Recording, LA/Greene Street Recording, NY
|  Recorded    = Cherokee Recording, LA/A&M Recording, LA/Greene Street Recording, NY<ref>Koch, Karl. ''Recording History'', archived from weezer.com. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Recording_History_-_Page_3#Brian_records_another_Carnival_Art_record.2C_May.2BJune_1992</ref><ref name="cd" />
|  Genre      = Alternative rock
|  Genre      = Alternative rock, Grunge
|  Length      = 45:05
|  Length      = 45:05
|  Label      = [[Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet]]/RCA<br /><SMALL>BEG 07863 66101-2</SMALL>
|  Label      = [[Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet]]/RCA<br /><SMALL>BEG 07863 66101-2</SMALL><ref name="cd" />
|  Producer    = Nicholas Sansano
|  Producer    = Nicholas Sansano
|  Status      = Out of print
|  Reviews    = * [https://www.allmusic.com/album/welcome-to-vas-llegas-mw0000087572 Allmusic] {{Rating|4|5}}
|  Reviews    =  
|  Last album  = ''[[Holy Smokes]]''<br>(1992)
* Allmusic {{Rating|4|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hcfexqu5ld6e link]
|  This album  = ''Welcome To Vas Llegas''<br>(1992)
|  Last album  = ''[[Holy Smokes]]'' EP<br />(1992)
|  Next album  =  
|  This album  = ''Welcome To Vas Llegas''<br />(1992)
| Misc        = {{Singles
|  Next album  = ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' single (1992)
  | Name       = Welcome to Vas Llegas
{{Singles
  | Type       = studio
|Name = Welcome to Vas Llegas
  | single 1     = [[Sucker Punch]]
|Type = studio
  }}
|single 1 = ''[[Sucker Punch]]''
}}
}}}}
[[Image:Welcome-To-Vas-Llegas-back.jpg|thumb|right|250px|back cover]]
[[Image:Carnival art-welcome to vas llegas-inside.jpg|thumb|right|250px|photo found on inside cover]]
[[Image:Welcome-To-Vas-Llegas-disc.jpg|thumb|right|200px|disc]]


'''''Welcome To Vas Llegas''''' is the third and final full-length album by [[Carnival Art]], [[Brian Bell]]'s Los Angeles-based, pre-[[Weezer]] band.
'''''Welcome To Vas Llegas''''' is the third and final album by [[Carnival Art]].


==Overview==
==Overview==
''Welcome To Vas Llegas'' was the second album the band released on [[Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet]], who ended up dropping the group from their roster due to minimal record sales.
''Welcome To Vas Llegas'' was the second album the band released on their then-current label [[Beggars Banquet Records]], who soon ended up dropping the group from their roster due to minimal record sales.{{Citation needed}} The album contains two unlisted tracks; "[[Welcome to Vas Llegas (song)|Welcome to Vas Llegas]]" and "[[The Pussycat Song]]"; the former being the first track of the album (unlisted, as the album's track listing begins at the second track), and the latter being included at the end of "[[Pill Bugg]]". While "The Pussycat Song" is not listed on the album's track listing, it is mentioned in the album's liner notes.<ref name="cd" /> ''Welcome to Vas Llegas'' is self-described as "Twisted, heavy, guitar driven psycho pop, exploring the inner difficulties of life in the big city with a sick mind".<ref name="cd" />
==Liner notes==
<blockquote>
Vas Llegas (vŏs là gŭs) lies between here and there, next door to nowhere, just outside of town. It's that place where 'You Go' and 'You Get' to at the same time. Not for a visit or a vacation, you just sort of end up there and realize that you've been there before.


The album contains two unlisted tracks. The (mostly) instrumental title track is unlisted, with the track listing starting at 2. Also, at about 5:13 of track 11, as "Pill Bugg" fades out, a song called "The Pussycat Song" fades in.
All the bars are full and the libraries are empty. There aren't any jobs an welfare is a handshake. It's a town with no laws so crime doesn't pay. All the preachers are churchless because the politicians have turned religion into business and now the politicians are speechless because God has filed for chapter 11. The streets are claustrophobic in their desolation and hope is the equivalent of taking a cigarette from your last packet of '[[Holy Smokes]]'.


From the liner notes:
So light up that smoke and meet some of the permanent residents of this place...


''Vas Llegas (vos la gus) lies between here and there, next door to nowhere, just outside of town.  It's that place where 'You Go' and 'You Get' to at the same time.  Not for a visit or vacation, you just sort of end up there and realize that you've been there before.''
'''WELCOME TO VAS LLEGAS'''
</blockquote>
<ref name="cd" />
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| total_length    = 45:05
 
| title1          = [[Welcome to Vas Llegas (song)|Welcome to Vas Llegas]]
| note1          = unlisted
| length1        = 1:41
 
| title2          = [[Shit Thick]]
| length2        = 5:07


''All the bars are full and libraries are empty.  There aren't any jobs and welfare is a handshake.  It's a town with no laws so even crime doesn't pay.  All the preachers are churchless because the politicians have turned religion into business and now the politicians are speechless because God has filed for Chapter 11.  The streets are claustrophobic in their desolation and hope is the equivalent of taking a cigarette from your last packet of '[[Holy Smokes]]'.''
| title3          = [[Sucker Punch]]
| length3        = 3:24


''So light up that smoke ad meet some of the permanent residents of this place...''
| title4          = [[Which Is Wig]]
| length4        = 3:36


'''''Welcome To Vas Llegas'''''
| title5          = [[Dread Full Head]]
| length5        = 3:55


==Track listing==
| title6          = [[Blue Food]]
#"[[Welcome to Vas Llegas (song)|Welcome To Vas Llegas]]" (unlisted) 1:40
| length6        = 5:37
#"[[Shit Thick]]" 5:06
 
#"[[Sucker Punch]]" 3:23
| title7          = [[Gold Plated Crazy]]
#"[[Which Is Wig]]" 3:35
| length7        = 4:37
#"[[Dread Full Head]]" 3:54
 
#"[[Blue Food]]" 5:36
| title8          = [[Bullet Surprise]]
#"[[Gold Plated Crazy]]" 4:36
| length8        = 3:24
#"[[Bullet Surprise]]" 3:23
 
#"[[Crepitus]]" 3:59
| title9          = [[Crepitus]]
#"[[Little Elvis]]" 3:40
| length9        = 3:59
#"[[Pill Bugg]]"/"[[The Pussycat Song]]" (unlisted) 6:05
 
| title10        = [[Little Elvis]]
| length10        = 3:41
 
| title11        = [[Pill Bugg]]
| note11          = includes "[[The Pussycat Song]]"
| length11        = 6:06
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Michael P. Tak]] - lead vocals and guitar
*[[Michael P. Tak]] (vocals, guitar, writing)
*[[Ed]] - guitar
*[[Ed Dobrydnio]] (guitar)
*[[Brian Bell]] - bass
*[[Keith Fallis]] (drums, vocals)
*Keith Fallis - drums and vocals
*[[Brian Bell]] (bass)
*Horace Blue Veins - vocals on "The Pussycat Song"
*Nicholas Sansano (production, recording, mixing)
*Nicholas Sansano - producer
*Bill Smith (recording)
*Michael Douglass (recording)
*Franck Rivaleau (recording, production)
*Octavio Arizala (mixing)
*Josh Werthiemer (mixing)
*Ted Jenson (mastering)
*Charlie Dos Santos (digital editing)
*Horace Blue Veins (vocals on "[[The Pussycat Song]]")
*Sheryl Nields (photography)
*Kathy Cook (management)
 
<small>
Ed Dobrydnio is credited only as "Ed" in the album's liner notes.<br>
Credits for Welcome to Vas Llegas adapted from CD liner notes.<ref name="cd">''Welcome to Vas Llegas'' (CD). Carnival Art. Beggars Banquet Recordings. 1992.</ref>
</small>
 
==Gallery==
===CD release===
<gallery>
Image:Welcome-To-Vas-Llegas-front.jpg|Cover
Image:Vasllegastray.jpg|Tray card
Image:Vasllegasback.jpg|Back cover
Image:Vasllegasdisc.jpg|Disc
Image:Vasllegasbooklet1.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet2.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet3.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet4.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet5.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet6.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet7.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet8.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet9.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet10.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet11.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet12.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet13.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet14.jpg|Inner booklet
Image:Vasllegasbooklet15.jpg|Outer booklet
Image:Vasllegassticker.jpg|Hype sticker
</gallery>
 
==See also==
*[[Carnival Art]]
*''[[Holy Smokes]]''
*[[Beggars Banquet Records]]
 
==References==
<references />


[[Category:Brian Bell]]
[[Category:Brian Bell]]
[[Category:Carnival Art albums]]
[[Category:Carnival Art albums]]
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