Puta's Fever  by Mano Negra

In 1989, Mano Negra continued the wild party they had started the previous year with their first album. Next in line was Puta's Fever, an album where a thousand and one different and diverse music genres meet under the guise of punk-rock music, or better yet, under the punk aesthetic and approach.

Puta's Fever resembles the passage of a hurricane. From the opening song Mano Negra to the last one, Patchuko Hop, which is a cover of a Joe King Carrasco song, the unsuspecting listener did not know what to expect as one song followed another. From the adaptation of the traditional Arabic Sidi H' Bibi and the dub-reggae Peligro in Spanish to the French-speaking Pas assez de toi and the group's first major hit King Kong Five with strong hip-hop influences. One of the additional paradoxes of the album is that it contains the track Patchanka, which was the title of Mano Negra's first album (!) Puta's Fever released a total of eight singles.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 8th among the 100 best French rock albums of all time, even though it is neither exclusively a rock album nor are the songs exclusively in the French language. In France, the album sold 400,000 copies. In any case, with their second album, Mano Negra made it clear that they would not be an ordinary band.