El baile de los que sobran

[1] "El baile de los que sobran" composed and written by Jorge González, presents strong social criticism regarding "young people marginalized after leaving formal education".

Long before the problem of poor income distribution was incorporated into the public debate in Chile, Los Prisioneros described in a painfully accurate way what it was like to spend twelve years in a numbered high school and then graduate to unemployment".

[1] González assured in some interviews that the dog from which the barking sounds sampled at the beginning of the song were extracted was called "Néstor", who was his mother's pet.

[5] For the song, Jorge used a drum machine lent to him by Miguel Conejeros from the Pinochet Boys and was heavily influenced by Heaven 17 and Depeche Mode.

As the 1988 plebiscite approached, their music began to be affected by censorship, hardened after the group publicly declared their adherence to the "No" option.

7" promotional single copy of "The Baile de los Que Sobran"
Graffiti inspired by the song in Santiago during the 2019–2020 Chilean protests .