Celia's version of Na Boca Do Sol is excellent, toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aIZWXHE84
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 14 July 2023 23:59 (one year ago) link
thanks!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 15 July 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
which is totally the wrong approach
by the way, i totally hear you, but it's okay to do a little bit of both!
ime seeing octogenarians in concert does not always reap dividends. especially rock shows, i'm not talking about Cecil Taylor.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 15 July 2023 03:21 (one year ago) link
I like the first track on the first Legião Urbana album, “Será,” so I guess I should listen to the rest of it.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link
Or I could just listen to that one track on repeat, which would suit me just fine.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link
Será is their biggest hit prob – that's the one I mentioned being covered (with success as well) by samba/pagode bands.
― fpsa, Saturday, 15 July 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
Assuming their second biggest was “Tempo Perdido,” is that correct?
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
And hey, TIL that in Portuguese the Duolingo Legendary Level is called Titãs.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
LU's "Índios" seems to briefly melodically quote "Chantilly Lace."
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
You might be able to tell that I am listening to the Mais do Mesmo comp. Great title.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Also learned the other day that the lead singer of Legião Urbana, Renato Russo, died of AIDS-related complications, as did Cazuza, as did one of my favorites from Argentina who also had ties to Brazil, Federico Moura of Virus.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
So I guess Herbert Vianna of Os Paralamas do Successo, who crashed his plane into the sea, thereby killing his wife, confining himself to a wheelchair and suffering serious brain damage, got off relatively easy.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
Believe he was flying to visit his friend Dado Villa-Lobos, grand-nephew of Heitor and guitarist for Legião Urbana.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
haha great posts so far.
tempo perdido was a big hit but I think it got bigger recently (15 years) as well. Indios is great as well.
paralamas has a big hit with 2 Argentinian versions: Fito Paez (Trac Trac BR / Track Track AR) and Los Pericos (Para e Repara BR / Parata Y Mira AR)
titãs has transformed Patches (Clarence Carter) and made one of their biggest hits with Marvin, a reggae-ish song
― fpsa, Saturday, 15 July 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
nenhum de nós biggest hit (or one of the biggest) is a Starman cover – called Astronauta de mármore (Marble Astronaut)
― fpsa, Saturday, 15 July 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
I realized that “Marvin” was a cover of “Patches” when I first heard it, although I thought it might be just a ripoff. I know about the Fito Paez cover but haven’t really listened to it. There was a recent Fito Paez series on Netflix but I heard it wasn’t so good so I haven’t watched it. Fito first became known to me when one of his songs was used in a Coke commercial that ran over and over during the 2002 World Cup, at least in the US.Paralamas also did a cover of the most famous song of Latin American Rock en Español, Soda Stereo’s “De música ligera” which is the first thing I heard from them and is atypical and kind of bad. Think they ultimately did succeed in making some inroads in Argentina, which may have kept them afloat during some lean times in Brazil.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
To my earlier point, looks like somebody even wrote a book comparing Cazuza and Federico Moura.https://www.tiempoar.com.ar/espectaculos/adrian-melo-federico-moura-y-cazuza-le-pusieron-color-y-alegria-al-rock-como-una-resistencia-a-la-dictadura/
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:13 (one year ago) link
Of course there is also at least one book about Cazuza and Renato Russo.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
Also it is my understanding and I have been told that there was basically little cross-pollination between Brazilian bands and those in the rest of Latin America due to a musical version of the Treaty of Tordesillas, as evidenced by the two different MTV Latin Americas.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
“The VJs must have been drunk!”
lol ahahaah that's so funny. it's not all MTV's fault to be honest – there were attempts of showing stuff (like café tacvba, they got some cult following in Brazil). I think it's a longer, older cultural fault in a sense where some of it stems from radio programmers thinking spanish pop (outside of Julio Iglesias or other) was not gonna be a hit in Brazil.
btw I think the Soda Stereo cover is not Paralamas, is done by Capital Inicial – which is one of the truly worst bands ever, but unfortunately, huge in Brazil (especially after doing an MTV Unplugged 15 years after their heyday. MTV Unplugged also being a huge lifeline to most of these artists)
Good unplugged records from Brazil:– Gilberto Gil one is godlike.– Rita Lee is kinda cool as an overall view on her work, not the greatest...– Legião has a good one as well.– Another guy you haven't mentioned yet, Lulu Santos. A huge hitmaker, has really great songs. But I would suggest picking up a greatest hits from 88 first.
― fpsa, Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
I have a soft spot for the Nenhum de Nós version tbh.
― fpsa, Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
btw I think the Soda Stereo cover is not Paralamas, is done by Capital Inicial
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:50 (one year ago) link
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 July 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
Gilbert Gil MTV Unplugged (Ao Vivo) starts with a Paralamas song! Thanks for the rec!
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
Rita Lee’s “Lanza perfume” sounds like The Doobie Brothers or something.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
Legião Urbana Acústico MTV doesn’t seem to be streaming but is in certain places on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPt7m928NI
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
it is a ripoff (at least the intro) to what a fool believes. it's the better song tho! <3 I suggest actually listening to all things Rita first things first
damn never heard the paralamas version, eugh.
― fpsa, Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
THey must have been pretty hard up at the time.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
This video is insanely of its time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60qWVke-Sc
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
It's even more funny because such an innocuous clip for a song that mixes up one of the most common drugs used in Brazil plus a pretty sexed up lyric:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lan%C3%A7a-perfumehttps://lyricstranslate.com/en/lanca-perfume-lanca-perfume.html (not a great translation, but gets the drift)https://healthland.time.com/2010/12/02/whats-lanca-perfume-the-biggest-drug-in-rio-youve-never-heard-of/ (not in Rio only btw)
― fpsa, Sunday, 16 July 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
The Paralamas Fito Paez song is … okay, but maybe not the best use of their talents.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 July 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:18 (one year ago) link
This was done
Then there’s this version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oPBI5hoEo
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:20 (one year ago) link
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_Sinf%C3%B4nico_Legi%C3%A3o_Urbana_-_Rock_in_RioIn addition to the one with Herbert Vianna on vocals there seems to be a multi-vocalist sing-a-long at the end.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
I see others versions by Simone, Tiee, Daniel and Raça Negra.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link
Listening to Legião Urbana now, “Que país é este.”
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:15 (one year ago) link
Which album Dado Villa-Lobos played on.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link
Lots of covers of “Tempo Perdido,” although there are also other songs with that to add confusion.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
With that title.
Including one by Paolo Ricardo, the lead singer of RPM, not that I know anything about either apart from the names. Maybe the first, self-titled Legião Urbana album was originally supposed to be called RPM, but they had to change it because the other band had just put out a record.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 10:15 (one year ago) link
Eh, not quite. The album title in question that RPM used so Legião Urbana couldn’t was Revoluções por minuto.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 10:22 (one year ago) link
Just noticed that Paolo Ricardo’s second solo album Psico Trópico was produced by the famous, the infamous or at least ubiquitous and omnipresent Liminha, who first came to fame playing bass in Os Mutantes on their third album and then went on to produce tons of albums including classics like Paralamas’s Selvagem? and Titãs’s Cabeça Dinossauro in 1986 alone.
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
leave RPM behind, they're bad
― fpsa, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
Simone getting a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. https://www.grammy.com/news/latin-recording-academy-announces-2023-special-merit-award-honorees
― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
some diff stuff for you
cidadão instigadohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0qpW2wqqgs
itamar assumpçãohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjwpPuR_kNo
raktahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-S4QjvtiCI
deaf kidshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCe8ZOGkpc
racionaishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrAT_xG-opk
sibahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2w6Xnt_eo
lulu santoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-KxW6NkXGg
sarajanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZB7aCfILM
testhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITYQM6DW0ZE
DMNhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LLbh7T6Ig
― fpsa, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link