Brazilian Music

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.

“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.

I have a soft spot for the Nenhum de Nós version tbh.

btw I think the Soda Stereo cover is not Paralamas, is done by Capital Inicial

I have a soft spot for the Nenhum de Nós version tbh.

Gilbert Gil MTV Unplugged (Ao Vivo) starts with a Paralamas song! Thanks for the rec!

Rita Lee’s “Lanza perfume” sounds like The Doobie Brothers or something.

Legião Urbana Acústico MTV doesn’t seem to be streaming but is in certain places on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdPt7m928NI

Rita Lee’s “Lanza perfume” sounds like The Doobie Brothers or something.

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.

THey must have been pretty hard up at the time.

This video is insanely of its time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60qWVke-Sc

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-perfume
https://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)

The Paralamas Fito Paez song is … okay, but maybe not the best use of their talents.

Será is their biggest hit prob – that's the one I mentioned being covered (with success as well) by samba/pagode bands.

This was done

Then there’s this version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0oPBI5hoEo

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_Sinf%C3%B4nico_Legi%C3%A3o_Urbana_-_Rock_in_Rio
In addition to the one with Herbert Vianna on vocals there seems to be a multi-vocalist sing-a-long at the end.

I see others versions by Simone, Tiee, Daniel and Raça Negra.

Listening to Legião Urbana now, “Que país é este.”

Which album Dado Villa-Lobos played on.

Lots of covers of “Tempo Perdido,” although there are also other songs with that to add confusion.

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.

Eh, not quite. The album title in question that RPM used so Legião Urbana couldn’t was Revoluções por minuto.

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.

leave RPM behind, they're bad

Simone getting a Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

https://www.grammy.com/news/latin-recording-academy-announces-2023-special-merit-award-honorees

some diff stuff for you

cidadão instigado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0qpW2wqqgs

itamar assumpção
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjwpPuR_kNo

rakta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-S4QjvtiCI

deaf kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwCe8ZOGkpc

racionais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrAT_xG-opk

siba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX2w6Xnt_eo

lulu santos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-KxW6NkXGg

sarajane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZB7aCfILM

test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITYQM6DW0ZE

DMN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-LLbh7T6Ig

Muito obrigado!

What about Rogério Flausino and Jota Quest, are they in your killfile?

jesus christ, yes

Haha I don't know the artist but feel instinctive revulsion towards any musical act that calls themselves "Jota Quest".

Would play a Brazilian bootleg dreamcast game called that tho.

There are a couple of stories of how they got that name. One involves Tim Maia.

LU's "Índios" seems to briefly melodically quote "Chantilly Lace."

TIL that Lulu Santos was once in a band with Patrick Moraz of Yes (and The Moody Blues) called Vímana.

I forgot that Rita Lee had been married to Arnaldo Baptista for a few years and maybe never quite knew how big she really became in Brazil.

Moraz's solo album Story of i features a number of Brazilian sequences, he even sketched drawings of South American percussion instruments for the liner notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2tZNLnC2pI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HZiEeq57g

^high energy performance from Paralamas at the first Rock in Rio concert in 1985

just getting around to hearing the arthur verocai s/t from '72 after, oh i'd say a decade of being aware of it.

i don't know if i would've like it so much back then. absolutely loving it this evening.

― budo jeru, Friday, July 14, 2023 7:49 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/summer-for-the-city/jazz-estandaacute-morto-arthur-verocai-with-orchestra

Na minha cidade, no interior

xp just saw that! unfortunately i already flew to NYC once to see music this summer. and the show in chicago, a bit closer to me, is like $50! let us know if you go

it's free and only 2 or 3 miles away from me, so unless something comes up i'll probably go!

This has a very late summer feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmhO7iCrC2E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEuEQzPrTu0

verocai tomorrow in nyc! got my tickets for the express line

Cool