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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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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-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)

fpsa, Sunday, 16 July 2023 16:50 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

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

There seems to be symphonic live version with Legião Urbana having Herbert Vianna of Paralamas singing. Assuming this with done after Renato Russo passed.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:18 (ten months ago) link

This was done

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:18 (ten months ago) link

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 (ten months ago) link

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.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 05:23 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

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

I was talking about the song itself, not the album. Paralamas also did a good version for their Acústico MTV album.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:15 (ten months ago) link

Which album Dado Villa-Lobos played on.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:17 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

With that title.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 00:37 (ten months ago) link

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 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

leave RPM behind, they're bad

fpsa, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:16 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

Muito obrigado!

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 20:53 (ten months ago) link

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

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 July 2023 12:51 (nine months ago) link

jesus christ, yes

fpsa, Thursday, 20 July 2023 13:05 (nine months ago) link

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.

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 July 2023 13:57 (nine months ago) link

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

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 July 2023 13:58 (nine months ago) link

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

Paralamas’s “Busca Vida” seems to do the same for “#9 Dream.”

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 July 2023 22:23 (nine months ago) link

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

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 July 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link

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.

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 July 2023 00:30 (nine months ago) link

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.

Halfway there but for you, Friday, 21 July 2023 01:04 (nine months ago) link

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

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 July 2023 02:02 (nine months ago) link

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

Deflatormouse, Monday, 31 July 2023 02:05 (nine months ago) link

Na minha cidade, no interior

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 July 2023 09:14 (nine months ago) link

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

budo jeru, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:35 (nine months ago) link

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

Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 01:54 (nine months ago) link

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

bbq, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 06:53 (nine months ago) link

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

fpsa, Friday, 11 August 2023 00:03 (nine months ago) link

Cool

The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 04:24 (nine months ago) link

let us know how it goes!

corrs unplugged, Friday, 11 August 2023 10:56 (nine months ago) link

^

budo jeru, Friday, 11 August 2023 15:37 (nine months ago) link

I have never felt later to a party than about this: despite being a bossa-nova fan since my early 20s, it was literally in April that somebody mentioned Elis Regina and I said “heard of her, is she good?” and the person to whom I was speaking immediately played me Aguas de Março for the first time. I can’t believe I’d never heard it before? It is handily my new #1 “favourite song ever recorded”, like I am destroyed by it

If you hate movies, this Barbie is for you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:45 (nine months ago) link

Ha, I remember I first heard of her because I was talking about some Brazilian stuff in an elevator in graduate school, probably some Tropicalia or Bebel Gilberto, and some stranger piped up to tell me about Elis Regina.

The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:55 (nine months ago) link

Feel like it’s hard to get a handle on all the things going on in Brazilian music for various reasons.

The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link

It is so weird that I missed it! Joao did a version of that song that I MUST have heard at some point, I guess it just bled into the surrounding tracks. I mentioned it to a friend this morning over text and he showed me two pairs of music friends who'd covered the Regina/Jobin version, and I just hadn't noticed. God. What other monuments to musical genius are residing in my blind spots, I wonder!

If you hate movies, this Barbie is for you (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 11 August 2023 19:58 (nine months ago) link

za za zey za

budo jeru, Friday, 11 August 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link

so i'm here and, uh... did na boca do sol go viral on tik tok or something??

Deflatormouse, Friday, 11 August 2023 23:01 (nine months ago) link

i've been to a million free shows here and never seen a line like this for anything ever

Deflatormouse, Friday, 11 August 2023 23:03 (nine months ago) link


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