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brazilian albums that you have to listen to at least once before you die

Dez 9 2006, 16h42

yet another list, i know. so, yeah, these are the awesomest brazilian albums of all times, in my opinion (in alphabetical order):


Wave (actually, you should listen to anything by jobim at some point of your life)

Baden Powell & Vinícius De Moraes - os afro-sambas de baden powell & vinícius de moraes

Caetano Veloso [1967]

Caetano Veloso [1969]

Caetano Veloso [1971]

Transa (i could put at least 3 more caetano albums, (the guy is god) but i think that's enough already)

Cartola [1974]

Construção (genius, genius)

Elis Regina e Tom Jobim - elis & tom (for those who don't know, tom jobim = antônio carlos jobim. this is the album with the classic version of águas de março (waters of march); just beautiful)

Gal Costa [não identificado]

Expresso 2222

Gilberto Gil [1968] (probably my favorite tropicália album)

Gilberto Gil [1969]

A Música Livre de Hermeto Pascoal

Amoroso/Brasil (i should listen to joão gilberto more. quoting miles davis: "he could read a newspaper and sound good")

A Tábua de Esmeralda (you should probably check "áfrica brasil", too. i think it's a little bit overrated, though)

Jacarandá

Clube Da Esquina (it's actually by Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges, but last.fm is lame. this is one of the greatest albums of all times, brazilian or not, btw)

Acabou Chorare

Os Mutantes

Mutantes

Rogério Duprat - a banda tropicalista do duprat (duprat was the producer of tropicália; some call him the "brazilian george martin", but i think he was more inventive than him. this is a cover album, with stuff ranging from Flying to jobim and de moraes' chega de saudade, all with a tropicália touch)

Racional (brazilian funky stuff. it was cooler when it hadn't been released on cd, though ;)

Estudando o samba (todos os olhos, his s/t and 2006's estudando o pagode are also worth checking out)

p.s.: check Hermeto Pascoal playing glass bottles (!!!!) and flute (even when it's under water), while in the water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Qm-Z5OsHw


artists mentioned:

Antônio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell, Vinícius de Moraes, Baden Powell & Vinícius De Moraes, Caetano Veloso, Cartola, Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Hermeto Pascoal, Tom Jobim, Elis Regina & Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, Jorge Ben, Jorge Benjor, Luiz Bonfá, Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges, Novos Baianos, Os Mutantes, Rogério Duprat, Tim Maia, Tom Zé

Comentários

  • rafaelm escreveu:
    Dez 9 2006, 16h58
    does anybody know how to put the video here? i tried copying and pasting the html code that they put on youtube, but it didn't work :/

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  • JimmyEatWorld escreveu:
    Dez 9 2006, 17h22
    Os Mutantes are one of my favorite bands and I think I'm getting that 1967 self-titled Caetano Veloso album today, so that's another one to mark off the list. I'm gonna have to look into the rest of these.

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  • rafaelm escreveu:
    Dez 10 2006, 15h50
    yeah, the 1967 is really good. i think i prefer either the 69 or transa, but that's just me. the 67 one is great.

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  • viniciusp escreveu:
    Dez 12 2006, 16h17
    tu é gay, tu é gay (8)
    (waters of march).
    but that's just me.

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  • eduslix escreveu:
    Dez 21 2006, 4h04
    queria o jacarandá.

    tá faltando coisa aí, pará.

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  • UncleGropey escreveu:
    Dez 24 2006, 17h39
    What? No Marissa Monte?

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  • jonig4 escreveu:
    Dez 25 2006, 0h54
    What? No Marissa Monte?

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  • UncleGropey escreveu:
    Dez 25 2006, 14h13
    What? No Marissa Monte?

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  • pabloidz escreveu:
    Dez 26 2006, 4h01
    The 1970 and 1971 Tim Maia albums are better than Racional in my opinion, but they're all gorgeous.

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  • hunto1 escreveu:
    Jan 26 2007, 0h37
    Great list. Have you listened to Gil e Jorge. Its by far the best album jorge ben or gilberto gil has ever done.

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  • chrislow escreveu:
    Fev 18 2007, 15h01
    ...and how about Lo Borges ? (the one with the addidas on the cover)

    excellent list!

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  • rafaelm escreveu:
    Fev 18 2007, 16h09
    yeah, lô borges - lô borges is really good, indeed.

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  • lysergicalice escreveu:
    Fev 28 2007, 21h45
    você é incapaz de matar uma muriçoca..

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  • danirabbit escreveu:
    Mar 5 2007, 3h34
    gil e jorge é cocô

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  • rafaelm escreveu:
    Mar 5 2007, 3h37
    gil e jorge é massa, qualé

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  • eduslix escreveu:
    Mar 12 2007, 21h10
    cocô é massa

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  • lamusemalade escreveu:
    Abr 19 2007, 2h03
    lô borges - lô borges
    beto guedes - a página do relâmpago elétrico



    nice list.

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  • lamusemalade escreveu:
    Abr 19 2007, 2h07
    http://www.last.fm/music/Beto+Guedes%2C+Danilo+Caymmi%2C+Novelli%2C+Toninho+Horta , talvez. e eu colocaria o araçá azul ali, eu sei que ninguém dá bola e todo mundo diz que é irregular, mas gente, ♥, a começar pela capa.

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  • viva70 escreveu:
    Abr 26 2007, 4h11
    Gil e Jorge is pretty cool, but is not the best album they ever done... Actually they done lots of great stuff by themselves.

    But I think the Jorge Ben list is a bit small here.. you should have listed at least 5 titles... the guy is a genious.

    Everybody should listen to Samba Esquema Novo, Negro e Lindo, Jorge Ben (1969) and Africa Brasil.

    PS:Catequizar gringo e' foda sempre tem uma mala que acha que Marisa Monte e Ivete Sangalo e' legal... Foda e chegar a conclusao que depois de 79 a, musica brasileira foi pro saco.

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  • caetanosfur escreveu:
    Abr 30 2007, 17h21
    Great list, not only because there's some of my fave brazilian albums ever here, but also because there's several I don't really know.

    To any list like this, it's tempting to ask, But what about x? But if all the Xs, Ys, and Zs were here, then it would lose the big virtue of being short. I.e., I'm going to listen to Racional and Rogerio Duprat, because you put him on a list that has lots of my faves, but doesn't even include certain albums by Caetano, Jorge Ben's Africa-Brasil, etc. (I'm not sure it's possible, however, to over-rate anything this guy did before 1980, except maybe by putting Gil e Jorge over his other work. But that's just me.) In any case, it's good to have these But what about...s too.

    I absolutely agree about Clube da Esquinha, and while I like lots of stuff that these guys have done I'd trade all of it away for just this one album.

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  • [usuário excluído] escreveu:
    Mai 23 2007, 9h15
    thanks for the great list indeed.. will check out those unknown to me. i'd wonder what a brazil expert thinks about arthur verocai. why is he still so unknown.. the self-titled lp from 1973 (i think) is right up there with clube da esquina in my opinion. geek out!
  • michalboo escreveu:
    Jan 24 2008, 11h02
    Wow, thanks for this! *gets tagging*

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  • vbgarcia escreveu:
    Ago 18 2008, 0h20
    great list.

    but what about joão gilberto's early albums? in particular, i think that "chega de saudade" (1959) is brilliant.
    also, i find that "tropicalia" (1968) could have a place in the list.

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  • rafaelm escreveu:
    Ago 19 2008, 22h53
    chega de saudade is good, i prefer his 1973 self-titled (the one which starts with águas de março).

    about tropicália, even though i recognize its significance, it's kind of a "best of". most of the songs that are there are on some album on this list.

    dimdimbullet, i don't know arthur verocai, but i'll check it out, thanks (answering you more than a year later).

    caetanosfur, maybe i should have put jorge ben's 69 s/t, and maybe even samba esquema novo, but i think áfrica brasil is kinda boring, actually. i think it's too discoesque for me. to be honest, though, i haven't given it another chance in a while, so maybe i should.

    anyways, thank you all for your feedback (:

    but thanks for the feedback, you all (:

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  • [usuário excluído] escreveu:
    Set 28 2008, 5h30
    naah, there's some overated artists in this list... anyway i aprecciate your time putting this...
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