Reviews (page 4 of 8)
Funky
Interesting and cool at times but not my vibe.
Listening to so much music seems to have broken my brain or maybe it was Os Mutantes. Either way, my brain is now broken.
At first I thought this was a bad Brazilian take on Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band but it totally grew on me!! Very cool album!!
Pleasantly bonkers 🤪
Certainly interesting and culturally undeniable, but it doesn’t do it for me. The language barrier is probably an obstacle, but I’ve fallen in love with albums full of lyrics I understand less. As a 60s psych album, I don’t know that there’s much that really stands out. There’s distinctly Brazilian instrumentation, but it comes off more as a curiosity than a meaningful sonic innovation that really adds something to the music. It does a lot of things really well—some of the distorted guitar tones, more ambient feel of drums and keys with lots of reverb on the vocals—that make it a good psych album. I just think there are maybe a dozen other albums with a similar sonic aim that scratch that itch better for me. Baby is a standout track. Maybe not one I’d frequently come back to, but I really think it stands up favorably with most other similar tracks of the era—the distorted guitar really adds a lot of character. An interesting album and one I don’t regret listening to, but, apart from the interest of the uniquely Brazilian instrumentation, just not one I think I’d come back to. There are many psych albums I prefer and I don’t have enough experience with Brazilian music post-Mutantes to appreciate their influence.
Just noisy - not my cuppa
2.0/10 Oh man this was a tough one to get through. I was tempted to bail halfway through in case things got better but it was more of the same. Rough listen for me! First 1 star that I’ve given out. :(
Reminded me of the Beatles a bit at times. No idea what was said, but mostly enjoyable aside from some harsh noises from time to time. 3/5
Maybe not the best album of the genre, but it’s so much fun that it deserves its place among the classic psychedlic albums from the late 60’s
The Brazilian response to The Beatles and the overwhelming psychedelic rock wave that would change the world. Great stuff!
A brazilian classic of psychedelic energy!
Aaarrrggggghhhhhhh. It’s kinda cool, but it’s also what gets played when you’re at a party and someone finds out you like music, so they show you this *super obscure* something that makes them seem eclectic, when in actuality they never really listen to this crap and what they’re really trying to do is show off.
Not my thing, I'm afraid.
Psychedelic and exotic
Lucky for me, I was introduced to this band and album when I was like 20/21 with my now husband playing some songs from this with his psych rock band in all the dirty basements…. Ahhh college
Kind of fun
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Cool. Sounds like early Pink Floyd Brazilian Style
So fun!
This is what the album challenge is for.
That was fun. Very strange and also very familiar at the same time. If they sang in English and grew up in England or the US, they would have been a major player in late.60s rock
Today I learned that psychedelia in other languages is *~*~*~eVeN mO000oo0OrE p$yCh3DeLic~*~*~*
The album Os Mutantes is so great. So many different sounds and variety of vibes included. They're like if The Beatles were Portuguese! Mostly great to listen to, even if I didn't understand a single word.
I must admit that I didn’t really love it but understand why it is on this list. It is certainly funky and different.
Honestly not my favorite- it felt like it was trying to blend to many sounds while also copy the psychedelic vibe of the late 60s. Not bad, but not for me
Do not care for this music
This started out as a strong three but as the album went on it quickly became a solid 4 for me. Bat Macumba is my favorite song.
If The Beach Boys were from Brazil, basically. Interesting enough to not get a bad score from me, but as always, I'm not a fan of 60's psychedelia.
This is so noisy and camp and stupid and weird. I love it. My favourite is the slurping noise in baby. What a rich soundscape.
I didn't know that I needed to know about this album, but I really enjoyed it. Sometimes, not knowing the language that an album is written in really helps with enjoying the dynamics of the music, and this was the case here.
What can I say...? I don't understand a word they're saying, but listening to this makes sense of every terrible, hackneyed "groovy" movie soundtrack of the late 60s/early 70s. And that's not yo say it's bad. It's really not! It's just very much of its time. I quite like it (and I'd love to know what they were taking in the studio) but as more of a novelty or period touchstone. Not enough to have it on rotation, but I also wouldn't consign it to the bin.
No. 329/1001 Panis et Circenses 3/5 A Minha Menina 3/5 O Relógio 3/5 Adeus, Maria Fulô 3/5 Baby 3/5 Senhor F 3/5 Bat Macumba 2/5 Le Premier Bonheur du Jour 4/5 Trem Fantasma 3/5 Tempo No Tempo 3/5 Ave Gengis Khan 2/5 Average: 2,91 Weird album. Not my personal taste. Still a refreshing listen.
I doubt I'd ever have listened to this if it wasn't for this service. Nice collection of psych rock from Brazil. Favorite track: A Minha Menina
Odd not really my thing
I am a lyrics person so many non English music leaves me wanting more but this psychedelic garage rock was good and didn’t know how influential it was until now.
This really caught me off guard. Some parts of it, not so good. Other parts, a really interesting and fun blend of their traditional Brazilian music and psychedelic rock. Notable standouts are Bat Macumba and A Minha Menina. On the latter, I loved the combo of the acoustic and the gritty guitar, but what's odd is when I first heard it I was not a fan then all of a sudden it clicked and I was digging it. Fun trip.
Не то, чтобы сильно понравилось, но несколько заинтересовало. Прикольно слушать необычные песни в необычном исполнении. И главное не режет слух, как некоторые экспериментальные альбомы. 6,5 из 10.
4 ok ok its bop worthy
I absolutely am in love with this album. I would own an original pressing if it wasn't 1000.00.
You know what, sure! Best Song: Bat Macumba Rating: 6/10 Stars: 3
This album gets better with each listen. It’s definitely a dense 36 minutes, yet it remains a fun listen. The song structures are unorthodox, the performances are quirky, and it is all accented with pieces of noise and distortion. Brilliant.
Es un album en portuges, molt original. M'ha recordat al circ.
Album bizarre, à entendre effectivement une fois dans sa vie.
A lot of fun!!! A Minha Menina song of all time!!!
Maybe this is more like a 3.5 I guess? It was pretty decent.
I love an album that mixes things up and this certainly fits the bill! Nature sounds, different languages, different rhythms- but always moves. High point track for me is Baby- ooh that organ is smooth. Very excited for this new find!
I really didn’t think I was going to make it through this album, but at only 36 minutes I felt like I had to. I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t my favorite album but better than I anticipated. Very Beatles-esque.
1 Star (2/15)
Weird. Like all the crazy bits of the Beatles on one album.
Weird af 60s psychedelia. Cool that Brazil took part of that party as well.
I'll give it an extra point just for being a non-English album on an extremely anglobiased list.
Quite bonkers. Quite brilliant, Brazilian 60s psychedelia.
To be honest, the album is just not my jam. Therefore, I'm not going to write a whole review where I'm subconsciously trying to convince myself I liked it. It's psychedelic as hell and it's definitely the first time I've ever heard something like this from a country other than the US and Europe. In that respect, it was unique and interesting. When I was passively listening, the harmonies, keys, guitars, horns sometimes made me think of Magical Mystery Tour and the Stones' psychedelic records at times. But sticking to my gut here, sorry Os Mutantes.
Their use of homemade instruments really shine through on this album
See this is the type of weird shit I'm here for! An album that I otherwise would've never come across, but I'm glad I did. No, I don't speak Portuguese. Yes, I do like avant garde music. It's out there, but in the best way possible. You can absolutely hear the Western psych influences but it's still taped together with elements of traditional Brazilian music (the drums on Bat Macumba!?!). If I ever see this in a record store, it's mine! Favorite Tracks: A Minha Menina, Baby, Senhor F, Bat Macumba
It's pretty sick that Brazil was getting into psych at the same time as Britain and America. This wasn't super unusual - there's a lot of psych rock that came out of Cambodia, Singapore and Zimbabwe as well. The appeal of the fuzz couldn't be denied. Melding its psych influences with the pre-existing tropicalia and bossa nova sounds of Brazilian music has helped Os Mutantes self-titled stick out over the decades. Of the 60s bands it's modeled on, I think Os Mutantes reminds the most of the Monkees. They both feel specifically curated for television but the quality of the music exceeds that sort of "made for television" band like idk the Coswells/Partridge Family. The gothic album art feels misleading, looking at it, you'd think they were beating Black Sabbath to the punch, but on listening to the album, I get it. One of my favorite undercurrents of the 1960s counter-culture aesthetic was how people would source Universal and Hammer horror films as shorthand for freaking people out. This is what Os Mutantes is doing. The music itself is pretty benign and pleasant but it is also a degree stranger than what was playing on Brazilian radio and in record shops at the time. The best tracks are those that lean into the psych-pop and bossa nova stuff the most. Like a lot of experimental psych rock of the time, I'm not sure how much of it has aged particularly well. A lot of it is just noodling around on a Hammond organ or inserting nature sounds. But Gawrsh, A Minha Menina is easily top 50 tracks of the decade. And Bat Macumba. Just toss that one around in your mouth a few times. Bat Macumba. Bat Macumba. Bat Macumba. Favorite Tracks: A Minha Menina, Bat Macumba, Baby
And this album is the very reason why this project is so worth while. Had never heard of this band and it is like they have said, “ you know those Beatles boys and all the Sgt Pepper/ Revolver stuff they are doing? What if we did that but with a Brazilian twist! Well it is great in a very weird way and I enjoyed it.
I appreciate their influence on modern music, but this album didn’t leave an impression on me. I’ve seen them live this year and I really enjoyed it though.
Sounds like a home run on paper (world music mixed with late-60s psychedelia) but in practice it's more like a bloop single. Rather unimpressive but serviceable.
Is ok
Yeah it’s way out and different, liked some songs, found others a little too strange
Extremely strange and playful. My only criticism is that sometimes the playfulness becomes tedious. I love the sort of motley, renaissance sound to a lot of this.
Overall, a bit of a meh album, wasn't very thrilled aboutt his whole experience, but we got through it, as it wasn't a very long list of songs. I think that it's maybe a bit too outdated nowadays, but I can see this being alright for a pretty chill setting.
Maybe back in the 60's it was good, not now.
Really interesting/fun production. Some of the sound quality was a bit fuzzy/harsh but overall it wasnt too bad? Solid 3 on this one
I like experimental music, but this just seems like "lol we are so random". It's fine. Mid 3.
No lo conocía. es curioso y solo por ser brasileño se merece estar en esta lista y un 4. Rita Lee hizo unas versiones encantadoras de canciones de The Beatles unos años después.
Just too much going on for me - came across as too much sounds at a lot of points.
Loved the sound overall. Psychedelic Brazilian...Background music covering a range.
Quirky and varied—even all-over-the-map. I like the range of sounds, which, somehow, don’t pull the album out of 60s psychedelia. Not too much, anyway. Still, some of the songs veer a little dangerously toward . . . novelty music.
This is very weird but somehow I liked it. It was different from other things.
Ritmos sabrosísimos que por momentos me sonaron a samba, pero que lo genial de esto es que está mezclado con rock psicodélico y música de finales de los setenta. Al terminar el disco, que me gustó mucho, spotifas me siguió poniendo canciones de los mutantes y quedé convencido de que tengo que aventarme varios discos más. Esto está muy padre.
This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to discover! Loved it
Weird
below average
I thought I would hate this, based on the description, and although there were moments that were too close to San Francisco psychedelia for my liking, generally I found it to be a fun and interesting listen.
Way better than I thought. Sounds like if the Beatles were weirder and were from brazil
I didn't understand the words but I had fun regardless 🔥
Not for me
This is the good kind of weird, which just gets better for each listen. Much more interesting than 13th Floor Elevators, miming 60s psychedelia with latin rhytms and general weirdness. I wouldn’t put on any of these songs individually, but as an album it is quite the journey
Weird, wacky and wonderful. Bat Macumba reminded me of something I might hear on a Saturday morning cartoon from the 70's.
8/10
Got kinda excited based on the description, but from the hop I knew it wasn't for me. Couldn't get 3 songs in.
This album is pretty unhinged, and in all the best ways. It really earns its psychadelia badge as this is dripping with acid. The songs are all over the place and the fact it's in Portuguese only helps with the disorientation it causes, for me at least. A Minha Menina is great and Baby strangely reminds me of some Cage the Elephant from 40 years later. Senhor F sounds like some of the weirder Beatles. All in all, I really enjoyed how all over this was.
Somehow I was introduced to them by Belle & Sebastian and not Kurt Cobain.
Ended up really liking this. It felt quite experimental. The sounds they put on display were quite unique. I loved it.
What a trip! Way better than I expected
This is probably far too clever for me. Didn’t enjoy it. Even with the obligatory +1 for non-Anglophone lyrics, I’m struggling here.
Not sufficiently outstanding. Bit of Spanish bonzo dog and other stuff but not "must listen" . Might be a good track but a lot of it felt confused so that tracks tended to have bits that were more self indulgent and as such less listenable. The Beatles did it and got away with it. This lot just sound a poor shadow.
I had no idea what to expect before listening. I saw the name and cover and had zero recognition. It's weird. It's weird in a fun way though. Like you listen and the track ends and you have a second to think and the next track could be a more straight forward song. They had fun making it. OH also they are Brazilian so don't expect English. Ups the "WHAT?" factor a bit, keeps you going.
Surprisingly good. Can't call myself a fan of African music, but even for me this was an enjoyable listen
Nice
I really enjoyed this album. Crazy and energetic. Awesome album cover.
This is the kind of weird shit I'm doing this challenge for! I didn't like it, but I listened to it - yay!
Really, very unexpected, unique, and a lot of fun!! I'm not typically into psychedelic 60s stuff, but this was catchy and it really grew on me. I listened to it 3 times straight and by the third time I found myself singing along to several of these songs. I 5 star, hidden gem :) :)
Jangling trumpets and wailing – that’s noise, not music
Rights, lads, remember when we promised there would be no Ayahuasca in the studio? Lads? Lads!?
I can’t say that I liked it, but there was enough charm to offset the long stretches of weirdness.
This has all the psychedelic tropes: slowing/speeding up the track, strange noises, and reverb, adding in familiar song sounds (one song screamed “Sunshine Superman” to me). Somehow they did it in a way that really sounds intriguing and controlled.
Very late 60's sounding stuff. It's sorta fun. I think I enjoyed it more because it wasn't in English.
Psychedelic 60's Brazilian rock. Sounds like a soundtrack to a Brazilian Austin Powers movie. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs
Close to giving it 4. Solid 3
Good album. Great to see something else here than the usual US/UK-bands.
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Very interesting album.
žešća brija koja zaslužuje četiri, bam
I have a soft spot for Tropicana/Tropical music. Brazil has so much to offer in the 1960s and 1970s in terms of progressive music and surely this album is one of them. Lots of the tunes are known by that excellent complication from Soul Jazz records which gives an excellent album that is coherent in its approach yet surprise you all the time. It's close to a masterpiece. I don't rank it 5 stars because is that certain something missing that makes it stick out so it doesn't fade in the background.
Ciekawe i dziwne. W sumie fajne, ale nie wiem dlaczego. Nawet nie wiem czy śpiewali po portugalsku. Pewnie nie. 4
If only I ingested drugs that would enhance the listenability of this album...
Alright little 60's garage rock band with a South American flair.
This is odd. Not bad, not great. It’s like psychedelic glam with sprinkles of Zappa.
Dull and unengaging.
An interesting Brazilian band combining Brazilian music with psychedelic. Some interesting music although I have no idea what they are singing about.
I’m all for listening to music in a foreign language. This just… wasn’t it lol.
odd!
This was an odd choice for inclusion in a list of 1001 albums to listen to be before I die. Don't know what they would be but I feel like there would be far better options serving as example of Brazilian music. This felt like an awkward attempt at anglicising something that shouldn't have been.
A surprisingly interesting listen. I am apparently a fan of 1960’s Brazilian psychedelia.
This was weird but in the best way possible. This is the kind of niche shit that makes this thing here so cool.
entretenido
Oh fuck yes, Tropicalia is one of those genres that more people desperately need to know about. In terms of world music it’s probably one of the most accessible to an American ear other than like, Italo-disco or K-pop or what ever. Caetano Veloso has an album on here also, but if you dig this album I HIGHLY recommend Gilberto Gil’s 1968 album, for me it’s the peak of this genre.
Is it going on my playlist, probably not, but it was a helluva ride!
An album that demonstrates that there's no supremacy in music and culture. Cultural dictators need to learn that good music isn't just about English. So swallow this one! Better than many generic American psychedelic albums. It's clear that it's influenced by other languages, not just American/English. Musically impeccable! The recording and production reflect the era, and it was recorded with the technology of the time. Latin America Live!
Soo weird. I have a feeling even if I understood Portuguese i wouldn't understand what they're singing about
Un po' i Pink Floyd brasiliani, con tutte le differenze che i ritmi sudamericani possono dare al rock psichedelico. Veramente interessanti e originali, anche se con qualche perplessità sulla parte vocale. Da riascoltare molto volentieri e da esplorare nel resto della discografia
I have this album a legitimate chance but it was just a lot of noise that didn’t always seem to go together.
Fun and obscure.
Hidden, messy gem. Who knew there was a genre Brazilian psychedelic.
Okay. You got me. I recognize the name having seen it over the years. In my mind I had associated this band with a more progressive rock sound. Not sure why that happened. Perhaps when I first heard someone mention them in connection with Brazilian rock. Whatever the reason, this debut record from 1968 is certainly not prog rock. Rather, it is best described as a mix of psychedelic pop, garage rock, and what I’ve come to learn are Topicali influences. For my taste, A Minha Menina is a pretty catch garage influenced track worth repeated listening. There are a couple of ballads, and in particular the songs O Relogio and Adeus Maria Fulo that capture the sounds of the forest and give the record its distinctive character. Does it all work? No. There are a couple of missteps along the way. The showtune Senhor F is a skip. Just corny and terrible. Ave Genghis Kahn with its Peanuts intro also comes off rather clunky. In soaking in the album a little bit and playing it several times, Bat Macumba, Baby and Panis Et Circenses are the other standouts. Overall, not a standout but would have been a solid record at the time. Interesting mix of influences but there were better rock records from this time period.
That was pretty fun. The Brazilian Beatles get a 3/5 from me.
Not bad. Weird fun.
Le Premier Bonheur du Jour SLAPS HARD
It's super neat to see a style which has popped up numerous times on this list be adapted to a different language and culture, Os Mutantes does not disappoint on that front. The Neatles-esque sounds of this album and Portuguese lyrics make for a unique and valuable listening experience. I expect that my appreciation of this album will only grow on repeat listens, and am rating it accordingly. Favorite track: "A Minha Menina"
Quick fire to catch up. - Try hard
The only song I knew was a minha manina due to the cover by the bees, but the album was brilliant and had such a great energy. The audio was suprising for the age, and I felt it was quite revolutionary in terms od complexity for the age
I could tell it was probably ground breaking at the time and I’m giving it a 2 out of respect but I didn’t enjoy listening to this much.
An absolute monster of an album that takes 60’s American/european psychedelia and advances it farther than any one in the tradition did. It is full of musical ideas and the music was so daring that other singers of the style (often backed by Mutantes) were exiled. Great/Amazing stuff!
I did not listen to the whole album, but liked what I heard. Sounded like an album from the 60s in a different language,
Definitely as described.
I was NOT expecting to dig this one because I am so lyrics-focused and so tragically monolingual that it's rare for me to get really into tunes that aren't in English. But this was fun! Jaunty and peppy, with some entertainingly odd sounds in the mix (No idea if the LYRICS are jaunty and peppy. Could be about tubercular cannibals for all I know.)
So fun and unique. I'm sure that a lot of other "psych filtered through other cultures" albums have been lost to time but we're blessed to have this legendary one.
Such a fun listen. I love Tropicália music and Os is elite in the scene.
Definitely outside the realm of norm. Sounded like a creepy circus
Nuevo genero desbloqueado: brazilian acid. 3.5
interesantes
okkk 7/10
Insane in parts. A lot of bits that sound like the spanish Beatles.
Pojma nimam kdo so to - odlično! Ok, zanimiv začetek. Ker jezik je to? Pa ta trobenta zad! Da fak se dogaja? K en fever dream. O fak, zmer bl prtegneno. "A Minha Menina" - portugalščina? Ta ma kr zvok svojega časa, ampak še zmer mal quirky (ne najdem boljše besede za opis tega kar slišim). Zj pa najbl zasanjan komad. Dokler kr naenkrat ni več. Tok kr naenkrat, da preverim, če je že nov komad. In spet zasanjano. V glavnem, kle ni za pričakovat, da bo komad k ga začneš poslušat, tak cel cajt. Ker že misliš, da bo eno, neka spiritualna, umirjena zadeva, pa rata neki kar si sploh ne bi mogel predstavljat - k k smo igrali Orffova glasbila v OŠ, sam da kle zveni dobro. "Baby" zveni, k da so probal nardit nek ta tipičn love song-y komad, sam ga ne morjo zares, k so tok fakin quirky. "Senhor F" mi zveni k amalgamacija ene treh komadov od Beatlov. "Bat Macumba" je funky. Je pa to tud cel besedil komada. Suddenly francoščina. "Trem Fantasma" je super, ampak se mi isto zdi, k da me deli spomnejo na druge komade. "Ave Gengis Khan" lepo zaključi ta presenečenje od albuma. Hudo, ful eksperimentalno, psihadelično. Grem še enkrat poslušat, je samo 36 minut.
Gran disco de world music brasilero
The Beatles are the British Os Mutantes
I had never heard of this and immediately the album cover had me intrigued... and, yes, this is AWESOME.
More of whatever this!
This is so weird, but it’s awesome. It’s so out there but in the best way possible. This was a really fun listen. I should probably dive more into Brazilian music, since I also really liked África Brasil by Jorge Ben Jor and Getz/Gilberto (featuring João Gilberto of course).
Cool stuff. Not great background music, but I'd listen again.
This is totally my kind of nonsense. Weird but melodic. And weird in a way I haven’t heard before but also weird in that classic 1960s kind of way. Man. The Beatles really did a number on people. FOUR STARS
This is exactly the kind of music I wanted to discover by doing this challenge.
An excellent late 60s psychedelic record from Brazil. Clearly indebted to the Beatles and US psych bands but Os Mutantes also push the boundaries of the genre by taking more risks. I thought that their use of musique concrete was rather innovative. That said, their avant garde tendencies are tempered by their immensely catchy pop melodies.
Loved it. I never gave thought to music happenings in other countries than the UK and USA.
Pretty cool psychedelia
Trippy!
7.3/10
60s psych-pop plus Brazilian grooves? It's a yes from me. On several occasions I heard The Beatles, but at times there were traces of Small Faces, Donavan, The Animals and more - all with a Latin twist and unique experimental flair to rival their English-speaking contemporaries.
Someone said the Brazilian “Sgt. Pepper.” Bingo. Loved this!
Nothing special, heard worse
Weird and wonderful and trippy but didn't move me quite as much as the (few) other tropicalia records I've heard from this so far (REALLY loved the Caetano Veloso s/t and Jorge Ben's Africa Brasil). Maybe it's just that it's a bit goofy and owes a lot to the psychedelic era of the Beatles which has never been as interesting to me but yeah this was fun and weird and wonderful but so far everything I've heard on this list from Brazil has been the coolest shit EVER and this is just "wow this is pretty unique and cool!" so high bar to cross I guess
Superb!
Kadett, HDH - Ulm, Deutschland. Ganz ganz schlimm.
Ok that was fire
I really love this album! The peak of punk music
- I can't add anything worthwhile to this. It's a record that changed me the first time I heard it. -
What a weird little gem of an album. This is the kind of thing I signed up for - to hear something really new (to me) and interesting that pushes the boundaries. Really well done, interesting psych rock. This as the soundtrack and a weird cartoon in the Meredith cinema and I’d be very happy.
Good music and really groovy. 4 stars
This was pretty good. It probably would have been much better if I understood Spanish.
Hell ya
Brazilian psych, very nice
Alright, in all honesty, I do not consider myself the best person to review this album. It’s a Spanish Psychadelic Rock album, and while I am knowledgeable on a pretty decent chunk of psych rock, having a psych rock album where I can’t even understand the lyrics puts me at a big disadvantage. The one advantage I can say the other foreign album I heard was that it felt a little more cohesive, and this one could get kind of annoying. So I’m solely giving it a two just because I didn’t like the album, not for who it was made by or where it was made in, just because I didn’t like it.
Quite upbeat, Brazilian vibe and beats with an electronic flavour. Easy listening even if you don’t understand BrPt
Solid album! I'd listen to it again. MPB might be a new favorite genre of mine.
Weird sixties with that fuzzy ass guitar, not bad despite me not understanding any of the songs (2.5/5)
bizar en off-beat... Braziliaanse cumbia meets Brit psychedelica... mooi
Well this one was quite a pleasant surprise. Definitely lots of energy and personality in here. I like the mad trumpet and the dirty bassline in some of these songs. There's lots going on, but it's cohesive, and quite varied throughout. 3.5 rounded down.
Honestly, I've never properly listened to this kind of music.. and I was surprised in a good kind of sense. Surely would add a couple of songs into my liked playlist.
I've heard probably three of these tracks on the radio at some point with enough frequency that they stuck in my brain. That said, I had no idea who these folks are, and this is a really out there record. I mean that in the best possible sense!
This is the kind of stuff I expected to see on this list. I'm not sure I'll listen to it again, but it was super weird and I'm glad I gave it a go.
funk. Groove. Sharp. Delightfull !
Spanish Beatles
Jolly but drags on a bit
Mycket bättre än jag initialt trodde det skulle vara. Lyssnat flera gånger och bitvis dras jag med. Men i långa loppet är det nog mer lattjo, varierande och intressant än... Irriterande? Väldigt svårt med betyget. Sätter en trea men det är på gränsen. Men i detta fall är det kanske nyhetens behag som tar över. I långa loppet blir tre nog rimligt.
Kul överraskning och skruvat på ett riktigt bra sätt! Växer för varje lyssning och klart bättre än mycket annan psykadelisk rock på den här listan. Att det är så varierat och genreöverskridande gör lyssningen intressant hela vägen. Vissa delar är kanske inte hundraprocentiga, så det blir inte högsta betyg, men en fyra är det helt klart och något jag skulle vilja lyssna mer på när det här vansinnesprojektet är över.
À revisiter, intéressant au delà de l’aspect historique et très étrange dans le bon sens du terme.
didn’t know “brazilian” was a genre thanks apple music
Here’s a deep cut I’d never heard from an amazing year in music. Genre bending, psychedelic, and experimental. It’s not flawless but it gets 5 stars from me - because it’s just the kind of treasure I hope to find among in the 1001. Enjoyed it and will return to it!
Welcome to an alternate universe where the Hollies emerge out of Brazil instead of Manchester, UK. They are bit more psychedelic, and I would say more sophisticated, but that might just be because I can't understand all the lyrics. It doesn't matter in the end, because empirically, this is just good, fun, psychedelic rock.
not bad
Interesting
- Portugiesische Mamas & Papas (Mambas&Sambas) - Samples+Einspieler - Fuzz Gitarre / Psychedelica
Miz Pink Floyd,the rolling stones
This is some wacky shit—fun! but wacky.
Crap psychedelic music
Every now and then the list throws up something off the wall and while not earth shattering warrants being on it. On one level it seems another psychedelia entry but as with the genre it has a latin twist. Fun and frighteningly listenable.
Not really my bag. I can appreciate some of the psychedelic music from back in the 60's and all, but not when it is being sung in Portuguese.
A Minha Menina is a fantastic song, it's a wonderful fusion of Latin-influenced psychedelic rock. I was quite familiar with it already - it already features on my playlist of favourites - and I'd spun this album once in the past too. The remainder of the album is good, albeit not spectacular, but A Minha Menina is enough to push it into high 3-star territory, rounded up to a 4.
Wow. It's albums like this that made me start this in the forst place. It's great and ive never heard (of) it before
The Magical Mystery Tour stops in Brazil! What a whacky, enjoyable listen. Minus 1 point for Portuguese. I hope it doesn’t make me racist to prefer to understand the lyrics.
Brazilian music of the sixties is such a trip. This is the weird Sixties Psychedelia I've been waiting for from the generator.
I like this era, and experimental stuff, but all this spaghetti on my tympanic membrane is starting to stink.
ei jäänyt mieleen
Very good album. Interesting and varied.
A pretty good time, but not interesting enough for me to return to.
Another band I have never heard of, another chance to be surprised and delighted. I recognise A Minha Menina. Overall, yeah, this is fine, but in its favour is the fact that I like being made to listen to experimental 1960s Brazilian psychedelia much much more than I like having to listen to another Paul Simon solo album.
Not fully my thing, I like my psychedelia less weird. However, it's definitely interesting and I'm glad I was exposed to it. It's very interesting to see how artists outside the English-speaking world have been influenced by and adapted English genres.
It's their happening, baby, and it freaks them out!
This is a very cool, fun album. It doesn't even seem real considering it's time.
DNF. Meh.
Pretty funky and psychedelic which is fun for a while but didn't strike me as something new or different from other late '60s psychedelia
has sgt pepper vibes with the piccolo trumpets, etc. They do overdo the trumpets though :) Favorite track: Le premier bonheur du jour picks: bat macumba, a minha, panis et circenses
Sgt. Pepper Beatles distilled with a few drops of Yoko and a lot of drops of LSD.
They listened to the Beatles and played with the sounds but missed the point. Did not enjoy.
Panis et Circenses A Minha Menina Bat Macumba
Nope
Had a roomate in college that played the shite out of this album
Good for work? A little too experimental for me.
что-то Мексиканское(они бразильцы оказывается лол)и классическое аккомо аккофо что-то там... акустика?
Psychedelic 60s rock... but in Portuguese?! I like it!
Had doubts at first but it sucked me in and held me till the end. Fun ride.
Как они вообще именуют себя музыкантами?
Interesting, and opened my eyes to brazilian psychedelic music, but I'd like to hear it remastered
meh
I liked it! High 3
😊
Entertainingly bonkers 3.8
This album is just “out there” enough to remain interesting. Though I feel they are trying too hard sometimes, it is overall an enjoyable listen. 3/5
That was fun and I'm going to keep it around on the phone for a while to listen to again
This is terrible
This was a cool and interesting listen. I will listen to this again. Due to the language difference here, I will look for a translation of the lyrics.
No thanks
Najviše psihedelična muzika ikad? Na momente teška za slušati, ali ovakva kreativnost se treba cijeniti. Bili su dosta ispred sličnih bendova tadašnjeg vremena, samo u pogrešnoj državi.
Weird, loud and fun
Samba and Bossa Nova tinged Psychedelic Rock? Hell yeah!
eh
That was an unexpectedly phenomenal album. I loved it!
Har aldrig lyttet til brasiliansk syremusik og det havde jeg heller ikke gjort af egen fri vilje. Dette album er godt men til tider virker det lidt som noget vrøvl. Det har for mig lidt det samme problem som forhenværende album. Den gamle lyd og lydbillede fylder simpelthen for meget, og det er ikke noget jeg nyder. Samtidig med at jeg har svært ved at sætte det ind i et kulturelt perspektiv 4/10 4/10
Some bangers and some weird old psychedelic crap.
Deliciosa! The kookier the better and this is the better.
OK, nothing stood out
On one hand I kinda liked it but on the other hand wtf did I just listen to. 3 stars
Fun album, quirky as hell, but I enjoyed it.
Yeah what the fuck. I will not mention "this one time I listened to this Brazilian Psychedelic Rock band from the late 60s and quite liked it" to anyone, to appear completely eccentric.
Perfect album! Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour is a masterpiece. Very interesting band. Never heard it before. Thanks.
Really cool and feels very modern. Don't think I would actively go back and listen but interesting enough.
yksi suodetuista maista. brasilia. suodetaan neljä viisi.. emt ehkä kuusi albumia.. jahas sanoo englannin taitajat, anglomaanikot. englanninkielen lautakunta jahas noh portugali. sata vuotta maailmanherroja oli niin vaikka .. EN YMMÄRRÄ HOHHOIJJAAA.. en kieltä ymmärrä niin otetaan muutama BRASILIA albumi.. ei edes kotimaa portugali.. BRASSIT BRASSIT. ja suomenkieltä näkynytkään. ei vilaustakaan.. chinese not approved. india hmm beatles were in india... ok go india 3 albums maybe... vähän kontekstia revolver albumille niin laitetaan pari ravi shankaria sekaan sanoivat lautakunta.. sairasta touhua sanon minä. hyvä albumi btw, erikoinen a minha menina
Its weird, and I like that.
Wow more techno shit.
I've never heard of Os Mutantes. I love the album cover. "Panis Et Circenses" is a very 60s sounding song. I'm enjoying it a lot. It's very Beatles-esque. There's so much going on across this song - I love the trumpet (?) going crazy. "A Minha Menina" has me moving right away. "Adeus Maria Fulo" is a very weird song, and I love it. The noises in the background remind me of the White Lotus season 1 intro. "Senhor F" is great. "Ave Genghis Khan" has sweet synth business going on. I don't want to be reductive, but these guys sound like the brazillian beatles to me. They have a lot of the 60s psychedelic british sound in their music. They are doing a lot of weird experiental noises, but I'm enjoying all of them. I've gone down a wikipedia rabbit-hole reading about the Tropicália movement in Brazil. I enjoyed the entire album. It was weird, fun, and a great length. 9/10
Ändå rätt så coolt. brasiliansk psych rock. kan uppskatta detta.
El Sgt. Pepperino
Os mutantes: Cool. Only thing that reminds me of magical mystery tour that I actually like. More musical than most of the other experimental psychedelic stuff. Cool how o Reloggio alternates from ethereal to trashy groove. Baby is a cool song I prefer the Gal Costa/ Caetano Veloso versions. Bat macumba has cool fuzzed out guitars and a jammy vibe. that effect on the lead is cool but way too loud! Least fav was ave ghenkis khan
Idk there was some fun percussion and stuff but there are so many better brazilian 60s records and cooler tropicalia records. Its better than a lot of stuff on this list but i wouldnt even say i like it in the context of its own genre.
I think I would like this even less if it was in English
Panis Et Circenses // A Minha Menina // Baby // Senhor F // Bat Macumba // Trem Fantasma // 3.5/5
Not a lot to say about this album. Less-than-shoddy production and a sound that is at best derivative and at worst unappealing make this album very forgettable. Like discount-Beatles without any charm
This is what I signed up for. Brazilian psychedelic rock with some of the loudest, most ear-piercing guitars I’ve ever heard on an album? Hell yeah.
This is really not my vibe; the last few songs are OK
Also this was probably hyped by cobain Good psyc rock but lacking emotion
os gringos jamais conseguiriam entender a experiência de ser um adolescente portoalegrense de 14 anos que nunca tinha usado um entorpecente, dai escutar essa psicodelia e ser apresentado pra maconha e lsd
I'm not sure what this was, but I know it's not for me.
This did not really grab me. It's a little weird but not to my taste. I didn't hate it either. It's fine if you're into it.
Weird and I like it
Really fun album with strange instrumentation and weird artistic choices. The kind of pleasant surprise that should be on this list. 4.0/5.0: Great
this is the kinda thing im here for. not a fantastic album but it was a super fun listen. a bit chaotic at times with a fascinating use of different instruments
Ändå lite trevligt
Love the 60s psychedelia mixed with Brazilian pop
Brazilian folk from the 60s… was just ok 👌
This is very fun. Strange, great weird instrumentation, awesome vocals.
So random that I just heard this band for the first time a few months ago and now they show up on here. Rightly so.
Sometimes music offers up a mind melting experience where reality and illusion merge.
Interesting! But probably won’t listen again.
A pleasant surprise for what I thought I was going to get but not any more pleasant than a 3
not for me
Cool garage-y psych rock with enough holiness to grab me even in another language. Still a bit too psychedelic for me but I liked it.
On first listen I think this kind of passed me by - it was fine but not much more. On second listen it really clicked much more - so many similar sounds from the time, this time it just happens to be in Portuguese (and French).
Fine, but a bit all over the place, not my cup of tea.
Brazilian Beatles. A wild ride!
so good i had to listen to it twice (i fell asleep the first time)
It's some weird Brazilian '60s stuff. Not my cup of tea.
If one were asked what the '60s sounded like in Brasil, one might think something along these lines. Flowery, fun, if not exactly fantastic.
3.7 2x flagging this to come back to... nice and Brazilian
4 stars for originality and musicianship.
This had 2-3 strikes against it for me back when it was reissued and became a cause célèbre: • The hipsters were all over it • Cmon, the cape? • An allergy to anything foreign prized despite it kinda sounding like mostly local takes on the prevailing trends of the day I’ve still been more a Jorge Ben and Gal Costa kinda guy when it comes to tropicalia but I could see finally changing that up a bit and now that I’ve spent the past year immersed in French at the very least I have a slightly better read on the lyrics. Like, barely, but still.
Never heard of this group. Interesting
More well written than most other weird 60s psych-rock i've come across, while still being plenty strange.
I'm not on near enough drugs to enjoy this.... Favorite songs: A Minha Menina Least favorite songs: Trem Fantasma 1/5
Märklig platta och märkligt val att denna ska vara med på den här listan. Det är inte dåligt, bara märkligt.
Brazilian experimental psychedelic. Chaotic, with a lot of crunchy highs, compressed instrumentals and vocals with odd sound effects sprinkled throughout. Cerebral 60s/70s vibe. Could be good in the right headspace (i.e. high on weed or acid) but is definitely not everyday music. Track 5 "Baby" and Track 8 "Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour" were standout songs for me.
Pretty good melodies, would listen again. Nothing outstanding
The only thing this helped me with is showing off that, yes, I do know what a cuíca is.
This is so bad it’s surely got to be self pleasure performance art. What is worse - I understand enough of the language to know it’s even worse than it would be if I only spoke English … I require therapy to recover from having to listen to this. Horrendous.
“Ave Genghis Khan” is a psychedelic banger from 60s-70s Brazilian rockers. Os Mutantes should have used prominent organs on every track. “Bat Macumba” is a decent track. The rest is so-so Brazilian psychedelia in Portuguese. 3.3 stars rounded down.
Never listened to Brazilian music so this will be exciting! I don't speak Portuguese so I had no idea what was going on but I sure enjoyed the ride. I really really liked it. Overall: 5/5