Reviews (page 6 of 8)
what a masterpiece - how have I not come across "Os Mutantes" before?
Quirky
experimental, playful, and chaotic. a fantastic find.
76% Best: A Minha Menina; Adeus Maria Fulô; Bat Macumba; Ave Gengis Khan Must-Hear? Not quite
This was kind of all over the place and was very fun. A Brazilian psych-rock album with songs by Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben, Francoise Hardy and The Mamas and the Papas - it’s as eclectic as it sounds and just incredibly energetic and frankly a bit nuts. Good stuff
Super rad album! Wacky and off-the-wall and creative and catchy. Will really enjoy coming back to this. 8/10
Innovative, but quite shit
A lot of people are saying this cover was inspired by The Munsters and they're probably right. Hard to review. Cool sounds at times. I'm not sure what I felt listening to this. Good to have on the list.
Interesting album cover. Super 1960s sounding. Some of it worked some didn't. One example, Bat Macumba didn't work. This I would want to give a 2.5 in a take it or leave it way, but I cannot. Maybe I'm not ready yet. Maybe we will cross paths again some day. For now I will round down.
Disappointing.
Os Mutantes is the debut album by Os Mutantes, originally released in 1968. Holy shit. I've heard of this band being discussed in psych circles in the past but I totally forgot about them until now. This is so damn cool. I feel like when most people think of the first wave of psych rock they automatically think of the San Francisco scene and the hippies. Maybe swinging London. The truth is the hippie/psychedelic movement was happening in a lot more places. Sometimes it happened later than the US, such as the Zambian psych movement. But others happened right in tandem, such as Brazil. Os Mutantes were at the forefront of the Brazilian psych movement. And this is way more than just garage rock. The compositions are very creative and draw the listener in, wondering what will happen next. The only other album I could compare this to is Sgt Pepper. It gives off that same vibe and wide range of styles. This thing has everything from horns to acoustic ballads to rocking fuzz guitar. Drop a tab and throw this one on the turntable and you'll be in for a great trip.
Digging this one right out of the gate. Quick little indirection with the horn fanfare, then we get right into some super wonky psychedelic rock. Love the bright trumpet work overtop of it all. A Minha Menina sounds really familiar, but I cannot place it. Ditches the outright psychedlia vibe of Panis Et Circenses for a brighter surf-rock vibe. Feels very much like proto-Beck. The tape effects on Bat Macumba also make me think of Beck. A bit distracting, but interesting no less. This whole album feels so far ahead of it's time. Not many individual songs I would go in for, but the album as a whole is tight and interesting. This is an unexpected high 4 for me.
Kinda weird and random, felt like a Portuguese "The United State of America". Very few actual thoughts on this album cause it never really grabbed me.
3 psych albums in a row for us. This one was definitely the hardest to listen to. Some of the sounds were cool but others sounded like I was in a circus. Also being in a different language made it very hard to enjoy
This one was all over the place for me. Loved the psychedelia aspects of it but some was just alright.
Well this was weird, but in a good way. I'm surprised that this album isn't more well known. That said I really don't think I would ever listen to this again so I'm not going to rate it super highly.
1.5
This is fucking mental. I'm not really sure I ever needed to hear it though. It sounds as if it can't make up its mind to be a corny, Western sountrack, drug induced psychadelia or the theme music for a children's tv shop. All in Portugese I presume.
Not bad if you like that kind of thing
Quite messy and boring
At one point it became very good. Turned out that was when spotify went into autoplay
Not really into this.
Not my cup of tea.
The good thing about this album project is that I get to discover music I didn't even know was my thing. The bad thing about this album project is that I get to discover music I didn't ever want to know was a thing.
Not in the right headspace for this
Not my thing
Hell yea Brazilian stoner rock
With the Brazilian music scene bubbling under the exciting fizz of Troplicália, it would be Os Mutantes that would provide the more out there aspects of the genre with their self-titled debut. Blazing originality mixed with transformed renditions of songs from the States have helped this record endure, largely in their homeland then ultimately the rest of the world. A guaranteed head spinner. Favorites: Panis Et Circenses, A Minha Menina, O Relógio, Baby, Bat Macumba, Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour, Tempo No Tempo.
Easy listening.
Potential hot take here: if the psychedelic rock on this album had not been sung in Brazilian, and logically tinged by strong splashes of samba and bossa nova, chances are it wouldn't be as fondly remembered by later fans of that time period as it is today. I readily admit that this take of mine here may sound quite counter-intuitive. But if you know the same time period a little, the record can't stand the comparison with the greats of those days. I have tried to love this record many times before: an old friend of mine, who also made me discover Love, was quite a fan of it years back. My response to this debut has always been more polite than enthusiastic, though. I can't help sensing the whole thing as way too derivative. A lot of style, but not much substance. To me, the Beatles, Love, Yardbirds, The Zombies, The Pretty Things, Billy Nicholls, The Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators or *Fifth Dimension*-era Byrds are the real deal when it comes to the psych-rock and psych-pop of those years. Os Mutantes are just a trendy, secondary offshoot. Many times, those songs do not sound or feel like a real psychedelic LP, but rather like a made-up version of that style that advertisers of those days could have used for campaigns promoting an airline company or some alcoholic beverage. Too bad there's never been a *Mad Men* episode where Don Draper and Peggy Olsen go to Brazil. You can bet your flip-flops Os Mutantes would have been included to its soundtrack. 2/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 7 for more general purposes (5 + 2) Number of albums left to review: 64 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 405 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 232 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 300 (including this one -- will select Chico Buarque's *Construaço" instead, just to keep a close number of Brazilian albums...)
Pink Floyd in a different language lol.
Not sure about this, Minha song is a classic though
4/5 Weird, old, psychedelic, foreign music. It slaps. The back stretch is so strong. Even the weaker moments are just striking and confusing and definitely not boring. And the stronger moments are so intriguing and full of life. Panis Et Circenses 3.5/5 A Minha Menina 4/5 O Relógio 3.5/5 Adeus Maria Fulô 2.5/5 Baby 3.5/5 Senhor F 3.5/5 Bat Macumba 2/5 (LEAST FAV) Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour 5/5 Trem Fantasma 5/5 (FAV) Tempo No Tempo 4.5/5 Ave Gengis Khan 4.5/5
This fell a bit short for me.
Listened Before? N Trippy and foreign. Super interesting fusion here. I don't really like that I can't understand them but there's a certain novelty to hearing the typical 60's Britpop sounds in Portuguese. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist; A Minha Menina
Ох, это был мощный психодел. Мне очень сложно ставить "такому" оценку. Очень необычно, я к такому не привык. Baby, Bat Macumba неплохи. \Вообще я в шоке, конечно, от сочетания церковного хора, танцевальных мотивов и психодела. Они таки умудрились все это втиснуть в один альбом.
I'm always happy to get an album from somewhere other than the US and UK. I see that Caetano Veloso wrote some of these songs, and I know that name because I got an album from him not too long ago. I also recognized the song "A Minha Menina" as it's on Sunshine Hit Me by The Bees, another album from this list. It's really cool being able to recognize things like that now that I'm almost 800 albums deep! Liked but didn't love this music.
Uneven, but some good stuff. I like "Le premier bonheur du jour," not just because it's actually in a language I can understand, but for the almost Renaissance harmonies and melodies of it. "Tempo no Tempo" has a fun patter-song quality to it, too. Maybe I just like their covers?
Alrighty another artist I've never heard! This was a wacky, experimental, psychedelic album. Lots of strange sounds, "found object" type stuff. Felt very 1968 for sure, with a Brazilian flare. Gave me Silver Apples vibes, a little Yellow Submarine. Loved the Mamas and Papas cover. Not for everyone, but I would listen again. 3.3/5
Favorites were Tempo no Tempo and Bat Macumba. Probably won’t listen again, but def interesting this is so popular in Brazil.
Feels like it was made by the ghost of a monkey
Viva o brasil
Good music from front to back. Every song is different and they're all great
This rules.
I had hopes for this when reading about it, and some of it was kinda cute and quirky, but no need to listen to again. 2.5 rounded up to 3 for a cover of “Baby” a fave track of mine from Bebel Gilberto.
Meh
Heel vaag maar wel geinig
Climbing the mountain I learned I had wings.
I enjoyed it a lot. Didn't outstay it's welcome and contained some very delicious noises.
Goofy, psychedelic, Brazilian 60’s rock. Interesting and kinda fun.
This was pretty interesting. Never heard of the tropicalia movement before, and I'm not really sure if I would say I'm a fan, but it made for an intriguing listen for sure. I probably wouldn't play this again often, but I would be curious to try it at least once more in the near future.
Just ok. Listened to this already for another list. 2.5/5
Interesting!
I would like to take a moment to thank the creators of the 1001 Albums book and this project. This is a band that I never would have heard of. This music was very interesting and experimental. It had, at times, what I thought were really strokes of genius and novelty and not something I would have ever learned about if not for this project.
A surprisingly fun and experimental rock album. There are many songs that are fun to listen to once, but because of some of the experimental choices, I'm not sure they would be great for repeated listening, for me at least. Nonetheless, a super interesting album with some great songs on it.
On hearing the first few seconds, I thought I was going to hate this, but it wasn't too bad. I liked many of the songs individually but, as an album, it doesn't really hang together, the changes in style from track to track and sometimes within the same track can become quite jarring. A Minha Menina is a good song as are Bat Macumba and Ave Gengis Khan, but overall, the album is weaker than the sum of its parts.
Brazilian psychedelia from the 60s, pretty unique but not something I can imagine listening to of my own accord
Probably one of the worst albums I've gotten here.
Yes, all the best songs here are covers, yes, they're all written by Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor and Gilberto Gil. But who cares when they are this good? I had The Bees a few weeks back with their inferior version of A Minha Menina, this 'original' is simply streets ahead. I love Astrid Gilberto's version of Baby but this is almost as good in all it's wonky glory. I am pretty sure they also recorded a different, gentler, version with Rita Lee on the vocal, which I prefer (yes they did, in English - in 1971 - not sure I prefer it now but it's still nice). Panis Et Circenses (Bread and Circuses - check the cutting lyrics in English, great) is gloriously mental. Happy to have discovered this in the 90s and now I can look back and recognise that the other weird shit I was listening to at the time like Gorkys Zygotic Mynci was basically Os Mutantes in Welsh. I don't love everything here, sometimes it's a bit TOO psych, at the expense of, you know, a tune, but it's a fundamentally good time all the same. Great timing as well. I went to see Marcos Valle live last night. He's 80, and he was fucking brilliant. I love it when this app throws out a serendipity album.
Strange but very musical and unique. I'm not sure I have heard anything like this before...and I like that.
Fine but not my choice to be in a rotation for me.
I can't even muster a review
Love the album cover, I wonder if this was an inspiration for Big Suit David Byrne / Kermit. Totally within the bounds of late 60's psychedelia with the Brazilian twist. Almost hard to remember that they're singing in a different language sometimes. A unique blend of genres done well.
A little rough around the edges but really fun. Could totally see myself throwing this on again for some good vibes.
This one was weird in a mostly good way.
-I LOVE THIS SM! Tropicalia is a very interesting genre. this album specifically kind of reminds me of Thievery Corporation in a lot of songs. The crazy instrumentation is my favorite part -Favorites are A Minha Menina, Adeus Maria Fulô, Bat Macumba, and Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
Surprisingly loved this. It really grew on me as it went on.
Esta es la sicodelia que me gusta
Bloody good album by all accounts
Surprisingly really cool! Guitar work is awesome.
This is one of the more surprisingly fun international albums on the list. It's funky. And groovy. And trippy. And it grows on you the more you listen to it. So many influences from the 60s all blended together with some very unique production sounds. I just wish I knew the language so I could croon along in Portuguese!
kinda cool, definitely interesting
What a pleasant surprise
Noch nicht gehört
Awesome. Sounds great. Spacey and fun. I would totally put this on in the background for a barbecue. Feels like the beatles in spirit and quality but foreign. Im suprised I havent heard this group before.
Started listening as I drink my morning caffeine fix. Is that a tambourine in the opening song? Do I hate that part? Maybe yes. I vaguely recall some pundits during the Bush or Trump years wishing for "great protest music" as an upside lol. What "great protest music" has America created in the past 8 years or even in the last 20? The Tropicalia movement emerges in response to a pro-democracy removal of Brazil's president...and this band gets involved. Who backed this pro-democracy removal and the following decades of prosperity? You are welcome Brazil.
This was an interesting album; this is real psychedelic rock instead of something inspired by it. It’s cool that it’s in Portuguese, and you can hear some of the more Brazilian string and percussion instruments in the interludes between tracks and in the sound tricks that are played in production. This must’ve sounded insane at the time. My father in law has a great collection of Brazilian music including plenty from this time, and it doesn’t sound like anything else. I don’t know the exact timelines but it reminds me of the Beatles more out there stuff, just more raw and excited. The last track is the most “traditional” sounding one and even then it’s still very much their own sound. Anyway I liked it; not sure I would play it again but it was fun to listen to and was for sure groundbreaking in South America if not elsewhere.
Professor Snape in the background is giving me the heebie-jeebies. These are weird songs. I never listened to any psychedelic rock let alone in Portuguese. It kept my interest enough to have me finish the album, but I will 100% never listen to this again unless I direct the Brazilian adaptation of Midsommer. That said it's not bad.
Very cheerful. Clearly made in a simpler more carefree time.
Weird little album that I’m glad was on here. Very creepy but also psychedelic. A strange brew.
Very cool album! The kind of variety to '60s psych rock that we need, something in a different language. "Bat Macumba" is such a banger, I've heard the chorus part a million times based on it being in Nacho Libre, but good lord that guitar piece is insane, the effects are otherwordly. Really enjoyed this one! Favorite tracks: Bat Macumba, Panis et circenses, Adeus Maria Fulo, Trem Fantasma. Album art: A couple of spooky folks in a green room. Very strong design here, love the Halloween font style as well. Makes me think of that show Los Espookys. 4/5
Interesting album. I kind of liked the weird, 60s psychedelia of this one—even though it was all in Portuguese. There’s some nice songs here. ***
Not my bag baby.
fun and weird!
I think that this album is criminally overlooked. We would do well to get outside of our Anglo-American concentration and see how what we are familiar with influences and has been influenced by what we are not familiar with.
Only a recent discovery for me. I got into them after reading their praises sung in the Beastie Boys Book. I had no doubt heard and came across their songs before during the lounge music revival of the 90s - I did latch onto Esquivel & Gilberto Gil during that time. OS Mutantes elevates that sound with a healthy dose of psychedelic garage rock that no doubt inspired a bunch of other bands
On the first listen I had a great time. I was thinking 'now this is my kind of messy.' It's fun, it's all over the place in a good way, and I just like it. On the second listen I could focus on the technical ability and the fusion inspirations the artists took from. Love it.
Not my jam
I’ve never heard of this artist before, but based on the description of the album, this is exactly the reason that I signed up for this project. I’m excited to give this a listen. Heading into this project, I thought I liked 60’s psychedelic music, but that hasn’t really been the case as much as I go through a lot of these albums. This album, however, was right up my alley. It’s different without being really weird and unique while still feeling really accessible (other than the fact I don’t speak Portuguese, but thank thankfully Chat GPT could give me some insight to the lyrical content of the songs). Musically, this album is incredibly diverse, but still feels cohesive, a feat that I feel can be difficult to achieve. The fuzzy guitar tones and distortion sound really great in combination with the rhythms and percussion (I assume that’s where a lot of the Brazilian influences in this album lie). Reading up on this album, I see that a lot of the lyrical content is protesting dictatorial military rule in Brazil at the time, which I can always get behind (by the way, super fun to raise two young kids in America right now, especially with a presidential candidate getting shot at over the weekend). Back to the musical content though: I’ve heard The Bees’ version of “A Minha Menina” when I reviewed their album, but this version was far better. I loved the playful tone, upbeat tempo, and dance worthy percussion. One thing that I think this album did really well, is that the song structures are really unique. “O Relógio” was a prime example of this. I liked how the song started off with a dreamy tone, before shifting to more traditional psychedelic sounds, and then shifting back to the dreamy tone to close. I really enjoyed “Ave Genghis Khan” as well. The piano riff was fantastic, and the jazzy percussion combined with the electronic elements gave it a really fun sound. This was a really great album and it was a really awesome experience to listen something so different. This isn’t necessarily the type of album that I’d gravitate towards, but I can understand and appreciate why it was on this list.
Fun album to listen too, definitely can tell it’s an album of the late 60’s. Enjoyed the foreign language vocals.
This is somehow both familiar and completely alien. I wouldn't say I loved it but I certainly didn't hate it either. 25 albums into this project and this is the kind of thing I was hoping to get. While not something I would seek out again this is definitely an album I wouldn't have found on my own so I'm happy to have been exposed to it.
Interesting enough so it was worth the listen. But nothing really to keep me listending (not understanding Portuguese didnt help!)
Here and then some nice guitar-hints like on "A Minha Menina", "Baby". Nice change from the other albums but not really my jam and over all it sounds a bit too aged for me. favourite: "Ave Gengis Khan"
Ja. In Ordnung.
What a fun album. Trippy vibes of the hippie 60's era with an eclectic mix of Latin America, which made for a very unique sound. I really enjoyed it
Extremely fun and cultural album. Great drums, bass, guitars and vocals. A lot of material from here that I’ve heard sampled from some of my favorite hip hop artists. Psychedelic and funky.
funky but a lil too much
Album 460 of 1001 Os Mutantes = Os Mutantes Rating : 2 / 5 I can appreciate their creativity and the experimental edge they were going for, but this one just didn’t connect with me. Some interesting moments here and there, but overall not really my style.
Very unique sound (Brazilian Psych) - a little chaotic at times, but largely enjoyable!
But weird
Brilliant, bonkers, ideas overspilling everywhere, great tunes, weird noises, and uplifting joy.
Psychedelic rock is not my thing, I think not understanding the words might be helping though. This is like a cross between psychedelic rock and pop...this is like something that would be on at a hipster taqueria where the bartender has a unique and well maintained mustache. I could do without the "found sound" in every song. It must have been tiresome for these bands to try and outweird each other for a decade. The slide whistle across these songs feels like they had to find an instrument for one of the singers to play so they were involved in all the songs. The switching between genres in the same song is unpleasant. All the distortion is too much. This is like a collection of sounds being played over Brazilian covers of '60s American pop. This music is exhausting to listen to. Hail Ghengis Khan is the final song....I get this probably has something to do with the social criticism of the Brazilian government at the time but what a stupid title. Astrud Gilberto + The Mamas and the Papas + Dick Dale + Random Sounds + Jefferson Airplane = Os Mutantes...what a terrible mish mash of noise.
Baby Senhor F Tempo no tempo Ils sont chelou ces brésiliens. Sympa, giga chelou
Weird and fun
pretty cool shit. would have never know this was from the 60s.
When I moved to Chicago the MCA had an exhibit on Tropicalia and these bright moons are the thing that's always stuck in my head from it.
Super fuckin cool.
Off kilter pop, I guess
Brazilian Beatles
I wanna learn Portuguese now.
Mutantatious. Prog-psychedelic-Brazilian. I felt liberating joy and latent political discord. 'Enter The Void' bounding sonic transcendent mobility. Tão legal.
While I can appreciate what this is. It is not for me and didn’t strike me in any particular way.
damn this is a fine discovery. Late sixties beat/psychedelia is not my comfort zone but this is a damn fine first date and thus four stars. Need to go and relisten definitely to see if it joins Iggy and a few others as albums I have bought after hearing them on this list.
Albums like this test me like never before.
Quite liked it. Very varied, so the weirder moment never lingered.
Never reaching for this on my own but it had some yams
This was a fever dream LOL. I enjoyed some of the songs and sometimes their voices. I definitely liked "Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour" and there were a couple of others, but then some of them were just chaos.
weirdly this band keeps coming up for me? the word on everybody's lips is os mutantes? anyway it was enjoyable and i'll probably return to it for background listening at some point
2.5 - there are a lot of "freaky weirdo" qualities here that I should like but some of the actual sound and instrumentation put my teeth on edge
Not what I like, even remotely.
As the top review put it: "This is the kind of weird shit I signed up for"
To strange for me, but the musicianship is to good to warrant only one star.
ég hafði af þessu nokkuð gaman. önnur umferð! 3,5
Horrif
Überraschende zappaeske Momente.
Erweckt in mir eine verschobene Art der Nostalgie.1969. KLingt zum Teil aber auch sehr nett.
Some cool instrument choices, and a psychedelic sound that goes beyond the usual mountains of reverb and legato delivery. Wish I could understand the lyrics!
tudo não bem
A lot of this sounded the same but he has a very soothing voice.
Oh, you’re a trippy bunch. Not my thing, but cool.
Really neat. Reminded me of Crack-Up in terms of how wild the form got at times. Won’t be regular listening but was a highlight of the non-US albums.
Pop-rock experimental psicodélico en portugués. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
- psychedelic era album, brazilian band - big fan of the atmospheric experimental feel and differences that happen in tempo - one of the songs is in french which was a surprise when I could suddenly understand what they were singing - i quite enjoy the choral feeling of chunks of this - CLARINET in tempo no tempo!! clocks also!! - really quite entertaining to realize how much i don’t know. and how much the “beatles sound” is just the sound of the era. embarrassing for me! - i’m not sure where to rate this one - I don’t listen to 60s music a ton, but this album is really sonically interesting to me. going to go with 4/5, adding to library to expand the music i have in my library in other languages
Probably better listening to this when in the mood.
I liked this album way more than I thought I would. It probably helps that I have no idea what they were saying.
The line separating playful from shambolic is awfully vague, isn’t it?
Not really sure what it was, but had some catchy stuff, some head scratching stuff. Was interesting reading about the other artists who claimed they were influenced by the group.
Very psychedelic, very tropical, but not really my thing.
Enjoyably bonkers, & A Minha Meina is a top tune
You have to be drunk to like it because I have a feeling it's mangled English (yes, I know it's Brazilian). Didn't make it to 5 so 3/5
Brazil Mentioned! Brazil Mentioned! So good to hear something from my motherland. And what an album! Revolutionary and psychedelic. It represents some of the best Brazilian music has to offer. VIVA RITA LEE!!
Heck yeah. 60's psychedelia from Brazil that's as weird as can be. Take all my stars.
This was interesting I guess. Brazillian psychadelia rock fusion. I didn't love it.
Semi-psychadelic french pop/rock, the sort of stuff you get on the soundtrack of mid-sixties french cinema. Of no musical interest to me at all.
Weird (or as another reviewer called it "Batshit Crazy") and (mostly) wonderful. And fun. Really liked this. This album and others from this band added to favorites for later listening.
I’m sure there are plenty of listeners out there who’d appreciate this group’s experimental sounds. I’m not one of them.
Things started off strong for me with the psychedelic fuzz guitar of A Minha Menina. And the first couple of songs kept the vibe going, but things went downhill for me the rest of the way. The mashup of genres was a bit too much, making the listen disjointed.
It took me about 3 songs to realize this was in portuguese and not spanish. A little to psych for me
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!
Enjoyed this psychedelic way to start the day.
This is some excellent South American, 60’s, psychedelic music! A really cool album diverse and complete, I didn’t always vibe with every song, but when they were good, they were GOOD. The language barrier didn’t matter as the instrumental and atmosphere were very strong. A clear 5
Everyone that grew up in Brazil in the 80s-90s knows at least 4 songs from this album
This would probably would have been way better with a couple of ginormous spliffs
Couldn’t finish this album.
Not my jam.
That is what psychedelia should be: weird and musical.
Not sure what I was in for, but this was actually quite OK. I did know the second song.
Brazilian mix of the Mamas and the Papas, Beatles, Kinks. Psychadelic, late 60s sounds, backmasking, false endings, etc. I kind of liked it. Low 4/5. I will listen again.
Finally. Something that gets us to travel outside of the anglo-dominant music world! This is delightfully weird, all over the place, exploded and inventive. It just packs a lot in its 37 minutes, so much so that to fully digest it one day is not enough. The voices, the guitars, all go to some pretty strange places that I know nothing about. It travels in time and space, dreams of freedom and tenderness and fury. It welcomes and celebrates life at every turn, inviting nature as part of its choir of voices. I will have to come back here. This is the kind of record I am grateful for - something I have been hearing about for a long time without getting around to actually listen, and that pushes me out of my comfort zone.
The gems I'm looking for from this list
Rock psicodélico brasilero! Me gustó la verdad...
Ephemeral, weird but overall deeply interesting and enjoyable
This did not do it for me I’m afraid. A bit bonkers
Wow! Never heard this album, nor this artist or any of their music. Incredible that this came out when it did, instantly added to my library.
Good of course. Like no other music.
Kinda fun, but not for me.
Cant play this album without thinking about Cincinnati in 2006. First Internship with My uncle Mark and grandfather. Living on liberty hill for the summer with Drew David and John. Definitely one of the most fun summers of my life.
Not for me
I especially like Tempo no Tempo
A revelation. I am a convert. Os Mutantes pra vida.
Holy shit this is awesome!!! It sounds like I’ve always imagined cocaine feels.
1. paniz - 0 2. menina - 1 3. relogio - 1 4. adeuz - 1.5 5. baby - 1 6. zenhor - 0 7. macumba - 0 8. premier - 1.5 9. fantazma - 0 10. tempo - 0 11. khan - 0
have listened to this album so many times
Not something I'll probably put on again, but this is the kind of album that makes this project dun.
What the hell did I just listen to! Nobody could say that was boring that’s for sure. I don’t know that I would seek it out again. And this list has entirely too much psychedelic music. But that was certainly worth listening to
Such a strange album. Never would have imagined such a blend of psychadelic and latin. 2/5
A non English album! Make a wish!
This was chaotic and weird at times, which seems to be a theme of that era. While I appreciate it, I won’t listen again. Not for me.
Definitely wasn't a favorite.
Ain't it chief 2/5
This is cool and I'd never heard anything about it before. The Brazilian missing link between Sgt. Pepper and the Velvet Underground & Nico, and I wish I enjoyed it at an immediate level a bit more. If I were more fun I think it'd be a favourite. music: appreciated. (⌐■_■)
Future editions should cut every English and American psychedelic album from 1966-1970 and replace it with a repeat of this. It was a really weird experience to look at the cover of this and think “Oh God, more of this,” and then actually listen to it. It has a lot of the musical trappings that make the last five hundred sixties psych album on this list sound similar, but it also sounded creative and fresh and worthwhile and interesting. I can’t believe how sick this was! I can’t believe I had to listen to an entire record by the Zombies to get here!
This sounds oddly familiar, kind of like the Turtles, but Brazilian. It was interesting, not bad, but psychedelic rock just isn’t my bag, man. Can you dig it?
Það er alltaf gaman að heyra eitthvað framandi og ferskt og þetta var það svo sannarlega fyrir mig þótt þetta sé alveg hundgamalt efni. Það leiðinlega er bara að mér þótti þetta ekkert spes og ég mun líklegast aldrei setja þetta aftur á fóninn. Ég var samt vongóður þegar ég sá að þeir hituðu einu sinni upp fyrir Gilberto Gil en samt, ekki nógu gott fyrir mig.
Profoundly weird, but also kind of fun. Wears its influences on its sleeve
Trippy in the best ways. Somewhat sad to find out that one of The Bees songs I fell in love with early on in this project is a cover, but happy to have now heard the original (A Minha Menina). I do wish I could understand the lyrics but thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless.
Actually really like the unintelligible words and sounds
Pretty good, as far as I can tell
It sits between too silly and damn good.
Your favorite has been rendered irrelevant within the first 5 minutes of this album, and your girlfriend got salmonella, now DANCE! bitch...
This is the shit that should be more prevalent on the list. I'd never heard of them before and it was a great mixture of Brazilian music with 60s psychedelic. More of this please.
This was a fun album, strange but fun.
Olé! Very 60s. Fun.
This album was fun right from the first few notes. Instantly upbeat. I liked it. 3.5 stars.
Supergenial! Und das zu der Zeit!!!!
It was very different.
Lateinamerikanische Pop Märchenmusik der 68er Generation
Definitely interesting but I don't love it as much as I want to
brazilian psychedelic rock
Wtf is this lol
....weird
Instantly likeable!
Loved it
Not worth it
Not my thing
favourite song: bat macumba
I didn't really know what to expect, but this was rather enjoyable. It really does seem that 60s psychedelic rock is entirely my jam.
Really enjoyed the album despite only understanding a few words. The sound varied and was very upbeat.
While I only knew a couple words, it was upbeat and happy. You wanted to go to a beach and sing (especially Jimmy Buffet)
I'm not quite sure what I just listened to. Didn't understand a lick of it since I don't speak a word of Portuguese, however it was pretty fun and enjoyable. I'm not really sure if I would like it more or less if I could understand what they were saying. I did like the mashup feel to it, made it interesting and gave it nice variety. The cover was super wonky, the guy in the back looks really stupid ngl, while the guy in the front looks totally stoned, which is kinda amusing. This whole album was kinda amusing, much better than Cohen.
I have no idea what they are saying with the lyrics, but the music is.....interesting?? some is just flat out strange (what instrument are they even playing here?), some is nice...... it is definitely unique. solid 2.5
not really into psychadelic music but this was fine
Had wel iets maar weet niet wat
I heard about this album in high school when I was obsessed with a lot of the Elephant 6 bands (for many of whom this is a direct inspiration). I mean, it's an absolutely classic psychedelic rock album in my book, more joyful than The Doors and more obtuse than Sgt. Pepper's. It's a 5 for me even though I rarely listen to it any more, listening to it again today was a joy. Probably aught to listen to it more.
I have no idea what they’re saying, and it’s all very weird. But I’m not entirely opposed to it.
peak 60s psychedelia
How bad does an album have to be before it’s good? Who gave them the keys to the sound affect cupboard? Was that a kazoo solo? Have a band ever formed because of their musical differences? Is it any wonder Brazil has a drug problem? I’m really not sure what the hell I’ve just listened to, but I couldn’t bring myself to skip any of it, I was completely transfixed. So it can’t be a 1 rated album if it’s generated this level of wonder.
Now this is a very interesting album! After one listen, there is so much going on, it's too much to take in straight away. That normally is a good thing, and in this case I think it is. It will hopefully get another listen soon as there was a few promising tracks - the second ans the last especially. It gets a mid 3 at the moment.
3.5
Definitely weird music from the 60s. Trippy, not unenjoyable but definitely a weird pick that again I wouldn't have put on a top albums ever list. I appreciate the creativity but at this point, the list makers are sus.
Truly never heard of this artist. right off the bat, this shit is as psychedelic as it gets. wow. Just reading they are Brazilian which makes sense for the many instrumentation happening. Very interesting music. Gives me a Sgt Pepper's vibe with a The Birds mixed in.
Groovy and fun. The breakdown on the first track surprised me and sounded super modern for an album from 1968.
I have a feeling this one would have been a 5 for me if I would have had any idea what they were saying. I really enjoyed it.
This is why I’m back here doing 1001. It’s albums like these. What a unique piece of music. I immediately fell for this band and wanted so much more. Great soundtrack to a sunny day in and around my apartment. I listened to some later Mutantes cuts as well, which I’m glad I did because they were just as wonderful but a lot more polished. If I have one complaint about this album is it is a bit harsh in close, headphone listening. But that is also it’s charm. Love this.
what the hell is this!! Okay, truly, I needed a few days’ separation from this record and a little bit of *physical* separation from my speakers this Sunday. Whoever mixed these tambourine overdubs, let’s just say, we are not listening on identical systems, lol. And I think my winter cold had properly stuffed my ears, to the point that this was just a bit annoying to listen to head-on, sonically. But… it really sounds like NOTHING I’ve ever heard. It sounds like a strange lovechild between the arrangements of Pet Sounds and the real strangeness of a genre I have discovered since 10001 I call Brazil Weird. The cover looks like some campy TV show, and honestly, that image stuck with me…. Strange, whimsical, campy. These musicians are having way more fun than you or I have on a given day. Kind of brightened my day… as long as I was sufficiently outside the splash zone of those tambourines! This one could use a remaster. 4/5 for pure wiz-kid zaniness, creative risks, and fun.
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A mina menina top, ma sono sicuro di averla già ascoltata
This works not for me - not at all
ahead of its time is the first thought i can give this album. seriously, with some of the processed effects i'm hearing... this was the 1960s! it's very surprising. an interesting amalgamation of tropical and surreal, blending all sorts of genre influences from north america, south america and europe. brilliantly odd. a treat of an album.
Psychedelia in Portugese.
Du psychédélique brésilien! Belle découverte et je savais pas que c'était dans le top 40 stoner albums(!).
This is a great example of why I’m doing this. I’d heard of Os Mutantes, and maybe heard a track or two, but didn’t know anything about them. So glad this popped up. I really loved this album. I love that you didn’t really know what sound would pop up next, but it was always fun. I will be definitely be listening again!
I was interested from the description, but this ended up just being a lot of chirpy nonsense
Wth
Perhaps it demonstrates my sheltered music experiences living in the UK, but I’ve been surprised by the amount of Brazilian music that has shown up on this list. The vast majority has been really enjoyable, so I’m glad that there has been some. It’s always good to expand the palette! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: A Minha Menina, Bat Macumba I love how this album spans so many genres. There are parts that sound comparable to surf rock crossed with the B-52s, and other parts that are really quite trippy and psychedelic. The whole album made for a really fun experience. As usual, I didn’t understand what the music was about, but from an entirely auditory point of view this was very nice. Definitely recommend a listen!
Nice listen
Os Mutantes are a brilliant psychedelic band from Brazil. Their self-titled album is a collection of fun, experimental songs that garnered world-wide attention. They embraced elements of American and British psychedelia - distortion, feedback, and a range of instruments and styles. The result is very entertaining, and a great example of the experimental music that arose our of sixties psychedelia.
Me: Can we have The Beatles? Mom: No, we have The Beatles at home. The Beatles at home:
• Det är något lite fängslande med omslaget. Ser ut som att han i bakgrunden cosplayar Oswald of Carim • Mycket konstiga ljud • Generellt kul att höra nått som inte är på engelska, även om det kan vara lite avtändande • Musikmässigt inte helt dåligt • 39e plats på ”Top 40 Stoner albums” • Tycker jag hör folk röra runt i tekoppar hela tiden • Man hör lite Beatles och Beach Boys, men de överröstas av det traditionella brasilianska delarna Betyg: Det finns bra saker här, intressant att höra nån enstaka låt, men ett helt album kanske är lite för mycket => 1/5
This is really fucking awesome. I was admittedly not excited about listening to an album in another language, but the jams are so tasty. Notable tracks include A Minha Menina, bat macumba, Adeus Maria fulo, and senhor F.
An interesting mix of sounds although old fashioned
If I were rating album covers alone I would give this five stars. There is so much to love here. Obviously if I start talking about the album art right away, it's very likely that I do not know much about the band. That is the case here. I can see this came out in 1968 so I'm expecting some psych weirdness but I have no idea what is in store for me. I gave this record a few spins. It's under 40 mins and, for the most part, easy on the ears. Definite tinges of psych across folk, rock and other genres. Multiple vocalists singing in English, Portuguese and maybe even some Spanish too? I'm no polyglot so I can't be sure. The music is wacky and broadly appealing if a little bit too much like a drunken circus party at times for my own tastes. Os Mutantes can easily sit next to Frank Zappa from similar times for better or worse.
Interesting sounds. Some dynamic, inventive tunes given the era it was produced. I just wish I knew what they were singng about.
Oh boy, back to the rainforest with you and take your flutey things with you and be gone.
Never heard of this group or this album. This is what this list is all about for me.
bit weird but enjoyable
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An interesting album, that was completely unhelped by poor audio quality. Low fidelity, when not by design, never sounds good, masking the nuances that would make some songs extremely interesting. Low-fi when used in modern music plays on that and uses it to it's advantage by making song structures purposefully non-complex, which was not the case here. It was hard to get past that. Not really much worth keeping, but I can appreciate that at the time this must have been mind-blowing to hear. 2.5*
Awesome
In some respects, this is like the Byrd’s album we just listened to…. Not my cup of tea necessarily, but the music was significantly better in my opinion. Certainly understandable why this was considered an all-time class stoner album! Would’ve thought a little bit more highly of it had they not used some odd flares in their music, like the whistle that, for me, simply served as a distraction from the song. But all in all, good music.
So – this was interesting – and NOT in a good way… Again – not sure why this was on the 1,001 list, but c’est la vie… I do love me some Brazilian Jazz – so think Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carols Jobim, Gilberto Gil, and Bebel Gilberto – but this was NOT that… Appears to be an experimental album, combining psychedelia with Brazilian music – so other than trying that combination of sounds, there isn’t much here to like – and the recording quality was not the best either – but then again, it was 1968… There are 2 covers on this album as far as I can tell – “Baby” - which was written by Caetano Veloso (i.e. actually think Bebel Gilberto’s version is the definitive version of this song…), and “Tempo No Tempo” – as Mamas & Papas cover, and both are just a mess – as is most of the album… There were only 3 songs that were worth listening to – “A Minah Menina” – which as some really cool, and edgy guitar work for its time in it… “Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour” – which was more along the traditional French/Brazilian line – with hints of British influence… “Ave Gengis Khan” – the albums closer – which is by far the best track on the album, as the piano and drum work on it is really well-done for the period… And again, some pretty solid guitar work for the period on this one as well… The ending is sorta reminiscent of the end of the Yes classic – “Yours Is No Disgrace” – just not nearly as cool, or as well done… Would have gotten a better rating if more of the experimentation was more of this ilk… Maybe a 1.25 based on the decency of those 3 songs and my mood, but definitely a 1 star for me…
the beach boys brasileros
Interesante, nunca había escuchado bandas de rock psicodélicas en portugués
Sixties silliness
It’s fine I guess
3.75
It's not for me
Brazilian clown music. Like a mix of the Beach Boys and Syd-era Pink Floyd. One of the more interesting 60s psychedelic albums I've heard, mostly because this one actually made me feel like I ingested something illegal. Also one of those albums that gain from the mixing sounding like it was done through transmissions to the ISS. The contrast between the standard 60s vocals and the guitars that are so distorted that they sound like a table saw is very unique and cool. I like it.
This shit wasn't even in English
I had heard "Bread and Circuses" before and I did kind of like it. Kinda Beach Boys-y harmonies but also kinda discordant? There is a lot of interesting music on here. Each song feels like it has its own vibe, but somehow still cohesive mostly. Maybe because my brain still hears it all as "'60s". Yeah, I dig this.
Clearly influential.
Melodic and weird. So many layers of sound. Experimental at its best. Still, I would put this on repeat.
Not my thing
This was fun!
Well that was a trip that I didn’t hate. You can hear influences of Brit pop, rockabilly, and swing bands all mixed a Latin twist. On an unrelated note there is a “slurping” noise throughout that sounds exactly like my 2 yr old asking for a drink and it triggered a Pavlovian response from me to constantly reach for my water bottle. Do with that info what you will.
Treads the line between good weird and too weird
well, that was a thing.
Eclectic and trippy and more than a little self-indulgent and silly. Very much of its time, but fun in its way. One thing listening to an album like this does is reveal just how audacious a lot of music at that time was, regardless of where it was made. I appreciate this album for all those things, but I'm unlikely to listen to it all the way through again. Fave Songs: Baby; Le premier bonheur du jour; Tempo no Tempo; Adeus, Maria Fulô; Ave Gengis Khan; Bat Macumba
Super psychedelic vibe from the jump. Actually, really enjoyed the album
Fun fun fun
Fun stuff. A bit too out there at times but i enjoyed it overall
A pretty good album, certainly for it's time. A number of tracks stood out. Some were unexciting. All in all I'd give this a 2.7 rounded. 3/5.
brazil reference
Fantastic
fine, a little avant garde for me
Day35 - fun weird album
La música portuguesa no está dentro de mis preferencias.
4/10 - 2/5 I like how experimental they are, especially for the 60s. I just don't like how it sounds. Abrasive and annoying at times. Real clown vibe. I didn't get used to the sound until the 7th song. Fun elements of percussion and more jungle sounding Brazilian elements, with some really very loud guitar noodling on top. Not particularly my jam.
Hard to listen, mercifully short.
Interesting album. Glad I gave it two listens, but don't think I'll be returning to it. The music wasn't something I got into. 2/5, mainly because I wasn't moved by it.
Interesting, unique, and memorable. Could we get some more albums like this instead of the cavalcade of middle of the road British new wave records we're currently stuck with?
Ufffff una joya escondida!!!!
An interesting album for sure, not quite my vibe Top tracks: Bat Macumba, Ave Gengis Khan
odd mix of a lot of 60s trends, kind of wandered through the early Beatles up to a few sort of Mama and Papa harmonies and then some wanky Doors keyboards and I never did figure out the language of most of the lyrics. I got the French and a few English lines, but is this Portuguese? Don't know; don't care; still a fun, if weird--dare I say mutant?--listen.
Varsin outo kokemus eikä todella tehnyt mieli pyöräyttää uudelleen läpi.
Meh
Easy listening.
It's a weird mix of Brazilian folklore, acid pop and musique concrète, but I love it! Sure going for Os Mutantes' later albums
the Beatles if they were Brazilian. Disfrutable, me gustó.
Wild, inventive and bonkers. A mish-mash of styles and influences thrown together, put into a blender then spread out to dry for your listening pleasure. Fantastic!
It had some cool sounds on it. If it was in English I probably would’ve liked it more.
It’s nice to hear music that isn’t in English. I appreciated the sound of the album and there were a few songs that I enjoyed.
This is the type of album you do this thing for
I liked it
Not a fan
Interesting and fun album to listen to Standout songs: A Minha Menina Bat Macumba Ave Ghengis Khan
I've come across this album before in other charts and of course "A Minha Menina" is a classic in any genre. Generally I've always liked any music from Brazil (from Astrud, through Mutantes even to Sepultura) and this album has a real ambience to it.
I wish I liked this more, you had me at Psychadelic rock from Brazil but lost me. Still glad to have heard this though!
Well, that was a trip. Os Mutantes is definitely the “retro kitsch” kind of music that would have played at east village clubs and bars back when that was my scene in the 80s. Unless you are experiencing it with the aid of some kind of mind altering substance, it’s really not the kind of music to just sit and listen to. Some good vocals, instrumentation and a serious nod to Brazilian tropicalia. I give it a solid 3 stars for its creativity and effort.
3/5. Very psychedelic but oddly entertaining. The instrumentation is fun and has Latin and salsa influences despite taking heavily from Psychedelia. I don't quite understand the lyrics, because I don't speak Spanish, and the skill isn't all there, but it fits the music very well, leading me along a guided head trip. This was an enjoyable listen and I might play it again to freak my friends out lol