Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Rather too off center for me, but not enough to annoy; instead, I took pleasure on stumbling upon this eccentric (Brazilians might disagree) and enchanting album. It's because of albums like this that I'm still here, despite all those daily doses of mediocrity that this list has imposed on me. And I even recognised a couple of the songs! (As well as the heavy Sergeant Pepper aroma)
Interesting album
Wish I liked this more, the thing they’re up to seems interesting
Radge. Probably won't ever listen again but good fun
Verrassend, iets Spaanstaligs dat klinkt als The Beatles.
The Brazilian Beatles. I'd heard a few tracks before but not the whole album. It's properly psychedelic in a way not much English language rock is
Some kooky Brazilian psychedelia here. Wow
Never listened to them before. This is really weird and fun. I dig it! No idea what's going on half the time but in an entertaining way.
This has one of those great songs that I've heard before, but never knew the name of, and that was very satisfying. And while a lot of this is lacking enough structure to make it a really enjoyable listen, there's some stuff here that I really dug, and it being so ahead of it's time jumps it to a 7/10 for me, which in my system translates to 3 stars
I don't know what's going on here. Every time I think that it's complete trash, they go off and do something just a little bit different and I'm back into it. Every time I'm back into it, they change again and it's back to being trash. Ave Gengis Khan itself does this about 6 different times. At the end of it all, I feel thrashed and tired.
Weird
2.8 - solid rhythms and baselines, but the psychedelia combined with the Portuguese lyrics was still a little out there.
Derrière Os Mutantes se cache une histoire assez extraordinaire. À chaque fois que Jim Morrison se rendait au Brésil, il avait pour habitude de s'aventurer dans l'un des favelas les plus défavorisé de Rio pour y auditionner de nombreux habitants présentant des handicaps physiques. Un jour, en arpentant les rues, il aperçut par hasard deux hommes sans bras : « Ah bah tiens voilà parfait. » se dit alors Jim avant de les interpeller : « Eh les mutants, ça vous dirait d'être flûtistes dans un groupe ? - Mais on est manchots… - Qui a dit qu'il fallait des doigts pour jouer de la flûte ? » s'écria Jim en clignant d'un œil. Quelques jours plus tard, les manchots rejoignaient les autres mutants déjà castés et enregistraient l'album Os Mutantes.
Difícil este. Tiene buenas notas pero a la vez me cuesta trabajo superar el progresivo autóctono que asoma. Difícil.
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: A Minha Menina, Baby, Bat Macumba, Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I'm much more tolerant of freaky sound effects and compositions when you write a guitar riff as gnarly as the one on A Minha Menina and boy oh boy does this album push that tolerance to the limits. It still comes out on my good side but there was a 5 in here I think. A Minha Menina almost singlehandedly brings this into 4 territory but I'm giving it the classic 3.5 rounded down.
Cool discovery. Fun 60's Brazilian psychedelic. Will listen again.
Very weird. Reminds me of cool old 70s horror films. Not the greatest music I ever heard, but I can definitely tell it would have been very influential for other weird music that came later.
Rasgos brasileños y con ritmo. Aporta frescura y dinamismo. Instrumentación típica de sus raíces. Para escuchar en alguna ocasión
Never heard of the album, the band or even the genre before. Not often that happens. Fascinating, but will need a few more listens to really get a handle on it.
A second Portuguese album in 3 days. I found this one very disjointed. Not awful from a music standpoint, but since I don't understand Portuguese it also doesn't grab my attention. Amazing that this came out in 1968 though.
Fun and interesting to listen to, even though I don't think I would actively seek it out outside of this project.
I enjoyed it even though I didn't understand it
Interesting music, I guess, so it gets my default 3/5 for albums in languages I don't understand.
It's kind of fun, different. Not sure if I'd really listen to it again though.
First impression: this looks like it's going to be weird af and I'm here for it. Second impression: potentially a bit too weird for me. Although I enjoyed certain songs (A Minha Menina, Adeus Maria Fulô, Trem Fantasma, Tempo no Tempo), a lot are kind of annoying to listen to. Definitely an interesting album, though.
Not sure what to make of it. I am ignorant to Brazilian traditional sounds, so I can’t tell what part of this album is traditional and which is them being psychedelic. Nevertheless, it most definitely is not rock.
Not bad.
Spanish Psychedelic Rock. Not bad.
Brazilian psychedelic rock... very interesting, even though I don't understand any of the lyrics.
Very 60s, good background music but a bit too psychedelic at times
psychodeliczny trochę beatlesowo brzmi, dużo poleciało potem fajen brasilian songs
Super-trippy, like late-stage Beatles but also some very Beach Boys-ish stuff.
Kinda funky, didn’t fully listen to because it wasn’t the right vibe for the rainy weather.
Prefer their second album but found this one enjoyable too
Decent. Some songs good, few I didn't like.
New on me, really interesting. Some great songs,instruments & melodies, enjoyed it greatly.
Interesting style & a little weird - fun for a couple songs but a full album was way too much for me. I didn’t take the time to translate anything either fwiw
Weird but a fun listen
A bit surprised to see these guys. I have them on a few Samba collections - the curators usually throw them in as a quirky last track. They are interesting from a political perspective. The music, like our recent krautrock offerings, is eclectic, and the mood can shift suddenly in th emiddle of a song, but these guys are more melodic, playful and listenable.
Atmosphärisch dichtes psych pop Kleinod der Mutanten. Hab mich schon gefreut zu hören, dass sich „A Minha Menina“ in der Cover Version der verehrten Brightoner Retro Alleskönner The Bees so nah am Original bewegt, wie sich dann wiederum das „Baby“ Cover (Nouvelle Vague) davon entfernt hat. Große DIY Experimentierfreude, charmant grob collagierter Eklektizismus, vielleicht im Inneren nur durch einen von den Beach Boys gebrochenen Brasil Folk zusammengehalten. Mir wäre beinahe die Tüte in den Flokati gefallen. Gefährliche 3,4 Punkte
Kann die Musik ja nichts dafür, dass ich keine Drogen mehr nehme...
Cincuentero tranquilo. Como música de baile de los 50's
brazilian psych pop/rock. Might also listen to "A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado" by them
ganz nice - 3
Not bad but not my style
this started out strong, but then just kinda...dragged on a little. which is weird, because it's only 36 minutes. it was very go-go, and super cool over all, but not my favorite thing.
Finally, something new and interesting! Eclectic and experimental. 3.5 stars.
Bijzonder album, heeft wat elementen van de beatles en psychedelische muziek
Really liked this, and sounded really familiar
I think I had a stroke. Can't tell if I liked it or not.
classic Brazilian psych rock. pretty decent.
Unique and flavorful, if not a bit chaotic at times. 3.5, not quite a 4 yet.
No es mi tipo, experimental en exceso
Well this was different. Not helped by the fact I didn't understand a word but I can't say it would get another listen. Would never have heard it before but I suppose that's the point of this.
Just no.
Not bad, but one of the top 1001 albums of all time?
Another middle of the pack entry from a foreign band that I never would have heard of otherwise. Tropicalia as a genre doesn't seem too bad but also not something I think I would listen to on my own. Some of the music is pretty frenetic which I think works well with some of the weirdness of the whole album. None of the songs were great but most of them also weren't bad. Final track Ave Genghis Khan should be axed though. The overlap from Spanish to Portuguese is so minimum that I wasn't able to comprehend anything they were singing about unfortunately. Another world music entry that falls into the same category of not bad, glad for the exposure but won't come back to. Always on the lookout for more mutants. 2.27 stars
Type shit that would make me want to haunt my future generations in Victorian clothes
weird psychadelic 60's pop rock with a latin flavor. I could not get into this, which is unfortunate because World Music usually has me coming away with something I really enjoy.
very 60s vibe. Thought it was french at first but turns out it's Brazilian Portugese! Only one song is familiar to me
I don't think this is in the top 1001 albums of all time. I understand that it might be interesting from a music history perspective but that is not what I want to listen to.
This didn't really do it for me. Maybe on a different day I could get more into it, but it just sort of washed over me without making any impression. Not actively bad though
Fun, in a that-was-different way, but way too '60s-esque in being way too kitsch and self-indulgent. The Brazilian Donovan, a product of the times.
09/06/2026 Not sure what I expected to get from this.... can't say I was a massive fan either. Spotify listeners: 344.7k
This should be my thing, I do appreciate a lot of psych rock from the 60s, but it just doesn’t really hit for me. Skipped to quite a few of the songs, two stars.
Somewhat interesting but, ultimately, the lo-fi and language barriers are too high for me to get over.
Os Mutantes is certainly an interesting listen. It's not the sort of album I would naturally choose to put on, and I doubt I'll return to it very often, but I have to admit it was a fascinating experience. The album is completely all over the place in the best and worst possible ways. Psychedelic Brazilian folk-pop is already an unusual combination, and the band throw so many different sounds, instruments and ideas into the mix that it's impossible to predict where a song is going next. At times it's chaotic, at times brilliant, and often both at the same time. You can clearly hear influences from The Beatles and 1960s American pop music, but everything is filtered through a uniquely Brazilian and psychedelic lens. The result is an album that feels inventive, experimental and unlike almost anything else I've heard on this challenge. It's also one of those records that's incredibly difficult to rate. I can't honestly say I loved it, but I was never bored by it either. Even when it felt bizarre or confusing, it remained interesting throughout, and that's probably its greatest strength. Favourite tracks: I particularly enjoyed the opening two tracks Least favourite tracks: Nothing was truly bad, although the album's bizarre nature made it a challenging listen at times Album artwork: An absolutely bonkers album cover that perfectly matches the music inside
I couldn’t get into this even though I appreciate weird music.
meh
Na trenutke okej, ali onda postaje same same. Malo underwhelming. 2/5, 4/10
Certainly different and unusual, but not something I'd go rushing back to. Maybe the fact that it's mostly in Portugese (with a token French song thrown in) affects my engagement? The music is willfully weird, but didn't grab me very tightly. Worth a listen, but not more than once for me
I don’t get it.
No olipahan häröilyä! Brasilialaisbändi Os Mutantes tarjoilee takkuista psykedeliaa ja sekavia biisejä. Olihan tämä tavallaan ihan mielenkiintoinen levy, mutta en voi sanoa kauheasti tykänneeni.
Bit ordinary for me but I appreciate it on the list
naja, nicht so prickelnd.
It's cool just not for me
Jeetje. In Brazilië hebben ze de jaren '60 ook niet overgeslagen zeg. Goed, we horen toch weer wat anders dan anders met deze mix van zuiderlijke klanken en psychedelische spelerij. Maar het had op zijn minst wat beter uitgevoerd mogen worden. Af en toe hoor je ineens kort dat ze ook fatsoenlijk muziek konden maken. Dan hoor je bijvoorbeeld een soort Manu Chao. Maar meestal is het veel en veel te gek.
Een maffe Braziliaanse versie van de Beatles of aanverwanten. Het is vrij gedateerd, ook de geluidskwaliteit helaas. Veel schelle geluiden die pijn doen aan het gehoor. Dat helpt niet voor de luisterervaring. De psychedelische elementen kunnen geinig zijn, maar het is mij iets te experimenteel en het loopt niet lekker. Er zit geen catchy deuntje in. Ik heb het net geluisterd en kan geen 1 deuntje naneurien. Het is op zich wel leuk om kennis van te nemen, al stoppen ze mijns inziens best veel Braziliaanse muziek in dit boek en vergeten ze andere landen gemakshalve. Als de geluidskwaliteit beter was geweest, had het waarschijnlijk ook geen 3 sterren geworden, maar nu al zeker niet.
Not really into this much but at least it’s something different
Sehr schräg. Ein Lied kannte ich.
I'm sure this was a great addition to the collection to freak out the squares if you were a bit counterculture in the 60s. Now though 🤷♂️
Very much not for me unfortunately - it was at least different which is something I guess.
If you don’t think psychedelic music is annoying enough, can I interest you in trying listening to it in a foreign language?
j'ai pas trop aimé, c'est pas mon style 2
more boring 60s psych. at least it's not a bunch of bri'ish dudes this time and there are multiple languages at play here. favorites: panis et circenses, tempo no tempo
Very unusual album that I have never heard of. It's kind of trippy Brazilian music. Hard to describe or come up with something similar. I suppose I enjoyed listening to it despite not really understanding what was going on. Probably not something that I would put on again even though I don't regret listening to it this one time.
I have no idea what this is. I think I heard a Beatles song?
Beetje Beatles/papa's & the mama"s
Best Track - "A Minha Meninha"
Brazilian 1960 pop with tambourines
Three non-english albums in a row, all not super interesting.
5/10
Remember kids, just say no to drugs
Some of these are straight noice pollution. A couple of okay ones. A low 2
Previously unknown. Sort of fun, but too much psychedelic rock for me, not enough tropicália.
Goood I could really see why they called it stoner album
Wow. I can't quite figure out if I would have enjoyed this album more if I understood the lyrics, or if it would have been even more painful making out recognizable words amongst the musical zoo cacophony. Either way, I applaud their dedication and commitment to the avant-garde aspect of Tropicalia, and simultaneously give a full-throated hiss at the atrocious-but-not-really-atonal sounds they produced for over a half-hour (this is definitely an album that's best appreciated *without* headphones, I suspect). I can definitely see why this album made it onto Mojo magazine's Top 50 Most Out-There Albums, and on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 40 Stoner Albums; sadly, I wasn't really in the mood for either of those experiences. Too bad, as they have a great band name, and that album cover fits perfectly with something out of "What We Do in the Shadows". And I feel badly giving them only two stars given how much they put themselves out there in the midst of a truly horrific period of Brazilian history, but good god this is nearly unlistenable at times.
3/12/2026 - Listened while walking dog and driving to a meeting. It wasn't as weird as I expected. It basically sounded like a late 60's hippie album but in a different language. I wouldn't listen again but it was fine for what it was. Top Song - uhhhhh
Лучшая песня: Le premiere bonheur Худшая: Adeus Maria Fulô Если кратко: дерьмо, которое в здравом уме кто-то вряд ли захочет сам послушать
(Не)интересный факт - буквально позавчера закончила книгу Генералы песчаных карьеров про Бразилию 30-х годов, и вот передо мной музыкальная Бразилия спустя 30 лет. Не знаю, произошла ли революция, о которой мечтали Капитаны песка, но музыканты явно хотели смешать становящийся модным рок-н-ролл и бразильские мотивы. В последнем треке даже повеяло Красным Вигвамом Линча. Как я поняла, альбом стал известен ретроспективно, поэтому могу понять удивление людей, которые узнали, что в диктаторской Бразилии каверили Мамас энд Папас
dokladnie tak jak glosi tytul mutanckie brzmienie
This was a little too weird for me.
It's okay, bet nepakankamai, kad užkabintų.
Trippy psychedelic music in Portuguese. I listened to it while driving. Would not recommend while driving but good otherwise. 2.5
love spanish artists
Ok, stop trying to make these obscure shitty albums into something those of us with actual music taste and knowledge should appreciate. WTF, this is 60's psychedelic pop in Spanish. 2 stars, but I was unmotivated to listen to every track. It blew.
Esto es lo que escucha una "CHIKKA HIPPIE" no la verga de TOBIKA. Falopa de la buena papá
Fun instrumentation. Not really my style of music though and I don't typically like listening to stuff thats not in English because I feel a lot of the meaning is lost when you can't understand the lyrics.
This album was really strange to me. I see how it would fit with the time, being psychedelic rock at all. That said, I found this album extra strange, with a series of elements that didn’t all seem to fit together. It probably didn’t help that I didn’t understand what was being sung, but there are other albums I’ve even had recently that I didn’t understand and yet could really appreciate. This didn’t fit into that category.
Barely got through it at 30 minutes. Sorry, not sorry.
This album mostly amused me. Was that a kazoo?? Not for me but it was a fun listen on my commute to work.
Ajudem-me! Parece que tomei demasiado LSD e agora toda a gente está a cantar em português e a tocar trompetes minúsculos. Na realidade, parece que invadiram uma sala de aula de música de criança pequena e começaram a tocar todos os instrumentos que encontraram... pandeiros, apitos de vara, xilofones, nossa, até consigo ouvir uma flauta de pã. Talvez eu esteja sendo assombrado pelo fantasma de Zamfir. Estou a passer-me, mano. Acho que não deveria me surpreender ao descobrir que os Beastie Boys adoraram o sample deste álbum.
Wenig hängengeblieben.
Schönes Album. Mehr kann ich dazu leider nicht sagen, außer, dass mir Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour besonders gefallen hat, aber ansonsten fand ich es zwar schön aber spannungsarm. Gut für den Hintergrund aber nichts was ich nochmal hören muss
Yeah... nah. This ain't it for me. The music is already wacky enough (and not the kind of wacky I like) that's it's already not my thing. And then being in a different language just takes me out of it. I have a really hard time enjoying listening to music I can't understand already, and that's if I like the music I'm listening to. This is a miss for me.
It was fine, nothing stuck out to me, but also wasn't bad. No takeaways from me and won't be coming back to it. 2.75
Did they use the kazoo for the instrumentals???? There was some really good stuff in here, but some of the songs were pretty awful. The instrumentals are just a bit too much for me.
Not sure how to describe what I just listened to but I would say it has potential. Unfortunately the nicer parts seemed to get lost in the crazy cacophony of random noises and languages but I feel like I can see where this was going.
I found it hard to connect with the music due to not being able to u understand the lyrics. But the busyness of the instruments wasn't my fave
Intersting. Wish I could understand the words.
No entiendo qué música es esta
Not heard this brand of Tropicalia before which seems to reflect a fusion of experimentation and traditional musical ideas from the late sixties. It's own take on psychedelia makes for a weird listen.
Psychedelic Pop Rock with a Brazilian twist. Of historical interest, but it all sounds very dated now and is well past its best by date, so it's probably better to consign this album back into the 1968 dustbin of history.
It was kinda mobo-y and didn't love it. It was in a different language too.
Meh. Might have enjoyed it more if I was in a Brazilian canteena in the lasye 60's
Kinda boring in a way that I find alot of 60s psychedelic boring. The Brazilian side of it made it more interesting, but not that much.
Não é 1/5, mas não esteve longe de o ser. Certamente que esta banda tem muita influência no rock brasileiro, mas não é para mim. No entanto, admito que existe criatividade e que a banda tinha imenso talento. Infelizmente, a música não me encanto.
Well...it's quirky! I'm not really into the psychedelic stuff. Lyrically, I can't judge since I don't know the language. So going off vibes alone, not very pleasant to my ears. I don't know what instrument or device it is, but there's something on a few songs that just flat out was painful to listen to. Like a shrieking noise. I did think that the handful of ballads were kind of pretty. Sometimes pitchy though when all the singers are trying to harmonize.
Guð minn almáttugur.
Weird
Brazilian stoner music. Didn't grab me at first...gave it a second listen and didn't hate it.
Os Mutantes is psychedelic, goofy and kind of all over the place. Totally different sounds and rhythms arise and dissolve within single tracks. Sounds that are both environmental and experimental morph into silly, childlike songs. I hear Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles influences, but it's hard to pin down or take too seriously.
Background music - another foreign language one. I think I want the ability for a half star on every review
A brazilian funky and yet depressed acid trip
60-talls LSD-rus. Ikke min kopp "mynte-te".
Sehän lähti jännään suuntaan jo heti startissa. Nyt täytyy kyllä myöntää että meni itellekin ehkä vähän turhan oudoksi, mutta oli sielä mukana muutamia ihan hyviäkin juttuja. Eipä olis tätäkään varmaan tullut kuunneltua ikinä ilman tätä listausta
Portugalin kieli on omaan korvaan aika lähellä maailman ruminta kieltä. Se yhdistettynä siihen, että mitään en tästä muutenkaan ymmärtänyt, niin ei nyt kauheasti lähtenyt. Ruoanlaiton taustamusana meni, ei nyt sinällään ärsyttänyt, mutta ei kyllä oikein mitään jäänyt käteenkään. Kakkosella mennään.
So far I've loved everything I've heard from Brazil, but on this one I had to skip several ones which were hurting my ears.
Not really my cup of tea
Like weird Brazilian version of the Beatles/Beach Boys? Kinda fun, probably wouldn't listen again
A little too psychedelic for me
Of all the weird things about this album (which is to say all of it), I think the weirdest is that the ratings on this site have a normal distribution. Seems like it should be a "love it or hate it" album, but it still got a ton of 3s. Huh. Unfortunately I'm in the latter category. It's unique, and it seems like they achieved what they set out to do, but it did not work for me in any way. A 2 feels generous, if I'm being honest. 1.7
I found this quite confusing - not just because it was in Portuguese, but more so it was a strange fusion of genres that I didn't quite get. Will probably take a few more listens to understand.
It's not really my thing. I don't hate it, but I couldn't get into it. It's in that psychedelic zone, so it sounds experimental and odd. I can see why people like it, but I don't. Also, I don't know Portuguese, so no comment on it lyrically.
Naah...
Interesting and cool at times but not my vibe.
Just noisy - not my cuppa
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
Odd not really my thing
Album bizarre, à entendre effectivement une fois dans sa vie.
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.
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.
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.
Just too much going on for me - came across as too much sounds at a lot of points.
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.
This is the kind of weird shit I'm doing this challenge for! I didn't like it, but I listened to it - yay!
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If only I ingested drugs that would enhance the listenability of this album...
Dull and unengaging.
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.
Quick fire to catch up. - Try hard
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.
Definitely outside the realm of norm. Sounded like a creepy circus
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.
Nothing special, heard worse
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.
I like this era, and experimental stuff, but all this spaghetti on my tympanic membrane is starting to stink.
ei jäänyt mieleen
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.
DNF. Meh.
They listened to the Beatles and played with the sounds but missed the point. Did not enjoy.
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
OK, nothing stood out
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
This is really not my vibe; the last few songs are OK
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.
Brazilian folk from the 60s… was just ok 👌
not for me
Fine, but a bit all over the place, not my cup of tea.
It's some weird Brazilian '60s stuff. Not my cup of tea.
Remember to play if I ever take a trip to France. Favorite Track: Panis Et Circenses
Not my favorite but not bad!
This was just okay, fine. Nothing great.
An explosion of 60s psychedelia with a Brazilian twist. With the exception of of A Minha Menina (which i think must have been used on an advert at some point) it sounds a little too much like someone trying to sound like other groups in places, especially the Beatles but still quite enjoyable. Not sure about the sudden slurp noise in Baby, may have made sense if you understand the lyrics but for me a rather unpleasant jolt.
I didn’t hate this, but I genuinely couldn’t tell you anything about it. Not for me, and totally forgettable.
Not my favorite. Some good moments, but more bad ones
Fun psychedlia with lots of zany stuff going on, crazy compositions, great fuzz guitar, and a wild atmosphere. I always find this band incredibly stressful to listen to though, it really puts me on edge - as much as I like this in principle I have yet to find the right context in which to actually enjoy it. Guess you had to be there...
i feel like the ideas were interesting but the execution just wasn’t there for me. everything was just a step too chaotic without ever returning to a more solid form i think
Interesting Relic
I listened to it twice and I still don't know what the heck was going on, and it wasn't the language that was the barrier.
decent record, not the biggest fan
2.5/5
Not really my thing
Loved the lyrics
Lively
A pleasant journey, but nothing too memorable. She's a 2, but a solid 2.
This was pretty weird and I don’t think I enjoyed it.
Not great for me.
I don’t get this one.
Strange. Definitely not my jam.
Not for me.
OK. But not as exciting as I'd hoped.
Mercifully short.... One thing this list has made me realize is how much I really despise most of this era and certainly psychedelic rock in general. Ever see that episode of Family Guy where Peter and Lois start a folk band? Yea, Handful of Peter is what I hear every time one of these albums shows up. https://youtu.be/NpJW6lFUA_g?si=KfyyqgQ-LNW85lTJ&t=62
interesting! Good to work to.
Not as bad as thought it was gonna be, but I would never listen to this again
Probably only even remotely bearable if you're stoned. 1.5/5
A little too much weird for me
Not really my thing.
Psykedelisk rock med et brasiliansk twist, interesant og lidt mærkeligt
The story behind the album is cool. Sadly the music doesn't do the story any justice. 60s psych rock isn't really my jam.
Dont speak a lick of it so
Kind of liken a Brazilian tropica beach boys? I’ll revisit one day but not hitting
Weird stuff, just interesting enough to keep it out of the basement.
This must be what it sounds like if you intended to drop acid listening to the Velvet Underground, but somehow ended up in a psychedelic Brazilian fever dream. A long strange trip indeed.
Eh
Wow. Det var fandme specielt. 60er Psyk-rock med latino-feel. Track nr. 2 havde et dejlig fed/tyk guitar riff. Det er et sjovt, charmerende og til tider skrækkeligt album
Like when France was trying to get into the “acid rock” scene. Not knowing french probably doesn’t help anything but really the music didn’t do anything for me.
This had elements I enjoyed, but they were too few and far between.
You can hear lots of influences like Sgt Peppers, Pet Sounds, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. It's playful and perky. Very swinging and shaking, but ultimately lacking special sauce. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour was a welcomed change in pace and style. I can only imagine Tempo No Tempo is about a man shouting at his dog ‘Tempo’ in a park after he's ripped a toddler to shreds. ‘Tempo No! Tempo!’ It has a driving rhythm and sinister clicking throughout like The Sharks and The Jets, and it ends with church bells (funeral procession). The fuzz and the bongos and the animal noises, become grating after the first couple of songs. Nothing of substance going on.
Very weird. Sometimes good weird, but mostly just weird weird
they should’ve let the woman sing more, i would’ve enjoyed the album more
1.5
Another weird one. I can’t say it resonated with me deeply and the language barrier did not help in that regard either. Kind of groovy and fun but it was also a bit chaotic to listen to. Not quite enough to be a 3 for me though.
Very weird, but I like weird. There were some moments in songs that I thought were really shockingly cool or beautiful, and then a moment right afterward which was just wtf. Overall I enjoyed this album, but maybe a bit too much wtf to be higher than a 2.
Goodness. There would be brief glimpses where I would start to think that I’d like the song but then there would be a voice or instrumentation that ruined it. Un-relistenable
Weeeeeeird shit...
International vibe
It's certainly Not bad, unfortunetly I really really do not find any enjoyment in anything with psychedelic sounds. The whole album is like a fever dream. Bat Macumba will haunt me for days.
Not for me. Can’t put my finger on why.
Anything Brazilian is such a trigger for Len. Makes it hard to listen to. A brazilian was why Len split up with his first wife, Andrea. She’d been having it off with Alice Coopers roadie, Alan Hazelnuts. Brazilians were a new trend and Alice always got them confused with Hollywood’s. Alan had obviously been talking to Alice about it and when Len was having some beers with Alice he realised that either Alice had seen ‘it’ or someone close to Alice had. It wasn’t a great loss really. If you went down the list of everyone who saw Andreas area we’d be here all day but don’t tell Len that. 2.1
Strong start with track one but loses its allure fast. Lots of skips, annoying voice for the most part. Le Premier almost wins me back though, I really like that one. That song is immensely calming to my ears.
Despite being under 40 minutes, this album still managed to overstay it's welcome
The name of this band translates to "The Mutants," which feels like a very typical 60's band name. If you like 60's psychedelic music in Spanish then boy do I have an album for you. It may have helped if I knew what they were saying, but much of Baby was in English and it didn't necessarily make it more enjoyable for me. This an international version of experimental psych-music and I'm afraid alot of this missed me. It sounds good and Os Mutantes are doing something that sounds different but I'm not sure it is different from the other psychedelic music this book has forced us to listen to. There is less acoustic guitar and more fuzzy electric guitar forward in the mix, which is a nice change.
What a strange combo of music - traditional Brazilian music with psychedelic rock. It wasn't all that great, though I am not a fan of psych rock. I guess they don't call them "The Mutants" for nothing. 4/10
Meh
Hmm not sure about this
Not for me
Good for these weirdos. They had me with the Brazilian touches, but immediately lost me with the psychedelic noodling. And that’s lame, because I can totally see myself loving these songs if they were less acid-fueled. But hey, Os Mutantes’ hippy drool got them on this list, so what do I know?
I’m glad some people enjoy it. It wasn’t bad to me just completely forgettable and not my thing.
Once again the authors favourite genre. Quite left field to even discover this. Bizarre.
Not awful. Not compelling. Never have to hear this again. Not essential.
Not a huge fan of this. It's another weird one!!
People taking too many bong hits. I'm all for weird shit, but this is all over the place.
Some of the noises freaked the dog out
4/10…brasilianischer psycho rock
Quirky
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.
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 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.
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.
Not my thing
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...)
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
Meh
Fine but not my choice to be in a rotation for me.
I can't even muster a review
Noch nicht gehört
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.
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"
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.
But weird
Brazilian Beatles
While I can appreciate what this is. It is not for me and didn’t strike me in any particular way.
Never reaching for this on my own but it had some yams
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
To strange for me, but the musicianship is to good to warrant only one star.
Probably better listening to this when in the mood.
The line separating playful from shambolic is awfully vague, isn’t it?
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.
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.
This would probably would have been way better with a couple of ginormous spliffs
Kinda fun, but not for me.
Not for me
Such a strange album. Never would have imagined such a blend of psychadelic and latin. 2/5
Definitely wasn't a favorite.
Ain't it chief 2/5
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.
Actually really like the unintelligible words and sounds
Not worth it
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
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.
Psychedelia in Portugese.
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.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/12/05/14/dillian-whyte1.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp
This shit wasn't even in English