Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Naw
Oh, no, no, NO. Please, no. It will be hard to forget this.
Prima kut
no thanks
Nicht so meins
Very much not for me. Very chaotic. Sound was off (maybe because it's older, I don't know). Did not like the voices. They used different languages at least in one song, I really dislike when people do that. Something positive: they used unique instruments?
Un completo bodrio
An era of music I don't particularly like done even poorer.
It's so bad ... Can't believe I was actually familiar with a song on here. Now I know what not to listen to.
1001 album, a few gems, and a ton of goofy weird crap. This is the latter 1
All I gotta say is…yikes. The 60s sure seemed like a wild time.
Not for me
No fue mi estilo
I'm sorry, this sucks.
Not my jam
👎🏻
Played almost without skipping as an act of self harm cos there is literally nothing appealing to me on this record. Not sonically, not melodically. Layers and layers of peevishly mixed irritating sounds arranged in the most annoying tone sequences. This is even worse than country music. This is the album that will play on repeat when I die and go to hell.
Tried. Didn’t work for me.
Starting to lose it with this book lol. Remind me why everyone “must” hear this before they die?
This did not seem very cohesive. I feel like I just didn’t understand it. I was kind of surprised to hear that it was from 2013, feels like this could’ve been recorded and maybe the 90s or something. Just because I don’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s bad though.
Brazilian band from the 60s. Think Beatles meets the Beach Boys online from Brazil. Overbaked and the high end is brutal.
Not for me. 1/5
So eerie
A little too funky for my liking. Several songs were very difficult to get through. If we’re picking faves…. A Minha Menina or Senhor F.
I don’t understand why this is here
Komisches Album ohne sinnvolle musikalische Aspekte.
Do you remember back in the day recording the radio station on your cassette tape, but your song didn’t play so you decided to rerecord over that first attempt? There was always an underlying line of the first recording playing beneath your last recording that you could hear through the songs you wanted to keep. That’s what this sounded like to me. A titled song I’m supposed to listen to but some other distorted song playing beneath it. Language barrier aside, I didn’t enjoy this listen as it was agitating on multiple levels.
Hated it.
Meh
Das Album ist wild. Zeitweise sehr anstrengend. Zeitweise einfach egal. Insgesamt leider gar nichts für mich.
Ich war an dem Tag etwas gestresst daher sicherlich in der falschen Stimmung für so eine Platte. Sicherlich sind hier und da ein paar nette Ansätze vorhanden, aber wenn die nach kurzer Zeit wieder über den Haufen geworfen werden und noch 5 weitere Ideen in einen Song gequetscht werden, dann strengt mich das nur noch an. Hat mich leider komplett kalt gelassen.
Sorry, konnte ich gar nichts mit anfangen.
No
Really calming and pretty. Every song is unique in it’s own way. Not a fan of slow songs, so most of this album isn’t for me. Fav song is ‘A Minha Menina’.
Etwas albern
Why would anyone think this should belong on this list
1⭐️ really not for me.. again I’m a lyric girly, but aside from the songs being in a different language (portuguese??) I just found the whole thing a bit strange and abrupt. TOO psychedelic for 9am on a Thursday morning x songs I already knew: n/a fave new song(s): trem fantasma
Hfffffff
• This is going to be the first non-English album I've listened to so far. I've never heard of this artist before, so I have no idea what to expect. • 30 seconds into Panis Et Circenses and this is already completely different to what I thought I would be hearing. It's very experimental, to say the least. • Okay, I've just finished the first track and I have no idea what I've just listened to. I haven't delved into psychedelic music much before. • The guitar in A Minha Menina is so loud and so grating. The rest of the song sounds good but this might be the worst guitar tone I've ever heard. • The high pitched sound in O Relógio is also extremely annoying • Adeus Maria Fulô's instrumental sounds like it would be in a Crash Bandicoot or Yoshi soundtrack • So far, Baby is the track that has sounded most like a song I would listen to, but it also brought back the guitar from A Minha Menina • Senhor F is my favourite so far, the 7/8 broken up by the occasional 4/4 bar in the head of the song sounds cool and it even manages to control the chaos of the rest of the album, at least until the double fade-out and fade-back in. • The back half of this album has been a thousand times better than the first. • I've learned that Tempo No Tempo is a cover of The Mama's and the Papa's, and it definitely sticks out among the rest of the album. This song, along with Trem Fantasma before it, are two of the most "normal" sounding songs from this album. • Ave Gengis Khan is also a good song, the guitar solo almost made me forget what album I was listening to. I've tried to give this album a fair crack, and the second half of it was markedly better, but this really isn't for me. Even in the less out there songs, there would still be something to remind me of what this album is. It's shocking to me that A Minha Menina is their most streamed song on Spotify, when it was one of my least favourites from this album, but I think that just shows that I'm not the target audience for this. Favourite song: Senhor F
I listened to this album for what seemed like 3 hours straight and couldn't believe it was still going. I was absolutely shocked to find out it was only 36 minutes long and I've only been listening for 15 minutes. Its basically Duck Stab without the charm. This album sucked badly.
It's definitely not in my wheelhouse, but that's not the problem here. It's the annoying production. They needlessly mix in different elements of sound that just don't fit. random bangs, clanks, squeaks and boings in places that just do NOTHING to help the music or emphasize anything.
*loud slurp*
Das Debütalbum der brasilianischen Band Os Mutantes wurde 1968 aufgenommen, hauptsächlich im Philips Studio in São Paulo. Es vereint psychedelische Pop- und Rockelemente mit brasilianischen Musiktraditionen wie Samba und Tropicália. Auffällig sind die experimentellen Arrangements und der kreative Umgang mit Studiotechniken. Besonders bekannte Stücke des Albums sind „A Minha Menina“, „Panis et Circenses“ und „Bat Macumba“, die die stilprägende Mischung aus heimischen Rhythmen und internationalem Psychedelic Rock zeigen. Das Album markiert den Beginn der musikalischen Entwicklung der Band und ist ein frühes Beispiel für die Tropicália-Bewegung. Insgesamt wirkt es frisch, eigenständig und historisch relevant.
not great
2.0/10 Oh man this was a tough one to get through. I was tempted to bail halfway through in case things got better but it was more of the same. Rough listen for me! First 1 star that I’ve given out. :(
Aaarrrggggghhhhhhh. It’s kinda cool, but it’s also what gets played when you’re at a party and someone finds out you like music, so they show you this *super obscure* something that makes them seem eclectic, when in actuality they never really listen to this crap and what they’re really trying to do is show off.
Not my thing, I'm afraid.
1 Star (2/15)
To be honest, the album is just not my jam. Therefore, I'm not going to write a whole review where I'm subconsciously trying to convince myself I liked it. It's psychedelic as hell and it's definitely the first time I've ever heard something like this from a country other than the US and Europe. In that respect, it was unique and interesting. When I was passively listening, the harmonies, keys, guitars, horns sometimes made me think of Magical Mystery Tour and the Stones' psychedelic records at times. But sticking to my gut here, sorry Os Mutantes.
Their use of homemade instruments really shine through on this album
Maybe back in the 60's it was good, not now.
Weird
below average
Not for me
Got kinda excited based on the description, but from the hop I knew it wasn't for me. Couldn't get 3 songs in.
Jangling trumpets and wailing – that’s noise, not music
Psychedelic 60's Brazilian rock. Sounds like a soundtrack to a Brazilian Austin Powers movie. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs
I’m all for listening to music in a foreign language. This just… wasn’t it lol.
I have this album a legitimate chance but it was just a lot of noise that didn’t always seem to go together.
Kadett, HDH - Ulm, Deutschland. Ganz ganz schlimm.
Crap psychedelic music
Not really my bag. I can appreciate some of the psychedelic music from back in the 60's and all, but not when it is being sung in Portuguese.
Nope
Как они вообще именуют себя музыкантами?
meh
This is terrible
No thanks
Wow more techno shit.
Not a lot to say about this album. Less-than-shoddy production and a sound that is at best derivative and at worst unappealing make this album very forgettable. Like discount-Beatles without any charm
I'm not on near enough drugs to enjoy this.... Favorite songs: A Minha Menina Least favorite songs: Trem Fantasma 1/5
The only thing this helped me with is showing off that, yes, I do know what a cuíca is.
This is so bad it’s surely got to be self pleasure performance art. What is worse - I understand enough of the language to know it’s even worse than it would be if I only spoke English … I require therapy to recover from having to listen to this. Horrendous.
1/1
Discordant hodgepodge. Seemed like the sort of thing someone would listen to and claim they were edgy and informed. French mess.
Didn’t feel like giving this a shot
Fuckin God no
Featuring all of the groovy sounds popular in the late 60's (cheesy organs, ratty overdriven guitar, sound effects, etc.), this album is as dated as they come. It just seems...musty. The production on this record is slapdash and the songs are frequently corny. The abrupt changes within the songs and the heavy guitar effects are attempts at making a cutting-edge album but instead end up being grating on the ear. There's too much weird for the sake of weirdness on this record, had they played it straight these tracks might have been more appealing.
Absolutely dire
Wtf was that
Not my jam
Meh
🤮
Good lord, i took a week off from this project to go on a vacation and then i come back to this?! Os Mutantes is an albums that somehow manages to commit nearly every no no in music possible in just 36 minutes. I'm not gonna fault the lyrics since they are in Spanish and i am still a beginner in learning that language and the vocals are about as good as they could be with the limited resources but what i will fault is the music. There is everything here from terrible compositions to awful instrumentation amplified by terrible audio recording and mixing even for 1968 and that's when the songs aren't having immense identity crises. The other aspects are not so terrible but when the music is this unbelievably bad, i can't give this album any higher than a 1. Best Song: Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour Worst Song: Panis Et Circenses
Feels like an experimental art piece. The production is a hot mess, levels and distortion that is so obvious and irritating it has to be intentional? The artist seems to also be a big fan of ambient sound and features it is most songs. Not a fun listening experience
I bet these guys are annoying as shit to hang out with. I put this on during dinner and my wife was confused as shit. We made it a song and a half and had to dinner it off. Apparently not dinner party music. I tried a couple more times to get into this but ultimately couldn’t listen to very much. So ultimately this gets a “fuck off”
This list is fucking stupid
Not my thing.
I guess the 1001 Album Generator hates me during this holiday season. 3 out of 4 days in a row with foreign music. I listened to about half of this album and again, didn't understand a word and the music wasn't anything that made it special. Just not my jam. 1/5
Schel, oud, iets te experimenteel, gitaren die klinken als een kazoo, valse nasale zang. Zoals ik ooit eerder noteerde is ook dit een kinderfeestje met verschillende Fisher Price of Vtech apparaten. Alsof Sgt Pepper is ontvoert door een stel kannibalen uit een Braziliaans regenwoud. De cuica (waarvan ik de naam ken via deze lijst) maakt z'n rentree. Bizar schelle fluiten met als enige doel om te irriteren in het intro van track 9. Wat een kutzooi zeg. Ik heb dit album op 4 verschillende momenten ingestart, maar ik kom er maar niet doorheen. Ik zet het steeds uit omdat ik me toch wel aardig stoor aan de vele schelle geluiden. Ik kom hier met geen mogelijkheid doorheen. Heel slimme mensen kunnen hier vast iets uit halen, maar ik krijg zin om een gat in m'n schedel te boren. 1 ster.
Rough listen
Painful
bo r in g
There’s one great tune on here, but it’s not enough to lift it up from one star, that’s how bad the rest of it is
This list really needs more psychedelic rock from the late 60s, there just isn't quite enough.
1.5
Probably one of the worst albums I've gotten here.
Not my jam
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.
Albums like this test me like never before.
Not what I like, even remotely.
Horrif
I’m sure there are plenty of listeners out there who’d appreciate this group’s experimental sounds. I’m not one of them.
Couldn’t finish this album.
Not my jam.
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
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.
Lateinamerikanische Pop Märchenmusik der 68er Generation
....weird
Not my thing
.(.
This works not for me - not at all
I was interested from the description, but this ended up just being a lot of chirpy nonsense
Wth
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
Oh boy, back to the rainforest with you and take your flutey things with you and be gone.
It's not for me
Not my thing
La música portuguesa no está dentro de mis preferencias.
Hard to listen, mercifully short.
Not a fan
Blur the line between experimental and noise.
I’ve never made an album so can’t fully appreciate how hard it is to make one. I’ve never done drugs. I’ve never experienced being intoxicated. I’m not a fan. This album made me feel high, drunk and increasingly paranoid. It’s like take some drugs as your out for a walk and then you suddenly wake up on a swan pedalo on a lake in the middle of Lisbon with a nipple piercing, hand tattoos, shaved head and an inflatable hippo under your left arm. This one isn’t for me.
This was unpleasant. There were a couple songs with good parts but then they would always throw in something that was just quite unfortunate, really. The lady who sings on the first song sounds like the I Play Pokemon Go Every Day kid. 2/10
What even was this dog meat album. Even if it was in English I bet it will still have sucked moose bawls. Ez 1. Nothing good about it. Book should be top 1,000 albums and they should remove this one
Wtf.
Yeah - I have no idea what this was trying to be. They have no consistency in theme, genre, cohesiveness in any way. The whole thing sounds like a weird troll haha.
Hate it
I’m a weird guy. I’m very weird musically. But this is too weird. Yours sincerely, Frank Grimes Jnr.
What the fuck is this?
Hate it
AJ: lasted 30 seconds. No bueno.
Brazlian Beatles, how strange. Enjoyed a couple of tracks but it gets very psychadelic and the language barrier makes it hard to enjoy too much. There is also a weird tinnyness to the album which really annoyed me. It was espeically grating on Bat Macumba. Highlights: A Minha Menina
Pure shite
I only got three songs in but couldn’t do the rest
I didn’t know this band before it came up as our album today. I read the blurb about them and thought that maybe I would like it because it was tropicalia, and also thought that perhaps the psychedelic part would be fun mixed in. .I was wrong. It is fine as background music. There was one song that seeemed like it could be a soundtrack for a Tom and Jerry cartoon. And there was a part during the Mamas and Papas cover where I thought my phone alarm was going off. (My alarm is bell tower).
Don't get it.
meh
A very strange album, definite psychedelia apparent. Not a fan
I didn't need to hear that. The cover artwork should have been a dead giveaway... Sucks!
Levyssä on ainakin yritetty erikoisuutta, mutta suurimmaksi osaksi ainakin ihan hirvittävää kuunneltavaa. Viimeinen kappale ainoa vähän siedettävä
Trifecta of sins on this album. 1. It does terrible covers. 2. It uses a monkey drum. 3. It’s foreign to me and it’s not Rammstein!!!!! I did enjoy other foreign albums on this list, but why this and not RAMMSTEIN!!?? Clear blind spot.
Beats were alright but I don't like foreign language music much
Too weird and slow
lame
This shit was too ridiculous for me. Sound like a church choir while also trying to be the doors. Out on that 1/10
No lo escuché. No llamó mi atención.
Grote griebels, wat was dat..
This really isn't my kind of thing. I find it hard to rate something when I have no comparative point of reference. I don't understand the music, the language or the late 60's humour. I'm sure it meant something to someone at the time. But it's just not music for me.
Really don’t have much to say for this album. Didn’t understand much of it but truly the Latin style wasn’t terrible. It was ok background music but nothing more. 2.3/10
Os Mutantes' debut album blends traditional Brazilian music with psychedelia rock. It's well known as being an interesting or "far out" album because it is trippy, Brazilian sounding music. The sounds on this album are more experimental than other psychedelia rock from this time, but it is well produced. I don't speak Portuguese so I can't understand the lyrics - which is probably similar to most listeners - but the album can still be enjoyed for its trippy music. In conclusion, the album was certainly intriguing, but none of the songs really stuck out to me. Perhaps one should be high when listening to this album to fully understand the music.
Strange trippy 60s stuff. Not great.
Totally bollocks
Not only the worst of the 60s but also in Spanish
Comedy album. Zero points.
Cacophonous.
It's just not pleasant to listen to. I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was at first, but after a bit of ear-scratching noise, I figured out that it was mainly the little things in the songs. Random uses of instruments that don't belong, weird effects placed on the guitar and voice that bleed your ears, and an emphasis on loud noises will surely cause you to dislike this album.
Just not for me. "Tempo No Tempo" and "Ave Gengis Khan" were good.
nonsense. difficult to listen to and appreciate.
Empecé a escucharlo y no lo toleré. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Inescuchable x1000. Lo intenté. Realmente lo intenté.
why am I getting albums in Portuguese.
Didn't like this at all. 1/5 stars.
Psychedelic and disjointed. Very disappointing
I could only get through like 2 songs, maybe not in the right frame of mind for it.
nope
Prepare for ultimate brazilian psychedelic indie music. Like Pink Floyd, but swap Dave Gilmour for immensly creative and strange instrumental outbreaks. Also be sure to borrow some Mamas and the Papas Vocal Harmony, pair it with the brazilian language, and: ét voilá!