Afrociberdelia

Extremely fun if you imagine the singer being animated like Hotel Transylvania, squash-and-stretching all over the stage as he sings. Kinda loses a bit of steam in the second half, but still a gem. 4/5

Afrociberdelia is a nice album by Chico Science. the songs are energetic rock with hip hop vocal delivery. The quality of the songs varies. Some are rather generic rock and sometimes the song and performance work great. I understand that the front man (Chico Science) died in a car crash after the this album was created, giving it some legendary status. Having non-English contributions is always refreshing, so it will get 4 stars to support our Brazilian friends.

Somehow, the combination of rock, funk, hiphop and Brazilian music is very catchy. Never tot bored while listening to this album

This is great funny fun. I think the version on Spotify is probably a “deluxe” extended edition so I’m choosing to rate the 1st 40mins - which is 5 star for me.

Now we're talking. I'm ashamed to give all my other 5-star ratings before this album on the users' list. This is truly missing in the original list.

Sometimes it's pretty "generic rock but this time it's from Brazil". I would give this 3 stars. I like being exposed to music countries/cultures other than my own, but it is *very* run-of-the-mill. Sometimes it veers into Thievery Corporation territory, especially with some of the album-closing remixes. I would give this 5 stars because it completely fucks. So we'll average out to 4 and call it a day, thank you very much.

Lively and interesting... worthy of listening to before you die.

Felt the language barrier acutely on this one. Sometimes vocals are mostly another instrument but here it was clear the meaning mattered. Lacking that my ability to judge this is limited but the music was great.

This is pretty good, fun. No clue at all about what it's about. Not sure I need to.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Macô, Um passeio no mundo livre, Maracatu Atomico

Science’s singing is a little underwhelming (not bad, not great either) but the instrumentals are awesome.

The first time I heard of "Zumbi" was from Soulfly's "Tribe". Anyway that's beside the point. This is a good album in honesty, I didn't absolutely love it and might not listen to all of it again but there are some good take away tracks like "Macô" and "Um Passeio No Mundo Livre". If my 2nd language wasn't Portuguese I'd probably not like it at all.

No idea how to describe this album, but it's really cool. Huge blend of different moods and influences, but it works from track to track. I'd buy this album on vinyl if I saw it in the record store 4/5

I applaud this for being something interesting. It doesn't work, but it's interesting. It's also way too long. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

It’s cool that all countries have goofy okay hip hop

Rockin

Yeah not made for me

Enjoyed the diversity and mixture of hip-hop, rock, funk with a brazilian swagger. Different enough to keep me interested through the listen, but not something that i'm likely to come back to.

November 11, 2025 HL: "Manguetown", "Maracatu Atômico" (Ragga Mix), "Macô", "Quilombo Groove", maybe "Corpo de Lama" I am grateful to confirm that Brazilian music is more than just MPB and Sepultura. (as the callbacks to Os Mutantes remind me, there's also the psychedelic-leaning Tropicália groups I am still conflicted about this album. The blend of different rhythms & percussion is the best thing about it, however when it turns into 90's rap-rock, I didn't find myself enjoying it any more than Chico Science's English-language contemporaries Fun Lovin' Criminals and Beck. I normally try not to mess with the tracklist if I haven't heard an album previously... but I sprinkled all the Maracatu Atomicos throughout the record in roughly equal intervals. It's a good song but not good enough to hear three times in a row.

It was ok.

It took me a couple of tracks to settle into the groove of this, but this was a pretty fun listen. Funky and musically diverse. Thanks for the submission. Fave Songs: Manguetown, Maco, Um Passeio No Mundo Livre, Quilombo Groove, O Cidadao Do Mundo

Manguebeat, art rock, punk rock. Ni fu ni fa.

Come to Brasil friend... Come to São Paulo friend. Come to Rio de Janeiro friend. Come to Belo Horizonte friend. Come to Manaus friend. Come to Fortaleza friend. no

Nice grooves. I could swear "Enquanto O Mundo Explode" (I think it was) inspired At The Drive-In's song "Arcarsenal"

A perfect blend of Brazilian music, funk, hip hop , rock and electronic music. Pretty catchy. Favorite songs: Sangue De Bairro, Enquanto O Mundo Explode, O Cidadao Do Mundo, Etnia, Maco, Maracatu Atomico Least favorite songs: Sobremesa, O Encontro De Isaac Asimov Com Santos Dumont No Ceu 3/5

90s funk as global phenomenon

Ritmos brasileños y algo más étnicos. Aprueba justito, puesto que no he encontrado mucha sintonía con el disco. Las canciones son variadas, pero con un estilo cambiante.

Well there's a lot in here ain't there.....! A very mixed bag but it has it's moments, some nice rhythms especially

Pretty good

I was flip-flopping between "This is bangers" and "This is tiring, when will it end?". I love how punchy the drums are on many of the songs though. 5/10

Excellent regional sounds.

Alku vahvempi kuin loppu, menee vikoissa biiseissä monotooniseksi.

This was pure chaos and it had some highs and lows throughout the album. I think a solid 3 is fair for this one. Crazy album but very unique and different and I appreciate listening to albums from other countries and cultures.

It was fine

Foreign rap/rock that went on too long

This was ok, but didn’t stand out as anything special. Maybe the langue barrier didn’t help.

This is one of the only times I think I've ever said "this isn't what I expected" and meant it negatively. The album cover screams 90s, but the genres and general vibes told me this may be something fun to dive in to, despite its length. However, after the first few tracks the rock influences started to wear on me, just being cheesy, and by the end, despite a couple tracks almost grabbing me, I was ready to be done with the singer's frankly annoying voice and the general repetitiveness of the whole project, despite the small variations between tracks. Maybe if it was a shorter album I would be nicer, but I come away from this just feeling like I wasted my time, but maybe I should've expected that would happen the whole time.

I don't really like hip hop in my own language, you can tell they're having fun with it though.

hahah wtf is this 2

Nice to see some more international picks for the list, but this LP didn't wow me really. There's an interesting blend of hard-hitting French vocals mixed with electronica and traditional styles, but little dynamic contrast means the aggressive delivery starts to blend together after a while. Some more ebbs and flows in the energy could've made this a standout, just kinda blended into the background as it is for me.

honestly this feels like Brazilian rap rock and I'm not here for it.

I suppose it is ok. Honestly the main attraction is that it isn't english and has a great Latin feel...not sure I would even entertain otherwise. 2/5

Not the kind of music I usually go for. It was enjoyable enough but not something I’d actively seek out

Not for me, but thanks for sharing.

Excellent Brazilian percussion work, unfortunately everything else aged like milk, at least in my personal book -- from the "alternative"-like nineties funk-rock tones, which don't always pack the punch they're supposed to pack, to that sort of scansion for Chico Science's vocal delivery (may he rest on power), that I find a little heavy-handed and stilted groove-wise. Some cuts manage to stand out ("Manguetown", "Maracatu Atômico", moody instrumentals "O Encontro de Isaac Asimov..." - sampling Tricky's "Overcome" - or "Baião Ambiental", both clearly designed to be interludes and yet still simpler and a little more evocative). But honestly, the rest leaves me cold, and I don't think it's me being narrow-minded here. Pretty sure there are tons of Brazilian acts of all stripes that will be more to my liking, beyond those I already know. Thanks for trying though. 1.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 2. 6.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1.5) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 72 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 89 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 173 (including this one) ---- Émile, tu trouveras ma dernière réponse sous le *Inside* de Bo Burnham

Afrociberdelia started with a bit of interest, rap/rock but make it Brasilian, but after about 3 tracks it got very boring and very generic. 2.

Isso definitivamente não é o estilo de ninguém em inglês, português ou qualquer outro idioma, embora se entenda por que as crianças possam gostar. Poderia substituir o Sepultura na lista principal, claro, mas, sinceramente, vamos ter mais samba, por favor.

Nja, det här är ju inte särskilt spännande. För jävla lång dessutom.

This is for someone, but that someone is not me.

It’s got beats but I confess that I prefer my Brazilian music more psychedelia- than hip-hop- and grunge-influenced. I recognise what manguebeat meant to Brazil, so I gave it some love and listened to it all, including the variant tracks and the one track from this album that wasn’t allowed on Spotify (!!) - and you know what? Those were my favourite two tracks. Odd balls!

This is some pretty generic 90s sounding rock but with a Brazilian twist. I mean outside of not understanding this it just felt like simple alternative from the 90s. There were a few songs that thrashed a bit hard but most of them felt repetitive. Mix that into it being over an hour and you lose me. 2.8/10

Didn't do anything from me.