Afrociberdelia

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It was ok.

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.