Brazil - One song per day!

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Primavera (Vai Chuva)" of the singer Tim Maia, one of the greatest and most impressive voices of the brazilian music and even world music. One of his best albums is his first album, self-titled "Tim Maia". Tim Maia is the king of soul here in Brazil.

[Pierre]

Youtube link:

mat.bez.lima, it would be great if you could at least provide a link to the song, whether on Youtube or somewhere else, so people don't have to go looking for it by themselves, as most might be too lazy to do it We're not asking for a big detailed presentation like Romain does in his (awesome) thread for French songs, but I believe this is a minimum.

Pretty song, otherwise. Close to Philly soul in the arrangements.

[mat.bez.lima]

Youtube link:

mat.bez.lima, it would be great if you could at least provide a link to the song, whether on Youtube or somewhere else, so people don't have to go looking for it by themselves, as most might be too lazy to do it We're not asking for a big detailed presentation like Romain does in his (awesome) thread for French songs, but I believe this is a minimum.

Pretty song, otherwise. Close to Philly soul in the arrangements.

OK!

[sonofsamiam]

Love this song, and it's cool because it's completely contemporary with the soul music happening stateside, and almost a bit ahead of its time.

mat, I'm a huge fan of Brazilian music -- Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Jobim (of course), Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Tom Ze, Secos & Molhados, Ze Ramalho (love his album with Lula Cortes), Joyce, Lo Borges, Cartola, Edu Lobo, Maria Bethania, Marcos Valle, Nara Leao, the list goes on. I feel I'm missing out on more recent stuff ... I like Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi and Meta Meta quite a lot, but there's got to more I'm not hearing. Very much looking forward to seeing more of your recommendations.

[Bruno]

Good topic!

As one of the Brazilians here, I want to contribute as soon as possible.

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Pais e Filhos" by Legião Urbana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfixHYBWaiU

[Dexter]

Good topic!

As one of the Brazilians here, I want to contribute as soon as possible.

Please do!

The song of today is "Pais e Filhos" by Legião Urbana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfixHYBWaiU

mat.bez.lima, it's great that you started this thread and I enjoyed both songs you've recommended so far. If I may offer two suggestions, first, save a space on the first page to list all the songs, just like a table of contents in a book, and second I would like to see in the future a brief background of the artist and talk a little about the lyrical content of the song because most of the readers probably don't speak Portuguese. This will make your presentation more interesting to the readers/listeners and make them understand what the singer is trying to convey.

for example (source: Wikipedia): Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília. While Legião Urbana disbanded officially in 1996, after the death of the band's frontman, it is to this day one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands, alongside Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Titãs and Barão Vermelho. "Pais e Filhos" is translated as "Parents and Children." It was written by frontman Renato Russo, who was widely known as one of Brazilian rock's great poets. The song talks about broken, intact, happy and dysfunctional families, included the lyrics "É preciso amar/as pessoas como se não houvesse amanhã/Porque se você parar/pra pensar/Na verdade não há" ("We must love people as if there was no tomorrow/Because when you stop to think about it/There really isn't")

[mat.bez.lima]

Good topic!

As one of the Brazilians here, I want to contribute as soon as possible.

Please do!

The song of today is "Pais e Filhos" by Legião Urbana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfixHYBWaiU

mat.bez.lima, it's great that you started this thread and I enjoyed both songs you've recommended so far. If I may offer two suggestions, first, save a space on the first page to list all the songs, just like a table of contents in a book, and second I would like to see in the future a brief background of the artist and talk a little about the lyrical content of the song because most of the readers probably don't speak Portuguese. This will make your presentation more interesting to the readers/listeners and make them understand what the singer is trying to convey.

for example (source: Wikipedia): Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília. While Legião Urbana disbanded officially in 1996, after the death of the band's frontman, it is to this day one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands, alongside Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Titãs and Barão Vermelho. "Pais e Filhos" is translated as "Parents and Children." It was written by frontman Renato Russo, who was widely known as one of Brazilian rock's great poets. The song talks about broken, intact, happy and dysfunctional families, included the lyrics "É preciso amar/as pessoas como se não houvesse amanhã/Porque se você parar/pra pensar/Na verdade não há" ("We must love people as if there was no tomorrow/Because when you stop to think about it/There really isn't")

Thank you for the advices and suggestion. I will make all that you said in my song of today, that I will post today, night.

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Admirável Gado Novo" by Zé Ramalho. Zé Ramalho is one of the greatest singers and composers of MPB. I admire his impressive talent in songwriting, one of the greatest brazilian composers. His melodies are wonderful, the arrangementes of his musics is also wonderful in its simplicity, many times only a guitar. And the lyrics of his musics are also wonderful, talking about certain specific cultural aspects, superstitions, mysteries, myths and traditions of many regions of Brazil, principally the northeast region (Brazil is a big country with great cultural diversity), love, religion and society problems with a impressive richness in the lyrics. Anyone that don't understand portuguese, please, find some person that understand or even use teh Google Tradutor. The lyrics of the song of today tell about the cattles and their hard work that moves the country and that the cattles are, tough all their hard work, happy. I understand that Zé Ramalho uses teh cattles with metaphorical sense to describe the life and sentiment in the common life of many brazilians, especially the brazilians of the northeast region of Brazil. Zé Ramalho is from the northeast region and many times he sings about the culture and life of the northeast people. My family is from northeast origin and my father tells me about the much hard and simple, but also happy, life in the northeast. The song of today show much good this sentiment and also criticizes the social problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V25dmbvf4p4

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Detalhes", from the album "Roberto Carlos" of 1971. Roberto Carlos is, without doubt, the most popular singer in the history of Brazil, tough some consider the hype about him exagerated when he is called "king" of brazilian music. Roberto Carlos is not a unanimity in young public (that somemtimes consider him kitsch because the immense drama and calling him "repetitive"), but he have in all carrer a quantity of sucess that is far superior than any other brazilian singer. Many of his sucesses are even today covered by many great and popular bands and singers of the moment. His songs are still much played and have always new public. Even who don't like, like at least some sucesses of him, many times without the knowing that the music is from Roberto Carlos. The best album of him is the album of 1971. Detalhes is one of the best musics of his career, a great sucess that tells about a man that say that his ex-company will never forget him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YfVoRBaKY4

[sonofsamiam]

The song of today is "Admirável Gado Novo" by Zé Ramalho. Zé Ramalho is one of the greatest singers and composers of MPB. I admire his impressive talent in songwriting, one of the greatest brazilian composers. His melodies are wonderful, the arrangementes of his musics is also wonderful in its simplicity, many times only a guitar. And the lyrics of his musics are also wonderful, talking about certain specific cultural aspects, superstitions, mysteries, myths and traditions of many regions of Brazil, principally the northeast region (Brazil is a big country with great cultural diversity), love, religion and society problems with a impressive richness in the lyrics. Anyone that don't understand portuguese, please, find some person that understand or even use teh Google Tradutor. The lyrics of the song of today tell about the cattles and their hard work that moves the country and that the cattles are, tough all their hard work, happy. I understand that Zé Ramalho uses teh cattles with metaphorical sense to describe the life and sentiment in the common life of many brazilians, especially the brazilians of the northeast region of Brazil. Zé Ramalho is from the northeast region and many times he sings about the culture and life of the northeast people. My family is from northeast origin and my father tells me about the much hard and simple, but also happy, life in the northeast. The song of today show much good this sentiment and also criticizes the social problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V25dmbvf4p4

I've loved this song for some time, but never understood what it really meant or had this context. Thank you!

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Chega de Saudade", one of the greatest classics of bossa nova, singed by João Gilberto in the great album also called "Chega de Saudade".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUuJrpP0Mak

[mat.bez.lima]

Sorry because I forgot post a song today. Because this, I will post two songs today:
"Para Dizer Que Não Falei De Flores" is a wonderful song, with wonderful melody and lyrics. The song was composed by Geraldo Vandré. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGlRrJLiiY
"Índios" is one of the greatest sucess of the most popular rock band in the brazilian music: Legião Urbana. The melody is very good, but the greatest quality of the song are the lyrics, that are social critics about the escravization of the natives when the portugueses come to Brazil and discover the Brazil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_gEzvhsM0

[mat.bez.lima]

"Alagados" is the song of today by one of the greatest brazilian rock bands: Paralamas do Sucesso. The song was a great sucess and make critical socials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi9K97ulmE

[Bruno]

Great choices so far .... I also like "Lanternas dos Afogados" of Paralamas do Sucesso.

[Toni]

Thanks for choosing "Alagados", mat! It's one of my favorite songs ever, and probably a top 5 Brazilian songs for me.
I still remember the first time I heard it on the radio, in a time I used to listen only to pop music. I was so impressed by the greatness, criativity and energy of this song, that it was the first time I thought I should make a list of the best songs I had ever heard.

[Dexter]

I also like "Alagados" with its tropical vibe and laid-back beat. Correct me if I'm wrong, the music video seems to tell me that the song talks about being happy and enjoying life despite having less in life (flavela or slum setting) and trouble brewing around (police checking up on you), is that what the lyrics of the song say?

Also the youtube video linked by mat is incomplete and I googled the full video and found this:
https://vimeo.com/7048273
warning, the video was cut in youtube most probably because of questionable content: a very brief flash of a woman's pubic hair and inappropriate frisking in the groin area... well whatever, you'll click on it anyway.

[mat.bez.lima]

I also like "Alagados" with its tropical vibe and laid-back beat. Correct me if I'm wrong, the music video seems to tell me that the song talks about being happy and enjoying life despite having less in life (flavela or slum setting) and trouble brewing around (police checking up on you), is that what the lyrics of the song say?

Also the youtube video linked by mat is incomplete and I googled the full video and found this:
https://vimeo.com/7048273
warning, the video was cut in youtube most probably because of questionable content: a very brief flash of a woman's pubic hair and inappropriate frisking in the groin area... well whatever, you'll click on it anyway.

You're not wrong in respect of the lyrics of "Alagados". It's I that don't explained much good the lyrics theme of the music.

[mat.bez.lima]

The song of today is "Travessia" by Milton Nascimento, one of the greatest geniuses of brazilian music. The greatest Nascimento's album is "Clube da Esquina". But the today's songs is of the first Nascimento's album, also called "Travessia". The lyrics of this songs are of a great simplicity and clarity. I will post an english traduction of the lyrics.

When you left became night in my life
Strong I am, but there's no way
Today I have to cry
My house is not mine, nor is it my place this
I'm alone and not resist, I have much to talk

Loose the voice on the roads, no longer want to stop
My path is stone, as can dream
made of breeze dream, wind comes finish
I'll close my tears, I want to kill me

I follow the life forgetting you
I do not want more death, I have a lot to live
I will want to love again and if it does not I will not suffer
I no longer dream, now I do with my arm my live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBa2Z28oPRU

[mat.bez.lima]

The today's song is "Conceição" by Cauby Peixoto. May be isn't a really great song, but Cauby's voice deserve be heard. He was called by some people here the brazilian's Frank Sinatra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK88bmpcvgk

[mat.bez.lima]

Today we will have many songs:
"Ideologia" by one of the greatest brazilian rock singer: Cazuza. The melody is great and the lyrics are also wonderful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UioudOtAsCQ
"Eu Nasci Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás" by Raul Seixas, one of the greatest rock brazilian singers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y80GfK_mFDw
"Construção" by Chico Buarque, the best of the song are the lyrics, that have strong social critics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzWI_JjFBr0
"Para Machucar Meu Coração" from the album Getz/Gilberto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ocIa2W19Y
"Para Dizer Que Não Falei De Flores" composed by Geraldo Vandré. This song is considered by many a critic against the brazilian military dictatory. The song also tell abot union. This version of this link is of Zé Ramalho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34DPlVTVQo
"Brasil" by Cazuza, the music have strong critics against the Brazil and is frequently evoked when the subject is the brazilian political corruption, for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuoe729egU
"Eu Sei Que Eu Vou Te Amar" is a beautiful song about love composed by Tom Jobim. This link is of Ana Carolina's version, but many artists covered this song, it's like american standards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7sYvwRfn40

[mat.bez.lima]

The today's song is "Você", one of the greatest successes of Tim Maia, the king of brazilian soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubfc7gTH7vo