Mamonas Assassinas [Import]

Mamonas Assassinas (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B00000DZ63
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #819,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 1406

2. Vira-Vira

3. Pelados Em Santos

4. Chopis Centis

5. Jumento Celestino

6. Sabão Crá Crá

7. Uma Arlinda Mulher

8. Cabeça de Bagre, Pt. 2/Baby Elephant Walk

9. Mundo Animal

10. Robocop Gay

11. Bois Don't Cry

12. Débil Metal

13. Sábado de Sol

14. Lá Vem O Alemão

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laughs from start to finish!, August 20, 2006

By 

Tom Babajanian (Fort Collins, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mamonas Assassinas (Audio CD)

This CD has got to be the funniest work of stylistic parrody ever written. Unfortunately, since it was written mostly in Portuguese, the world outside Brazil cannot enjoy this great work of music that could have made Wierd Al Yankevic envious.

With obnoxious lyrics that extend the limits of humorous raunchiness, and musical arrangements that parrody artists from The Clash, to Rush, to Sepultura to various artists from Brazil, Mamonas Assassinas' only studio album is a parade of deliberate, self-aware stupidity that plays like a best-of collection. Among the targets of their parody are pathetic lovesongs about men whose girlfriends or wives have been unfaithful or have left them, songs about country folk who go to the big city and traditional music from Portugal.

The sad reality is that this is indeed a best-of collection: The whole band died in a tragic plane crash just a year after the release of this album. If the critics in Brazil called this work shallow and idiotic, the popularity of Mamonas, must certainly have annoyed them.