22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The computer it solves me..., April 24, 2000
This review is from: Mutantes (Audio CD)
The first Mutantes album, Os Mutantes, is very good and a good introduction to this trio of goodliness. But if you want to jump in up to your waist and smother yourself with the beautifulness of Mutantes, buy this album.
One of the FINEST albums to be released during the worldwide psychedelic wave, it pounds pretty much every Beatles recording into the ground and then turns around and smashes everyone else. Forget Sgt. Pepper, forget Pet Sounds, forget everything you thought you knew and then put this on and break off the buttons, because if you're like me, you'll never want to stop listening to it.
My god, this is a great album. Start to finish. From the majestic opening music, more like a Roman ceremony than a rock album, to the last triumphant lament of the last song, you will be enthralled and your mind will develop new sections just to take it all in.
Thank goodness these albums are now available with English translations, but to tell the truth, you don't need them. Even if you don't understand what it is they're saying, you know that it is good. And let's be honest, psychedelic music is usually better when you can't understand what they're saying, because they're usually saying something highly laughable. Not here though. Look at the lyrics and understand we are dealing with an intelligence that far surpasses the dada of anything John and Yoko ever cooked up.
So, turn your back on the status quo idea of what is a landmark recording of the psychedelic era. and turn towards the Mutantes. And let them love you.
You know you want it.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brazilian-Portuguese Craziness, January 30, 2002
This review is from: Mutantes (Audio CD)
I have been all over the world and have taken this album with me everywhere. Never gets old. Always gives you a great rush. The extreme example of good musical entertainment. If you have an open mind, regardless if you understand portuguese or spanish which if you know spanish you can pick up alot. Open minded, music lovers, explorers NEED THIS ALBUM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I left my everything is possible CD with my friend Vicente in Sevilla, Spain and couldn't get it back. However, Os Mutantes second album is off the hook. Transcends time and space, if it was a woman I would buy the ring tomorrow. Um, Doish, Traish order it! Dois mil e um is my favorite track on the Cd however Qualquer Bobagem coupled with Noturno Caminhante is a one two closing punch. It'll knock you silly boy! I'm not crazy and I'm not obsessed. These guys are great...
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
vive Mutantes!, January 5, 2009
The cover depiction of two matadors and a bride, guitars in hand and howling into microphones is pretty apt for this album.
Within the first few minutes a roaring crowd, angelic voices, funky guitars, flutes, "Bohemian Rhapsody"-style vocals, and swirling psychedelic march music replace eachother one-by-one, in a deliberately disorienting collage of craziness. No, the 1960s greatest nonconformists weren't the dour-yet-stoned Pink Floyd, nor smoky southern pacifist blues-bikers The Allman Brothers, nor the dandy incense-and-peppermints set, nor students of the Maharishi, nor even the art-damaged Velvets. They were from Brazil.
A group that has been long known to the sample-happy Beck and the cosmopolitan funkateer David Byrne, Os Mutantes evaded the radar of most of the English-speaking world. Psychedelic tropicalia in Portuguese, anyone? Byrne corrected this oversight somewhat with the "Everything is Possible!" compilation on his own boutique label, Luaka Bop -- a tasty sampler that draws heavily from the classic lineup of the first three Mutantes albums.
The core trio that would record the most classic and revered albums of the Os Mutantes canon stormed out of the gates with their debut self-titled album, a twisting and invigorating blast of South American funk, distorted guitars and sweet ballads.
The second album, "Mutantes," finds the band stretching out even further, delivering two instant classics: Fuga Nº II and the crawling flanged-and-processed vocals of Dia 36. Besides those immediate treasures, there is the hard charging Não Vá Se Perder Por Aí (which gives Magical Mystery Tour-era recordings a run for their money); the breathy, percolating Algo Mais, with its wicked bent-note descending guitar figure; trumpet fanfares, sawing electric fiddles that would make Papa John Creach proud, fearless psychedelic sound effects and sonic trickery, sweetly layered harmonies, and more.
Imagine a young, Latina Grace Slick fronting a supergroup formed from Santana and The United States Of America, anticipating Sergeant Pepper-era Beatles (but just a touch more sinister), and playing it all at hyperspeed. You're beginning to get the idea.
Don't worry if you can't speak Portuguese -- I can't either, and it has never once hampered my enjoyment of these headlong, mindbending records.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Was this review helpful to you? Yes
No
