World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil: The Best Of Os Mutantes/Everything Is Possible!

Os Mutantes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B00000J7JI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,288 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Tropicália

Track Listings

1. Ando Meio Desligado

2. Ave, Lucifer

3. Dia

4. Baby

5. Fuga No. II

6. Cantor De Mambo

7. Adeus Maria Fulo

8. Desculpe, Babe

9. El Justiciero

10. Panis Et Circenses

11. A Minha Menina

12. Bat Macumba

13. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour

14. Baby

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Best Of Os Mutantes? I don't think so., October 30, 2000

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B.A.S. (watford, herts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil- The Best of Os Mutantes / Everything is Possible! (Audio CD)

Brazilian Tropicalia stars Os Mutantes - Rita Lee, the Baptista Brothers - were/are one of the most unique bands in the world. Like many later-60s artists, they were significantly influenced by the Beatles, but they took their brand of psychedelia to even more exotically far flung resorts than the Fabs, such as Opera, Bossa Nova, film music, and South American folk. This may sound mad, and it is, but Mutantes were a happy 'experimental' band and were never less than joyously melodic. It is therefore no little achievement of the compilers of this Best Of... album to make them sound like an easy listening act. The first half comprises of a barrage of mellow ballads, all of which are excellent, the problem being that it was the variety in texture and tempo of Mutantes music that made them so unpredictably exciting, and this is precisely what is missing from the so-called 'Everything is Possible'.

It's almost criminal that the first four and last two tracks from their second album, Mutantes, aren't included here, a little like having a 'best of' the Beatles without A Day In the Life or Strawberry Fields. So forget this dubious piece of revisionist Os Mutantes history then and buy their first three albums, Os Mutantes, Mutantes and A Davina Comedia Ou. You won't look back and I assure you you'll never want to listen to boring old chart-friendly manufactured pap again.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and weird., November 12, 2001

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Christopher Wanko "-C" (Nutley, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil- The Best of Os Mutantes / Everything is Possible! (Audio CD)

I first caught Os Mutantes in a Hoboken record store; I was
learning Portuguese at the time and recognized some of the
lyrics. However, the funky guitar riffs and hilarious
inside jokes really hooked me. This marked the beginning
of my journey into Brazilian sound, which honestly looks to
last as long as any walk up the Amazon.

Highlights are Bat Macumba and Cantor de Mambo, but a few
listens will really turn you onto something different,
guaranteed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Capităo XièXiè ouviu e gostou! [e-mail], December 15, 1999

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Jose F. Bacelar "cpxiexie" (Brasilia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil: The Best Of Os Mutantes/Everything Is Possible! (Audio CD)

Mutantes had their debut in 1966, recording the compact vynil release 'O Suicida', when they were still 'O'Seis', their former name. It was an efervecent period: we had Bossa Nova, plus Tropicalia, plus Militry Government, plus young rebels, plus Brazilian Popular Music purists, and so on... In fact, Os Mutantes were not such a success at that time: they were much ahead of their time. According to Rita Lee Jones, the singer, all was just fun, kinda child's play. It would have been a child's play IF musical scenery did not turn to be so boring, so uncreative... Maybe Punk Rock have been a good attempt, but it seemed 'to have died on the shore'... Or swallowed by massification. Mutantes IS worth listening. Perhaps they are still ahead of our time, and perhaps the three of them do no care a dime for this international reissue of their past. Rita has her own successful career, Sérgio tried his solo career as a progressive guitarist, but in the seventies there were progressive guitarists like sand in the desert... And Arnaldo, well, Arnaldo was a real Mutante: although very talented, he believed that their success was due to their individual talent (of his and his brother Sérgio)... And when they 'invited' Rita to leave the group (1973), 'the group' blew down like a castle of cards. Rita went on with her experimental successful music (1974 on), Sérgio fell into progressive rock and Arnaldo into ostracism. This little sample of Mutantes is not the best of them. There are a lot of good mutantes songs in the two solo albuns of Rita during Mutantes: 'Hoje é o primeiro dia do resto de sua vida' (1970), and 'Build Up' (1972). There is also 'Mutantes e seus cometas no planeta dos Beaurets' (1972), the last with Rita. The following Mutantes recordings (without Rita) were 'Tudo foi feito pelo sol' (1974) and 'Mutantes ao vivo' (1976), both with poor progressive rock. Nothing to do with real Mutantes. And if you really liked Mutantes, try one of the following Rita recordings: 'Atrás do porto tem uma cidade' (1974); 'Fruto proibido' (1975); 'Refestança' (1977); 'Babilônia' (1978). And if you want to learn more about them, drop me a line.