Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Os Mutantes

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Luaka Bop
• ASIN: B00004RD1T
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #346,936 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording
"You must take a look at the new land," Os Mutantes singer Rita Lee softly proclaims on Everything Is Possible!'s English-language rewrite of Caetano Veloso's "Baby." The Brazilian psychedelic-rock pioneers were addressing a hoped-for American-British audience, but they could also have been singing to their own country's political establishment, which didn't take kindly to the Tropicalia era's fusion of Beatles and Hendrix influences with elements of bossa nova and samba. The result continues to reverberate more than three decades later in the work of Beck, Stereolab, and Cibo Matto, not to mention on late-'90s reissues such as this. Full of beauty, self-mocking good humor, and a command of varied styles that Lennon and McCartney would've envied, this enticing music is every bit as fresh as it must've sounded to South American swingers back in the day. --Rickey Wright

Product Description
Superb compilation from the Brazilian Psychedelic rockers who added their own spin to the Tropicalia movement that was so popular at the time. 14 tracks including 'Dia 36', 'Cantor De Mambo', 'Ando Meio Desligado' and more. Luaka Bop. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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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

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

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

By	Christopher Wanko "-C" (Nutley, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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 Capitão XièXiè ouviu e gostou! [e-mail], December 15, 1999

By	Jose F. Bacelar "cpxiexie" (Brasilia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.