Wow! You really are a finger and a tongue man, Brock. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly as well.
Brocktune wrote:yes.
Mutantes is their second album, and yes it is good. it does feel a little derivative in places though. and if i didnt know any better, at times it seems like Os Mutantes were the only people in brazil who had heard the beatles, and were hoping to lift a riff or two before it caught on with the rest of the folks, you know? but i think those first two albums are the only ones with the female. I think her name is rita. after those two, she left, and i think the band took on a more traditional (for lack of a better term) "prog rock" sound. you know they are actually playing here in a month or two. i hope i have some cash then, i'd like to see them. but overall, "Mutantes" is a fantastic slice of psychede... er.... tropicalia.
The original sounded pretty derivative in a way too, but it's almost as if they were forced into filling in the gaps in their psychedelic record collection (which was no fault of their own, just a matter of geography), and came up with something completely their own in the process. Don't, whatever you do, tell me what the hell they're singing either! It'll probably be some crap about dandelions, that'll completely distract me from the rest of the record.
Brocktune wrote:honestly, i wasn't too into it. i measn, its ok, but i wouldnt really listen to it too often. it is to rooted in music that i hated back in the 80's.. i had heard one track of his previously that i loved. i forget what it was called, but b-chan played it in the first hour of her 12/4/05 Nippon Music Champ broadcast, if that does anything for you. but overall, i would only really listen to neo fascio if i was scanning it for songs to put in my retro 80's flick soundtrack, you know? a lot of cheesy John Carpenter synths, and big contemporary adult listening from the mid 1980's drum tracks.
Sounds like I might have had a case of listening to a record drunk off my skull, and spending the next two years imagining how good it was. I still might give it a listen, but at least I'll be prepared now!
Brocktune wrote:indeed i have. i really dig Burning Spear. its probably my fave out of all of your recs. i do try to get to everyones recs sooner or later, it just takes some time. right now, im seriously overdue in telling KC exactly what i think of his tastes. then its on to St. A. i dont know if i will ever get to that fountains of wayne record at this rate. and as far as SFG goes, well, i have no idea where to begin, so im picking those at random.
And you know what, just one day after I made that highly-successful reggae thread, I picked up Handsworth Revolution, and adored it. I don't know why, but I always thought of Steel Pulse, and British reggae in general, as being kind of like a synthy, Omary, Aswad sort of deal, i.e. utter crap, but Steel Pulse schooled me good and proper. I even played it to a producer friend of mine, who ended up sampling a couple of seconds of it. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, I haven't heard the track yet, but thanks all the same.
Oh, and good luck with Fountains of Wayne...
Not even Steve-O would subject himself to such pain so flippantly.
