Caetano Veloso
(1968) Philips / Universal
1 Tropicália
2 Clarice
3 No dia em que eu vim-me embora
4 Alegria, alegria
5 Onde andarás
6 Anunciação
7 Superbacana
8 Paisagem útil
9 Clara
10 Soy loco por ti, América
11 Ave-Maria
12 Eles
Tropicália is often described as the allegorical song-manifesto of the
movement with which it shares its name, although Caetano Veloso has been at
pains to play this down and emphasises the spontaneity of its creation. Nonetheless,
the song is an icon of the movement, opening with a parody of a historic open
letter to the Portuguese King by a early explorer describing he cornucopia of
then virgin Brazil, it moves into a disjointed narrative contrasting the rustic
poverty and dictatorial modernism of the late 1960s, and ends with a word play
between contemporary rockers, viva a banda-da-da, Carmen Miranda-da-da and dada.
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