The 50 Greatest Brazilian Artists of All Time (according to Rolling Stone Brazilian edition)

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I might've voted for Milton Nascimento if only for Clube da Esquina 2, but his is a patchy body of work.

True, true. Patchy it really is. But then again those best bits, which are also plentiful, I just love to, well, bits.
So Nascimento it is for me.

Before this poll closes,it must be said: they managed to omit Brazil's greatest female bossa nova singer (Sylvia Telles) and greastest multi-instrumentalist (Egberto Gismonti).

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Hélio Oiticica was robbed.

Caetano is awesome, but I seriously think he is overrated in English speaking countries. Jorge Ben was more prolific and imo wrote better songs.

always so much love for Mutantes on this board but neither Rita Lee nor Arnaldo Baptista got votes.

It's hard to separate out their contributions. If I had to vote for a single Brazilian act, the Mutantes would have gotten serious consideration.

Tom Zé over Gilberto Gil? Y'all are mad corny. </old ethan, but brazilian>

Caetano is awesome, but I seriously think he is overrated in English speaking countries.

Thread of missing Chupacabras who would have come here and said the same thing. Unless oscar is he. Well, he would have said the second part of the sentence.

Caetano himself doesn't accept anything but awesome when it comes to describe him.

Caetano is awesome, but I seriously think he is overrated in English speaking countries

Caetano Veloso S and D

"Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi and the Mangue Movement: 20 Years Later"
Sunday, December 15th, 5:00-7:00pm
295 Douglass St. (Gowannus Art Space), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY

Did any New Yorkers here go to hear that presentation?

I guess not

Nope, sorry. Attended no Brazilian music related events this weekend, nor any other events.

I did not either!

Jobim should be #1 and Jorge Ben #2.

Caetano is awesome, but I seriously think he is overrated in English speaking countries. Jorge Ben was more prolific and imo wrote better songs.

― oscar

The whole tropicalia movement is definitely overrated by english speaking countries compared to brazil. Out of these list Vinicius de Moraes, Jobim and Jorge Ben are the ones that far as I know where extremely influential to 20th century brazilian music. I'm not actually from Brazil so I have no way of knowing. Any Brazilian ILM'er that can provide some first hand experience?

i'd say joão gilberto is the most influential by far (entire generations of acoustic gtr players from brazil were modelled after his revolutionary batida) and jobim is almost there, compositionally-wise at least. vinicius was basically a poet, he didn't do much on his own. not sure about ben, caetano or gilberto gil, they seem kinda interchangeable in terms of influence and/or legacy.

wait, edu lobo is not even on the list? fucking philistines

Earlier this year I reviewed reissues of four Marcos Valle albums for The Wire. Some crazy brilliant shit on there. And it's goddamn depressing that nobody voted for Chico Science in this poll. Nação Zumbi are amazing.

I actually talked to Max Cavalera about Chico Science once. He's covered some Zumbi songs on Soulfly albums. Here's footage of him playing with them on Brazilian MTV in 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEc_EcQdHa4

I just picked up the 1969 Gilberto Gil album (the one with the scroll/parchment thing on the cover. ). Man, it is just punk as fuck,. I'm not sure how much I necessarily enjoyed it but dude is just all over the place, switching from funky acoustic strumming to nasty fuzz guitar solos with him singing and yelling in all sorts of ways throughout. And nothing ever settles, it seems, just constant kaleidoscopic ebuilliance.

I don't really get Caetano Veloso, he's probably my least favorite of the 20 or so I am familiar with from this list

Voted for Cartola, wished Jorge Ben would have won this poll, but João Gilberto in fact deserved #1

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-vinyl-boom-002c636f8c25c3874627d7e535a92c48

This record is pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCibxUg2JM