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

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