Lost Classics: "A Minha Menina" by Os Mutantes

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This is probably the best brasillian song ever made.

What does everyone else think?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

Stirmonster agrees with you!

― I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I like it a lot but OM have better songs than that

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

The 1971 version of "Baby" . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Hardly a "lost classic" what with the Bees' cover version, etc.

I always thought it sounded like the missing link between the Tremeloes and "Jeepster."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Lost?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

well its not like its a song recognized by average households across the world.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

99% of all pop music to thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

If ou ask a normal person (no one like us) about this song, they'd said "A What-a Men-What-a?"

It's lost.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

my own definition of "obscure" is that if an average of zero people out of ten (use your own barometer; the denominator can be people in industrialized nations, etc etc) have heard of some band, they are OBSCURE.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

so this track was written by Jorge Ben. was there ever a version of his recorded?

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

If ou ask a normal person (no one like us)

but you're asking us. i'm sure more than 50% of the board has heard this song. that is not lost in the least

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

i have a belle & sebastian cover of it on mp3.. its fun. i guess it was at their sao paulo show. crowd goes buck wild.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

That whole album was just Cover Songs (except for 2 songs or something)

I don't think Jorge Ben released a version of it. Maybe a live version of something with Caetano Veloso or Gilberto Gil.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

Nine out of ten people have never heard of "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye, so that must be obscure.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Nine out of 10 people in Mongolia?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, as a rule of thumb, if David Byrne has rereleased it, it probably can't count as lost.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

I think it best to interpret "lost classics" as meaning in this context "great songs ILXors may never have heard (of)."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

it's a cute song but not a 'lost classic' in my book. and definitely not the best brazilian song, that's just insane.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

this song has been on an advert = it is not a 'lost classic'

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

it's the best dance song om ever made but not necessarily their best song. i'd say it was a lost classic in that os mutantes should be a household name but aren't, that almost everyone who hears this song falls in love wih it but that sadly not that many people have heard it.

x post. the song on the advert was a cover version.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Ten years ago, it was a lost classic, along with the other tracks of theirs.

Now, it is a found classic, along with the other tracks of theirs.

Hooray for finding things.

xpost yeah the bees.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Now, "Norman Stanley Jones St Clair" by the Tremeloes - there's a lost classic.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAnyways, this song rules.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Great song - in fact I listed it on my blog a few days ago as one of the top five songs I'm listening to right now: http://o_nate.pitas.com/

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I used to play it quite frequently on my radio show. Which means I think it's classic, anyway.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

yah, one of my faves of theirs, though they've probably got slightly better stuff. currently on the brasiliana tack i'm loving jorge ben's "zumbi"

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20050712.FIG0104.html?143959

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

There's a crazy version by a brazilian "choir" called Open Field Church wich is quite unique.

― Ghost, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

it sounds like the theme to Wacky Races.

― bill neil (inabillity), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

it's on the jukebox at daddy's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I like it fine, but I don't consider it a lost classic. It's not even my favorite Mutantes song. It's not even my song written by Jorge Ben with "menina" in the title.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I like how every aspect of the thread title (whether the song is lost, whether it is a classic, and whether it is by os mutantes) has been called into question.
I dont know why I like it, sometimes you just like things, ya know? I like you guys.

― matlewis (matlewis), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

For instance, Samba Esquema Novo has "Rosa, Menina Rosa," "Por Causa De Você, Menina" and, my favorite, " Menina Bonita Não Chora."

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

It actually IS my favorite Os Mutantes song, and one of my favorite summer jams. Not lost, but a classic.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Alright, can I dud the version on the "Technicolour" CD? "She's my choo choo" indeed!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Ralph Wiggum to thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh this track was on constant rotation in the Dog Latin household that I nearly got banned by girlfriend and flatmates for playing it. It really is that good!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

OK, what did you think when you heared the Bees version? Mine was "Oh so they did record an english version at the time!" (ie Mutantes)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

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