Acknowledged as one of the great Brazilian rock & roll records, Titãs' third album, Cabeça Dinossauro (translation: "Dinosaur Head") found the São Paulo octet giving flight to their burgeoning artistic eclecticism after years playing the soul-crushing but necessary television game on the cheesy auditorium show circuit. Wasting little time, the ...
When WEA commemorated Titãs' tenth anniversary of recording in 1994 by compiling their greatest hits into not one, but two best-of collections, the stalwarts of '80s Brazilian rock were still going strong. After all, despite the sudden departure of key songwriter and lyricist Arnaldo Antunes two years earlier and the mostly mixed reviews accorded ...
Released in 2003, Como Estão Vocês? was Titãs' 14th album and their first without the band's former bass player, Nando Reis, who had embarked on a solo career. Lee Marcucci, who played with Rita Lee during the 70s, was called in as Reis' replacement. Musically, Como Estão Vocês? in many ways marks a return to Titãs' original rock sound from albums ...
Even after the departure of the band's two frontmen (first Arnaldo Antunes and then Nando Reis), and the tragic death of guitarist Marcelo Fromer, Titãs refused to give it up. This is their first release after the death of Fromer and the band manage to maintain a surprisingly high standard of rock music. It may not be the inspired and highly ...
Titãs' release has ten of some of the biggest pop hits in Brazil, by several composers. A competent pop band, on the other hand, other than the Portuguese lyrics, they have no Brazil to offer. All grooves are American. For those who enjoy the genre, the album represents a good selection of fully danceable pop tunes, competently performed and well ...
From the pop bands active in Brazil in the early 2000s, the paulistana (from São Paulo) Titãs is one of the most successful. A proponent of the style known as the "new Brazilian rock" related to the rock that was generated in Brazil after the '80s by bands such as Paralamas Do Sucesso, Titãs is in direct continuation of the ideals of tropicália: a ...
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