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Since his debut album released in 1994, the Raimundos It was noted for the sound that fuses hardcore punk with genres of the so -called northeastern music. However, the music that brought the group to the stardom – just at the time of their first album – was precisely a lighter sound composition.

“Saddle”explicitly ballad, has influence on what was conventional to label as “tacky” song. Because of this, some of its members hated it – especially the vocalist and guitarist Rodolfo Abranteswhich needed to be convinced to record it for launch.

The track was born as a form of bastard contractors of shows at the end of the repertoire. The “problem” is that the public enjoyed it. Therefore, it was considered for the repertoire of the homonymous album of 1994.

In an interview with the program Discoteca MTV (via Igor Miranda website), members of Raimundos and the producer of the album, the late Carlos Eduardo Mirandathey talked about the unusual track. Initially, Miranda stated:

“There was a song that everyone said that when they played at the party, everyone liked it. Rodolfo hated singing her, but it was playing this song at the party that everyone sang. I said: ‘There will be to record this song.’ ‘Saddle’. ”

The drummer Fred Castroin turn, said that the music was not imposed, nor did it generate fights, but required reflection on the part of the members. The bassist Cannissodied in 2023, stressed that the refusal to include it on the album was the different, lighter sound.

“It was that story: ‘Do you want to record? It’s over? What do you have more?’. ‘Dude, there’s nothing more’. ‘And that song you showed me, that’s that ‘Saddle’? ‘ ‘No, no, nobody wants to record this no, this is horrible.’ ‘No, but it’s too much’. ‘No, man, we are a fucking band’. ”

The recordings of “Saddle” It has occurred in the last two hours of studio reserved for the conception of the album. Nando Reisat the time member of Titansrecorded guitar.

Rodolfo Abrantes, the “opponent”

The Great Opponent to “Saddle” It was Rodolfo Abrantes. It was Miranda to convince him, with an unusual tactic, to record the vocals for the music.

“Rodolfo said he would not sing, so I said: ‘I will call the FalconCeará, and put him to sing this song, then beauty, will be cool. ‘ Then Rodolfo: ‘No, so I sing her’. ”

The burst of Raimundos

Despite the letter of explicit and controversial content, “Saddle” It was the song responsible for leveraging sales of Raimundos’s debut album. The guitarist Digão pointed out, on the other hand, that there is no bad word in the lyrics of the track.

“This song is of simplicity, a sympathy… and it’s the only song we don’t speak bad words. If you look, get into the ‘judicial’ merit of the thing, this is not a bad word, it’s a scientific word: ‘ann#s’, ‘vag#na’.

Cannisso defined “Saddle” like the song “that turned”. He stated:

“We had scolding ‘Saddle’ equal, times later, Los Hermanos had to ‘Anna Julia’. Years passed until we play again ‘Saddle’”.

Fred completed: “And it turned out that ‘Saddle’ gave us the gold album. ”

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