Titãs’ third album skirted the band’s unpopularity on the part of showbiz, after the arrest of two members for drug possession
You Titanswere not unknown in the mid-1980s. On the contrary, their first two albums and their extravagant visuals (eight new wave creatures, five of which were vocalists) made them one of the most famous bands in Brazil, even if the songs did not reach the same popularity as those of the Carioca artists. But when two members were arrested for drug possession, the group saw part of the showbusiness machine turn against them, with shows canceled as a result.
The fact shook the band, which was already working with a more raw sound, due to the influence of the rise of punk from São Paulo. When the octet recorded, in two days, the demo of what would become the third album, the essence of the future album was synthesized there: short songs with short titles, with a noisy, bad, aggressive sound.
dinosaur headnot the best album Titans (this is his successor, Jesus Has No Teeth in Toothless Country), but it is one of the most important of the decade – not only for taking punk and new wave sounds as a single sound amalgam to the masses, but for consolidating the band as one of the most relevant of the period.
It is the beginning of the group’s golden phase, which would go far beyond riffs and profanity, and marks a new phase in national pop, alongside definitive albums such as Wild?, Live Pirate Radio and Two. The night had reached the 1980s.
The 80 greatest albums of Brazilian Rock
Part of Dossier 40 years of National Rockspecial collector’s edition Rolling Stone Brazilthe list “Os 80 Maiores Discos do Rock Nacional” brings together the main works of what seems to have been an artistic, unified and continuous uprising initially mobilized by the youth of Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s, the 82nd generation. physical and digital stands, you can check out the curation carried out by the editors of Rolling Stone Brazilwith the 80 most important albums of national rock, separated into four categories and organized in chronological order of release.
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