Music Biggest Brazilian Rock Biggest Rock of the 80s, according to Carioca Wolf reflects on the panorama 40 years ago and says that the style managed to insert itself among the popular songwriting

Wolf was among the artists who participated in the effervescent Brazilian rock scene in the 1980s, the so -called Brock. The carioca musician released his main records at that time and connected with other names of the time, as Cazuza, Red baron and The Paralamas of Successfor example.

Looking in retrospective, the singer and composer avoids romanticizing the period. And it goes beyond: regrets that there is a kind of “morbid” nostalgia for the past of style.

On the other hand, he seeks to be fair in recognizing that national rock of the 1980s had at least one big hit.

In an interview with LookLobão explained that what pleases him most about recalling that time is to realize that rock managed to insert itself among the “songbook of Brazilian popular music”. That is, according to him created lasting connections with the population and, finally, absorbed the Portuguese language.

The artist said:

“One thing I had not bound is that the 1980s had a unique feature: they invented the Brazilian rock melopeia. In the 1970s, you had some tears of it, with the Mutantwith Rita Lee and the Raul Seixas. The great cheap of the 1980s was to take rock into the songwriter of Brazilian popular music. “

Lobão exemplifies your thesis by citing Renato Russofrom the Urban Legionand your late friend Cazuza:

“You get the songs from Renato and Cazuza, all of them sound natural. It seems that the language finally married and with the good time of the time we realize that. With the distance, we realized that they became true classics of Brazilian popular music, not just rock.”

Lobão in the 1980s

Lobão also released works and remarkable songs in the period, among them the album Bandit (1987), which sold about 350,000 copies. There are hits of the carioca artist, as “LIFE LIFE LIFE”, “Blah blah blah … I love you” and the title track.

The artist revisited all the rock of the 1980s in a book released in the last decade: Politically incorrect guide of the 80s by rockwritten by him. In an interview with Igor Miranda published on the Whiplash website, he reflected on the merits of the period:

“In the 1970s, there was a very large instrumental development. And except the Tutti-fruttiwhich was already coming from the mutants, and Raul Seixas, whose letters sounded well, most were very strange, by the very sound of Portuguese with English. In the 1980s, there was an entrance of the Brazilian popular songbook in these rock songs. The language was introjected into the melody of the song. From the 1980s, you have masterpieces and that’s what caught my attention. At the time, I didn’t even hear the records because it pisses me off a lot. My own too … Wow, depression, right? “

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