Caetano VelosoBest Caetano Veloso Albums Ranked

The Best of Caetano Veloso

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9.4

“In 1968, the Brazilian pop singer began a Tropicália revolution against a newly installed military government. It's a vibrant, cheeky, agitprop album that purred and glided past the martial censors.”

Caetano Veloso (Remixed Original Album)

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9.4

“In 1968, the Brazilian pop singer began a Tropicália revolution against a newly installed military government. It's a vibrant, cheeky, agitprop album that purred and glided past the martial censors.”

Livro

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9.0

“I heard somewhere that a person's tastes change every seven years. This would explain the sudden appeal of mushrooms, baseball, coffee, and Brit-pop a few years ago. And I believe it was in a Cellular Biology class where I learned that every seven years the molecules that constitute your body are completely renewed. That's pretty cool. Not one single atom that made up "you" in 1982 was there in 19”

A Foreign Sound

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8.8

“Whenever a non-English-speaking musician makes his or her English-language debut, there's always a suggestion that it's a commercially motivated attempt to reach a larger audience. More importantly, if that record is a cover album of American standards, the endeavor unavoidably becomes a political statement-- especially at this particular moment in time. Whether or not Brazilian vocalist Caetano V”

Noites do Norte

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8.1

“In the United States, we're taught to think of slavery as an obsolete practice jettisoned in 1864 at the end of the Civil War by a victorious President Lincoln. It stands as one of the darkest chapters of our past, the shameful carrier of an enormous human price tag. In school, my teachers never flinched in their descriptions of slavery, always making sure to cast it in the worst light possible, a”