Pretty much the entirety of Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, by Dead Kennedys. But you guys probably already know this banger of an album, so here’s some stuff from my country to check out:
Monólogo ao Pé do Ouvido / Banditismo Por Uma Questão de Classe (Monologue at Ear Range / Banditry as a Matter of Class).
These are the two first songs of Da Lama ao Caos, one of the greatest albums in Brazilian music. It’s an essential piece to the Manguebeat movement, a music scene/movement from Pernambuco that mixes regional styles like maracatu and foreign influences like hip hop. The entire album fantastic, I recommend giving the entire thing a shot.
Deixe Entrar Um Pouco D’Água no Quintal (Let a Bit of Water Enter the Backyard)
Os Mutantes could be taken as Brazil’s answer to The Beatles. Initially a part of the Tropicália movement, which mixed vanguardist and popular influences, the band had broken up by the time Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol was made, with only Sérgio Dias remaining. The result is something completely different from what Os Mutantes had made so far, a progressive rock album that can go toe to toe with the best in the genre. It’s the last good album made under the Os Mutantes name, but man is it a benger. This song is the opening song, but once again I recommend listening to the entire thing.
Tangolo Mangos is my favorite contemporary Brazilian band. Like Chico Science, they mix regional music styles with foreign influences, but where Chico Sciences look towards hip hop they go for a psychedelic rock sound. Canaã is the opening song from their debut album and, you guessed it, you should listen to the entire thing.
Cara Pálida (Pale Face)
This is probably the Brazilian album I listened to the most this year. Gang 90 basically brought new wave to Brazil, this song from their third album has a few problematic elements, but it slaps so hard I’m willing to forgive it as a product of its time.
Exquadrilha da Fumaça (Smoke Squadron)
If Os Mutantes are Brazil’s answer to The Beatles, Planet Hemp was our answer to Rage Against the Machine. A blend of punk, hip hop and, surprisingly, a little bit of bossa nova, Planet Hemp was known for their political lyrics and their defense of legalizing weed. This album comes in 1998, a year after the entire band was jailed due to “drug apologism”. This song boasts about their comeback, which is framed as an important landmark in Brazil’s recently earned right to free speech after decades of military dictatorship.
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My favorite ever is Let It Loose from The Rolling Stones. I want it to be the final song of my funeral if I die.
2pac - They Don’t Give a Fuck About Us
God Shattering Star
All of October Rust by Type O Negative.
Listened to it on the 31st, and now I can finally put the obsession to rest.
…until next october.
Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo
Banned in D.C. by Bad Brains
Hip Hop by Dead Prez
The last one - Les Rallizes Denudes.
Fav version is the pne of Citta 93, but the live 77 album is also awesome.
The founding bassist from this japanese band was part of the Japanese red army and hijacked a plane in i think 1970 and took ot to the DPRK where he proceeded to settle down and even give interviews.
Apparently he is a fan of babymetal.
Anyway the band was this crazy Japanese noise rock band who never released a studio recording and only ever played live. They had a number of songs and would play them differently each show with the leader usually drowning everything in psychedelic feedback and pure volume, doing things that would later become known as psych or shoegaze or even the way bands like Sunn 0))) and Boris use not just effects pedals and feedback but sheer loudness and play their amplifiers as much as their guitars.
Truly ahead of their time and a true cult act.
The State Lottery
I was a Preteen Mccarthyist
The Only Good Fascist is a Dead Fascist
by Propagandhi go pretty hard for me these days. Even with their slight muddle-headed anarchism and starting a song with a Chomsky quote. Nobody’s perfect…
…Except The Stalin - STOP JAP is a pretty good album.
Anything by Genesis Owusu lately.
Oh boy, what’s the character limit?
- Pretty much anything in the Chrono Trigger Soundtrack (it even has a song called “world revolution”)
- The Game from Dragonforce
- Ride of the Valkyries by Brothers of Metal
- Moon Fire by Orden Ogan
Just a few off the top of my head.
I Kill Therefore I am - Phil Ochs, White Noise - Will Wood, Man in a Hat - The Klezmatics.
a couple good ones I think- Kansas - Can I Tell You Something
- Muse - Uprising
- Il Canto Degli Italiani
- Jung Sind Die Linden
- I Believe My Friends
- And Lenin Is Young Again
Fear Inoculum, by Tool. I could point at pretty much anything by them but that song speaks to me the most of their entire discography
Cheerleader and Russian Roulette by Porter Robinson too!
Uhhh. An Ember’s Arc by Be’lakor, and Falling by Staind. I could keep going but that’s more than plenty for now. :)
To bad the vocalist from staind is a complete twat
Yeah, it’s kinda like… the only song from them that I ever clicked with to be frank. And even that one has its own aspects to it that make me squint. Metal in general has long had an issue with people co-opting it. Keeps that “consumerism isn’t my jam” thing in my mind at the very least…
Avrai Ragione Tu by Caparezza
DeeYaz - Agent Orange
