* 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caetano_Veloso_(1968_album)[Caetano Veloso (1968 album)]

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_ghOAXbSM]
  {title=Alegria, Alegria by <Caetano Veloso> (1968)}
  {description=Critique of <Military dictatorship in Brazil>.}

* 1972
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transa_(album)[Transa (1972)] album. Literally: "The Fuck", good old seventies.

    \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVSimWZm0U]
    {title=Triste Bahia by <Caetano Veloso> (1972)}
    {description=Inspired by (or more likely: actually is) <Capoeira music>.}

    \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u18HsCm8W7U]
    {title=Mora na Filosofia by <Caetano Veloso> (1972)}

  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caetano_e_Chico:_Juntos_e_Ao_Vivo[Caetano e Chico: Juntos e Ao Vivo (1972)] album

    \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4TXkeJYxTE]
    {title=Você Não Entende Nada by <Caetano Veloso> (1970)}
    {description=
    Amazing performance at Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon. 1981. https://www.discogs.com/Gal-Costa-Legal-Voc%C3%AA-N%C3%A3o-Entende-Nada/release/5872459[Discogs] says original album is Legal (1970), but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_(Gal_Costa_album)[wiki page] and photos of back disagree...

    This song talks about a man's mixed desires to remain with his partner and also escape to adventure. It contains one of the most amazing <sexual innuendo> ever recorded: the man describes foods that his partner will serve him, and the he endlessly eats and eats and eats:
    \Q[[eu como, eu como, eu como, você [... huge intentional pause ...] não está entendendo quase nada do que eu digo.]]
    translation:
    \Q[[I eat, I eat, I eat, you [... huge intentional pause ...] don't understand anything that I'm saying.]]
    which makes it unclear "you" is part of "I eat you" (to eat (comer) is a slang for <fucking>), or if "you" is part of the next sentence.
    }

    \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p854CGQ8vo]
    {title=Partido Alto by <Caetano Veloso> (1972)}
    {description=<Atheism> song (<Theodicy>)! Lyrics by <Chico Buarque>, but <Ciro Santilli> prefers this interpretation. From the 1972 "Caetano E Chico Juntos E Ao Vivo" joint album with <Chico Buarque>.}
* 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualquer_Coisa[Qualquer coisa] album

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796yP7HX9L0]
  {title=Qualquer Coisa by <Caetano Veloso> (1975)}

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbXembjZ-cE]
  {title=Samba e Amor by <Caetano Veloso> (1975)}
  {description=Cover from original song by <Chico Buarque>, original album https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Buarque_de_Hollanda_-_N%C2%BA4[Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Nº4]. Desperately reminds Ciro of his University day <weekend> nights. Except that there was no Samba. And little Amor. Mostly a silent and wholesome loneliness and <games young Ciro Santilli played>[emulation].}

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DddY9OlbE]
  {title=Georde de Capadócia by <Caetano Veloso> (1975)}
  {description=
  Composed by Jorge Ben, but this interpretation is remarkable. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corpo_fechado[corpo fechado] (closed body) style song. This idea is much linked to <Capoeira>/African religion idea. E.g. a more traditional capoeira corpo fechado song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfd9j6XFmSg[]

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3IH0pnwpl4]
  {title=Coricos' prayer scene from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_God,_White_Devil[Black God, White Devil] (1964)}
  {description=This shows an Amazing corpo fechado scene from an amazing old black an white <Brazilian> film.}
  }

* 1976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doces_B%C3%A1rbaros[Doces Bárbaros (1976)] album

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-hkmGLE1s]
  {title=Um Índio by <Caetano Veloso> (1976)}
  {description=Recording from 1992. Also appeared in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicho_(album)[Bicho (1977)] album.}
* 1977 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicho_(album)[Bicho (1977)]

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pRGpUkBI0k]
  {title=Tigresa by <Caetano Veloso> (1977)}
  {description=Talks about a strong willed, unapologetic, disenchanted, but also hopeful brown skinned lover: a tigress. Ciro once knew one, but it wasn't meant to be.}

* 1978 album https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muito_(Dentro_da_Estrela_Azulada)[Muito (Dentro da Estrela Azulada)]

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmxp4XQnBpw]
  {title=Sampa by <Caetano Veloso> (1978)}
  {description=
  "Sampa" is an affectionate slang for <São Paulo City>. The song perfectly captures the city, and reminds Ciro so badly of <University of São Paulo>[his University days there].

  \Q[
  \[D\]a força da grana que ergue e destroi coisas belas\br
  The power of money that builds and destroy beautiful things
  ]
  }

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxL_lbo4kM]
  {title=Terra by <Caetano Veloso> (1978)}
  {description=
  "Terra" means <Earth> in <Portuguese (language)>.

  Ciro used to watch a television nature show called "Planeta Terra" in the legendary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Cultura[TV Cultura] with his parents in the couch when he was young, and under a duvet when it was a bit cold. Those days were the best. The narrator's lady voice was particularly soothing, and would easily put you in a kind of sleepy trance, her name is https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valéria_Grillo[Valéria Grillo]

  TODO what was the original show exactly? Here is a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNwfYEMdrRU Very likely just a translation of some British nature show with a custom <Brazilian> intro and presenter. Credits at end mention English narrator: "Eugene Fraser", and "Thirteen WNET Nature" production, which produced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(TV_program)[Nature (1982)] that ran since 1982, making that a likely candidate.
  }
* 1980

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEQSvAMYyg]
  {title=Menino do Rio by <Caetano Veloso> (1980)}
  {description=Apparently served as inspiration for the https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menino_do_Rio[Menino do Rio (1980)] movie, which is silly, but a worthwhile record of the times.}
* 1984 https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%C3%B4[Velô (1984)]

  \Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZtto6qtgs]
  {title=O Quereres by <Caetano Veloso> (1984)}
  {description=
  Notable quote from the chorus that is often in Ciro's mind:
  \Q[Ah, bruta flor, do querer]
  translation:
  \Q[Oh, brute flower of the wanting]
  }


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