= The best Caetano Veloso songs
* 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]
}