Legião Urbana (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Legião Urbana
Type = Album
Artist = Legião Urbana

| Background = Orange
Released = January 1 1985
Recorded = October - December, 1984
Genre = Punk rock Post-punk Rock
Length = 37:09
Label = Emi-Odeon
Producer = Mayrton Bahia
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Last album =
This album = "Legião Urbana" (1985)
Next album = "Dois" (1986)

"Legião Urbana" is the self titled debut album by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana, recorded on the last quarter of 1984 and released on the Emi-Odeon label on January 1, 1985. Though the band wasn't a Punk outfit, some songs here do show influence from British Punk bands, particularly "Geração Coca-Cola". However, some songs have a darker tone, using even keyboard arrangements, which indicate influence from Post-punk bands like Joy Division; examples of that are the droning "Ainda É Cedo" and the eerie "Soldados", which features a quasi-martial rhythm, though other upbeat post-punk influences can be heard on the punk-disco-funk song "A Dança". The album isn't among the band's most famous, but it scored several hits, like "Será", "Ainda É Cedo" and "Geração Coca-Cola". The synthesizer-laden ballad "Por Enquanto" is one of the band's most covered songs, as well as "Será".

Track listing

All lyrics by Renato Russo.

#"Será" ("Is it") (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá) – 2:30
#"A Dança" ("The Dance") (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá - Arr: Rocha) – 4:02
#"Petróleo do Futuro" ("Future Oil") (Villa-Lobos, Russo) – 3:02
#"Ainda É Cedo" ("It's Still Early") (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá, Ouro-Preto) – 3:57
#"Perdidos no Espaço" ("Lost In Space") (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá) – 2:57
#"Geração Coca-Cola" ("Coca-Cola Generation") (Russo) – 2:22
#"O Reggae" ("The Reggae") (Russo, Bonfá) – 3:34
#"Baader-Meinhof Blues" (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá) – 3:27
#"Soldados" ("Soldiers") (Russo, Bonfá) – 4:50
#"Teorema" ("Theorem") (Villa-Lobos, Russo, Bonfá) – 3:07
#"Por Enquanto" ("For Now") (Russo) – 3:04