Mamonas Assassinas (album)

Mamonas Assassinas
Studio album by Mamonas Assassinas
Released	June 23, 1995
Recorded	1995
Genre	Comedy rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, alternative metal,
Length	39:08
Label	EMI
Producer	Rick Bonadio
Mamonas Assassinas chronology
Mamonas Assassinas (1995) Atenção Creuzebek: A Baixaria Continua (1998)
Singles from Mamonas Assassinas
"Pelados em Santos" Released: August, 1995 "Robocop Gay" Released: October, 1995 "Vira-vira" Released: December, 1995 "1406" Released: February, 1996

Mamonas Assassinas is the only studio album released by the Brazilian rock band of same name. It was released in 1995, and in only eight months (until the end of the band), it sold more than 2 million copies.^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"1406"	Dinho and Júlio Rasec	4:08
2.	"Vira-vira"	Dinho and Júlio Rasec	2:24
3.	"Pelados em Santos" ("Naked in Santos")	Dinho	3:23
4.	"Chopis Centis" (Proposital misspelling of "Shopping Center")	Dinho and Júlio Rasec	2:47
5.	"Jumento Celestino" ("Celestino the Donkey")	Dinho and Bento Hinoto	2:38
6.	"Sabão Crá Crá" ("Crá Crá Soap")	Traditional	0:42
7.	"Uma Arlinda Mulher" (word play with the name Arlinda and the word beautiful in Portuguese (linda), a pun on the title of the movie Pretty Woman)	Dinho and Bento Hinoto	3:18
8.	"Cabeça de Bagre II" ("Bagre Head II")	Mamonas Assassinas	2:20
9.	"Mundo Animal" ("Animal World")	Dinho	3:57
10.	"Robocop Gay" ("Gay Robocop")	Dinho and Júlio Rasec	2:59
11.	"Bois Don't Cry" (Bois means oxen; the word replaces boys to create a pun)	Dinho	2:58
12.	"Débil Metal" (The name is a cross-over pun involving débil mental, mentally disabled people, and death metal)	Mamonas Assassinas	3:06
13.	"Sábado de Sol" ("Sunny Saturday")	Pedro, Felipe and Rafael	1:01
14.	"Lá Vem o Alemão" ("There Comes the German")	Dinho and Júlio Rasec	3:24
Total length:			39:08

1406

Satirises "as seen on TV" sales strategies. The title is a reference to the phone number of one of such services, well-known in Brazil at the time. The song also includes several English words such as money, good, work, have, and play. The latter 3 being conjugated in Portuguese as verbs, like "Workando" meaning "working".

Vira-Vira

A Vira-styled song (inspired by the songs of Portuguese singer Roberto Leal), pokes fun at the meaning of the word suruba (meaning "orgy"), which is mistaken for something else by a Portuguese couple.

Pelados em Santos

Main article: Pelados em Santos

Satyrises shallow commercial music, custom cars and the way Latinos are viewed by Americans.

Chopis Centis

Parody of the main riff of The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (with scatological sounds replacing Mick Jones' guitar fills) and pokes fun at the difficulties faced by Nort-Easterners in São Paulo due to cultural differences. Part of the fun of the song derives from its criticism of shopping centers.

Jumento Celestino

A forró parody, tells the story of a man from Bahia coming to "Sum Paulo" in his donkey - which he compares to a car, including installing a stereo.

Sabão Crá-Crá

A nursery rhyme about toilet soap and men's intimate parts. It is a public domain song.

Uma Arlinda Mulher

A lovesong in reverse, describing an ugly woman instead of a pretty one. Imitates MPB singer Belchior, whose deep voice and serious tone add fun to the clueless lyrics. The title is a take on the Brazilian translation of "Pretty Woman" ("Uma Linda Mulher").

Cabeça de Bagre II

Pokes fun at punks, mostly by saying that they are utterly unintelligent blokes who can't finish their schooling. The title is a possible pun on Titãs' Cabeça Dinossauro.

Mundo Animal

A series of heavy/dirty jokes about disgusting sexual or scatological facts of animal behavior. Talks about the size of elephant's genitalia or the absence of morals on dogs, as well as implying Camels "carry their balls on their backs."

Robocop Gay

Spoofs the film character RoboCop and transgender males. RoboCop's implants and cybernetics are compared to the transgender's surgeries and implants. Also pokes fun at religions, including a paradoxical chorus saying that homosexuals are everywhere (even among Muslims and Neo-Nazis) and that they should not be mistreated.

Bois Don't Cry

The title parodies The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" but the lyrics and the music follow the bolero style. Makes fun of a flamboyant macho man who suffers impotent as the woman he loves cheats him. Features a short synthesizer sequence off Rush's "Tom Sawyer" and "The Mirror" from Dream Theater.

Débil Metal

Sung in mock English, in a Max Cavalera-like tone to accompany the progressive metal, doom metal and thrash metal style of the song, which was closely associated to Sepultura at the time, is a spoof of heavy metal music. The lyrics apparently convey the message that heavy metal fans don't know what their idols sing.

Sábado de Sol

The surrealistic tale of a meal among friends which ends up disrupted by hungry marijuana smokers.

Lá vem o Alemão

Satyrised pop-samba music (pagode), about a poor man whose girl left him for an alemão ("German", a slang term for white, wealthy people). The title also parodies the song "Lá Vem o Negão" (Here Comes the Black Guy) from samba group Cravo e Canella, which was a hit just two years before the album's release. The song also features well-known pagode musicians doing additional instrumental work: Fabinho from Negritude Júnior and Leandro Lehart from Art Popular.

Personnel

• Dinho - vocals, acoustic guitar in "Uma Arlinda Mulher"
• Bento Hinoto - electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Samuel Reoli - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Júlio Rasec - keyboards, backing vocals, co-lead vocal in "Vira Vira" and "Uma Arlinda Mulher"
• Sérgio Reoli - drums
• Paquito - trumpet in "Pelados em Santos"
• César do Acordeom - accordion in "Jumento Celestino"
• Fabinho - percussion in "Lá Vem o Alemão"
• Leandro Lehart - cavaquinho in "Lá Vem o Alemão"
• Rick Bonadio - Additional keyboards, triangle in "Jumento Celestino", wah-wah pedal

Album certification

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
Brazil (ABPD)[2]	Diamond	1,000,000*
*sales figures based on certification alone

References

1. ^ CanalPop - Mamonas Assassinas ganha biografia
2. ^ "Brazilian album certifications – Mamonas Assassinas – Mamaonas Assassinas" (in Portuguese). Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos. http://abpd.org.br/certificados_interna.asp?sArtista=Mamonas+Assassinas&tmidia=1.