Mamonas Assassinas | ||||
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Studio album by Mamonas Assassinas | ||||
Released | June 23, 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Genre | Comedy rock | |||
Length | 39:08 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Producer | Rick Bonadio | |||
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Singles from Mamonas Assassinas | ||||
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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.
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".
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.
Satyrises shallow commercial music, custom cars and the way Latinos are viewed by Americans.
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 North-Easterners in São Paulo due to cultural differences. Part of the fun of the song derives from its criticism of shopping centers.
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.
A nursery rhyme about toilet soap and men's intimate parts. It is a public domain song.