As Quatro Estações
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As Quatro Estações is the fourth studio album by Brazil
ian rock
band Legião Urbana
. It was released on October 26, 1989
. It was the first album of the band to not feature Renato Rocha on its line-up — Rocha left Legião Urbana during the recording sessions of this album due to creative divergences with the rest of the band.
It has received a Platinum Certification
by ABPD
.
where fans got overexcited and were stomped to death, Renato Russo
acquired a stronger stage fright
, what was mirrored on the introspective production this album had. Another contributive factor to the troubled production of the album was the departure of bassist Renato Rocha.
The lyrics of As Quatro Estações tend to speak about bisexualism, such as in "Meninos e Meninas", in which Renato Russo
confesses he is bisexual, and "Maurício". They also speak about religion, what can be seen in "Monte Castello", that features excerpts of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians
and of a sonnet
by Portuguese poet Luís de Camões
. "Feedback Song for a Dying Friend" was written in honor of Cazuza
, whose health was eventually aggravating due to AIDS
.
Fans, as well as Renato Russo himself, considered this album to be the best one made by Legião, and the tracks "Há Tempos", "Pais e Filhos", "Quando o Sol Bater na Janela do Teu Quarto" (that was re-recorded by Barão Vermelho
), "Meninos e Meninas", "Monte Castello" and "Maurício" are the most well-known songs of Legião.
A concert promoting the album took place at the Palestra Itália Stadium
in 1990, and it was released as a live album
in 2004, under the name As Quatro Estações ao Vivo
.
made a cover of "Sete Cidades", on their album As Dez Mais
.
Additional personnel
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Legião Urbana
Legião Urbana
Legião Urbana were a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo , Dado Villa-Lobos and Marcelo Bonfá...
. It was released on October 26, 1989
1989 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989.-Events:*January 14 – Paul McCartney releases Снова в СССР exclusively in the USSR...
. It was the first album of the band to not feature Renato Rocha on its line-up — Rocha left Legião Urbana during the recording sessions of this album due to creative divergences with the rest of the band.
It has received a Platinum Certification
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
by ABPD
Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos
The Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos is an official representative body of the record labels in the Brazilian phonographic market.- About :...
.
History
Due to the fatidical incident at a Legião Urbana concert in the Mané Garrincha StadiumEstádio Mané Garrincha
Estádio Nacional de Brasília is a multi-purpose stadium in Brasilia, Brazil. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 45,200. The stadium was built in 1974....
where fans got overexcited and were stomped to death, Renato Russo
Renato Russo
Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His first band was a punk rock band called "Aborto Elétrico" . The band then broke up and split in two different ones: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana"...
acquired a stronger stage fright
Stage fright
Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, whether actually or potentially . In the context of public speaking, this fear is termed glossophobia, one of the most common...
, what was mirrored on the introspective production this album had. Another contributive factor to the troubled production of the album was the departure of bassist Renato Rocha.
The lyrics of As Quatro Estações tend to speak about bisexualism, such as in "Meninos e Meninas", in which Renato Russo
Renato Russo
Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His first band was a punk rock band called "Aborto Elétrico" . The band then broke up and split in two different ones: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana"...
confesses he is bisexual, and "Maurício". They also speak about religion, what can be seen in "Monte Castello", that features excerpts of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians
First Epistle to the Corinthians
The first epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corinthians, often referred to as First Corinthians , is the seventh book of the New Testament of the Bible...
and of a sonnet
Sonnet
A sonnet is one of several forms of poetry that originate in Europe, mainly Provence and Italy. A sonnet commonly has 14 lines. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound"...
by Portuguese poet Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
. "Feedback Song for a Dying Friend" was written in honor of Cazuza
Cazuza
Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
, whose health was eventually aggravating due to AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
.
Fans, as well as Renato Russo himself, considered this album to be the best one made by Legião, and the tracks "Há Tempos", "Pais e Filhos", "Quando o Sol Bater na Janela do Teu Quarto" (that was re-recorded by Barão Vermelho
Barão Vermelho
Barão Vermelho is a Brazilian rock band. Formed in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, it was originally led by songwriting duo Cazuza and Roberto Frejat , which assumed the vocals after Cazuza's departure in 1986...
), "Meninos e Meninas", "Monte Castello" and "Maurício" are the most well-known songs of Legião.
A concert promoting the album took place at the Palestra Itália Stadium
Palestra Itália
Palestra Itália may refer to:*Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, a club from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state*Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, a club from São Paulo city, São Paulo state...
in 1990, and it was released as a live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
in 2004, under the name As Quatro Estações ao Vivo
As Quatro Estações ao Vivo
As Quatro Estações ao Vivo is the third live album by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana, released in 2004. It is the fifth and last posthumous album by the band after Renato Russo's death in 1996....
.
Track listing
Covers
Brazilian rock band TitãsTitãs
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
made a cover of "Sete Cidades", on their album As Dez Mais
As Dez Mais
As Dez Mais is the tenth studio album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. It features only covers, as the name suggests...
.
Personnel
Legião Urbana- Renato RussoRenato RussoRenato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His first band was a punk rock band called "Aborto Elétrico" . The band then broke up and split in two different ones: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana"...
: vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, bassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
, electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, classical guitarClassical guitarThe classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
, keyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the... - Dado Villa-LobosDado Villa-LobosDado Villa-Lobos is a Brazilian musician, best known as the ex-guitarist of post-punk band Legião Urbana. Along with singer Renato Russo and drummer Marcelo Bonfá, he was one of the founding members of that band, who formed in Brasilia in 1982...
: classical guitar, electric guitar, bass - Marcelo BonfáMarcelo BonfáMarcelo Augusto Bonfá , also known simply as Bonfá, is a Brazilian musician. Famous for being the drummer of the famous rock band Legião Urbana, after its disestablishment he started to follow solo career, releasing three albums as of yet.-Biography:Bonfá was born in the city of Itapira, in the...
: drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
Additional personnel
- Fred Nascimento: rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, classical guitar - Bruno Araújo: electric bassElectric BassElectric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...
- Mu Carvalho: keyboards
Trivia
- During the performance at the Palestra Itália Stadium in 1990, Renato Russo said he wrote "Pais e Filhos" while in the bathroom, and dedicated it to "a cockroach that is more important than the people [we] love". That was a reference to a music by Brazilian punkPunk rockPunk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band Inimigos do Rei named "Uma Barata Chamada Kafka" ("A Cockroach Named Kafka"). Years later, Inimigos do Rei vocalist Paulinho Moska would make a cover of "Meninos e Meninas". - The lyrics of "1965 (Duas Tribos)" makes references to Revell modelsRevellRevell is the brand name today of two manufacturers of scale plastic models. The original US company merged with another, Monogram, but now trades only under the Revell name. European Revell Germany separated from the US company in 2006.-Early history:...
and the Hanna-Barbera StudiosHanna-BarberaHanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
. - Although Renato Russo disapproved Brazilian singers writing their songs in EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, "Feedback Song for a Dying Friend" was fully written in English. It was originally a Portuguese-languagePortuguese languagePortuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
song named "Rapazes Católicos" ("Catholic Boys"), but Renato Russo disliked the lyrics and then changed them to English. - The name of the track "Monte Castello" is a reference to the Battle of Monte CastelloBattle of Monte CastelloThe Battle of Monte Castello was an engagement which took place from 25 November 1944 to 22 February 1945 during the Italian campaign. It was fought between the Allied forces advancing into northern Italy and dug-in German defenders. The battle marked the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's entry into...
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