Skank (album)
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Skank is the self-titled debut album by Brazilian rock
band Skank
. Released independently in 1992 with 3,000 copies, the album sold 1,200 in 45 days and drew the attention of Sony BMG, who re-released the album on its new Chaos label. The album sold approximately 250,000 copies.
Skank had the hits "Tanto" (a Portuguese
-language version of Bob Dylan
's "I Want You"), "O Homem Que Sabia Demais", and "In(dig)nação".
Brazilian rock
Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...
band Skank
Skank (band)
Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums...
. Released independently in 1992 with 3,000 copies, the album sold 1,200 in 45 days and drew the attention of Sony BMG, who re-released the album on its new Chaos label. The album sold approximately 250,000 copies.
Skank had the hits "Tanto" (a Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
-language version of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's "I Want You"), "O Homem Que Sabia Demais", and "In(dig)nação".
Track listing
- "Gentil Loucura" (Affonso Jr., Chico Amaral)
- "In (dig) nação" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral)
- "Salto no Asfalto" (Samuel Rosa, Fernando Furtado)
- "Macaco Prego" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral)
- "Tanto (I Want YouI Want You (Bob Dylan song)"I Want You" is a 1966 song recorded by Bob Dylan. It was issued as a single in June 1966, shortly before the release of its accompanying album, Blonde on Blonde. A live version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was included as a B-side...
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, Portuguese version by Chico Amaral) - "O Homem Q Sabia Demais" (Samuel Rosa, Tavinho Paes, Fernando Furtado)
- "Let Me Try Again" (Caravelli, M. Jourdan, Paul AnkaPaul AnkaPaul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
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) - "Baixada News" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral)
- "Réu & Rei" (Samuel Rosa, Chico Amaral)
- "Cadê o Pênalti? (Jorge Ben JorJorge Ben JorJorge Ben Jor is a Brazilian popular musician. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk, and rock into samba-rock, with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter.-Early life and career:...
) - "Caju Dub" (instrumental version of "Salto no Asfalto")