This brazilian trio had their beginnings as early as 1965. The two Baptista brothers and Rita Lee combine vocals, electronics and jovial, lighthearted beats to form psychedelic, tropicalia, obscure merriment. The pure excitement that comes out of the speakers is what really hooked me. The band has noted the beatles and jimi hendrix as influences, which I find rather delightful. While several of their albums including ''A'' E O ''Z'' and "Technicolor'' are excellent highlights of the bands career, my personal favorite is the 'best of' complilation 'Everything is Possible!' The best, and bolded, tracks are 'A minha menina' and 'Bat macumba'. A minha menina is by far one of the cutest songs I've ever heard in my life. The english version 'She's my Shoo Shoo' is featured on 'Technicolor' and is equally adorable. If you've ever been giddy about someone, giggly in love, you'll go nuts for this song. Bat Macumba is reminiscent of tribal electronica, riding into a catchy, finger snapping beat. You can listen to this album on a sunny day, you can listen to this album at a drunken dance party. The point, really, is to just listen to it, because it's so fucking good. If you like to shake, shake to this.
Before I get distracted by Jeopardy: Teen Tournament (one of the few jeopardy episodes that I can actually answer questions in....Forty-Two....WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO LIFE@!!!!! )
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? by The Unicorns
"I Don't Wanna Die" – 2:03
"Tuff Ghost" – 2:57
"Ghost Mountain" – 3:10
"Sea Ghost" – 3:42
"Jellybones" – 2:43
"The Clap" – 1:26
"Child Star" – 5:21
"Let's Get Known" – 1:57
"I Was Born (A Unicorn)" – 2:45
"Tuff Luff" – 4:19
"Inoculate the Innocuous" – 5:18
"Les Os" – 3:32
"Ready to Die" – 1:42
If I had male genitalia, I would immediately penetrate every member of this band. They are one of the best, most nostalgic, and lively bands I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy. The song "I was born a unicorn" fills me with enough energy that I generally cannot contain myself when I hear it; while tracks like "Les Os" and "Ghost Mountain" could whisper me into a drippy, sentimental lull. They feature instruments including but not limited to: synthesizers, keyboards, drum machines, toy piano, toy organ, echoplex, bass, guitar, melodian, recorder, glockenspiel, accordion, trumpet, bowed bass, fiddles, violins, cellos and penny whistles. Each song on this album is entirely unique and worthwhile. I've found myself falling in love with every sentence, beat and random noise; not to mention the brief rap section in "Tuff Luff" The lead singer, Nick Diamonds, is also in a band called "The Islands", they are good but not as good as the unicorns. That is all.
Rabbit Habits by Man Man "Mister Jung Stuffed" (2:28) "Hurly / Burly" (3:51) "The Ballad of Butter Beans" (4:28) "Big Trouble" (5:05) "Mysteries of the Universe Unraveled" (0:09) "Doo Right" (1:38) "Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos" (2:24) "Harpoon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse)" (3:19) "El Azteca" (1:43) "Rabbit Habits" (2:48) "Top Drawer" (3:26) "Poor Jackie" (8:23) "Whale Bones" (7:14)
This is some beautiful gypsy shit right here. Starting off fast and exciting with Mister Jung Stuffed and ballad of butter beans, big trouble brings it down to some throw your hands up, you’re a zombie kind of earlove. My favorites on the album are Doo Right, beautiful both lyrically and musically. The addition of fireworks to the beginning of the song, and also being in mysteries of the universe unraveled are extremely yada (Yada: a good thing)(Yadamean: a real good thing) Anyway, Poor Jackie is another favorite. Again it shines lyrically and goes through like four or five different plains. I was reading somewhere that hot stuff Nicholas thorburn who is from the unicorns and honus honus who is the lead singer of man man were planning on some crazy subgenre album together and that’s super sexy.
So, if you’re looking for some happy gypsy viking vaudeville ??? pleasant music check out Man Man
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other albums by man man: zeppelin 3, six demon bag, and the man in a blue turban with face
