TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8955
Caetano Veloso Album Rankings
1
One look at the doleful expression that Caetano Veloso wears on the cover of his third self-titled album, from 1971, and it's clear that the listener is in for a bummer.
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2
Transawas the first LP recorded by Caetano Veloso upon his return from exile in London, England (1972).
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3
One of Caetano Veloso's last quasi-acoustic albums, this one is dedicated to Brazilian grooves (with the exception of a couple of reggae tracks).
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4
Just prior to the recording ofBicho, Caetano Veloso was invited to take part in the Negro Festival of Art and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria.
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5
In his 26th album, devoted to the Hispanic market that quickly reached the Latin Top Ten at Tower, Veloso sings great classics and new songs in Spanish, several recalled from his childhood; among them
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6
Caetano Veloso continues his free-thinking explorations of tropicalismo on this ambitiously arranged, elaborately packaged suite of songs devoted to whatever happens to cross his mind.
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7
In "Fora da Ordem," the opening cut on Caetano Veloso'sCirculadô, the great Brazilian singer-songwriter reflects on a world in which "something has gone out of order.
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8
Whenever a non-English-speaking musician makes his or her English-language debut, there's always a suggestion that it's a commercially motivated attempt to reach a larger audience.
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9
Caetano Veloso is happiest when spilling the shadowy secrets of the Brazilian soul, and on the ornateNoites do Nortehe devotes himself to themes that define modern life in his country: The legacy of s
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10
These fifteen tracks prove why the sixty-three-year-old Veloso is the most influential Brazilian artist of his generation.
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37
The reappraisal of Brazilian Tropicalia was one of 1999's most pleasant surprises, bringing such previously neglected or forgotten names as Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, and Caetano Veloso back into vo
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40
While the African components of Brazilian music have ascended in recent years, it’s important to remember that so much of the soul of Musica Popular Brasiliera is inherently European: the deep, yearn
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