Cabeça Dinossauro

Cabeça Dinossauro (Portuguese for Head Dinosaur) is the third studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs. It was released in June 1986.

The album's front and back covers were taken from sketches by Leonardo da Vinci.^[2]

History

Cabeça Dinossauro was the first Titãs album to be produced by Liminha, and the first of the band to receive a gold certification in December 1986.^[3] The album was a major departure of its two predecessors — the previous two albums were more centered in pop rock, while Cabeça Dinossauro had more punk rock, dance-punk and 2 Tone influences. Most of its lyrics contain sour critics to the society and its components, such as Tony Bellotto's "Polícia" (criticizing the police), Nando Reis' "Igreja" (criticizing the Catholic Church) and "Estado Violência" (criticizing the lack of freedom of speech, in one of the first collaborations of then-drummer of the band Charles Gavin as lyricist).

In 1997, Bizz magazine elected Cabeça Dinossauro as the best Brazilian pop rock album. In 2007, the Brazilian version of the magazine Rolling Stone elected it as the 19th most revolutionary Brazilian album of all time.^[4]

Track listing

Covers

• Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura made a cover of "Polícia", present on the B-side of their "Territory" single, the digipak and Brazilian pressings of their 1993 album Chaos A.D. and the compilation Blood-Rooted.
• Biquini Cavadão covered "Estado Violência" in their tribute album 80.
• Pagode group Molejo covered the song "Família", adapting it to a samba rhythm.

Personnel

Titãs

• Arnaldo Antunes — vocals
• Branco Mello — vocals
• Charles Gavin — drums and percussion
• Marcelo Fromer — guitar
• Nando Reis — bass and vocals
• Paulo Miklos — bass (in "Igreja") and vocals
• Sérgio Britto — keyboard and vocals
• Tony Bellotto — guitar

Additional personnel

• Liminha — guitar (in "Família" and "O Quê"), percussion (in "Cabeça Dinossauro") and Oberheim DMX (in "O Quê")
• Repolho — castanets (in "Homem Primata")

References