When I lived in Brazil, there was a very popular song by a group called Engenheiros do Hawaii that became something of a standard for a generation. The lyrics are not particularly deep nor the tune particularly complex, but the song has the classical four chords and some very nice alliterations that sound particularly good in Portuguese, with something of a modern angst message, couched in a love song, as many Brazilian popular songs were at the time.
Here are two versions, the first, by the original band, a very good "MTV Unplugged" version done in 2004, seventeen years after the original release. They sound like a mix of Sister Golden Hair America and Legião Urbana around the time of O Descobrimento do Brasil.
The second is a pretty awful distorted-guitar motion-sickness-inducing version by some nerd monkey who almost gets the lyrics right...
I'll have the definitive version with a slideshow next week.
