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Estudando o Pagode - Tom Zé
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86 out of 100

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9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 44 Ratings

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  • Summary: Experimental Brazilian artist Tom Ze, now nearing 70 years old, continues to challenge with this concept album about the struggles of women in a male-dominated world.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Spin
    100
    Unlike many rockers who cherish childlike ideals only to fall prey to amateurism or whimsy, Ze is aware that kids are both complex in their inventions and earnest in their intentions. [May 2006, p.93]
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  2. Stylus Magazine
    100
    Pagode will probably be the best love album of the year (and maybe one of the best, period) because Zé has always understood that you can explore feelings without just expressing them.
  3. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    No other Brazilian composer defies cultural boundaries so eloquently.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 26
  3. Negative: 3 out of 26
  1. AnselmoR.
    10
    JUST PUSH AND PLAY.
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  2. PaulaG
    10
    Tom Ze is a genious! I saw Pagode's concert last year in London and it was quite amazing!
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  3. NeilY
    3
    i found this ablum to be incredibly irritating. i liked tom ze's music from the 70s, but despite all the acclaim this album's receiving, all i can hear are lazy hip-hop beats and screeching voices. maybe if i understood portuguese i'd like this better, but the atonality of the songs just annoys me.… Expand
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