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Rick Bonadio — nicknamed by the band "Creuzebek" — was chosen to produce the band's debut album. However, their record label EMI wanted at least ten tracks and the band hand only three in hands. In a week the bandmates wrote other 12 tracks that made the cut, but "Não Peide Aqui Baby", a parody of
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strategies. The title is a reference to the phone number of one of such services, well known in Brazil at the time. The song also includes several English words such as money, good, work, have, and play. The latter 3 being conjugated in Portuguese as verbs, like "Workando" meaning "working".
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males. RoboCop's implants and cybernetics are compared to the transgender's surgeries and implants. Also pokes fun at religions, including a paradoxical chorus saying that homosexuals are everywhere (even among Muslims and Neo-Nazis) and that they should not be mistreated.
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A series of heavy/dirty jokes about disgusting sexual or scatological facts of animal behavior. Talks about the size of elephant's genitalia or the absence of morals on dogs, as well as implying Camels "carry their balls on their backs."
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The band created the concept of the cover, a drawing by Carlos Sá in which the musicians appear in front of a naked woman exposing large breasts (evoking the pun in the band's name, "mamona" as in "mama",
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Pokes fun at punks, mostly by saying that they are utterly unintelligent blokes who can't finish their schooling. The title is a possible pun on
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issue featuring Brazilian model Mari Alexandre. EMI later demanded that the band be featured on the cover as well.
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due to cultural differences. Part of the fun of the song derives from its criticism of
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A lovesong in reverse, describing an ugly woman instead of a pretty one. Imitates
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The surrealistic tale of a meal among friends which ends up disrupted by hungry
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9th best-selling album of all time in Brazil amongst national artists
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A nursery rhyme about toilet soap and men's intimate parts. It is a
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Satyrises shallow commercial music, custom cars and the way
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Index


Studio album
Mamonas Assassinas
The Enterprise
Genre
Label
EMI
Producer
Rick Bonadio
Mamonas Assassinas
Singles
Pelados em Santos
Brazilian
rock
same name
The Beatles
Twist and Shout
profanity
São Paulo
Los Angeles
United States
Playboy
Pelados em Santos
Portuguese
Pretty Woman
Catfish
Satirises
"as seen on TV" sales
Vira
Roberto Leal

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