Jobie Reviews Music 129: World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can... (full title in article)
- ChemicalSkylines
- May 13, 2021
- 2 min read
(suggested by Kyle)
World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia is a 2012 R&B album by Tim Maia. It is 15 tracks long, spanning 1 hour and 3 minutes of music. Across its 1 hour and 3 minute runtime, the album brings a fair bit of variety to the table. When listening to this album, you’ll sometimes get a taste of Brazilian R&B, while other times you may get a hint of disco tracks. This is mostly due to the fact that this album was released posthumously as a compilation album. Nevertheless, the material contained within is still of high quality.
The assortment of tracks provided here offer up several different textures of the sound which Tim Maia clearly performed very well. For example, though “Over Again” is in the exact same genre as most of the other tracks on the album, it’s distinctively different from a more upbeat track like “Do Leme Ao Pontal”.
Like any great compilation album, the album contains a few diversions from the great sound that Maia usually puts out. The track “Where Is My Other Half” is notable for being the only track to have a more downbeat tone. There are also a few oddities present within the 1 hour and 3 minute compilation of material, such as the track “Brother Father Mother Sister” versus the track “Nobody Can Live Forever”.
Those two tracks in particular are nearly identical to one another, apart from the first few verses of both tracks being modified. I don’t know the artistic reason for why there are essentially two versions of the same track (the original of which was likely the former, but it’s an interesting oddity nonetheless.
Similarly, I was initially confused about the inclusion of the track “You Don’t Know What I Know”, a spoken word only 32 second track. However, after listening to the track that immediately follows, “Rational Culture”, I realized that it was likely a segue into that track. It’s not very obvious at first, though, since there’s no instrumentation to indicate this. Still, it’s an interesting decision to segue into a song in this way.
The album, in general, also has great messages sprinkled throughout its run time. The track “Let’s Have A Ball Tonight” simply advocates for peace instead of war, to give an example. These messages fit in well with the feel good instrumentation and sound the album provides, making for tracks which clearly had passion behind their production.
My favorite tracks from this album include “Let’s Have a Ball Tonight”, “Do Leme Ao Pontal”, “Bom Senso”, and “Over Again”.
Overall, World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia is a very nice album which offers up a variety of R&B textures. Each track was clearly produced with utmost passion, with feel good instrumentation and positive messages found in several spots across the album’s runtime.
Overall rating:
9.3/10
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