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As Dez Mais (Portuguese for The Top Ten) is the tenth studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs, and their first cover album. It was released in 1999, selling more than 400,000 copies. It was their last album with guitarist Marcelo Fromer, who died in 2001 just a few days before the first days of recordings of As Dez Mais' studio successor, A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana.




Track listing






Single


"Aluga-se" was released in 1999 as the thirteenth single by the band. The original song was composed and performed by Brazilian rock singer Raul Seixas, and it was featured on his 1980 album Abre-Te Sésamo.




= Music video

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The music video for the song shows the band performing it inside a night club crowded with young people drinking, dancing and smoking. At certain point, some of the band members are seen playing a card game of some sort, and then playing pool.




Critical reception



Writing for Folha de S.Paulo, Lúcio Ribeiro panned the album, stating it was another commercial play by the band that "seems to have permanently given up composing new material to fill an album". He also said the group "annihilated" all ten tracks, turning "Rotina" in a "boring ska" and depriving "Pelados em Santos" of its debauchery.




= The band's position

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Members Branco Mello (vocals), Nando Reis (vocals, bass) and Sérgio Britto (vocals, keyboards) commented: "Since 'Sonífera Ilha', a song made to be a hit, people mess around with us. We want to be TV stars [...] The guy who makes music just for selling doesn't exist. First, we do music for our entertainment. [...] This is independent from our will. We make a consuming product. Everyone has the right to say whatever they want, but, for us, the priority is artistic".
Producer Jack Endino said that there are elements of pop in the band's two previous albums, the well-sold Acústico MTV and Volume Dois, and in all their seven albums released before Titanomaquia (first Titãs album produced by him). He added:

I'm a rocker, but I like good songs very much. If a song has a good feeling and good lyrics, rhythms, energy, intelligence and emotion, then it's not necessary that it has a 'wall of guitars'. Anyway, the concept for 'As Dez Mais' was not my idea. I did the best album I could, considering these were not Titãs songs. And I tell you I get very happy with the way this album sounds. I didn't want the 'strings' added to the songs, it wasn't my idea, but Eumir Deodato did a good job, specially on 'Fuga 2'. As a Titãs fan, I would have preferred new compositions by them, but that wasn't what the band wanted at that time.




Personnel


Titãs
Branco Mello - lead vocals on tracks 1 and 4, co-lead vocals on track 7
Paulo Miklos - lead vocals on tracks 6 and 8, co-lead vocals on track 10, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
Nando Reis - lead vocals on tracks 3 and 9, co-lead vocals on track 7, bass
Sérgio Britto - lead vocals on tracks 2 and 5, co-lead vocals on track 10, organ, piano, mellotron, wurlitzer, backing vocals
Tony Bellotto - acoustic, electric and twelve string guitar
Marcelo Fromer - acoustic and electric guitar
Charles Gavin - drums
Additional personnel
Jack Endino - bass on track 8, electronic drums arrangement on track 6, electric guitar and backing vocals on track 10
Edu Morelenbaum - conducting
Eumir Deodato - conducting
Ricardo Imperatore - percussion
Paschoal Perrota - violin and arrangement
Cassia Menezes - cello
Marcio Malard - cello
Paula Prates - violin
Ricardo Amado da Silva - violin
Antonella Pareschi - violin
Jesuina Passaroto - viola
Bernard Marie Bessler - viola
Daniel Garcia - saxophone, flute, saxophone solo pn track 1
Roberto Marques - trombone
Altair Martins - trumpet, flugelhorn
Ron Lawrence - viola
N. Cenovia Cummins - violin
Todd Reynolds - violin
Richard Lucker - cello
Maxine Neuman - cello
Joyce Hammann - violin
Robert Shaw - violin
Stuart Mac Donald - tenor saxophone
Jim Sisko - trumpet
David Marriott, Jr. - trombone
Technical personnel
Bae arrangements: Jack Endino and Titãs
String and brass arrangements: Eumir Deodato (except "Rotina" and "Ciúmes", by Titãs and Jack Endino)
Studios: Iron Wood Studios (Seattle), Hanzeck Audio (Seattle), Avatar Studios (NY), Ar Estúdio (RJ), Blue Studio (RJ) e ARP Estúdio (SP)
ExcExecutive production: Charles Gavin
Artistic direction: Tom Capone
Recording engineering (Seattle): Jack Endino e Kip Beelman
Recording assistants (Seattle): Donn Devore, Kip Beelman e Floyd Reitsma
Recording engineering (NY): Álvaro Alencar
Recording assistant (NY): Gregg Gasperino
Recording engineering (RJ): Álvaro Alencar
Recording assistants (RJ): André Rattones e Luciano Tarta
Recording engineering (SP): Roberto Marques
Recording assistant (SP): Nelson Damascena
Mixing: Studio X (Seattle)
Mixing engineering: Jack Endino
Mixing assistant: Sam Hofstedt
Mastering engineering: George Marino and Jack Endino (at Sterling Sound, NY)
Graphic coordination: Silvia Panella
Cover: Desenho Brasa
Photos: Rochelle Costi
Photo assistant: Marcelo Zochio
Costume design: Cristiane Mesquita and Lilian Varella
Roadies: Sérgio Molina, Sombra Jones and Viça




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