Word: psychedelia
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...influences from more formal musical genres such as marcha and maxixe. In the '50s there was the bossa nova, a cooler, more streamlined genre partly derived from samba that was championed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and others. And in the mid-'60s, in the wake of the Beatles and psychedelia and political oppression in Brazil, there was Tropicalia, a free-spirited take on music that mixed indigenous rhythms with electric rock instrumentation, wild dress, playfully surreal lyrics and fierce individualism. And also in the '60s, people finally gave up trying to name all the emerging genres and somebody came...
...Like NRBQ and the Grateful Dead, whose encyclopedic catalogs provide the only fair comparison, Los Lobos have absorbed everything from rockabilly to Marvin Gaye (whose "What's Going On" ends the album), with field trips through psychedelia, doo-wop, blues, pop and just-plain-out-there studio experimentation. And that's not even counting their mastery of the traditional Mexican music they grew up with, the soundtrack of life in Chicano East L.A. With 86 songs, there's a lot to like here: the earliest forays into the studio with traditional material like "Guantanamera"; the rowdy guitar-driven rock...