Garotos Podres

Emerging from the industrial working-class suburbs of Grande ABC on the edge of metropolitan São Paulo, Garotos Podres began performing punk rock along with the slower Oi! variant. Their debut album, the LP Mais Podres Do Que Nunca, achieved sales of up to 50,000 copies and stood as a notable achievement for independent punk releases in Brazil at the time. Regarded as a genre classic, the record inspired numerous subsequent bands to form. Censors blocked two tracks, “Johnny” and “Vou Fazer Cocô,” yet “Anarquia, Oi!,” “Johnny,” “Fernandinho Viadinho,” and additional cuts reached national radio play. The group embarked on a European tour in 1995. Their fourth release, the October 1997 CD Com a Corda Toda on Paradoxx, adopted a more commercial ska-centered sound while retaining pointed social commentary, notably in “Aos Fuzilados da CSN,” which recounts the police killing of workers during a strike at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional. Personnel shifts occurred repeatedly: between 1983 and 1997 Sukata took over bass from Godo while Português assumed drums from Maurício, and from 1997 to 1998 Nunes replaced Português.