Let's talk about one of the greatest classics of the band Legião Urbana and national rock? Do you know what the story of "Time Lost" is?
In July 1986, the second album, Dois, arrived in stores. Very different from the previous proposal, with almost soft lyrics and melodies. Renato Russo asserted his poetic verve and distilled quality never before seen in the lyrics of Brazilian rockers. The songs “Tempo Perdido”, “Eduardo e Monica”, “Índios”, and “Almost sem Querer” appeared on the radio. It generated “Musica Urbana 2”, “Fábrica” and the daring “Daniel Na Cova dos Leões”.
Studio 2 at EMI-Odeon (Botafogo-RJ) was closed to them, for months, so they could create. There were no more changes of producers and the rush of the first album. Dois surpassed the initial sales of 100,000 copies of the previous one and went platinum, having sold more than 250,000 copies at the time of release alone.
The song "Tempo Perdido" was an adaptation of two songs that were never recorded by the band, the first one is called "1977", it was composed when Legião Urbana was preparing their first album.
“Every day when I wake up in the morning I no longer have the time of the day that has passed, but I have a lot of time to end this indecision.”
This song was going to be on the first album but the band ended up changing its mind and, in addition, when they made the 30th anniversary compilation of the first album's release, the song was questioned to be part of the tribute, but there was a dispute and it ended up being from outside and to this day has never been officially released.
The lyrics of “Tempo Perdido” were already based on this song, but the melody, harmony and everything else came through another song called “Gente Obsoleta”. The song was written by Renato Russo when he was in the band Aborto Elétrico and the existence of this song is only known from a cassette tape recording. This song was also never recorded by Legião Urbana.
The song "Tempo Perdido" burst on the radio and was the song that had the most comparison between Legião Urbana and the band The Smiths, in 1991 Renato made a statement: "When we finished recording "Tempo Perdido", I was ashamed, so much so that the song was reminiscent of the Smiths.”
Renato Russo asked for help at the beginning to finish the lyrics of “Tempo Perdido”, but he had no help and had to finish the song alone. He realized he could make a protest song without being a pamphleteer. The song became the sixth track on the B-side of the album "Dois".
The album “Dois” occupies the 21st position on the list of the 100 greatest albums of Brazilian music by Rolling Stone Brasil.
The music video had parts in sequence with the band in black and white, the recording was carried out at RGB studios, in São Cristóvão, in which the director of the clip included photographs of stars such as: Brian Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley , Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and John Lennon. All young and some unrecognizable.
The song “Tempo Perdido” became one of the most listened and valued songs by the band Legião Urbana.
“Straight ahead, we have no time to waste.” - Renato Russo
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