Cinema Transcendental (studio album)
by Caetano Veloso

Cinema Transcendental by Caetano Veloso
Year: 1979
Overall rank: 8,367th   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 44 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (124th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,268th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,367th)

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Caetano Veloso bestography

Cinema Transcendental is ranked 6th best out of 42 albums by Caetano Veloso on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Caetano Veloso is Transa which is ranked number 1454 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,165.

Caetano Veloso album bestography « Higher ranked (7,797th)
Bicho
This album (8,367th)
Cinema Transcendental
Lower ranked (11,070th) »
Caetano Veloso (1986)

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Cinema Transcendental track list

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Cinema Transcendental rankings

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Overall rank: 8,367th | 1970s rank: 1,268th | 1979 rank: 124th

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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From 09/26/2025 22:48 | #311105
Another album by Caetano with A Outra Banda da Terra, released during a period he describes as the best of his life. Some of the songs are pop-orientend, but most are folkier. A few hits/classics here: "Lua De São Jorge", "Beleza Pura", "Menino do Rio" (theme of a feature film with the same name), "Trilhos Urbanos" and, the best of all, "Cajuína", a touching hommage to a friend of his, poet Torquato Neto, who had killed himself a few years earlier.
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Fechando a década com mais um clássico.
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From 07/17/2013 03:34 | #81691
His most famous catchy songs are here. But surely not one of his best, a little made-to-sell.
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