i'm neither and i cried

That's good- I don't want to.

You are correct that aside from my friend, and what she has told me, I am ignorant about Brazil, almost completely. I'm not an ignorant person, though. Also, I hate internet fighting more than anything (mostly because it's, like, the dumbest activity a human being can engage in). So, all's well I suppose.

I don't fight, I discuss.
People are often too defensive and take everything personally, but that's not my problem.

I didn´t say Ethiopiques-compilations is like Os Mutantes, just said the creative period was also in Ethiopia that time.

But in the other hand, to me Os mutantes really don´t sound like the Beatles. I´m not Mutentes-expert, but I think in their music has a lot latino-influences. Also sixties-seventies Ethiopian music is a unique mixture of soul-jazz and traditional Ethiopian music influences. And the greatest instrumental music maker Mulatu Astatke also studied in USA and got there latino-influences to his music as you can hear it here (this song is in the Jim Jarmusch-movie Broken Flowers):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFis...eature=related

And I think this is also not so far from psychedelia (by the way there is Finnish musician playing flute-solo, he just happend to be in Addis Abeba that time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zfhn6eDbAI

Here´s also few Finnish pearls from that time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuqOwIiJ22w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt03LBBRAAM

If you DeadDisco want to hear those Ethiopiques-compilations, I think you can start from Ethiopiques 13 and 4. 1 and 3 are also very good.

Nuggets II 4cd-box is also a great proof to that creative period happened all over the world. Although many bands there are from Europe, there is also bands from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and from Brazil (suprise,suprise) Os Mutantes! I think the reason why there isn´t more interesting band outside Europe is that the makers of that compilation have wanted put there only english-singing bands (Os Mutantes is only exception and their song is Bat Macumba where is no other words than Bat Macumba).

Agreed.

I hate it when I say "I hate (insert name of book, band, movie here)" and someone else says "I hate you".

It's absurd.