| Igreja | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Titãs |
| Album: | Cabeça Dinossauro |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Post-punk |
| Length: | 2:47 |
| Label: | WEA |
| Producer: | Liminha, Vitor Farias and Pena Schmidt |
| Prev Title: | Família |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Lugar Nenhum |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
"Igreja" ("Church") is a single by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released in 1986, part of their Cabeça Dinossauro album.
According to songwriter and then bassist and vocalist Nando Reis, the song was written on the acoustic guitar at his mother's house in the district of Butantã, São Paulo:
By the time of the album's release, Reis said:[1]
It was one of the last songs to be selected for the album and it stirred controversy among the members themselves - vocalist Arnaldo Antunes, at first, didn't want to record it and would even leave the stage sometimes when the song was performed live.[2] [3] When the members had a meeting at vocalist Branco Mello's apartment to discuss the album's repertoire, vocalist, bassist and saxophonist Paulo Miklos also opposed the song's inclusion, but soon changed his mind as the band performed it live.[2]
Antunes, on the other hand, said "the song is against the Church as the institution, but at the same time I have a problem, for me it is difficult to sing that I don't have a religion, because I do. And the Church has great contributions to the history of men, to the arts, take Botticelli for instance."[1]
Per the Cabeça Dinossauro liner notes:[4]
