Fromer's death almost prompted the remaining members to postpone the album's recording and even made them consider ending the band, but the then sextet decided to carry on, deducing it would be what the guitarist wanted if alive.

A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana received mostly positive reviews, but did not sell as well as its three predecessors.

While Reis commented he did not notice such a long interval, vocalist Branco Mello and vocalist/keyboardist Sérgio Britto considered it a period of great experience.

[6][7] Titãs were experiencing pressure from critics due to the long period with little new material, especially after three members (Britto, Reis and vocalist Paulo Miklos) released solo albums in the period[8] (respectively: A Minha Cara, Para Quando o Arco-Íris Encontrar o Pote de Ouro and Vou Ser Feliz e Já Volto).

[4] On 11 June, a couple of days before they started the recording sessions, guitarist Marcelo Fromer was struck by a motorcycle in São Paulo and taken to the hospital with severe injuries.

The passing forced him to go back to Seattle, United States, for a week, a period in which he was replaced by Paul Ralphes, who produced Britto's debut solo album.

[1] The album title, as well as the title-track, are a play with "best" lists that the press "shove down the public's throat", despite the band admitting to be part of that.

[7] "Daqui Pra Lá" was inspired by the song "O Homem Que Deve Morrer" (The Man Who Must Die), composed by Nonato Buzar and written by Torquato Neto.

[4] While some considered that "Um Morto de Férias" and "É Bom Desconfiar" had a radiophonic pop appeal, "Vamos ao Trabalho" flirts with punk and "Eu Não Presto" borrows elemens from ska; "Mesmo Sozinho" is a melancholic ballad[16] and forms a couple with the other ballad os the album, "Isso".

[4] Endino described A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana as follows:[11] [The album] is a compact of everything Titãs can do.

"A Melhor Banda" was one of the most difficult albums I ever produced, in a terrible year, but I felt we finally did an album by Titãs sounding like a rock band again.A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana marks the first[5][8] (and only) release by Titãs under Abril Music, which would close its doors less than two years later.

[17] The first 250,000 copies of the album were sold in newsstands[6] in a package including a poster-magazine[13] with stories,[8] a graphic novel, trivia and games featuring the band.

[5] The magazine format was adopted to evade a law that prohibited CDs from being sold in newsstands as individual products, but not as part of a bundle.

[18] A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana received positive reviews by the critics.

[16] Apoenan Rodrigues, from ISTOÉ magazine, considered the album "fun" and "ironic starting with the title itself, [...] It makes the perfect mixture of palatable pop of more recent works like the acoustic projects and the sonic tons of Titanomaquia".

"[4] Pedro Alexandre Sanches, from Folha de S.Paulo, says the lyrics range from autocriticism to references to the so-called "mid-life crisis" and concluded by saying: "for the ones who forgot about this, Titãs are still capable of doing open, new and creative music.

"[14] In a general comment about the band's discography, Cleber Facchi, from Miojo Indie, said "a considerable part of the album fuses the commercial side of the group with the sarcasm assumed since the 80s.