Bongo Rock

Muy bueno!

Funk, Big Band Kram. Hauptsächlich Covers anderer Bands. Viel Surf.

lotssssss of bongo

Considerably more strut and bounce in my stride whilst listening to this one

Well... this exists.

Surprisingly good for what is essentially a joke album. Not gonna put it on always by any means, but I could bop to it while it is on.

Amazing.

An absolute mainstay on the car stereo for years now. Never gets old, somehow.

It was cool, so interesting to listen. I never thought bongos could rock, but goddamn, they do, so so cool

That is a lot of drums

Surprisingly, a fun listen! I like that they caught our attention with famous tunes while ultimately showcasing the bongo focus of the album .

Surprisingly not too bad

Quite good covers of various songs. Enjoyed.

I liked this album a lot. Different than most of the other stuff we've listened to but fun to have on

Was not bad but not my style and a bit too much background music style to be outstanding

Super enjoyable and fun.

Yeah

Amazing songs on this album. The contrast between this and boring bluegrass rock can't be more stark. But, why do half the songs sound the same? Highlights: Apache, Bongolia

Great rhythms. Dig the Polly rhythms. But I don't get why this is something I should hear before I die. I don't know that it was fundamental in changing the music world and it certainly is full of classics. It's just covers with bongos. It's not that I didn't enjoy listening to it, but wouldn't have felt robbed if I died and hadn't heard it.

Alltof mikið bongó! Drepleiðinlegt til lengdar.

This kinda feels like a novelty album, so I feel like that limits it’s score, still can’t say I didn’t dig the song selection, in a Gaada da vida brought it and of course Apache has been immortalized now as “jump on it”

giving it a 3 just for the sample

First listen. The songs are good, just not too sure if this is a must-listen-to album. I enjoyed it though. Standouts: In-a-Gadda-Da-Vita, Apache, Let There Be Drums I give it a strong: 2/5

Loved it! Very easy to tap along to so probably not the best album for work times

Really liked this one!

Rock songs done on funky bongos. Yeah.

Very solid

absolutely incredible, one of the most delicious albums - also one where you get used to hearing the samples all over the place so there's a certain 'huh?' quality to it last bongo in belgium - who would have thought I'd be playing air guitar to a bongo track? what's even the deal here? who made this record? what had they eaten? can I have some of it?

10/10 Would vibe again.

I never realised this album existed, and suddenly the origin of every hip-hop and dnb bongo sample I've ever heard has been revealed to me. Not only that, it's an absolutely banging album, I don't think there is a single track I didn't enjoy - whenever I got bored of the bouncy bongo beats a guitar riff appeared from nowhere to drag me back from the brink of not having fun.

Can't help but bop around when listening to this. Duelling Bongos was a bit of a let-down due to it not being a cover of Duelling Banjos. I feel like I should be driving around Santa Monica in a bright pink low-rider, with my uzi on the back seat, smoking like a chimney, picking up some roller babes and just being an all-round badass. 10/10 would listen to again. Would give 4.5/5 but withholding my 5/5 for something which I can just listen to on repeat

Is it a novelty album? Maybe. It's done well, but I just don't see myself going back and listening to this one. I get that it's included because it's so heavily sampled, but it's not really for me. A couple of songs you say, hey, I know that one, or I know that beat, etc. But it's not really an album if you ask me.

Not the most original of albums, but there’s nothing wrong with adding bongos to familiar tracks!

In this household we love and support jazz. All jazz!

I was really pleasantly surprised by this. It was not what I was expecting at all. Really funky. A cracker!

Once again an album that's very different from what I would usually listen to, but on the whole a good experience. I was unsure whether to give this 3 or 4 stars, but then the second to last track Raunchy was so bad, that I'm rounding down to 3.

A decent knock knock joke. I chuckled, I smiled, I forgot it straight away.

This is kind of fun, although musically it comes off as rather corny/dated. Bongos are tight though. I don't see myself coming back to this. But it was worth it to hear "Apache," which was pretty great. I've got to say, I'm more impressed with the artists who were able to mine these songs for some excellent samples over the years. Fave Songs: Apache, Dueling Bongos, In a Gadda Da Vida, Let There Be Drums

It's like all your favourite songs but with like, bongos, man

Well this is a lot of fun. No grand artistic statement here just a bunch of talented musicians showing off their substantial chops on some old favourites. Nothing wrong with that. 3.5 stars

So, this is pretty cool, eh? Had never heard of this band. I'm definitely going to keep this in mind for instances when upbeat and funky instrumental music is needed. I just kept thinking while listening that this would be a) good music for a backyard BBQ and b) good music for a Quentin Tarantino film. Wherein a skinny, attractive female lead brutally murders >100 people.

I'm not sure that I should like this album as much as I do - but I do. It's like a collection of the greatest TV and game show themes from the 70s and 80s, and I mean that as a compliment. It's just fun. Their rendition of Satisfaction is almost (maybe) better than the original. Ironically, the only thing that wore on me was the bongos. Sometimes they were cool, but - at the end of the day - they end up making every song sound like Apache. Every ounce of my being wants to give this a 5, but I'm just not sure I can justify it.

Albums like this is the reason why I'm doing this. This is some fun music. 5RS

Good if you like Bongos?

Bongo

1/5 it began well, in the end it became disturbing

Needs more bongo

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cool stuff 4/5!

Great for movie soundtracks

meh, too bongo for me

meh... instrumental + covers... not great

unique quirky sound, I liked it.

It was way to fun to listen to

I judged this PRETTY hard before I listened to it. Yo… I loved it!

Lekker origineel en best leuke muziek

I think I’d probably give the vinyl of this 5 stars but what’s on Spotify is a bit of a mess.

either genius or terrible and I can't figure out which...so going to have to split the difference.

Escuché ahí un sampleo muy chido de Beastie Boys.

I like bongos, but not that much

Not at all what I was expecting! While there's still some cheesy arrangements here and there, this LP takes its premise to the extreme and doesn't let up. Bongos forever y'all

This album has a track called Dueling Banjos followed by a bongo-trumpet-sax cover of In A Gadda Da Vida. It's all played straight, with no sense of irony. Apparently a bunch of studio musicians got together and made a bongo album for fun [citation needed, I guess?], and then the hip hop world got wind of it and mined it for samples. The music actually wasn't bad, and I'm almost mad about that, because it would have been easier to dunk on it. Instead, I'm just wondering why anybody would need to listen to it 48 years later. What a baffling album. Best track: Apache

Woah

The bongos are a fun gimmick for a song or two but get tiring. I could see myself throwing a song from this into a playlist easily but I'm not sure how much I would want to listen to the entire album.

Bongo

APACHE!!! Origin of so many samples. This whole album is just super cool.

funky.

“Bongo Rock” by Incredible Bongo Band (1973) This album is highly entertaining, and if you can’t dance to it, you’re comatose. But, except for percussion, the music here (there are no lyrics) is completely sappy, corny, schmaltzy, and twee. What it could really use is a vocal performance by Alvin and the Chipmunks. And the percussion is—well, ‘formulaic’ would be a generous compliment. The gimmick on this record is to take tested tunes and render them with lots of bongo playing and other colorful percussion (uncredited but performed by quite creditable session musicians). It requires steady (I.e., boring) tempos and soulless attention to meter. Thus we have knockoffs of “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida”, “Dueling Banjos”, “Wipeout”, “Apache”, etc. This is ‘music’ best enjoyed at old style parties for boomers, preferably after everyone is two sheets in. I believe the only country where any of these tracks charted was Canada. I’ll leave it to the reader to draw the appropriate inferences. There is humor here, but it’s at a small college marching band level. It’s the kind of thing serious musicians do on their time off, or when they’re bored, depressed, unemployed, or insufficiently talented (or all of the above and failing to connect the dots). This record might have improved productivity in a 1950s Soviet gulag or Chinese laogai, but I doubt it would have been allowed. Actually, it would make for a great YouTube video as a soundtrack to clips of chain gang workers from the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke. Roofers and carpenters, however, should not play this as background music while working. It could cause seizures. 1/5

Pre-listening feelings upon seeing the album art: Oh no. Post-listening feelings: So... these are covers of popular songs of the day, but with bongos? That's... that's what this is? Just to clarify - why 1,001 albums, exactly? Why not, ya know, 200 maybe. Weed out a couple. But also - reading up on it, I guess this album has been sampled a good bit, which makes it a little bit interesting. But I'm not otherwise loving it.

Fun, cheesy, schmaltzy, boring - and altogether quite accomplished, this album is all of these things at different moments. Some of the material here isn't bad at all - that's a hot version of 'Apache', a very decent accounting of 'In A Gadda Da Vida', and 'Bongo Rock' has rolls along nicely. The kind of music that late night radio hosts use in their intro beds. The kind of music you can picture the Gold Digger Dancers high-kicking their way through on a Paul Lynde TV special. It's no 'Night On Disco Mountain', but what is?

Didn’t get a chance to listen to this one, but… come on, it’s Bongo Rock. Five Stars.

Yeah it sure does have that funky soundtrack sound for a movie in the early 70s. I keep anticipating Issac Hayes piping in with: You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother (Shut your mouth) But I'm talkin' about Shaft (Then we can dig it) After two songs I was wondering why it's called "Bongo Rock '' Yeah, I get it, there are bongos playing but nothing to justify naming the album Bongo Rock. The Bongos stepped up on Bongolia and again on Bongo Rock where they really do sizzle but in general I don't see anything special percussion wise. I guess if the only drummers you had heard play were Charlie Watts (RIP) and Ringo, the percussion might sound unusual enough to be impressive. I'm more impressed by the percussion on the Ravi Shankar album we listened to and the tabla playing on that LP was a footnote rather than the main billing. I'd prefer an a track of tabla soloing over the song Dueling Bongos any day of the week. Watching Dueling Bongos live might be fun but listening to it is as much fun as listening to some knucklehead mow his lawn. Ditto the solo in In-A-Gadda_Da_Vida although the jamming after the solo is quite good. Also, I'm far more impressed with the lead guitar playing than I am with the Bongo playing on Last Bongo in Belgium. I might consider a 3 if it weren't for the bongos. Given the name of the band, a 3 is off the table.

It's interesting that this novelty album would make it onto this list because the drum break (s) got sampled so much. I first heard Apache on a Fatboy Slim DJ in the 90s. I subsequently Napstered it and used it for spinning classes. The rest of the LP I’m luke warm about – it’s okay to throw on in the background when you have guests over. The version of In-a-godda-divida is catchy and quite bearable compared to the original.

Better than expected. Starts off with a bang with Apache, this may be an interesting trip. In-a-gadda-da-vida may also actually be better than the original. However Satisfaction isn’t. Overall feeling groovy, more so than when I was listening to Simon & Garfunkel recently. Drags a bit by the end but a novel idea

Wel grappig, maar verveelt wel snel

Fun, fun fun! Pretty kitsch. Super rhythms. Probably wouldn't listen to again, but enjoyed listening.

WOW I am so glad I listened to that. Perfect 10/10 for me. That was just miraculous. Actual sonic perfection. It blows my mind that these groovy songs that slap so hard were made in the early 70’s before my parents were even born. I have heard one of the songs before, Bongolia from Baby Driver. It’s really funny when I’m listening to old stuff like David Brubeck or Focus and am like… “Where have I heard this song before?” And once I realize it’s Baby Driver, it makes me love the movie that much more just because of how based Edgar Wrights taste in music is. Anyway, I couldn’t possibly recommend this album more. Actually just incredible.

This seems a lot like a set of novelty covers, but it's slick enough to skate by. Turning it up reveals a lot of depth in the percussion parts, which I suppose should make sense based on name alone. The amount of organ is tastefully beneficial.

TIukkaa bongotykitystä ja rytmikästä menoa. Mukavan pirtsakkaa musaa, tätä kuunteli mielellään!

Ööö, ok. Pahimmat pelkoni toteutuivat, ja levy on juuri sitä mitä nimi antoi odottaa. Tai Incrediblestä voi olla montaa mieltä. Voin suositella tätä levyä lämpimästi ihmisille, jotka nauttivat bongorumpujen läpsyttelystä/läpseestä. Valitettavasti itse en kuulu tähän joukkoon. Vaikea arvioida, koska tämä ei aivan tavoita 1* levyille ominaista absoluuttista paskuutta. Tässä ei toisaalta ole juurikaan elementtejä jotka nostaisivat arvosanan kakkoseksi. Ehkä letkeä karibianristeilyfiilis voidaan laskea plussaksi. Ärsyttää myös yllättävän vähän.

I’m a little confused why this is on the list, it’s quite fun and I like it but it’s derivative and seems like a cover band. Nonetheless I enjoy it so it’s getting a good score. This for me, is will and Carlton at the dance off. Ha.

It’s got bongos alright. And it sure does rock. A very interesting record that I’m surprised I found as long ago as I did, and from a hip hop perspective a very historical one at that. Most of the songs are entertaining enough, and even in the Gadda da vida pulls out some stops.. but essential? Ehhhhh. Just listen to Apache, be amazed, and call it good. If you like funk and hip hop tho, this album is a verified surf-funk-rock beat farm.

Thought this was really fun to listen to. Recognized more than I thought I would.

Oh man samples galore. I sometimes listen to playlists that are all sources of hip hop samples. This seems to be a treasure trove. One helluva novelty record.

Some is kind of nice, but some of it is a bit meh. Feels like it could be nice for a TV show/movie soundtrack. I was wanting some vocals.

Flame

dig the bongos

Bongoriffic. Let's be honest, this record is all about the breaks which went on to fuel the entire hip-hop genre and then some, the most famous of which appears on 'Apache'. The rest of the album, while not necessarily essential unless you’re a beat maker or sampler is still fun and funky.

A definite vinyl purchase. Wonderful stuff.

Love bongo

Wow. I so enjoyed listening to this album from the time that I turned it on. Love the horns, bongos, guitar riffs and the feeling that I'm either hanging out with The Sugarhill Gang making music or reviewing the Rockford Files with Starsky, Hutch, TJ Hooker, Barney Miller, Thomas Magnum, The Six Million Dollar Man / Bionic woman and planning my next vacation on the Love Boat. ... Incredible. https://www.whosampled.com/Incredible-Bongo-Band

Ohhhh! It's the sample from "Jump on it!" And the history of sampling "Apache" and that beat's influence on early hip-hop, is pretty deep and interesting. It was cool to check out the doc "Sample This" on Netflix, not least because of the revelation that Gene Simmons has an amazing voice for documentary narration, but also to find out the fascinating connections the Incredible Bongo Band has to the RFK campaign and Charles Manson. So, neat, that gives it a kind of legacy and importance in music history. Other than that, this album is a lot of covers (including "Apache" - not originally theirs) and a lot of drums. Some good/interesting guitar work, a lot of sometimes good sometimes meh organ. But between the "Apache" sample, hearing a familiar tune and going "that sounds like... oh, yeah it's...," and looking down at the name of track 3 as it came on and laughing out loud that they named a song "Bongolia," this was enjoyable enough, if not something I'd seek out again.

Hey, I recognize that riff! And that one! There’s a lot of fun to be had with this album. The rhythms are infectious, the music is brassy & fun. I’d probably rather hear this version of In a Gadda da Vida than the original, and I loved the take on Sing Sing Sing. Some of the other covers (Satisfaction & Wipeout, particularly) were somewhat anemic. I expected the solos in Wipeout to blow me away, but instead they were somewhat pedestrian compared to the more energized tracks. As a whole, the album is a bit of a lark, but I ain’t mad at it one bit.

Upbeat and fun if not exactly original.

For some reason, Bongo Rock made me think of Fraggle Rock, a wonderful show from long ago with Jim Henson’s muppets. There were Fraggles, Doozers, Gorgs, and Silly Creatures. The Doozers build, mostly scaffolding out of ground up radishes. Why? Because “architecture is meant to be enjoyed.” By enjoyed, they mean eaten by the Fraggles because that’s what Fraggles spend a lot of time doing. The Gorgs are the farmers and don’t like their radishes being taken. The Silly Creatures are humans. Henson described the Fraggle Rock series as "a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It's a lot of silliness. It's wonderful." That pretty much sums up my take on Bongo Rock, except I liked Fraggle Rock more. I liked the fresh approach on this album and I’d listen to this album again, but I would not seek it out myself.

The Velvet Underground: Sí. American Pie: Sí. Bongo Rock: No.

I mean, it's a head-bobbing, bongo-rich album of instrumental dance tracks. It does what it says on the tin. Apache is notable for being extremely heavily sampled in hip-hop.

So bongo cover versions then. I could have done without hearing it but not too terrible

Od czasow incredible string banda i ich przepieknej corki wisielca nie bylo jeszcze tak orginalnej nazwy bandy, dodatkowo tytul plyty rowniez na poziomie, bo bongo rock, co to w ogole ma byc za zart z listy topowych albumikow przyszlo mi na mysl, a juz w pierwszych sekundach odpalenia apache, czyli otwierajacego utworu widzialem, ze juz go skads znam, murzynskie zmysly zareagowaly natychmiast, tylko ciezko bylo im przypisac sampel tych bongosow do konkretnego tytulu, przyczyna tego stanu rzeczy wyjasnila sie w mgnieniu oka po sprawdzeniu whosampledit gdzie widnieje info, ze kawalek byl zasamplowany w ponad 700 kawalkach, ktore ktos dodal, pytanie ile nie zostalo jeszcze dodane, co daje najwyzszy wynik jaki widzialem w swym krotkim zyciu, wiec mozna powiedziec, ze natrafilem na skarbnice murzynskiego rzemiosla samplowego, pytanie dlaczego akurat ten album, ten kawalek, odpowiedz jest juz w samym tytule i nazwie bandy, bongosy, drumy, kongi, takie afrykanskie bebny wywodzace sie z kuby, detki, plus pomysl na to co z nimi zrobic, sama idea albumu to soundtrack do filmu klasy b the thing with two heads, ktory dzisiaj jest znany wlasnie z powodu ostka jaki jest w nim zawarty, sam banda jest banda tylko z nazwy i za projektem mozna znalezc tylko jedno nazwisko michaela vinera, ktory byl pomyslodawca przedsiewziecia, majacego na celu wykorzystanie muzykow studyjnych ktorzy akurat beda pod reka i stworzenie czegos na potrzeby filmu, w wyniku takiego jamowania powstal skarbiec sampelkowy funkowo rokowych beatow, nagranych 8 trakow, to chyba w wiekszosci instrumentalne covery kanonow muzyki okolo rokowej ktore daja 33 minuty czasu nagraniowego, chociaz spotifajowa wersja to godzina 18 minut z dodatkowymi trakami i miksami z orginalnego krazka, chyba jeszcze nie bylo w zestawieniu tak randomowego kawalka jesli chodzi o jego geneze, bo nagrywajac covery na potrzeby filmu stworzyc plyte ktora stanie sie kilka lat pozniej jednym z kamieni wegielnych nowego gatunku muzycznego, to niesamowita historia, co do dzwieku samej plyty to najlepsze w niej jest odkrywanie elementow juz gdzies wykorzystanych, bo sa one tak charakterystyczne, ze az dziwnie brzmia jako orginalna czesc traka, w odsluchu przeszkadza najbardziej jakosc masteringu tej plyty, bo jednak rockowe picki rozpuszczaja uszczy czlowieka, jesli chodzi o poziom na jakim jest utrzymana produkcja, tutaj natomiast slychac bardzo dobrze roznice pomiedzy albumem za ktorym stoi szereg inzynierow od materialu nagrywanego po macoszemu w katach studia po godzniach, jednoczesnie nadal ma swoj orginalny klimat i brzmienie ktore kojarzy kazdy fan old skulowego rapu, na plejaka wrzucam najbardziej rozpoznawalny trak, jednoczesnie singiel dzieki ktoremu w ogole plyta zostala nagrana, wiec otwierajacy apatche, dodatkowo plejlista funkowa powiekszy sie o trak bongolia oraz last bongo in belgium

We were pleasantly surprised by how lively and fun this ridiculously named band was. It's fantastic.

Album contains the sweetest cover of inna godda davida ever. I was in the right mood for this today.... Another reason O appreciate this 1001 album site... Would not have actively sought this out

The songs were good however some were not as enjoyable.

sounds like background music from old cop shows from the 70s, that and old porno music

Not bad and quite interesting.

Upon getting this album pop up for today's listen - I was really skeptical. But the first song on the album is Apache which at first didn't recognise by name, but recognised the sound from countless covers, samples and features in films. The entire album has a soundtrack like quality to it, which makes sense when you realise that Michael Viner was a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records. Overall a good listen for a Friday afternoon Best: Apache; In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Worst: No real weakness just a nice flow through the album as a whole Disclaimer - I only listened to the first 8 songs on Spotify as they were part of the original album. The remainder was part of the 2006 CD Release

Neat little time capsule of 70s vibe, but a bit much to listen to all at once... This kind of soul sound but with the bongos turned down to a reasonable level was done well on The Olympians' self-titled (2016).

Surprisingly not the worst we’ve had

Great instrumentation, kind of souless songs. It would've been better to listen to some of the albums where this is sampled

Now I know where all the Beastie Boys got all those samples from.

surprisingly catchy

Funky

Apache is a cool track, but besides this not my favorite kind. More like OST music.

This better have bongos in it lol. Ok it does, lot of fucking bongos. Too many fucking bongos, if I'm honest. 3/5.