Live!

Jam bands are just not my jam. Maybe these guys aren’t a jam band, but this is definitely a jam bandy album. I like songs to have a something to say and get to the point…in and out, which can be drawn out so long as there is continually something more to say. I must distinguish my feelings about this album and other albums with very long songs because I’m sure it will come up down the line. A song can be quite long and continue adding to its point view throughout. For instance, Dylan’s Visions of Johanna is a master piece of poetic storytelling that feels far too short at 7:30. Also, I just listened to Jimi Hendrix’s 15 minute long Voodoo Chile (studio version) and it was engaging throughout. The difference for this album is that the jamming sounds like directionless noise generated just because they could. A good life lesson: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I get that this is a live album so there is likely some detriment to not being in the audience. But still, there are other live albums I love listening to at home. I swear I can hear Ginger and Tony loosing interest in what’s going on several times throughout Ginger Baker And Tony Allen Drum Solo. Listen again to around the 7:15-7:45 mark…they don’t want any part of this. No one needs a 16 minute drum solo unless your name is Bonzo (Bonham) or Neil (Peart), and even then I hesitate to claim they could keep it interesting for that long. I do like some of the music, especially the big horn parts. Some of the bass and keyboard parts are worthwhile. Way too much jamming for me.

Didn't finish the album. Sorry, not my type again. :(

Usually a fan of weird funk jazz improv type stuff, but a 10 minute drum solo was a bit much 😂

Not my kinda music

I love Fela, but not a fan of this. More jazz than afrobeat? Not much fun.

2/5 too many drums and tribal sounds :(

Afrobeat. Extended jams that are funky and soulful. BT: Let's Start, Black Man's Cry

Vikkelät rytmiikat. Itse jäin takariviin ja poistuin kesken keikan oluttiskille. Havahduin vasta keikan päättäneeseen Tony Allenin rumpusooloon.

James Brown op zijn Afrikaans. Maar naast funk, ook wel een jazzy feel. En Ginger Baker is een baas op drums. Maar ik zou dit zelf niet zo snel opzetten. Het is te langdradig en ik heb een hekel aan drumsolos

Meh

Groovy and sounds African-Jazzy. Last song was great. 5/10.

Das hört sich ja alles ned schlecht an, aber ich hatte erst eine Lebenssituation, bei der diese Musik passte. (2016 -> Samba in Coburg: Ich war sternhagelvoll und iwelche teenies haben mich beim tanzen zu so einer Musi gefilmt und ausgelacht). All in all -> 2*

No.

Anxiety inducing by the end

funky reggaeish

Not cool enough for it or maybe it isn’t cool enough for me. Probably the former.

Duplicate

A bit different but I didn't like it

Interesting mix of African beats and funk. Too funky for my taste

Noodling

Talented but not my style

Another bloody live album!! I dont need introductions to every song. I really dont enjoy the organ sound of ‘Let’s Start’ and it’s just too repetitive. As the song progresses it just makes me slightly anxious. I didn’t mind the vocal parts though. ‘Black Man’s Cry’ run time 11 minutes 38…….ffs. The more percussive bits are fine (the less keys the better on this I’m learning). However very few songs will ever need to be this long and this is not one of them. Half way in the keys take the fore and all hope is lost. It feels like a battle of attrition, rather than something to be enjoyed. ‘Ye Ye De Small’ brings Ginger Baker snd the promise therefore of more drums (after a minute chat about smelly people and the fact GB takes his bath). It delivers plenty of drums, but if i’m honest there’s not a huge shift from what has come before so another overlong meander that gets more annoying as the song goes on. I didn’t mind enjoy Ginger’s drumming though. The spoken intro to ‘Egbe Mi O’ says it means “Carry me, i want to die’ which unfortunately is pretty much how I feel at this stage and Ginger Baker agress😆) The drum duet bonus track is more enjoyable than the rest, but even as someone who generally enjoys a good drum break this is just too long

I really wanted to give this 2*. I really, really did. But that drum solo ruined me.

meh

Definitely not an album I needed to listen to before I die

Not my style at all

Ok

Nope.

Why?

This album just really went on forever.....if I had to choose one song I really couldn't as they were pretty much all the same to my mind. The ones with the voice talking, undulating, screaming etc just made it all worse and it was pretty bad in the first place.

Sorry, no

Amazing Afrobeat artist from Nigeria … despite its small duration a descent live album . Not my taste though .

Larguísimas es poco

Det orker jeg sgu ikke høre på det her

live dinlemek istersem konsere giderim

La percusión está muy buena, pero son canciones muy largas. Se pierde el sentido

Mierdita.

Upbeat but not for me

Not my jam

Me costo terminarlo, no fue mi estilo.

Two did not finishes in a row. While vocally there was certainly some interesting sections, ultimately I’d rather be listening to something else and just couldn’t make it through some tough jazz instrumental sections.

It's pretentious

Not a massive fan of live albums.

I didn't get a chance to listen

not my style but the music is good just isnt my tune

Not my thing. To me this is forgettable. Could be that it was influential or visionary but I could not tell.

Bloody awful. These guys are good musicians but Christ this was hard work to get to the end. Jam after jam after jam for over an hour. I never liked ginger baker and this has made me like him even less.

Boring!

i did not like it at all, sounded very messy to be honest

Some of the tracks were an… ‚ok’? background for working, but some were really obnoxious and distracting, like Black Man’s Cry. Whoever decided it should be listened to before death should be hanged.

Not my style

Ikke fundet

Not my vibe

Not worth listening to

1...

I thought this would be amazing, African drums and Ginger Baker, What a disappointment. It was boring from beginning to end, Drum solo could have been, and should have been awesome but it just went on and on, never varied and no great drumming.

Livealbum

Nope.

Of a time and a place, but not my time and not my place.

Rating: 1.0 I have very little patience for live albums already, I just can’t do this shit anymore.

Livealbum

Boring, no vocals

Not a fan of this style of music.

Not for me

Not my vibe

No he entrado mucho en el disco, no me ha llamado la atención.

Interesting

Fela Kuti lived an amazing life that is worth knowing about. Afrobeat is unfortunately not for me though. Tracks to Track: Zombie (not from this album)

Have not listened to this album

sry

Looked at the reviews, either 5s or 1s. Its another live album, which spells shite for me. I gave it a chance, but no chance. F#@%ing load of rubbish. I might as well listen to random albums rather than be fed this daily bilge. 1001 albums, where from.

En que momento me he comido unas setas ???

Repetitive and generally not appealing. Made me irritated and could not finish.

I can understand how this album would be influential in its genre, but it’s not my taste. I can see listening to this style of music in an outside bar in the Caribbean but other than that it’s not for me.

Repetitive and boring throughout. Not much to say, but I would have rather not listened to it. Not really sure why it's on this list.

This album’s true artistic quality has nothing to do with my rating- I personally was just not equipped with the taste to enjoy it. It reminded me of the parts of live concerts where they introduce the band but it went on for a full hour and that’s just something I do not know how to appreciate.

Long winded but fun and funky

As someone who has played drums for many years, I bizarrely found this very irritating

this album wasn't my thing

Afrobeat not really my thing tbh. But the music is quite nice and good chill music. drum solo kinda crazy Ngl. I’d give it a 1/5.

No, thank you

Eh

duran caleta las canciones

I'm less than a tenth of the way through this list, but I feel as though I can pretty confidently call this the biggest swing and a miss that I will ever encounter on this website. I think I've consolidated what I don't like about this in my other reviews, so I'm gonna lay it out real quick in bruhllet point form 🗿https://youtu.be/Oc7Cin_87H4🗿 Live albums are near-impossible to appreciate from the perspective of a non-fan and do not belong on this list. They aren't popular, don't showcase a pivotal point in music history and don't capture the experience of listening to music live. 🗿https://youtu.be/Oc7Cin_87H4🗿 Long songs are for the artistically suicidal. Unless we're talking about one of the greatest anthems of all time - a song that will reverberate in the eardrums of millions for centuries to come, trim it down. 🗿https://youtu.be/Oc7Cin_87H4🗿 Jazz is shite, especially the freeform stuff Please load up your digital audio workstation of choice and play three vine boom sound effects together in my honor

It’s a racket

The live atmosphere doesn't come across really, and I don't care about drum solo's.

музон приятный, да и со стариной я уже знаком. но хорошего должно быть понемногу !!!

не ритммчиские выкреки 0/10

This is not my thing at all but I can appreciate it. I respect the tight playing of instruments and I get why people may somewhat enjoy it. But people love this? I think people pretend to like this sort of stuff so it makes them seem cool. Whether the tracks were two minutes long, over ten minutes like they are here, or even if it was just one long track it wouldn't matter, it all sounds the same. Fela introduces each song and on 'TRACK 3' says he wrote it for Ginger Baker. He wrote these songs? I can't help but feel that you can't write stuff like this. It's as if some talented musicians all got up on stage and just played whatever they felt like. It's an overly long jazzy wank fest of the highest order with occasional decent vocals. To my ears, it's essentially a jam session. Maybe I'm more standard thinking when it comes to music. It should have a catchy melody or a memorable tune. A riff, a vocal line, something to hum or sing along to. This has none of those things, which is fine, if you're into this then great, I'm pleased for you, but I don't get it.

Slop

Not really my thing

1 song

Viel instrumental ohne Gesang. Wer das mag, ist hier gut aufgehoben, für mich irgendwie zu hektisch und zu wenig angenehmer Gesang.

Schade! Wieder nichts. Endlos lange Titel im immer gleichen Rhythmus.

Meh

couldn't find

A new worst ... Congrats!

uugghhh

I'm not a fan of purely acoustic albums- the songs in this album seemed to drag on and were highly repetitive in my opinion. I will try to finish listening, but it already feels like I've been listening for hours.

Nope!

Oh geez. How is this on the list? I don't like jazz at the best of times, but this is the pits! The singer reminds me of a Nigerian James Brown without access to songwriters. So, the inclusion of Ginger Baker's name appears to be nothing but marketing. Honestly, the number of drummers worth writing about or specifically listening for can be counted on one hand. Let's see: Peter Criss for Beth and a pretty cool solo in 100,000 Years; The singer from The Romantics; Scott Travis in Painkiller and every Priest release after that; Mick Tucker for being exactly 25% of The Sweet. Even the really important drummer in ABBA generally goes unknown. Bottom line - this is rubbish, and won't grace my lovely digital record player (Vinyl Fetish by Argentinian developer, German Buela) again. Postscript - playing bass in these types of bands must be the most dissatisfying experience ever. This guy is playing the same pattern over and over and over and over again!

Rad beets, not my jam

Endless jams. Second didn’t-listen-to-the-whole-songs album in a row.

Album Nr. 52 Ne. Ich kann das nicht anhören.

Short album insofar as there are only a few tracks, but all are lengthy. Each song started out strong and interesting and vivacious but tapered off into something less intriguing as they carried on. Was a chore to not skip some of the songs at minute 5 or 6.

Songs are 12+ minutes long - it started good and if you want background jams this might work

Å nej, är det jazz... :( Avslutar med 16 minuter trumsolo, så klart. 1 / 5

I dont get it

Just not my style reference. May be good for workouts, though!

Pas mon genre de musique

I really did not like this album. The songs all sounded the same and I do not understand how any meaning is received from this music. Definitely not my style. Favorite Song(s): N/A

Not for me

not for me at all

Blocked

Nope. Too repetitive

very boring.

Cannot be listened to sober

Terrible music…

Periaatteessa erittäin kuunneltavaa, mutta jazz-soolot varmistavat, etten tule ikinä kuuntelemaan uudestaan.

Hmmm, another one where obviously it’s me that’s missing something. Im sure this is great but I don’t get it; again it’s Not For Me™️

Not on spotify

first day,, this is not my favourite genre. 6 long songs totalling 1h when i'm supposed to sleep so uh.. skipped the first song after the halfway mark, played a bit of the rest to see if there's any i generally vibe with, andd there aren't. might come back to this if i have more time, to see if it grows on me, but i highly doubt so

Not my type of thing

1.75

Jäi kesken. Ei vaan pysty. Paskaa.

16 min drum solo.... negative 100 stars

Not enough to enjoy with this one

Muy corto. No me ha gustado

Que es esto!

This does absolutely nothing for me.

Fela Kuti is regarded as the pioneer of Afrobeat music, and this is an album he recorded in 1971 with Cream's former drummer - Ginger Baker. The album has 4 songs and is a total of 46 minutes long. The rhythm of the music is tantalizing, but I personally found no engaging substance other than that to vibe with. I'm sure when this album dropped in Africa, everyone was partying to it, but probably not so much in the America's or Europe.

4 decent world music jazz jams and a 16 minute long drum solo. 1 star just for that self-indulgent mush.

This album wasn't really for me, I didn't like it that much. 1/5 stars.

Ei tämä nyt oikein lähtenyt.

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