Ginger Baker's Air Force (studio album) by Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force by Ginger Baker's Air Force
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 74,598th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 8 votes)
  Ratings distributionRatings distribution   Average rating historyAverage rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (616th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (6,670th)
Award Best albums of all time (74,598th)
Product Details
Availability

eBay
eBay
Ginger Baker's Air Force – Ginger Baker's Air Force,2xLP,2662 001,UK, 1970 Vg
Condition: Used


eBay
eBay
AIRFORCE/GINGER BAKER/GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE - GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE NEW CD
Condition: Brand New


eBay
eBay
Ginger Baker's Air Force – Ginger Baker's Air Force,2xLP,2662 001,UK, 1970 Vg
Condition: Used


  My favourite store:  

Ginger Baker's Air Force bestography

Ginger Baker's Air Force is ranked as the best album by Ginger Baker's Air Force.

Ginger Baker's Air Force album bestography « Higher ranked (74,598th) This album (74,598th) Lower ranked »
Ginger Baker's Air ForceGinger Baker's Air Force-

Upcoming concerts

Sep
11
Thu
20:00
The BellRays @ 191 Toole
191 Toole, Tucson, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Aug
21
Thu
20:00
Kali Uchis - The Sincerely, Tour
Kia Forum, Inglewood, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Sep
27
Sat
18:45
Alice Cooper & Judas Priest Live
Broadview Stage at SPAC, Saratoga Springs, United States. United States
Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets
 
Discover more upcoming concerts

Listen to Ginger Baker's Air Force on YouTube

Loading content from YouTube...

Ginger Baker's Air Force track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (4 out of 8 tracks have been rated).

Sort by
#
Track
Rating/Comments
1.
Rating: Not enough dataComments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
3.
Rating: 76 (1 vote)Comments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
4.
Rating: Not enough dataComments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
5.
Rating: Not enough dataComments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
7.
Rating: 76 (1 vote)Comments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify
8.
Rating: 77 (1 vote)Comments: 0
  • Amazon Music
  • iTunes
  • Spotify

Ginger Baker's Air Force rankings

Ginger Baker's Air Force collection

Showing all 3 members who have this album in their collection

Ginger Baker's Air Force ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 8 votes)
  Ratings distributionRatings distribution Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AV
where:
av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
AV = the site mean average rating.

N.B. The average rating for this album will not be reliable as it has been rated very few times.

Showing latest 5 ratings for this album. | Show all 8 ratings for this album.

Sort ratings
RatingDate updatedMemberAlbum ratingsAvg. album rating
 
60/100
 Report rating
07/11/2021 22:07 TonySayers61  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 21,23064/100
 
90/100
 Report rating
05/07/2021 23:14 OldToad  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,25474/100
 
70/100
 Report rating
10/06/2020 00:23 Moondance  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 19,27472/100
 
70/100
 Report rating
07/27/2019 23:08 TodFitz  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 26,79163/100
 
90/100
 Report rating
05/01/2019 13:06 jonty445  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 190/100

Please log in or register if you want to be able to leave a rating

Ginger Baker's Air Force favourites

Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a favourite

Ginger Baker's Air Force comments

Showing all 1 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Maximum Rated First | Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)

Rating:  
90/100
From 08/04/2020 01:39
The line-up of musicians on this record is incredible. The one who might be easy to miss, even for knowledgeable people, is Phil Seamen. He was a legendary drummer in the energetic English jazz scene of the fifties and sixties, and he was a teacher and guru to Ginger Baker. You can find an interview where Baker calls Seamen his biggest influence, and calls him "God." So having Seamen in this band and doing extended jams together in these performances must have been a HUGE deal to Baker.

Typically stupid for Robert Christgau, who is an idiot but a famous one, to grumble in his "D+" review (!) about how much time is devoted to drum "solos" (duets and trios, more like) on this album. It's like complaining that Coltrane plays too much saxophone. If you don't like drums to take the spotlight, be advised that this is a drummer's album with special drummer guests. Really, Christgau wasn't the problem, it's whatever idiot editor at the Village Voice decided to give him a platform, that's who should have been taken out and shot. Anyway...

The vocals aren't great on a lot it. I don't know Cake, the group Jeanette Jacobs was in, but I don't think she was a very good singer...? She was Chris Wood's wife, though, and he's great, so she's in the band. Graham Bond's wife got in the band later, too, it was like that. Except Denny Laine's rather good little folk ditty, this album gets better when the singing stops and the jamming starts. The African stuff is very interesting--both Baker and Graham Bond were putting African music into their stuff at this time; there were African musicians doing stuff in London, Osibisa and whatnot, but not many white musicians embracing it as deeply as Baker at the time. It's a live album, the sound is so-so and it's a bit of a mess, but it's fantastic. They basically just set up grooves and go for it, it's their version of head-banging music, and it gets better as you turn it up.
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Please log in or register if you want to be able to add a comment

Your feedback for Ginger Baker's Air Force

Anonymous
Let us know what you think of this album by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!
Log in or register to assign a rating or leave a comment for this album.
Best Albums of 1970
1. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
2. After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
3. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
5. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
6. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
7. Moondance by Van Morrison
8. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
10. Fun House by The Stooges
11. Let It Be by The Beatles
12. Loaded by The Velvet Underground
13. Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
14. Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek & The Dominos
15. Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
16. American Beauty by Grateful Dead
17. Abraxas by Santana
18. Deep Purple In Rock by Deep Purple
19. Tea For The Tillerman by Cat Stevens
20. Morrison Hotel by The Doors
Back to Top