Ritual Of The Savage
by Les Baxter
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Ritual Of The Savage is ranked as the best album by Les Baxter.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/14/2026 23:27 | Olli | 7,883 | 62/100 |
| ! | 07/22/2026 20:30 | abbolton | 77 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/24/2025 02:18 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,492 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2025 00:33 | Devilwoac | 1,426 | 97/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 18:52 | marcoserra1966 | 876 | 59/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 72.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Jboy56 05/17/2022 16:56 | #285446 | TOP COMMENT
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Fun and a perfect sign of those times. All ethnic and tiki was very popular then.
VictorVale 09/27/2020 15:21 | #258774
É difícil fazer uma crítica anacrônica para esse álbum. O som é fenomenal, mas a visão de que existem "povos selvagens", a simplificação de culturas e a apropriação em moldes culturais brancos era comum no período. Ouvir é importante, mas também é importante entender a mudança do paradigma social.
This album makes me really angry. The whole concept of this music is to evoke the "primitive" lifestyles of the "savage" peoples of Africa. The title of the album, "Ritual of the Savage", exemplifies so perfectly Les Baxter's ignorance towards non-Western cultures. HOWEVER, this music is just so fun to listen to. Like, fuck. This music is so much fun.
Interesting...I'll only listen once.
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