Easy 6. This is good working music, though I spent most of the time looking through the comments to see if I could spot what kind of soulless person would give this a 1.

 audiophelia wrote: 

Oh yes...please!

 maryte wrote: 
What's up with the name-calling?

 Patrick wrote: 
Bump. And Olatunji is credited on the album.

Ehhhh, no, I don't think so.

Awesome! I know I am all passioned up!

Oh please follow this up with Santanaaaaaa....

ArbiterOfGoodTaste wrote: Isn't it from "Abraxas"?

What kind of trolls are giving Babatunde a "1"??

That was a really nice mix from 'Private Universe' into this track, well done DJ

Danny_G wrote: I think it's "yo va va", which (might) mean I go go....

Patrick wrote: THANK YOU! I was trying to figure out where I had heard that chorus before! So familiar, yet not in it's "regular place" in my musical memory....

artmarcia wrote: And again...perfect.

artmarcia wrote: I appreciate the irony

The perfect segue from Crowded House's Private Universe. Slides from one right into the other.

Lo-ba-ba !!

Add me to the list of those who didn't realize Santana's Jingo was a cover. I gotta admit I like Santana's version better. This this version, I had to take the headphones off midway through because it repetition was driving me crazy. Of course this was followed by incessant noodling from the Grateful Dead. (I know, them are fightin' words around here, but I simply never liked the Dead. They are great at what they do; I just don't like what they do.) Guess it's just not my day for RP.

damien wrote: Junior, stop playing with the good china...

Oh, wow -- the next generation of Osibisa! \:D/

can someone help me insert this plate into my lip?

CanuckBeaker wrote: Same here. Know it from Santana's Moonflower album, but didn't know it was a cover.

Sounds like from the soundtrack for a 30s Clark Gable adventure movie in Africa. Interesting.

Yeah! Now we are talking! What a great way to start the weekend!

Wow! I haven't heard this since the 1960's!!! THANK YOU! More Olatunji, please.

lunar23 wrote: I do, and hew added a musical element to it that made it fun. Unfortunately, this isn't as much fun.

lunar23 wrote: actually, that's where i first heard of Babatunde - on a live recording of Santana performing this song with him as guest. most excellent/.

...nobody knows the 70s Santana cover?

ChicoCyclist wrote: what he said, yes, please, make it stop!

"Jin-go-lo-ba" tranlates to "Press mute now."

Feel the rhythm! Get the powers of these drums! Get the drive from the singing! Hey, I am in trance :meditate.gif: :sunny.gif:

Perfect transition from Private Universe!

Please, no more...

onni wrote: Yes please make the bad men stop. This is more repetitive than the worst techno.

Hmmm.... This is pushing my eclectic limits...

Sounds like "Jingo" from the first Santana album.

I've long enjoyed this artist, at least in part because of his wonderful name. Once you know how to pronounce it, it's a glorious mouthful, a strong and stirring song all in itself. Babatunde Olatunji !!! Was rockin out to his stuff (which I'd found in a lending collection at the public library) in Junior High, 1963, with an Hawaiian Restaurant artificial grass skirt worn like a Masai lion mane headdress.

Posted 20 years ago by philarktos    [ Reply ]

I don't have any idea what the words say, but I agree with the sound evocations others have heard, evocations of other bands. I like to imagine that this song is singing the praises of ginkgo biloba, which so few people can spell or pronounce but which has helped some people feel better (yes, I have read the recent research to the contrary). It also sounds like some Native American music I was listening to in a documentary on PBS.

jpbergjr wrote: You really ought not to infer so much from what people write. He was implying that it was crap and that it came from Africa. If he'd have said all African Music was crap it may have been different. I thought he was mistaken. I thought it was OK African music.

jpbergjr wrote: Well if it was from Helsinki he might have said Helsinki crap :D . Don't think it was racist, just musical taste expressed emphatically. Personally, I wouldn't call it crap, but I do find it lacking. For what it is it is fine - just not spectacular.

I think I need some Jin-Go-Biloba

Wonderful tribal beat, energetic, with an almost mystic charge to the chant. I could listen to this several times a day, no matter what our friends in Helsinki think.

This one alwys gets my attention...even from across the room.

Funny... has me actually singing out loud... with no clue what I\'m saying :p

Lee, I KNEW this sounded familiar! Thanks for the info. This is the first time I have heard the original as well. Good stuff

Now that\'s what I call jungle! :D Fun, every once in a while. But I quess like with dance/techno you have to be in the right ambience to (maybe) appreciate it.

Cool. This song is on Santana\'s first album as \"Jingo\" with a writing credit to Olatunji. Until today I had never heard the original. RP does it again!

please stop playing things like this

An interesting track, I hadn\'t heard this before. I recognized Babatunde from his work with Mickey Hart\'s Planet Drum, worth checking out if you enjoy world beat. :)