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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:13
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Gah.  Don't by Zappa.

Try those Rock Bottom samples again.

Besides, samples simply won't work.  You need to hear the whole album.
 
Rock Bottom = Sleepy

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Oi!  It's my favourite album of all time and isn't remotely boring.  It's quite a dark and melancholic album.  Plus I actually understand the majority of the lyrics (or, rather, I have come up with my own theory as to what they mean).

Mmmm the atmosphere on that album is immense.



 
If you want something good from the Canterbury Scene check Space Shanty by Khan.


Great album too.
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

I haven't heard a whole Canterbury album yet, although I like the title track from Caravan's In The Land Of Grey A Pink
 
It's an awesome album, but that you must already know.
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Gah.  Don't by Zappa.

Try those Rock Bottom samples again.

Besides, samples simply won't work.  You need to hear the whole album.
 
Rock Bottom = Sleepy

Angry

Oi!  It's my favourite album of all time and isn't remotely boring.  It's quite a dark and melancholic album.  Plus I actually understand the majority of the lyrics (or, rather, I have come up with my own theory as to what they mean).

Mmmm the atmosphere on that album is immense.



 
If you want something good from the Canterbury Scene check Space Shanty by Khan.


Great album too.
 
Hey James, I was just messing with ya', I know you're BIG Rock Bottom fan, read your reviewWink
 
Anyways, how's your reading going on? Finally bought 1984?


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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

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Oh, I completely forgot I bought the 2-CD version of Bitches Brew earlier.LOL 

I want to buy the complete sessions.
I've never felt that impulse. Yes, the soloing on the alternate takes is probably different, but it's still the same song. I'd rather listen to different songs.

Probably true, but if I ever get a physical version I'd get it.
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It's cool Pablo.  It's not for everyone.
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New Century Classics is some really good post rock.
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Not had a chance to do much reading, to be fair.  Fahrenheit 451 is still yet to be read.
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Goodbye to you all! Smile
See you.
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

New Century Classics is some really good post rock.

The download link wouldn't work for me; it wanted to take 40 hours and wasn't loading
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Originally posted by Tsevir Leirbag Tsevir Leirbag wrote:

Goodbye to you all! Smile
See you.

See ya Gabriel.
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Best review ever:

24 September 2009
Oh, for Pete's sake, Mr. Davis.



13 August 2009 @ 7:07 p.m.
Opening this strange but useful classic, "Pharaoh's Dance" is an ambiguogroove like a whirlpool or sinking sand pit where you can bob your head at a selection of speeds and still remain on target; fly on the wall jamming. It's a loose song that can eliminate silence in a highbrow white dinner party. Just the sort of sh*t Davis is turning over in his grave because of. But on a good summer evening it's shattering the iconic photograph on the front of Kind of Blue. (Check out the background*)

"Bitches Brew" is even more valid for questioning, when all you get in response are disrespectful, inharmonious evening rockets sending echos off the plastic sidings in the suburb with elongated report (it's not the fourth of July, son. Where's your home? South side of town? Just what I thought. Get in the back. Watch your head.)

Title track isn't exactly going to win a presidential race, but at least it's not making any concessions.



16 August 2009 @ 12:04 p.m.
If I were to ask Miles Davis:
"Mr. Davis, why am I always so hungry?"
He would probably say:
"It's because all you eat is a bunch of calorie-less vegetation, white boy."



21 August 2009 @ 8:25 a.m.
If you were really paying attention to Davis' methods in 1969 and into the 70's, it's no secret he became intensely interested in women around that time, as though he was just hitting puberty and there was no looking back on those infant times. After all, there was so much to be embarrassed about when it came to hard bop; don't nobody want to be categorized in 1970.

So... women. That mid-high school obsession isn't something that is contrived in order to fit in. It is purely natural and just sort of flows out in bursts. My own attraction to women truly started in high school. In one moment. I won't be reserved enough to withhold that I was lusting over a certain 'Brinny,' when it suddenly became inconceivable to stand up for any reason or another due to a sudden tightness in the pants. It was coincidentally at the same moment that the classroom t.v. was turned on and we witnessed the world trade centers hit by the second airplane. I only saw a phallic symbol being pierced and then utterly demolished.

Now, because of this diametric juxtaposition and sucking sensation inside my brain, an S&M worm entered my subconscious and the rest is history. I am particularly into being a bottom or making a cuckold of another man. You see, it doesn't matter which phallus is being destroyed, just as long as one is. And that's a transcendence, simply because it's so bizarre and I'm not exactly sure why fetish happens. Anyway it feels good simply to be a little different here and there.

I'm not sure if Davis was trying to infuse jazz with a new-found sexuality or a new-found sexuality with jazz, but whatever it is, it's not any kind of bop, post- or otherwise. Both Bitches Brew and Filles de Kilimanjaro represent Davis suddenly struggling to make sense of his own nu world (or was he just letting it be/floating his arms around himself? Maybe he was straight up exploring all along). This was something he hadn't quite done since he picked up his horn because he didn't need to. In Bitches Brew, Miles Davis sets up a premise that bands like Talking Heads acted upon; African-inspired music would subsequently revert to a missing space of popular music history and Stop Making Sense, because there was an aversion to complacency as 1969 rolled over. It's the same every new decade. Every musical movement.

It's like: With the turning of the decade the human culture collectively turns in a more drastic angle than usual; we can define each decade since the 1950's with a particular sound-image-scent-feel-spice. If this holds any truth to it, it's about time for another shift.
Hold on



22 August 2009 @ 3:05 p.m.
Many have commented on the immaturity of the album's title. And it is. It's immature and angst filled. It's a deploring of the very cocktail society and civilities that dog us all.

And so when "Pharoah's Dance' begins and it sounds dissonant - beginning to trail off close to a diminished edge - yet never bringing it back in like we're used to - it leaves a lot of open space - a gap twenty minutes in length - in which to fall. But it's like a fall from an airplane. It's exilirating and when it's done you only want it again.

Thankfully, there's the title track and it's even longer.
If the prospect of falling from such great heights frightens you, you've long since 23 skidoo anywho.



22 August 2009 @ 3:50 p.m.
John McLaughlin begins the second Bitches set in a direction that continues more tunefully than the calc experiments in -G- that started this whole thing. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" coolly, using sedative-tipped darts from his handmade blowgun.



23 August 2009 @ 3:35 p.m.
"Sanctuary" it isn't.
Davis won't be caught again milking the androgynous spectra of more consonant forms of jazz; this modal jazz-rock fusion was muscular, brazen. He's headed to the nouveau riche standing On the Corner of a dozing decade in America. Vietnam was over the hill. Bell-bottoms seemed to make sense and the kids thought dollars, not flowers, were cool again. Welcome, baby!
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Originally posted by James James wrote:

Not had a chance to do much reading, to be fair.  Fahrenheit 451 is still yet to be read.
 
Oh come on, I've been swallowing books like chocolates lately.
 
Reading J.D. Salinger right now.
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:20
Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

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New Century Classics is some really good post rock.

The download link wouldn't work for me; it wanted to take 40 hours and wasn't loading

Try it now...
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Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Not had a chance to do much reading, to be fair.  Fahrenheit 451 is still yet to be read.
 
Oh come on, I've been swallowing books like chocolates lately.
 
Reading J.D. Salinger right now.


I'm trying to do one book at a time.  I've almost finished a Dungeons and Dragons novel that I was taking to work with me.  Once I'm done with that, I'll try something else.

I also started reading some D.H. Lawrence novellas over Christmas but got distracted.
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Points: 19643 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:28
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:


Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

New Century Classics is some really good post rock.

The download link wouldn't work for me; it wanted to take 40 hours and wasn't loading
Try it now...

It wants to take 5 hours this time I'll just leave it to download I guess. 5.6 KBPS
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And I'm off. I probably won't be back again today. BAI FWENDS :D

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Goo'bye Joel.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:29
Oh and I'm getting a new stereo fitted to my car.  Finally!

It means I'll be able to put lots of music on my USB stick.  I shall likely go on long journeys just for the sake of listening to my music. LOL
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Points: 65760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:31
Are there any other samples of Rock Bottom besides Sea Song? 
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2010 at 21:33
Sea Song is wonderful but it's all about the last four tracks.
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Me want.
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