A Love Supreme or Kind of Blue?
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Topic: A Love Supreme or Kind of Blue?
Posted By: paganinio
Subject: A Love Supreme or Kind of Blue?
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 07:54
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Honestly, I'm posting in the wrong forum. Unless jazz is a "topic not related to music". I'm addicted to posting new threads, but too many new threads in a day would draw mods' attention, so I came up with a brilliant plan -- post one or two threads in each sub-forum, so it doesn't look like I created a lot of threads. |
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 07:55
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A love supreme for sure.Completely different eras though. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 07:58
| A Love Supreme will certainly win, that is, unless Progfreak users suddenly rush in. |
Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:11
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A Love Supreme. Never found a better jazz record anywhere. Plus, Kind of Blue is a bit too downbeat for most of it, and so I lose interest. I prefer Miles's Milestones or Tribute to Jack Johnson, anyways.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:17
Have you heard the whole sessions of a tribute to jack johnson?I tried to listen to it all in one day.It was impossible. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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LiquidEternity wrote:Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:20
| okay, next poll will be Giant Steps vs. In a Silent Way. I mean, someone's gotta let Miles Davis win for once. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:25
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Both fantastic,groundbreaking albums but 'A Love Supreme' just pips 'Kind of Blue' to the post by a nose...for want of a better analogy. ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:45
And posting deliberately in the wrong forum doesn't draw the mods' attention?  Anyway, I voted for A Love Supreme. Kind of Blue sounds nice, but I've never understood what's so great about it. |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 08:47
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A Love Supreme, easily.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 10:08
| A Love Supreme reigns supreme. Love the album. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 10:38
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Sorry - got to buck the trend here - both wonderful albums, but for me, Kind Of Blue is not only the ultimate Mile Davis album, but the jazz album; mellow, loose yet tight, musicians all on the same wavelength...
I don't know how many times I've listened to this album, but I hear different nuances every time. ------------- 
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Posted By: LiquidEternity
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 11:50
No. Ha. I love jazz, but all those "complete recordings of" things look terrifying. -------------
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 12:49
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Kind of Blue, not easily though. .. A Love Supreme is so great too ------------- 
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Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 14:51
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'A Kind of Blue' for me, but I love so many Miles albums from this period (eg 'Round About Midnight', and 'Someday My Prince Will Come' are fantastic albums - but they rarely get a mention). ' A Love Supreme' is also a great album in every sense of the word. A close second for me would be, not Giant Steps but, My Favorite Things.
Writing this has made me realise that I must start listening to all my old Miles and Coltrane albums again! ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 14:56
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Through a process of random selection, I chose Love Supreme. Both are excellent albums...if they had been up against Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, though, both would have lost for me.
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 15:30
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Love Supreme, but they really don't compare. Something like Olé Coltrane vs Sketches of Spain would have made sense. Or Out to Lunch - A Love Supreme. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 22:12
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Both of these albums are amazing. I would rather not choose, but I think I prefer A Love Supreme. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 22:24
| Supreme |
Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 22:25
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I both like two presented albums. And, I went to "Kind of Blue". "Expression" feels the album of John Coltrane ultimate in me. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: October 20 2009 at 22:34
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Both are amazing and essential. A Love Supreme feels like perfect expression the whole way through, a musical poem. I'm going with it. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 22 2009 at 06:53
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Kind of Blue is claimed to be the best selling jazz album ever, and with its 50th anniversary just passed* still selling well - perhaps reflecting a great appeal to non-jazz fans than other recordings.
* 1959 was indeed a year for major jazz innovations, e.g. these examples
Coltrane's Giant Steps
Charlie Mingus's Mingus Ah Um
Ornette Coleman's Shape Of Jazz To Come
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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 17:23
| A Love Supreme. I never really got the attraction to Kind Of Blue. I don't even think it's Miles' best pre-1970 album. Round' About Midnight proved to be far more interesting to me and Love Supreme far more interesting than Kind Of Blue. |
Posted By: Evolutionary Sleeper
Date Posted: November 02 2009 at 17:26
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A Love Supreme easily. Probably my favorite Jazz album ever.
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: November 03 2009 at 14:47
| Kind of Blue. It ain't #1 for nothing, and I don't think any other will ever top it, both in sales and in aesthetics. I could listen to "So What" multiple times every day. |
Posted By: Synchestra
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 04:41
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I may have no real 'knowledge' of jazz, and love The Flower Kings, but Kind of Blue is something special. I too could listen to 'So what' multiple times without growing bored ------------- 'Yeah, thats.. Whatever you're talking about for ya' - Zapp brannigan |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 05:57
| This thread, it could get multiple replies every week without disappearing from the first page. |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 06:01
| =One can only wonder why Kind of Blue is so much behind in the poll, when all the recent repliers prefer Kind of Blue. |
Posted By: holy ghost
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 10:42
| I much prefer Miles Davis overall, but between those two records I like A Love Supreme much more. When it comes to Miles I prefer his later works like Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way, Big Fun and On The Corner and when it comes to John Coltrane I think Ascension is my favorite work of his...... |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 24 2009 at 13:08
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Kind of Blue for me - as good as A Love Supreme is, I don't actually enjoy listening to it that much - I actually prefer the criminally overlooked Crescent released earlier the same year. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |