Ha, I totally switched Kind of Blue with Bitches Brew at the last second. I just guessed on the QOTSA, but noted. Broke a sweat deciding on which Waits as well.

:mad:

Not even remotely interchangeable except as Miles records and bitch you know that his discog is too diverse to use as a meaningful common denominator.

Relax. Kind of Blue just has personal resonance with me plus I'd like that more to relax on a desert island with. Tbf, Kind of Blue is top 3 album of all time for me. It introduced me to jazz.

*rages harder*

I know you have the personal connection, but Bitches Brew is just one of those albums that's forever untouched in quality and status while Kind of Blue has grown increasingly imitable.

Also KYS lewzur

I don't even disagree with you but you need to realize that it's my goddamn desert island you bitch.

Who do you think sent you to the island?

*mashes the o button on an alphabet toy to hype **** up*

Kind of Blue > Bitches Brew

It’s a completely reasonable desert island pick

I'm with you but I see where Frown is coming from in regards to Bitches Brew being in a league of its own. I generally enjoy the players on Kind of Blue more than Miles. I'm a big Bill Evans fan.

It also has Coltrane

Live Evil = Jack Johnson = Bitches Brew

Of course. I mean, legendary line-up....

Miles
Coltrane
Bill Evans
Paul Chambers
Jimmy Cobb.

That's the line-up of dreams. Bitches Brew had Tony Williams on drums but he's more fit for that album than Kind of Blue though I find him to be the better drummer.

Rekt

Swap out In a Silent Way for Jack Johnson (still great but not quite on the level, still Miles so it slays though) and you've got the Frown stamp of approval.

Was he uncredited for some reason? Is there something I forgot?

Fck. It's Lenny White. My bad. I'm an idiot.

exposed

EXO DOESN'T REALLY LIKE JAZZ PASS IT ON

OH pwns Exo.

I’m thinking I can use the different animals argument

I love Silent Way - maybe my second fave on a personal level

And just for my taste Sketches of Spain is my fave

Not at all. It totally does seem like Tony Williams.

Miles' fusion peak was Everest. His other focuses hit more K2 high statuses than most but still never reached the level that Everest did on the whole.

Sketches of Spain is a very respectable choice. Top tenner for me at least. Kind of Blue is too, I'm just more or less dissenting against its status as the Miles album when there are so many more deserving ones with a more listenable influence on the jazz world.

I'm crying now by the way.

Not that it’s not worth reopening the discussion but we hashed that out pretty well. You gave me **** for quoting critics. It might not make much sense but the way the record is received is so monumental it’s like the mystique enters the sound. I like that something that good made its way into the collective we consciousness.

All are great and in my collection, but none are desert island material for me. Still well done.

You’re not real free with superlatives but I know you like harsh music so...

In terms of canon it's miles ahead. Otherwise I don't think it's deserving of its status even though I do respect it more than a great deal of records that meet acclaim. Pretty sure that I'd have a more positive opinion on it if it wasn't so ingrained by my culture that it felt standard on my first listen too.

One day, when I was 11, I walked into S.S. Kresge's (later to become K-Mart,
{the "K" in K-Mart}) with my mother and left with two albums:
Bitches Brew and this Cannonball one:

http://tinyimg.io/i/m5EveMB.jpg

I liked and played the Cannonball one a lot, but Miles' album was a totally
overwhelming experience. I thought, "OK, nothing can beat this."
Then a few months later, I bought his "At Fillmore" album and I remember that
after turning over each of the 4 sides/songs of the LPs, I would just be reduced
to absolute sobbing - more and more as each side played. The sides kept
getting longer, and longer, and more bizarre and complex until the last side,
being the shortest ("Saturday Miles"), started out as if the performance had been
completely thrown out the window and I was witnessing a total anarchic
situation of tonal beauty. So, that experience kinda overshadowed my initial
Bitches Brew birth. These days, I can still find extra delights in both.

I thought I do a DID for Lisnholic. These are more like recs than me knowing exactly what albums he to drop off on his desert island – or more maybe both. I know it's top heavy with British artist, and the list should contain more artists from different countries. Probably the second worse thing to happen to a person besides being stuck on a deserted island is having someone pick albums for them. Bending the rules a wee bit with ten bands and eleven albums.

Lisnholic

1. Pentangle ‎– The Pentangle (1968)
2. Leo Kottke ‎– 6- and 12- String (1969)
3. Steeleye Span ‎– Hark! The Village Wait (1970)
4. Trees ‎– The Garden Of Jane Delawney (1970) & On The Shore (1970)
5. Tea and symphony - Jo Sago (1970)
6. Traffic ‎– The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (1971)
7. Skara Brae ‎– Skara Brae (1971) (Gaelic)
8. Convivium ‎– Convivium (1971) (Norsk)
9. Mellow Candle ‎– Swaddling Songs (1972)
10. Michał Urbaniak ‎– Urbaniak (1979) (Polish Jazz)

My first albums were by Incubus and POD. That's why you're the O-est of MB'S OGs.

First Cassette - Bringing Down the Horse by The Wallflowers
First CD - Yourself or Someone Like You by Matchbox Twenty
First Record - F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

First two were rough.

My turn:

First Cassette - Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey / OST
First CD - Backstreet Boys / Millennium
First Vinyl - Bowie / Tonight

Oh no...

First tape I remember listening to: Tim McGraw - Everywhere
First CD that I remember borrowing from my parents: Extreme - Extreme
First CD that I bought: Incubus - Morning View and POD - Satellite
First Hand Me Down Vinyl: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
First Vinyl that I bought: Rush - Moving Pictures

2/5 ain't bad for a kid with no choice but still
https://i.imgur.com/I12qvEm.jpg?1

That f*cking picture of the dog...

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Damn we're doing this now? Fun fun

First tape I bought: Face Dances - The Who
First CD I borrowed from my parents: I think it was The Wall, although I didn't borrow it, I just found it in our barn in a dusty cabinet. It was definitely the first one I listened to over and over.
First CD I bought: probably some thrift store PoS. I probably bought more than one CD that day anyway out of excitement.
First vinyl given to me: a bunch from my mum in commemoration of my first record player. I remember The Game (Queen) and Hi-Infidelity (R.E.O.) best.
First vinyl I ever bought: Cornerstone - Styx

Hey, something I can actually contribute to now.

First tape I bought: Dogman - King's X
First CD I borrowed from my parents: Uh, probably several. Maybe Let There Be Rock by AC/DC.
First CD I bought: I think it was Greatest Hits - Aerosmith
First vinyl given to me: Live Bootleg - Aerosmith, got it as a birthday gift along with my first record player.
First vinyl I ever bought: Night in the Ruts - Aerosmith

lol I forgot how much I was obsessed with Aerosmith when I was first really getting into music.

Dope album, grew up on this one as well.

Yeah, Dogman is easily my favorite King's X album. I think the grunge influence really fit well with their sound.

First tape I bought: Roxette - Crash Boom Bang
First CD I borrowed from my parents: n/a
First CD I bought: Metallica - Garage Inc.
First vinyl given to me: n/a
First vinyl I ever bought: Kate Bush - Lionheart (just because it looked so cool. still have no record player.)

Missing from the list, but relevant to me since it was my first full album thing:

First album I got a tape copy of from a friend: Queen - Greatest Hits II.

Unless it was:

First album I got a tape copy of from a sibling: Nirvana - Nevermind.

For Mondo. Not any kind of definitive list, but stuff I think might keep him entertained on the island.

• Swarrrm—Nise Kyûseishu Domo
• Swans—Die Tür ist zu
• Furia—Księżyc milczy luty
• Emptiness—Nothing but the Whole
• Noism—±
• Disorder—Complete Disorder EP
• Dephosphorus—Ravenous Solemnity
• Infernal Coil—Within a World Forgotten
• Piss Vortex—Soft Reboot
• Sunlight’s Bane—The Blackest Volume (Like All the Earth Was Buried)

^ LOL at "Piss Vortex"! Luckily these days you don't have to go into a record shop and ask for stuff by name.

^ Whatever it is, it's very flattering to be "done", so many thanks Neapolitan. I will return the compliment later in the day, I hope.

Meantime my five ignorant cents on Miles Davis: I'm like Goldilocks trying out the three bears' favourites, "Hmm, this Kind of Blue is too conventional, let's try Bitches Brew. No, that's just too out there to be comfortable. Ah! In a Silent Way is just right."

rostasi and Frownland clearly had an unusual affinity for music right from early on, whereas the only thing exceptional about my musical firsts is that they happened so long ago:-

First single I bought*: Seventy-Six Trombones (* meaning I heard it on the radio and my big sister took me to the shop to spend some birthday money)
First non-Beatle* album I bought: The Kinks self-titled (* because between us my sister and I bought every Beatle release as it came out)
First cd I bought: Roy Buchanan self-titled
First parents' cd I borrowed: Never happened as they never owned cds. They had some classical albums and 78s, but me and my parents were on opposite sides of a generation gap: they didn't like what I listened to, and I avoided their diet of exclusively classical music.

I bet Frown got called an avant garde weirdo for that POD CD.

Nah man, it was the Tim McGraw tape that made me so hard.