rubber soul

REM is my second favorite band next to the Beatles. I too prefer the eighties material over the other recordings as they became a little more commercial by the time of Document (1987). Still, they have their moments later on as well such as Document and especially Automatic For the People.

This has always been a favorite of mine off Reckoning...

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TheBig3

This is topic-adjacent, but how did weed come to be called chronic?

rubber soul

Best Miles Davis album: Sketches of Spain hands down

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SGR

It's got a lot of redeeming factors but one thing that's always irked me about that record is how high and how shrill Miles' trumpet sounds in the mix. For the Gil Evans stuff, I think I prefer Porgy and Bess as a whole.

Edit: Because Miles has a lot of celebrated albums, even some of his celebrated stuff is missed by many. Take for example this incredibly beautiful piece that opens up Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet:



Or the entirety of the film score he did for the 1958 French film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (his album score has the same name) - listening to it makes you feel like a cool but castoff detective, down on his luck, smoking a cigarette while you walk the sparsely lit streets of New Orleans in the '50s - and goddamnit, the cigarette just won't stay burning:

jadis

Everyone realizes that it's just your opinion but somehow it's still annoying


Yeah a film famous for the soundtrack and the female lead (imho the single greatest French actress): "The best performance, by far, is that of Moreau, because Malle includes extended scenes of her essentially doing nothing—wandering the streets of Paris at night and contemplating her troubles—and he had the inspiration to notice that Moreau doing almost nothing is an absorbing spectacle in itself."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJw9HXXoXA

Probably my favorite track from that soundtrack


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwB...lesDavis-Topic

SGR

is the movie worth watching then? I've never actually seen it, only know about it because of Miles.

Lisnaholic

^ Everyone realizes that it's just your opinion but somehow it's still an interesting, on-topic answer to my question. Thanks.

My own experience with Miles Davis:-
Kind of Blue = I was disappointed with how old-fashioned it sounded
Bitches Brew = I was disappointed with how modern it sounded
In A Silent Way = The Goldilocks zone for me

The little I've heard of that Paris movie soundtrack I liked very much, but largely because it seems designed to flesh out McLaren's Paris album, though of course, chronologically, it's the other way round.

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Janszoon

I prefer Bitches Brew.

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

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jadis

It's not a masterpiece but I enjoyed it (esp being a big fan of Moreau from her other roles). Never boring though it could do without the plotline that doesn't feature Moreau imo. Like the New Yorker piece says, it's interesting in how it prefigures the Americanisms of Godard's 1960s films, that sort of thing.

Jangly Mark

I guess that I'm a little different to many that share my love for indie in that I would love bands/artists that mean the world to me to be huge/in the charts/on the radio/played in cafes etc.

From Novak to The Field Mice and the rest of the Sarah Records roster through to Tullycraft, The Dierdres to shoegazers such as Slowdive.

Ultimately, when I'm in a cafe or supermarket, I want to hear music *I* like (and I love inflicting my taste on others).

But, without commercialisation of the music itself. I've seen to many bands ruined eithor by becoming bland/boring versions of their forfmer selves or by changing what they do entirely.

Yes, a few bands make it big (in the loosest sense) doing what they do best, sadly most don't.

While I can see why, say, My Bloody Valentine wouldn't be a lot of people's thing, to me, there is no reason why, for example, The School couldn't be huge.

(I would have finished with the video for The School - Let It Slip but, it appears newbies can't post Youtube links)