Two Davis Albums
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Topic: Two Davis Albums
Posted By: The Truth
Subject: Two Davis Albums
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 5:59pm
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My two favorite Miles Davis albums, both pretty shot down by critics and very funky and psychedelic. Heck, there's not even a trumpet on the first track of Get Up With It and it's great. So what's your fav? Mine is probably Big Fun but I love both practically to death. -------------  
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Posted By: triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 6:04pm
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By far my fave two Davis albums. I think I'll go with Get Up With It, but only on a whim.
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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 7:13pm
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My fave electric-era Davis album is, unquestionably, In a Silent Way. These two need a lot more listens from me, but in the last couple of weeks I've been listening every night to either Big Fun and Get Up With It, in general, so they're growing on me. The one that more appeals to me, so far, is Big Fun. Get Up With It has some fantastic moments, I think that line-up did better live.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 7:23pm
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Two great albums, but Big Fun wins it for me
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 9:29pm
| I haven't heard any, must repair this. |
Posted By: triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 9:32pm
yes, yes you must ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/TullDerGraff" rel="nofollow">
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harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: js
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 9:46pm
| 'Get up with it' is just incredible, so are the tracks 'Great Expectations' and 'Go ahead John' from 'Big Fun', some of the other tracks from 'Big Fun' are just your standard Bitches Brew jam session. |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 10:22pm
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GET IT DONE ALEX -------------
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2011 at 11:01pm
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I prefer Get Up with It, but Big Fun has its moments as well. I should listen to that one more. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cannonball With Hat
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 3:32am
| Get Up With It |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 10:59am
How about the Big Fun version of "Ife", with Billy Cobham changing the downbeat like 5 times during the song. Fast and funkaaay ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 11:02am
^ I was a little harsh,  ...its all good music.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 11:07am
this is true 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 1:43pm
"Standard Bitches Brew jam session" is a pretty high standard by any means 
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Posted By: js
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 2:50pm
| Yeah, actually it sounds like a compliment. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 2:59pm
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Sometimes I think Big Fun is better than Bitches Brew. The atmosphere is more to my liking, with the Indian influences and such
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Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2011 at 3:47pm
Yep same here. Especially now I think that, since last night I listened to Disc 1 of Big Fun (and Disc 2 of Get Up With It). STILL!! More and more listens needed, these need like 30 or so listens to finally start getting the whole picture, lol. Hence why my favorite is In a Silent Way, I've listened to that more than 100 times.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2011 at 12:39am
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^ yea almost all Davis albums take multiple listens to appreciate (even though most of them sound awesome on the first listens) All these Miles Davis threads may throw me into Miles mode. Ive been putting off his music for too long. Particularly his post-67 work. Ive only listened to his pre-fusion stuff if I wanted some Miles. I used to listen to his 70s work alllllll the time. Big Fun was one of the ones I listened to most. They're all great though ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2011 at 9:18am
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Go Ahead John is probably my favorite jazz track ever. Just thought I'd put that out there. -------------
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Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: 07 May 2011 at 12:18pm
| Get Up With It.. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 2:58pm
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Those are my two favourites of Davis' 70s albums. I adore both. I more often have chosen Get Up With It in polls at another sitei belong to over the past couple of years (I hadn't even heard them before the first half of 2009, I think), but I've been returning to Big Fun more over the last months, so that'll get my vote. ------------- "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple" (Charles Mingus). |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 3:00pm
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Saw this thread, and it makes me want to listen to both albums right now.
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Posted By: triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 7:23pm
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Me too, but I don't think I've got 4 hours to set aside
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2012 at 9:09pm
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That's my problem too lol,
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Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2013 at 12:17am
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Big Fun is one of my favourites. ------------- "I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it." ~Claude Debussy |