MB Classics: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-11-2017, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Ziggy ''Frappanised'' Zappada

Yeah I agree it can get boring in a modern context but considering how it's the primarily recognised record in pioneering Free Jazz as apposed to Coltrane, Brubeck and Gillespie and how it culturally, techniqualy and musically changed and pushed the progression of Jazz through the 20th century. It has to be a 10 from me.

I'm going to do this like I do the album club: My subjective reaction to/feelings about the album. I'm not a member of some panel about to create some official music canon. Not saying you approach is wrong, just that I don't get the need for it, given the circumstances.

Akai · 12-11-2017, 08:11 PM

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-11-2017, 08:15 PM

You judging it more on it's cultural/historical position than your own personal enjoyment of it. That's the sort of approach to rating the album I would take if I had to rate it as a music historian, not as a common pleb voting on the album on some internet forum.

Not that it matters.

Akai · 12-11-2017, 08:18 PM

That post was primarily in reference to FL' post.

It's a 9 from me for the enjoyment factor and a 10 considering the influence it had.

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-11-2017, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Ziggy ''Frappanised'' Zappada

That post was primarily in reference to FL' post.

It's a 9 from me for the enjoyment factor and a 10 considering the influence it had.

Ah, I missed the context. My bad.

**Frownland** · 12-11-2017, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

You judging it more on it's cultural/historical position than your own personal enjoyment of it. That's the sort of approach to rating the album I would take if I had to rate it as a music historian, not as a common pleb voting on the album on some internet forum.

Not that it matters.

I don't think I value context more than my own enjoyment, but it's definitely worth considering when talking about what makes a classic.

~~MicShazam~~ · 12-11-2017, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I don't think I value context more than my own enjoyment, but it's definitely worth considering when talking about what makes a classic.

I don't really disagree with that, but in most cases, I wouldn't have anything weighty to add to that side of the discussion. If I don't have some deep personal investment in and knowledge of the artist/genre in question, I'm not going to have anything to say that isn't entirely subjective.

So basically, I think Occult Hawk is going to have a conniption when I finally post my opinion on Kind of Blue.

rubber soul · 12-12-2017, 05:46 AM

Don't give it a 2, Mic. Occult will have a heart attack

Trollheart · 12-12-2017, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

Don't give it a 2, Mic. Occult will have a heart attack

That's just a rumour: Occult doesn't have a heart.

Machine · 12-12-2017, 03:22 PM

I always thought this was such a ****ing boring album beyond So What which is absolutely incredible so I have to give it a 6 just for that.

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12-11-2017, 08:11 PM	#32 (permalink)
Akai Godless Ape Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Britannia Posts: 1,255	__________________ ''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.'' S p o t i f y

12-11-2017, 08:18 PM	#34 (permalink)
Akai Godless Ape Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Britannia Posts: 1,255	That post was primarily in reference to FL' post. It's a 9 from me for the enjoyment factor and a 10 considering the influence it had. __________________ ''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.'' S p o t i f y

12-12-2017, 03:22 PM	#40 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	I always thought this was such a ****ing boring album beyond So What which is absolutely incredible so I have to give it a 6 just for that. __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

12-11-2017, 08:15 PM	#33 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	You judging it more on it's cultural/historical position than your own personal enjoyment of it. That's the sort of approach to rating the album I would take if I had to rate it as a music historian, not as a common pleb voting on the album on some internet forum. Not that it matters.