Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

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Miles Davis Review / AC/DC Preview (Album 16)

(Miles preview here) Miles Davis, a classic and one of the best jazz players ever. It's hard to listen to a whole album of free-form jazz though. As good as jazz is, ever time I listen to it, it's hard not to think of a quote I heard once. "Jazz is about 5 different people getting together and playing 5 different songs all at the same time." And that, is the hard truth. There are some parts of the songs that I really enjoy, and some parts that I don't really enjoy. That's another problem with having 20-minute adventures musically. It's also very...dissident. I don't know. It's just hard to enjoy when you don't know what to listen to.

Favorite Songs:
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Album: Back In Black

Artist: AC/DC

Release Year: 1980

"By the time of original vocalist Bon Scotts; February 1980 death, AC/DC had conquered Europe, but the United States were still to be convinced. The group was fiercely ambitious, and had recruited singer Brian Johnson on the recommendation of producer Robert Lange... AC/DC finally broke the United States with Back In Black, notching up a million sales annually over the next five years. They - and all those buyers who boogied to the album - never looked back." - Seth Jacobson

01 - Hells Bells

02 - Shoot To Thrill

03 - What You Do For Money Honey

04 - Givin The Dog A Bone

05 - Let Me Put My Love Into You

06 - Back In Black

07 - You Shook Me All Night Long

08 - Have A Drink On Me

09 - Shake A Leg

10 - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: You can't get AC/DC on iTunes, which I respect. The artists see very little of the money when someone buys something on iTunes

Spotify: ...hmmm. Doesn't seem to be AC/DC on Spotify either. Good thing it's one of the best selling rock albums of all time. You should be able to find it in your dad's old record collection.

This is supposed to be one of the best albums of rock history. Let it be so.

~mfm

Louvin Brothers Review / Miles Davis Preview (Album 15)

(Louvin preview here) Country Music. I don't know, I suppose that they tell you to listen to this album because it must be the first country album...But I don't think that is true. There has got to be country music from before this. Either way, I just can't find myself ever ever ever listening to this. It's not that its bad necessarily, it just doesn't do anything for me. Ever. I've tried. I listened to the whole thing. Some of the songs were fun for sure. This is country music at it's finest, the two voices are so...country. There is no other way to say it.

Favorite Songs:
     Let Her Go, God Bless Her

Back to my favorite decade.

Album: Bitches Brew

Artist: Miles Davis

Release Year: 1970

"Recording sessions for Bitches Brew began at 8 a.m. on August 18, 1969, a few hours after Jimi Hendrix had demolished "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, and it is Hendrix's incendiary voice that haunts this double album...Bitches Brew sold half a million copies within a year and made Miles "relevant" in a way that he had not been in more than a decade. He had reclaimed his crown as the king of jazz, something he retained until his death 20 years later."

01 - Pharoh's Dance

02 - Bitches Brew

03 - Spanish Key

04 - John McLaughlin

05 - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

06 - Sanctuary

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Bitches Brew

Spotify: Bitches Brew

A free form improv jazz session from one of the greatest in the game. Should be exciting. Also a bad-ass name for an album.

~mfm