One of the most revolutionary albums in jazz history to some. We try and formulate our opinions for an album that is made to be all things and nothing at the same time.
177 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
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I have tried appreciating this album a dozen or more times. I have owned it on vinyl for five years or so and probably put it on at least twice per year. Every time, I think I might finally hear what people like about this album. I mean, it’s Miles Davis; it’s got a cuss word in the title; the album art is rad; the other players on it are a who’s who of jazz fusion greats; it’s got super long songs, which I typically am all about. But every time I put this on I’m like Charlie Brown getting the football pulled out from under him before he can kick it. I never cease to hate this album no matter how many times I put it on thinking “this time is different. This time I’m going to get ‘Bitches Brew’!”.
Whatever it is that makes people like this album, I just can’t hear it. I think it’s because I like songs and music and this is just noise and sounds. Noise albums feel really lazy to me. Like, it is hard work to put letters together to make words, and words together to make sentences. But words and sentences make sense. What if instead there were “noise authors” who put out a book that read:
assajnxoendkcbebdjdgggggggwmenfi!:&;)3!fdgkn$&537!?dvkkknfjebb gg did egxjsbxhchsnshcusnskxjJBgeibej$/$&;8,)2’wuxhnsjejHh&3&:@,$jdndjcksksbdhskebxyzhjGgVnwksodhzhjJ$f7j(4hh64:?$fgytyikbgujjn,&,@/&;$.!€>\€\£$?/73838
for 300 pages? And pretentious nerds were like, “yeah man, I totally get it.” No. Take the time to make your letters form words and your words form sentences. Yes, it’s hard work and there is less time for shooting heroin, but it’s worth it because then you’ve written something people can read and not just a bunch of random characters.
“Bitches Brew” is the aural equivalent of a bunch of random characters and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.
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