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ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: nuisance on 01 Oct 2006, 21:42 ---I don't like 80s hardcore. I don't mind Fugazi's Waiting Room, but I guess that's their big song for those who don't otherwise give two shits about the whole business.
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Fugazi started as a conscious effort to break out of the patterns that 80's hardcore had fallen into, so in the strictest sense they can't really be called a hardcore band.
Misereatur:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 01 Oct 2006, 19:34 ---And perhaps the big one: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. For several years I listened almost exclusively to jazz, but I could never get into this album. I mean it's lovely, sure, but it's just too static: jazz has to have a bit of bounce to it, it has to swing, for god's sake! Kind of Blue just hits a groove and pretty much stays there for three-quarters-of-an-hour. I'm a fan of all the musicians involved in the record, but the record itself just doesn't go anywhere. When it comes to Miles Davis, give me the first quintet any day.
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Getting kind of blue depends on what Jazz fan you are. Kind of Blue is built harmonically on modals and very little chord variation (So What is only two chords: Dmaj7, E flat maj7. Or actually, D dorian and E flat dorian) so if youre used to Swing era Jazz or Bebop and Hardbop you may not like that. Although, Coltrane changed a lot of regular Hardbop chord changes.
Anyway, Kind of Blue is one of my favorite Jazz albums.
Inlander:
I love jazz of all sorts, from '20s to swing to bop to hard bop to (some) avante-garde, but it's got to have a bit of movement to it. To me Kind of Blue doesn't move anywhere: it just sits there and bes pretty. Which is fine, but it's not quite enough for me. I'd much rather listen to Mingus Ah Um or the Charlie Parker Dial sessions or the Far East Suite or the Atomic Basie or Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy or the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet or Round About Midnight by the first Miles Davis Quintet or . . .
Inlander:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 02 Oct 2006, 05:14 ---miles davis
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Seeing as how I'm the only person so far who's mentioned Miles Davis, I feel inclined to point out once again that I'm a huge Davis fan, I'm just not that keen on Kind of Blue.
Oh, and all that fusion shit. But Round About Midnight (1956, first Miles Davs Quintet: Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, "Philly" Joe Jones on drums, Paul Chambers on bass) is my favourite jazz album, if not favourite album full stop.
So I don't need to try again. Thankyou!
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: !!!CPAOI!!! on 01 Oct 2006, 18:40 ---
--- Quote ---As for Zep, they were just major masturbators. Their live shows were just the musical equivalent of wanking for two hours, with occasionaly good bits in between. I also hate 'Stairway To Heaven.' It's got obvious chords, terrible lyrics, and a rudimentary solo that I could play within about two minutes of listening to the song for the first time. It's awful. And Jimmy Page's Satanism fixation just means I can't take them seriously.
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This is coming from the kid who digs Blink 182.
Go home.
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Way to judge on the 'this is the thread where you don't get judged' thread, asshole.
Oh, another classic album I don't like - What's Going On by Marvin Gaye. I like 'Inner City Blues,' but the rest of it, all the songs sound exactly the same to me. Admittedly I've not listened to it in depth enough.
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