Matt Waldrop (waldropm@swbell.net)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:53:23 -0600
Gotta agree. On the Corner is the funkiest Miles. Just shows how many
music genres that man fathered. AJ, funk, you name it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stimp <stimpson@total.net>
To: Jason Witherspoon <arzachel@best.com>
Cc: Acid Jazz <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>; Funk Newsgroup <funky-music@mit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: warnin:" Funky Miles should I go for?
> I'd have to agree with the suggestion of Agharta over Bitches Brew or
> even Big Fun in terms of overall funkiness. Actually, I'm a little
> surprised that none of you have suggested either Miles live at the
> Philharmonic Hall (part of the same batch of reissues put out last year,
> which included Live Evil and Dark Magus), or Get Up With It, which totally
> rocks my world. I find both of these records to be at least on par with
the
> best of Miles funky period, and quite frankly, better than records like
Big
> Fun, which I thought lacked a certain something and repeated the same
> musical themes too often.
>
> Then again, I guess that the same can be said of On The Corner, but I
> just love that record, so who's to say why On The Corner works and Big Fun
> (for me, at least) falls a little short? If the original poster is
looking
> for a very percussive, tribal sort of funk groove, then I'd say go for
> either Dark Magus or Live Evil. For that heavier rock-funk sound, I'd go
> for Jack Johnson or Agharta, although Live Evil's really heavy as well as
is
> Miles Live at the Philharmonic. I'd say that the trippiest records from
> this period would be Get Up With It and Bitches Brew or In a Silent Way,
> while On The Corner, for me, stands in a totally dirty, stanky, incredible
> class of it's own. The one record I don't own or know is Pangea, so if
any
> of y'all have an opinion on it, I'd love to hear it. In terms of
> good-but-not-a-must-have, I'd place Black Beauty in that category, with
Big
> Fun being the record that probably does the least for me.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Stimp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Witherspoon <arzachel@best.com>
> To: Art Vandelay <markeg@hotmail.com>; funky-music@ai.mit.edu
> <funky-music@ai.mit.edu>
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: warnin:" Funky Miles should I go for?
>
>
> >At 12:53 PM -0800 11/10/99, Art Vandelay wrote:
> >>dear list: if The poster did not like bitches rew He will not like
> "Agartha"
> >>. Its more live sounding and it has even less regular rhythms. He may
> need
> >>to move backwards rather than forwards. as to the others including the
> >>reissue of live evil and the fillmore thingy that were rereleased a
> couple
> >>years back(along with i thingk Black magus) i dont know but this guy
> might
> >>need to move back and then move to herbie
> >>
> >
> >Maybe we've got different copies of _Agartha_, but I'm listening to mine
> >right now, & it's funky as fuck. There's even an hour-long version of
> >"Jack Johnson", surely one of Miles' funkiest moments--
> >
> >The poster did like _Big Fun_ & _On the Corner_, so I really see no
reason
> >to move backwards to pre-electric Miles. _Big Fun_ is much less solidly
> >on-the-one than _Agartha_-- again, I've got to wonder if we're even
> >talking about the same album.... Still, I'd go w/_*Dark* Magus_ first--
> >
> >
> >
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