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snobb 
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 Topic: Frank Zappa VS. Miles Davis
Posted: March 05 2010 at 01:23 |
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Two absolutely great figures. Voted for FZ,but it wasn't easy
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b4usleep
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 01:03 |
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Miles by miles
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Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
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Jake Kobrin
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 01:03 |
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This is ridiculous. Way too different to compare and too hard to choose. I mean Miles Davis is pretty much the god of jazz, but I love Zappa too... Sometimes I want Davis over Zappa and sometimes the opposite. Overall it's just too hard to say!
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JLocke
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Posted: March 05 2010 at 00:40 |
This is quite possibly the hardest poll I have yet to come across on this site.
There is no way in hell I could make a choice.
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A Person
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 21:01 |
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I might vote Davis, just to even up the score, otherwise there is no way I would pick one over the other.
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Xanthous
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 19:14 |
Miles Davis
Most of Miles Davis's music appeals to me whether it be his early Jazz records, Fusion, or later work. Frank Zappa has great moments and awful moments for me.
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Negoba
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 14:39 |
Brains splatter the walls trying to conceive this......
Brain says Davis, heart doesn't know.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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J-Man
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 14:29 |
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sircosick
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 14:21 |
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Hard to decide, or rather, hard to chose a parameter to decide. To make things easier, who was, for me, the most definitive and/or relevant in music history? My vote goes for Miles.
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The best you can is good enough...
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Pekka
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 14:12 |
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Can't say. My knowledge on both extend only to a handful of albums which I've been really enjoying quite a lot. Both are among my big getting-to-know projects.
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crimhead
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 13:38 |
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It is hard to imagine music without either man. So many musicians came through the ranks of both men.
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npjnpj
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Posted: September 21 2009 at 07:47 |
Musically I don't qualify to have an opinion, but rated on pure fun and entertainment Zappa without a doubt.
Can't say I've ever listened to Davis with a big grin on my face, in fact I've rarely been able to sit through a complete Miles Davis album. Just sounds too dull to my ears.
But then I've never been into Jazz, although I've made a few attempts.
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llamalime
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Posted: September 20 2009 at 21:52 |
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Impossible
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." -Frank Zappa
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Kazuhiro
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Posted: July 15 2009 at 21:45 |
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It was not possible to vote because both of we were lovers.
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Tsevir Leirbag
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Posted: July 15 2009 at 21:39 |
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Zappa, SLIGHTLY over Davis
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Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
- Paul Éluard
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jimidom
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Posted: May 16 2009 at 21:01 |
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Wow! Tough poll..... Clearly 2 American musical geniuses. I guess it comes down to whose contributions to music were more profound and more influential. So, I guess Miles would win but by a margin of say 0.000000001 %.
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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST
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annexusquam
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Posted: May 16 2009 at 12:17 |
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i don't understand this comparison.. miles davis of course
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https://0a0wake0.bandcamp.com/releases
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 08:28 |
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Davis-Zappa might have been an interesting collaboration or would they have stepped on each other's toes too much, so to speak?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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BroSpence
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Posted: May 11 2009 at 20:03 |
 darkshade wrote:
^ plus imagine that band (Miles, Trane, Mingus & Monk)
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Well they all worked together at different points.
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darkshade
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Posted: May 10 2009 at 17:56 |
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^ plus imagine that band (Miles, Trane, Mingus & Monk)
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