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RedNightmareKing 
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Joined: September 03 2012 Location: Colorado Status: Offline Points: 321 |
 Topic: A Miles Davis fusion pollPosted: January 14 2013 at 21:38 |
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BB is the album that got me into jazz fusion, so that gets my vote.
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I consider drone metal to be progressive...
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Kati
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Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 20:09 |
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Bitches Brew
 
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Dr. Occulator
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Joined: March 04 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 627 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 19:33 |
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My favourite connection to Bitches Brew was the first time my now ex-mother-in law spent an afternoon with my my now ex-wife and she played BB for her. Apparently she wasn't impressed and told my now ex-wife that she didn't think this was 'normal' music and that she didn't think our marriage would last. Happily she was right on both counts! :)
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My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head.
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Dr. Occulator
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Joined: March 04 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 627 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 19:29 |
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Both are great but Bitches Brew got the ball rolling and had more exposure.
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My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head.
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Man With Hat
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 15:15 |
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I don't really like either as a whole, but Ill go with Big Fun if for no other reason because of Great Expectations.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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darkshade
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 14:09 |
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Guldbamsen
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Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 13:27 |
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I love both but went with Large Amusement.
I recently bought a vinyl version and it was a real treat revisiting the album. I am also a huge sucker for psychedelic music, and this album just blows me away with it's saucy usage of Indian instrumentation. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: @ wicker man Status: Offline Points: 32690 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:55 |
Same. I actually loved Big Fun from first spin, but have come to really enjoy Bitches Brew. That said, I still prefer Big Fun and Get Up With It to Bitches Brew. I know that this an old poll, but been revived twice, but I am quite surprised to see the total number of votes. I wouldn't have thought Big Fun well-enough known to the PA crowd for this many forum users to have a preference. Checks database: 
4.24 | 239 ratings
Bitches Brew1970 
4.31 | 39 ratings
Big Fun1974 14 more people have taken the time to vote in this poll than all of the Big Fun ratings, which is not to say that knowing both one should not choose Bitches Brew as clearly posters in this poll have chosen BB who do know both (and BB is a hugely important/ influential album to electric jazz), but I do wonder if a fair amount of voters voted without having both albums. |
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darkshade
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 11:44 |
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I seemed to have missed this poll. I went with Big Fun, I've always liked that one, as opposed to BB which grew on me over time.
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Horizons
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 20 2011 Location: Somewhere Else Status: Offline Points: 16952 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 11:34 |
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Sumdeus
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Joined: October 23 2012 Location: SF Bay Area Status: Offline Points: 831 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 09:42 |
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Bitches Brew is Miles' best but Big Fun is still big fun.
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Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys
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criticdrummer94
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Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 431 |
Posted: January 14 2013 at 09:36 |
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I have never saw the appeal of Bitches Brew, so Big Fun for me
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  MY IDOLS |
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colorofmoney91
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Joined: March 16 2008 Location: Biosphere Status: Offline Points: 22774 |
Posted: October 02 2011 at 19:27 |
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I absolutely adore both, but I think I enjoy Big Fun more because Bitches Brew tends to become occasionally too avant.
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Prog Geo
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Joined: November 09 2010 Location: Athens (Greece) Status: Offline Points: 2555 |
Posted: October 02 2011 at 18:32 |
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Bitches brew!
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Sonorous Meal show every Sunday at 20:00 (greek time) on http://www.justincaseradio.com
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: @ wicker man Status: Offline Points: 32690 |
Posted: October 02 2011 at 18:24 |
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I'm surprised that i missed this poll before: Big Fun for sure.That and Get Up With It are particular faves of mine. Bitches Brew is great too, but didn't connect as much with me.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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criticdrummer94
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Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Ohio Status: Offline Points: 431 |
Posted: October 02 2011 at 18:17 |
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Female Dogs Brew
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MY IDOLS |
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Intruder
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Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2091 |
Posted: October 19 2010 at 03:34 |
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Big Fun is a collection of outtakes from sessions a year or more apart, but it contains three of Miles' greatest fusion contributions: Great Expectations, Lonely Fire and Go Ahead John. These three cuts should be absorbed only after getting to know In a Silent Way, Jack Johnson and Bitches Brew (not to mention Live-Evil and the Fillmore recordings).....those three cuts, among others, were cut and spliced to form portions of those classics.....Go Ahead John contains that smoking lead to Right Off that starts the Jack Johnson album....absolutely scorching! Miles' electric period is all a bunch of things taken from various sessions - really confusing even for old fans.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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snobb
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 20 2009 Location: Vilnius,LT,EU Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:41 |
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Easy - BB
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19618 |
Posted: October 12 2010 at 04:38 |
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Although Big Fun is still good and comes much from the BB sessions, it's easy to see that the better tracks went into the BB and they waited almost three years to release BF
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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JLocke
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Joined: November 18 2007 Status: Offline Points: 4900 |
Posted: October 12 2010 at 03:03 |
You picked Kind Of Blue? Didn't know that was on this poll.  |
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