Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

thehallway wrote: I think I've mentioned this before, but the album being in our top 100 is a perfect example of how our rating and categorising system is flawed here on PA. Don't get me wrong, it's a jazz classic....... but it has about as much relevance on this site as the early Beatles albums. And the CD of Kind of Blue is always cheap on Amazon. I think I paid about £3 for it.

Agreed. Miles' music was indisputably essential to the foundation of Jazz-Rock, but while Kind of Blue remains my favourite album by him, it doesn't really have a place on this website.

But then how do you draw that line? I mean Kind of Blue is pretty clear cut. But then, if even though Miles has some prog albums, the rest of his albums get removed for being Not Prog (well I mean they're progressive but they're not rock, which is what this site is devoted to), what implications does that have? Do we axe Invisible Touch? 90125? Some say recent Dream Theater albums aren't "prog," do we get rid of those too?

Don't misunderstand me, I'm totally in favour of cleaning up the site here. But I'm saying that there needs to be a system worked out to accomplish it, and that regardless of what happens there'll be some significant resistance. It may possibly be that despite the current system's flaws, leaving things as they are will keep the most people happy.

wrong section.

Yes I don't like that it's in the top 100, but at the same time, I dont care. I'm pretty sure people can or have figured it out.

Nothing wrong with a prog fan possibly checking it out after seeing it in the list. It could be the reason that person starts getting into jazz and fusion, and it'd be all thanks to the PA top 100 albums list

The album, one of the Prog Archives top 100 albums, is on sale as an mp3 download from Amazon. It's the daily $5 album on the android app today, but the price may be good a little longer.