Bitches Brew

No thanks

Pretty sure this is the soundtrack in hell, you thought 90 mins was long, try eternity heathen!

p196. 1970. 1 star. It's probably technically exquisite but... ffs, do we really need a double album of 70's jazz wankage and 20+ minute shapeless, pointless, free form tracks? There is no difference between this and all those double album prog rock albums from the same era that no-one listens to. Life is too short for this.

Слишком долго чтобы слушать.. наверное прикольно, для кого-то другого

I’m sure this is ✨art✨ but I sure can’t sit through it

I tried. I listened to this album again. I’ve heard it before. It’s been on my mind a ton. I keep trying to figure it out, and I can’t. I don’t get it. The album art work and the beer are amazing. The album is chaos.

I kept wondering what method they used to come up with names for each of these tracks. There is music of his that does it for me. This album missed the mark by a wide swath of bitches.

The 60s did weird things to people. And to music. Take Miles Davis for instance. He birthed the cool at the end of the 50s. But by the end of the 60s he was as deep in the psychedelic, abstract, and avante garde as everyone else. I would say it’s like the cool kid you knew in high school that everyone wanted to be like, but then they got addicted to drugs and became a completely different person. I would, but apparently Davis birthed the cool from heroin binges, so the drugs were there all along.

I didn’t finish the album. I feel bad rating it on a (very) incomplete listen, but I feel like the fact that couldn't finish speaks for itself.

Bitches Brew is an experimental, groundbreaking and very brave album, created by a genius-at-work Miles Davis and his ensemble of top-notch jazz musician of his time. The work is a fusion od modal, experimental and definitely avant-garde jazz, with some early rock and funk influence. Miles' experience is certainly expressed loud and clear on this album - he is not afraid, he knows what he wants from himself and other members, and is working hard to deliver an almost 120 minutes long masterpiece of jazz. On paper it's a recipe for a top album of all time. So what's my opinion? I... don't like it. I really tried, but I don't like it. It's very hard to find a key to understand this album. Obviously compositions here have their own rules and motives, but I can't identify them, or I can, but they are not appealing to me. I am a fan of avant-garde music, I love the chaotic neatness of Fantomas, erratic Igorrr, calmness of Sunn O))). But those band operate in context of completely different genre, that I know and understand so much better than jazz. Probably I am too oblivious to even the simplest examples of the genre, that's why it's harder to find the context. I doubt it, but maybe in the future I will spend much more time exploring nuances and rules of jazz, so that breaking the form and moulding it afresh will be fully appreciated by me. But at the moment, the album is totally incomprehensible for me and both times that I listened to it, I felt like I was being experimentally tortured by music. Maybe next time!

Ugh, I CANNOT endure this - I made it through the first track and realized that the second track was more of the same, so I stopped before it could give me a headache. It seems like a bad jam session with the musicians playing random notes. The trumpet frequently makes off-key squealing and squawking noises that grate on my ears.

Couldn’t even listen, gave it a chance but it was incredibly boring.

Wank

What the heck is this??? There is no rhyme or reason to the music. This is where jazz loses me. It’s not bad to listen to, just not remember able in any way

That was crap...

Far be it from me to criticise Miles Davis, but this is just not for me.

I guess I’m just not in the mood for this right now

i just need lyrics

Urgh stressful

Dog shit

I hated this album when I first heard it 20ish years ago and I still hate it now. I know Miles Davis is a jazz legend. I do enjoy some of his other work, Kind of Blue for instance; but this is just unappealing noise to me. Hell, I even like some true blue noise artists but this just outright turns me off. I know a lot of people love this album and I'm glad that they can get into it but this just isn't the kind of jazz that I enjoy and the near 2 hours of this is like time in the dentist's chair to me. Sorry, Miles. You'll get a much kinder score when Kind of Blue inevitably appears as my album of the day.

If I could vote 0 stars I would. This is not music, this is fucking noise. The start of the second track sounds like the crazy music from Vuvla's show in Spaced.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APjDtBNZiNA

two days after having a miles davis album that was excellent we've decended back into some incomprehensible madness. feels like i've accidentally taken some sort of hallucinogenic.

First album I didn't want to finish, was just noise not music

Jazz ...

Unfortunately not for me.

Very long songs. Not the kind of jazz I listen to

"Kom! We pakken er allemaal ons instrument bij, en dan gaan we gewoon lekker ieder voor zich wat zitten aankloten!" Je bent echt een snob als je blijft volhouden dat dit briljant is.

Hier past slechts: OMG!

This is the worst kind of jazz

Dit is mij veel teveel hard-core Jazz. Leuk dat het de muzikanten vrij staat om te doen wat ze willen, maar zoals Hans Teeuwen ooit zei "ongeinspireerde bagger". Het kan mij niet bekoren in ieder geval, haha. *

Arrhgg, 25 min long jazz improv.. Shoot me now.

Rotete jazz pretensiøst

This is one of the worst albums I have ever had the misfortune to hear. As Tony Wilson said, ‘Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.’ He had a point!

This is going to be a very divisive statement but screeching trumpets and other brass instruments are just awful sounding and give me a pounding headache. There is NO way I am going to make it thru the 1st 20+ minute song on this album let alone its entire playtime of 1 hour 45 minutes. It's a no from me.

Not a fan of scatty jazz

Some jazz album

Jazz is not my bag

I've never been a lover of freestyle jazz type stuff. I like rhythm and order. This is not for me.

I took a semester of jazz quiz and sang “I Fuckin Love Watchin You Piss” in Louis Armstrong’s voice in Ross’ room every day. I will not subjugate myself to listening to any more free form no-vocal jazz music. This is one star and anyone who says otherwise can answer to Larry Dwyer himself.

Jazz ain't for me

It's jazz. If you like sitting around your house listening to smooth instrumental jazz then this is for you. I don't so it's not for me. If I were at a jazz club and they played it there then I'd be ok. I don't have any use for this album outside of that purpose.

I had very high hopes for this, but it was mostly noise. I don't think this lives up to the historical hype.

Turned off after about 5 mins. Just making noise with instruments.

This is one of Davis' later albums, in what became known as his "electric era" where he started using a lot more electric pianos, etc. I didn't really care for it, I haven't spent the time to "get" Jazz. His earlier work is apparently better, I should listen to his best album, "Kind of Blue" at some point, but I can't get myself to listen today after listening to this one. Davis was sort of controversial, he was seen as a huge sellout later in his career and isn't the best instrumentalist, supposedly. He also beat his wives, so there's that.

Nope.

boooo

Pues.... es jazz... como si un grupo de jazzistas se hubieran reunido, echado unos hongos y puesto a tocar a ver qué salía. Supongo que tiene su mérito no perder la noción de lo que están haciendo durante tanto tiempo, pero es súper pesado de escuchar.

Nope, I hate this.

-I cant deal with that much smooth jazz sorry

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Miles

Næs

Kind of Blue is still my all time favorite but this fusion album is good. Have to be in a certain mindset for Jazz but I like this.

I wish I liked jazz more than I do

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