After seeing the packaging, I think I went from mere lust to full-out fuckwant.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 04:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Vote Miles!
― JN$OT, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 06:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.
-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:34
lol otm
i totally have a vote miles shirt xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 07:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- The Reverend, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link
same here. i am a little ashamed...
― stevie, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 10:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
The company doesn't even have promotional copies yet."
Um...then why are there so many advance reviews? I suspect Sony/Legacy is doing some leg-pulling.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
They sent out advances (plain white sleeve w/6 CD-Rs in it; I got one, obviously. But they haven't yet sent full-art copies out to reviewers who wrote the thing up based on advances, which they usually do.
― unperson, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
me too!
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Listened to Bill Laswell's 'On The Corner (Subterranean Channel Mix)' from Panthalassa: The Remixes. I can't decide if he improved on Teo Macero's edits by making the track more structured, or if he just made it sound like any Material album. Leaning towards the former.
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Andy K was spot on, this really does make you want to stop listening to everything else. I haven't heard any of the other complete sessions boxes-- I figured tight editing is part of what made the originals so great, didn't want to spend the dough-- but this is just incredible.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 28 October 2007 03:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
Free me!
― JN$OT, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 14:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
If anyone's on Ruckus.com (free DRM'd downloads if you've got a .edu e-mail address, probably US-only), the whole thing's there.
― These Robust Cookies, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok wow a friend told me about ruckus but i just assumed it didn't have anything cool on it.
thx dude!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 20:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh man Ruckus looks fantastic. How about a five years defunct .edu e-mail address? :(
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
you can reg as an alumni
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
You have to be able to get mail at the .edu address, is the thing. That's what you'll be registered under.
― These Robust Cookies, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 21:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
Interview with Henderson, Cosey, and Liebman – some sort of promotion for the box:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFUhV_ciNQg
Says 'part 1 of 3' but I can't find the others …
-- Brakhage, Friday, October 5, 2007 5:21 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link
The whole interview video - with bits of live footage! is on the official site.
― dad a, Thursday, 8 November 2007 22:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
sweeeeeet
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 November 2007 22:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
so... this is finally available now?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's out. I want it.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Corner-Sessions-Miles-Davis/dp/B000TLMWMO/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1194565441&sr=8-1
xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
*sigh*
will have to wait til Xmas
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
Jazzbos be rich. I wish these weren't so damned expensive.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
I wish these weren't so damned expensive.
-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:48 PM
tru tru tru! (jazzbos also be shameful pirates) :(
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
xxpost Yes if one's lucky... Please everyone don't buy all of these
That booklet looks gorgeous! As the rest of it.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm in the same boat as shakey ... mom, if you're reading this ...
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 November 2007 23:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
reissue of the year
― talrose, Friday, 9 November 2007 00:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fuck that—there's way too much "new" music on there for that definition to hold much water! Album of the year—period!
― JN$OT, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:48 PM (Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:48 PM) Bookmark Link
thirded
― The Reverend, Friday, 9 November 2007 11:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
I mean, really, is there any reason beyond "people will pay anything for these" that they are so expensive? The packaging is beautiful, but I've seen more lavishly packaged boxsets for significantly less. I just don't see why these can't be in the $50-$70 range or "rock" boxsets.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
seems like the prices of these things always goes down eventually ... i think you can get that cellar door set for $60 and it was originally priced way up there ... and the older sets are even cheaper -- though I guess the Silent Way box is only three discs, Bitches Brew only four. Sony just wants to gouge the diehards at first.
― tylerw, Friday, 9 November 2007 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Cellar Door box had a lower list price when it was released, with the same number of discs. Looks like Sony is hoping people will wanna shell just for the (admittedly gorgeous) packaging.
― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
A lot of these sets - all of 'em up through the Jack Johnson set, in fact - have been reissued in cheaper, no-metal-spine packaging. Behold.
― unperson, Friday, 9 November 2007 16:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'd like to see links to some reviews, or comments here, that go into more detail about the previously unreleased material. With Get Up With It and On The Corner sitting on my shelf, I'm having a hard time psyching myself up to pay the freight. I was put off the In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew boxes by reviews suggesting these collections don't add a whole lot to the Macero-assembled albums. This caveat seems like it might apply even more strongly to On The Corner.
On the other hand, PETE COSEY
― Brad C., Friday, 9 November 2007 17:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's exactly the other way around, actually. For me, the Jack Johnson and On the Corner boxes have been by far the most satisfying and interesting ones of the lot.
― JN$OT, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
Also, this review goes into a fair amount of detail concerning the previously unreleased stuff in the box:
http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=14562
― JN$OT, Friday, 9 November 2007 17:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm only about halfway through disc three of this, but HOLY SHIT. This is much better than the Bitches Brew set, which I wasn't crazy about anyway, and better than the In A Silent Way set, which I was and am crazy about. This really does top everything. And in the right mood, man, it tops EVERYTHING. It's the best music you've ever heard. I have been listening to it since I popped in disc one, and will not likely stop until I have heard it all. Not a lot of things make me sit still for seven hours. This is insanely good. No, really.
I like Matos' review. Thanks for that.
― kenan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
Somebody hook a brotha up.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
Tall order, brotha... this is a lot of bits to upload. (Checking sizes...) Even at 192, it's about 600 megs.
― kenan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
If you do, I promise not to start any threads or polls for a week.
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
Aiight... check your mail, both of you.
― kenan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 02:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
kenan, I kiss you.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fuck that, I make sweet love to you, in a platonic way, of course.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
gis for platonic sweet love
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
That looks about right.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
Please, both of you, do not bother.
I'm finding that Matos' characterization of disc 4 as "something to stretch out on" is half true -- the first 32-minute track is still pretty hot, but "He Loved Him Madly" is 32 minutes of just niiiice. Not melodic, oh no, never that, but niiiice. Then "Maiysha" at the start of disc 5 eases you back in, before it all goes wonderfully pear-shaped again.
― kenan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
This is offtopic, but, "pear-shaped" is an idiom I've read on ilx a bit that I don't really understand. Could you take a stab at explaining what you mean by it?
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
listening now. only on disc 1 so far. my local store had a 20% off sale and this was sitting there beckoning alluringly. I had only come in to get the new Robert Wyatt but I am probably never going to see this for $96 again. hell yeah the sax on "Rated X" is rockin me.
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
"pear-shaped" is an idiom I've read on ilx a bit that I don't really understand
Britishers use it to mean "not right," and usually "very wrong," like... I dunno... the plan in The Italian Job. But it's an evocative phrase by itself, I think. Not round, not perfect, a bit... pear-shaped. Just a little off. Doesn't have to be a bad thing.
― kenan, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
I've heard it on Doctor Who and never known what the hell it meant. Thanks dude.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
further comments on disc 1...
wow that wasn't Rated X but I swear it was similar. Wasn't there an extended single CD of OTC that had some of these longer pieces like the "Helen Butte/Mr Freedom X" unedited master?
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:39 (5 years ago) Permalink