Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007. Album Description
 |  | Buy for Human Nature alone |  |
I am so in love with Miles' version of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" - he really perfected his art with this recording. It sounds like Miles took a course on art theory during the 70s and now he is free to change the world with his vision of artistic beauty, no longer making that garish, horrible noise with competing instruments. Miles has come through and he wants to share with us the sound of his becoming.
May 7, 2008 | | Milesi s awesome but this is the pits | |
Huh? What? Miles Davis, covering Cyndi Lauper? WTF? Something's wrong with that, and not just the fact that Cyndi Lauper is massively annoying, though there's certainly that. No, it's a boring lounge-jazz-ish song with all kinds of '80s gimmicks - actually, those gimmicks ruin the album for me. Like on "Intro: MD 1/Something's on Your Mind/MD 2" - you get to hear Miles trade trumpet licks with a synthesizer that sounds like it just walked right off of a Duran Duran record! Good times... And I will never understand this: what the hell is with artificial handclaps? How hard is it to just clap your hands? Why do you have to dub it in? Yeah, you hear those on "Something's on Your Mind", too. And "Ms. Morrisine" is awful '80s jazz-pop. That's right, jazz-pop. From Miles Dewey Davis III. One of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century. I'm sorry, but that's just screwed, plain and simple. John McLaughlin drops by too, not like it helps - he provides more of that "'80s distorted" guitar that we all know and hate to "Kaita" and the title song. I guess his version of "Human Nature" is okay, but that's just because he keeps the original's melody intact: it's a dull song otherwise. This is it! Miles Davis' worst album!!! I don't know what he was thinking when he recorded it. Maybe I don't want to?
November 22, 2007| | | Pass this one up!!!!!!!!! | |
This album bit the dust big time! I loved his rendition of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and Cindy Lauper's "Time After Time". Both are wonderful songs, but the rest of it sucks. After hearing the opening track, the rest was spoiled for me. He had some wonderful musicians on here but I think this is just a wasted talent. This was just as bad as "Decoy". Just leave it alone. Buy "Tutu, "Amandla", or "Doo Bop" instead.
October 3, 2007If you've never heard this album and are a Miles fan.. AVOID THIS ALBUM AT ALL COSTS!! This is nothing like any Miles you would know or ever want to know. It's the cheesiest pile of 80's rap, trumpet twidling and absurdness ever put to CD. I am still a huge Miles fan, but this seriously knocked my respect for him down a notch or two. Beyond awful- it's almost painful to hear.
April 8, 2005 | | You Are Under Arrest (and are sentenced to listen to this) | |
This album was just another Miles Davis album in the 80's. The fans and critics new not to expect the straight ahead or even progressive jazz he once recorded to be on his albums. Bitches Brew came out about 15 years earlier, and everybody was used to the new music that Miles was playing. Well almost.
I'm assuming Miles was very proud of this recording. As some of the tunes here get frequent radio play. He was not ready to be forgotten and albums like this he wasn't. But only to the popular audience.
Sadly this album sounds out of date. And although he might of been, 'with the times' then, it sure ain't now. I dont think Miles really cared at this point what anybody said, he just played this "jazz" the way he wanted to, and let no one stop him.
Fortunately, though not able to get a good Davis album at this time, you could still catch a more lively preformance from him live in concert. Miles's horn playing is basically the same as it was 20 years before this album, but his backing musicians are very different and although the trumpet playing is rather good, the other musicians make the sound as a whole, very unabarrable. I wouldn't say this is worse then the modern smooth jazz being played, mainly because there are real instruments on this recording, but it is still very below standards. I am somewhat a fan of contemporary jazz, so I can tolerate this recording more then the avid traditional jazz fan.
One thing I like about this album is just its variety, and is why I gave it 3 stars. Miles's albums, over the years were varied and different, it is why Miles's cataloge is rather enjoyable.
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