Spy vs. Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman

Haha, wat een onluisterbare zaad is dit zeg. Ik ga dit echt niet verdedigen in de naam van experimentatie. Ornette Coleman's 'The Shape Of Jazz To Come' (en meer van zijn werk) is fucking geniaal en staat niet op deze lijst maar deze waardeloze rendities wel??? Veel merkwaardige keuze's gezien in deze boeken, maar dit slaat echt als een lul op een drumstel.

I'm going to have to check out Ornette Coleman now. Sometimes I got a bit of SEATBELTS vibes just messier but overall, this is the weird stuff I love.

Amazing.

I respect it for what it is. Great musicians. But not something I would choose to listen to again. It's a very low 3.

“Experimental free jazz.” It’s a goddamn mess. What in the hell is going on here

I've heard some John Zorn stuff and also some Ornette Coleman stuff too. So I suppose I know enough to expect the unexpected. I don't believe I've ever heard of this album though.

This was more musical than I expected and thus more enjoyable.

I enjoyed the first couple of minutes - because it was a surprise and a bit different. Then the second track is the same as the first.
Then the third.
I get the joke. This is a piss take right?
The second half seems to have more structure and cohesion. But wait... no they've got bored and are doing their own shit again.
I made it to the end.
But I'm not going to tell you they are wearing wonderful new clothes - like the Emperor, they're stark bollock naked.

Postscript : This might not have been my thing, but I'm glad I heard it.

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What a bizarre fucking album. It starts out crazy and just stays that way the entire album through. It's very much out there Free Jazz and I love it for that. As it goes it seems to get more sane and normal, perhaps because eardrums have already been mangled by the start of the album. It takes some familiarity with Free and Avant Garde Jazz to enjoy this, but once you do it's quite enjoyable and novel.

I was wondering what a comic strip from Mad magazine was doing being referenced here, but listening to this album, I get it, Spy Vs Spy had no speech bubbles so you had to interpret it by the pictures, here you have no words and the interpretation is largely your own. In fact, Zorn is known for deliberately resisting category. I really admire that but would not listen to this again as free-form jazz doesn’t move me. Side note: wished I liked this album so I could legitimately buy a t-shirt, great cover art.

Man... this is such a hard cacophony of sound. So much talent and such great playing, just put together in a crazy chaotic hard core way. Not sure I could listen to it again, but glad I did. Truly exploring the possible.

2. This whole album could have been one track. Sounds like a bad '60s acid trip ala Austin Powers. It certainly has a recognizable sound, but I could remember a single part of it and I doubt they could play it again true to the recorded version.

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I had to go to YouTube for that?

Decent. Some interesting sounds.

This is the most violent jazz I have ever heard in my life. I don't know if it's cheating that I took a break in middle of listening. I get the feeling that John Zorn intended me to be battered for 40 minutes straight. Maybe that's why I consider this to be kinda brilliant. And insane. Much better than the 68th mediocre, 3/5 pop-rock album. I guess I just like jazz way more than I previously thought?

Some of you have basically no sense of adventure, no desire to venture out.

Fucking unlistenable
Exactly how I like it!

Favorite track(s): WRU, Good Old Days, Ecars, Feet Music

I'm frankly astonished John Zorn made it on this list in any capacity. Should've been by way of Electric Masada but whatever.

I'm kind of speechless after having heard this. It's the sonic equivalent of being chased by a stampede of hundreds of baby elephants - absolutely relentlessly chaotic, and I really did like it. Slightly gutted to find that it isn't on streaming, but it was worth ploughing through several adverts for.

I'm pretty sure this can easily pass as a Dillinger Escape Plan interlude. Also, I have an insane urge to see if there are any live recordings of any of these songs and check them note by note besides the studio version. It's insane to just think that they can replicate this chaos, but they play jazz so they really might be able. It was so chaotic that it got me laughing, it made my head hurt, and somehow I liked it. It's just insanity. I feel like if I consider myself not stressed enough one day, I can put this on and go back to my normal stressed self. WHY DO I LIKE THIS CRAZINESS??