Miles - Get Up With It or Panthlassa

[GARussell]

I'm pretty sure that I read in the On the Corner box thread that it includes tracks from Get Up With It. I was planning to buy the On the Corner box when BMG/Your Music got it, but it now appears that that is not going to happen. All of this talk has me in the mood to hear some of it, but my current finances prevent me from considering buying the box.

It so happens that I have a couple of Miles albums that I haven't opened yet - Get Up With It and Panthalassa. So I'm in the mood to hear one of them.

I'm pretty sure that I have read that Panthalassa includes tracks from Get Up With It remixed. Is that right?

So for those of you who have heard them both, which do you recommend I hear first? I'll wait a year to open the other. Is the Panthalassa remix an improvement? Would I appreciate Panthalassa more if I first became familiar with Get Up With It?

Thanks for your input!

[jazzbo]

Open Get Up with It.

It's amazing.

[Guy Berger]

I'm a lot more lukewarm about GUWI than Lon, but get it first. Then if you like it check out Laswell's reimagining of the material.

Guy

[Z-Man]

Would I appreciate Panthalassa more if I first became familiar with Get Up With It?

Yes.

[B. Clugston]

Panthalassa has some good remixes of "Get Up With It" tunes. But Laswell doesn't get the In a Silent Way tracks, so go to the original first. Not one of Miles' best overall (poor sounding and some filler), but "He Loved Him Madly" is an incredible track.

[Guy Berger]

Panthalassa has some good remixes of "Get Up With It" tunes. But Laswell doesn't get the In a Silent Way tracks, so go to the original first. Not one of Miles' best overall (poor sounding and some filler), but "He Loved Him Madly" is an incredible track.

I think Laswell's mix of "Rated X" is very worthy and in some respects superior to the original.

Guy

[B. Clugston]

Panthalassa has some good remixes of "Get Up With It" tunes. But Laswell doesn't get the In a Silent Way tracks, so go to the original first. Not one of Miles' best overall (poor sounding and some filler), but "He Loved Him Madly" is an incredible track.

I think Laswell's mix of "Rated X" is very worthy and in some respects superior to the original.

Guy

I agree. I like what Laswell does with "Rated X," "Billy Preston," and "He Loved Him Madly."

[Aggie87]

Why are you going to wait a whole year to open the 2nd cd?

[GARussell]

Aggie, I have a number of box set CDs of Miles that I haven't heard yet, and I want to get to a few of them before I follow up on what I open up now.

[danasgoodstuff]

I agree with those who say Get Up With It; "He Loved Him Madly" is as good as any thing Miles (and Teo) ever did...

[sidewinder]

Go for 'Get Up With It'. 'Calypso Frelimo' is stunning.

Can we persuade you to invest in the box?

[JohnS]

Like Sidewinder I've always liked Calypso Frelimo. However, the Panthalasa remixes are very interesting - gives the music a new perspective.

[Rooster_Ties]

I like what Laswell does with "Rated X," "Billy Preston," and "He Loved Him Madly."

I think that whole Panthalassa Laswell disc totally kicks ass.

Honestly, as an album, I think it hangs together much better than Get Up With It.

If Laswell sequenced a number of other similar Miles Discs (from multiple, unrelated sessions), with edits and/or remixes (and re-arrangements of material) like Panthalassa -- eventually I'd probably pick 'em all up (at used prices, of course).

[JSngry]

If you're having that much trouble deciding, get two players, play both albums simultaneously, and see which one you eventually turn off/tune out in order to get to the other.

[GA Russell]

Thanks for your thoughts, guys!

It's clear that almost everyone recommends that I try Get Up With It before Panthalassa, so that's what I'll do.

[JSngry]

Well, ok, but I'm not sure that approching music "from back to front" is necessarily a good thing in all cases.

I mean, how far back is back enough, and will you ever have time to get caught up to now?

Iused to think thatthat was the way to go, but now....I'm not so sure. Something to be said for being in the now and discovering the past as the opportunity presents itself as opposed to the other way 'round.

But then again, we're talking a 30+ year old album versus an almost 10 year old one, so it's all relative.