What are your favorite albums from Miles Davis?

A lot of people don't like "Pangaea" but I feel it's a severely underrated album. It takes a lot of listens to "get" but it's worth the effort.

As one reviewer put it:

"He was running on empty, his failing health made worse by drugs and drink. In a sense, this double disc is an 88-minute primal scream, as Davis spews forth his pain, tempering it with the melodic gifts he's always possessed."

Full review:

http://www.rambles.net/davis_pangaea.htm...

It's messy and sprawling but the interplay of Miles and other musicians is truly interesting.

Available here:

http://www.amazon.com/Pangaea-Miles-Davi...

Birth of the Cool
and
In a Silent Way

'On The Corner' and 'Tribute To Jack Johnson'. Both are closer to jazz fusion era Miles.

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Two large-ensemble albums are absolutely unique:
Miles Ahead - a very early record, with incredibly beautiful arrangements by Gil Evans and equally beautiful soloing by Miles throughout.
Aura - a very late record, with ensemble parts arranged/composed by Palle Mikkelborg, the music incorporating many quotations from Miles's earlier albums but all distorted, fragmented, and mixed in with some very "non-jazz" new music. Also contains brilliant soloing by Miles and John McLaughlin.

Everyone else has mentioned some great albums here - I would also put in my votes for "In a Silent Way" and "LIVE-EVIL".

I like the albums with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, especially the Nefertiti album and the entire In a Silent Way sessions.

"Kind of Blue" "In A Silent Way" and "Live At The Blackhawk".

I like Kind of Blue, Scenes of Spain, and Bitches Brew. Especially listening to Kind of Blue and then Bitches Brew, because I don't know if there is a better contrast between times in any other musicians career.

I really can't choose every one he realized was unique and different from his others and comparing them is very hard. Because I have things I like about all of them.

"A Tribute to Jack Johnson" and "Agharta."