I crashed my car listening to this album in high school after sitting through a brain-bending standardized test. Upon revisiting it fifteen years later, I find I like it more than before. However, I think the iconic Miles Davis records such as this one and the overrated "Kind of Blue" are not among the man's best, especially when compared to more emotional works like "Seven Steps to Heaven" or "In A Silent Way". Still, "Bitches Brew" stands out as a singularly unpleasant record. The dissonant improv captured on the album is suggestive of hexes and spells, a supernatural voodoo music that can cause car crashes and can ruin your life. I also applaud the fact that a 27-minute tune was squeezed onto one side of a record.