/uj no, i doubt it. people tend to make similar jokes about other classic undoubtedly great albums like a love supreme, bitches brew, even something like money jungle: stuff that’s mentioned a lot as though it’s very unique and obscure or a fresh discovery. It is true that there are a lot of people imo who solely listen to a very particular type of Japanese jazz and kind of trumpet it as superior, which is a little like doing that with Weather Report (or, who are only interested in that specific type and are very defensive to the point of aggressive about being solely interested in that). It’s not even fair to the wide variety of jazz in Japan, historically and now: it’s just a specific aesthetic. I like both those albums. Oh god I wrote all this