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WASDF posted:The Sixth Album Well that's kind of disappointing  After Octahedron sucked because it felt so accessible and like it was trying to appeal to the masses who hadn't heard TMV yet rather than being innovative like the rest of their releases, I was really hoping their next would be a return to form. Maybe it still will be, who knows. That quote doesn't inspire much confidence, though.Besides Octahedron, I love every single thing they've done and I have since I was around 14 and got into them, right before Frances came out. I still can't really decide what my favorite album of theirs is, though. I used to think for a while that Frances was it, but I love De-Loused just as much, and Amputechture's absolutely a contender as well. Bedlam is loving great and I love it, but I can't say it's my favorite. Listening to it start to finish gives me a headache, honestly. That's because it's such a goddamn aural onslaught, but still. I can pick up De-Loused, Frances or Amputechture and listen to those anytime, whereas listening to Bedlam all the way through is a unique experience that I only partake in every once in a while.
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They only played three old songs?  I mean, I'm sure their sets can be only a few songs long if they play a few of their longer tracks. But those three combined are <20 minutes long.
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Aug 16, 2011 02:08
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bunky posted:"Now I'm Lost" The first words of the album are actually "Clipside of the pink eye fight, I'm not the percent you think survives, I need sanctuary in the pages of this book"  Though that interpretation makes sense.
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Aug 16, 2011 05:12
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That Tetragrammaton cover is beautiful. Miranda's really good too, but yeah, anytime she's autotuned sounds awful.
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Aug 16, 2011 06:33
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Earwicker posted:Sounds really rushed to me IMO Like she went through the chorus too fast, you mean? I can see how that'd be a concern for some, but I don't know, I rather liked it like that. It's different than the original for sure, but I think it works.
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Aug 16, 2011 19:36
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Frances The Mute is a hell of a song. When I first heard it, I was blown away and I couldn't believe that it didn't make it to the album of the same name. I mean, FTM is a loving amazing album right as it is. But still, that is a quality song.
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Jan 16, 2012 08:19
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A friend of mine who's involved with TMV (I think she's a merch girl for them) posted this on Facebook:quote:
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Jan 17, 2012 18:30
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It reminds me a ton of the cover for Night Passage by Weather Report.
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Jan 17, 2012 19:50
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 Now I'm really anxious to hear it after work. So it's even less like their older work than Octahedron?
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Feb 8, 2012 23:01
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Aw, they took down the preview? Is it up anywhere else?
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Feb 9, 2012 02:07
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Webbeh posted:http://d.pr/e00v What the gently caress  I refuse to believe this is Mars Volta. Though I'll have to hear the whole song before I really make a judgement call on it. edit: I'm watching this live version of the entire song and...well, I was gonna say I'm torn between digging the hell out of it at times and disliking it at other times, but the more it goes on, I think it's more of the former. This is classic prog-rock mixed with jam band type stuff, and I'm enjoying it immensely. It goes about it in different fashions than most previous TMV stuff, but that's not a bad thing. Just different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBb0n_5LUYw Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Feb 9, 2012 |
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Feb 9, 2012 03:57
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Saw this on Facebook and thought you guys might appreciate it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rNo8JRhL4
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Feb 15, 2012 05:04
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:Wait, is that saying that Omar recorded 20 albums in three years? The man never runs out of material. Mostly loving awesome material, at that!
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Feb 16, 2012 19:41
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He's produced like 12 solo/Omar-fronted group albums just since Octahedron. 2009 Los Sueños de un Hígado 2009 Xenophanes 2009 Solar Gambling 2010 Ciencia de los Inútiles 2010 Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante 2010 Sepulcros de Miel 2010 Tychozorente 2010 Cizaña de los Amores 2010 Mantra Hiroshima 2010 Dōitashimashite 2010 Un Escorpión Perfumado 2010 Telesterion And there are probably even more than that that he didn't produce!
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Feb 16, 2012 20:31
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Webbeh posted:Exactly. Omar's built for making music. loving Bromar.  Is that shirt available to buy online anywhere? And if so, where? I want to throw money at whoever's selling them.
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Feb 16, 2012 20:57
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Webbeh posted:No, I actually made it awhile back as a combination of an Omar stencil and a Captain Planet stencil. Nice work!  Also, it blows my mind that Omar stencils exist.
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Feb 16, 2012 21:03
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Webbeh posted:So, The Comatorium (the official TMV message board) got word from a MLB forum that sample copies of MLB The Show 12 (which include the song Zed & The Two Naughts) was at select Best Buys. Users across the forum called their local Best Buys to see if the game was demoed. One user, Shareeb, got confirmation of his Best Buy, drove over to the store, and recorded the song on his phone. Then, he got home and had to go to work, giving The Comatorium an eight-hour wait until he finally released the song above. Okay, this album is going to loving blow me away. This sounds like something from De-Loused with different (awesome) drumming.
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Feb 26, 2012 23:18
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I'm at work and can't listen to it but one of my friends has it and she's posting about it on Facebook and it keeps coming up on my...well, not my news feed, but whatever that feed is on the right hand side of the screen above the chat section. It's driving me loving crazy. I need to get off work so I can hear this thing  WASDF posted:I assumed it leaked? I must ignore it. Octahedron was really unexciting due to the leaks. Won't let this be another Octahedron. I never listened to a leak of Octahedron and I was still mostly unimpressed by it the first time I heard it. It's grown on me a little, but it's still my least favorite Volta album by far.
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Mar 1, 2012 22:40
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I'm not even halfway through the first song and this is already loving fantastic  Miles better than Octahedron. edit: This album has an actual normal-length song structure so far. Pretty weird for TMV. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Mar 2, 2012 |
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Mar 2, 2012 01:23
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Dyslexicon is something else. Holy loving goddamn this is good. So far, this feels like the soundtrack to exploring a dying planet whose inhabitants have all vacated it right before it's snuffed out of existence forever. Like watching the sky turn from bright orange to darker shades of red and just feeling this great sense of impending doom. edit: Imago is almost like Televators Part 2. I never thought I'd hear another Volta song this chill. Wow. I love it. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Mar 2, 2012 |
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Mar 2, 2012 01:34
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WASDF posted:How long is the album? An hour and 4.5 minutes.
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Mar 2, 2012 02:48
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Definitely wasn't their appearance on Henry Rollins. That loving ruled. That's one of the first things I show people I know when they tell me they've never heard of The Mars Volta. They've got like 10 people all crammed on the stage together and somehow it sounds so drat well put together despite that.
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Mar 2, 2012 23:23
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drunk asian neighbor posted:So, this isn't ironclad or anything, but... I work for the House of Blues in Boston, and a friend of mine in the box office told me today that, while it hasn't been officially scheduled or announced yet, At the Drive-In is going to be playing here sometime in July. I'll update as soon as I hear more - you can bet your rear end I'm taking that day off and going to the show instead of working it! I reeeeeally hope they do an actual nationwide tour instead of just playing festivals. I'll buy tickets for a New Orleans date the second they go on sale. If there is a New Orleans date. A lot of awesome bands completely skip over us here But hell, I'd drive to Houston or somewhere in Florida or wherever to see them if I had to.
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Mar 5, 2012 05:45
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I got an e-mail from TMV a little while ago saying that the album is coming out one day early now. It's on their Facebook too. Noctourniquet's new release date is on Monday the 26th.
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Mar 13, 2012 17:50
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Listened to this all the way through again today, and I wasn't feeling it as much as I did a few weeks ago. Several of the songs can be great on their own, but overall, it doesn't feel like a cohesive effort.
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Mar 26, 2012 23:13
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A friend of mine posted a picture of the setlist from the ATDI show: Arcarsenal Pattern Against User Chanbara Lopsided Sleepwalk Capsules Napoleon Solo Quarantined Rascuache 198d Enfilade Metronome Arthritis Pickpocket Encore: Non-Zero Possibility One-Armed Scissor Catacombs This is like every song I could possibly want them to play live. I want to see them so badly
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Apr 10, 2012 06:53
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I don't care much for how Cedric sounds during the chorus of Enfilade. Sounds a little too effeminate compared to the raw energy of how he sounds on the album version. I've noticed he sings like this sometimes in recent TMV videos, too. It's pretty lame. He sounded good during One-Armed Scissor, though.
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Apr 10, 2012 21:08
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Declan MacManus posted:Cedric's voice didn't age well but everything else did. Yeah I watched a bunch of videos from their first reunion show (at Red7) the other day, and he sounds really loving goofy. Like a parody of himself. Everything else sounded pretty tight, though. But Omar looked sad as hell just standing away from everyone else not doing anything I watched some live videos of theirs from like 2000 right after that, and he's all over the place.
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ethan posted:Well his mom did just die. Also he doesn't do crack anymore. I knew about his mom, but crack? I knew he used to do drugs, but I wasn't aware that it was crack. If that's true, goddamn. Still, you don't have to be on crack to move around at shows. At the first reunion show, he looked like he was in the same position for the entire show.
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Apr 16, 2012 07:45
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Happy Hippo posted:Cedric used to really lay into the screams and shouts with ATDI but with the Mars Volta he actually sings. Seeing as how TMV is his main gig these days I doubt that he'd risk shredding his voice for this reunion. He's probably laying off the screams on purpose. That's what I've been thinking too, but that coupled with Omar being fixed in one place made it seem like their energy's not all the way in it. Omar has an excuse, but...I don't know. Though I'm probably being too hasty with this. Everyone else in the band was totally on point and I'm only basing this off of YouTube videos of like 5 or 6 songs that weren't of the best quality.
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Apr 16, 2012 19:23
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travislopes posted:For those that didn't catch the show last night, I uploaded the full set in HD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ukI_WBtDg&feature=youtu.be God, I wish Cedric would just loving let loose with his voice on these songs. I don't want him to reserve it for TMV at all. Everything else is there for this to be totally awesome, but this one thing seems to be holding it back from being a truly great reunion in my eyes. It sounds like it fits at some points, like during parts of Lopsided, but most of the time it just sounds completely out of place and disappointing.
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Friend of mine posted this on Facebook earlier, and I thought it was pretty accurate   It's from this cracked.com article about TMV: http://www.cracked.com/funny-3015-the-mars-volta/ Some other accurate quotes from that article: quote:Just The Facts quote:Cedric Bixler-Zavala
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Apr 18, 2012 16:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp3PrJJBRrw Just watched this "Questions From Fans" video in which Cedric says that the lesson he took away from recording Noctourniquet was to make his songs shorter and more concise like the pop music he listens to. He said he thinks it's a special medium, to be able to fit all your ideas into just a few minutes and have them stand out and such. So does this mean no more long, multi-part songs from TMV? Because I'd be disappointed if that were the case De-Loused had this to an extent and it worked loving spectacularly there, and it works well enough on Noctourniquet too, but I'd definitely be sad if they never came out with another album like Frances The Mute or Amputechture, at least in structure.
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Apr 19, 2012 20:48
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If they end up making De-Loused Part 2 as a result of this...well I'm not gonna lie, I'd be pretty loving stoked. Though I don't know how likely that is at this point. And I'd still miss their prog stuff.
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Apr 20, 2012 19:50
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WASDF posted:He did it with De-Loused, so maybe. Wait, there's a published book about the story of De-Loused? 
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Apr 25, 2012 15:04
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Yeah, he does some out of control poo poo on his albums that makes me love him as a vocalist, but in just about all recent videos I've seen of him playing with Mars Volta and At The Drive In, he sounds loving terrible. I've definitely seen some older live videos of Volta in which he sounds great, though, so maybe it's just a recent live thing? He doesn't sound bad on Noctourniquet at all, so I'd say that's probably it.
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Happy Hippo posted:Octopus Kool Aid. Omar comes out with some strange album names and song titles, but this coupled with the album art is loving bizarre 
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Jul 24, 2012 18:28
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poo poo, that's a real bummer  I wish I'd gotten to see them live more than once at a festival while standing pretty far back from the stage.
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logical phalluses posted:TMV used to be like my absolute favorite band. They took my live music virginity. It sucks to see them go. I haven't listened to De-Loused in years but I decided to give it a listen, and it still sounds every bit as amazing as I remember. De-Loused is one of the very few albums that still gives me chills all over every time I listen to it, like I'm 14 and hearing it for the first time all over again. Friends Are Evil posted:16-year old me is heartbroken. And yeah, Noctourniquet really wasn't that great. When I first heard it, I thought it was pretty interesting but far from their best. And I still think the same of it now. It's not bad, but I don't think it's a great last album together either. It's given me a whole new appreciation for Octahedron, too. Before Noctourniquet came out, I thought Octahedron was really weak and I rarely listened to it because it paled in comparison to TMV's other albums. Now I've listened to it more and I dig it.
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Deloused and Frances are obviously their best albums with Amputechture trailing close behind. And then Bedlam is awesome too, but not in the same way. It's like an hour long roller coaster ride of an album. The songs with the craziest lyrics are some of their best, too. I mean, come on: "a necklace of follicles with sabertooth monocles". That's loving genius
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