frances the mute

I went to Best Buy two nights ago, and saw "Frances the Mute" by The Mars Volta for $6 and the free single of the song "Frances the Mute." I remembered all the talk on this site of this album, and how the Mars Volta is prog's big new thing.

I was 100% disappointed.  practically 1/2 the album was random noises that didn't even sound good with the music.  I understand noises to set the setting like in "The Wall" but this album really overdid it.  It practically put me to sleep the entire time.

When there weren't random noises the music was overly repetitive, this album lacked a lot despite the virtuosity of the musicians.  It was creative but poorly done.  The only real compliment I have for The Mars Volta is that the singer sounded good throughout and I enjoyed the spanish/english transitions.

The album is a piece of crap and $6 was expensive for the quality within, but I have only heard it once, and I need about 9 more listens to truly form my opinion and judge it, but I don't know if I want to put myself through that again.

Logos wrote: 76 minutes of sheer brilliance.

 Well put.

Deloused is trully a masterpiece, and i think the band will never be able to make a better album. it's just one of the greatest debutalbums out there (in the court of the crimson king comes close too) and it's just like the problem with pearl jam (WHO?!! i hear you progheads say): the never made an album better than their debut "ten." knowing this you can't really expect from these guys to make a better album. i mean: they are still human, ok? wow, an album better than deloused... just thinking about it makes me need to change my pants. back in a sec...

so, ok, well. frances the mute is a great album. when you remove the noisy parts you still got over an hour of quality music. that can't be bad can it?  

Pale moon, I'm going to have to disagree.  I feel Versus was a much better effort form Vedder and Co.

on-topic, It's tough to compare De-loused to Frances simply because they're both such different albums.  Their 1st album was more cohesive, yes, but that was mostly because the music for FTM was taken from live jams OF De-Loused songs.  They mainly just built most of the music around from the jams, then cleaned it up for studio.

And as for the noise, it's their for a reason.  it helps to segway into the next part of the album.  The only time it was ever tedious was the beginnign of the Title track.

riiiggghhhhtt, forming an opinion on music after 1 listen... All the best music takes  a little bit to sink in IMO.

Listen to everyone else and skip the filler, its not needed.
Cassandra gemini took about 15-20 full listens before I really started apreciating it, now its my favorite TMV song.

I personally think deloused is a better album , its easier to digest and there's more content.