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YYZed 
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 Topic: Best TMV Studio Album
Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:00 |
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To celebrate the release of Amputechture, and the ability to speak of it without being flamed now that it has been officially released, I give you this poll.
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Kleynan
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:17 |
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I currently regard Amputecthure as the best, but I will listen to them all before I vote. I'm not entirely sure...
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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lunaticviolist
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:26 |
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I'm really not feeling Amputechture yet. It has some awesome
moments, but it sounds as if they were all put in a blender and burned
on to the CD. De-loused and Frances had flow, Amputechture has
too many random transitions between and inside songs.
Frances will always be my favorite because it was the first one I heard.
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:32 |
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Where is the "I just cannot get this band!" option?
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When the world is sick
Can't no one be well
But I dreamt we were all
beautiful and strong
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:41 |
 lightbulb_son wrote:
Where is the "I just cannot get this band!" option? |
Seconded. I really cannot listen to them.
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Kleynan
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:43 |
Tony Fisher wrote:
lightbulb_son wrote:
Where is the "I just cannot get this band!" option? |
Seconded. I really cannot listen to them.
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I pity you! 
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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memowakeman
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Joined: May 19 2005
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:47 |
Tony Fisher wrote:
lightbulb_son wrote:
Where is the "I just cannot get this band!" option? |
Seconded. I really cannot listen to them.
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Thirded...  ... the same, i just dont like them..
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Follow me on twitter @memowakeman
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Gravity Eyelids
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:51 |
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Amputechture
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Into this wild Abyss the fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,
Pondering his Voyage.
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Kleynan
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:53 |
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Oh whatta hell! I pick Amputechture. Volta keep expanding their sound, and the adding of brass instruments fits very nicely.
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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chamberry
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 17:55 |
Don't you think this is too early to vote? I mean Amputechture just came out today. 
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Spiderprog
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 18:09 |
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Amputechture!
They just keep getting better and better. I always wanted to know what it would feel like to witness the growth of a great band in the scale of Genesis and Yes in the seventies. It seems that with The Mars Volta I'm getting what I wished for. I can't wait to see what they will do next.
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YYZed
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 18:35 |
chamberry wrote:
Don't you think this is too early to vote? I mean Amputechture just came out today.
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Many have had it for a while.
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 18:41 |
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DELOUSED!!!!!!
They're all good, but Deloused was more focused than these last two. I also wish they would progress a bit more with their sound. They obviously have tons of talent and potential, but 3 albums of bombastic noodlish w**kery is enough, they should experiment with something else for a while.
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ResidentAlien
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 18:46 |
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Amputechture is amazing... and this is coming from someone who up until hearing Amputechture for the first time yesterday, derided everything TMV laid hands on. Can't stand their past albums, but this new one is rocking my world! Excellent, excellent, excellent album.
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Forgotten Son
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:11 |
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I'm just not "getting" Amputechture. Deloused for me, by far their most cohesive album, IMO.
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Tony Fisher
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:14 |
Please don't! I've just played some to my 18 year old son, who is training to be a a musician, and his comment was "turn that crap off, it's an absolutely horrible racket" so it's not just me. TMV polarise opinion. I'm pleased you love them. But I don't.
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stonebeard
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:14 |
I see were's all taking time and letting Amputechture "sink in." 
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micky
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:31 |
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haven't heard the new one.... need to check it out I guess.....
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Uroboros
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:41 |
Kleynan wrote:
Oh whatta hell! I pick Amputechture. Volta keep expanding their sound, and the adding of brass instruments fits very nicely. |
They had quite a lot of brass on Frances too (Miranda and Cassandra in particular  ). De-loused suffers from a slight "sameness" problem - it's soometimes hard for me to distinguish a song from another. It's cohesive and a convincing punch in the face, but it's not as multitextured as the following two.
I've listened to Amputechture pretty intensely and... yes, it's... it's extremely good, I mean... it's everything you would expect and more, and it can either give you a headache or leave you mesmerized and wanting to hear it again and again (or both). But I just can't seem to like it as much as Frances.
Songs like "Meccamputechture" and "Viscera Eyes" and even "Tetragrammaton" after a while are a bit too linear, which can become observable after a few listens. Not much chord variation or rhythm changes in them, although they add layers and layers of things by the end of the song. I see that as a small fault of the album, whereas in my book Frances is the perfect example of an album that is anything but linear.
Right now, Frances has literally everything I can dream I want to listen to in the course of one album, so I choose it as my favourite. Still, Amputechture is definitely the best of 2006 so far and a wonderful experience to have.
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Tous les chemins
qui s’ouvrent à moi
ne mènent à rien si tu n’es plus là
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The Wizard
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Posted: September 12 2006 at 19:43 |
Amputechture.
I got it today after school, went into my room and blasted it.
My conclusion: Deloused and Frances are just warm ups for this beast.
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