The Mars Volta appreciation thread

from what I have heard of the new album, it is very good. Hopefully the reat will be just as good.

Edited by jwxlite - December 18 2007 at 17:03

I think Amputecture is their best and most underrated album.  They didn't bore the listener with endless noise interludes (which are only cool to a point, then they become annoying).  I'm probably way out on this one, but I think the album is the best album so far relased in the 2000's (maybe rivaled only by Wilco's YHF).  I think it's far beyond their other albums.  Even the track El ciervo vulnerado seems like an errie comedown from the rest of the album, and thus, very fitting.  Especially because it ends so

favourite song for me would be tetragrammaton. time to move the thread on a little bit :-P

Evans wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: Evans wrote: Am i the only one who kinda feels like the two bookending tracks on Amputechture drag on a bit? Strange, i have no problem whatsoever with the 31 minutes of Cassandra Gemini, but whenever "El ciervo vulnerado" come on i just feel like turning it off and calling it a day. Day of the Baphomets would have been such a great album closer, like Cassandra or Take the veil.. Exactly. That is its only flaw. "Vicarious atonement" may work as a soft start before the crazy Tetragrammation, but when you're finished listening to both De-loused and Frances, you're left with a feeling of "what the f- was that i just heard?" whereas with Amputechture you just... float out of it, it's too merciful! :)

Well put.

Harry Hood wrote: Amputecture was kind of a bad album. It had some cool ideas, it just lacked actual songs (aside from Day Of The Baphomets and Asillos Magdalena).Hopefully the next release will be a lot more focused.

Yeah, they should team up with Beyonce or Christina Aguilera and produce some good 3 minute hits. After all, everyone knows how to writte long freeform tracks and how to use abstraction as format to develope some electronic noise based compositions. Hits and singles and balads, that's the tough artistic arena that separates the unfocused like A silver Mt Zion from the real geniuses, like Ricky MArtin. You should writte them to talk them into changing to become the 3 minute songs band you feel they should be. Please make a tape with what they will answer to that.

Am i the only one who kinda feels like the two bookending tracks on Amputechture drag on a bit? Strange, i have no problem whatsoever with the 31 minutes of Cassandra Gemini, but whenever "El ciervo vulnerado" come on i just feel like turning it off and calling it a day. Day of the Baphomets would have been such a great album closer, like Cassandra or Take the veil..

moreitsythanyou wrote: Amputechture is one of the greatest albums of all time, without a doubt the bands best, and no one can say anything to change my mind.

Son, I'm prepared to offer you $500 Chilean pesos if you change your mind.

apropos of nothing much but these following tracks add up to just under 80 minutes:

1. Son et Lumiere ~ Inertiatic ESP
2. Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus
3. Eunuch Provocateur
4. Televators or Eriatarka (like seriously who can choose between these)
5. Tetragrammaton
6. Tira me a las Aranas ~ Drunkship of Lanterns
7. Cassandra Gemini part 1 or however they divided it, so like it ends just before that riff comes in
8. Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt
9. The Widow

it's a nice comp


Edited by laplace - December 15 2007 at 12:31

Best modern Prog band, as far as I'm concerned. Looking forward to hear the new album.

I saw the one for Rapid Fire Tollbooth, where Omar had a violin and none of them were playing anything that had to do with the song.