Be-gone all you post-Comatorium Volta Haters

Moatilliatta wrote: Pnoom! wrote: Try reading the lyrics out of context without gagging. Part of my problem with the noise isn't just that it's way overdone, it's that it tries to obscure their weaker songwriting (coughcavelettascough), and the result is a bad song made even worse by terrible producing.   Haha, maybe I'll try again soon, but right now I'm not taking that chance. I've just consumed a large, delicious meal from Olive Garden, and the slightest gag might make me eject the contents of my stomach. I fear I might spiral back into bulemia!   I agree about that other statement, though. "Tourniquet Man" and "Cavalettas" were not ready to be recorded. They had potential, but it seems like instead of working with it to make a good, cohesive piece, they decided to give Tourniquet Man a premature "Asilos Magdalena" treatment by making it get all grotesque at the end (extra grotesque I suppose, that first half arguably is as well) and Cavalettas is just a mess of passages. I think "Askepios" has that problem to a lesser extent, and its strong points are stronger than the aforementioned.

I could write better lyrics than TMV just by sticking my finger into a dictionary randomly and fitting some sentence structure around the words I pick.

Comatorium = really good
Frances = pretty good

everything else = bad

Why? They never let any silence in. Everything is the same in a very bad, constantly loud, jarring, smack your face with annoying dissonance and random don't care rhythms and notes. Also, the lyrics are laughable. Beat poetry my ass. Random sh*t.

As for the dictionary idea from Phoon - not a bad idea - might try that

As for the dictionary idea from Phoon - not a bad idea

dictionary idea from Phoon - not a bad idea

dictionary idea from Phoon

Phoon

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Edited by Pnoom! - June 14 2008 at 03:28

PinkPangolin wrote: OK - you win Sorry - I spelt your name wrong, Pnoon - must have been looking in the wrong dictionary!

Your aptitude for continued failure boggles the mind


Or should I say... phailure, to go along with phoon

Pnoom! wrote: King Volta, if you want to change your name, just drop (sl)easy livin a PM.

PinkPangolin wrote: As for King Volta - a bit sad to have that name and not be so keen anymore.... I mean surely you liked the powerfulness in Deloused and Frances. Don't you think that has returned in TBiG?

To Pnoom! -- Yes I've thought about changing it, just never gone through with it. Perhaps I will soon. I can't think of anything good to change it to other than my forum default (threefingeredben), but perhaps something will come with time...

and to PinkPangolin -- I think the energy in tBig is stale and overdone. Both De-loused and Frances had much better balancing, while tBiG seems very keen on trying to punch you in the face with its music and never stop. I think tBiG has a few great songs, but most of these are overshadowed by the mediocre content throughout the center-songs and the whole album just comes across as one big huge mess. It is, however, much better than Amputechture which, if it didn't have Tetragrammaton and Day of the Baphomets, would be possibly one of the worst albums I've ever heard. Especially to follow up Frances, which I loved (and love still).

I think the energy on tBiG is used more as a gimmick than as a musical tool. It does not feel organic, like on De-Loused and Frances, but rather it feels tacked on for what the Volta boys probably thought was crazy good measure. I'm not a fan, really. That's not to say I hate tBig--I certainly don't--it's just not the greatest ever by any means.

I still appreciate the Volta though, because they are pretty much the band that jaded me musically; now I don't get so disappointed when an album by a band I like kinda sucks. I just go with it, and listen to something else, including their older albums. I can thank them for this

Edited by king volta - June 14 2008 at 11:30

their next album is supposedly being nicknamed by them as their "acoustic album", so that should a) be interesting and b) allow for some breathing room

edit: hivemind pinky


Edited by heyitsthatguy - June 14 2008 at 12:45

king volta wrote: Pnoom! wrote: King Volta, if you want to change your name, just drop (sl)easy livin a PM. To Pnoom! -- Yes I've thought about changing it, just never gone through with it. Perhaps I will soon. I can't think of anything good to change it to other than my forum default (threefingeredben), but perhaps something will come with time...

King Dot?  King Kayo?

None of their releases have shown the focus of De-Loused.  Really, I have no idea why they feel the need to "change" their sound every single album - that's precisely why they've lost their punch.  They should have progressed from their sound they had in De-Loused in a comfortable manner so they could expand on the sound as they released more and more albums.  Instead they chose to play "quantum-jump" across all the different energy levels showing little to no consistency. 

That's a genre thing that's got very little to do with nationality, PP. Very little american Avant/RIO (or folk, jazz  etc related prog) is cheesy. The cheese just applies to all those pompous/moronic progmetal-bands. 

I hope you die a slow, painful death for that.


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