SR IV: This is the end, my only friend, the end.

Bedlam might just be their best perhaps.
I dunno, I'd be inclined to give Frances 4 stars while Bedlam is 5.

Ricochet wrote: Bedlam is good stuff, but I'm still pending whether it's better than Frances.

Bedlam =

Frances =

So yes, Bedlam is better. For me anyway.

Edit: And Harry is right. It's their best.


Edited by birdwithteeth11 - March 22 2009 at 15:39

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Ricochet wrote: Bedlam is good stuff, but I'm still pending whether it's better than Frances.  Bedlam = Frances = So yes, Bedlam is better. For me anyway.

Glad we cleared that.

Nice to see some stars for Bedlam from you all, anyway. I was starting to think I'm the only one who appreciated it to the max.

birdwithteeth11 wrote: Ricochet wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Bedlam might just be their best perhaps. I dunno, I'd be inclined to give Frances 4 stars while Bedlam is 5. De-Loused is at the top, comfortably. Bedlam's first pieces are the problem, they're not so good, but it gets better afterwards. With Frances it's the other way around, the first half is 24K gold, Cassandra Gemini is the problem. I agree. Cassandra could have trimmed out most of the second half without missing much. Although I could say the same about the last 3-4 minutes of Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore.

I like the noodling. Classy.

Omar-Rodriguez, solo, does much more experimental noodling, half of it bad.

HughesJB4 wrote: Up next on my iTunes list: Cicatriz ESP Currently listening to........the song before it:P

Ha ha.

Mighty De-Loused.

I had half of the album on my iPod's favourite playlist for an entire year!

Listening to Gutbucket now...*looks for Mikeh*.

I can't believe none of you mentioned TMV's best album, Amputechture. 

moreitsythanyou wrote: I can't believe none of you mentioned TMV's best album, Amputechture.

It's because it's so bad, I almost tossed it in the bin.

Seriously, Frances gave me a hint of "punk & metal", but Amputechture raised it to infernal measures. I don't a single favourite piece on that album, and the first time, I couldn't digest it more than half.

Sorry. Amputechture is the lowest point for TMV - Bedlam was sorted much, much better, with some similar ingredients.

HughesJB4 wrote: The Mars Volta just becomes even better over time.

If you're talking about how the first album ages over time, then I agree.

If you're talking about the music the band makes from album to album....

It's hard to be nice to TMV albums after Frances. I think they're some of the most disgusting, repulsive, annoying, affront-to-good-taste, and rage-inducing albums of the past decade.

I can't think of TMV as anything but a huge joke now.

TMV =

progismylife wrote: Hmmm Bedlam is the weaker album, I don't have the desire to listen to it as much as I do the other 3...

I really couldn't even stand it honestly.