Mars Volta vs Radiohead
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Topic: Mars Volta vs Radiohead
Posted By: Persona
Subject: Mars Volta vs Radiohead
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 13:38
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Mars Volta are very innovative and impressionant, but sounds me like differents fusions of metal with other genres and a little influence of Fripp's guitars. and the singer sounds much heavy-metal!! not very emotional music... Radiohead for me is the natural evolution of the scene (specially Kid A and Amnesiac (Kid B?). electronic is the future). No more copy of the best 70's bands with others genres. and Yorke's voice transports me far... far away!! for radiohead is my vote, of course ------------- Le pregunte, y su sonrisa se desprendio desgarrando al aire. |
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Posted By: BleedingGum
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 13:50
me? Radiohead over Mars Volta 
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:04
Neighter
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:14
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the mars volta...no competition...wha? radiohead is winning ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:19
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Radiohead have accomplished much more. But it's not a fair poll, since TMV are a very young band. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:39
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In all ways.. to be honest i think Radiohead is better ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:51
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If we compare the two TMV albums to Radiohead's first two I think it's fairly obvious the winner isn't going o begin with an R. But Kid A and Amnesiac would just beat TMV's output so far for me, and the new tune sounds nice as well. Ask me again in ten years
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Posted By: Don Quito
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 14:52
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I casted a vote for Mars Volta because I think all of their materials are pretty interesting, specially on the album De-Loused in the Comatorium. The band combines well structured progressive elements, such as jazz and psychedelic, and there is a big influence from King Crimson, atlhough I'd never imagine Mars Volta as progressive... I also like Radiohead and I think their evolution from alternative rock to a more experimental/post-rock is also interesting... ------------- KEEP THE PROMISE YOU MADE |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 15:38
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Kid A
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Posted By: daghrastubfari
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 15:50
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Radiohead for me |
Posted By: krusty
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:31
woe...! I arrive here at 10 all So now I'm gonna make it 11 to 10 in favour of Radiohead  Not completely fair as I have all Radioheads albums and only one Mars Volta album.. ------------- http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=309" rel="nofollow - Humanism |
Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:34
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Mars Volta for me, Frances The Mute is the most significant album of the 2000's imo, just as Tool's Ænima held that distinction for the 90's. ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:34
Radiohead touches me more in the heart, so they get my vote. Great artists, but the same goes for The Mars Volta. Bravo for two bands which have gained quite an amount of popularity with such uncompromising music! 
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Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:51
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Radiohead music had more feeling to me....my vote is for them. ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:52
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING TO TAKE OVER THIS POLL AND GET MARS VOLTA A 100 VOTES ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:02
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Radiohead -------------  |
Posted By: proxysyndrome
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:12
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I vote The Mars Volta, they're my favorite! And YAY for my firstest vote and post!! W00t!
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:13
| Radiohead, easily. |
Posted By: anael
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:54
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so simple: THE MARS VOLTA RULES...HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE ------------- 
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:13
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TMV all the way. Radiohead=crap ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:18
| TMV is more ambicious. |
Posted By: -bp-
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:39
um TMV of course
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Posted By: Lateralus_66
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:44
TMV = &  RADIOHEAD = ------------- "A mind is like a parachute. It does'nt work if it's not open." - Frank Zappa |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 19:14
| Radiohead, mostly for sentimental value. |
Posted By: SomethingGood
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 19:41
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20:20! that's impressive. my vote went to tmv, just because they're more original and exciting
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Posted By: Ty1020
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 19:50
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I'm voting for TMV, but it's a really difficult choice; I love both bands, but TMV wins for overall originality.
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Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 19:55
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Mars Volta. Duh.
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Posted By: Legoman
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 20:01
| Come on! I personally don't even see how you can compare the two. They are both very different... ah well... my vote went to The Mars Volta because they rock harder, are more complex and because they are simply more interesting. |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 20:40
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Both great, but Radiohead is more influential and less pretentious.
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Posted By: Violenza
Date Posted: October 24 2005 at 21:17
| I broke the tie in favour of Mars Volta. I find them far more interesting. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 05:52
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MikeEnRegalia wrote:Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 05:53
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Because we're on a prog site, and this is a poll with one prog band and one non-prog band, I'll go for the prog band .
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 05:58
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Hmm if you picked Radiohead i will utterly destroy you ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:01
Of course I didn't 
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Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:03
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I voted for Radiohead though I feel a very high potential in TMV. They would gain interest and fans in "calming down" a little bit, giving some more structure to their music. Surfing on the dissonance wave, like KC did so well in time, requires experience. France the Mute has 15 to 20 minutes of unnecessary "noise" that doesn't bring anything to the listener and makes the CD quite difficult to listen to in one shot. ------------- Pierre R, the man who lost his signature |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:15
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What, you didn't pick the prog band??? |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:18
I hope that was meant as irony and NOT implying that you meant that radiohead was the prog band... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:25
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Radiohead - I've heard the name somewhere. Was that the alt rock band they often play on the radio?
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Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:32
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Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:32
Good point there, although I still feel TMV fall off the dissonance wave with style ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 06:58
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20 minutes of noise is overdoing it....i think at a max there is 7 minutes of non-melodical textures...besides the longest track Cassandra gemmini at 32 minutes is completly without noise ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:23
Nope. Since Radiohead have clearly produced 3 excellent prog albums, and I'm only familiar with one TMV album, the assumption from that conversation clearly indicated that there was only one prog band - so it had to be Radiohead. Logic |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:24
So basically what you are saying is: The mars volta is not prog? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:41
| No... he said Radiohead have produced more prog albums than TMV could possibly have done, therefore if only one is a prog band it must be Radiohead. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:51
No - I'm not saying that, I'm applying logic based on the facts I have to hand to the above argument that stated that only one was a prog band. Having re-listened to the title track of "De-Loused In The Crematorium", I would disagree that only one is a prog band - but TMV do sound a little bit "wannabe" rather than real prog. Everything is in place for a very standard rock song, with extended "fills" and bridges - a practice familiar to any Led Zeppelin fan. The riffs are overly complex, rhythmically speaking, in places - as if done for it's own sake, and there's only a partial feel for the overall structure - too much of a testosterone fuelled need to "get on with it" rather than let the music develop organically, and giving in to that irritating trend of going off at a tangent when compositional ideas run out. TMV show promise - and perhaps even a little Radiohead influence in places - but the vocalist is hardly progressive at all. The music overall has that fashionable feel that progressive metal has; clinging tightly to standard tried and tested metal type sounds while trying to baffle the audience with "complex" riffs and time changes. The spacey interludes have been done before as well. I feel like I'm listening to samples from a Pink Floyd or Hawkwind album. Some of Beck's work stops and drops down to sections of noise or even random samples of music from elsewhere - but Beck has far more style, originality and a better sense of the bigger picture. I get none of that listening to, for example, "Paranoid Android". So from what I have heard, and the evidence inherent in the music, Radiohead are the more progressive of the two. Simple |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:53
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Try out Cassandra Gemmini
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 08:06
Very true ... that song is one, if not THE example of Radiohead's progressiveness. I had a bootleg of Mike Keneally playing that song live - just vocals and one slightly distorted guitar. AMAZING! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 08:19
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 08:49
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Serves me right for typing quickly... |
Posted By: Tristan Mulders
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:15
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The Mars Volta ------------- Interested in my reviews? You can find them http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=784 - HERE "...He will search until He's found a Way to take the Days..." |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:03
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Radiohead for me!!! Ok Computer must be the best musical efford from the ´90, and a personal favorite of mine...I say its in my top 5! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:14
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TMV, because they're actually doing what progressive rock should be doing... ALthough I love Radiohead just as much. AH! too difficult a choice. |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:16
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Radiohead, MILES AND MILES ahead of TMV...
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Posted By: gok22us
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:58
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The Mars Volta's music sounds extremely forced. It's annoying listening to random noises that don't start or go anywere. Radiohead :):) although, the mars volta have some GREAT songs. definetley looking out for them in the future. |
Posted By: Spiritus
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 20:34
There is no title track on de-loused... |
Posted By: fezman
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 20:39
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The Mars Volta will win hands down!! Radiohead are quite good at putting me to sleep where as TMV make me sit up and listen. Looking forward to seeing them early in 2006 when they tour Australia.
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 02:32
Oh well, whatever the flip the track is called that's free on this site then. |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 12:40
 i cant believe this thread.... radiohead should win easily... but well.. is your inclination ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 15:16
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It's the proliferation of Prog Metal fanboys, no doubt. Can't hear the music for the bling. |
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: October 26 2005 at 15:38
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Most prog metal fans i spoke to does not like the mars volta at all...besides the mars volta aint metal ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: sentuhlangit
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 23:49
| radiohead. |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 23:55
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Mars Volta for me ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: mortem
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 00:34
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O.o oh boy.. tough one!! I really like both bands.. but I choose Mars Volta as my final answer
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Posted By: `Ubu
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 00:52
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Hey, my first post .. Okey, so i don´t like Radiohead, so my vote will go to The Mars Volta (altough they could consider calming down a bit) .. ------------- "..So what´s the speed of dark?.." |