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Top 10 Albums of 2008
Thrillho:
If nothing else, I like the Volta's workrate. They've had a pretty solid eighteen-month gap between each record I think, and even if there's not a great deal of progression (as musicians, some of them don't have anywhere they can really progress...) it beats many other bands who leave three or four year gaps and then release the same old shit.
Dulli has his fingers in many pies. I just usually hope that when you break into the two-year mark since a band's last album, a new record of some sort will hopefully be on the way. One crosses one's fingers and then waits for any news.
As for Eminem, yes, I know Encore was shit. It was horrifically bad, aside from the odd track (and at least one of them was raped by 50 Cent's very presence) but I think that 'You Don't Know' showed that he still has the skills at least. I want him to sign off on a good album. Encore was terrible, and as a last will and testament, it's not good enough.
Johnny C:
Man, how does an eighteen-month turnaround rate give them an edge when it's eighteen months before they release the same shit rather than three or four years? A Protestant work ethic alone doesn't make a band worthwhile.
The Mars Volta can go ahead and progress into a stage where they're writing songs again that have a clear beginning, middle and end. They can then top themselves by writing things like hooks and melodies. I'd settle for one moment per song that distinguishes it from its brethren.
Thrillho:
*shrug* I'd rule their whole career worthwhile for DeLoused In The Comatorium and 'Cassandra Gemini'. My point was, they give it a go. They keep trying. Even if they're not succeeding in doing anything different - they just keep coming up with more and more obscure concepts and disappearing further up their own arses - they certainly give it a go, whereas too many artists take a slow-and-steady approach to deliberately attempting to duplicate previous success.
Joseph:
Listen to At The Drive-In a bunch and suddenly you find yourself incredibly sad that The Mars Volta exist, whether any of their albums are half decent or not.
KvP:
Agreed. I mean, granted, Omar is a gifted guitarist, they're all technically proficient musicians, but like their buddies in RHCP, that doesn't get them all that far when they only have a handful of coherent ideas. I gave them another shot and watched their Letterman performance and it was a goddamned trainwreck (though TMV fans I know say it was "epic" and "amazing") The vocalist has surpassed Geddy Lee in prog-falsetto annoyance. And yes, #1 with a bullet on their list of things to do is relearn songcraft. Jam sessions are for old white people.
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