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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: KITTENS!!! on 01 Mar 2008, 18:59
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Is it just me, or are The Mars Volta getting supremely redundant and boring to listen to?
...there're only so many ways you can distort Cedric's voice and your guitar, Omar.
It's just me, isn't it. :-D
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No, it's not just you. They've been boring and redundant for an incredibly long time. In fact it's somewhat refreshing to see people realizing this, like I discovered a way to actually communicate with God and people are slowly understanding.
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'Getting'?
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Yes, it's just you. The Mars Volta is every other person's favourite band. Every single one. All 6 billion of them. Just can't get enough The Mars Volta.
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I use that album for white noise when I'm doing technical writing for work. It's absolutely perfect for it. When I just need something in the room besides the sound of the keyboard clicking that I don't really want to think about or pay more attention to than what I'm doing.
As far as listenable music goes, At the Drive-In was exponentially better, in my opinion.
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dammit Spluff beat me to it :x :x :x
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I still find one or two tracks that I enjoy listening to around five minutes of...unfortunately those songs are usually around sixteen minutes long.
The only album by them I have thoroughly enjoyed was De-Loused. Aside from that I'll take At the Drive In over Mars Volta any day.
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There were a couple songs on Amputechture that made me wonder if they were maybe going to start scaling it back a little, but the new one has crushed that hope.
Maybe the next time one of them dies they will do a concept record that is outwardly straightforward, catchy and unambitious---only once it is "decoded" with a special iTunes-only track, does it become clear that it's another overwrought allegorical Mars Volta bullshit-fest.
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...and then came the 'enlightened' frat boys.
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Everyone missed this joke the first time I made it, so I'll just repeat it here.
I got the new Volta album.
It's jaw-dropping.
Yeah, I hear unhinging your jaw is part of the trick.
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Fuck At the Drive-In too.
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Johnny, I didn't miss that joke. I just forgot to post the words:
"ice burn"
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At The Drive-In had some good material. I never much cared for The Mars Volta. I'll still spin those old ATDI records though.
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I really really really really really like The Mars Volta. Still.
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It's true, much of what they've been doing has become redundant. That said, I still like them when the mood strikes me, it's just that the mood is striking me less and less these days. There are a couple good tracks still on Bedlam, and Goliath is definitely one of them; has all the frenetic energy I love about the band while still leaving just a little bit of room to breath between all the guitar wanking. It's still completely self-indulgent, but that's just how Omar works.
Edit: On second though, Ouroborous is the only track really worth listening to, and even sections of that are supremely skippable.
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I use that album for white noise when I'm doing technical writing for work. It's absolutely perfect for it. When I just need something in the room besides the sound of the keyboard clicking that I don't really want to think about or pay more attention to than what I'm doing.
That is actually what I do too.
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"You got your punk in my prog!"
"You got your prog in my punk!"
"I'm going to wash this with soap and ancient relics that will imbue songs with all sorts of mayhem."
Parts of Askepios sounds like a midi emulator on a very old computer.
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Considering this album was my first Volta experience, it's not redundant for me yet. I'm liking it so far.
(Gimme a break, it's only been a few years since I got into the "listening to music not on the radio" thing)
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Is it just me, or are threads/posts bitching about how The Mars Volta choose to express themselves getting supremely redundant and boring to read?
...there're only so many ways you can act like elitist cocks, Internet.
It's just me, isn't it. :-D
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Word.