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« Reply #140 on: August 28, 2011, 12:31:47 PM »
Anyone ever listen to De Facto? They're not like The Mars Volta or At the Drive-In, but it's still Omar and Cedric, and it also just happens to be awesome.
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Re: The Mars Volta Thread
« Reply #141 on: September 01, 2011, 06:51:17 PM »
The Bedlam in Goliath  :heart :heart :heart

Man, Ilyena was amazing. At the end of it, I just screamed out "OH MY GOD!!!!"  :lol

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« Reply #142 on: September 01, 2011, 09:25:06 PM »
The Bedlam in Goliath  :heart :heart :heart

Man, Ilyena was amazing. At the end of it, I just screamed out "OH MY GOD!!!!"  :lol

That is, by far, my favorite Volta album. Thomas Pridgen is a freak of nature with a drum kit. I love it.
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« Reply #143 on: September 01, 2011, 10:37:29 PM »
Bedlam is a great album, sadly it is too long, so I cannot rate it among Volta's best.
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« Reply #144 on: September 01, 2011, 10:43:11 PM »
Where would you put it?

Goliath
De-Loused
Frances
Amputechture
Octahedron (haven't listened to it much, so it doesn't really have a rating yet)
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« Reply #145 on: September 01, 2011, 10:44:07 PM »
It suffers the fate off most 70+ minute albums. :(

But it's ok because I would take more Volta over less Volta, even if it makes it a more difficult complete album listening experience.





Also giving a shout out to the last few minutes of Eunuch Provocateur. So fucking amazing!

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« Reply #146 on: September 01, 2011, 10:51:48 PM »
Until you guys brought it up, I never realized how long the album actually is. 75 minutes is a lot of music, but I love every one of them.
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« Reply #147 on: September 01, 2011, 10:54:22 PM »
Until you guys brought it up, I never realized how long the album actually is. 75 minutes is a lot of music, but I love every one of them.

Definitely. The songs themselves are great. I just know personally, albums over 70 minutes long are kind of hard for me to sit all the way through. But like I said, I wouldn't turn down having the extra music, because it's all good!

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« Reply #148 on: September 01, 2011, 11:51:49 PM »
Oh my Jesus! Cotopaxi is catchy as HELL. I've never actually wanted to dance to a Mars Volta song before.
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« Reply #149 on: September 02, 2011, 05:42:01 PM »
NEVER HEARD A MAN SPEAK LIKE THIS MAN BEFORE!!!!!!
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« Reply #150 on: September 02, 2011, 06:21:12 PM »
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« Reply #151 on: September 04, 2011, 10:54:48 PM »
I can honestly say that Octahedron has two good songs. I now know why people don't like it that much.
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« Reply #152 on: September 04, 2011, 11:19:34 PM »
I can honestly say that Octahedron has two good songs. I now know why people don't like it that much.
There're lots of good songs on Octahedron, though it does have the (dis)honor of having their most boring track ever in "With Twilight As My Guide."

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« Reply #153 on: September 04, 2011, 11:22:04 PM »
I should have said two songs that I liked. The other songs are necessarily bad, I just can;t get into them. However, Cotopaxi is fucking awesome.
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« Reply #154 on: September 04, 2011, 11:32:11 PM »
It took me awhile to get into anything beyond Teflon, but it was a pretty rewarding album (like all Volta albums) even if it's nowhere near my favorite.

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« Reply #155 on: September 04, 2011, 11:36:09 PM »
For some reason I thought Teflon was gonna be just an amazing track, but when I listened to it, it just didn't do anything for me.
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« Reply #156 on: September 05, 2011, 01:25:26 AM »
Desperate Graves, Halo of Nembutals and Since We've Been Wrong are amazing too imho.

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« Reply #157 on: September 05, 2011, 01:29:57 AM »
Since We've Been Wrong is the other track that I really like, but I just can't get into the other ones. I'll just have to listen to it some more I guess.
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« Reply #158 on: September 05, 2011, 01:56:29 AM »
That was the first track I liked from Octahedron, but the one that really made me consider the album worthwhile is Halo of Nembutals. One of their best songs ever for me.

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« Reply #159 on: September 05, 2011, 08:36:32 AM »
I can honestly say that Octahedron has two good songs. I now know why people don't like it that much.
There're lots of good songs on Octahedron, though it does have the (dis)honor of having their most boring track ever in "With Twilight As My Guide."

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« Reply #160 on: September 06, 2011, 10:54:51 AM »
I really need to get some TMV stuff soon.. I only have their debut yet.

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« Reply #161 on: September 06, 2011, 02:01:24 PM »
I really need to get some TMV stuff soon.. I only have their debut yet.
Good, it's their best one.
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« Reply #162 on: September 06, 2011, 04:23:57 PM »
I really need to get some TMV stuff soon.. I only have their debut yet.
Get Frances the Mute, it's their best one.
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« Reply #163 on: September 06, 2011, 04:37:00 PM »
Amputechture all the way.

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« Reply #164 on: September 06, 2011, 05:53:49 PM »
The Bedlam in Goliath. That is all.
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« Reply #165 on: September 06, 2011, 08:36:10 PM »
Get them all!  :D

But make sure you get Frances the Mute and Amputechture first. They're the bestest.

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« Reply #166 on: September 06, 2011, 08:42:52 PM »
Get them all!  :D

But make sure you get The Bedlam in Goliath first. It's the bestest.

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« Reply #167 on: September 06, 2011, 08:51:21 PM »
Noooooo.

Then again, I'm not much of a Goliath fan really. Never been able to get into it.

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« Reply #168 on: September 07, 2011, 07:02:41 PM »
Ilyena.... the end is just so incredible!!  :heart

I wish I had my good speakers right now, cause I wanna blast the fuck out of that song

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« Reply #169 on: September 07, 2011, 08:10:48 PM »
You know what song is amazing? Day of the Baphoments. That bass solo in the beginning? Damn. Juan Alderete is such an underrated bassist, mostly because no one knows who he is.
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« Reply #170 on: September 09, 2011, 11:14:38 PM »
Listening to De-Loused really makes me appreciate how amazing Jon Theodore is. His drumming fits The Mars Volta perfectly. Not too crazy and not too generic. It's just perfect. No other word could describe it.
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« Reply #171 on: September 09, 2011, 11:26:04 PM »
You know what song is amazing? Day of the Baphoments. That bass solo in the beginning? Damn. Juan Alderete is such an underrated bassist, mostly because no one knows who he is.
Best song on Amputechture IMO, though Tetragrammatron comes oh so close.

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« Reply #172 on: September 09, 2011, 11:28:26 PM »
Definitely the best in my opinion. I can't get enough of that bass solo. I haven't really to Amputecture all that much though, so the results are a little skewed.
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« Reply #174 on: September 10, 2011, 01:04:13 PM »
 :rollin I could watch interviews of them all day, they are so awesome