Here Today... Gone To Hell!

 : ok: :beer: :smoking:  Genius.

These guys are Pink Floyd on SERIOUS drugs :hihi:

i saw em' at Big Day Out 06 in Jan, i was bustin' to see em' 4 ages but only saw about 15 mins 'cause Iggyfuckin'Pop was on at the main stage :no:

I had to make a choice n' im sorry but Iggy is the man...i know i'll see em' again!!

Volta kix arse!! : ok: :beer: :smoking:

A Mars Volta thread?  Yay!  :beer:

I love the Mars Volta.  They're so unique and awesome.

If you like TMV, check out At the Drive-In.  It's the band that the singer, guitarist, and bassist of The Mars Volta in before they formed.  They play a little bit harsher, more punk rock.  Same lyric style, sort-of, though.

I have only heard the Frances the Mute CD, but was very impressed. I was surprised that something that was so extremely different caught my attention on the first listen. Usually something like this would take a few listens to really let the genius sink in.

De-Loused in the Comatorium is genius...I haven't really gave the new one a good listen  :crying:

is it a woman singing? i hate women singing in rock music, i just cant stand it lol, just doesnt sound right to me. Not that i have a problem with it, its just not for me.

Nope...not a woman singing

they're a bit overhyped i think. i have frances the mute, and i think the world of their song structures and melody progressions...it's their supposed 'trippy expermental improvisations' that i just can't swallow...
 ?it sounds like self-indulgent 'prog' a-la pink floyd (which did it hundred times better). other than that...(i mean there's also the porcupine tree which are much better and almost in the same vein)

I dont think Porcupine Tree is as trippy as The Mars Volta.  TMV's new cd isn't anywhere near as good as De-Loused...check that cd out first.  :peace:

If there's any band that can come into my heart and have drink along with Guns N' Roses, these guys are it. Their music operates on so many levels. Heartfelt melodies, kickass riffs, progressive elements, broad range vocals, mix of genres and a great symbiose of different instruments. All mixed together creating a unike sound.

Deloused In The Commatorium is their most accesable album, but still pretty difficult. Alot of energy and great melodies. You can hear these guys just came from At The Drive In. Still they incorporate enough elements to make it sound fresh and experimental.

Frances The Mute. Enter progland. Took me a long time to get into this album, but once you do there's no turning back. In my opinion their most melodic album. The vocal lines on The Widow, L'Via L'Viaquez, Miranda, the last part of the first song and the first part of the last song (rarely remember any Mars Volta titles :hihi:) are some of the best melodies ever created. Smoke a joint and sit down with this record and you're in for a serious ride.

Amputechture. Sometimes it feels like leftovers from previous sessions, sometimes not. Took me a good 20 listens to get a grip on all of the songs. It's all very good, but sometimes I feel it's a little step back. A little too proggy. But nevertheless, alot of fantastic elements on this album as well. No Mars Volta fan will be dissappointed, but compared to their previous two albums this one falls a bit short.

Only band that has ever come close to rivaling Led Zeppelin. These guys could have a big future ahead of them. Their popularity will only continue to grow as time passes.

Are u guys high?

I saw them open for the Chili Peppers and they sounded like a plane crash on top of a nuclear explosion..........


they are talented on CD but live they were horrible.

with a saxophone playing over it






they were baaad

Seen em live twice.. as good an opening band as I've ever seen.  :yes:

on the RHCP/SOAD tours, they were mixed terribly.  most of the time bands cant afford high quality sound technicians and stuff.

to add to this, they've been having drummer problems, so everything isn't as tight as it could be.  however, i think they are dealing with this problem.

you can't really judge them as an opening act, you have to go to one of their solo shows where they have freedom to do as they please for as long as they want, and play small clubs instead of large arenas.

Bad is an understatement.

They sounded like shit. TERRIBLE mixing.

Haven't listened to the CD's... and I'm only judging off the opening act thing.. so.. they may be ok. Just not as an opener for RHCP.

Mars Volta suck, nothing but noise over noise with some spanglish furiously being spit out by the lead singer.  Such a shame becuase At The Drive In had some pretty good material.  But then they split and they broke into two bands The Mars Volta & Sparta.  Sparta is actually a good rock band, check out the first 6 songs on Porcelain, fuckin mint!!! : ok:

I happen to have the exact opposite opinion :smoking:

But I can see how some of the fans that dug At The Drive In don't feel too strongly about Volta. Guess I'm lucky to love both.

A plane crash? On top of a nuclear explosion? With a sax playing over it?
That's the best band descroption EVER, and if I wasn't already a fan, that alone would make me want to listen to them.

Spanglish?  Spanglish is spanish and english words mixed together in one sentence.  This is a bad example, but saying "Me gusta potatoes" is spanglish.  None of the Mars Volta's lryics are like this.  Are you saying you don't like Spanish and English lyrics put together, or something?

I downloaded  a song or two when they were on the By The Way Chili Pepper tour and I thought they were OK

Live though, It was almost unbearable, honestly and I am the type of person that can listen and enjoy almost anything but listening to them and that horrible mix was rough.

Mars Volta aren't really a conventional live band though. More of a jam band live.
I remember reading a review of them at a festival. I think they just jammed for 20 minutes, while the lead singer sat typing on a typewriter.

^Live jams are the way they create songs.  I think the more recent Mars Volta shows have been 80 percent jammage.  They play one song and then a long jam(like an hour long) and then two songs and finish.

I like a lot of crazy buckethead and primus albulms, but i still dont "get" this band at all.  It sounds like horrible noise to me. :no:

yes i dont

I had a friend that was in the band for a few years but is no longer in the band so I don't listen to them much anymore. I think Omar can write some good stuff but then he can write some amazingly horrible stuff as well.

The singer is probably one of the best.

Vermicide is better than the whole Spaghetti Incident times 2

New album out -  "The Bedlam In Goliath".

I've been spinning this maybe 20 times already. Fantastic album, their best since De-Loused.

Check out Aberinkula/Metatron, Wax Simularca, Goliath, Agadez, Oubeiaras (or something) and Soothsayer. Absolute top notch.

I really enjoyed De-Loused and Frances the Mute, but for some reason, everything since has been a little...exhausting to listen to.  I'm all for bizarre concepts and incomprehensible lyrics from time to time, and I enjoy prog. rock with the best of them, but I can only handle this one in small doses, I think.  Hopefully it'll be a grower.   :peace:

Much preferred At The Drive In. 'Relationship of Command' was a fantastic album.

I still do like a lot of Mars Volta's stuff, but some tunes are a little too experimental for my tastes. Gotta be in a certain mood
I definitely appreciate that they're just going for it like that though...

Meanwhile, I found Sparta good, but a bit low on excitement compared to ATDI. I guess it's really a matter of the combination of all those guys that hit the perfect note for me.

Good call.  "Relationship" was, in fact, a great album.  Sparta tunes are a bit monotonous, but are far more melodic overall than most of the Mars Volta's output (however, melody is far from the point of what Mars Volta is doing).  Time to dig out "Relationship," I think...

Can't go wrong with that one!

Those guys were amazing. To hear a very contemporary sounding, Ross Robonson produced album that I LOVED blew my mind back in 2000/1 when it came out.

Awesome band! Deserve a little more credit if you ask me.

Will be remembered as the Zeppelin/Beatles of our time in terms of creative input.

are you fucking kidding me? This band is fucking terrible.  I saw them open up for RHCP...terrible...just terrible....Long drawn out jam sessions played by guys who are mediocre guitar players at best...and you put them in the same category creatively as The Beatles and Zeppelin?  Am I also as creative as The Beatles?

No, you're probably not.

you saw them OPENING for someone...thats the whole point.  i saw them on the same tour.  the crowd wasn't into them, they werent into the crowd either.  their sound was badly mixed in the big arenas.

i saw them twice on their solo tour this winter and they were TEN times better.  joking around with the crowd and actually looking like they were having fun.

and Omar probably isn't the best guitar player but he is very creative in the stuff he writes.

I think they're the Zeppelin of our time because of the risks they take both on stage and in the studio.  Soooo much energy live and they aren't afraid to change their song every album.

After 6 months the new album still holds up.

Complex, hard hitting, melodic, experimental...it's got it all. My favorite tracks seem to be Aberinkula/Metatron, Wax Simulacra, Ouroborous, Conjugal Burns, Agadez and Goliath.

Anyone catch them live on this tour? I've missed out several times due to work, and now it happened again. Another year...

A new album slated for the end of the year, early 2009 btw.

Still one of the absolute worst "bands" that I've ever heard in my life.

You keep saying that.

Good for you.