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Published on March 1st 2005
There have been many big splits over the course of American history. There was that civil war business that a few of my professors seem to think was important, the splitting of the 2003 NCAA football national championship between USC and LSU, then by far the most unfortunate split in our nation's history, that of
El Paso’s At The Drive-In, factioning off to form Sparta, and the far more adventurous Mars Volta. Each band has two albums now under their belt, and after hearing all four, this is definitely the pick of that litter, if not the litter of most of the musical landscape recently. Leave the hating to the real playa hatas, like Buc Nasty and Silky Johnson, because Frances The Mute will blow your mind. So give up your qualms about how pretentious this is, and how overindulgent, because given the chance, you’re in for a hell of a ride.
I count the days to find, what was left behind / Only these names I clutch / Will lead me to my home / Somehow this river marks, a wrinkled hand in mine / And every day it parts, the water into two / Mothers and feathers start, to drown the living proof / I can’t remember these lakes of blood / Wrapped in a blanket, there sweats a cut .After some more of Omar’s guitar work, the song fades into some ambient noise, leading into the album’s single, "The Widow." While it is the album's shortest track, it showcases Omar’s talent on the guitar as well as any other point on the album, as well as it showcases the trumpet-playing ability of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Flea. Though, this song does present the one weak point on the album, which is the very much distorted organ in the last two minutes; it doesn’t seem to fit as well as some other things might have. It does, though, lead well into the album's third track, and arguably the best, "L’Via L’Viaquez." The song infuses the Latin rhythms into the music better than any other. You can’t help but feel you have your own personal mariachi band in your bedroom playing for you, complete with velvet, sequined suits and sombreros. Most of this song is sung in Spanish, and it sounds absolutely flawless. Cedric’s voice has never been better. He may not be as consistently intense as back in his days in At The Drive-In, but when he is, you’ll take notice. Just when the song seems to be waning a bit, Omar kicks the life back in with that same amazing guitar work that’s been prevalent throughout the entire album. The fourth track, "Miranda That Ghost Just Isn’t Holy Anymore," starts out with the same ambient noise that ended "L’Via L’Viaquez," and adds some creepy howling effects as well. It truly is creepy, as the noise fully takes you and puts you in a different environment, one where your senses are acute enough to pick out every inflection in the howl, and chirping in the background as well. This sets the mood well, and before the vocals come in there’s some quiet guitar, and then the blast of the trumpets. Cedric’s voice kicks in after the 5 minute mark quite tenderly, while the ambience still resonates in the background. The entire duration is much more subdued and restrained than anything you’ve heard from the Mars Volta before, and it beautifully sets the stage for the 30-minute epic that is "Cassanda Gemini." While it is only one song, it’s set through 7 different tracks. The first 5 minutes begin with all guns blazing, Cedric’s voice bouncing around the scales while Omar’s guitar cuts through it all. There’s some distorted spoken word here, with the instrumentation in the background accenting it well. Omar breaks into an absolutely ridiculous solo, and it's soon accompanied by the backing strings and horns. For all of the first 10 minutes, it’s a seesaw battle between Omar’s intense guitar work, Cedric’s impassioned vocals, and the powerful horns. Things loosen up a bit with the ambient section coming in at about the 10 minute mark, but then return in pieces, with each member of the band seemingly doing their own thing. They really work the loud/soft dynamic a lot with this song, and it ends up amazingly. Things finally culminate with the horns raging, Omar absolutely going off on guitar and Cedric crying out “ Heavens just a scab away .. / let them see it has begun, the others what I’ve become." And 77 minutes later, the hurricane that is Frances The Mute has finally subsided, leaving the rest of the music world, and you, just as ravished and out of breath as anything. So you can go ahead and write this album off as pretentious bullshit, or overindulgent crap, or fuckass showoffery, but it’s not going to lessen the impact this will have on music; you might as well spend your time putting water in Buc Nasty’s mama’s dish. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
These dudes are laughing 'cause they get 20 bucks from you to force you to sit and listen to them musically wank off. I like the trend of shorter songs lately, dayyyyum it's great to sneeze and miss an entire IA album mind blowing cool. original. Refreshing to have an unjaded band in today's fast paced society that created an album that was long and draw out knowing that doing so they would talk a lot of flak and probably lose a lot of audience. unfortunately i dont wanna be a hypocrite and ill admit that it bugs me sometimes that they do this so they LOSE HALF A STAR! Otherwise definitely a dope-ass album. miranda is my fav. i feel sorry for anyone that makes it a point to dislike this album, all you're doing is not letting yourself experience an amazing piece of music. why dont you expand your tastes a little bit, life is a lot sweeter if you can enjoy all sorts of music. fuckin bozos. To the guy below: Yes. It should have gotten a perfect score. This album is lightyears ahead of anything else listed on this site. Hopefully they'll stray more away from punk on their next album and create a progressive rock masterpiece (a much higher accomplishment than a punk masterpiece.) "Though, this song does present the one weak point on the album, which is the very much distorted organ in the last two minutes; it doesn’t seem to fit as well as some other things might have." When punk listeners like to trash on bands for being artistic and thinking outside of 3-chord songs with a bunch of screaming and yelling, it just reinforces the fact that there still are retards walking around without caretakers. I think I threw up when I heard these guys. Seriously people, what the fuck is so great about a band who has 15 minute songs of a guy singing like a pussy to the sound of cats scratching on an accordian? Don't give me this bullshit about how they're good because they're "original". Please! In this day and age, no one is original. So I leave you with this comment: If you liked this record, please do me, and everyone else who knows good music a favor... DIE HIPPIE! I'm very open mined when it comes to music but this album sucked so hard it bends light. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "pretentious bullshit". Please Mars Volta come back to earth and give your fans the great album we all know you're capable of! so i enjoy tripping on shrooms and acid....it is qwuite ghard to explain the trip....BUT!...the music created by mars volta perfectly explains it....INSANE!...my first time listenin to them was on acid....and i just layed there wondering off as the music by the volta created this altered world and imagery...their musci is absolutely perfect and diferent from ne other....if u dislike this album...listen to their first full album It's called progressive rock kids. Most of the kids that hate it here, it's just going over your heads. Take a listen to King Crimson and the same thing will happen. This is the first prog band in a while that's trying some different things. Hopefully it will open the door to more progressive acts. You have the worst taste in music ever. First thrice now Mars piece of shit Volta? Kill yourself. i think alot of people are too set on disliking this album (or their other albums) because they believe that the mars volta made this just to be different and artsy. They are doing something important, which is creating music that is lifelike. amazing. the end. just because something is different, does not make it good...with that said, these guys can suck my sweaty balls I'm all for bands taking chances and creating art rather than just producing a commodity but this seems less like art to me than something that will sound to people like it must be art because it's so filled with sound effects and time changes. The supposed jazz guitar solos on this album sound suspiciously like random "I dont know what I'm doing but want to sound clever" note hitting. I could be wrong though which is why I would love to see these guys live or at least some video of them to find out if this guys actually a guitar wiz whose just into really non-musical soloing. Most of the songs sound so layered too, it just feels real muddled. I really tried to like this one because i dug a couple of the songs off the last record and hoped this would be even better but no luck. Frances the mute is Bad , very bad. im sorry, its just bad music. Its absolutly EMPTY. EMPTY. EMPTY. For Empty listeners too, nothing to see with Deloused. Deloused was exelent frances the mute is ridiculous men, you see some guys totally overplaying it , not a single note is pure , The totally contrary of Deloused, in deloused it was coming from them, this new album is like coming from a mental effort to create art, ''art'' . I can see it within the new fans they made, tipe of people who watch too much mtv. I cant express how much im sad of this record Frances the mute is Bad , very bad. im sorry, its just bad music. Its absolutly EMPTY. EMPTY. EMPTY. For Empty listeners too, nothing to see with Deloused. Deloused was exelent frances the mute is ridiculous men, you see some guys totally overplaying it , not a single note is pure , The totally contrary of Deloused, in deloused it was coming from them, this new album is like coming from a mental effort to create art, ''art'' . I can see it within the new fans they made, tipe of people who watch too much mtv. I cant express how much im sad of this record Frances the mute is Bad , very bad. im sorry, its just bad music. Its absolutly EMPTY. EMPTY. EMPTY. For Empty listeners too, nothing to see with Deloused. Deloused was exelent frances the mute is ridiculous men, you see some guys totally overplaying it , not a single note is pure , The totally contrary of Deloused, in deloused it was coming from them, this new album is like coming from a mental effort to create art, ''art'' . I can see it within the new fans they made, tipe of people who watch too much mtv. I cant express how much im sad of this record I like the mars volta alot, i just want to kick the living shit out of their guitarist. i dont know what album the original reviewistator has listened to here, but i suspect he is a dinlo and has no idea about guitar playing, and i think hes tone deaf. this band are wicked, but each song is pissed up by that wanker guitarist pretending he can play guitar wh en he just cant. he should burn in hell for ruining such awesome songs with his shoddy 'experimental' guitar playing. IDIOT. im so angry... amazing album. anyone who is saying it sucks has never done shrooms or lsd and gave it a wizz. If you listen to L'Via and feel like "you have your own personal mariachi band in your bedroom playing for you, complete with velvet, sequined suits and sombreros", you should definetly go out and get to know some latin music, because the CUBAN SON played in L'Via is totally different fom MEXICAN MARIACHI music. Definetly not worth 5 stars. De-loused was much better, but even that wasn't a perfect 10. I like the Mars Volta and all, but there are times when I just dont understand them, to much Spanish for me and not enough singing at some parts i LOVED The Widow, just that song alone will make me give this album 3 stars, so i guess with the rest of the moderate to high moderate tracks this will get 3 and a half Mars Volta is great. Unfortunatly this album is 50% beautiful music and 50% pointless noise. Although it's great if you are tripping your balls off. Although at times the wierd sounds tweak you out. Frances the Mute = 3 stars. Mushrooms= 5 stars. Yummy. You can not give this band a score. This is because we have nothing to compare them to. The songs are tooooooooooooo long and at times are not even music but credit to them. I bet they got a fair few head aches making the record. Their music is amazing. You seriously can't give anything negative about their music besides its a little too long for some people. Lyric wise, it does make sense, you just need to be more familiar with the english language. Their lyrics are amazing, if you don't understand it...get their book. It might help you understand their first album. The lyrics for their second album isn't as complicated as the first album. Just use your brains and I'm sure you can comprehend the beauty of their music. Mars volta is fucking great. Both their albums and their eps. Its fucking joygasmic. Pretentious? The most ridiculous thing to say about a band is "they try too hard blah blah blah" every record ever made had blood sweat and/or tears of some sort put into it. Any sound that is new or unheard of, guess what? the band TRIED to do something different. I agre that the ambient shit on this album is a little long but its noy music. it doesnt really count. Judge the music, not the shit in between the music. If you dont like Volta, go listen to contemporary radio rock. Mars Volta is art rock to the extreme. Even if you hate it, you cannot disrespect it. Anyone who gives Volta less than a 2 1/2 star reveiw, even if they hate it, has no ear for talent and isnt fit to judge music. Respect musicianship for musicians are who make this stuff for us. Respect it or dont listen to ANY of it. It's okay to not like it but to not respect it shows your ignorance. Deloused was a 5 star too. Genious. The first time i heard Volta i was like "what the fuck was that?" i was intrigued. Downloaded their single. I thought it was decent. Gave it a few listens. Dedcided it was worthy of a purchase (along with some strong recomondations from some friends). The first time i heard Frances in its entirety the only word that came to ind was "whoa". the second time i listened to it i started to tingle. The third time left me utterly speechless, brimming with a high that i have never expeirienced that greatly from music before. I am an avid music fan of all genres and stlyes from the Godspeed You Black Emperor, to the beatles, to JS Bach, to messhugah and everything in between and all i will say is that frances the mute is art at it's finest. It's musicianship to the highest form. It's melody after melody and brilliantly told. Omar A Rodriguez is the next Jimmy Page and is without a doubt the new genious on tha block. ive the only perfect 10 ive ever heard is this. Frances the mute=greatest album ever made. Deloused might be second. As a dedicated songwriter/musician i can hear talent in songwriting and know what talent is made up of. Melodically and instrumentally, lyrically and vocally, artistically and creativly. By the time these guys are finished, they might be the greatest band of all time. I wonder if anyone else released these lyrics, if everyone would trash them on here. This cd is amazing, but not as good as Deloused. I think thats saying something for their first album. im australian and im just thankful that mars volta released another album which takes the focus off all americas other cock rock simple plan, creed, nickelback bullshit. mars volta arent even a punk band so dunno why theyre on this skaterboy shit website anyway. god bless all mars volta fans. atleast we have patience and taste to be able to enjoy them i think this album had a lot of great contributions from the drums, bass, guitars, and ensembles, and it was definitely a step up from deloused, buuuuut the ambience shit was a little much. this is a great cd for musicians who respect what these guys can do and are doing. They sing about exoskeletons, pink-eyed fountains and televators...you know... everyday stuff people can relate to. I can't see how you don't get it. just wondering .. what do they sing about? Mars Volta is far less pretentious than At The Drive-In, at the very least. No obnoxious posturing, way more subtelty. In fact I don't see how they're pretentious at all. Just because they're good musicians and they put a lot of work into their art doesn't mean that they're pretentious. They don't wear eye makeup or exhibit any of the other current hallmark traits of pretention. "Hey - everyone keeps throwing around this word "pretentious" when they're talking about the Mars Volta. In my opinion, all music is pretentious on some level. All music has to go out on a limb to try to make you feel something, to convince you of something, some emotion. If it doesn't do that at all, then it's just top-40 garbage. The Mars Volta simply try harder, and go way farther out on the limb than we're used to, & it makes us all unconfortable to see a band in such a vulnerable, precarious position. If you're offended that The Mars Volta took your valuable 77 minutes & wasted it, than go cry to your mommy & stop being so serious about music, because not everyone is going to get it, & not every attempt is going to succeed, but at least someone is trying. AND ONE MORE THING - please if you're going to bash it at least listen to it like 3 times minimum because i promise it does improve quite a bit after a few listens - not to mention the fact that it's always stuck in my head lately - Hey, there's something to be said for that! Yeah i know this review sounds pretentious - GO SUCK A LEMON DUDE." by the way, Pitchfork giving that album a 2... On what scale is this album a 2??? They are too harsh. that said... I agree with many of the negative comments that have been made. I would love a 77 minute Mars Volta prog album, but i feel like the material has simply been stretched out and cushioned by ambience to become 77 minutes. I've heard prog concept albums with long tracks & ambience that felt natural, & this isn't really one of them. I feel that this album would be more powerful if it was edited somewhat. I'm not that pissed about it though because it's what they wanted to do, & i respect that. I would also agree that the album is somewhat masturbatory, but again i just don't think these complaints are serious enough to warrant such hostility & distaste. And guys, please don't compare it to anything else, just appreciate it for what it is - you'd want to be treated the same. whoops i meant to give it 8 stars see - i just got so wrapped up in being pretentious that i totally forgot myself. Hey - everyone keeps throwing around this word "pretentious" when they're talking about the Mars Volta. In my opinion, all music is pretentious on some level. All music has to go out on a limb to try to make you feel something, to convince you of something, some emotion. If it doesn't do that at all, then it's just top-40 garbage. The Mars Volta simply try harder, and go way farther out on the limb than we're used to, & it makes us all unconfortable to see a band in such a vulnerable, precarious position. If you're offended that The Mars Volta took your valuable 77 minutes & wasted it, than go cry to your mommy & stop being so serious about music, because not everyone is going to get it, & not every attempt is going to succeed, but at least someone is trying. AND ONE MORE THING - please if you're going to bash it at least listen to it like 3 times minimum because i promise it does improve quite a bit after a few listens - not to mention the fact that it's always stuck in my head lately - Hey, there's something to be said for that! Yeah i know this review sounds pretentious - GO SUCK A LEMON DUDE. Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck FUCK! Anyone else hopes BSD dies in a horrible fire? Every comment of his... EVERY ONE... makes him sound like an arrogant piece of shit. Fucking die, PLEASE. " i wont lie, they are better musicians than me" im sure others tried this, but why are the track listings all messed up on Microsoft media player when you play the disc off the pc? In addition it lists 12 track on any cd player where the first four tracks are the first four songs what the hell are the next 8?! "Mars Volta suck simply for not letting getting Mr. Bones to produce the album. The songs are too long, theyre tracked all wrong, and there's not one interesting song. If the mofos just let Bones write their album for 'em, they might have at least released a somewhat reputable...release. " "whats the point in writing songs longer than 2 minutes if, in the mars volta case, they are tired after a minute thirty?" "Most of the comments here just prove why I hate most music fans today. I pity those who can't appreciate one of the few good bands out there today doing something original and exciting. This band urinates all over your emo bands and hardcore bands that don't have enough good ideas to write a song over 2 minutes. If you would just open your minds to the immense possibilities of music, you would appreciate this band. Cheers." I love to smoke pot and listen to The Mars Volta. ...and THAT, my friends, is more than just pretentious. It's pure arrogance. "Most of the comments here just prove why I hate most music fans today. I pity those who can't appreciate one of the few good bands out there today doing something original and exciting. This band urinates all over your emo bands and hardcore bands that don't have enough good ideas to write a song over 2 minutes. If you would just open your minds to the immense possibilities of music, you would appreciate this band. Cheers." "Most of the comments here just prove why I hate most music fans today. I pity those who can't appreciate one of the few good bands out there today doing something original and exciting. This band urinates all over your emo bands and hardcore bands that don't have enough good ideas to write a song over 2 minutes. If you would just open your minds to the immense possibilities of music, you would appreciate this band. Cheers." Most of the comments here just prove why I hate most music fans today. I pity those who can't appreciate one of the few good bands out there today doing something original and exciting. This band urinates all over your emo bands and hardcore bands that don't have enough good ideas to write a song over 2 minutes. If you would just open your minds to the immense possibilities of music, you would appreciate this band. Cheers. These guys used to smoke crack, and you can tell. This album truly sucks. "I don't know what we're yelling about!... Loud noises!" Blah Blah Blah....Melt Banana is touring again. Its time to leave your shitty dorm rooms kiddies and see a real band play. Bumps are still there. Still itchy. "Just because this isn't enjoyable to you doesn't mean it isn't to everyone...I'm really getting sick of people thinking they right the rules for music and everyone agrees with them. If you don't like Mars Volta don't listen...your loss." Its more than that dude. Its their style, their album artwork, lyricism, and well, a lot of us think that theyre trying to sound like a new age Pink Floyd. I think if you didnt like Mars Volta, you might agree with me. Oh yeah, stop saying this sounds like Pink Floyd...if you had ever actually listened to a Floyd album you would know that this sounds nothing like them. Sure the Volta is influenced by Pink Floyd's epic scope and maybe a concept here and there, but the music is not remotley similar. Just because this isn't enjoyable to you doesn't mean it isn't to everyone...I'm really getting sick of people thinking they right the rules for music and everyone agrees with them. If you don't like Mars Volta don't listen...your loss. I've always like "pase". As in "Pah-seh" I think Omar is an amazing artist, but i think in this album(and perhaps a little in the last) its ruined my over intelectualising the music. It comes across really pretentious. And sadly nothing Omar creates will ever be "Heliotrope" This was one of the first ever albums that i actually went out and bought on the release day. I am not dissapointed it was amazing, and i cannot stop listening to it. I thought De-Loused was a potentially great album spolied by wankery, and songs that had enough ideas to last about 4 or 5 minutes, but were then dragged out to last twice as long. Don't believe the HYPE on this one. Their last album blows this one away. This album is way too spastic, expect for the Widow single, for anyone to 'get into'...They should go back on drugs. no it isnt. its Monee N*E*R*D "so we can stop kids from purchasing shit like this that's stealing the limelight away from bands who actually make good music" We come and post often so we can stop kids from purchasing shit like this that's stealing the limelight away from bands who actually make good music, not this pretentious noise pollution that's artsy cuz it has "really long songs". I doubt I would like the album but I like the artwork. What are these bumps around my asshole? They itch. "What the hell is wrong with you? If you don't like this music, don't fuckin listen to it. You whine endlessly and then throw your elitist bands-i-like-are-better-than-bands-you-like bullshit all the time. They don't want to track songs like you'd prefer. What dicks." "Sorry bro, but thats the point of free speech. Plus, thats what these forums are for, to argue, right? " does anyone actually care about just listening to music anymore? "Persoanlly i dont see how any1 can hate this album. Maybe thats just me. Persoanlly i dont see how any1 can hate this album. Maybe thats just me. I don't see what everyone is complaining about with this cd, it is fantastic. Yes, there is a lot of atmospheric downtime, but the fast spots are full of an intensity and energy that most bands don't match. This is truly intelligent music--the lyrics are take-or-leave, but the music itself has been earning unnecessarily brutal criticism for how good it is. Boundless energy and interesting song structure (let's just leave the ambience alone for a second) is good in my book. "What the hell is wrong with you? If you don't like this music, don't fuckin listen to it. You whine endlessly and then throw your elitist bands-i-like-are-better-than-bands-you-like bullshit all the time. They don't want to track songs like you'd prefer. What dicks." "if these guys really were not such full of shit, then they would have tracked it as one song. dont fuckin pretend its all one song when you know damn well its 7. learn from dfl (even though dfl's album wasnt one song, but like 20 tracked as 1) I don't know what we're yelling about!... Loud noises! Uh oh, i better join in. river city rebels make some good tunes. can't hate on the rebels. "The more Jones continues to dis this the more I like it. Although, that seems to be the case with almost everything he dislikes. Hes my own personal guide. If he says its wack, its usually quite good and vice versa. Thanks Jones." what the hell is with the derogatory comments? bunch of prog-rock wetbacks that should be sent back to mexico to pick tomatos for the white man. The more Jones continues to dis this the more I like it. Although, that seems to be the case with almost everything he dislikes. Hes my own personal guide. If he says its wack, its usually quite good and vice versa. Thanks Jones. this record is aboslutle shit. bunch of prog-rock wetbacks that should be sent back to mexico to pick tomatos for the white man. they've said they wanted it to all be one track but their label doesn't recognize that as an album, and they still owe them one more. the album isn't even just 5 tracks for the same reason, they had to break the final track apart. if these guys really were not such full of shit, then they would have tracked it as one song. dont fuckin pretend its all one song when you know damn well its 7. learn from dfl (even though dfl's album wasnt one song, but like 20 tracked as 1) This guy was probably referring to me, because I said that a prog-punk band influenced by NOFX's The Decline and Refused/Rx Bandits would amazing to hear. My response: Choke fucking sucks balls, I saw them live and paid no attention I was too busy waiting for Mad Caddies getting drunk and smoking weed between Pulley's set. Someone told me to download the new Choke mp3, and I was disgusted! I find it amusing that people talk about "the good old days" of Deloused.... That's all. damnit, i cannot type lyrics to songs at all! When im on the streets you know i am skating boarding... "Wait, when and where did Alternative Press ever claim to be "the #1 source for punk/hardcore music?" " ""Bottom line: Cedric and Omar smoked way too much crack and ruined their own music." this album fucking rages...a bit too much filler noise though... Does anyone have the time of patience to sift through all these comments to validate their own opinions? Not me, but I had to point this out: I just bought this for 6 bucks. I like it. The kids that work at AP are actually pretty rad and know their shit. Who cares if they put fallout boy and other shit on the cover as long as they are also giving space and recognition to smaller or more deserving bands? They have to sell copies somehow. Yeah, TMV quit the drugs when their sound engineer died, look at the video for Inertiatic ESP, it's dedicated to him. Wait, when and where did Alternative Press ever claim to be "the #1 source for punk/hardcore music?" two thing: "Bottom line: Cedric and Omar smoked way too much crack and ruined their own music." Just because a band does something experimental or makes a cd "on their own terms" doesn't mean it's good. Quit using that as a defense. It's not. Sickboi, I can understand the low score for Wake The Dead, it does get a little old after so many listens i'm pretty sure mars volta had an ep, so that would be three albums, right? Just because a band does something experimental or makes a cd "on their own terms" doesn't mean it's good. Quit using that as a defense. It's not. That website eats a dick. Read the review of the new Comeback Kid album. Granted, I wouldn't give it 10/10, but 4/10?!?!?!? It's actually funny how many people get so pissed off when this band does anything. a ton of people think that music critics love them, when if you look at, say, pitchfork's reviews of their last 2 records they're really low scoring. it's not punk to hate the mars volta, people. "Frances is lucky he's a mute, he doesn't have to listen to this trash!!!!" As a big fan of the Mars Volta, this album is a little disappointing. Still, you have to give them respect for being one of the few bands out there to take risks and experiment. this is the most overrated band to come along in a very long time. These guys seem very punk to me: they make the music they want to make without comprimising, they could care less what the trend is and they don't care what anybody thinks about them. Most of the bands people rave about on this site are bands that are trendy, popular and wack. "Frances is lucky he's a mute, he doesn't have to listen to this trash!!!!"
i didnt want to like this record, but im really enjoying it the score is for mentioning "buck nasty's mommas water dish"..fantastic. i listened to this record twice last nite, all the way through. and i fucking like it. someone on this topic called the mars volta "the latin rush". good call. good album. pushing boundaries. not "post-punk", not "screamo", not so god damn similar to every other girls pants band...take it or leave it i suppose. mutes can't talk Frances is lucky he's a mute, he doesn't have to listen to this trash!!!! "I'm sorry, I just see through their guise, it's all a bunch of boring uninspired crap. " and yet they still rock harder than your band. skrewdriver, i assume? i wish these hippies would get a hair cut and buy a pair of pants that fit I love Joan of Arc and Xiu Xiu, and yet The Mars Volta is too inaccessible for me. This stuff is just total meander. "If I want crickets in my music, I'll listen to Coco Rosie." I've been a fan since ATDI, through Sparta and now to Mars Volta. Besides being amazingly talented at their individual things, they work amazing together and do things almost noone has done before. Unique voice, unique guitars and sounds. I completely understand that some people can't get into it...not their thing, the voice, whatever but either way to trash talk these guys just isn't right. They deserve as much respect as almost anyone in the industry in my opinion. They've done alot you can't deny it. CD is awesome to me...i fyou don't think so.. fine...but dont rag on them. their just doing their thing. I'm here because I was linked here and felt like starting crap with a bunch of whiney people. to add another comment: many of you should go experience TMV at their own headlining show. your opinion will completely change if you experience it with an open mind. this band is bad and so is this website jeezy guys, way to abuse the no score option One time this past summer I was listening to "De-Loused" outside in my backyard and I fell asleep during the third song (Keep in mind I was hung over and I'd just gotten into a fight with a junkie). I woke up to find I had a sunburn on my fabulous washboard abs (I can only get away with saying shit like this on a message board...). So in conclusion; I fucking HATE the sun. If I want crickets in my music, I'll listen to Coco Rosie. "Again, this isn't punk music so of course you all didn't like it. I doubt any of you owns much else besides punk music or any one singular genre in particular." The likelihood that this is boring dribble greatly outways the chance that it's the aural personification of civilization's progress. To the guy below a few posts below: If I want crickets in my music, I'll listen to Coco Rosie. I think punk counts for maybe a fifth of what I listen to these days and I still think it's pretty bad. to add another comment: many of you should go experience TMV at their own headlining show. your opinion will completely change if you experience it with an open mind. "there seems to be mixed conclusions about this album. Just another reason why music review sites are generally idiotic and filled with opinionated self masturbation instead of information." |
