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Post by rockysigman on Sept 18, 2006 11:00:31 GMT -5
It's good. Not brilliant, but very good. Especially the second half.
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Post by fredrum on Sept 18, 2006 11:05:36 GMT -5
definitely not quite as good as the other two, but its up there....
they better be good on saturday night though.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 19, 2006 11:42:53 GMT -5
Is it good? Do you like it? I haven't bought it yet, but I will next pay day. skvor - Tis a brilliant spot o' shanties these briny corsairs have offered up this time 'round. Don't listen to the hornswagglers who say udderwise. I'll flog the lot of em off a rope's end, I will ! |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Sept 19, 2006 13:54:15 GMT -5
I'm waiting for the Vinyl impatiently!!!!!! I really want to hear the new one as they are one of my favorite bands of the last 5 years.
I knew those guys personally when ATDI was around. I was in a couple of bands that opened up for them quite a bit back when I was in my last part of high school, first part of college. Those were exciting times and great shows.
Those guys are the nicest guys I have ever had the pleasure of talking to that are famous.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 20, 2006 9:36:35 GMT -5
Man, that is kickass, skvor. The new album is different - so it takes an 'about face' or a double-take to soak it in. I will say that the difference does make the other two appear as if they are "better"; but after spinnin' AMPUTECHTURE a few times, I've settled on merely "different", not "better" or "worse". In this light - the difference is actually quite refreshing. And it is this refreshment that could easily sway one into claiming the new one to be "better" (but in fact, it's just . . . more tMV, working in a different mode, and that is a grand thing).
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 20, 2006 9:38:36 GMT -5
That all -spanish song (track 5, I believe) haunts my mind, and keeps playin' out in my head.
It's got some real nice flamenco-type guitar strummin in it. And killer lyrics (of course).
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 5, 2008 13:55:52 GMT -5
here's my initial (and to be fair, "first listen") assessment of the new
mars volta
album, "The Bedlam *koff* In Goliath".
/end koff.
ahem. How do I put this. . . . ? Hmmm . . let's see; well, there was this *other* band (I won't say "similar" to tMV, but...) by the name of "Coheed & Cambria", m'k? And this *other* band, (adored by kiddiez everywhere, includin me), who goes by the abbreviation "C&C", well this other band's latest album - - ("No World For Tomorrow") -- when compared against their colleagues latest album (The Bedlam...), is 5, no, 10 thousand times better. Coheed's album No World For Tomorrow is a masterwork of such stunning beauty and cohesiveness, that it literally shames Omar Rodriguez and Cedric "Speaking In Tongues" Bixler right into the dirt.
The Bedlam is, I believe shin used the word a "mess". And it's messiness is right off the damned chart. I'm down w/ya guys in tMV, and I still respect your musicianship. But enuff is enuff already ! The Bedlam In Goliath ain't even tuned for human ears ! That shit is for aliens from the Nth Dimension-X times a thousand levels of insanity removed! There's far too MUCH of everything going on.
tMV should take a lesson from C&C: keep your shit palatable, gents ! Music is supposed to be, I don't know... enjoyable ? At least ?
Whatever. The latest tMV is just...
...too much.
"No World For Tomorrow" by Coheed & Cambria is not only a hundred times a better album (in every conceivable way; lyrically, musically, melodically, instrumentally, cohesively, entirely)... but I'd wager that C&C's latest definitely should enter in the Top 5 Albums for 2008. It is stunning; and everything "prog rock" should be.
The Bedlam In Goliath ? Pure... well; bedlam.
*shrugs*
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 5, 2008 13:56:23 GMT -5
I'll tell y'all what though. I'd like to write a review of the new Mars Volta and simply state that it is "too brilliant" for my meagre human mind. And I believe that. I can't bring myself to state that it "sux" or that it is "lacking" in musical talent or prodigiousness. I can only say that the first one-and-a-halfish listens were just under fifty percent enjoyable (and just over fifty percent noise-bombardment). A part of me pines for a quick evolutionary advancement of my hearing equipment, so that I might enjoy the bombastic excess captured on The Bedlam In Goliath.
I am afraid I am but an impoverished runtmonkey whose capacity for complex musical extremism is best embodied by the limits reached via a band like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, or, indeed, the first 3 Mars Volta albums (all of which I can really get behind and groove to).
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 5, 2008 13:58:00 GMT -5
The Mars Volta- I was not impressed with Amputechture. They were trying too hard to be geniuses and it just fell flat. The new album is no where near De-loused or Frances but it doesn't really try to be and that's what I like about it. It feels like they loosened up a bit and decided to do what they do well. I also like that it doesn't really let up, it's a dense mess which is what Mars Volta do well. That's interesting man, cuz I've got the opposite feel. I am impressed by Amputechture, because to me it seems like the first Mars Volta with just a collection of normal songs - songs that are not interrelated necessarily. i.e, it isn't a "concept album" the way Deloused or Frances were. I might also add, that I find most of the songs on Amputechture enjoyable to listen to. I'd say Amputechture is easily the Mars Volta's most accessible album. To me, The Bedlam sounds exactly as if it is trying too hard, well -- not exactly to be like Deloused or Frances, but rather, to go beyond them. Which (if you think about it), is the same as "trying to be like", because lest ye forget - the first two tMV albums indeed aimed to go "beyond", period. To continue this strange trend of feeling the exact opposite of how ded feels: I think The Bedlam has tightened up their sound far too much. I agree though, that it "doesn't let up" and that this is certainly what the Mars Volta do best. Hence: I am not worthy! (of this album) |
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Post by skovrecky on Feb 5, 2008 14:10:15 GMT -5
If you go to the Onion website, there is an interesting review of the new Mars Volta record that kind of has the same sentiments that you do, Thorny. The AV Club interview with Omar is pretty awesome. The online version is way better than the printed interview.
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 6, 2008 17:20:41 GMT -5
sweet, I'll go look for that man
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 6, 2008 17:32:13 GMT -5
dude - can you link me to that article ? I'm havin a bastard of a time navigating around the Onion. Can't find shit on mars volta . . .
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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 6, 2008 17:35:53 GMT -5
... other than 140 results for mars volta, all of which are neither links, nor url addys,.... :\
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Post by Ayinger on Feb 6, 2008 18:00:28 GMT -5
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Post by skovrecky on Feb 7, 2008 10:31:48 GMT -5
Also, you must go to YouTube and search for the audio of the Sugarcubes cover. Oh. My. God!!!!! I want that on a 7 inch it's so bad ass.
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