The Mars Volta

[Kate]

Excellent band...really unique quirky sound off them, i like them a lot!

[xCiaránx]

Yeah, they're class.

[thairish]

I thought the second album wasn't as good as the first. The track-listing had me confuzzled for days.

[Sean-Lugsy]

The new Jazz.

[JoePie]

Sooner they get back over here the better.

[Ciara]

I LOVE THEM

And yes, Frances the Mute was a definite let down!

[aonghus]

Excellent band...really unique quirky sound off them, i like them a lot!
listen to can or faust or guru guru,people doing that shit much better over 30years ago,honest.....they dont have nice hair though

[goo]

they dont have nice hair though

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[goo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mr.Goo/damo.jpg

[Mike]

The String Quartet covers are the bizz.

[aonghus]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/Mr.Goo/damo.jpg
haha fucking awesome.
do i know you?

[goo]

Not in real life, anyway.

[Karlusss]

http://youtube.com/w/Roulette-Dares-by-The-Mars-Volta?v=9JfOHD3_97c&search=roulette%20dares

That is the haunt of Roulette Dares, live, class video.

Savidge band like.

[goo]

The 1st album is great for reading to.

[edit]

It might have a lot to do with the book I was reading...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786915889.01._SX220_PC_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Robbie Control]

The Mars Volta - Amputechture
(http://rapidshare.de/files/25148066/MV.rar.html)
Password = www.dancingmokey.com

http://www.imagegalore.com/images/TLM33814.jpg
Release Date : 22.08.2006
Quality : VBR
Size: 91 MB
Time: 76:29 min

01. Vicarious atonement
02. Tetragrammaton
03. Vermicide
04. Meccamputechture
05. Asilos magdalena
06. Viscera eyes
07. Day of the baphomets
08. El ciervo vulnerado

[Wez-o!]

roulette dares has to be their greatest song.
they fucking make me sick they are so good but for some reason i prefer at the drive-in. it has more energy to it

[xCiaránx]

Oh savage. Cheers Robbie.

[[napoleon solo]]

roulette dares has to be their greatest song.
they fucking make me sick they are so good but for some reason i prefer at the drive-in. it has more energy to it

It depends really, the Volta's music has more energy in it while ATD-I made up for it live, well Cedric and Omar did anyways which is practically The Mars Volta.

Oh, thanks for the leak by the way. Cumcore.

[SignificanceBoy]

have to say i much prefer at the drive-in (relationship of command being one of my all time favourites) and i even prefer sparta to the mars volta although it tends to switch, i haven't heard frances the mute yet/

[Robbie Control]

Amputechture = Alright on first listen. Some class bits.

[goo]

I didn't listen to the whole thing. Won't.

[Seán]

Unreal band.

[goo]

Ah boo. That's far too much praise from someone I sort of know.
Well actually Karl called them savage and I know him more.
Still.

[aonghus]

if you're gonna try listen to freakout shit http://www.sdcd.com/B2B/jsp/app/images/Scans/599672.jpg
do it properly.
jesusfuckingchrist buy some records arnd realise how overrated they are

[goo]

This sounded like Santana or something.

[Wez-o!]

']It depends really, the Volta's music has more energy in it while ATD-I made up for it live, well Cedric and Omar did anyways which is practically The Mars Volta.

really?
i thought at the drive in had more energy live AND on recordings.
mars volta seem to be very laid back on recordings but just as nuts live.

[goo]

mars volta seem to be very laid back on recordings but just as nuts live.

Not the first one, surely?

[anotherandrew]

Been a while since someone posted here.....

New Mars Volta album, people.
"The Bedlam In Goliath". Recommend you get it if you liked the first album. It's back to the simplicity of "Deloused...". If you'd call it simplicity.
I love the single Wax Simulacra. :)

[Joe]

fuckin fantastic band

[anotherandrew]

fuckin fantastic band

fucking are.

:yes:

[Gilhooley]

I only ever listened to "De-Loused", amazing album though.

[Wez-o!]

I forgot about this band.

Watching this makes me happy again.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KJj4uORutwc

[anotherandrew]

First album was the best. Anyone ever see them live?
I really want to see them. :/

[Sean-Lugsy]

New album is good. 2 before it weren't. Deloused is amazing.

[xCiaránx]

Yeah, I'm into a fair bit of this new album having not been much into albums 2 and 3. Good stuff.

[charizard]

Frances De Mute is my favourite album. What an intro song.

[anotherandrew]

Frances was great but the track listing fucked me up a bit.

And the intro + outro to Miranda this ghost.... is a bit over the top.

[goo]

And the intro + outro to Miranda this ghost.... is a bit over the top.
That's like saying a Charlie Chaplin film is a bit monochrome.

[Ronan]

Miranda that ghost just isn't holy anymore is class. The most awesome kind of over the top.

[anotherandrew]

I prefered Cassandra Gemmini. All 30mins of it.

[FunkcoreCiaran]

i kinda like these
i remember the days when you used to force feed me and aidan TMV andrew haha happy days lol

[anotherandrew]

THEY WERE MY LIFE!!! lol

[goo]

I'll always be fond of this band because of a particularly nice memory I have of listening to them.
Other than that, though...

[Aidan]

ahh, this band... they're alirght, i'm not too keen on the whole 30 minute long songs... :/
but theyre still good like,


cedric and omar are well funny... kung pao, hahah.

[goo]

HAHAHA

[Panda]

Sparta > Mars Volta.

[goo]

I always kind of rooted for Sparta because Cut Your Ribbon was an especially good song, and they didn't act as if they were the biggest deal ever, and their jeans fit.

[Sean-Lugsy]

I wanted to love Sparta. I don't.

[Ronan]

I listened to Sparta once. It didn't stick. I dunno how big a deal TMV think they are or what size jeans they wear, so... I probably prefer them. A lot.

Gonna check this new album now. Hopefully it's class.

[Sam]

Sparta were good live. I never got around to checking out their recordings. Panda, what's a good album to start with?

[goo]

The first one.

[Sam]

Thanks Goo. I'll get it when waffles is back up.

[Sean-Lugsy]

Sparta were good live. I never got around to checking out their recordings. Panda, what's a good album to start with?

Relationship of Command. Just write "SPARTA" across it and pretend. Then don't listen to Sparta.

[anotherandrew]

Relationship of Command. Just write "SPARTA" across it and pretend. Then don't listen to Sparta.

Yes. DO.:yes:

[Sos]

Sparta are great, but I like them te least out of the three. They just seem to lack the raw energy that TMV and ATD-I have/had. They're really nice to listen to, though.

[goo]

I didn't get much of a "raw energy" vibe off the Mars Volta. There's a definite "Santana is a legend" vibe.

[Sos]

Well on Deloused there is. I didn't bother with the 2nd and the 3rd because I heard that 2 wasn't as good as the first, and when they released the 3rd album on that myspace exclusive thing I wasn't mad into it. Have yet to hear the new album though.

[Ronan]

If you're saying that the albums after Deloused have less of those wanky (and vaguely hispanic, if I remember what I listened to in 2005 correctly) santana leads, then I definitely need to check 'em out. I only really bothered with a few songs off Frances the mute (which I really liked), and none from Amputecture...

[goo]

Anything I heard after Deloused seemed infinitely more chill, curly hair, weed and widdly widdly. Actually, someone find a link for that second album?

[Robbie Control]

I still haven't got the new album. These were my favourite band for a long time, seeing them live before they went not as good was class. The Tremulant EP is still the best thing they've done. Frances the Mute is definitely as good as Deloused in the Comatorium btw. I thought that by Amputecthure they had lost feeling and seemed to be very bland in comparison to what they were. I used to try collect all their vinyl before they started releasing loads. Someday I'll eBay some gold.

EDIT: Does anyone have a working link for Bedlam in Goliath actually?

[charizard]

I still haven't got the new album. These were my favourite band for a long time, seeing them live before they went not as good was class. The Tremulant EP is still the best thing they've done. Frances the Mute is definitely as good as Deloused in the Comatorium btw. I thought that by Amputecthure they had lost feeling and seemed to be very bland in comparison to what they were. I used to try collect all their vinyl before they started releasing loads. Someday I'll eBay some gold.

EDIT: Does anyone have a working link for Bedlam in Goliath actually?

Definatly agree with the point you made about Francais De Mute, that album is excellent and just as good as their first. John Frusciantes little mini guitar solo near the start of the first song when the song explodes always sends shivers down my back.

Also I found Amputecture to be extremely bland as well. The intro, although musically impressive, is so boring and dragged out

[LEE]

Tremulant and De-loused = Amazing
Frances the Mute = Class
Amputechture = Lame

The new album's really class, I've only listened to it like one and a half times though. Definitely takes longer than that to get properly into their albums.

[anotherandrew]

Tremulant and De-loused = Amazing
Frances the Mute = Class
Amputechture = Lame

The new album's really class, I've only listened to it like one and a half times though. Definitely takes longer than that to get properly into their albums.

Totally agree.
Scabdates and the Live EP weren't that great either.

[goo]

LINKS
LINKS

[anotherandrew]

i'll upload mine tomorrow if no one finds one. I'll have to find my cd and rip it though.

[ralphatron]

Sparta are real good. Wiretap Scars is class and I haven't listened to Porcelain that much but it is good, I only flicked through the songs on Threes and it seemed like a load of balls.

The Mars Volta have some amazing songs but they also have a load that are just annoying to listen to because they're so long and progressive.

[ralphatron]

Listening to De-Loused for the first time in aggges and it's still unbelievable.

[Sean-Lugsy]

I haven't bought the new one, yet. I only listened to Frances The Mute about 3 times and the same with Amputechture. I didn't get into either. I'll give FTM another listen but I hated Amputechture straight away.

[Ronan]

Goo - http://www.badongo.com/file/7401898

[FunkcoreCiaran]

haha the thing that atracted me to these first was cedric and omars footwork!
such good dancing like, me and my lil bro used to try do it in our kitchen lol

but i never fully got into them, andrew bring over a few cds next time your over here!

[goo]

Goo - http://www.badongo.com/file/7401898
Smooth moves, RoRo.

The reason I'm a softie for this band is that, back when I lived with my dirty bastard uncle, I read this book:
http://www.imageriedesroyaumes.fr/Livres/Romans/Forgotten_Realms/The_Dark_Elf_Trilogy/The_Dark_Elf_Trilogy_Collector's_Edition_1.jpg
...while listening to Deloused on repeat in the space of like two or three days. It ruled, sometimes the music matched the writing haha.

[Nev]

hello

http://rapidshare.com/files/240726555/The_Mars_Volta-Octahedron-2009-DV8.zip

[Ronan]

Yeah, had a listen to that EP or whatever last week, it's not bad. I'll like it more than the most recent full-length, from what I've heard of 'em.

[Sean-Lugsy]

Rad.

[Wez-o!]

Still cant get any further than the first 5 songs on the last album.

Cliché to say but I preferred their earlier work.

[xCiaránx]

Last album was class.

[Sean-Lugsy]

Octahedron is pretty class. More light and stripped back. It makes me like Bedlam In Goliath way more.

[Ronan]

They're playing the Olympia on 10th Dec, tickets are available now.

[Mark]

Class. Yeah the circle is the 1st floor seating.

http://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/en-gb/tmimages/venue/maps/uk2/uk21631a.gif

[Nev]

Reckon it will sell out? Can't afford to get a ticket yet.

[Roger]

Doubt it will. Saw them at Oxegen and thought they were pretty dissapointing. They played all new shit and had a few boring, long, noisy improvs. That being said, it was good to see Cedric going crazy.

[Nev]

Yeah, they seem pretty boring live. Still wanna go, though.

[Ronan]

Doubt it will. Saw them at Oxegen and thought they were pretty dissapointing. They played all new shit and had a few boring, long, noisy improvs. That being said, it was good to see Cedric going crazy.
Those long bits are what TMV are all about and they weren't boring and I'm pretty sure they weren't improvs, either. They were good at Oxegen but the sound was weird and vocals too low.

[Ronan]

Did anyone else go last night? Thought they were really good. They played plenty of older stuff, the song with loads of piano off Frances The Mute, Eriatarka, Cicatriz ESP, Miranda, That Ghost..., The Widow, Roulette Dares. And of course the better songs off the new record. They didn't go even slightly mental on stage or anything, don't know why I had any notion they might, having seen them before.

[pussy king]

I wanted to go to this but I just didnt want to part with the fee.