Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Thu January 24, 2013 4:37 pm
Exactly the same for me.j's brain wrote:Deloused and Frances were pretty good but they totally lost me on the 3rd record and I haven't listened to them in years.
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Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Thu January 24, 2013 5:05 pm
That's a little disappointing, but I think they ran their course.
Caught them live 2x and really enjoyed it. Once on the Amputechture tour and once for Octahedron, which happen to be my favorite albums by them...one for the craziness and one for the accessibility, if you can call it that. Both really great shows, but I think they had settled into staying pretty close to the studio albums.
They never did top Deloused, but just about every album has some great music on it.
Frances got me into them, but I think I like every other album, besides the most recent, more that that one.
Caught them live 2x and really enjoyed it. Once on the Amputechture tour and once for Octahedron, which happen to be my favorite albums by them...one for the craziness and one for the accessibility, if you can call it that. Both really great shows, but I think they had settled into staying pretty close to the studio albums.
They never did top Deloused, but just about every album has some great music on it.
Frances got me into them, but I think I like every other album, besides the most recent, more that that one.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Thu January 24, 2013 6:21 pm
Angus wrote:Exactly the same for me.j's brain wrote:Deloused and Frances were pretty good but they totally lost me on the 3rd record and I haven't listened to them in years.
same here. frances is definitely one of my favorite albums of the 00s. i think i ranked it #3 when we did a 'best of the 00s' a couple years ago. but the next album (amputechture? i honestly don't remember which came next) was a complete let down and i don't think i've bought anything since. i've listened to everything at least once, though, and none of it grabbed me like deloused and then frances did. maybe i'll give a couple of them a spin and see if i still feel that way.
their bonnaroo 05 show was pretty amazing.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Thu January 24, 2013 6:33 pm
That's too bad, but its hard to disagree with the sentiment that they recorded anything better than the first album. One of my favorite musical memories from last year was listening to Cotopaxi while looking out at Cotopaxi at dawn. Good times. I wish them well.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Mon April 08, 2013 8:18 pm
For the record, I don't think TMV is actually broken up. Cedric can't really "break up" the band. It's Omar's band and he has said recently that he isn't ruling out more TMV stuff. So basically, Cedric just threw a Twitter tantrum and left the band.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Mon April 08, 2013 9:02 pm
"The partnership between Omar Rodríguez-López & Cedric Bixler-Zavala is The Mars Volta. These compositions are then performed by The Mars Volta Group."
I'd say if Cedric left the band TMV is done, but maybe it was just a twitter tantrum.
I'd say if Cedric left the band TMV is done, but maybe it was just a twitter tantrum.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Fri August 16, 2013 7:14 pm
http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/08/d ... id-guetta/
Ignore the Guetta part, which was a joke tweeted by CB-Z.
Ignore the Guetta part, which was a joke tweeted by CB-Z.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue April 08, 2014 11:29 pm
Cedric and Omar's "breakup" didn't last long.
http://www.antiquiet.com/music/2014/04/ ... ntemasque/
http://www.antiquiet.com/music/2014/04/ ... ntemasque/
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Wed April 09, 2014 1:24 pm
i like what i'm hearing so far. it's hard to pin down what they're going to sound like from just a few clips, but it has the feeling of being more straightforward rock than TMV.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 7:03 am
I really think the first 4 TMV albums are great. De-Loused in the Comatorium, Frances the Mute, Amputechture, and The Bedlam in Goliath. Omar and Cedric's new band, Antemasque, from what I've heard so far, is sounding quite good as well.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 4:40 pm
I'm surprised at the lack of Noctourniquet love. I thought was easily their best stuff since FTM.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 4:41 pm
Noctourniquet was kind of awful
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 4:54 pm
I haven't given it much of a chance.LoathedVermin72 wrote:I'm surprised at the lack of Noctourniquet love. I thought was easily their best stuff since FTM.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 5:08 pm
Heathen wrote:Noctourniquet was all kinds of awful
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 6:59 pm
shouldn't you be working on bypassing the network security of your office?kreng wrote:Heathen wrote:Noctourniquet was all kinds of awful
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Tue June 10, 2014 10:15 pm
Why? What about it?kreng wrote:Heathen wrote:Noctourniquet was all kinds of awful
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Wed June 11, 2014 1:57 pm
I'm diggin' these Antemasque songs. They're rocking out a bit again.
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Fri August 17, 2018 8:24 pm
TMV day
Deloused and Frances
Deloused and Frances
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Sat August 18, 2018 7:48 am
Thought they broke up in like 2006
Re: The Mars Volta break-up
Posted: Mon March 01, 2021 12:50 pm
Anyway, De-Loused just whooped my ass. Flea on bass. Jon Theodore on drums. Cedric and Omar at their peak.