New Mars Volta

[HikeforTurns]

Is the shit! I like their faster paced stuff too, but this album....

http://www.themarsvolta.com/home

[advres]

I'm a big Mars Volta fan. I gotta check it out SOON!

[grapedrink]

its great, i really dislike the new drummer and bedlam in goliath was just too much.. i thought they were done (and i've been a huge fan since tremulant), but this album is nice. its all mellow tracks... though i hope they get back together with jon someday.. he was half the band.

[Game Over]

its great, i really dislike the new drummer and bedlam in goliath was just too much.. i thought they were done (and i've been a huge fan since tremulant), but this album is nice. its all mellow tracks... though i hope they get back together with jon someday.. he was half the band.

half the band?? please.

try reading the linear notes.
"The partnership between Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala is The Mars Volta. These compositions are then performed by The Mars Volta Group"

[grapedrink]

half the band?? please.

try reading the linear notes.
"The partnership between Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala is The Mars Volta. These compositions are then performed by The Mars Volta Group"

i didn't say he wrote half the songs, i said he was half the band.. and its a figure of speech.. the point is his playing and style brought SO much to those songs, so much of what made them great.. like carter beauford to dave matthews, danny carey to tool.. take him away and the band sucks by comparison (and they do).

[Kirby]

I have always been meaning to give The Mars Volta a try, but for whatever reasons have never found the time or motivation.

That being said, what album would everybody suggest I pick up as a good introduction to them?

[Game Over]

i didn't say he wrote half the songs, i said he was half the band.. and its a figure of speech.. the point is his playing and style brought SO much to those songs, so much of what made them great.. like carter beauford to dave matthews, danny carey to tool.. take him away and the band sucks by comparison (and they do).

i think your trying to blame too much of the change on the drummer. they stoped opids after wards death, and even wards influence was huge on Frances as he found the journal. i think the drop off is they lack influence and drive.

i get you on the feel aspect, Theadore was like Bonham. but his chops, man pridgen is so far above and beyond what he can do technically. nd that in its self is my biggest gripe with the mars volta. they just go too far with the prog jazz fast and as tech as you can shit when it needs feel.

so i guess my point, i agree, Theadore was a better fit for the MArs Volta, not a better drummer. But you forget why he got booted, the dude was a fukking downer and didnt like playing live. Pridgen is stoked and shows up.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I've tried to get into these guys, but it just hasn't happened for me. Too bad, it'd be nice to have something to talk about with all the Mexican skateboarder kids in my neighborhood when we're slaying the loading dock at Fairfax High.

[Game Over]

what album or albums have you heard? i think frances the mute is is the best. put it in you car (if you drive) and just let it go for a few laps.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I have Frances the Mute and Amputechture. It's not that I hate it, just hasn't grabbed me.

[gbarnum]

I have always been meaning to give The Mars Volta a try, but for whatever reasons have never found the time or motivation.

That being said, what album would everybody suggest I pick up as a good introduction to them?

I like Deloused In The Comatorium. Listen to it loud. Love the trippy, experimental shit as well as the straight ahead rocking.

[Tippster]

Deloused... sounds like nails on a chalkboard at times. It's a difficult listening album.

[grapedrink]

i just want to reiterate how good this album is.

[Tube Sag]

Just saw these guys at Red Rocks when they headlined Monolith. I am pretty sure they screwed with the entire time space thing for about half the set. Dude had "extra mic stands" on the side of the stage, so when he broke one he threw it over the head of the drummer and grabbed the next one. Absolute furious musicality that had me doing everything from jumping around to just standing there with my mouth open. By the time they were done, everyone was just kind of spent, looking at each other like we just watched something enormous without quite understanding what it really was. Great show

[butterscotch]

I always thought their best work was "Relationship of Command" by At The Drive-In...

[Jim J]

I have always been meaning to give The Mars Volta a try, but for whatever reasons have never found the time or motivation.

That being said, what album would everybody suggest I pick up as a good introduction to them?

My introduction to them was the Pep Fujas segment in the ski flick "War". It's a kick ass segment if you are into flippy spinny stuff. The skiing and the music each make the other much more intense than they'd be on their own.

It the kind of music I like to listen to loud by myself while driving. It's not the catchy kind of music that you can just have on in the background. The beauty of it is in the details.

[m01766]

Am I missing something? I saw them open for RHCP some years ago and I couldn't get into it at all...

[Rideski]

So I just found out Flea played on Deloused and gave it a try. Singers voice is a bit shrill but love the creativity of the music.

[toast2266]

So I just found out Flea played on Deloused and gave it a try. Singers voice is a bit shrill but love the creativity of the music.

Check out Antemasque. It's a newer (2014) band made up of the Mars Volta guys + Flea. Not quite as interesting as the older MV stuff, but still pretty good.

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