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Remember that new Mars Volta album, Frances the Mute? Yea, it came out today. $6.99!
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But you get a free LIVE ACOUSTIC version of the Widow to download from Napster if you buy it at Best Buy!Flynn said:
I just can't believe the album's release snuck up on us with no "HEY BUY THIS" thread. I remember when the first album came out, there was a pretty big thread reminding me to go out that Tuesday and pick it up.
FrenchMovieTheme
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no offense but this is one of the most overrated bands around. when they play live, all they do is come up with these 10 minute bullshit songs where they play so many progressions, by the 5th minute it gets fucking old. i am all for 10+ minute epic songs, especially live, but not the garbage they pull. they aren't a bad band, but people treat them in a higher regard than i would personally treat them. not a bad price though
FrenchMovieTheme
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diablos i sometimes wonder how you can be correct in your assessment of the greatest band ever, but how you are so wrong in your like towards shitty bands/albums. 
Huh? The new Mars Volta is decent. De-Loused was indeed better, but Frances the Mute is still good. It's different and perhaps stretched too thin in it's idea of prog greatness, but it's still worth $7 IMO. As for you not liking Some Cities by Doves... your loss! Some of the songs on there would probably make Corgan blush with envy. "Sky Stars Falling" sounds like a combination of Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam, actually.FrenchMovieTheme said:diablos i sometimes wonder how you can be correct in your assessment of the greatest band ever, but how you are so wrong in your like towards shitty bands/albums.
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Boring AOTY, but pretty decent album.Diablos said:
This record is worse than the second Sparta album, and that's saying quite a bit.
EDIT: Also, I was a big proponent of the first Volta record. It was far from perfect, but when the songs hit, they really hit. This new album is just a meandering hunk of garbage. I'll sooner be caught listening to Tales of Topographic Oceans than this indefensible heap of melody-bereft exercises in placid, embarassing indulgence. If Deloused was the world, this is what's dribbling off of its chin. Grade A disappointment.
EDIT: Also, I was a big proponent of the first Volta record. It was far from perfect, but when the songs hit, they really hit. This new album is just a meandering hunk of garbage. I'll sooner be caught listening to Tales of Topographic Oceans than this indefensible heap of melody-bereft exercises in placid, embarassing indulgence. If Deloused was the world, this is what's dribbling off of its chin. Grade A disappointment.
Wiretap Scars was decent, but their latest is just crap. It's safe to say Sparta is pretty much done. It's too bad At the Drive-In couldn't keep it together. I like TMV but I think more ATDI albums would've been better.
-The Widow
-L'Via L'Viaquez
-Cassandra Gemini
-Famine Pulse
-Con Safo
All of these songs (or parts of the album) fuckin' rock. I'll agree that the rest kind of pales in comparsion, but I could say similar things about De-Loused.
OMG WTF.White Man said:
-The Widow
-L'Via L'Viaquez
-Cassandra Gemini
-Famine Pulse
-Con Safo
All of these songs (or parts of the album
) fuckin' rock. I'll agree that the rest kind of pales in comparsion, but I could say similar things about De-Loused.enjoy bell woods
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What does that band have to do with anything? I think the new British Sea Power album is the best thing I've heard this year, and I'm still holding out for SFA's next. I just can't get all that excited over albums that are merely OK, which the new Doves album is. I like Kings of Convenience, but I'd never consider anything they've put out remarkable. Same goes for The Doves.Diablos said:
You're really pugnacious, man. I said the album was good.
Has anyone figured out the new album's lyrics? I'm dying to hear what that genius Cedric came up with this time.
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I was definitely being sarcastic.
CajoleJuice
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I think the album is definitely not as good as De-Loused, but it's definitely worth 7 bucks. It definitely is too out there, and some of the filler goes on way too long. And I'm not even talking instrumentals, it's just nothingness basically. I definitely love most of Cassandra Geminni, L'Via L'Viaquez and The Widow though.
And seriously, am I the only one that hates ATDI and likes TMV? I can't take Cedric's screaming punkish voice when they were ATDI.
And seriously, am I the only one that hates ATDI and likes TMV? I can't take Cedric's screaming punkish voice when they were ATDI.
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I thought At the Drive-In were great back when I was in that other stage of my life. The Mars Volta has never done anything for me.PuertoRicanJuice said:
Diablos said:Wiretap Scars was decent, but their latest is just crap. It's safe to say Sparta is pretty much done. It's too bad At the Drive-In couldn't keep it together. I like TMV but I think more ATDI albums would've been better.
OMG WTF.
-The Widow
-L'Via L'Viaquez
-Cassandra Gemini
-Famine Pulse
-Con Safo
All of these songs (or parts of the album
Geez, I guess I'm the only one here who actually liked Sparta's second album. At first, I wasn't sure how i liked it, but it grew on me. And yeah, I think its better than hteir first. oh well, to each their own.
Mrjellybeanct
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jumper said:
Not the only one, I agree with you on that. So far I've enjoyed every MV and Sparta release.
Litigation Manuel
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It's okay, but I've burned out on the Mars Volta as of late. I may still get the vinyl of Frances though, it has an extra song which I have heard pulls everything together.
Megafoo Chavez
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i like it, but i like the first album better. maybe because roulette dares II isn't on the new album
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I laughed very hard at the first sentence.White Man said:
Teknopathetic
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Relationship of Command = the ultimate.
buck naked
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I liked Porcelin much more than Wiretap Scars as well... I thought everyone did =)
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Diablos said:
Oooh, hey, thanks for the heads up. I have to hear that album.
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