The Mars Volta

Peej Kerton

18-07-2003

So, what do people think of them and the debut album?

Its what I've been waiting for since At The Drive-In split up. Fantastic album.

If you wanna hear it for free, Winamp are playing it on their listening post at the moment....

http://www.winamp.com/music/listening/index.jhtml

Peej Kerton

13-12-2003

Since no one posted into this thread in July, and since that point people have voted it Best Album of the Year in the unofficial Best Album thread... I thought i'd resurrect this thread...

So come on, what do people think?

Limehac

14-12-2003

Brilliant, amazing band!!! Utterly bizarre fellows.

Jab

14-12-2003

one of my friends went to see them recently in london, and he said that they only played 6 songs in about 2 hours, that be alot of improvisation

devo live

14-12-2003

Like I mentioned in the other thread, it's the best album released this year that I've heard. Equally as good, if not better than, the last At the Drive-In album, but with more prog and psychedelia. It's a pity that the single didn't get that much airplay on the so called rock based video channels.....

Van Damsel

14-12-2003

Deloused... is easily my favourite album of the year.
Then again, I was/am a big fan of At the Drive-In and was horribly excited about hearing Cedric and Omar's new stuff before it was even realeased, escpecially after being at bit dissapointed with Sparta (the other half of AtD-I)...

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“It's a pity that the single didn't get that much airplay on the so called rock based video channels.....”

'So called' being the point.... unless its over-hyped, major label or Nu-metal it doesn't get a look in on the likes of Kerrang IMO. Scuzz ocasionally plays something decent (was shocked to hear Cult of Luna on there a few weeks back!)...

snowball

14-12-2003

mars volta are class.

iloverage

15-12-2003

They're ok, although compared to many artists out there, they're about as experimental as westlife.

devo live

15-12-2003

Who said they were experimental? I guess they are a little, but to me they are more of an update of the classic rock sound of the early 70s.

Van Damsel

15-12-2003

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“They're ok, although compared to many artists out there, they're about as experimental as westlife”

I'm not claiming that they're doing anything amazingly experimental... I'm just claiming that I like the album

It's not very out-there at all compared to some of the stuff I'm into, but then again a lot of people would class a lot of the music I like as unlistenable noise!