not RP related but i have to tell someone and my roommate is gone

[RCRanger03]

The Mars Volta just played live on Letterman, and my ears not only are bleeding, but there seems to be melted brain coming out as well. I've never heard them before so i was kinda of looking forward to it, but honestly I couldnt see anyone surviving one of thier concerts while still maintaining higher brain function. Anybody here listen to the Mars Volta if so please provide me a song thats actually music and not brain scrambling gamma radiation.

Phew now that i've ranted this it can be deleted sorry for wasting your time

[honkywill]

ha.

their first cd was acceptable.

every cd since seems like they've been trying to communicate with aliens.

[hopeforamerica]

Here, this will make you feel better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQwwyD5vsU

[Greenskin]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U

I don't what you've been under the last 15 years, but this isn't even close to "Extreme" music, shouldn't make your ears or brain bleed haha.

Mars Volta is a pretty good band.

[Fields]

I'm sure there's a Mars Volta Forum somewhere on the interweb if you searched....

[honkywill]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U

I don't what you've been under the last 15 years, but this isn't even close to "Extreme" music, shouldn't make your ears or brain bleed haha.

Mars Volta is a pretty good band.

Man, I loved their debut cd. I need to pop it in tomorrow.

I was and still am a huge at the drive-in fan.

[recess]

Mars Volta is Ok, At the Drive in was better, I love the Vaya EP

[Shink]

mastodon

[Voluntaryist]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwTxkTEUqY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwTxkTEUqY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mIwTxkTEUqY

[tsetsefly]

hey are terrible imo... (mars volta)

[Paulitical Correctness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DwsiAgo64k

Asilos Magdalena.

They're not horrible IMO. dredg is where it's at, though.

[Telkandore]

Hey, what do you know, it’s exactly what I thought I would hear! Some jingling, some wooshy swooping, some buzzing noises, some formless sub-Santana guitar licks. This is their way of proving to you that it’s a Mars Volta album: you wouldn’t be getting what you paid for if they didn’t spend a few introductory minutes insulting your intelligence and wasting your precious time. The Mars Volta are masters of musical grabass, and your stereo is their locker room. The horseplay continues unabated for several minutes, with no coach around to blow the whistle.

At three minutes, some indecipherable lyrics occur; I’m spared the misfortune of being able to tell what the hell they’re saying, thank heavens. I just know it would be something like “the bullwhip tickles christ’s phallic statuary.”

Oh, here’s something I picked out of the fracas: “I regret not killing you while I had the chance.” My sentiments exactly, Cedric (or Omar or whoever the heck it is who sings). I could have pulled a Michael Hutchence before this album started and spared myself the indignity of all this falsetto moaning and, but alas, I pressed on.

At five minutes in, I was momentarily uplifted by what seemed to be an ending, but it was a trap. I should be warier of their wiles, because if there’s one thing any canny foe of Volta should know, it’s that their songs never fucking end. But wow, I’m actually kind of impressed around six and a half minutes in, because I have never, ever heard a guitar made to sound so much like a cat being run through the dryer. And amid some free-jazz squawking, the track mercifully ceases.


http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/mars-volta-amputecture.php