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Post by DigitalDwarf on Feb 24, 2005 11:18:25 GMT -5
I was bored as hell last night and I decided to watch MTV2 because they had "Rock Rated" or something like that. Basically, it was like a top 10 countdown or something like that. When I turned the channel to watch it, it was on song number 4 and low and behold, it was the Mars Volta's Widow. It was a pretty slick video, but I got to thinking, is this shit getting mainstream? I was also surprised the Green Day got song number 3.
What is this world coming to?
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Post by tremulant on Feb 24, 2005 11:29:20 GMT -5
Noooooooo, this can't be happening. I don't want them to go mainstream. They should just NOT have singles. That way they wont be over exposed. They dont have to go mainstream to get a huge fan base and sell albums, look at where they are right now.
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Post by Castro on Feb 24, 2005 11:59:59 GMT -5
i'm glad atdi split up, cuz i would have hated them being popular. i prefer being into stuff no-ones heard of
does anyone get that?
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Post by sez on Feb 24, 2005 12:43:15 GMT -5
I think thats a bit stupid, so do don't listen to legendary bands like The Who and Zepplin just because lots of people like them?
The Mars Volta are in this weeks time tv paper, may not mean a lot to you hamhericans, but its basicaly one of the biggest broadsheet newspapers in the uk.
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Post by Castro on Feb 24, 2005 14:15:48 GMT -5
the times? whereabouts did they appear?
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Post by rivalhools on Feb 25, 2005 1:58:37 GMT -5
yesterday i saw them live in hamburg.
t.shirts: 22€,
frances the mute: 18€
5 stickers: 5€
i didn't buy anything.
ah, yeah:
length of the actual show: approx. 50 min.
no encores, but the good old songs, concertina, the haunt of etc. wasn't that bad, but too short and too fucking expensive, the tickets were 20€...
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Post by sez on Feb 25, 2005 8:34:12 GMT -5
the times? whereabouts did they appear? In the Tv paper "the eye" in saturdays Times. I could probably scan it in if you are interested. |
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Post by Castro on Feb 25, 2005 11:19:43 GMT -5
na dont bother - i've never been one for reading articles
thanx anyway
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Post by soniktruth on Feb 25, 2005 16:59:24 GMT -5
In the Tv paper "the eye" in saturdays Times. I could probably scan it in if you are interested. castro, you are so insensitive..did you see how excited he got when he mentioned he'd scan it for....he's crushed!!!!!!!! |
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Post by Castro on Feb 26, 2005 15:15:19 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow][/glow] practice makes perfect |
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Post by CoKeS on Feb 26, 2005 16:12:47 GMT -5
TMV arent gonna be mainstream... if de-loused didn't crack them in, then FTM wont. the songs will be "too weird" for the mainstream world.
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Post by Castro on Feb 26, 2005 17:27:44 GMT -5
true. what frightens me tho is that people still might like even if they're into basic rock and that would degrade it - simply because its more artistic
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Feb 27, 2005 14:00:59 GMT -5
If TMV didn't want to "crack into" the mainstream world, then why did they release a single for the Widow? Also, why did they make the single 3 minutes as apposed to the 6 minute long song?
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Post by CoKeS on Feb 27, 2005 14:03:39 GMT -5
If TMV didn't want to "crack into" the mainstream world, then why did they release a single for the Widow? Also, why did they make the single 3 minutes as apposed to the 6 minute long song? you're an idiot... im pretty sure if TMV had their way, they would have released the 6 minute version, but there's this thing called the record company, and they want to make the band more accesible, so obviously they're gonna cut out 3 extra minutes of just noise. |
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 27, 2005 20:11:47 GMT -5
hey wow, i agree with cokes
and the video for the widow isn't that great...and the song isn't htat great, either...
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Post by tremulant on Feb 28, 2005 1:12:41 GMT -5
It all depends on what you think mainstream is. I'd say if they start to rely on singles and music videos for success, they'd be mainstream. But with TMV, that will NEVER HAPPEN. They're too talented and original for the Blink182 lovin public to catch on to. I'm not worried.
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Post by motherprussia on Feb 28, 2005 1:53:58 GMT -5
read as: they are too pretentious to become mainstream...
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Post by tremulant on Feb 28, 2005 15:50:57 GMT -5
you can interpret it anyway you want shithead  |
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Post by MercurySolo on Feb 28, 2005 21:18:43 GMT -5
I don't care if they're getting more mainstream, at least I can listen to the radio these days when my CD player's on the fritz without having to kill it. The video is slick, but I like the feel of it, the stranger wandering into the sunset and all. Good music is good music, whether 40 Helens or 40,000,000 Helens agree with you.
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