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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 6, 2005 14:05:40 GMT -5
In my opinion, after listening to Francis the Mute about 3 times in a 6 hours period, one cannot compare the two albums. Both albums deal with different progressions in the Volta's music style. The Mute focuses on more of Omar's puerto Rican heritage bringing forth his and cedrics taste in Salsa music. It also has some what of a Jazz fusion with it. It also bends the rules of any traditional prog rock CD by defucting the norm of having a straight forward break in the track list. Musically, this CD is one of the best that I have ever heard. Even though I still blame Cedric and Omar for the break up of At the Drive-In, I still love them for pushing the music envelope and opening a side of music that has until this point only been touched upon by the greats of Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, two bands of which I can definately link similarities in both Cedrics voice style and omar's guitar wizardry (even though he insists that he was influenced by a great salsa piano player). So anyways, these are my thoughts on the album. Post your own opinion. I would be intrigued to hear what you all think.
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Post by motherprussia on Mar 6, 2005 17:56:23 GMT -5
that's defuct up...
...just don't tell cedric and omar the whole led zeppelin/pink floyd thing, they won't be too happy, though i think we can all see some similarities (especially to zeppelin in my opinion)...i did actually by ftm and i've listen to it a few times over the weekend...i just can't listen to it straight through, i have to skip the end of track one with the weird high pitched voice thing, all of track two, the very end of track three, all of track four...i can listen to all of cassandra, but i just kind of wish they took about ten minutes out of it...overall, it isn't horrible, though, it's just...pretentious...and i don't throw that word around there a whole lot
as for deloused, it used to me my favorite thing in the world, but i played it out...ftm makes me want to go back and listen to it again, because, well, it might be better for my ADD...
...but really, i still think tremulant is the best thing they've ever done, and i blame alex newport...i don't really know anything about this guy, but he produce vaya, too, and well, that's just about my favorite thing ever...
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Post by CoKeS on Mar 6, 2005 21:16:38 GMT -5
that's defuct up... ...just don't tell cedric and omar the whole led zeppelin/pink floyd thing, they won't be too happy, though i think we can all see some similarities (especially to zeppelin in my opinion)...i did actually by ftm and i've listen to it a few times over the weekend...i just can't listen to it straight through, i have to skip the end of track one with the weird high pitched voice thing, all of track two, the very end of track three, all of track four...i can listen to all of cassandra, but i just kind of wish they took about ten minutes out of it...overall, it isn't horrible, though, it's just...pretentious...and i don't throw that word around there a whole lot as for deloused, it used to me my favorite thing in the world, but i played it out...ftm makes me want to go back and listen to it again, because, well, it might be better for my ADD... ...but really, i still think tremulant is the best thing they've ever done, and i blame alex newport...i don't really know anything about this guy, but he produce vaya, too, and well, that's just about my favorite thing ever... you seem to be into EPs more than records, freak.... |
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 6, 2005 21:52:28 GMT -5
yeah, Tremulant contains my favorite song by the Mars Volta....Concertina. It has this eerie feel to it that I can't explain
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Post by motherprussia on Mar 6, 2005 21:57:32 GMT -5
yeah, the spanish is eerie in that song...
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Post by nastia on Mar 7, 2005 2:01:33 GMT -5
yeah, Tremulant contains my favorite song by the Mars Volta....Concertina. It has this eerie feel to it that I can't explain it is my fav mars volta song too!  |
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Post by rivalhools on Mar 7, 2005 4:12:49 GMT -5
De-Loused > Tremulant > Frances The Mute
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Post by CoKeS on Mar 7, 2005 18:42:15 GMT -5
what's the deal with people calling it Francis?
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 7, 2005 19:03:08 GMT -5
because it's shorter. Take for example, instead of me calling you a douche bag, I just call you douche
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Post by motherprussia on Mar 7, 2005 19:52:57 GMT -5
i believe he was mocking you for spelling "frances" incorrectly when making this thread...
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 7, 2005 20:38:59 GMT -5
oops
Okay, kick my ass
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Post by CoKeS on Mar 7, 2005 22:19:14 GMT -5
because it's shorter. Take for example, instead of me calling you a douche bag, I just call you douche so it's kind of like me calling you idiot, instead of.... well complete moron is longer so I guess I can't use that. |
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 7, 2005 23:37:09 GMT -5
lol, I just got "owned" by my own ignorance.
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Post by tremulant on Mar 12, 2005 13:47:39 GMT -5
It's ok DD, I still love ya.
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Mar 13, 2005 0:07:39 GMT -5
Thanks, at least somebody does  |
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