I recently heard some tracks from these guys off their myspace. They're not as bad as I remembered. They're quite talented. But I don't think I'd ever really get into them...
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Album Rating: 3.0
Well-written review, I finaly get to agree with your music views.
Im sad The Mars Volta dont make me feel anything with their music.
"The Mars Volta gets far too loud and crazy without truly accomplishing anything." says it all.This Message Edited On 09.21.06
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Album Rating: 5.0
easily their best album, you cant find a track that lets you down.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Very good review. When this LP came out, I just couldn't listen to anything else, but with FtM and Amp released, I realized how inferior this album is compared to the latter two. (For example in Eriatarka and Cicatriz ESP, before we get to hear the chorus for the first time, there is that long-drawn-out preparation which grows more annoying the more you listen to it.)
This album has a lot of mistakes, but hides them almost perfectly. Unlike Amputechture, which tears its heart out and puts it in front of you, with all the hope and sadness and everything else in it.... and it came out perfect.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Reviewer dude, it seems to me that, rather than reviewing the album when you had time to listen to it 7 or 8 times through, you deliberately left it to when you'd played it to death. I appreciate your comment about 'Cicatriz ESP'; personally I thought that the bits either side of the ambient bit were enough to redeem the track. Other than that, pretty nice review.
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Album Rating: 4.5
you know,i can't help but think 'this guy is clueless' every time someone reviews a concept album track by track.
this is not a singles review guys.this (and many more albums) is a concept album.you have to exeprience it as a whole and not splice it in bits.
i mean, this is like breaking down your girlfriends' legs/eyes/ass and rating them and saying her eyes are like this and her tits are like this etc
you miss the whole point.
this is an intelligent album from one of 2-3 of the best bands of the 00's and i highly recommend it to anyone whose brain vision has evolved past the normalities of the average mind.
4,5/5
and please stop these dorky track-by-track reviews.
see the bigger picture.please.This Message Edited On 11.18.08
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Album Rating: 5.0
john, if its not latin influenced then how do you explain the major reliance on triads throughout their work?
or the tribal-oriented, furious, progressive beats that are 100% indicative of latin music?
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Album Rating: 5.0
which were adapted from egyptian music in the first place a long time ago. irrelevant. all music was adapted from something-somewhere, if we want to go down that rabbit trail..
i'd agree with you on the tracks that have a predominant latin influence throughout the track, but nearly every 'freak out' session that twists into a free jazz realm in sooooo many of their songs breaks into the latin fever
this is specifically predominant in de-loused. and for the record, are you going to re-do this review along with young machetes?
double edit: aren't you black, chan?This Message Edited On 11.18.08
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white kid w/ negative body mass and penchant for red booty shorts =/= black
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Album Rating: 5.0
i'm not black wtf no insult... but you are pretty militant
used in tons of cultures it's also understood that the latin culture is one the easiest examples of a culture from cultures; their origin is the combination of dozens of influences. that's why the census bureau hates latinos... they're the racial gray area. the progressive, free jazz-like percussion is one of the largest contributions from the latin community in modern music.
but seriously, are you going to re-do this review and make it a 5?
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Album Rating: 5.0
are you going to rewrite it?
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Album Rating: 5.0
enter lewis, the blessed mouthpiece of us sputs
Not going to rewrite this tbh.
fair enough.... please though... if you don't rewrite young machetes i'll be forced to write my first review. nobody wants that to start that machine.This Message Edited On 11.18.08
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woot, young machetes
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Album Rating: 5.0
woot indeed, bleak
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just thought my input was necessary for the conversations flow brandtweathers
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Album Rating: 4.5
i still find it humorous to have john write this review, basically only giving it a 3 out of pure fanboyism, and immediately post with a 4.5 above his name
oh well
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Album Rating: 4.5
yeah i know
doesn't detract from the fact that i find it funny
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wtf
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sincerest form of flattery and all that perhaps
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Album Rating: 5.0
"Where have I been?" is what I started thinking about 3 minutes into this. The only bad thing I can think of (after 2 listens) is the pointless/annoying "ambience" sections.
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