Album Rating: 3.5
i agree with that
not with chan, that is
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this is their opus, hands down.
that's the sad part.
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Album Rating: 4.0
no.
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Album Rating: 3.0
all i know is cedric's voice with TMV has always annoyed the crap outta me. I could handle it when he was in ATDI, but he had to change it didn't he.
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cedric's voice is probably a highlight for tmv because it takes attention away from the awful, incoherent wank-fest-pop-pushery that is tmv.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I love Cedric's voice, but definitely can understand how it could be grating to others.
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Album Rating: 3.0
haha i was gonna mention that i liked TMV when they weren't jking off their instruments, but thought i'd get a lot of hate for it. Unfocussed jams aren't really my thing, but they definitely have their place.
I liked Cedric's voice in ATDI, but since then he sings with a high larynx and enunciates his words in a contrived eccentric way.. it annoys me more because I know how much I used to like his voice. he definitely shines at a couple of points though.
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This band goes against all aspects of my musical ethos outside this album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
but mars volta jams and instrumental work are actually the shit.
seriously though people really abuse the term "wank" as far as talking about The Mars Volta go. The only album that comes off as untasteful to me is Bedlam In Goliath(amputechture at times, though I like the atmospherics on the closer and starter). The textures on Frances The Mute are actually executed really well, in my opinion.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Stop speaking of wankery. This is obviously not a Dream Theater album.
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This is a cohesive album, the way the band each song, linking them with that reoccurring ambiance is great.
As far as some of the albums sounding the same, I'm not sure if people are hearing what they want to hear or refuse to admit to it, but their albums do sound very similar, especially post-Frances. As another person said from De-loused to the Mars Volta was a bit of a leap. But Amputechture and The bedlam in Goliath do sound quite similar, not they they are bad albums, because they are great on their own, but a deaf person could tell they sound similar.
If Amputechture and The Bedlam in Goliath was released together as a double-album, it wouldn't seem awkward or out of place. That's how similar they sound. TMV's sound has always consisted of Spanglish, frantic acid rock jam outs with schizophrenic guitar solos, and a certain appreciation for melody and ambiance.
Frances, Amputechture, and Bedlam, to me, seem like sibling albums. Octahedron is a cousin.
I'm not trying to slam TMV. They are great at what they do. But if you want to hear a band that have a dramatic diversity within their discography, try Radiohead. Their most similar sounding albums were Kid A and Amnesiac, and that's only because they were recorded during the same time period.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Bedlam and Amp didn't sound similar at all to me.....
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Album Rating: 4.0
ok well he wrote bedlam while recording amputechture, so the radiohead excuse is kind of faulty. And amputechture and bedlam don't sound the same at all, you're generalizing them far too much. Amputechture is far looser, longer, and ponders far longer. Bedlam is just sort of 4 to 6 minutes of structured madness.
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Album Rating: 4.0
the songs on bedlam that is(referring to the last sentence of my comment)
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Album Rating: 3.5
Bedlam is remarkable. I think it'll get the attention it deserves in like five years.
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Album Rating: 4.0
bedlam is pretty poor. Worst TMV.
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Bedlam is maybe their worst, but Goliath fucking kills. Admit it guys.
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Album Rating: 3.5
When I think about Bedlam song by song, I have a hard time denying it a spot up with Frances and De-Loused. It's just a mammoth of an album.
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Album Rating: 3.5
What is it that you don't like about it?
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calm down man
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