Album Rating: 4.0

Frances >>> De-Loused 4 EVAR!!

Album Rating: 3.0

i love the mars volta

Album Rating: 4.5

Modern Genius





Definitly deserving of a "5"



awesome review too



turned me on to some of the songs i hadnt listened all that much to

Album Rating: 5.0

pure genius..... but deloused easily beat frances the mute.... frances just has to much nothing happening, it gets borring. But when the songs are actually going and the birds quit chirpping it is and amazing record. But i have to say it was a let down hearing that follow Deloused.

Album Rating: 5.0

I like the EP they put out before this, because all of the BS was in the first 2 minutes of the record and the last 3 minutes of it, so it was easily avoidable.



As for Frances vs. De-Loused. De-Loused by a landslide.

Album Rating: 4.0

Great album! I like the musicianship on it, and it was a great buy. Excellent review too. I also have Frances the Mute, but I prefer De-Loused.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I like this album better then Frances The Mutes. It moves along better.

Album Rating: 5.0

De-Loused takes the giant burrito away from Frances, and takes a huge bite!!

No way.

De-Loused in the Comatorium is on a diet; it's a lil' sissy who can't handle his meat.

I like em both about the same =/

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is orgasmic.

really, this album is better understood once you have read the story written about it. it is also called de-loused in the comatorium. apparatus makes a lot more sense lyrically once you've read it.
first off, to the guy who said that they were crappy punk rockers going prog. ATDI was already pretty prog themselves, so you can't say they went prog, they were prog. i don't understand how anyone can dislike any mars volta song. besides, if you don't like de-loused, listen to frances the mute. it's a completely different sound. they are definitely best to listen to inebriated, all of the sound effects and randomization just makes sense when you're chilling stoned.

Album Rating: 5.0

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Album Rating: 5.0

This record changed my life and opened me up to so much other awesome music, like at the drive-in and king crimson.



Oh, and drunkenship of lanterns DOES rock!!!



And that "ive been waiting for so long...." chorusy bit on This apparatus must be unearthed is orgasmic

Album Rating: 5.0

De-Loused was about the final days of Julio Venegas, beginning with when he overdosed on morphine and entered a kind of dream world deep inside the depths of his own mind. When he re-awakened out of his coma, he claimed that his real place was inside the dream world and jumped off a turnpike a few days later..



Frances The Mute was based on a diary that Jeremy Ward found in the glove compartment of a car when he was a repo man. It outlines a man's struggle to reunite with his estranged parents after he was put up for adoption by them.

hooray for weird alien music

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

LOL EMO GAME

Frances The Mute is so much better than this. This becomes almost bad at points.

Album Rating: 5.0

psh it doesnt become bad nearly as often as Frances....there are only a few low points on this one, while about half of every song on Frances is a low point





they're still 2 of my fav. albums

Album Rating: 3.5

Except that Frances never becomes bad. This has several not so great songs.