Going through a big TMV phase at the moment and realised it’s been almost five years since their ‘final’ show at the forum in kentish town. I’m probably a superfan/apologist for their worst excesses but still feel like they got a bad rap for being ‘self-indulgent’ or ‘unlisteneable’.
What says you in 2017?
Deloused good, rest shit
Deloused and Frances good, rest shit
All or most of their records are decent tbh
Shit band, shit fans
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Otherwise, feel free to post some good Mars Volta songs (preferably not off the first two records coz everyone’s heard those to death)
I find the very idea that they’d even need a reappraisal baffling. Apart from the first track on their last album it’s all good.
Hope they reform. Just cannot be bothered with At The Drive In.
EDIT - I originally said “the first track on their first album”, which obviously isn’t a bad track. The first track on their last album, though, is hideous. I AM A LANDMINE.
i really don’t tbh. cedric ruins everything he touches nowadays. the way they booted jon theodore out so unceremoniously means he’ll never likely return. i like things about all of their later drummers but no one drummer can do the whole discog properly.
Huuuuge fan. I did a lot of drum clinics absolutely rinsing various MV tracks.
My favourite Mars Volta moment will always be this. Around 4:23 Jon does a nice little syncopated bit on the snare, and the next time you see him he’s grinning his tits off. Lovely:
I absolutely adore De-loused. Still in my top 5 of all time. 2003 gig at the Wedgewood Rooms still my favourite gig of all time.
Enjoyed Frances the Mute when it came out but haven’t really listened since. Not very familiar with anything else apart from bits of the third. Someone make a Spotify playlist of their best stuff (not off the first 2)?