The Mars Volta

Demiurge

Anyone get their new album? They keep reminding me more and more of Yes with this album. It's amazingly insane.

I'm hosting a track on my site, but hell...my music threads always get zero replies.

The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez

"L’ Via
Hija de Miranda
Tu Apellido se cambió
L’ Via
Sin Ojos me quieres dar
Una historia sin mi madre
Solo tengo que decirte
El dolor de noche dice
Solo se quedo el vestido
Le lave la sangre

L’ Via
No dejes de descansar
En la calle caminas
Quien te va a perseguir
L’ Via
Te quieren matar
Dientes de Machete
Cabezas de gallo

L’ Via
Durmiendo en paz
Abre los ojos
Todo cambiará
L’ Via
Soñado de venganza
Y yo te lo juro
Lo van a pagar
Blackmailed, she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for

L ‘ Via
Hija de Miranda
Tu apellido se cambió
L’ Via
Sin ojos me quieres dar
Una historia sin mi madre
Solo tengo que decirte
El dolor de noche dice
Solo se quedo el vestido
Le lave la sangre

Blackmailed, she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for
Solo tengo
Una hora
Y me duermo
Terminado
Por veinte y cinco
Años pasaron
Siguen los cuerpos
Aqui temblando
Tome la sangre
Comi el cuerpo
Mis lagrimas
Quiebra el espejo

When all the worms come
Crawlin out of your head
Telling you
Don’t you be afraid
When all the worms come
Crawlin out of your head
Telling you
Don’t you be afraid

Blackmailed she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
Shark kites got tangled in the moleskin
Urgent plea of escape
A mouth to mouth on the chalkboard
Written in fingernail distaste
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for

Blackmailed she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for..."

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by Demiurge
Anyone get their new album? They keep reminding me more and more of Yes with this album. It's amazingly insane.

I'm hosting a track on my site, but hell...my music threads always get zero replies.

The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez

"L’ Via
Hija de Miranda
Tu Apellido se cambió
L’ Via
Sin Ojos me quieres dar
Una historia sin mi madre
Solo tengo que decirte
El dolor de noche dice
Solo se quedo el vestido
Le lave la sangre

L’ Via
No dejes de descansar
En la calle caminas
Quien te va a perseguir
L’ Via
Te quieren matar
Dientes de Machete
Cabezas de gallo

L’ Via
Durmiendo en paz
Abre los ojos
Todo cambiará
L’ Via
Soñado de venganza
Y yo te lo juro
Lo van a pagar
Blackmailed, she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for

L ‘ Via
Hija de Miranda
Tu apellido se cambió
L’ Via
Sin ojos me quieres dar
Una historia sin mi madre
Solo tengo que decirte
El dolor de noche dice
Solo se quedo el vestido
Le lave la sangre

Blackmailed, she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for
Solo tengo
Una hora
Y me duermo
Terminado
Por veinte y cinco
Años pasaron
Siguen los cuerpos
Aqui temblando
Tome la sangre
Comi el cuerpo
Mis lagrimas
Quiebra el espejo

When all the worms come
Crawlin out of your head
Telling you
Don’t you be afraid
When all the worms come
Crawlin out of your head
Telling you
Don’t you be afraid

Blackmailed she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
Shark kites got tangled in the moleskin
Urgent plea of escape
A mouth to mouth on the chalkboard
Written in fingernail distaste
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for

Blackmailed she fell off every mountain
The ones they tightly wrapped in tape
In her eraser sang the guilty
As it made the best mistakes
And with everybody that I find
And with every clamor that they mine
I won’t forget who I’m looking for
Oh mother help me I’m looking for..."

I personally didn't like it, but to each his own. Sounds more like a mix of james Addiction and Santana to me...

Demiurge

What a weird combination to call out and one I couldn't disagree with more.

It's pretty much prog and this is the only song that's in spanish.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by Demiurge
What a weird combination to call out and one I couldn't disagree with more.

It's pretty much prog and this is the only song that's in spanish.

You couldn't disagree with that more??

OK then, it reminds me of a mix between 2Pac and the Chipmunks christmas album. Now tell me you don't disagree with that more...:D

Demiurge

Quite frankly I take my music way too seriously for this board. Sorry you're not into it, but you had to go comparing it! (joking!!)

phuz

I freakin love De-loused.

I haven't spent much time with Frances The Mute yet, all in due time.

Pre-sale tix for their tour go on sale tomorrow.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by Demiurge
Quite frankly I take my music way too seriously for this board. Sorry you're not into it, but you had to go comparing it! (joking!!)

sounds like me three years ago, except not near as bad as I was.

Everything I listened to was about critically analyzing the music I was listening to, everything from construction to performance. I know my wife got tired of hearing crap like perfect fifths, augmented, diminished, melodic and harmonic minor, relative relationships, chord progressions, dorian, lidian, locrian, mixilidian, aeolian, lydian, circles of fourths/fifths, counterpoint theory...I could literally go on for hours and still not run out of material (music theory was my major in college)

I have over 5,000 CDs, so I like to think of myself as taking it pretty seriously, I'm just to the point where I take it less seriously...listen more for fun than anything - though occasionally I do find myself transscribing a solo or cool melodic line that I hear...

And, in reference to my initial comparison: The basic structure is an EXACT replica of something James Addiction did a while back (I have the CD and yes I will find the song I'm refering to), even the style the song is done in STRONGLY resembles the JA song I'm thinking of. Some of the guitar work and rhythmic structre in part of the song reminded me of some of Carlos's work...

phuz

For someone so into music, ya figure you'd know how to spell JANES Addition.

I can see the similarities (or should I say influence) between Santana and Janes Addition, but The Mars Volta definately has a little niche of their own. In my opinion at least.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Originally posted by phuz
For someone so into music, ya figure you'd know how to spell JANES Addition.

I can see the similarities (or should I say influence) between Santana and Janes Addition, but The Mars Volta definately has a little niche of their own. In my opinion at least.

Hey I said I know music, not how to spell.

I didn't say they were exact renderings of the two groups, just sounded like a mixture of the two to me...basically that's the first thing that came to mind...

phuz

Originally posted by Polkmaniac
Hey I said I know music, not how to spell.

I didn't say they were exact renderings of the two groups, just sounded like a mixture of the two to me...basically that's the first thing that came to mind...

When I first heard de-loused, I thought pink floyd, rush, and and janes addiction. The new one has a bit more of a latin vibe to it, so the santana reference is on point.

Either way, good stuff.

If you don't know, two of the guys' old band is called At The Drive In. Their sound was a lot more loose, and more rock and roll type... but very good as well.

Demiurge

It's Addiction, not addition!

Oh, and Polkmaniac....it's not about critical music listening...it's more about emotion. Whatever is left after that is just a bonus for me. When I read some of the threads for bands like KoRn I want to vomit. It's pure garbage from my perspective, but I still respect people that like it...I just will NEVER know why. I don't understand all the constant 'angry' music that's so cliche 'chorus verse chorus'.

This album is about as refined as I get because I think it loses the emotion.

I've said this a million times, but there is nary a thing on popular radio today worth a damn. I love bands like Tool & A Perfect Circle, but again...I feel something with that music.

It's no use explaining because I'm not trying to convert people. I am rather suprised at the unwillingness to listen to things that haven't been spoon fed, however.

I did a post about Eric Bachman and it got zero replies. That's rather suprising considering the sucess he's had in Seattle with a crowd that ranges from teenagers to people in their late 40s.

Demiurge

Originally posted by phuz
When I first heard de-loused, I thought pink floyd, rush, and and janes addition. The new one has a bit more of a latin vibe to it, so the santana reference is on point.

Either way, good stuff.

If you don't know, two of the guys' old band is called At The Drive In. Their sound was a lot more loose, and more rock and roll type... but very good as well.

At The Drive-In was awesome.

Sparta is At The Drive in minus Cedric & Omar. Omar also has a solo album out that he did for a movie with some CRAZY guitar parts.

It's Cedric's voice and Omar's willingness to break boundries that draw me to this band.

Oh...and the guys who did all of Pink Floyd's artwork did the artwork for this album. Strom rules!

Mjr7531

My friend recently introduced me to their stuff, and I love it. I haven't heard their new album yet, but I'll probably be able to borrow her copy...

Billm57

listened to it the other day..love the musical stuff but the vocals will take some getting used to..i think i need to give it a few more listens
dont see any similarity to Yes though..the vocals done even come close to Jon Anderson's IMO
definately proggish but they got their own sounds.closer to King Crimson maybe if i had to pick one though

phuz

I finally picked this up the other day, and it hasn't left my cd player yet cept for some Sinatra when I was in a "mood" heh.

It's really growing on me, like de-loused did. Good stuff. An aquired taste, but very good stuff.

POlkmaniac, did you find that JA song? I'm curious which one you think matches up with this one.

AustinKP

Sorry to resurrect this, but I was just about to start a new thread when I thought I should search first.

A couple months ago, I was listening to DT and Nightwish at work, commenting on how freaking awesome Mike Portnoy is, when a coworker asked me if I wanted to hear a drummer that would "rock my face off."

When I first heard The Mars Volta, I thought, "what the crap is this?" I kept listening however, and boy, they really are an acquired taste. I've been listening to them for the past two weeks straight. I've really come to appreciate their bizarre sound and rapid meter changes.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that others out there are also familiar with them.

My favorites are "The Widow" from Frances the Mute, and most of their songs from De-loused in the Comatorium. (Drunkship, Inertiatic, Roulette, Televators, and Apparatus in no particular order)

phuz

So, who's got the infoz on the new album? Due out next month, right?

Demiurge

It leaked, bro, and it's really good (never in doubt). Due in stores 9/12.

Welcome back, BTW.

nasty^2

I was going to say, I didn't think the new album was out yet.