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Join Date: Sep 2005
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And one of the best progressive rock albums to be released this year is...
The Bedlam In Goliath By The Mars Volta. I know there are some fans of the band on the board (largely of the first album), but I encourage everyone to check the new disc out. The whole album is great and probably their most focused, energetic effort since the band's debut.
Also, if anyone else has heard it, I'd love to get your take on it. ![]()
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I picked it up the other day along with the new Protest the Hero album. So far the PTH cd is winning the battle for my cd player.
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Try the new Tiles, it will kick your ass, as to Mars Volta, seen them many times as they are originally from the El Paso area, They were huge when they were here and were really nobody's, and even today WHEN, and IF they ever come here it is sold out, yeah they forgot where they came from.
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I don't like the new Tiles too much. It has a lot of promise, but never fulfilled. It has one killer song though. The rest of it I at times want to hit them for their choice of lyrics. The band definitely went in a more 'riff' direction, which is great. I enjoy more developed songs. But there was a lack of warmth, a lack of catchiness. I just was left empty after too many songs.
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Can't get passed the absolutely hideous vocals.
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Not sure if you call that singing. More like whining in key.
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It's a different style of signing for sure but I wouldn't call it whining (at least not the kind we'd associate with bands like Fall Out Boy or Panic! At The Disco).
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I never really got into The Mars Volta, or At The Drive In for that matter, but I don't really knock anyone who listens to them. Like ...AndTimeBegan said, there is a LOT worse out there.
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I cant get into Mars Volta though I liked At The Drive In and I enjoy about half of the Sparta tracks.
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I got the new Protest the Hero cd on it's street date and it has not left my cd player since. ![]() I tried Mars Volta a while back and didn't get much out of it. I will give this new one a spin.
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I can't really get into any of the bands mentioned above.
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