(At The Drive In * Rush) / Rick Rubin = The Mars Volta?

[nfotxn]

I don't know what to think of The Mars Volta. Are they really something worthwhile or just affecting Prog Rock clichés? I will always like Cedric's stream-of-consciousness lyrics and Omar's hair though.

Time to listen more.

Comments

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

Time to listen more.

Listening more? I must have you. NOW.

*sweeps clears table again*

;)

[bearringsd.livejournal.com]

You know...it makes me think...OK, if Geddy Lee had a kid and that kid had a band....

I like it...it's like Rush 2004.

(I hope I haven't offended John. LOL)

[vianegativa.livejournal.com]

I picked up their album as well. I'll let you know my overblown opinion later. :-)

[buc.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie. The album is pretty good. Never go see them live, though. Well, unless you like jam bands. Two hours. Five songs. Lots of Led Zeppelin poses and leaps.

[bassettdawg.livejournal.com]

the only song i really paid any attention to was "Televators"...but i still haven't gotten a chance to listen to more of their material and form a valid opinion on them.

[uspinmeround.livejournal.com]

Mars Volta = Ick ick ick!!!

but that's just me...

[xbearxrx.livejournal.com]

Worst band on earth... oh wait... that's Muse... Anyway... they're second worst.

[schillerium.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough of their oeuvre to have an opinion yet, but the stuff I have heard didn't exactly compel me to rush right out and hear more...

[umkinda.livejournal.com]

I love that album -- it's so spacey and crazy and speedy. It's like the aural version of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. It's about time music started getting more gaudy and eccentric again...

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I am all about the gaudy and eccentric. The comparison to A Scanner Darkly is perfect.

I was actually reading some scripts written as parts in the Aliens trilogy like a big geek. Anyhow, the music went perfectly. Well at least I was having fun.

To me the best parts are still the lyrics though. So spacy.

[dirtyglamour.livejournal.com]

My brother recommended them to me. What's a good song to download? I listened to a couple that I snagged, and they didn't really grab me.

[bleepkeeper.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't use Rush as the multiplier there; maybe Yes or Can or Gong or someone proggier than Rush, but not Rush. I thought the recent live record was worthwhile, but the studio record is a more engaging recording.

And they're a million miles better than Sparta.