Mars Volta Album Poll!!!!!!!!!!!!

FTM by a considerable margin, then Amputechture, then Deloused. The new one is so bad it's unreal.

i like the tremulant ep. never heard the albums.

every single pitchfork review is basically "these guys were good but they completely fell off at this particular album", lol bad luck dudes

really tho "the bedlam in goliath" is some unlistenable inexcusable bullshit

Yah, just wanted to do the studio albums here. Never actually checked out the EP's. Are they worth checking out?

The first one's good, sounds like Drive-In. I hate guys like this, "he puts out 50 albums a year!", but they're not v good, so so what

The new one is so bad it's unreal.

U mad, doggie.

Bedlam is the only one I haven't really spent much time with.

frances, clearly. but bedlam isn't far behind.

really tho "the bedlam in goliath" is some unlistenable inexcusable bullshit

nonsense. nonsense, I tell you! it's a fine album, and easily superior to the debut.

Hmm. Maybe my one straight-through listen wasn't enough, maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind. I'll give it another go.

OK this is already much, much better than I remember.

kinda done with these guys but there was some cool shit on De-Loused. couldn't sit through what i heard of the new one but the drumming is sick.

Woah. People actually listen to this?

I often ask that very question about the corporate commercial shit-pop that unfathomably accrues 500-post ILM threads. Although in saying that I'm just as guilty of intolerance as the hardcore popists. Very well, live and let live. But these guys WERE (and arguably ARE) capable of making superb music. They're not ideal; their style is often rooted in Santana-esque Latin cheese, and they're not as varied as some might claim, but at their best they're electric.

I never understood the hate for Bedlam. It's easily better than Amputechture, and miles better than many other rock albums released recently. It really only had one bad song, that being Tourniquet Man, which wasn't really a song (I don't think). Plus, can anyone really claim there is a more electric live band out today? Sheeeit.

i would be a much, much happier person if none of these four albums existed.

wishing music didn't exist makes no rational sense at all

oh i know

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None of the other albums really compare to De-Loused...

Deloused is the only good one, FTM has it's moments, otherwise...

brainwasher otm

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They're not ideal; their style is often rooted in Santana-esque Latin cheese, and they're not as varied as some might claim, but at their best they're electric. OTM.
I really like FTM but true about De-Loused. Its really tiring to listen to their albums tho, I really need to be in a space where I can genuinely enjoy it or I just block it out as noise (which is what I do with most guitar wankery of a much, much lesser scale and why I can't listen to speed metal)

never really cared about these guys but the new album, I think I kind of like it a lot! i mean, gonna be tuning out the lyrics of course when yr album's called "Noctourniquet".
But dig the sounds, the drums,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJ_rq3gN0Q

that's fucking horrible. drums are deantoni parks, who isn't horrible at all , here he is being badass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRtLWg7SFw

Who in the world would imagine that is music anyone would want to listen to.

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my only frame of reference for this band is that they're constantly namedropped as an example of mental music by a dude i know who can be 100% relied on to be wearing a trilby and 'fun' trousers

this album's pretty all right, and this is definitely my favorite track from it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omdjeVwxsQ8