@@Genghis_Sean_ easier to mix when its not actually a band. Its just omar and the rest is electronic drums, bass and synths. In the past they were a bombastic prog rock band. Not at all what they are now.
I just discovered this band today and I am absolutely mesmerized and “in aw” by the band as a whole! Where have you been all my life!!! Watching the interview w/ lead singer, I think I’m in love... Wow, thank you for being there for me today. Grieving over the loss of my son, and you sent me so much love and light, so much inspiration, motivation and carried me up out of the black hole. Much love to “The Mars Volta” band. I look forward to listening and discovering everything you create so beautifully! Kisses
I would club a baby seal to erase my mind of the mars volta and rediscover them. Not really but I’m jealous of you lol. And their back! Hop you got some tickets to a show
Cedric seems like a cool dude. In the music he's like this dark, chaotic neutral entity you'd only meet in a nightmare or a bad acid trip (I mean this in the best possible way). But in real life he's just like this dude you'd meet in one of your undergrad psych classes and make friends with.
Almost every song he says "one of my favorite songs". Don't worry, Cedric, we all feel the same way. I love this album. I feel like TMV really grew up on this one. For the first time on an album of theirs, I haven't found a song that I "eh, this one's good, but not as good as ______". The entire album is amazing. Period.
It took me like 4 or 5 years later but I finally listened to this album again, wasn't disappointed after I realize it's about where you're at sometimes in life that defines whether you are going to like an album or not..
It took me a year to get into it. I think I just hated Malkin Jewel and Lapochka so much it ruined the album, but the rest of the songs are actually awesome.
It took me YEARS to get into this album! I was obsessed with TMV and Amputecture in the 2000's but couldn't stand Noctourniquet when it came out in the 2010s. Then I got out of it all together, but, recently, I got back into TMV. Bedlam is now my favorite, and I'm finally starting to dig Noctourniquet too. I'm at a different place in life, compared to 10-15 yrs ago, and some music just takes time to grow on you, and some, I just never gave a chance (probably because my favorite drummers Jon & Tom were MIA) to begin with, Noctourniquet being the perfect example.
@@adamrose6969 I just hate the chorus tbh. I listened to this whole album again last night and when you pay attention to the lyrics it makes the whole album much better. I'm trying to force myself to like lapochka haha. Malkin jewel has grown on me a lot. I think it's one of the most fucked up songs I've ever heard. Don't know I'd listen to it by itself but in the context of the album it works really well.
whats weird is my mom actually bought me this album the actual vinyl version and didn't listen to it until several years later. I was a massive TMV fan as a teenager and when this album came out I guess I moved on and couldn't get myself to listen to it because it just gave me anxiety in some weird way. Recently with them reforming and seeing them live again I listened to it and the rest of the albums again and you're right at this point in my life I can dig them again. TMV made a huge impact on my life in so many ways, and for some reason in my 20s I just disliked them maybe it was just trying to change and have my own voice or something. But now that I'm older I feel like I'm listening to their stuff objectively and i'm really pretty impressed and went into mini-obession mode again for a month or so
No matter what the fan hivemind says, I will die on the hill that Noctourniquet is the second best full album. And it felt like a perfect bookend to Deloused as a secret concept album
deadeyes well honestly Deloused has been well covered and it’s maybe the most “cracked” (figured out) album lyrically. Read the story book that Cedric wrote and then research interpretations of both that book and the album itself and then tie it all together with your own interpretation. I’d also love Cedric to cover it but he never will.
Frances! I want to know what the HELL it was about. I don't think he will ever speak about Bedlam in Goliath, nor will Omar. No matter how true the "story" behind it may or may not be.
@@flkfnd frances story has already been covered by fans pretty well... main character (vismund cygnus) goes on a quest for vengeance after discovering his biological mother (frances the mute) was killed while killing birth
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is on Netflix instant. never knew about it before this video. It might be the best thing ive seen this year. perfect blend of brutality, beauty, romance, comedy and horror....IMHO of course.
I concur. The best time to blaze up is at night when all of your work is done. However, if one smokes indica based weed during the day, of course he or she will get that burned out feeling during the course of the day as opposed to someone who smokes sativa based weed. Ultimately, it comes down to the individual, the strain, and how much he or she is smoking at a given time. With that being said, Cedric did inspire me to start living a "cleaner" life. I'm excited about sobriety for a change.
In absentia is on my top 3 tmv songs. Also lapochka growin up speaking russian was usually used as a glue trap for rats/mice imo makes the song even deeper and cooler even though cedric doesnt know it
I'm not surprised Molochwalker was recorded around Bedlam In Goliath, I felt like it was a little nod to that album or something. I also thought Imago was similar to Copernicus. Felt like they had similarities to past albums while still moving forward. Definitely my favorite album.
"So it turns out that X song came from either an acoustic or electronic song that Omar was writing when we thought we were done with the album, so I did made him keep it and I talked about kids are seen and not heard"
I turn 21 in 2015, perhaps... TMV could reunite? I am just kidding of course, but hey, that would be one damn great year! I miss you guys, and I really hope you all are at peace with one another. Bless you all, TMV. Much love.
I'm glad they changed the chorus of absentia, because it escalates in a way I like. And then the sounds in the transition into the end, that just surprised me and left me at Awh.
Long winded on noctourniquete? I think its great. easily one of my favorites on the album. I really liked the guitar parts they are sensible which is a compliment.
haha two shoutouts to new orleans..didnt know they recorded here..never thought id hear cedric talk about confederacy of dunces of all things that was cool
All my problem solving is at its peak when I'm on the can.... seriously try it....I don't know what it is about the act of being on the can but alot of my best thoughts come to me whilst on the can....I'm not being a smartass either
Their first 2 albums are epic, and I don't use that word lightly. I really miss John Theodore. If you have a chance to see this band do not pass it up.
He was in the process of quitting while the album was being recorded, so some lyrics were scribed with the aid of some dank nugs. Some weren't, but some were. Meanwhile, I think the lyrics are gnarly. "DAAAAASEHRAAAAA!!!!!"
He said MolochWalker came from the Bedlam era, but they just recorded it. It is most certainly the most Bedlam sounding on the album for sure. Noctourniquet is an amazing album overall, but MW is the most Bedlam sounding.
“it reminded me of 'Ege Bamyasi' and 'Tago Mago' -era Can.“ he's referring to the German rock band “Can“ from the late 1960s, and the sound of two albums they made.
I like how for Lapochka he mentioned a character named Ignatius from a book called The Confederacy of Dunces, a close friend of the family who used to baby sit me growing up would make references to that book, always been meaning to read it. Sounds like it had some funny parts, he was a funny guy. Also is it just me or does Cedric seemed really hyper and twitchy in this video, like he drank 15 red bulls right before goin on camera and/or snorting a fat line.
I agree. He's an amazing writer of vocal lines and harmonies, but I take it as a somewhat disrespectful behavior of his to fail to come even close to that work live. When they had that large group during the Amputechture and Bedlam era, I would always wonder why no backup singers were engaged. They could've done an incredible work out of it, withouth getting in interference with the "essence" of The Mars Volta. Thomas Pridgen does resent Credric as a rather prideful guy, though.