Does The Mars Volta suck?

May 2024 ยท 4 minute read
hard to follow...what im about to say is in no way intended to offend but...

the reason they are hard to follow is because most of their music is played in jaz roots which is very uncontemporary for this time. They often incorporate off timing or augmeter into their music which gives it a frantic and desperate feel to it. If you dont understand what that means..it means you cant tap your feet four times in a measure like a regular song..it would be 5/8 timing or whatever the case may be.

the bassist uses halicone effect over his tone which gives it an eerie vibe and a slight altered delay effect. He IMO is the most underated member of the band..if you have ever seen a TMV freestyle jam session you will understand what i mean. His walking bass lines, his latin fills..greatness.

And i think the band themselves said it best...they consider each one of their albums as a soundtrack as opposed to a freeflowing song by song collection. The draw inspiration from movies, literature and real life affliction. their lyrics may seem odd or intangible because the lyricist and vocalst Cedric uses his own form of free thought peotry, the same way a beat poet would at a jazz club. It makes sense to him and only him, but if thought upon hard enough someone can find messages int he lyrics.

Genre

i cannot for the life of me understand why any band would ever want to catagorize their music into a single genre. To me, that limits my artistic expression to the point if irrelevancy. why bother to make music if you have guidelines..why make an effort to create something of natural artistic birth only to have it erased from existince becuase a record label or radio station deem your creative mind to be outside the boundries of what is acceptable to the normal audible pallet...i cannot understand that.

they are revered by many many fans and critics alike as the most creative and interesting band making music today. Their musicianship is almost unparrelelled in the sense of creativity and overall skill. The band has sold more than a million copies combined.

They wont ever sell out huge arenas. I dont think they would want to. they want a personal show. And they have played big arenas by the way. The played to sold out crowds while opening for System of a Down and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I know that the headliners are the ones responsible for putting asses in the seats..but TMV was chosen BY those bands to open for them, proving they have the respect and admiration of the biggest names in rock music.

I can totally understand why people do not like this band. I can 100% understand that.

But there is no way in hell someone can say this band sucks as musicians.

oh and as for people only liking them becuase the are ''underground''...

how, if a band is truly underground, do enough people think its cool to like a band as such without hearing them which would be likely if they were truly ''underground''. This band isnt underground. they have sold a million copies. thats not really underground.

and thats like saying you only like bands you like becuase of their image. i know thats not true. You know thats not true. I dont think you can assume people only listen to a band to be cool. No one would go through the effort to go and and find a hard to locate record and spend the $15 on it only to show off..not a band like TMV where their true fans would call your ass out in a heartbeat. And I hate when i like a band no one has heard of becuase i have no one to talk about them with.

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