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Ricky, what's your favorite Mars Volta song?

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adventurous quadroon
  10/05/22
The entire Deloused album is a gem
180 rigpig crackhouse
  10/05/22
Roulette Dares and Eriatarka are bangers
Swollen people who are hurt principal's office
  10/05/22
seeing them this weekend looks like they've been playing se...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/05/22
Unexpected and 180.
Swollen people who are hurt principal's office
  10/05/22
https://www.setlist.fm/stats/the-mars-volta-1bd69584.html?ye...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/05/22
Looks sweat. What kind of crowd turns out to a Mars Volta...
Swollen people who are hurt principal's office
  10/05/22
probably. tickets cost more than I would have expected, so i...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/05/22
tyft going next week
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
cicatriz ESP, eriatarka, miranda that ghost aint holy anymor...
apoplectic dashing ticket booth alpha
  10/05/22
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Swollen people who are hurt principal's office
  10/05/22
1) Tetragrammaton - (easily a top 10 best song of all time a...
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
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Swollen people who are hurt principal's office
  10/05/22
The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter ...
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
no In Absentia?
adventurous quadroon
  10/05/22
good track but too much filler, end is killer though
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
replace eriatarka with cassandra gemini and this is basicall...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/05/22
180 bro ty, i still need to listen to that album more it kee...
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
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Jewish Mob
  09/02/26
what about Meccamputechture?
adventurous quadroon
  10/05/22
top 15-18 too clunky
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
The saxophones are sick in that song. I think Ouroboros mig...
adventurous quadroon
  10/05/22
yeah that one is #3 for me on that album maybe tied with ile...
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
as weird as it is, this is the song that fully got me into t...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/05/22
they've got a lot of good songs IMO that aren't the popular ...
adventurous quadroon
  10/05/22
i would say the majority of their best songs are like this t...
Charismatic Spot
  10/05/22
Ricky, do you like Agadez?
adventurous quadroon
  10/07/22
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adventurous quadroon
  10/08/22
really liek the concept at the Bridge, but like most of the ...
Charismatic Spot
  10/08/22
God damn Ricky we don't deserve you
Charismatic Spot
  04/25/23
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adventurous quadroon
  10/08/22
Hi JCM!
Stirring public bath juggernaut
  10/08/22
I saw them and they are still amazing. Full review coming to...
Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate
  10/10/22
180 cant wait i like the 1st song off new album
Charismatic Spot
  10/10/22
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Jewish Mob
  09/02/26


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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:45 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284546)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:46 PM
Author: 180 rigpig crackhouse

The entire Deloused album is a gem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284551)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:47 PM
Author: Swollen people who are hurt principal's office

Roulette Dares and Eriatarka are bangers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284558)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:47 PM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

seeing them this weekend

looks like they've been playing setlists with basically none of the new crap, 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284561)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:50 PM
Author: Swollen people who are hurt principal's office

Unexpected and 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284571)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:50 PM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

https://www.setlist.fm/stats/the-mars-volta-1bd69584.html?year=2022

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284576)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:51 PM
Author: Swollen people who are hurt principal's office

Looks sweat.

What kind of crowd turns out to a Mars Volta show in 2022? Similar to a crowd that goes to see Tool?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284583)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:53 PM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

probably. tickets cost more than I would have expected, so it's probably not going to be a bunch of 22 year olds. I'll report back next week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284589)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 3:58 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

tyft going next week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285267)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:49 PM
Author: apoplectic dashing ticket booth alpha

cicatriz ESP, eriatarka, miranda that ghost aint holy anymore, frances the mute (single)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284568)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 1:49 PM
Author: Swollen people who are hurt principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45284569)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 3:31 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

1) Tetragrammaton - (easily a top 10 best song of all time across any genre, like zappa meets tool meets yes meets king crimson meets kabbalah)

2) Eriatarka (i mean holy fuck that intro riff, jon theodore in another realm entirely with latin grooves and the best sounding snare fo all time, structure of the bass part and its groove i still dont fully comprehend, transition @3:38 gives me chills, ending jam @5:13, total masterpiece)

3) Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt (@2:26 i mean jfc, one of the most orginal songs ive ever heard in my life)

4) Viscera Eyes (one of best bass grooves of all time at 6:00 that morphs into one of thebest jam sequences possible, then explosed at 8:30, one of the best buildups in any song ever made, sounds like john frusciante played all the guitar tracks for this song)

5) Day of the Baphomets (dissonant harmony arpeggio chords are unreal esp @ 4min and drum breakdown + guitar/sax solos at 4:40 is almost incomprehensible humans created this)

6) Drunkship of Lanterns (drums need i say more, might be best ending to a song they made, i think flea played bass on this song)

7) Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus/Cassandra Gemini (combining them bc basically same thematic elements, transition and groove @8:44 speaks for itself on Cygnus)

8) Tie: This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed (haunting bass drum combo and underrrated guitar solo) / Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) (2nd half @ 3:57 on is near perfection)

9) Tie: Metatron/Wax Simulacra(not a fan of pridgen as drummer but he crushed this with his ghost notes and actually not playing in parts like before chorus @ 1:12 on Metatron and his intro to WS is simply retarded i think the one time he was better option than Jon Theodore)

10) Dyslexicon (simply brilliant, have never really heard a song like this where the synth is really moving the song along, chorus and breakdown kinda sucks though)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285135)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 4:01 PM
Author: Swollen people who are hurt principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285278)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 4:05 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285309)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 4:06 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon

no In Absentia?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285318)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 4:08 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

good track but too much filler, end is killer though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285327)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 4:07 PM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

replace eriatarka with cassandra gemini and this is basically a perfect list

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285322)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:12 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

180 bro ty, i still need to listen to that album more it keeps growing on me with every listen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285601)



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Date: September 2nd, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: Jewish Mob



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#50112453)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:14 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon

what about Meccamputechture?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285611)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:17 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

top 15-18

too clunky

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285631)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:18 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon

The saxophones are sick in that song. I think Ouroboros might be top 3 songs from Bedlam

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285635)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:23 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

yeah that one is #3 for me on that album maybe tied with ilenya

actually i forgt how sick the middle part was iirc and that chuggy riff syncopated latter third

damn they are a fucking sick group so many 1800000 songs

i think i heard this for the first time fried out of my mind day after ayahuasca in the amazon while in a hammock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285661)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:19 PM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

as weird as it is, this is the song that fully got me into them, when my friend in 2006 would just play it constantly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285640)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:21 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon

they've got a lot of good songs IMO that aren't the popular ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285649)



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Date: October 5th, 2022 5:23 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

i would say the majority of their best songs are like this tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45285663)



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Date: October 7th, 2022 11:29 PM
Author: adventurous quadroon

Ricky, do you like Agadez?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45298439)



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Date: October 8th, 2022 11:08 AM
Author: adventurous quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45299714)



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Date: October 8th, 2022 11:45 AM
Author: Charismatic Spot

really liek the concept at the Bridge, but like most of the songs on that album minus the two mentioned above PRidgin (nog) has no concept of a drum pocket and just has pointless fills and fireworks on cymbals and snare like a fucking showboating ape

Cedric does some really creative melodic shit at 2:15 till the breakdown midway

Pidgin is so fucking awful the more i listen to this album, transitions with straight 16th and 32nd note snares @ 3:10, imagine Jon handling this part, Tom has zero creativity , bass line after is decent towards end but honestly this song pisses me off the more i listen to it bc its so good but half baked - all this buildup for a dissonant At-The Drive In riff at 5:15 LMAO

Would say its their worst shit but then there's an entire Octahedron album worse than this that this should be on; edit: Askepios is so much worse than this nm Tom is literally retarded Im 100% convinced i could come up with a better drum part on both of these with a shitty Roland set and ableton not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45299819)



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Date: April 25th, 2023 5:05 PM
Author: Charismatic Spot

God damn Ricky we don't deserve you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#46238238)



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Date: October 8th, 2022 1:38 AM
Author: adventurous quadroon



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45298894)



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Date: October 8th, 2022 1:38 AM
Author: Stirring public bath juggernaut

Hi JCM!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45298897)



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Date: October 10th, 2022 12:19 AM
Author: Brass Nighttime Clown Degenerate

I saw them and they are still amazing. Full review coming tomorrow with huge amounts of Volta scholarship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45307502)



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Date: October 10th, 2022 12:45 AM
Author: Charismatic Spot

180 cant wait

i like the 1st song off new album

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#45307557)



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Date: September 2nd, 2026 9:40 PM
Author: Jewish Mob



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5206270&forum_id=2̃#50112451)