Amputechture

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Leader: Cozfunkel
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Created on: 24 May 2009
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A open group for those who's favourite Mars Volta album is Amputechture or just for fans who want to show there appreciation for such an underrated album.

This is a group dedicated to the album "Amputechture" by The Mars Volta.The album seems to be their most under appreciated and controversial album amongst Volta and music fans alike.And therefore necessary to unite fans of the album and/or the band to show their appreciation for this great piece of work.Feel free to talk about whatever you want,be it about The Mars Volta or anything else that's on your mind.Also because it's a fairly new group,could throw around this link http://www.last.fm/group/Amputechture it would be much appreciated. For those of you who haven't heard the album for whatever reason listen to it here for free on Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Mars+Volta/Amputechture



http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11414755/review/11545043/amputechture

"The long version: Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez dissolved At the Drive-In, the most promising punk-rock band of the late Nineties, then formed a sprawling progressive-rock ensemble that recorded two albums composed of frenetic multipart suites at a time when doing so amounted to commercial suicide. The short version: The Mars Volta got away with murder.

But on the band's new Amputechture, there's no such thing as the short version. Singer Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Rodriguez-Lopez work in the intimidating, uncompromising tradition of mid-Seventies Yes and King Crimson: Three songs here exceed ten minutes and are crammed with quantum-physics-level time signatures, battle-to-the-death jousts between guitar and horns and Bixler-Zavala's hummingbird keening. But where the music of those classic Bach-rockers had moments of pastoral clarity, the Mars Volta favor unrelenting density, often through free-jazz clatter and Afro-Cuban percussion onslaughts.

In true mid-Seventies mode, Amputechture is split into halves, and a sedate track introduces three epics. It's on the second half where the Mars Volta catch fire. The lovely ballad "Asilos Magdalena" is followed by "Viscera Eyes," where Rodriguez-Lopez and guest guitarist (and Yes fanatic) John Frusciante melt their fret boards like Robert Fripp. In "Day of the Baphomets," a furious salvo of percussion interrupts a vicious, vintage jam that could have been on Larks' Tongues in Aspic.

Just a few years ago, it was inconceivable that one of the best American rock bands would make its name on updating prog-rock. But then, what distinguishes most of the best rock bands from the ordinary ones is fearlessness, and the Mars Volta have no shortage of that. "

ROB KEMP




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  • Undergrunge

    Zainteresowanych zapraszam do przeczytania recenzji nowej płyty The Mars Volta "Noctourniquet": http://kronikikulturalne.blogspot.com/2012/04/mars-volta-noctourniquet.html

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  • pilot_kameleon

    Four review of "Noctourniquet": http://67mil.blogspot.com/search?q=23.+The+Mars+Volta%2C+Noctourniquet

    March 2012

  • Cozfunkel

    Hows everyone diggin The Malkin Jewel?

    February 2012

  • Cozfunkel

    Yes. Frances and Amp are my fav's also

    November 2011

  • RedSteel92

    This and Frances The Mute are two of the greatest albums of all time. All TMV are great.

    November 2011

  • bpt26

    literally their best album

    September 2011

  • MarkHallProg

    I think it's a brilliant album, only just behind Frances The Mute in my favourites. And I love the bigger role that Adrian plays on this album

    May 2011

  • JimiTheMute

    Awesome album! I have nothing against it at all. Amputechture is just filled with some amazing stuff.

    February 2011

  • immolation

    i don't get why this album was so bashed,and unpopular?apart of that noising part in tetragrammaton,i don't have any complaint on this album at all.and my highlights are concentrated in the middle of an album:meccamputechture and asylos magdalena.

    January 2011

  • ducksarenice

    Amputechture is my favourite album of theirs.

    November 2010

  • Cozfunkel

    same

    July 2010

  • Franco642

    day of the baphomets makes me hard

    July 2010

  • thunderoq

    this is my favorite 2006 album, Tetragrammaton is masterpiece

    June 2010

  • G-Biscuit

    The best album by far especially Tetragrammaton, Viscera Eyes & Day Of The Baphomets, champion!

    June 2010

  • salacio

    Cool group. Found it from hella's page.

    May 2010

  • jmuff1327

    hey guys if you have a tumblr make sure to follow the mars volta's tumblr at http://fuckyeahmarsvolta.tumblr.com/

    April 2010

  • Cozfunkel

    Yes 70!

    April 2010

  • Cozfunkel

    one more!

    April 2010

  • Pamastrike

    69 u.u

    April 2010

  • Cozfunkel

    Will this group ever reach seventy members!?!?!

    March 2010
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