The Mars Volta Tracklisting

[Pat Marquez]

The Mars Volta (http://www.absolutepunk.net/themarsvolta) have released the track listing for their up and coming album. Check it out below:
1 A Vicarious Atonement (7:21)
2 Tetragrammaton (16:43)
3 Vermicide (4:17)
4 Meccamputechture (11:04)
5 Asilos Magdalena (6:36)
6 Viscera Eyes (9:25)
7 Day Of The Baphomets (11:58)
8 El Ciervo Vulnerado (8:59)

Please click here for the source. (http://www.discogs.com/release/714403)

[GlassyLight]

Fuckin' right.

Cannot wait for this, hopefully they bust out a lot of the new stuff on the RHCP tour.

[unwritten]

Yes bitches.

[Manbotisdead]

Should be good stuff.

I like how they partially jacked a Tool song title for the first track.

[romantic rights]

oo fun

[Shatter_Glass]

Fuckin' right.

Cannot wait for this, hopefully they bust out a lot of the new stuff on the RHCP tour.

are u going to see that tour???? if so, i hate you! well, maybe i'm just confusing "hate" with "jealousy"...

[UndertheTELE]

yayyyyyyyyyy

[ghostyouare]

?I thought they said the songs would be around 4 minutes this cd :(

[seans seatbelt]

Should be good stuff.

I like how they partially jacked a Tool song title for the first track.

Tool don't own the word.

[cahrishurr]

sahweeet

[GlassyLight]

?I thought they said the songs would be around 4 minutes this cd :(


why in god's name would you want them to shorten their songs when they obviously have the talent and ideas to carry them for up to and including 29 minutes.

Go see one of their shows, and you'll see why it would be crazy for them to shorten their songs.

[weworemasks]

why in god's name would you want them to shorten their songs when they obviously have the talent and ideas to carry them for up to and including 29 minutes.

Go see one of their shows, and you'll see why it would be crazy for them to shorten their songs.

yea when i saw them, they carried drunkship of lanterns on for like 32 minutes.

also, this cd is roughly 75 minutes. jesus christ.

[irthesteve]

Should be good stuff.

I like how they partially jacked a Tool song title for the first track.
because tool invented the word vicarious

[painisaillusion]

why in god's name would you want them to shorten their songs when they obviously have the talent and ideas to carry them for up to and including 29 minutes.

Go see one of their shows, and you'll see why it would be crazy for them to shorten their songs.


Becasue a 6-8 min long mars volta song is a lot better than the 14-16 mins ones they are starting to play. I usally end up falling asleep 3 mins of the same few strings being played doesnt impress me. I love mars volta but I hated the last cd the first cd was 100x times better.

[wesgemm08]

Becasue a 6-8 min long mars volta song is a lot better than the 14-16 mins ones they are starting to play. I usally end up falling asleep 3 mins of the same few strings being played doesnt impress me. I love mars volta but I hated the last cd the first cd was 100x times better.

its 100x better because you have ADD

[A picasso blue]

um when did Pat get this? i just submitted this news item from that same link only 3 hours ago

[JunkBondTrader]

De-loused>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Frances

all of you fucking hipsters need to shut the fuck up. i love it when they act like its the better cd just because it has super long songs.....im sorry but 5mins of silence is not art, its fucking stupid.

Frances is weaker on every level. Frances is a fucking borefest.....and no i dont have ADD. i love tons of instrumetnal bands (ie EITS, Godspeed, Set Fire To Flames, Saxon Shore) and TMV is by far the fucking worst when they pull out the 10min instrumental parts, and the silence. fucking worthless.

[VAYA]

De-loused>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Frances

all of you fucking hipsters need to shut the fuck up. i love it when they act like its the better cd just because it has super long songs.....im sorry but 5mins of silence is not art, its fucking stupid.

Frances is weaker on every level. Frances is a fucking borefest.....and no i dont have ADD. i love tons of instrumetnal bands (ie EITS, Godspeed, Set Fire To Flames, Saxon Shore) and TMV is by far the fucking worst when they pull out the 10min instrumental parts, and the silence. fucking worthless.

i have ADD and i don't think the songs on frances were too long. they aren't boring, they are epic, you ignorant asswipe. it takes just as much talent to put feeling into a seemingly chaotic series of atmospheric noises as it does to right a 3 minute song. take your head out of your ass and try to think outside the box. EVERY sound on that album, every note, every drum beat, every synthesized wavelength, was created to tell a story. a fractured story, but a story nonetheless. don't hate because you cant squeeze your brain around a particular idea, maybe you aren't listening with the right ears because obviously, many people heard something in that album that you didn't.

[A picasso blue]

the best part on Frances are better than the best parts of DITC

yeah FTM has less "best parts" overall. i like both albums

[Tristan Needler]

frank posted this (http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=146005) a while ago.

[matt_rawlings]

This will no doubt be one of the albums of the year

[justinevans]

translation please? Christ Almighty.

[wesgemm08]

De-loused>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Frances

all of you fucking hipsters need to shut the fuck up. i love it when they act like its the better cd just because it has super long songs.....im sorry but 5mins of silence is not art, its fucking stupid.

Frances is weaker on every level. Frances is a fucking borefest.....and no i dont have ADD. i love tons of instrumetnal bands (ie EITS, Godspeed, Set Fire To Flames, Saxon Shore) and TMV is by far the fucking worst when they pull out the 10min instrumental parts, and the silence. fucking worthless.
call me a hipster, elitist, whatever... but cassandra gemini is the second best song the mars volta has recorded... with take the veil cerpin taxt being their best song to date... there is no silence in the song.. and even the quieter parts are epic... its all opinion, but to say any mars volta song over 8 minutes sucks means there probably is a pretty good chance you do have ADD... so maybe you should shut the fuck up

[badstarsfall]

You guys are hilarious. I like The Mars Volta, but three out of eight tracks clocking in at over 10 minutes is just excessive.

[wesgemm08]

You guys are hilarious. I like The Mars Volta, but three out of eight tracks clocking in at over 10 minutes is just excessive.

why is it excessive, they arent trying to write 3 minute radio friendly tracks, they are writing what they want.. they have only had three tracks(not including intros) that are under 6 minutes on their two previous full-length albums, so why should they start writing short, catchy, radio-friendly tracks on their third full-length

[alexwohl29_90]

Everytime I put on Frances, I listen to it the whole way through. Keep the super-long songs coming guys.



I am soooo fucking excited. Holy shit.

[alexwohl29_90]

i have ADD and i don't think the songs on frances were too long. they aren't boring, they are epic, you ignorant asswipe. it takes just as much talent to put feeling into a seemingly chaotic series of atmospheric noises as it does to right a 3 minute song. take your head out of your ass and try to think outside the box. EVERY sound on that album, every note, every drum beat, every synthesized wavelength, was created to tell a story. a fractured story, but a story nonetheless. don't hate because you cant squeeze your brain around a particular idea, maybe you aren't listening with the right ears because obviously, many people heard something in that album that you didn't.

You da fuckin man

[Brand New Shoe]

i have ADD and i don't think the songs on frances were too long. they aren't boring, they are epic, you ignorant asswipe. it takes just as much talent to put feeling into a seemingly chaotic series of atmospheric noises as it does to right a 3 minute song. take your head out of your ass and try to think outside the box. EVERY sound on that album, every note, every drum beat, every synthesized wavelength, was created to tell a story. a fractured story, but a story nonetheless. don't hate because you cant squeeze your brain around a particular idea, maybe you aren't listening with the right ears because obviously, many people heard something in that album that you didn't.
WORD.

[Ender217]

yea when i saw them, they carried drunkship of lanterns on for like 32 minutes.

also, this cd is roughly 75 minutes. jesus christ.

I was wondering if those 8 songs would even fit on one CD .... glad you did the math for me.

[ShallowDepths]

Its actually much closer to 77 minutes. Im surprised they just didnt go for gold and fill the damn thing at 80 minutes. Im sure they could throw in 3 minutes of noise just for kicks right?

anyways... that link is saying that the promo went out on june 16th? uh.. theres no way. it'd be floating around somewhere by now. or at least someone would be saying "oh I've heard it and.. blah blah blah" either way all I can think about now is how much I want this to grace my ears. legally or not.

[dubey]

I hope it sounds more like Deloused, Frances did nothing for me, it was just noise.

[bung]

i don't see why everyone dislikes the long songs. i think it's great when a song can be very peaceful at one point, and downright chaotic at another. they wouldn't be as powerful only clocking in around maybe four minutes.

or maybe you just need to listen to them high or something?

[drmsofpsilocybi]

i seriously sent this post in almost a week ago and it never got posted

[Tristan Needler]

i seriously sent this post in almost a week ago and it never got posted
look at my post on the last page, frank posted it five days ago.

[Chris Fallon]

2 Tetragrammaton (16:43)

"In a gadda a vida, honey..."

[punkerz2003]

i have ADD and i don't think the songs on frances were too long. they aren't boring, they are epic, you ignorant asswipe. it takes just as much talent to put feeling into a seemingly chaotic series of atmospheric noises as it does to right a 3 minute song. take your head out of your ass and try to think outside the box. EVERY sound on that album, every note, every drum beat, every synthesized wavelength, was created to tell a story. a fractured story, but a story nonetheless. don't hate because you cant squeeze your brain around a particular idea, maybe you aren't listening with the right ears because obviously, many people heard something in that album that you didn't.
How is he an ignorant asswipe, he was just stating his own opinion. I happen to agree partially with what he's saying, I don't like the long, quiet stretches of weird noises that are all over FTM, but that's just my opinion. Does that make me an ignorant asswipe too? People here really need to calm down and understand that people are entitled to their opinions. Every time someone says what they think, people immediately tear them apart and then they start fighting over grammar. Ridiculous.

Edit: My bad, didn't see the part where he said "all you hipsters need to shut the fuck up." But still, the last half of what I said is still true.

[better half]

How is he an ignorant asswipe, he was just stating his own opinion. I happen to agree partially with what he's saying, I don't like the long, quiet stretches of weird noises that are all over FTM, but that's just my opinion. Does that make me an ignorant asswipe too? People here really need to calm down and understand that people are entitled to their opinions. Every time someone says what they think, people immediately tear them apart and then they start fighting over grammar. Ridiculous.

haha, that's great. i totally agree about people having different opinions. then that going on to arguments about grammar. not everybody's an english major. oh wait, i forgot to capitalize the words after sentences. Shit.

[tenminutes]

i personally will not buy this album because i would never have time to listen to the whole thing. and no, i don't have add....the best way i can describe it is: i love movies, but i won't watch a 5 hr movie no matter how good it is.

[UnderManagement]

De-loused>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Frances

all of you fucking hipsters need to shut the fuck up. i love it when they act like its the better cd just because it has super long songs.....im sorry but 5mins of silence is not art, its fucking stupid.

Frances is weaker on every level. Frances is a fucking borefest.....and no i dont have ADD. i love tons of instrumetnal bands (ie EITS, Godspeed, Set Fire To Flames, Saxon Shore) and TMV is by far the fucking worst when they pull out the 10min instrumental parts, and the silence. fucking worthless.
why is every good band turning into poppy sell outs
i'll never listen to any new music ever again, i'll just have to listen to what i have

You're kidding me, right? Godspeed, funnily enough, can stake a far better claim to being a fucking hipster band whose songs go absolutely nowhere. Take a look at good instrumental bands like Explosions, Do Make, Mono, etc. which actually play "songs" within a drawn out, instrumental format. Godspeed does nothing at all but play random parts which kind of go off into nothing.

The only "silence" within Frances is between songs, and I have no idea why you people are so bothered by this considering the ratio of music to such silence on the album. Cygnus is basically a nine minute song with two of typewriter sounds; Widow is three with three of keyboard noises; (but oh my god there's a skip button if you don't like the keyboards!), L'Via has a 45 second intro which is a very cool beat, they jam out on the end for a while, and theres a couple minutes of silence at the very end (oh no!). There is a long bird noise intro for Miranda, but it's still basically just a four minute song with a long buildup, which if you actually listen to is very cool with the trumpets. However, once Cassandra starts there is no "silence," just a half hour song.

At least TMV's more instrumental parts actually go somewhere, build rather than play random parts, and generally have some sort of flow within the song.

[lazer85]

undermanagement has provided the most valid argument out of anyone.

I'm taking the middle ground on this. I think De-loused was a much more solid album, but Frances had some parts that were just unreal. I'm kind of looking forward to this album because the songs are long but not THAT long. Many of my favorite songs are 5-8 minutes and theres a bunch of these on the album.

I think its pretty amazing how the news about the album came out of nowhere like 2 weeks ago with less than 2 months before its release.

[eviper15]

Originally Posted by JunkBondTrader
De-loused>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Frances

all of you fucking hipsters need to shut the fuck up. i love it when they act like its the better cd just because it has super long songs.....im sorry but 5mins of silence is not art, its fucking stupid.

Frances is weaker on every level. Frances is a fucking borefest.....and no i dont have ADD. i love tons of instrumetnal bands (ie EITS, Godspeed, Set Fire To Flames, Saxon Shore) and TMV is by far the fucking worst when they pull out the 10min instrumental parts, and the silence. fucking worthless

who is saying frances is better because of the fact it has longer songs. Frances is a much better album in general, in my opinion, because of every reason but the song lenths. i totally agree with undermanagment. godspeed is some low end prog rock. I dont know how you can say its a borefest with songs like gemini, lvia, famine, cygnus.

[drmsofpsilocybi]

thats why they make a skip button on cd players.

personally, with a few exceptions, i dont really like deloused that much. Other than eritarka, ineratic esp, cicatriz esp, televators and take the veil (which is still odd at times) i dont listen to much else of the cd.

FTM however, i can listen to every song straight through, even if they are 20 minutes long. I love the cricket noises at the begining of miranda, it adds a totally amazing ambiance to the song that i dont think would have been achieved other wise. Plus its about a ghost for christ sake, so i believe the intro is not only amazing, but needed. And once you cross that barrier, then the rest of the cd is fuckin rockin without a down beat section at all. Overall, musically, a much much much better cd IMO. TMV will go down in history not for deloused but for FTM i guarentee it

[DeadCityScars]

MV are great, they make 4-minute songs that take them 20 minutes to play!

[GreatDecay777]

yess. this album is going to rule. even with 10 minute songs.

[screamoutmyname]

Isn't the guitarist from the RHCP playing on a song or two?

[x togepi x]

he's playing on every song. he's their de facto (sweet a pun), rhythm guitarist.