At the Drive-In (Maybe Official Thread, I Have No Idea) [Archive]

Croww3313

12/26/09, 09:47 PM

So I was wondering if there was anymore die hard At the Drive-In fans out there, I know there is, but if there is on this site. I first heard them just the last year and it totally got me hooked. First song I heard was Quarantined and oh man did I love it. My band is totally influenced by them and their jsut phenominal, best true punk band out there in my opinion. So what are your views?

anthonydarko

12/26/09, 09:55 PM

What do you mean "maybe"? Did you not even bother to check if there was an official thread?

danielineffigy

12/26/09, 09:57 PM

Great band, Relationship of Command is classic. I'm satisfied with their run too, The Mars Volta is also awesome.

summer skin

12/26/09, 09:59 PM

#1 Favorite band for awhile now.
Acrobatic Tenement is perfect.

RiCCioLi

12/26/09, 11:18 PM

amazing band. would kill for a reunion. mars volta are extremely boring. sparta isnt great either

barkingincision

12/27/09, 12:40 AM

amazing band. would kill for a reunion. mars volta are extremely boring. sparta isnt great either
boring in what way...?

_><_

12/27/09, 03:19 AM

Relationship of Command is probably my top 1 album of 2000-2009. I love every bit of it.

Derka Derka

12/27/09, 04:04 AM

One of my favorite bands of all time. All of their cds are excellent

cshadows2887

12/27/09, 04:20 AM

boring in what way...?

In the way where you have to wade through ten minutes of worthless noise and musical masturbation for the momentary nuggets of genius. I like them too, but they are infuriating.

ohitsmark

12/27/09, 07:25 AM

In the way where you have to wade through ten minutes of worthless noise and musical masturbation for the momentary nuggets of genius. I like them too, but they are infuriating.

Agreed.

And I have a man crush on Jim Ward.

mulcahy67

12/27/09, 07:34 AM

not a die hard fan, but a pretty big one. only discovered them 2 years ago or so. ive tried to get into the mars volta a couple times, but it has yet to work.

Rodeo

12/27/09, 07:43 AM

In the way where you have to wade through ten minutes of worthless noise and musical masturbation for the momentary nuggets of genius. I like them too, but they are infuriating.

So incredibly ignorant.

erccentea

12/27/09, 08:33 AM

This band changed my life forever. They are the reason I listen to the music I do today...Funny story, Me and a couple friends went to go see The Mars Volta in Columbus, OH but the show was canceled. We ended up drinking in our hotel bar, which happened to be the same hotel the band was staying in. Omar bought me and my friends drinks and I asked him about ATDI. He said he looked at ATDI like you would a bad haircut in high school. I had to defend what a great band ATDI was to Omar of all people. A small piece of me died that day.

brokenmixtape

12/27/09, 08:45 AM

Acrobatic Tenement is a solid album. 'Ebroglio' is one of my all time favorite songs.

SwiftSilentDead

12/27/09, 08:46 AM

Love this band.

element4433

12/27/09, 09:07 AM

amazing band. would kill for a reunion. mars volta are extremely boring. sparta isnt great eitherAgree with you on The Mars Volta. Sparta's okay.

ATDI is great, but I rarely listen to them. I should do that more.

CowboyDan

12/27/09, 10:27 AM

I was at that Columbus show. Real fucking awful that it was cancelled twice. The concert was awesome when it happened though.

But anyways, I love me done ATDI.

Vaya > ROC > I/C/O > AT > El Gran Orgo.

I like Sparta a lot too. They are underrated and unfairly maligned.

TakeLotsWithAlcohol

12/27/09, 10:32 AM

Love this band so much.

I always feel like the minority that loves AT more than the rest of their albums.

Burn That Shit

12/27/09, 10:56 AM

What's with the overwhelming idiocy harvesting in this thread?

x togepi x

12/27/09, 10:59 AM

So incredibly ignorant.

the ironic thing is, people like them are why the band they claim to love oh so much broke up.

well that and jim ward being a tool.

Sparta sucks.

Sargent Sausage

12/27/09, 11:12 AM

I cant get into anything post frances the mute.I mean, i respect all their albums from a musical perspective. but it just wasn't my thing

cshadows2887

12/27/09, 11:47 AM

So incredibly ignorant.

Ignorant would be if I hadn't listened to all of their album a million times. Which I have. I own all of them. I'm informed. I just disagree with you.

barkingincision

12/27/09, 01:52 PM

In the way where you have to wade through ten minutes of worthless noise and musical masturbation for the momentary nuggets of genius. I like them too, but they are infuriating.
its a different type of art. not for everyone i know.

jacobcm

12/27/09, 02:02 PM

they were just crazy ridiculous live.
they set lettermans stage on fire like never before. and i think that was a tamed performance.

kearn1tm

12/27/09, 02:19 PM

Getting copies of In/Casino/Out and Acrobatic Tenement around early '06 were part of the music that helped "expand" my interests simply beyond scene music. They're rad, as are The Mars Volta.

x togepi x

12/27/09, 03:05 PM

they were just crazy ridiculous live.
they set lettermans stage on fire like never before. and i think that was a tamed performance.

no. they were hit and miss live. if they wanted to be, they went crazy. sometimes they were kind of lame.

ruffian

12/27/09, 03:06 PM

clearly he's never seen them live if his evidence is a tv talk show

x togepi x

12/27/09, 03:08 PM

i don't know what you mean by that.

ruffian

12/27/09, 03:18 PM

the dude said they were "crazy ridiculous live," then backs the claim by saying they were great on letterman's tv show. that doesn't exactly equate to seeing them live.

x togepi x

12/27/09, 03:24 PM

oh. i was confused because that could be read as "dude saw them on tv, so he's right".

i never saw them but i had a video from when they played in chicago that was a lot more subdued. i read that when they wanted to be, they could be the best live band but if they didn't care, then they sucked.

ruffian

12/27/09, 03:26 PM

i've only seen the sheep video and one where cedric rips a bong in the middle of a song. that might of been tmv though haha.

SwiftSilentDead

12/27/09, 03:53 PM

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Love it.

Rodeo

12/27/09, 05:45 PM

Ignorant would be if I hadn't listened to all of their album a million times. Which I have. I own all of them. I'm informed. I just disagree with you.

You're right... we do disagree. I hear music / art / creativity. You hear 'worthless noise.' Well said.

cshadows2887

12/27/09, 06:19 PM

You're right... we do disagree. I hear music / art / creativity. You hear 'worthless noise.' Well said.

Ok. You enjoy 4 minutes of crickets chirping at the beginning of "Miranda That Ghost." Meanwhile, I'll fast forward, enjoy the actual music at the end of the song and use the extra four minutes to listen to a band who is less in love with every noise their guitars make. But then again, I don't like art.

doritoz

12/27/09, 10:45 PM

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NICER DICER or not?

jacobcm

12/28/09, 01:02 PM

no. they were hit and miss live. if they wanted to be, they went crazy. sometimes they were kind of lame.

I saw them live many times. Every time I did, they went insane. I haven't seen a video on the net either that has shown me otherwise. Post one?

SlappedActor

12/28/09, 01:05 PM

One of my favorite bands ever. I wish I could have seen them live.

jbertclassic

12/28/09, 03:07 PM

The live footage from the DVD included with Station... was great. Would have loved to seen them live.

kearn1tm

12/28/09, 03:36 PM

I've seen Volta twice. They played three consecutive shows in Detroit two winters ago. I saw the final two. The first performance was fantastic - truly a night of unyielding, frenetic chaos and absurdly entertaining musicianship. The last night, Cedric was belligerent and far from lucid, often stumbling and chastising the audience for reasons we couldn't make out (he wasn't particularly coherent). No one seemed to give a shit. The set the night prior was 2 and a half hours. This one reached barely an hour. If my friend who promoted the show hadn't got me into the final show for free, I would have felt slightly ripped-off.

So I agree with the comment that they transition from fantastic live to pretentious and dull.

EDIT - I just realized this was still, in fact, an AtD-I thread. Whoops.

Dre Okorley

01/02/10, 01:10 PM

Best band

summer skin

01/02/10, 01:19 PM

anyone who bought this station is non operational can go fuck themselves.

jbertclassic

01/02/10, 04:28 PM

anyone who bought this station is non operational can go fuck themselves.
And why is that?

cryates

01/02/10, 09:18 PM

I'm throwing this band on because of this thread.

summer skin

01/02/10, 11:05 PM

And why is that?
because all that material is available, they skipped some of their best songs, and it costs as much to buy their whole discography as it does to buy this cd.

jbertclassic

01/03/10, 10:33 AM

because all that material is available, they skipped some of their best songs, and it costs as much to buy their whole discography as it does to buy this cd.
I got the CD for 12 dollars, far less than the cost of their entire material. And it wasn't a best-of album, it was in retrospect. Not every compilation is a band's attempt at piling up their hits.

cryates

01/03/10, 10:37 AM

While I much prefer to listen to each album individually, I do listen to TSINO every now and then and enjoy it, if I'm looking for a few songs from each album.

Nourez

01/03/10, 02:29 PM

At The Drive-in is great. Never really could get into The Mars Volta or Sparta.

cryates

01/03/10, 02:37 PM

At The Drive-in is great. Never really could get into The Mars Volta or Sparta.

I just like the straightforward sound of ATDI more than the prog sound of TMV. I really never got into Sparta either for whatever reason.

Nourez

01/03/10, 02:39 PM

I just like the straightforward sound of ATDI more than the prog sound of TMV. I really never got into Sparta either for whatever reason.
I didn't like TMV for the same reason. Sparta's music just didn't hook me. Not that it was bad or anything, it just felt lacking.

cryates

01/03/10, 02:48 PM

I didn't like TMV for the same reason. Sparta's music just didn't hook me. Not that it was bad or anything, it just felt lacking.

With TMV, I find myself getting easily lost a few minutes in.

Nourez

01/03/10, 02:49 PM

With TMV, I find myself getting easily lost a few minutes in.
I think I have the same problem with TMV that I do with AVA. Both bands disregard the simplicity and style of their lead singers former bands and just try to be too much.

therealapowers

01/03/10, 04:03 PM

"Napoleon Solo" introduced me to a type of music that I'd never heard before...
It's still one of my favorite songs.

summer skin

01/03/10, 10:29 PM

I got the CD for 12 dollars, far less than the cost of their entire material. And it wasn't a best-of album, it was in retrospect. Not every compilation is a band's attempt at piling up their hits.
ebay niggga, they only have like 5 albums.
shit should cost you 5 dollars.

summer skin

01/03/10, 10:31 PM

I think I have the same problem with TMV that I do with AVA.
I want you dead.

x togepi x

01/03/10, 10:35 PM

I think I have the same problem with TMV that I do with AVA. Both bands disregard the simplicity and style of their lead singers former bands and just try to be too much.

Congrats! You totally didn't understand At The Drive-in.

summer skin

01/03/10, 10:41 PM

Congrats! You totally didn't understand At The Drive-in.
Bro Vaya was practically Dude Ranch II

x togepi x

01/03/10, 10:45 PM

totally

summer skin

01/03/10, 10:48 PM

Dude listens to Relationship of Command once and thought that's what Amputechture was gonna be.

jbertclassic

01/04/10, 11:12 AM

ebay niggga, they only have like 5 albums.
shit should cost you 5 dollars.
I hear ya, but I was only 12 or 13 when I bought it!

Circa1628

01/04/10, 06:23 PM

Dude listens to Relationship of Command once and thought that's what Amputechture was gonna be.
Just wanted to say the lack of the Wayne's World avatar really threw me off. I was like "Who is this smart ass who posts just like Summer Skin"
Not an attack by the way, I enjoy your posts.

bard

01/04/10, 06:26 PM

tmv was better

until the bedlam in goliath and amputechture was released. terrible, terrible albums.

summer skin

01/04/10, 10:03 PM

tmv was better

until the bedlam in goliath and amputechture was released. terrible, terrible albums.
Amputechture is their best album.

cshadows2887

01/04/10, 10:07 PM

Amputechture is their best album.

I think it's far and away their worst. It always seemed aimless to me. Frances is a much better record, I think.

summer skin

01/04/10, 10:13 PM

I think it's far and away their worst. It always seemed aimless to me. Frances is a much better record, I think.
talk about aimless, frances is 60% ambient noise

cshadows2887

01/04/10, 10:16 PM

talk about aimless, frances is 60% ambient noise

But the parts that are songs are brilliant.

I just don't think there are any songs on Amp. A ton of Floyd-esque slow jamming and nothing I walk away humming.

summer skin

01/04/10, 11:58 PM

But the parts that are songs are brilliant.

I just don't think there are any songs on Amp. A ton of Floyd-esque slow jamming and nothing I walk away humming.
So you listen to TMV for the catchy melodies? I think the great thing about Amputechture is that every track can stand alone as a great track, where almost every other TMV album requires that you listen to the whole album to really get it.
Plus Meccatechture is just too great.

bard

01/05/10, 05:59 AM

Amputechture is their best album.
i would disagree with you there. i hated it at first, but it grew on me. it's a really, really great album. but frances is the best, followed by deloused, then amputechture, then tremulant ep

summer skin

01/05/10, 07:36 AM

i would disagree with you there. i hated it at first, but it grew on me. it's a really, really great album. but frances is the best, followed by deloused, then amputechture, then tremulant ep
If I had to rank them at the moment I'd go
Deloused = Amputechture > Frances > Bedlam > Tremulent > Poop on face > poop in mouth > Octahedron

But to get back on topic Acrobatic Tenement trumps all of these. #1 favorite album of all time by far.

bard

01/05/10, 07:45 AM

If I had to rank them at the moment I'd go
Deloused = Amputechture > Frances > Bedlam > Tremulent > Poop on face > poop in mouth > Octahedron

But to get back on topic Acrobatic Tenement trumps all of these. #1 favorite album of all time by far.
hmm... okay.

still don't like ATDI though.

summer skin

01/05/10, 07:47 AM

hmm... okay.

still don't like ATDI though.
Fair enough, they're not for everyone.

Just people who are radical beyond belief.

bard

01/05/10, 07:56 AM

Fair enough, they're not for everyone.

Just people who are radical beyond belief.
oh well, that's not me then.

summer skin

01/05/10, 08:24 AM

oh well, that's not me then.
Not everybody can get rad like I do on a daily.

desiguerilla

01/05/10, 11:16 AM

there arent many things id drop something immediately to see, but an atdi reunion is a definite exception

and as far as tmv albums: deloused/tremulant > bedlam > frances > amputecture > octahedron