Comments on: The Mars Volta releases “Frances The Mute”

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:37:58 +0000

The Mars Volta are the best band in quazi-mainstream (because they have had popular singles and are not still in the local band scene) rock. As a drummer I adore this band. Jon Theodore is my favourite drummer, and whenever i get into argruments over who is the better drummer, Theodore or Travis Barker, with the musically out-of-tune people, I always support theodore with every breath I have. When i have this music blaring in my room, beating the shit out of my drums in proper mars voltic (fast fusion) style, i sometimes even come to a marvel of my own drumming. Mars volta does that. You can take their music at so many levels. Their guitar is amazing (all guitars) and the lyrics are comparable, as I have seen from some formal reviews, of William S. Burroughs, who if you have ever read or seen Naked Lunch, is personally a great compliment to Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-lopez. Whenever I’m lisening to The Mars Volta, whether it be in my sleep, late at night, or in the middle of the afternoon, i always get this feeling of deafening disillusionment, which is commonly felt when i am intoxicated. For music to do that is amazing. It is also amazing that whenever i find myself bored, i can just think about songs in this album, aswell as de-loused in the Comatorium, which is also a very amazing album, and become completely entertained. People around me get annoyed because, without realizing it, I will sometimes go crazy tapping to drum beats of their songs in the most obscure situations. I also think that Scabdates should be commended, because of some of the new tracks that are found on that. If you love Mars Volta, download or buy Cicatriz (scabdates) or Cicatriz ESP (de-loused in the Comatorium) because it is the most amazing song ihave ever heared with one of the most amazing drum beats i have ever heared. Unlike most of the beats in Frances the Mute, which are extremely amazing in their respect to fusion, Cicatriz actually keeps the same rythm and follows, to an extent, the traditional verse-chorus rubric that so many artists use when making music, except that it is Mars Volta so it’s like it is to the EXTREME. Anywho’s, the Mars Volta is Amazing, Jon Theodore is Amazing, and Frances the Mute is Amazing.

By: analysis

analysis — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:16:37 +0000

the title track, is actually part of the album. that is why the lyrics are in the case. but because the complete album is about 90 minutes or so, which cant fit on a cd, they had to have the title track seperate. they originally wanted to make it a 2 disc set, but universal wouldnt allow it. so they made it into its own ep.

as for the chapters within the song, they arent supposed to be associated with tracks or moods within the song. which is why, (without trying to cause too much confusion) they didnt make cygnus into 4 tracks, widow 1 track, l’via 1 track, miranda 4 tracks and cassandra geminni 5 tracks, because then people would automatically think that track two is ‘cygnus vismund cygnus - umbilical syllables’

if u happen to download the demos, u will find that cassandra is 1 track, and happens to be approx 32 minutes.

u may also find that if u download ‘the widow’ off limewire or any other similar program, it may be the first track of cassandra geminni. which is why you should just purchase the cd.

By: luci

luci — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:17:05 +0000

Fucking brilliant, best thing i’ve ever heard

By: Blair H.

Blair H. — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:57:00 +0000

yeah, brilliant, brilliant cd. i have it on super - heavy rotation, and whenever im not listening to it in real life (which is rare), i have it spinning in my head. sometimes i freak ppl out when i burst out into singing or a guitar solo while theres no actual music playing anywhere nearby.

i figured out the track arrangement myself, via the lyric book, i just wish that media players could get their listings right as well.

By: Cygnus

Cygnus — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:19:47 +0000

I fixed Itunes so there is now a track listing on it of the last songs as a single track blended together to make I-VIII of Cassandra Gemenni and then i fixed windows media player to do the same thing but it isnt all blended into one. Hopefully they’ll take my changes and implement them.

By: ObsidianGT

ObsidianGT — Mon, 02 May 2005 23:15:45 +0000

I used Easy CD-DA Extractor from http://poikosoft.com/

It has an option to collectively select multiple tracks and to output them to a single file (such as an mp3). Look at their top screenshot (as of today) and you’ll see the checkmark box on the bottom-right.

So basically,

Extract Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4
Extract Track 5 as a “Single File Output”
Adjust ID3 of Track 5
Update M3U playlist file (if you use these)

Done. Worth the extra 2 minutes of work.

By: sirshannon

sirshannon — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:07:36 +0000

I used a program that records and played tracks 5-12 to make one long track.

The sound quality is fine, the file size is a little too large, but it’s better than those 2-second gaps.

The program is called Total Recorder. Not sure where I got it, it is several years old. I think it was the first piece of software I ever paid for.

oops… did I say that out loud?

By: ZantaClawz

ZantaClawz — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:15:12 +0000

how did you stitched em up? did it turned out good? with what program?

By: sirshannon

sirshannon — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:58:40 +0000

I haven’t really listened to it to try to figure out how those last tracks are split up because my mp3 player doesn’t do gapless playback so the 2 seconds between each of the last sections was too annoying for me to stand, so I stitched them together and just have a 5-track version of it now.

I’m sure Track 12 - Sarcophegi is correct, though.

By: ZantaClawz

ZantaClawz — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:44:18 +0000

i’m sticking to natalie nimmo’s tracklisting couse it’s the one that fits best for me and the one in my mp3 player XD

it’s the most accurate i think. the band should’ve said something about this… it was so confusing