What was in-praise-of-folly talking about, I feel that De-losued is incredible(roulette dares, drunkship,televators)some of their best work even, TMV more than most bands it seems, isn't afraid to move in a new direction as is evident across their discography and that makes a good band great. If you expect a band to maintain the sound created on their first album you're an idiot. Matter of fact inpraise is crazy, the music is impecable on ammpu. But I digress, from a musical standpoint it sounds as if this song sounds like a backwards song, in terms of its structure, its hard to explain, but when you listen to it, it sounds like omar purposefully composed this song by flipping another song around. Like the beginning of tetra is the end of another(or two meshed together) and the band is playing in the song forward from the end to the beginning note for note. If that is the truth Omar has achieved his place in the greats for sure(in my opin. at least) And omar could be making a statement concurring with the theme of the album(open to interpretation) in a very subliminal manner.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind?
I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind?
I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and...
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and try to sing more than he actually can. Sometimes it really works for an effect that matches the music (e.g., 8:30 into Tetragrammaton, 6:00 into Goliath) but for the most part I find him to be a very poor singer and often wish TMV had another singer. On the other hand his lyrical capabilities are unrivaled to anything I've ever seen before and could never conceive of TMV having another lyricist. In fact the lyrics are what attract me most to the music.
What was in-praise-of-folly talking about, I feel that De-losued is incredible(roulette dares, drunkship,televators)some of their best work even, TMV more than most bands it seems, isn't afraid to move in a new direction as is evident across their discography and that makes a good band great. If you expect a band to maintain the sound created on their first album you're an idiot. Matter of fact inpraise is crazy, the music is impecable on ammpu. But I digress, from a musical standpoint it sounds as if this song sounds like a backwards song, in terms of its structure, its hard to explain, but when you listen to it, it sounds like omar purposefully composed this song by flipping another song around. Like the beginning of tetra is the end of another(or two meshed together) and the band is playing in the song forward from the end to the beginning note for note. If that is the truth Omar has achieved his place in the greats for sure(in my opin. at least) And omar could be making a statement concurring with the theme of the album(open to interpretation) in a very subliminal manner.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind? I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
What a cool observation. When you were noticing this did you have a particular song in mind or were you just listening to the song thinking that Omar had that technique in mind? I've always thought the first section of this song held a lot of classical similarities to the opening of Close To The Edge by Yes; or at least a similar melodic structure.
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and...
Although I have never seen The Mars Volta live, all the videos and recordings I've heard hold testament to what inpraiseoffolly says Cedric's singing. Most of the time he seems to over-extend his voice and try to sing more than he actually can. Sometimes it really works for an effect that matches the music (e.g., 8:30 into Tetragrammaton, 6:00 into Goliath) but for the most part I find him to be a very poor singer and often wish TMV had another singer. On the other hand his lyrical capabilities are unrivaled to anything I've ever seen before and could never conceive of TMV having another lyricist. In fact the lyrics are what attract me most to the music.