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Hi from TOAPP '22 camp   ABPT + Stick Men + Trey Gunn
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Rust Martialis posted:Hi from TOAPP '22 camp All at the same time?? That always looks like such a fun time
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Aug 12, 2022 01:15
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I went to see The Aristocrats last week and it was a ton of fun but they specifically asked people not to take videos so you'll have to take my word for it
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Aug 12, 2022 01:56
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https://twitter.com/jaydestro/status/1562973018657148929
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Aug 27, 2022 07:03
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Alex and Geddy are doing something for the Taylor Hawkins tribute. Probably something small but will still be cool to see them play together
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Aug 31, 2022 18:17
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I am seeing Big Big Train in concert tomorrow (their first since before Covid). This excites and pleases me greatly.
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Sep 1, 2022 17:54
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New TMV is out on Bandcamp: https://themarsvoltaofficial.bandcamp.com/ It’s free to download at the time of this posting. No clue if it’s intentional.
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Sep 16, 2022 05:37
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New Mars Volta album is out. They did a piece for the New York Times recently in which Omar says this is basically their version of a pop record and they were influenced by Peter Gabriel and David Bowie. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/arts/music/the-mars-volta.html It's kinda wild that the longest song on here is just over 4 minutes long. I'm so used to their stuff being like twice as long if not longer. I'm on my first listen now and it's not bad but it'll still probably go down as my least favorite TMV record. It's nice to hear Omar and Cedric together again, but it feels like they've produced way more interesting results together in past TMV albums and even in stuff like Antemasque. Like that article says, though, they're both 47 now, so I can't blame them for not wanting to make the same-ish structured songs for the rest of their lives.
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Sep 16, 2022 05:39
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Love the Volta album, been digging into since it leaked earlier this week and while it has a scant few songs I could take or leave I'm very happy with the majority of it. Incredibly well mixed and produced and Cedric is on top of his game.
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Sep 16, 2022 06:06
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I'm digging it. Definitely not the same kinda music Omar and Cedric were making when they were in their 20s/30s and taking every drug in existence, but still has that "Mars Volta" feel. Standout tracks for me are Equus 3, The Requisition, and Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon(criminally short). I picked a good time to get a pair of headphones that cost more than 20 bucks for the first time in my life
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Sep 16, 2022 18:46
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Discovered a unique record with …Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth from the Mute Gods. It's a hodge podge of prog rock styles with inspired songwriting and excellent production even if the lyrical theme lean into clichés.
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Sep 16, 2022 22:32
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tonight   :yay:
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Sep 16, 2022 22:36
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Snow Cone Capone posted:tonight loving hell they were perfect. Anesthetize... 
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Sep 17, 2022 06:56
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some decently dep cuts too. Really happy to hear Drown With Me and Buying New Soul live. e: new members are pretty great too. My sincere hope is they click well enough that they end up writing some new more material together, but IIRC SW's made it pretty clear they're touring members only, so 
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Sep 17, 2022 07:03
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Snow Cone Capone posted:some decently dep cuts too. Really happy to hear Drown With Me and Buying New Soul live. That's always been the way, though. John Wesley was only ever just a touring member as well. Glad to hear the show was good. It should be better by the time I see them at the end of the tour.
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Sep 17, 2022 08:37
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Jedit posted:That's always been the way, though. John Wesley was only ever just a touring member as well. Yeah, I know. Circumstances are a lot different now though and all things considered it's not impossible that some fresh faces might provide some inspiration
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Sep 17, 2022 12:54
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Yeah, I know. Circumstances are a lot different now though and all things considered it's not impossible that some fresh faces might provide some inspiration ~hesmovedon~
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Sep 17, 2022 16:56
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Rust Martialis posted:~hesmovedon~ Lol that this is literally how John Wesley announced he wasn't involved with the new tour too
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Sep 17, 2022 19:18
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New TMV's the weakest thing they've ever done, but I appreciate them wanting to do whatever the gently caress they want.Snow Cone Capone posted:some decently dep cuts too. Really happy to hear Drown With Me and Buying New Soul live. What's funny is I'd never heard Buying New Soul or Last Chance before this. I need to give Lightbulb Sun a full listen one of these days (Never got around to that or Recordings for some reason).
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Sep 19, 2022 01:57
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Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream are great because they're dead-center in that transitionary phase between full-on psychedelic weirdness of the earlier stuff and the heavier/poppier stuff later on. Recordings is kind of hit or miss but it's got Buying New Soul and the 14-minute version of Even Less which I love also was a bit surprised they did the album version of Drown With Me instead of the demo version with the different chorus (which SW has said he likes more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WOhBn5JxDQ
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Sep 19, 2022 02:41
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Lightbulb Sun and Stupid Dream are great because they're dead-center in that transitionary phase between full-on psychedelic weirdness of the earlier stuff and the heavier/poppier stuff later on. I'm going to be murdered by Steven Wilson if he ever finds out, but I got into Porcupine Tree directly off the back of Four Chords That Made A Million.
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Sep 19, 2022 10:11
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Deadwing was my first PT album and is still one of my favourites. Never really listened to any of the PT-as-a-solo-project stuff until a few years back. For like, a solid two years, Lightbulb Sun was my commuting-to-work album because it starts off soft enough to snooze to on the bus but loud enough to drown out the outside world. With average traffic the bus would reach the train station at the end of Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth. Still not really a big fan of C/C.
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Sep 19, 2022 10:22
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Nightmare Cinema posted:New TMV's the weakest thing they've ever done, but I appreciate them wanting to do whatever the gently caress they want. This is where I’m at. I think that they probably wanted to record this as like “untitled Omar/Cedric project” but their record label said “look you can do that and tour 300 person venues or you can call it a Mars Volta reunion and tour 2000 person venues” I knew I’d never get that Deloused/Frances energy ever again but it just seems so bland, but glad that they’re proud of it at least
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Sep 19, 2022 11:30
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I like Pink Floyd's new Animals remix. The synths are way up in the mix and it's nice.
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Sep 19, 2022 14:55
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I like Pink Floyd's new Animals remix. The synths are way up in the mix and it's nice. I had no idea there was one! It looks like it's on streaming platforms as "2018 mix" because of it being held up. Apparently Waters wanted the liner notes to basically be like "I, ROGER WATERS, ACTUALLY DID ALL THIS poo poo AND DAVID GILMOUR IS A JERK WHO DID NOTHING", so the compromise after three years was to remove t hem and Roger just posted them on his website. Sucks that he also horseshoe-theory'd into being a Pro-Russia dude. In terms of the actual remix, I like it - I feel like the bass is higher up too (shockingly), but there's a lot of nuance in the guitar work and effects that I hadn't noticed before.
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Sep 19, 2022 16:59
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Jedit posted:I'm going to be murdered by Steven Wilson if he ever finds out, but I got into Porcupine Tree directly off the back of Four Chords That Made A Million. I got into them off Shallow being played in some random-rear end Mark Wahlberg action movie lol
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Sep 19, 2022 17:01
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I like Pink Floyd's new Animals remix. The synths are way up in the mix and it's nice. I'm torn between getting the Blu-ray version so I can hear this in 5.1 or the CD so I can listen to it in places other than my basement. Leaning towards the Blu but also considering both given how much I love the album.
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Sep 19, 2022 17:17
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:I'm torn between getting the Blu-ray version so I can hear this in 5.1 or the CD so I can listen to it in places other than my basement. The Floyd's 5.1 releases have all sounded amazing. I don't like the cliche of "you haven't heard X until you've heard it in quad", but in the cases of Dark Side and WYWH it's basically true. So many layers spring out.
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Sep 19, 2022 18:42
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I like Pink Floyd's new Animals remix. The synths are way up in the mix and it's nice. Didn't know about this. Just listened to Dogs and it sounds great. The synth solo sounds so clear, it's loving awesome.
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Sep 19, 2022 19:10
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Coincidentally I just listened to Lightbulb Sun for the first time and it's on the top half of best PT albums. I don't remember enough of PT's 90s stuff to make a good comparison, but I liked the grooves of Lightbulb Sun. I think it's a frontloaded album, though. I've fallen in a Frost* hole. It started with me relistening to Milliontown, an album I think is a pretty great modern prog album. But then I checked out Experiments in Mass Appeal, revisited Day And Age and thought the former was quite good and warmed up a lot to the latter. Then just now I checked out Falling Satellites and drat that might be their best album. A masterpiece! Over the last week I've been cramming them hard and I think Frost* might be a great prog band.
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Sep 20, 2022 02:07
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Jedit posted:The Floyd's 5.1 releases have all sounded amazing. I don't like the cliche of "you haven't heard X until you've heard it in quad", but in the cases of Dark Side and WYWH it's basically true. So many layers spring out. Yeah on further reflection the Blu-ray is a must have for me.
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Sep 20, 2022 02:16
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DoubleCakes posted:Coincidentally I just listened to Lightbulb Sun for the first time and it's on the top half of best PT albums. I don't remember enough of PT's 90s stuff to make a good comparison, but I liked the grooves of Lightbulb Sun. I think it's a frontloaded album, though. Falling Satellites is one of the finest albums of the 2010's. There's something very, you know, progressive about it. Very cool, very fresh.
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Sep 20, 2022 05:35
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Stupid Dream was my first PT album and I heard it when it came out. It blew teenage me away. There are some really sweet melodies and chord progressions on that album, and songs like Pure Narcotic were the essence of what I liked about that band.
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Sep 20, 2022 13:08
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I do very much recommend any PT fans who haven't already, to check out Steven Wilson's solo stuff. The newer albums are a lot of fun. Also look at this freaking personnel list from The Raven That Refused to Sing  
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Sep 20, 2022 14:47
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DoubleCakes posted:Over the last week I've been cramming them hard and I think Frost* might be a great prog band. They are indeed! Can I interest you in the opener of Day And Age, the latest album? https://youtu.be/RmiAmW3sgHs
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Sep 21, 2022 15:27
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Didn’t even know they were on tour until a couple days ago, but The Contortionist is out there doing a full playthrough of both Language and Exoplanet. Went to the Seattle show last night and it was incredible. Highly recommend.
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Sep 22, 2022 16:07
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Quite A Tool posted:a full playthrough of both Language and Exoplanet.  e: gently caress i'm gonna be out of the country 
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Sep 22, 2022 16:28
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https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-mars-volta/2022/the-factory-in-deep-ellum-dallas-tx-13b0516d.html P cool set
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Sep 23, 2022 16:29
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Ingmar terdman posted:https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-mars-volta/2022/the-factory-in-deep-ellum-dallas-tx-13b0516d.html 
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Sep 23, 2022 16:35
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The fact that they're playing De-loused stuff is really funny to me in the context of this article published yesterday METALLICA Once Requested THE MARS VOLTA Play Them A Song, And They Wouldn'tquote:According to The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala in an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1, Metallica once attended a Mars Volta show and requested they play "Inertiatic ESP" from the 2003 album De-Loused In The Comatorium… and they didn't.
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Sep 23, 2022 17:31
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