[Washing Machine]

I dont think thats strickly fair, there are loads of amazing bands in the 00's

and yes the The Mars Volta do rock! Certainly one of the best bands of the 00's

[Washing Machine]

The Mars Volta? Sucking? Nooooooooo

I Love music that creates a strong sense of image, time and place. I get this in a big way with 'Delused' and 'Frances the Mute'. You put your headphones and you can be right there on the outskirts of El Paso in the middle of an acid trip.

I can understand why people might not like The Mars Volta. The first time I listened to them I thought they were overblown and their music was too chaotic. But I suppose its like Sonic Youth...searching for the beauty in the middle of all that chaos.

I explain this in relation of SY here: http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...692#post308692

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by zedius

In the 80s there was the cure, new order, some good david bowie, certainly some good music. (I struggle with the 80s because I consider it the second most dead decade thanks to the commercialism of hair metal and shitty bryan adams rock)

80's bands that blow your asshole out

butthole surfers
REM
Minutemen
Big Black
Dinosaur Jr
Dead kennedys

etc etc etc etc

[Rob Instigator]

My brother loves spart and masr volta

I find mars volta to bee overemphasizing the bombast and that gets on my nerves a bit. way way better than my chemical romance though

[Washing Machine]

I actually don't mind the first 2 My Chemical Romance albums (its unusual cause usually thats not my kinda thing). The last one as we probebly all agree was terrible. 'Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge' and 'I Brought you my Bullets' have this genuine feeling off a band about to come off the rails.

I know this is an unpopular music opinion...

[Washing Machine]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

80's bands that blow your asshole out

butthole surfers
REM
Minutemen
Big Black
Dinosaur Jr
Dead kennedys

etc etc etc etc

Agreed!...never heard of Big Black tho

[Kylerobert]

mars volta...ew

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Washing Machine

Agreed!...never heard of Big Black tho

big black rule

 

 

[zedius]

Ok, for the record I like Mars Volta quite a bit.

And the majority of my favorite music came out in the 80s. There is ALWAYS good underground, and there was great stuff in the 80s.

There just was very limited good mainstream music, like there is now. That's the point I was trying to make. There have been lots of nirvanas. They aren't the only one. Throughout the history of rock music there have been good bands in the mainstream.

But there aren't now. I believe it's because mainstream music serves no purpose now but to make a buck and brainwash the youth into buying ipods. Everyone who really cares about the music is on the internet for free.

Edit: Big Black does fucking rule.

[something]

yea mars volta is quite good

[aaronalive]

I can believe korn is still a band. I cant believe people listen to them and think its good.

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

My brother loves spart and masr volta

I find mars volta to bee overemphasizing the bombast and that gets on my nerves a bit. way way better than my chemical romance though

Fuck my chemical romance... The Mars Volta slay, but Amputechture was kinda weak in some areas... Cool album, though.

[k-krack]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

big black rule

 

 

Fuckin' eh. I NEED some Big Black shit.

[something]

Originally Posted by k-krack

Fuck my chemical romance... The Mars Volta slay, but Amputechture was kinda weak in some areas... Cool album, though.

man i hear that about my chem they are like a pathetic fourth rate pumpkins rip off especially black parade maybe im crazy but i think theres a atleast a lil wanna be vibe of the sp on that album as far as amputechture it may have a few weaker points but compared to whats out there today its pretty damn good

[atsonicpark]

Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

yeah, that song is awesome; life is peachy is fucking great, if korn broke up in 1997 and didn't become famous, people like sonic youth fans would love them, because their first two albums are all weirdly produced and they used a lot of pedals and dissonance, and they don't have subgenre stigmas like thrash/speed/death/black/power metal.

static-x are also pretty good, they succeeded at what many people have tried, taking ministry's sound and doing one better, the problem is that they don't go anywhere from there, but at least they are consistent. silly hair notwithstanding.

Totally agree.. "trance is th emotion" by static-x is a great song. Sounds like a retarded auctioner doing Ministry parodies.. but it's good! And they sampled the movie "Begotten" for a song.

And KoRn had some of the weirdest guitar sounds ever on the early recordings.. great shit!

[atsonicpark]

symphony and kornica!