I love this band, but it's kinda difficult to introduce them to people, since it takes a, well, idk, "special" ear to really appreciate their badassness;] Check out Goliath by them sometime!
Agreed. I also think he might be reluctant to upload more after he sees their reactions don’t get a lot of views (that’s if he’s even worried about something like that). I hope he does albums worth of reactions by them personally lol. Not enough Volta reactions on YT.
Drummer is a legend named Jon Theodore. He's been with Queens of the Stone Age for the past 6 years, if you were curious. Here he is with them just being heavy as hell - th-cam.com/video/z1GfDzZ_59g/w-d-xo.html
Awesome song, awesome band, awesome album. This is a concept album by the way, you should work your way through, the next songs are very, very interesting and weird and beautiful. I have to admit it took me a while to "get it", but I now consider Frances the Mute one of the best prog albums of the last 20 years. Absolutely love it.
Omar is the creative genius behind the musical composition and his roots are highly influenced in Latin jazz. If you listen to L' Via L'Viaqiez you can definitely hear it. He actually got his Latin Jazz pianist Larry Harlow on this song. You also have Flea playing trumpet on Cassandra Gemini and John Frusciante on tracks in Deloused and Frances the Mute. I have seen this band every chance I got to and was always blown away. Some of my suggestions to review would be "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt""Roulette Dares" and definitely "DAY OF TYE BAPHOMETS"..... your head would explode!!!!!!
First album may be the easiest to listen to: try "Roulette Dares" or "Eriatarka". Fourth album is the heaviest, try "Goliath" or "Ouroboros". And if you really really want complete absolute chaos listen to "Day of the Baphomets". Also, in this song he was singing in Spanish! Cedric (the singer) has said that he likes to write cryptically to express the IDEA of a feeling or thought rather than saying it directly. This also lets you derive your own meaning from the lyrics.
Thank you for listening! I love TMV - T00L - DEFTONES reactions by people who understand music. PLEASE keep going with TMV, Ap. You won't regret it. #Cassandra_Gemini #NunquamDormio
This is probably one of the hardest Mars Volta songs to get into. When it finally clicked for me I quite enjoyed it. In fact, I've used that beginning guitar part for my ringtone for like 10 years. Only like 2 people have recognized it. Best part of the song is where it starts "I count the days to find, what was left behind. Only these name I clutch, will lead me to my home..." They definitely have some really good albums worth checking out. The first 4 are great. You definitely need repeat listens for a lot of it to click.
4:44 "it might take me time to get into what they're doing and get into all this chaos". Yes, exactly! The first time I heard TMV was this album. I'd heard a few people raving about them and needed to hear it for myself. However, 2 minutes in and I had to stop listening. My brain could not comprehend what I was hearing. I thought, this is not for me. But there was something about it that fascinated me. So, a few days later I thought I'd give it another try, and just, somehow...got it. And fell in love with it! This album is just incredible from start to finish. I was lucky enough to see them in 2008 in London and they were so intense live.
5 6 4 doesn't add up to a multiple or factor of 29! If you wanted to do it out of 4 the first segment would have to be 4.5/4... Which doesn't quite exist! My interpretation is: 9/16 - 12/16 - 8/16 (adds up to 29/16)
KillerAP that’s my point which is why I count it in 29/16, but some people do count it as 5/4, 6/4, and 4/4, but yeah you can count it 9/16, 12/16, and 8/16 too, I just go based on the drums and bass and to me I view at one whole bar, just listen
The rhythm is a constant three measure pattern of 9/8, 6/4, and 4/4 The first bit is not 5/4, it is missing a half beat, which gives everything the disjointed feel
Listen to cassandra gemini off the same record, it's broken into a bunch of parts... like 30 minutes long.. Go to the bathroom and find your happy place first...
Idk if anyone’s mentioned to you yet, but there’s like 8 members at this stage of the bands existence. That’s why you hear so much going on lol Also to note, the lead guitarist, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, wrote all the music.
Not sure if you're talking about the rating or the time signature in the description. 😁 But I do love this kind of music. You often won't get it on the first listen. But then you listen a second time and when you don't expect it, while cooking or shopping, some musical phrase appears in your head, then you have to listen again and maybe one more time and it just snaps. You finally know all the phrases, melodies and transitions and you can really begin to appreciate the music.
I think that's what throws a lot of people off; TMV uses a lot of Latin music conventions, so if you're not used to hearing that stuff, it'll seem bizarre and irrational (in a mathematical sense).
I would disagree with that. The solo section timing is 9/8, 6/4, 4/4 as a three bar pattern on repeat. The extra half beat in the first bar is what constantly throws the feel out of whack
jilblanche same here :) Freshman year in college. My friends introduced them to me through their first album and I didn’t quite “get it” until I heard this album, which blew my mind. Then a few weeks later we took a road trip town to San Diego to see them perform live. They played the whole album start to finish. The best concert I’ve ever been to.
@KillerAP You have to listen to their first album (Deloused in the Comatorium) from start to finish as it is basically one long song (all the tracks lead into each other). When you listen to one song in the middle of that album, it’s almost like opening a book at random and starting to read. Honestly it’s not that serious but some of the songs really deserve the “context” or the build up from the previous songs. A suggestion of mine would be to record yourself listening to that whole album (it’s almost exactly and hour long) and pausing (or editing later) in between songs to elaborate your thoughts and then releasing each song reaction over time. To hear each song for the first time, in order, for the entirety of the album is a special and unique experience that would be 100% worth the time and effort to record and react to. Give a thumbs up all you TMV fans if you want to see him do that as you know that is the best way to experience Deloused 😉
So that odd rhythm in the middle is a repeating pattern of 29 sixteenth notes. If you wanted to write the time signature on the staff for sheet music it would be 29/16 instead of 4/4. Figured this out a while back by playing the hi-hat beat with a marker on paper and counting the dots.
Dunno if it's been done in the comments for this video before but, I'm going to try to translate the Spanish bits: *The very first verse: Niño, prepárate Que vas a sufrir Niño, prepárate Salte veneno Niño, prepárate Salte de aquí Niño, prepárate Rabia temblando Niño, prepárate Salte veneno Niño, prepárate Salte de aquí Niño, prepárate Brican los cuerpos Vas a sufrir In English: Boy, get ready 'Cause you're going to suffer Boy, get ready Poison, get out Boy, get ready Get out of here Boy, get ready Rage trembling (or shaking) Boy, get ready Poison, get out Boy, get ready Get out of here Boy, get ready The bodies jump You're going to suffer *The bits before the chorus: Sangre, sonando De rabia nací In English: Blood, sounding (or ringing) I was born from rage I hope this helps :)
This music is only something you can fully appreciate if you know a good amount of music theory. It’s such an acquired taste, but this is genuinely my favorite music.
BTW,TMV's music is built on the compas of salsa music. if you are a theory nerd, you know the compas, the clave, and that the count is a circle -- 1212345678910111212123456789101112...=)
A really accessible song of theirs is "take the veil cerpin taxt". Though you get less of the noise and ambient experiments they try in newer albums. But the Mars Volta are creative almost to a fault.
Continue this new tradition. You have now listened to the first moment of their first album, and then the first moment of their 2nd album. Now, listen to Vicarious Atonement, and if you're very daring, listen to Vicarious Atonement/Tetragrammaton BTW, you might be the first person ever to have figurd out that time signature. I went 'WOW!!' when you finally figured it out at the end of the solo. I wonder if the swailing guitar effect helped. I dont think its an accident that you figured it out RIGHT at the end. That solo is .... magic.
check out: mastodon, sounds of animals fighting, circa survive for more progy-nesss.....maybe some claypool lennon delirium, or you want to get old school, check out: Magma, king crimson, Yes, and some of Rush'e catalog
They change a lot between English and Spanish. The singer is Mexican and the guitarist is Puertorican, there's a lot of turnover in the band (usually comprised of family members) so they have a lot of latino and black sounds. Check out Lvia Lviazquez on that same album
The lyrics are sometimes in Spanish. And, yeah, this song is definitely a grower. I didn't love it at first, and it's now my favorite song in their catalogue. If you like the Latin sound, songs like L'Via L'Viaquez, Viscera Eyes, and Day of the Baphomets go there, too. As for the guitars on this album, John Frusciante (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) does some guest guitar works. The Peppers toured with Cedric and Omar's previous band, At the Drive In, and they both do some guest bits on the first couple of Volta albums.
They’re an acquired taste. Once you get used to their sound, you can go back to everything and appreciate all the nuances. Even the wilder bits.
I love this band, but it's kinda difficult to introduce them to people, since it takes a, well, idk, "special" ear to really appreciate their badassness;] Check out Goliath by them sometime!
Agreed. I also think he might be reluctant to upload more after he sees their reactions don’t get a lot of views (that’s if he’s even worried about something like that). I hope he does albums worth of reactions by them personally lol. Not enough Volta reactions on YT.
@@dutchmastah07 haha, i guess he would be deloused in the comatorium
That night I remembered what you slipped in my glass.
@@Abaddonian did you foam at the mouth while lights winked at you?
@@damiankirkwood7924 and yet my shape was kept.
if you really like the latin spanish stuff, I think the song I would most request from them is L'Via L'Viaquez.
"What have I gotten myself into?"
Answer: Heaven my good friend... Musical heaven
"I got my volume way up and I can barely hear it"
*Me, knowing what's gonna happen to his eardrums next:* c:
SERIOUSLY! lol
my my MY NAILS PEEL BACK...
"What have I gotten myself into."
TMV on of the most underrated and brilliant bands of all time.
There is no other band like MV. But like TOOL you need to give it a few listens before you realize how great it is. Great reaction!
Two greatest bands.
True
Indeed
"it's a quiet sound"
That middle section is my favorite thing ever. I just want to bathe in that section. I want that sound to carry me into the afterlife. Ahhhhhh
Try Cassandra Gemini (32 mim ver)
Porto it’s so amazing
thats kind of a lot to take in..no other reaction channel takes on that behemoth
such a good song!!
the rhythm in the quiet section is 9/8, 6/4 4/4 repeated over and over again
Yeeeeessssssss! The Mars Volta is awesome! I'm sure you'll learn to really enjoy them later on!
Eriatarka is a bit of everything and not that long compared to the rest of their catalog
orlanmop _ some of their later stuff has shorter songs.
Drummer is a legend named Jon Theodore. He's been with Queens of the Stone Age for the past 6 years, if you were curious. Here he is with them just being heavy as hell - th-cam.com/video/z1GfDzZ_59g/w-d-xo.html
Viscera Eyes, Goliath, Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore, Cicatriz ESP, Wax Simulacra, Or Any Other Song Honestly
Thumbs up for Cicatriz ESP
Awesome song, awesome band, awesome album. This is a concept album by the way, you should work your way through, the next songs are very, very interesting and weird and beautiful.
I have to admit it took me a while to "get it", but I now consider Frances the Mute one of the best prog albums of the last 20 years. Absolutely love it.
Same. Early on, I loved DeLoused and Goliath, but over the years, this one has stood the test of time for me more than any of their other albums.
Thanks to Omar Alfredo Rodriguez Lopez who, beside being one of the very best guitar player alive, is just a genius composer.
They are fearless and incredibly genius. They are bound to no limitation in music like everybody else.
“what have I gotten myself into” - Perfect description.
mid section time sig - 29/16, counted 9-12-8
Omar is the creative genius behind the musical composition and his roots are highly influenced in Latin jazz. If you listen to L' Via L'Viaqiez you can definitely hear it. He actually got his Latin Jazz pianist Larry Harlow on this song. You also have Flea playing trumpet on Cassandra Gemini and John Frusciante on tracks in Deloused and Frances the Mute. I have seen this band every chance I got to and was always blown away. Some of my suggestions to review would be "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt""Roulette Dares" and definitely "DAY OF TYE BAPHOMETS"..... your head would explode!!!!!!
First album may be the easiest to listen to: try "Roulette Dares" or "Eriatarka". Fourth album is the heaviest, try "Goliath" or "Ouroboros". And if you really really want complete absolute chaos listen to "Day of the Baphomets".
Also, in this song he was singing in Spanish! Cedric (the singer) has said that he likes to write cryptically to express the IDEA of a feeling or thought rather than saying it directly. This also lets you derive your own meaning from the lyrics.
Eriatarka sure but Roulette Dares is kinda hard to listen, at least for me xd
glad one of your first songs of TMV is this one, its so intense and chaotic really throws ya into their sound
My first TMV song too
Thank you for listening! I love TMV - T00L - DEFTONES reactions by people who understand music. PLEASE keep going with TMV, Ap. You won't regret it. #Cassandra_Gemini #NunquamDormio
The best part of the Mars Volta is that you can listen to a song of theirs dozens of times and catch new parts in them.
Mars Volta always make you pay taxes for their grooves.
That's a great way to put it
Mars Volta it’s a culture band, if you ear it closely it would blow your mind. There’s plenty tracks of them that are truly amazing.
Best band ever. You are standing in front of portal. Step through...
all mars volta's discography is awsome, and i advice you to listen "dub trio" on the album "another soud is dying" with the song "felicitation"
This is probably one of the hardest Mars Volta songs to get into. When it finally clicked for me I quite enjoyed it. In fact, I've used that beginning guitar part for my ringtone for like 10 years. Only like 2 people have recognized it.
Best part of the song is where it starts "I count the days to find, what was left behind. Only these name I clutch, will lead me to my home..."
They definitely have some really good albums worth checking out. The first 4 are great. You definitely need repeat listens for a lot of it to click.
4:44 "it might take me time to get into what they're doing and get into all this chaos".
Yes, exactly!
The first time I heard TMV was this album. I'd heard a few people raving about them and needed to hear it for myself. However, 2 minutes in and I had to stop listening. My brain could not comprehend what I was hearing. I thought, this is not for me.
But there was something about it that fascinated me. So, a few days later I thought I'd give it another try, and just, somehow...got it. And fell in love with it!
This album is just incredible from start to finish.
I was lucky enough to see them in 2008 in London and they were so intense live.
The mid section could be counted as 29/16 or 5/4, 6/4, 4/4, but I always count it as 29/16
5 6 4 doesn't add up to a multiple or factor of 29! If you wanted to do it out of 4 the first segment would have to be 4.5/4... Which doesn't quite exist!
My interpretation is: 9/16 - 12/16 - 8/16 (adds up to 29/16)
KillerAP that’s my point which is why I count it in 29/16, but some people do count it as 5/4, 6/4, and 4/4, but yeah you can count it 9/16, 12/16, and 8/16 too, I just go based on the drums and bass and to me I view at one whole bar, just listen
KillerAP especially the bass makes it seem like one bar not 3
The rhythm is a constant three measure pattern of 9/8, 6/4, and 4/4
The first bit is not 5/4, it is missing a half beat, which gives everything the disjointed feel
Listen to cassandra gemini off the same record, it's broken into a bunch of parts... like 30 minutes long.. Go to the bathroom and find your happy place first...
Idk if anyone’s mentioned to you yet, but there’s like 8 members at this stage of the bands existence. That’s why you hear so much going on lol Also to note, the lead guitarist, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, wrote all the music.
I think he wrote the instrumentals. The vocal melodies are by Cedric Bixler-Zavala if I'm informed correctly. Could be wrong.
@@HarveyHirdHarmonics you are right, I meant the instrumentals. Cedric always had mostly free reign on the words and melodies.
Not sure if you're talking about the rating or the time signature in the description. 😁 But I do love this kind of music. You often won't get it on the first listen. But then you listen a second time and when you don't expect it, while cooking or shopping, some musical phrase appears in your head, then you have to listen again and maybe one more time and it just snaps. You finally know all the phrases, melodies and transitions and you can really begin to appreciate the music.
A lot of the solos on this album (and other albums as well) are played by John Frusciante!
you were trying to count the middle section? it's a constant 13/8 with an offset 3:2 Clave underneath... :)
I think that's what throws a lot of people off; TMV uses a lot of Latin music conventions, so if you're not used to hearing that stuff, it'll seem bizarre and irrational (in a mathematical sense).
I would disagree with that. The solo section timing is
9/8, 6/4, 4/4 as a three bar pattern on repeat. The extra half beat in the first bar is what constantly throws the feel out of whack
This song is a lot to take in... But it's incredible. Probably my favorite solo of all time during the long breakdown.
I saw them live when they released this album. Blew my mind.
jilblanche same here :)
Freshman year in college.
My friends introduced them to me through their first album and I didn’t quite “get it” until I heard this album, which blew my mind.
Then a few weeks later we took a road trip town to San Diego to see them perform live.
They played the whole album start to finish.
The best concert I’ve ever been to.
@KillerAP You have to listen to their first album (Deloused in the Comatorium) from start to finish as it is basically one long song (all the tracks lead into each other). When you listen to one song in the middle of that album, it’s almost like opening a book at random and starting to read. Honestly it’s not that serious but some of the songs really deserve the “context” or the build up from the previous songs. A suggestion of mine would be to record yourself listening to that whole album (it’s almost exactly and hour long) and pausing (or editing later) in between songs to elaborate your thoughts and then releasing each song reaction over time. To hear each song for the first time, in order, for the entirety of the album is a special and unique experience that would be 100% worth the time and effort to record and react to.
Give a thumbs up all you TMV fans if you want to see him do that as you know that is the best way to experience Deloused 😉
Also need to check out the band that came before MV, “at the drive in”
Faraquet - The View From This Tower or Cut Self Not.
Anything on the album is a classic, jazz, punk, fusion, totally unique and an amazing 3 piece!
So that odd rhythm in the middle is a repeating pattern of 29 sixteenth notes. If you wanted to write the time signature on the staff for sheet music it would be 29/16 instead of 4/4. Figured this out a while back by playing the hi-hat beat with a marker on paper and counting the dots.
They are experiMENTAL, but this is a masterpiece of a track.
Dunno if it's been done in the comments for this video before but, I'm going to try to translate the Spanish bits:
*The very first verse:
Niño, prepárate
Que vas a sufrir
Niño, prepárate
Salte veneno
Niño, prepárate
Salte de aquí
Niño, prepárate
Rabia temblando
Niño, prepárate
Salte veneno
Niño, prepárate
Salte de aquí
Niño, prepárate
Brican los cuerpos
Vas a sufrir
In English:
Boy, get ready
'Cause you're going to suffer
Boy, get ready
Poison, get out
Boy, get ready
Get out of here
Boy, get ready
Rage trembling (or shaking)
Boy, get ready
Poison, get out
Boy, get ready
Get out of here
Boy, get ready
The bodies jump
You're going to suffer
*The bits before the chorus:
Sangre, sonando
De rabia nací
In English:
Blood, sounding (or ringing)
I was born from rage
I hope this helps :)
i really woulld like to hear an analysis after a few more listenings. great video all the way.
There is no band like TMV, so if you want more songs like this, you’ll have to keep digging into their discography
I always count that middle section as 9, 12, 8 beats repeating. It's an awesome rhythm and fun to play along to once you get used to it.
Try 'Televators', 'Vermicide', 'L' Via L' Viaquez, or CICATRIZ ESP.
Any _Fair To Midland_ fans out there?
Wayland C hell yeah but first album. The second was not as good.
This music is only something you can fully appreciate if you know a good amount of music theory. It’s such an acquired taste, but this is genuinely my favorite music.
BTW,TMV's music is built on the compas of salsa music. if you are a theory nerd, you know the compas, the clave, and that the count is a circle -- 1212345678910111212123456789101112...=)
Wait, what? 🤯
A really accessible song of theirs is "take the veil cerpin taxt". Though you get less of the noise and ambient experiments they try in newer albums. But the Mars Volta are creative almost to a fault.
Cygnus is Latin and means swan :)
Day Of The Baphoments
Black magic was originally by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
*DAY OF THE BAPHOMETS* a musical experience like no other :) loved the reaction to this one, its a wild ride!
Continue this new tradition. You have now listened to the first moment of their first album, and then the first moment of their 2nd album.
Now, listen to Vicarious Atonement, and if you're very daring, listen to Vicarious Atonement/Tetragrammaton
BTW, you might be the first person ever to have figurd out that time signature. I went 'WOW!!' when you finally figured it out at the end of the solo. I wonder if the swailing guitar effect helped. I dont think its an accident that you figured it out RIGHT at the end. That solo is .... magic.
You ask what is going on... That's music, music is going on.
That breakdown section is simply in 7/4. With that syncopated drop midway thru
and that sir, is your first true acid trip in one song
check out: mastodon, sounds of animals fighting, circa survive for more progy-nesss.....maybe some claypool lennon delirium, or you want to get old school, check out: Magma, king crimson, Yes, and some of Rush'e catalog
you asked for any recommendations similar to volta? I'd check out the "Cataclysm" EP by Alas of ID
The time signature of the middle section is 29/16! I think you basically got that eventually.
9/8 6/4 4/4 on repeat as a three bar pattern
This album has none other than John Fusciente on guitar and Flea on bass and horns
If I were introducing this band to someone I would make them listen to The Haunt of Roulette Dares! Way more digestible and radio friendly!
Have you listened to Jinjer - Pisces? That should be your next reaction if you haven't
That middle rhythm is 29/16.
You have to count in 16th notes, not 8th notes. You count 9-12-8
Listen to the whole album followed by the single Francis the mute. Complete your life
It would be the single before the album. But yes, definitely do that.
Mars Volta is something special. Could you do something to the sound quality.
The first and second movements of the song are quite different, but I don’t see how you could not dig the first half.
Mars Volta is like Myles Davis, Pink Floyd, Samba, Shades of Les Claypool , and RATM on some really good blotter
There’s The Mars Volta....and then there’s just everyone else.
Mars Volta is like is Nirvana and Atari Teenage Riot had kids and the kids decided to form a band with Miles Davis on acid
They change a lot between English and Spanish. The singer is Mexican and the guitarist is Puertorican, there's a lot of turnover in the band (usually comprised of family members) so they have a lot of latino and black sounds. Check out Lvia Lviazquez on that same album
Cicatriz ESP is their best song, this one comes close though
I concur.
Why did you stop the track with 3 ½ mins left to go?
It seems like a lot going on but trust me, it grows on you and you'll appreciate all thats going on.
Check out Rishloo
They are like a cross between the Mars Volta and Tool
More volta bro pleasee
The lyrics are sometimes in Spanish. And, yeah, this song is definitely a grower. I didn't love it at first, and it's now my favorite song in their catalogue.
If you like the Latin sound, songs like L'Via L'Viaquez, Viscera Eyes, and Day of the Baphomets go there, too.
As for the guitars on this album, John Frusciante (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) does some guest guitar works. The Peppers toured with Cedric and Omar's previous band, At the Drive In, and they both do some guest bits on the first couple of Volta albums.
Its too much going on but they do it in a very comprehensive and seamless way
He knew to stop the song 4 minutes before it ended because of the outro which means he already listened to it.
There's a 9 minute version that ends after the vocal fade away on yorube, he probably chose that video.
You should check out the song Goliath from these guys!
they do a mixture of english and spanish (broken spanish) and some made up words
Come back to The Mars Volta! Try Wax Simulacra...3 minutes long.
Have you listened to any System of a Down ?
ya tons
Pretendcios yes, awesome asolutly.
More Mars Volta😃!!!
haha "its a quiet song"
You wont be disappointed. Probably.
Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt!!!
This song slaps!
Try Wax Simulacra Live at letterman
No, that was a terrible performance
Nice video. But you need some headphones reacting to this.
And not on a compressed TH-cam stream. At least use Spotify.
9/16, 3/4, 2/4
lol you must come from a pop background or something.
cassandra gemini, viscera eyes :)
The title is a name. like bond... james bond...