Opening acts

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Mars Volta made fools of APC?

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I too find this hard to believe.

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APC really took a very hard tumble in talent with their newest album. It's really really bad with only a few bright spots. Course Mars Volta isn't much better lately but better than the sludge APC is tossing out.

 

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Disagreed. How do you take a 'tumble in talent'? Emotive was faily good stuff and I see very little wrong with Thirteenth Step.

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Emotive was nothing but an album of horrible covers. If it weren't for "Passive" and "Blah blah blah War drum", I'd be completely disappointed and even "War Drum" isn't that good (original version of the song is about 800 times better, jesus). Thirteenth Step was great, Mer De Noms was awesome, and then this was like a child born to a couple who lived on top of a toxic waste pit, next door to a nuclear reactor while the father worked with medical waste and the mother worked with chemical weapons.

 

It was a horrible backstep. Every band has one of these albums but it was downright disappointing.

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See I knew there was a reason why I haven't picked up "Passive" yet...plus after "The Spaghetti Incident?" I try to stay away from cover albums...

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Lushus, "Passive" is the only song that is new and original from the album worth getting. If you can download it, download it. It almost makes me forget I bought the album when it first got released. Almost.

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2Gold. who did the OG war drums song? i'd like to hear it.

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Yes, APC made a quick political statement cd to go with a dvd release...not exactly the year-long studio effort that can be expected from a Maynard related project. Sometimes, its important not to base each record under the same criteria.

 

"Tumble in talent."

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I don't give a damn if they recorded themselves singing Mary Had a little lamb all day and performed it, that shit would still sound better than Volta.

 

Like the material or not, thats a tumble in material, not a tumble in talent. Talent wise, Volta could never embarass those guys.

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Does Volta even play actual songs? Or is it all just shrieking, nonstop annoying jamming, and jumping around like a bunch fairies?

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2Gold. who did the OG war drums song? i'd like to hear it.

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They did. War Drums is nothing more than a remix of "Pet".

As for Mars Volta...I've never got it and I never will probably.

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thanks, I'll have to give it a listen. I have all these cd's on my comp and never touch em. Like I got 2 gbs of Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang solos and side projects I've never listened to, and probably never will.

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thanks, I'll have to give it a listen. I have all these cd's on my comp and never touch em. Like I got 2 gbs of Wu-Tang and Wu-Tang solos and side projects I've never listened to, and probably never will.

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Ummm...why?

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Does Volta even play actual songs? Or is it all just shrieking, nonstop annoying jamming, and jumping around like a bunch fairies?

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Dude, you just can't appreciate it! It's Pink Floyd for OUR generation!!

 

 

 

ack.

[Annabelle 0]

nah nah nah

 

they are punk floyd.

 

edit: i liked their first album. it was still grounded. besides one elaborate jam, the songs were short enough where they still managed to keep the listeners attention. but their latest? man, its bad. really bad. its as though they took out everythign that made their first album good, and turned up the suck. yep, i said it. turned UP the suck

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

The Mars Volta and A Perfect Circle are both pretty bad. C'mon.

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The Mars Volta and A Perfect Circle are both pretty bad. C'mon.

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I like my old bands cover of 3 Libras...

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3 Libras is a fantastic song...

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Ben Kweller opened up for Ben Folds at Wabash College back in February. I only paid $5 to get in, but Kweller wasn't even worth that. I really dig his studio work, but he was the SHITS that night. He seemed completely drunk and not in condition to be on stage and he was big into playing 1/4th of a song, then stopping and screaming something inaudiable about partying.

 

Perhaps he was just off. I went to Ben Folds/Rufus Wainright in August, and Kweller opened for them too. He seemed to be in a good, but sober mood. He did have the full band with him, so perhaps that helped.

 

The worst opener I can think of is Fantomas for Tool.

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Hmmm...Im not really feeling the Fantomas hate either...

[King Kamala 0]

A female folk singer opening up for Weird Al Yankovic back in 99. Just completely out of place. I never thought I'd hear the sound of 1000 8 year olds booing.

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Tonight Jimmy Eat World opens for Green Day..

 

May god help us all

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A  female folk singer opening up for Weird Al Yankovic back in 99. Just completely out of place.  I never thought I'd hear the sound of 1000 8 year olds booing.

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^ wins

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Tonight Jimmy Eat World opens for Green Day..

 

May god help us all

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Yeah, dude. One has so much more integrity and cred than the other.

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A  female folk singer opening up for Weird Al Yankovic back in 99. Just completely out of place.  I never thought I'd hear the sound of 1000 8 year olds booing.

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Seriously.

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Weird Al seems to have bad choices as openers. I saw him last summer and he had some comic who's major bits were making a hook out of his index finger and pretending to be a pirate and doing an impression of somebody on a roller coaster.

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The weird thing about the female folk singer opening up for Weird Al is before a couple of her songs, she started telling stories about the jerk ex boyfriends she had. Those stories didn't resonate with the audience comprised almost entirely of ten year old boys and their parents.

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The weird thing about the female folk singer opening up for Weird Al is before a couple of her songs, she started telling stories about the jerk ex boyfriends she had. Those stories didn't resonate with the audience comprised almost entirely of ten year old boys and their parents.

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That sounds like Rachel Yamagata.