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MARS VOLTA AND PRINCE Alright, so I have checked out the Mars Volta album Frances the Mute and I can see the appeal and why they have gained a lot of critical and fan-based notoriety. My question is this, how come a band like this can put together an opus of rock fusion and get such critical raves when Prince constructs similarly challenging and obtuse works like N.E.W.S. and Rainbow Children and fails to get anything remotely close to the same adulation? I would take either Prince record any day of the week, especially Rainbow Children, over whatever Mars Volta can come up with. Too many people overlook the amazing, genre-defying works of Prince.
What do you guys think? Peace, Scott If you've got funk, you've got style. | |
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HardcoreJollies said: Alright, so I have checked out the Mars Volta album Frances the Mute and I can see the appeal and why they have gained a lot of critical and fan-based notoriety. My question is this, how come a band like this can put together an opus of rock fusion and get such critical raves when Prince constructs similarly challenging and obtuse works like N.E.W.S. and Rainbow Children and fails to get anything remotely close to the same adulation? I would take either Prince record any day of the week, especially Rainbow Children, over whatever Mars Volta can come up with. Too many people overlook the amazing, genre-defying works of Prince.
What do you guys think? Peace, Scott Well, I haven't heard Mars Volta's thing, but I have heard The Rainbow Children and N.E.W.S. I didn't run out into the street, hollering, but I admire Rainbow Children. The thing is that a lot of P fans want P to be a pop star. They don't want P to be what he is, a freak of nature songwriter with out of bounds vision. Oh, they dig it whenever P plays the solo to Purple Rain for 60 minutes. But dig, P did that in 84. He wants to move on into new areas. Why? Cuz he's a true artist. And whenever he does this, he gets rocks thrown at him. I say the cat sould say fuck it and move to France, and do his thing. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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Thanks for your thoughts on this. Sometimes I feel like I must be crazy or something. It is refreshing to have serious discussions about the artistry of music.
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HardcoreJollies said: Thanks for your thoughts on this. Sometimes I feel like I must be crazy or something. It is refreshing to have serious discussions about the artistry of music.
Scott Right on. Hey, where u been, Hardcore? But hey, I can dig it. SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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