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Originally Posted by She's Lost Control
I like both, but De-Loused just that much more.
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An Oscar Wilde quote and a Joy Division lyric as your user name. I'm sure I know you.
Edit: Never mind. I do know now.
But anyway who says Omar Rodriguez doesn't have musically impressive guitar solos? I'm uninformed to what musically impressive guitar solos are, not being a guitarist myself, but at the very least he's damn innovative.
And talk of them being prog? They seem to be encapsulate whatever it was I understood prog to be. What might your definition of progressive rock be then, Don?
Let's dissect a definition of progressive rock applying it to the Mars Volta. This definition came from allmusic.com, a fairly credible source:
"Prog-rock tends to be more traditionally melodic (even when multi-sectioned compositions replace normal song structures), more literary (poetry or sci-fi/fantasy novels), and more oriented toward classically trained instrumental technique"
Melodic: Check.
Multi-sectioned compositions: Check.
Literary: Based off their lyrics, and the name itself as an homage to science-fiction novels, check.
Oriented towards classically trained instrumental technique: You'd probably say otherwise but it's pretty opinion oriented and I'm inclined to hear echoes of classical in TMV.
Intrinsically album-based, taking advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations. In fact, many prog bands were fond of crafting concept albums that made unified statements, usually telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme: Check.