De-Loused in the Comatorium
The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
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Son et Lumiere full track | 1:35 | 185,966 | ||
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Inertiatic ESP full track | 4:26 | 177,319 | ||
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Tira Me a Las Aranas full track | 1:28 | 104,133 | ||
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Roulette Dares (This is the Ha | 7:29 | 26,483 | ||
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Eriatarka full track | 6:20 | 140,480 | ||
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Drunkship of Lanterns full track | 7:05 | 161,077 | ||
| 6 |
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This Apparatus Must Be Unearth | 4:58 | 45,775 | ||
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Cicatriz ESP full track | 12:28 | 122,400 | ||
| 7 |
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Televators (Main Radio Edit) full track | 4:10 | 645 | ||
| 8 |
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Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt (XFM Session) full track | 12:17 | 684 |
About this album
Released: 28 Oct 2003 10 tracks (62:16)
De-Loused in the Comatorium is the first studio album by the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Based on a short story by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward, it is the hour-long tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma during which he experiences visions of humanity and his own psyche. Upon waking, he is dissatisfied with the real world and jumps to his death. The story of Cerpin Taxt is based on the death of El Paso, Texas artist (and Bixler-Zavala’s friend) Julio Venegas.
De-Loused became both critically and commercially their biggest hit, eventually selling in excess of 500,000 copies despite next-to-no promotion, and was featured on several critics’ “Best of the Year” lists. The album was ranked number 55 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time. “Drunkship of Lanterns” was named the 91st best guitar song of all-time by Rolling Stone.
The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics, Jazz rhythms, odd time signatures, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s frenetic guitar riffs, which are often harshly dissonant. The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song “Eunuch Provocateur” on the band’s previous release, Tremulant.
Song Title Translations/Meanings:
Son et Lumière is a French phrase meaning “sound and light.”
De-Loused became both critically and commercially their biggest hit, eventually selling in excess of 500,000 copies despite next-to-no promotion, and was featured on several critics’ “Best of the Year” lists. The album was ranked number 55 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time. “Drunkship of Lanterns” was named the 91st best guitar song of all-time by Rolling Stone.
The music contained in De-Loused is distinguished by its enigmatic lyrics, Jazz rhythms, odd time signatures, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s frenetic guitar riffs, which are often harshly dissonant. The title of this album is taken from the lyrics of the song “Eunuch Provocateur” on the band’s previous release, Tremulant.
Song Title Translations/Meanings:
Son et Lumière is a French phrase meaning “sound and light.”
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Shouts
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Cozfunkel wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Amputechture
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mayonaisee wrote:
Mars Volta's best :D
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asdAero wrote:
An interesting album. Love it. ;)
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street_dawg wrote:
Definitely my favourite TMV record. Mindblowing [3]
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hole666666 wrote:
this is Morphistaccos.
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PatrickGombert wrote:
This album is absolutely incredible, but a fluke.
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BlackProject wrote:
wow.
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maryann2version wrote:
This is the sound they should have kept. Such a good album. [2] Oh yah, all way.
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DaniloFerrreira wrote:
Definitely my favourite TMV record. Mindblowing [2]
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Ghoztking wrote:
This is the sound they should have kept. Such a good album.
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C3ph wrote:
This album got me into TMV and I cannot say how much this album rocks!!!
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riddlem wrote:
10/10 i love this album
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Dr_MoonOrGun wrote:
listening to it with the story in mind is kind of mindblowing
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SexBreath wrote:
this album made me not hate them for breaking up ATD-I and it's really just a superb work. i don't want to say best, but there is less meandering than frances the mute on this, and it's just so fucking solid from start to finish.
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Luis___ wrote:
Definitely my favourite TMV record. Mindblowing.
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Spiniello wrote:
yeah ur rite de-loused is better but i'd say Frances just behind this one
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TehSpiral wrote:
The best TMV album, no question. I haven't listened to Bedlam yet, but I don't think my opinion will change once I do.
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tea-jay wrote:
which asshole stole my cd?
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