Holding pattern: The Mars Volta
The new Mars Volta album (The Bedlam in Goliath) has me listening to all the old ones again, so I'm not ready to move on from them yet. Here's a video of a highly-abbreviated "L'Via L'Viaquez," one of my two favorite songs from my still-favorite Mars Volta album, Frances the Mute:
The Mighty Boosh's Rudi and Spider are not based on The Mars Volta, as far as I know, but they definitely share a common ancestry. Big-haired dudes playing funky prog-rock are just part of the zeitgeist, I suppose, the New Sound for the 21st Century:
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