The Mars Volta: Undercover Part 2

(Undercover.com.au / June 2008)
Part 2: The lyrical content and not wanting to over-intellectualise music.

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[ENIGMA44]

this interview was in 08 aswell, nawt 07.

[merrymadi]

Woops! I'll go change that now, cheers.

[ctaylor252]

I fucking love listening to cedric and omar talk. Two of the smartest people, no questions asked.

[andrethebest1]

lol at Omar with the mic.

[PearlJamm]

i must admit, ive never even tried to conceptualise what their songs are about... they just sound cool.

[Tanga26927]

while Ced talks, Omar is getting bored...

[Bizdet]

and the left and right side of my brain are connected so i think its wholly possible that thinking about things is an instinct. sorry that i got frustrated

[Bizdet]

@parallelogramammoth yeah i guess i did. its stupid to throw it out huge black and white definitions of things. Like some other people have said on here - they cant help but sometimes analyze things. i kind of feel that when i instinctually analyze lyrics or other details, that i get an even deeper emotion from it then. like if you think about philosophy, you start to feel really really deep and thats an emotion too. . . animals do think , so they intellectualize too.

[parallelogramammoth]

@Bizdet You've taken this awful personally. Yes we all have intellect, it's what distinguishes us from other animals. If you're thinking at all you're intellectualizing. There's no such thing as a guttural intellectualism. The intellect is from the left brain, the "guttural" or intuitive comes from the right brain. They react to each other, but never do they meet as you suggest.

[canthinkverywell]

why haven't there been any cedric interviews lately? every now and then they get omar by himself but i'm starting to miss my other big-haired friend :(

[Bizdet]

well fuck me for spending any time durin my life to think and ask why. sometimes i can't help it its not like im trying to "intellectualize" maybe we all have intellect and just cant help but have a guttural intellectual moment sometimes. this interview is just that, for example. oh, and i do always make sure to tell my girlfriend I love her because words are a form of communication of feeling and just because i say it often doesn't mean i dont mean it as much as i can mean it every time

[KwameNewton]

@ctaylor252 Omar's genius moment at 1:02

[jrcsgtpeppers]

i like the analyzing part

thats what being high is for, you dont think you just listen

[MetrashaStoner2010]

Omar's workin his guns