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“Televators” by The Mars Volta
From the album De‐Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
“Televators” by The Mars Volta appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations in 2004. It was first released in 2003 on the album De‐Loused in the Comatorium. Its best result is #48 (tie) on the WBER Listener Countdown 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #168 alternative song of 2004.
"Televators" comes off De-Loused in the Comatorium, the Mars Volta's 2003 debut, a concept album spun from a short story by Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Jeremy Michael Ward about Cerpin Taxt, a man left comatose for a week after he overdoses on rat poison and morphine. Bixler-Zavala sings it, he and Ward wrote the words, and Omar Rodríguez-López wrote the music, played guitar and co-produced with Rick Rubin.
Flea, sitting in on bass, is joined by Justin Meldal-Johnsen on double bass, with Jon Theodore on drums, Ikey Owens on keyboards and Ward on effects, and Rich Costey mixed it. It's a haunted, hovering thing, and it carries extra weight now: Ward died of an apparent heroin overdose a month before the album's release, and De-Loused is the lone studio album he made with them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 96 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 | 106 |
| 2004 | 73 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 77 Songs of 2004 | 77 |
| 2004 | 48 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2004 | 227 |
| 2004 | 73 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2004 | 103 |
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