The song "Goliath" is from The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta

The Mars Volta is a Grammy award winning American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas. Founded in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the band incorporates various influences including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion, Latin American music, and...

's fourth studio album The Bedlam in Goliath

The Bedlam in Goliath

The Bedlam in Goliath is the fourth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta. It was released on January 29, 2008, and January 26, 2008 in Australia through Universal Motown Records...

. It was originally released as "Rapid Fire Tollbooth" on guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, writer, actor and film director who was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico...

's 2007 solo album Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo

Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo

Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo is a 10-track full-length album by Omar Rodríguez-López and the second in the "Amsterdam series". It was written and recorded in 2005 in California and Amsterdam, and was released May 29, 2007 by Gold Standard Labs on both vinyl and CD. A limited edition, brown marble...

, but was incorporated into the Mars Volta's live set while touring in support of their album Amputechture

Amputechture

-Notes:#"Vicarious Atonement" is the theory that the atonement of Jesus Christ was legal in God's eyes and that Jesus died in the place of the humans that sinned....

. It was then rewritten and rerecorded for The Bedlam in Goliath

The Bedlam in Goliath

The Bedlam in Goliath is the fourth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band The Mars Volta. It was released on January 29, 2008, and January 26, 2008 in Australia through Universal Motown Records...

. "Goliath" contains a segment that originally appeared as an improvised jam during performances of "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)."

A video for the song features the band playing toy instruments in the middle of a road at night, with Cedric dressed as The Elephant Man from David Lynch

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

's film of the same name

The Elephant Man (film)

The Elephant Man is a 1980 American drama film based on the true story of Joseph Merrick , a severely deformed man in 19th century London...

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The "Never heard a man speak like this man before" refrain is taken from a Peoples Temple

Peoples Temple

Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco...

 hymn, "Never Heard a Man". The group is best known for the events of November 18, 1978 in Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

, in which 918 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (informally, and now commonly, called "Jonestown

Jonestown

Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby...

"), a nearby airstrip at Port Kaituma

Port Kaituma

Port Kaituma is a small town within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana, located at .- History :Although an Amerindian settlement has existed along the Kaituma River for some time, it was only after the discovery of manganese at nearby Matthew's Ridge that Port Kaituma was developed...

, and Georgetown

Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown, estimated population 239,227 , is the capital and largest city of Guyana, located in the Demerara-Mahaica region. It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean coast at the mouth of the Demerara River and it was nicknamed 'Garden City of the Caribbean.' Georgetown is located at . The city serves...

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It was to be the first single of the album but the band decided against it and used "Wax Simulacra

Wax Simulacra

"Wax Simulacra" is a single from the album The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta. The single debuted November 18, 2007 on San Francisco's Live 105 FM...

" instead. It was released as the second single exclusively on USB.

The EL-P remix is featured on the soundtrack of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is a PlayStation 3 exclusive title which was announced at the E3 2007. This short version title was a precursor and sampling of Gran Turismo 5 and replaced Gran Turismo HD Concept...

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There is stark sonic evidence to suggest this song is actually an interpretation of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid man"
compare the two, it is obvious!

Track listing

1. Goliath - 7:15
2. Goliath (El-P Remix) – 3:57
3. Tourniquet Man (Wes The Mes Remix) - 6:37
4. Back Up Against The Wall – 1:34
5. Wax Simulacra (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
6. Goliath (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
7. Ilyena (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
8. Aberinkula (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
9. Askepios (Video)(downloadable links only accessible via USB)
10. Picture gallery
11. Screensaver