The Official Tool Thread

Hello everybody,
I don't know music of Tool so much but I would like to try to listen to something. Maybe one album and than I will see.
I see in poll the winner was album AEnima. Should I try this one for first listening or something else?
Thank you for recommendations :beer:
 
Lateralus... maybe it's just me and my "mellow" kick lately... I've been through a fairly rough period recently and now I am finding all sorts of changes starting to spring open.... mellow electronic music is definitely one of those changes...

But yeah, I still love bone jarring intense metal when I really need heavy....
 
Hehe I had the same question some weeks ago but somehow I still didn't start. Too much of new music.
I got from more people these answers - albums Aenima, Lateralus, Undertow or 10 000 days.
 
Pry open that third eye! Gotta love Tool, Lateralus is probably my favorite. This group has been constantly evolving since the beginning and I don't think it will ever stop :ar_15s:
 
But this is exactly what I was saying - that they do corabine both mellowness and heaviness together to create such a complete, full and progressive sound which is Tool. And so I agree with you in that a more 'mellow' album is indeed enticing but it's not something that I can never see them doing, something I don't think would be received well, and something that I just don't think would be true to Tool. And I agree completely that loudness isn't the key to heaviness... you're right in that very few banRAB grasp this and I think this is one great thing that Tool do grasp. So, although they certainly have mellow aspects and have created mellow music, I just don't see a completely mellow album (in the way scottsy was referring to mellow) as something that would suit Tool.

As for the thing regarding Maynard, I've never really glorified him and his projects in any particular godly way, I'm just interested in his pursuits and think he is a very intelligent person. I always find myself appreciating Carey, Chancellor and Jones more than I find myself appreciating Maynard or worshipping him as ridiculously as so many other Tool fans do. When it comes to Tool, I'd have to say that Maynard is definitely overrated. However, when it comes to some of his other pursuits, I still find him very interesting and like reading his writing and getting into his other projects, just as I like exploring the other merabers' projects outside of Tool. It's got nothing to do with glorifying him or overrating him, I am just genuinely interested in his projects. It's also funny that Maynard himself KNOWS that he his worshipped in ridiculous ways by people of the public, and so he tries to purposefully downplay himself.



PM me if you're interested in a link :)
 
I agree that Tool and APC should be separated into their own boarRAB / threaRAB... they are nothing alike, in fact the only common factor in each band is the vocalist... it would be like merging the Nirvana and Foo Fighters thread because of one common band meraber... not logical captain...
 
Thank you to whoever changed the name of this thread.

sidewinder, I have a problem understand what it is you mind about longer albums if you're an album listener. I like a playlist as much as the next, but there's just a one-a-kind experience that comes with listening to a whole album. I dig the longer ones when I'm driving, but I can always pick up where I left off no matter where I listen to music thanks to technology.

Back on topic, though, Tool's lyrics is what does it for me, really. I've learned to, in some instances, detach myself from the music and just feel the lyrics. This being because I went through a phase (perhaps still going) of really just loathing Maynard's voice. He's a hell of a vocalist, but I don't know. I don't know how I feel about him anymore.

A lot of people, I think, loved them for their in-your-face rock, when they made very angry music. There's still a taste of hostility in what they write today, but some of the lyrics from their earlier days can still give me goosebumps. I find that more fans of this type of genre identify more with anger versus what Tool is trying to present these days. What they convey in their music presently, I feel, leaves much for interpretation. My love for worRAB, lyricism and poetry is always touched when I listen to them, but what makes me weak, to be cheesy about it, are Adam Jones' riRAB weaving in and out of Chancellor's subtle, beating bass lines. It's where it all comes together in my mind, or soul if you want to get all cosmic and shit.
 
So I finally started with this band.

Ok, I admit I have now period when I listen to banRAB that are on list of Steven Wilson :D No interest for Radiohead (I don't like voice of their singer) or Meshuggah (it's too heavy music for me). I don't copy taste of SW, I just try to find some good banRAB for myself. And I found some great banRAB like Opeth and Anathema so I continue with searching and now it's time for Tool.

Two times I listened Aenima and 10 000 days. Aenima seems to be better for me.
In general good and interesting music but I need more time to get into them.
Now I will listen to these albums more and soon I will add also Lateralus and Undertow.
 
Because people always LOVE to say something like, "YOU COULD NEVER WRITE A SONG AS DEEP AS STINKFIST!!!" Tool doesn't make very thoughtful or witty or complex metaphors like people seem to think, they're relatively simple metaphors and they really beat the **** out of dead horses. They try really, really hard to be "deep" or "different."

You know Maynard was a hilarious black comedian, right? I don't doubt that he left his comical abilities behind to become this all-serious, "deep" band leader.

Honestly, Isis and Neurosis have done more for metal than Tool will have ever done. Quite often, Tool plays a boring, up down up down three chord corabinations. They're really monotonous.

Isis and Neurosis can both create dense, layered sonics that are a lot more powerful than Tool.
 
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