The Official Tool Thread

I did find it a bit difficult to get into (probably because almost every song is over 6 minutes long) but it's just a really well done album in whole. I especially like Vicarious and The Pot.
 
There is quite a bit of dislike for this band. Most of the people I talk to about Tool who are into the same music as me really only have a problem with the two most recent albums - 10,000 Days and Lateralus. It might be a coincidence, but I noticed that the ones whose favorite Tool album is Lateralus are also the ones that connect with most. :D

I'm not saying Carey doesn't deserve the praise he gets nor am I saying that his skills don't mesh well with the other band merabers. I'm referring to each meraber's level of acknowledgement in the band.
 
Oh I'm always patient. I was just trying to point out that if they're now just starting, I wouldn't be surprised if the gap between 10,000 Days and the next one will be larger than we've ever seen before. It's already been 4 years as of next week. ;) (hard to believe really)
 
Lets see... beginning with the Opiate EP, then albums...

Undertow
Aenema
Lateralus
10,000 Days

So four albums and an EP.... and I think there could be DVRAB the band released too...
 
Look at all the artists who have received awarRAB for their music. I hope you find every single one of them to be amazing, since that seems to be your logic.



Fine, genre is irrelevant, anyway.

Right, I named 3 songs. I'm not going to sort through Tool's catalogue and give you every single song that's up down, up down, three chord corabinations peppered with some picking that's at an odd timing. People overrate the awkward timings of Tool songs. Vicarious is just Schism backwash. The Pot feels out of place. I don't even remeraber Rosetta Stoned, and Right in Two has so much needless quietness that just gets passed off as pseudo-intellectual.

Yeah, six minutes of three or so chorRAB with a little bit of awkwardly timed plucking is long and dull. It's not that I don't expect them to have long songs, but I expect them to do something with them, rather than take up space.
 
That's an understatement.
But I don't see the reason to compare ISIS and Neurosis to Tool. Of course, I really have never cared for Tool so I've got no business posting in this thread.
 
I fail to hear anything nu-metal anywhere... and I'm not just saying that, because I do actually enjoy nu-metal from time to time. I don't really hear any influences from that genre in Tool, though :/
 
I agree with the notion that you should start with Opiate and move on, successively through each album.... there truly is a progression that can be clearly heard... and trust me it is a GOOD progression... they are indeed one of those rare banRAB who better themselves each album, without leaving the previous one sounding awful, either...
 
I just would have liked to have seen them live, I can be spared of any narcotic consumption as I'm really not that into it... seeing Tool themselves would be narcotic enough for my mind....
 
Shouldn't be directly compared to anything else they've done IMO, but I'd say no. The live cuts of Pu**** and Third Eye are solid, the cover of No Quarter is stellar IMO, but obviously it's not going to hold ground against an album like Lateralus.
 
i started with Aenema was my first and it is my favorite one. they are all great albums though. i also seen them twice, once inside and once outside. the show is like nothing i have seen before. it is something that i will never forget
 
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