Tool

[whygohome?]

The universe is hostile/so impossible/devour to survive/so it is, so it's always beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnn

[NextMovement41]

throw that bob marley wannabe motherfucker outta here

[Butterfingerz]

Seattle, WA (7/10/2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDNf...eature=related

[thechad90000]

Right in Two has to have my favorite Tool lyrics. Check the sig.

[Butterfingerz]

I can't even really start to rank their albums, but i'm not a big fan of opiate, aside from Jerkoff and Part of Me. Aenima and Lateralus are renowned for their creativity and ground breaking music/concepts (for Tool, anyway), and rightfully so.

Intension is probably one of my favorite songs on 10k. It just took forever to grow/click for me. Love it as a studio track.

[mposey34]

Originally Posted by jmkratt

To compare A Perfect Circle to Tool is asinine. Tool is light years ahead of APC musically, this is absolutely ridiculous.

but you can really like both, right?

[jmkratt]

Originally Posted by mposey34

but you can really like both, right?

Yeah definitely.

[EmJay]

Saw them in January...highlights of the show were Pushit (probably my favorite Tool song) and Ticks and Leaches. Can't wait for their new one, whenever it comes out.

Their live shows are amazing, just wish they would play longer shows...they usually play like 1:45 I think.

[thebridge15]

Great band. Saw them at Lolla, awesome show.

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by mposey34

but you can really like both, right?

Sure. That post was referencing mine when I mentioned the I have friends that tell me that not only is APC is "better", but that they are "basically the same band".

One of those statements is a subjective (but still ridiculous IMO) statement, the other is just flat out not true in any sense.

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Great band. Saw them at Lolla, awesome show.

2009? That's when I saw them too. Flipped my shit when they played flood

[thebridge15]

Originally Posted by whygohome?

2009? That's when I saw them too. Flipped my shit when they played flood

Yea it was great. My brother went to the DJ set cause he originally wanted to see Beastie Boys and had no desire to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I just hung out at Tool and had a great time.

[patthebear]

Love TOOL.

Saw them only once at All Points West in 2009. Lots of fun. A NY drummer friend of Danny Carey came out and played with them and rocked it the fuck out. I really wanted to hear The Grudge but was happy with it all. Lateralus killed.

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Yea it was great. My brother went to the DJ set cause he originally wanted to see Beastie Boys and had no desire to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and I just hung out at Tool and had a great time.

I was with my brother, who is a jazz guitar major and doesn't listen to much outside jazz and classical stuff, and even he was impressed by the show even though he went in expecting to hate it.

There's just no other band out there like them. Not even close

[Timebomb07]

This is all I really know of Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_c60Sp7Gtc

Song is badass though

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by Timebomb07

This is all I really know of Tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_c60Sp7Gtc

Song is badass though

Check out:

Schism
Vicarious
The pot
Parabola
Lateralus
Aenima
No quarter (led zeppelin cover)

[Timebomb07]

I respect them and all, I just don't like heavy music.

Rooftop off Away From the World is too heavy for my liking hah.

[whygohome?]

I don't like heavy stuff either. There isn't a single other "metal" band that I even remotely like, but tool is one of my top 10 bands. Pearl jam is probably the heaviest band i like besides tool

So check em out man for real. They are fucking incredible

Edit: ok I lied I do really like a lot of system of a down, but only because I used to date this chick that got me into them. Don't listen to them much at all anymore, and they aren't in the same stratosphere talent wise as tool

[emtphish]

great single: Sober

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sober_(...#Track_listing

Dutch version (Tales from the Darkside)
"Sober (album version)"
"Undertow (live)"
"Sober (live)"
"Opiate (live)"
"Flood (live)"
"Prison Sex (live)"
"Jerk-Off (live)"
"Prison Sex (live)"
"Bottom (live)"

[dwill26]

Okay so I have heard Tool songs before, but saw a local band cover a few songs this week and Im hooked. Trying to decide which album to get first, narrowed it down to 10000 Days or Lateralus. Any opinion? Also any live albums worth a purchase? Thanks folks!

[whygohome?]

Honestly, you can't go wrong with either of those if you're just getting into them. 10,000 days has a couple of really long and slow tracks that might turn off new listeners (in addition to 4-5 insanely awesome and accessible tracks) so I will say go with lateralus. The song "lateralus" is, IMO, their best song. They don't have any official live albums but they did release an ep called "salival" with some live stuff on it and there's quite a few full shows on YouTube. I have a SBD bootleg from the 10,000 days tour called 10,000 nights that's pretty killer, if you remind me tomorrow ill upload it.

But I've been on a "hooker with a penis" kick lately

I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well so you should point that fuckin finger up your aaaaaaassssssssssssss

[aicdmb]

Aenima is what got me hooked...although i liked Undertow before that....id start with either of those

[thebridge15]

If you have never heard a Tool song before, I say listen to Lateralus -> The Pit -> Schism

If you don't like anything you hear, give up.

[thebridge15]

I mean Laturalus is their best. Easily.

[whygohome?]

Maynard needs to stop fucking around and get with the program. We need a new album and by all accounts it's him and his bullshit keeping it from happening.

I love the guys art but he is a bit of a wanker.

[thebridge15]

He's real eccentric right? I mean with the whole not being on stage during shows thing?

[whygohome?]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

He's real eccentric right? I mean with the whole not being on stage during shows thing?

yeah definitely very eccentric, but not in the typical rock star way. he's really the anti rock star...they kind of guy that can probably go to the grocery store and nobody recognizes him. but he's always on stage, he's just in the background to stage left of the drummer and there isnt usually much of a spotlight or anything on him. doesnt like the attention to be on him during shows, which i can respect.

but the fact its approaching 7 years since the last TOOL album and he keeps putting out puscifer albums, which are strange and avant garde, while the rest of the band talks about the music they have written and recorded and that they are ''waiting on maynard to add vocals & lyrics"...it gets frustrating.

[thebridge15]

Yea I get that. I remember being in fucking high school when 10,000 Days came out and people were real excited.

[dwill26]

Hey thanks for the advice, guys. Decided to say fuck it and buy both 10000 Days and Lateralus. Gonna listen to them on the train home tomorrow, excited to get into theses guys for real!

[phlaming lips]

Originally Posted by dwill26

Hey thanks for the advice, guys. Decided to say fuck it and buy both 10000 Days and Lateralus. Gonna listen to them on the train home tomorrow, excited to get into theses guys for real!

enjoy.

both of those albums represent a different taste from hardcore fans and the departure from undertow/aenema.

I personally love listening to both 10K days and Lateralus in their entirety.