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I just got the new Tool cd, I won it on a local radio station, it kicks ass
If you like Tool You should get this albume right away.
Yeah, I brought that up before our crazy disappearance — yeah, Tool’s the shiznit (or the bee’s knees).
Yeah, this was the last thread that I was following. I wanted to catch the latest, then I heard about the site. I was like, “Aw man! I just posted on it, too”.
Have you picked up the new CD yet? There’s these little lenses on the front of it that you can use to look at the photos, and it has that weird stereogram 3d thing to them. Very cool.
I saw this review on a site I go to regularly. The 7 rating is from the paid reviewer. The other rating is from anybody and everybody that cares to vote.
http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=712
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“too weird to live, and too rare to die” always brings to mind wax taylor before fear and loathing for me.
My essence still senses Bucho's women.
@Ivan 39894 wrote:
… as a musician, the time signatures and rhythms are mind-boggling, and the lyrics are thought provoking. The title track alternates between 9/8, 8/8, and 7/8, and the syllables of the lyrics use the fibonacci sequence. How do you write this?
The problem I have with Tool, and Radiohead is similar these days, is that when I listen to their music 95% of what I hear is the maths and theory behind it instead of the blood and fire pumping through veins. Both of those bands used to make music that made me feel something but now it sounds over-cerebralized to the point of impotence. That’s not a dis on the bands or their fans, it’s just the personal relationship I have with their music now. And part of that is being 34 now, instead of 17 or 22, and Maynard and Thom seeming much more human than like the music gods they once were to me.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
I really never was into Radiohead.
I still see the passion and feeling in the music over the complexities of the meter, but I was a band geek and still am a musician, and that shit gets me all sorts of hot. Even if the music is rubbish, if there is a complex meter, I will listen to it and (over)analyze it.
I noticed it was, but it’s a good conversation, Ivan…
To me, Lateralus was, and is, a great example of concept over substance. (Ooh, see all the Tool fans shudder!) I don’t think that it’s very successful as a listen over and over again kind of record. A lot of people listen to music and nothing else, and being one of those people, listening to Lateralus is a chore, and it’s hard for me to drop everything and just listen to an album like I used to. I do like it quite a bit, but it’s a little overchallenging for the everyday listen.
That’s why I like 10,000 Days and Aenima for your everyday listen — there’s just enough rockin’ out and concept to be a good balance, and it’s another reason why I like Nine Inch Nails so much — most of those albums are brilliant enough to get your mind working, but not so weird and intricate that you can’t do something else, like I don’t know, drive.
Radiohead has never impressed me as much as either one of the forementioned bands, simply because Thom’s voice can be a little grating over time. That being said, I have most definitely enjoyed almost all of their albums, even the weirdo OK Computer, but for my money, In Rainbows is one of the best single albums I’ve EVER purchased. There’s not one bad track on there. It was such a surprise, too, considering I paid like 5 bucks for it.
Nine Inch Nails has a huge, passionate fan base; that being said, I really do not care for them. I have friends who have seen them live dozens of times, have every album in every form, posters, t-shirts, condoms, etc, but I could never figure out what the big deal was.
nin is like u2 (for this comparison only) in that they have that line of demarcation in their catalog that separates 2 very distinct styles. u2 has achtung baby and nin has with teeth. i only like early u2, but like all of nin’s stuff. i didn’t get into u2 until the 90’s and didn’t get into nin until ’02 or ’03.
i think the downward spiral (when heard as a singular work from beginning to end) is simply amazing. it will depress the snot out of you, but it is so tangible.
tool is the complete opposite. very frenetic and unpredictable. maynard’s mind must be churning with ideas all the time. tool isn’t my favorite but i can certainly appreciate the musical (and mathematical) talent on display.
My essence still senses Bucho's women.
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