Never could get into them. I kinda like a couple of their songs but like streaming them on Spotify was meh.
Going to listen to Lateralus (2001).
Also, Tool is one of my friend’s favorite bands. The one who won’t talk to me. It’s fucking weird because they have never listened to Tool in my presence and it just sort of came out of left field. I guess it makes sense considering how many of their songs are about heroin.
There was this one night too where we went to this birthday party and got high as balls and they started sewing a GG Alin patch onto their pants. I must have been having psychosis because why the fuck would they be into GG Alin.
Tool's a lot more enjoyable if you're watching the music videos while 16 and extremely baked.
I do not care for them but I also don't really like complex music
Tool isn't even that complicated imo, and I'm not saying this as some kind of flex, I just think many of their songs are super boring. Sure it may be in 23/17 time or whatever but it's the same riff for 15 minutes
Nah for sure. The only one usually doing anything in anyway crazy is the drummer. Like it’s not anything like btbam or whatever crazy math metal shit we have these days.
They play what you play, but in weird time signatures
Mer de noms is his best work by far imo. I still jam it every now and then
the cow licking its butthole on the inside cover of their one album was pretty neat so
They do one thing really well and that thing is write Tool songs. You kinda like it or you don’t. Every time they release a new song, I’m like, “yes, this Tool is made of Tool”. I say this as a fan.
Undertow and AEnima were the two records I used to listen to a lot but nothing since has really interested me
I like Vicarous, never really bothered listening to more of them
I'll always think of '46 and 2' fondly as the montage music for me succumbing to the dark lure of communism
My ex liked them and I listened like once or twice and now I don't remember any of their songs.
Don't I submitted a packet to Tool and they stole my idea.
I said what if we had a laser light show where we go into a robot man's ass and control him with wires and buttons? They told me it was impossible to create something like that. They said the only thing lasers could create was a alien that was throwing up from doing too much yoga.
A friend (and fellow guitar nerd) got me into them briefly in the 90s when Ænima had been out for a couple of years. He put on the beginning of "Eulogy" and told me to try to figure out the time signature. After that was over, he got this manic glint in his eye and skipped ahead to "Intermission" and "Jimmy." Decent album if "Rush, but actually Black Sabbath, and singing about butt stuff, hard drugs, and sinking LA into the Pacific" is up your alley.
