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re: What is the best Tool album, in your opinion?
Posted on 7/1/15 at 3:49 pm to JumpingTheShark
Posted on 7/1/15 at 3:49 pm to JumpingTheShark
Lateralus is my favorite but Aenima, 10,000 Days and Undertow still wreck shite hard.
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Posted on 7/1/15 at 4:44 pm to JumpingTheShark
If you're like me and you put Undertow, it's likely one of your favorite albums of all time. I dunno...true, the production value and studio efforts pale in comparison to Aenima and later works, but the sound is just deep and dark. It sounds like 4 guys in a garage in hell. I also just love the way Carey sounds on it.
People who rate Undertow last...I don't get that.
People who rate Undertow last...I don't get that.
This post was edited on 7/1/15 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 7/1/15 at 4:54 pm to PiscesTiger
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People who rate Undertow last...I don't get that.
me either. i think it's their best album
Posted on 7/1/15 at 6:52 pm to monsterballads
There isn't another TOOL album that I can go track for track without skipping. Undertow is the only one. Aenima, to me, had 5-6 KILLER tracks and then fillers...good fillers, but still fillers.
This post was edited on 7/1/15 at 6:53 pm
Posted on 7/2/15 at 11:20 am to JumpingTheShark
For me, it's Lateralus or 10,000 Days.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 4:43 pm to Walter White
Rosetta Stoned is without question Tool's greatest song achievement to date. That song alone sums up their career to that point and sets the stage for their future sound and style. It both embraces their historic sound and prophecies what is yet to come.
There's nothing like Rosetta Stoned and there hasn't been anything like it since. That's what makes me extremely anxious and excited for the new album.
Our patience will pay off with the most aggressive yet self reflective Tool you've ever heard. It's be an eargasmic event that will last for months and perhaps stretch into years of straight listening.
There's nothing like Rosetta Stoned and there hasn't been anything like it since. That's what makes me extremely anxious and excited for the new album.
Our patience will pay off with the most aggressive yet self reflective Tool you've ever heard. It's be an eargasmic event that will last for months and perhaps stretch into years of straight listening.
This post was edited on 7/2/15 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 7/2/15 at 5:14 pm to PiscesTiger
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There isn't another TOOL album that I can go track for track without skipping. Undertow is the only one.
It is a great album, track-for-track - I indicated that Aenima was my favorite with Undertow and Lateralus right there - Aenima has Eulogy, 46 & 2 and the title track - the strength of those tracks along, 3 of my 4 favorite Tool songs is why it tops my rating - but you have a solid point about the album cuts on Aenima (and, to a lesser extent, Lateralus) versus those on Undertow.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 6:33 pm to Ace Midnight
Undertow just seems to have what I want in a band -- I can imagine seeing Tool live in 1994 would have been something as they sound live, already, on the album.
Maynard, to me, sounds much better when he's just singing and not swooning with layers and layers of droning and cooing. For instance, "The Pot" was the song that made me dislike Tool. I do not want to hear Maynard like he's in a Baptist choir. I know I will get downvotes and saint amant steve will attack me, but I really do not want to hear Maynard with all of the singing and over-produced nonsense. To me, Undertow was so good, not only because of Carey, but because Maynard sounded stripped-down and absolutely unique. I know that's their 2nd album and likely Sylvia Massey and the folks at Zoo Entertainment were given a budget, but to me they have never sounded better.
I liked Aenima very much. After that, I didn't like their newer stuff.
I love Opiate as well. Tool sounds timeless on that EP and on Undertow, they sounded as original as ever in the midst of the Grunge movement. Alternative music sort of became grunge and just a few other bands, but Tool didn't sound like Mudhoney or Nirvana or Pearl Jam. That's why I loved them. In 1996, they were one of my favorite bands. Today, I could care less. Guess I am getting old. Not bitter...just am not wowed by them anymore.
Undertow, in my opinion, is one of the ten best albums released in the 90's. Actually, "Dirt" by AIC and "Meantime" by Helmet are the only two hard rock albums of the 1990's that I like better.
Maynard, to me, sounds much better when he's just singing and not swooning with layers and layers of droning and cooing. For instance, "The Pot" was the song that made me dislike Tool. I do not want to hear Maynard like he's in a Baptist choir. I know I will get downvotes and saint amant steve will attack me, but I really do not want to hear Maynard with all of the singing and over-produced nonsense. To me, Undertow was so good, not only because of Carey, but because Maynard sounded stripped-down and absolutely unique. I know that's their 2nd album and likely Sylvia Massey and the folks at Zoo Entertainment were given a budget, but to me they have never sounded better.
I liked Aenima very much. After that, I didn't like their newer stuff.
I love Opiate as well. Tool sounds timeless on that EP and on Undertow, they sounded as original as ever in the midst of the Grunge movement. Alternative music sort of became grunge and just a few other bands, but Tool didn't sound like Mudhoney or Nirvana or Pearl Jam. That's why I loved them. In 1996, they were one of my favorite bands. Today, I could care less. Guess I am getting old. Not bitter...just am not wowed by them anymore.
Undertow, in my opinion, is one of the ten best albums released in the 90's. Actually, "Dirt" by AIC and "Meantime" by Helmet are the only two hard rock albums of the 1990's that I like better.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 7:40 pm to SUB
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Lateralus, though Aenima is a close second.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 7:50 pm to PiscesTiger
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I liked Aenima very much. After that, I didn't like their newer stuff.
same
Posted on 7/2/15 at 7:58 pm to saint amant steve
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I have never understood the hate for 10,000 Days.
Half of it is annoying, pretentious filler, and the actual songs just sound uninspired.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 8:53 pm to PiscesTiger
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There isn't another TOOL album that I can go track for track without skipping. Undertow is the only one. Aenima, to me, had 5-6 KILLER tracks and then fillers...good fillers, but still fillers.
This.
I love all their albums, but Undertow is the only one where I never skip a song.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 9:40 pm to JumpingTheShark
Aenima....end of story
Posted on 7/2/15 at 10:04 pm to JumpingTheShark
Aenima.
Though, its not technically an "album", I'd put Salival up there. That cover of "No Quarter"
Though, its not technically an "album", I'd put Salival up there. That cover of "No Quarter"
Posted on 7/2/15 at 10:20 pm to logjamming
Their "No Quarter" cover is better than the original. Incredible.
I saw Tool in 1996 in a small venue (5,000 seat theatre). Most amazing concert I've ever seen. Nothing else has come close, and I've seen a lot of great bands.
I saw Tool in 1996 in a small venue (5,000 seat theatre). Most amazing concert I've ever seen. Nothing else has come close, and I've seen a lot of great bands.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 10:22 pm to mizzoukills
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This post was edited on 7/4/15 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 7/3/15 at 10:19 am to JumpingTheShark
Lateralus>Aenima>10k>undertow
I just recently got into tool like in the past year. I didn't have anyone really point anything out to me; I just heard a few basslines on a random link i saw to "Justin Chancellor's 10 best bass lines" and I play the bass. Never really knew anything about them other than sober. From the 1:00 mark to 1:45 mark in the pot, I fell in love with tool; I'm sure if I had to guess, the pot is a hated song amongst "hardcores".
Favorite songs: forty six&2, the patient, eulogy, reflection, Rosetta stoned, 10,000 days. I really like "lost keys" too even though its probably considered filler
One of the bands I have to see live now.
I just recently got into tool like in the past year. I didn't have anyone really point anything out to me; I just heard a few basslines on a random link i saw to "Justin Chancellor's 10 best bass lines" and I play the bass. Never really knew anything about them other than sober. From the 1:00 mark to 1:45 mark in the pot, I fell in love with tool; I'm sure if I had to guess, the pot is a hated song amongst "hardcores".
Favorite songs: forty six&2, the patient, eulogy, reflection, Rosetta stoned, 10,000 days. I really like "lost keys" too even though its probably considered filler
One of the bands I have to see live now.
Posted on 7/3/15 at 10:11 pm to Pendulum
10,000 Days has too much filler and pretentiousness.
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