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Topic: Understanding Tool
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Väinämöinen
VoivodFan
Member # 27
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posted May 10, 2006 19:13
    
I've been trying to like Tool really hard on several occassions. This is especially because many respected metal gods, including Piggy, seem to absolutely love their music. I have listened through all their albums many times and seen their videos (which I love btw!).But, for the love of Korgull, no matter how much time I give for the music to sink in, all I hear is a faint whine in the wind accompanied by what could be great metal if there was any aggression in it. It's like listening to an elevator version of Killing Technology with earplugs on. I like many kinds of music, not necessarily aggressive at all. Old and new prog, electronic stuff, plain good ol' rocka rolla for example. But calling Tool metal...nonono. If I approach their music from a rock angle, they're better but still nowhere near absolutely listenable. No energy, nothing to make me glue my headphones to my ears and go "wow!". I don't even hate or particularly dislike Tool. It's just that they're so mild and uninteresting to me that I keep wondering what I'm missing when people start drooling over them. How do you 'see' their music? -------------------- Tomorrow is the fear
Tomorrow disappears
Tomorrow is the fear
We are connected...
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shargraves
VoivodFan
Member # 575
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posted May 11, 2006 05:45
my singer is well into them - kind of like the equivalent of my fixation Van der graaf - and I have to agree the lyrics are very very clever. Muscially they remind me of a technical exercise though. A bit cold, lifeless. Clinical - I don't dislike them - I think "sweat" off Opiate rocks. (from the Escape from LA soundtrack!) Aenima is a good track too - but I just can't get too excited about them. A bit like how no one I meet can stand van der graaf - so I appreciate different tastes. I think it takes time. VdGG I clicked with immediately - and have spent months of my life listening to individual tracks - but I don't have the *will* to invest so much effort in Tool. I heard the new album - But I prefer the new Celtic Frost -
higher quality emotion + less musical perfection = more entertainment! (Actually I'm buzzing off Katorz too at the moment- long live torrents!) -------------------- Steven Hargraves
Rhythm Guitar in Monstrance
https://www.facebook.com/monstranceofficial
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Emlyn K Helicopter
VoivodFan
Member # 44
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posted May 11, 2006 10:05
I had the new CD in my hand the other day - the 'stereoscope' package is awesome. 3D band photos, bizzare eye paintings coming to life, totally taking what they do to the next level.The music was on but I didn't notice it. It could have been the TV on quietly for all I care. meh. -------------------- Der der der-der DER! Der der der-der DER! DER!
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X-D
VoivodFan
Member # 3
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posted May 11, 2006 13:27
I like them enough. I know I was certainly into the their Opiate and Undertow releases a lot, of course that was at a time in my life when I was taking a lot of mushrooms and tripping out on the "cries of the carrots" and that sort of thing, haha!Now that the haze has cleared, I still like them, but don't play them all that much anymore. The new album sounds pretty good though, IMO. Everyone's got different tastes, eh... -------------------- I am a robot... bleep blop bloop
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Tangento
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Member # 117
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posted May 12, 2006 01:40
I like a lotta prog. Tool ain't prog, Tool ain't metal. Tool bores the piss out of me.  -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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