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WE COME ORIGINAL FROM NORWAY BUT WE MOVE TO ARCTIC CANADA, MORE NORTHERNER THAN ALL PLACES.

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Vas from Byzantum has posted on ILM several times actually.

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

This sounds like someone running metal riffs through a time-stretch plugin

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

(Time-streched metal riffs = Better than Tool)

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

or STRETCHED, even

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

People usually complain about Tool being too art-wanky, not being art-wanky enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

really this is the one that takes the cake:

You should join this band! (best band ad ever!)

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Okay so like, when you read that ad, and then listen to the MP3s...
it *HAS* to be a joke
the first MP3 is so absurd!

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad you pointed to that thread, I might have remained forever ignorant of Epsilon Rising

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

"or: Tool fans will love it, Tool haterz will hate it. ^_^ "

tool fans would love maynard+co. making farting noises on they're arms if they could get it!

i'd have more love for tool if they're fanbase wasn't so damned rabid and frothing @ the damned mouth! (see also-dave mathews' band)

― eedd, Monday, 17 April 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

oh thats true of any group of really rabid fans

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

the frothing comes so naturally once youre rabid

― fez, Monday, 17 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

cujo was a huge tool fan

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.starburstcards.com/KarlswebEnscapelopedia/PediaImages/SayWhat/Cujo.jpg

"46 & 2, motherfucker!"

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/354/product-5836354.jpg

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Chris Bergen, I don't know you but I love you.

― Sean Braudis (Sean Braudis), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I saw Tool live once. They were incredibly boring. Their songs are only good when accompanied by the videos.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

That new single is meh. Like that other guy said, sounds exactally like "lateralus", which was a pretty shallow version of "Aenima", which I personally feel was their peak.

I'm just not into this kind of sound like I was. I still like heavy stuff, but jesus, are these guys ever stuck ina sonic rut.

Wotevah

― Erock LAzron, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh ye of little faith.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Well I mean, I liked Lateralus fine, I just don't need another album just like it. Still, being the die-hard I am I'll buy the CD when it comes out.

Aenima is still totally classic.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

has anyone else said the la-da-da-dee-da-da part on vicarious is fucking fantastic?

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

How can people not think "Prison Sex" is utterly classic??

Everything else, eh, could take it or leave it as Larry David says.

― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

"How can people not think "Prison Sex" is utterly classic??"

ever had a song played SO much that you begin to hate hearing it, despite it actually being ok?

yeah, that's how that happens.

― eedd, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

heard 'vicarious' a few times now...
it's 'standard tool' sounding. nothin too fancy.
nor anything too thrilling either.

tool fans will love it.
i give it a 'meh' and look forward to hearing this ALL over the place in about a month. esp. on the local "X" station!!!
they will play it once an hour, if not twice. yay.

― eedd, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I saw Tool live once. They were incredibly boring. Their songs are only good when accompanied by the videos.

When I saw them they had video screens showing all sorts of crazy shit, so it was the best of both worlds.

Actually, I think they're better live than on record. Maynard can flat-out sing -- he's best heard live.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Album leakage, apparently. ("F*cking Mindbending!" and "Bestest Thing They Ever Done" are some initial quotes, but so are "Meh" and "Typical Boring Hippie Shit." Planet still turning, at the moment.)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

The new single sounds pretty cool to me.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:26 (twenty years ago)

it leaked, i got it, its pretty good. not too different from the last album. "Jambi" features a vocodered guitar, thats about it for innovation.

― fez, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

is "jambi" an homage to the character in Pee-Wee's Playhouse? It would be, like, so typical of them.

― Munya, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

did i mention that the last song sounds like an obscene phone call from Cthulhu? i think im gonna make a mix cd of all the creepy Tool interludes (and then toss it out the window and listen to Mohnomishe instead ;))

― fez, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

this is actually a little weirder than the first single would lead you to think. i'm not sure if i like it or not....but i'll definitely give it several listens.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

It's mellow. Needs a few listens certainly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I like Arsis!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Siegbran speaks for me on this thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

it does need a few listens, and therefore won't convert the already loyal.

the biggest surprise is that it's not a concept album, or even cohesive one. first track is about perils of tv, the third/fourth opus is about his mothers ascension to heaven. what?

ok-to-terrible segues, strangely placed back-to-back. but man...

wings pts 1 and 2, right in two, rosetta stoned cannot wait to hear these at coachella!

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

that should read: it won't convert people who arent already loyal

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving 'Vicarious' so far. As to mixed reactions...well, shit...Tool
always sounds like Tool, they've never really deviated from their 'sound', so to speak. That fact alone is bound to disappoint the unconverted.

I do have to vent though: no Sacramento or SF shows? I mean, I like Oakland fine but WTF???

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

After the usual initial "huh? what's this?" during the first five or so listens I'm becoming convinced this is their best album yet.

May need a little time/attention/patience, but once you get to know it all a little better: wow. (I can see how people with short attention spans who've gotten used to fast-food-type short and easy music will think this is impenetrably dense selfindulgence, but I think it isn't and these immense movements of atmospheric organic living breathing sound that happen to have titles work very well, so there.) (convert becomes even more converted shocka!)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:13 (twenty years ago)

"I can see how people with short attention spans who've gotten used to fast-food-type short and easy music will think this is impenetrably dense selfindulgence, but I think it isn't and these immense movements of atmospheric organic living breathing sound that happen to have titles work very well, so there"

hmmmm, that's a pretty broad generalization...i take umbrage, sir.

no, i can dig a 'big ol' jam-arama', but Tool's just Tool, and i guess that's all they'll ever be to me. better than alot of stuff, but i'll never cite them as something i'd WANT to listen to...

or maybe i could just make a mix of the songs i DO like!
*ponders*

― eedd, Friday, 21 April 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

HAY TRIPLE J PLZ PLAY THE NEW TOOL SINGLE! COMMERICAL RADIO WONT PLAY IT BECAUSE THEY ARE SCARED OF THE AWESOME AND THE STRANGE AND ANGRY WORLD OF MAYNARD G KREBS!!!

― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dslretorts.com/Paladin/images/MaynardGKrebs.jpg

a strange world indeed!

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

haha ts: him vs http://www.chartattack.com/pics/2005/12/19-maynard.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Ginger was a hooker with a penis!

― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

lolz

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

"I can see how people with short attention spans who've gotten used to fast-food-type short and easy music will think this is impenetrably dense selfindulgence"

hmmmm, that's a pretty broad generalization...i take umbrage, sir.

I didn't say that everyone who thinks Tool's stuff is selfindulgence has a short attention span, I only meant that could be the reason for some people's hate. (but I explained it impenetrably densely)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

"10,000 days in the fire is long enough
you're going home"

The actual explanation of the title:

As Keenan explains on commentary on aMOTION, his mother suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. The length of time between her paralysis and her death was 27 years, or approximately 10,000 days.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Now I've got the real thing (album is out since April 28th here in Belgium), with the very nice stereoscopic lenses and the amazing sound quality (much, much better than the leak), I'm even more convinced this is their best album. Too bad so few people here care about them... :-(

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

JESUS ChRIST! Tool is bonkers!

A guy just brough the CD into work...it's absolutely nuts packaging, the stereoscopic lense thing is fucking crazy....alright I love you crazy ass math metal dudes!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

:-) to all this. I must get this today if I can but night classes are screwing around with my schedule, so perhaps tomorrow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

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