― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Everything else, eh, could take it or leave it as Larry David says.
― richardk (Richard K), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― fez, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Munya, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― fez, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
a strange world indeed!
― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Esteban Butthead (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
The reactions, however, are exactly as low as expected: http://www.10000-days.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1851 :"that guy's a cocksucking dipshit."
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
"I agreed with him mostly, but i don't know what histrionic means so maybe i don't."
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I still think it's their best album (only a couple of tracks on AEnima and Lateralus have remained interesting, now I've checked them out again after a couple of years, while this one has completely taken over my stereo over the last couple of weeks, not a bad track on there, even the fillers are necessary resting moments), but after a brief internal struggle I've been able to emotionally detach enough to objectively read it and agree with Ned: it's a great review.
But anyway - this whole meta thing (fans vs. reviewers) is old and pointless, so I'll shut up about it.
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
definitely an improvement over brent d's wankfest of a review for Lateralus.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
But hey, the next time you're sneering at someone in a Tool shirt, just remember how retarded you look walking down the street with the words "The Boy Least Likely To" or "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" across your chest.
― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Dude, that Wolfmother LP rocks way harder than the new Tool does.
Crack a beer, smoke a joint (you ARE a Tool fan after all) and give it another listen, it's fuckin' great.
The tool I find to be a bit like a more adventurous "Lateralus".
For me, "Aemima" was tops for them. Such a great fucking album.
But anyway, to each their own, but Wolfmother rocks.
― Erock LAzron, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
And I wouldn't sneer at a Tool fan, I'd just remember how much I used to like them
― Erock LAzron, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
It might.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ryan Pitchfork (Ryan Pitchfork), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Erock LAzron (erockzombi...), May 3rd, 2006.
Also, both those indie bands that you mentioned, in my opinion, suck.
OK, who's trolling at my expense here?
― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link
though i must say: upon only two listens to "10,000 days" i can't say that i'm all that impressed. i heard the first single a month ago and could predict every chord change. but it must grow on me, i suppose.
― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link