![]() ![]() I just want to say one thing: Tool is the most overrated band of the 90's/00's, only maybe beaten by System Of A (Eric B.) Oh, it didn't? Well, "What? Me Worry About You?" Heh heh. Say, did you enjoy that "Yecch!"? Didn't it feel like you were reading Mad magazine for a minute there? They're friends with the Melvins though and a couple of them love Neil Hamburger, so they can't be all bad! The band is too slow to kick ass and too melodically limited to excite my pleasure centers (which reminds me - Come excite your penis at Mark's Pleasure Center!). In other words, if you sit down to play a Tool song on your acoustic guitar, you'll more than likely find yourself (a) playing a mid-80s Megadeth-style bass line or (b) alternating between two or three tedious barre chords that are right next to each other. I just personally can't get into them because no matter how much concern and exertion the band and its producers put into the *sound* of each song, the riffs themselves seem to be based on a big block of air. Their lyrics are generally as negative as my assessment of their music, whether they be threatening rape or making bold, revolutionary statements like 'Christianity is bad.' I wouldn’t argue that the band "sucks out loud" - the music is far too taut, technical and well-performed for outright dismissal. ![]() The band plays a tremendously heavy, at times funky, at other times industrial, at most times boring set of up-down-up-down two- or three-chord combinations in most of their songs, but augments them with exceedingly tight rhythms, melodic vocals and lots of artsy quiet parts (so you have to keep turning your stereo volume up and down and up and down - almost as if you're performing one of the band's riffs!). Stool special introductory paragraph Opiate EP Undertow Aenima Salival Lateralus 10,000 DaysĪmerica's Tool is a much-respected heavy metal band containing such lasting figures as guitarist Adam Jones, extraordinarily gifted drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor (who replaced original bassist Paul Of'Love) and hilarious black comedian Maynard Keenan Wyans. ![]()
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