TOOL

I just don't dig this band. I haven't dug them since their old videos showed up on Bevis and Butthead. It's always been so-so vocals, over-repetitive guitars, and driving drum beats. Why are they so popular? Because, like Floyd, you have to be stoned to enjoy them to their full capacity.

Hell, even when I was stoned, I didn't like tool.

Finding out that their guitar work is actually a extended form of the quadratic equation using prime numbers only fueled more dislike.

If I want repetitive bass-heavy pop, I'll listen to Depeche Mode wit the base up high.

oh...you.....did NOT go there!


*sigh*
well, everyone has their own preferences and tastes.
i've loved tool since forever. each video has been phenomenal. each album has been solid. and their reputation for being steadfast in their beliefs is one of my favorite things about them. it's always been about the music and art first. ego and image always took a distant last place.
and the vocalist wasn't really a vocalist, he was more like an other instrument. the cadence and rhythm of his voice usually matched that of the rest of the music. very hypnotic, very stimulating, and in my opinion, made the music that much more powerful.

and the ideas behind the lyrics were very provoking as well. some songs dealt with self-reflection and trancendance. others dealt with the media and it's self-destructiveness. and the political ones weren't necessarily aimed at the american government, but, more specifically, the world governments. they more or less tried to clarify that no one person or government was responsible, that everyone was guilty.

and yet...the lyrics did not forget their place. it was understood that even thought there was a message to convey, the songs and albums were not soapboxes. the listener was not to be bludgeoned into submission. and that is where the poetry of the lyrics came in. much of the lyrics are left up to interpretation, a vagueness that promotes introspection on the part of the listener. and personally...if it makes you think, good or bad, than it is sucessful. it is art. it is beautiful.

i dunno...there just is an integrity behind tool that i have always admired. and a balance as well. they really are my favorite band ever. i understand how others can't get into them, and that is fine. no one says that you have to like them. it's really too bad taht you can't, but meh...there are literally thousands of bands out there. and tool is just one.

and that is my two cents...i expect change! i love these smilies.

hmm.. i'm not a huge fan of depeche mode, like some stuff, but i'm more of a fan of tool....




DIE HEATHEN SCUM!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!! (there's no stabbie smiley...)

I dislike Tool too.

It's just pseudo-intellectual wankery, with weak alt metal vocals.

That, and the fact that even Tool fans admit that the fanbase is full of utter fucktards. If a good many of a band's followers are total jerkoffs, you know there must be a connection.

Devilstator wrote:

That, and the fact that even Tool fans admit that the fanbase is full of utter fucktards. If a good many of a band's followers are total jerkoffs, you know there must be a connection.

where do you get your information on that?
and a band shouldn't really be judged on some of their listeners.
stereotypes are usually dismissive and inaccurate opinions.
because i don't know how many times i've heard it, but black metal music is a "haven for church-burning satanists" which just isn't true.
just an example...not a dig at anyone

I don't know about you, but those 100 European churches did not set fire to themselves. And quite a few of those corpsepainted hard-liners do follow Satanic doctrines.

Note that I said some, not all Tool fans, are, well, Tools.

I'm a huge Tool fan. Guess I'm in the wrong.

No one's in the wrong. I'm sure many folks hate the Stray Cats.

plastic_society wrote:

I'm a huge Tool

OOoooooh buuuuuurrrrrrn

Oooh. I sure walked into that one.

KaptKinky wrote:

No one's in the wrong. I'm sure many folks hate the Stray Cats.

ZOMG!!!
i'd almost completely forgotten about the Stray Cats.
they're definitely a "small doses" band. rockabilly is just fun stuff though.

plastic_society wrote:

I HAVE a big Tool.

fixed.