>>61805390
before the thread get's inundated with copypasta's

yea, on occasion.

one of the few alternative metal bands that I can still bear to listen to without cringing.

possibly because they didn't take themselves seriously while still being good at the music that they made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGdoqsuiN8

>>61805390
I still listen to them from time to time, but now I really only like Opiate, Undertow, and some songs off of Aenima. Their pretentious math metal bullshit and 2deep4u lyrics just don't do it for me anymore.

i like them just as much as i did in high school, which amounts to me throwing on an album of theirs once every few months.

Undertow is the one I put on the most these days.

When you're listening to Tool, just remember that they're not like other bands. Their music is incredibly artistic, almost to the point where you have to be paying complete attention to them to even remotely understand them. I remember listening to a song on Lateralus (though I can't remember what it was), where I thought a song was absolute bollocks during the listen. Then, I closed my eyes for a second, and all of a sudden the song had an entirely new meaning. It was insane the way Tool could just become something so different when you take a look into the music.

Another thing you should note about Tool is that it's easy to get a headache listening to them. Not because they're a bad band, but because of how many ideas their music is riddled with and how complex they are. Soon enough your head will fill to the brim and the rest will just sound like noise to you. Just turn it off and give it a listen the next day.

If you don't like the music, you'll definitely at least enjoy reading through the lyrics, and picking apart the song itself and all of the artistic values that go into making it the complexity that it is.

>>61805537
Someone had to do it.

Not nearly as much but sometimes. I cringe that I used to be a typical Tool asshole, and Tool usually reminds me of that.

yes, undertow/half of aenima/opiate are still fantastic

im partly wondering because everyone here had to have downloaded the songs because spotify and itunes dont have tool anywhere.

anyone know anything about that?

>>61805390
Yeah I still listen to them most days

>>61806011
I still have my CDs

i listened to them to death about 10 years ago. When i started listening to dream pop and post punk i went on a whole other tangent and kinda forgot about them.

at 25 I started re listening to them after watching Maynard in puscifer's Cuntry Boner video. Even better than i remember. Tool's humor was somehow lost on me as a teen

>>61805832
>Another thing you should note about Tool is that it's easy to get a headache listening to them. Not because they're a bad band, but because of how many ideas their music is riddled with and how complex they are.

pfftaahahaha

>>61806234
just ignore that post, kid