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Interesting fact on Tool's Lateralus

murph83murph83 Posts: 122
edited March 2006 in Other Music
sorry if this is old news and every tool fan is aware of it, but I just found out about it and was completely blown away. Proof that this album is brilliant!

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/question/insight7.html
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  • EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 2,937
    Haha, who said Tool fans are pretentious?
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  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Ummmm...get out much? :p
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  • murph83murph83 Posts: 122
    enharmonic wrote:
    Ummmm...get out much? :p

    haha, this just shows how boring my job is.
  • spatspat Posts: 644
    wow...i looked at that lump of words and it hurt my eyes, then i read all of it and it hurt my brain. nonetheless, i am intruiged, and i might actually try this!
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  • Dick JonesDick Jones Posts: 777
    Well I think that is pretty cool. I've never heard of this. I would be interested in listening to it that way. But I was confused at the end. Can't I just make a playlist on my pod ordering the songs like dude said?
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  • adam42381adam42381 Posts: 2,505
    That was too painful to read. Not the words, but the page setup. White on black just isn't working and gave me a headache.
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  • murph83murph83 Posts: 122
    Dick Jones wrote:
    Well I think that is pretty cool. I've never heard of this. I would be interested in listening to it that way. But I was confused at the end. Can't I just make a playlist on my pod ordering the songs like dude said?


    i'm pretty sure you can. but i think you need to edit it and lose the gap between the songs to get the full effect, but i'm sure if ya don't you will still get the idea.
  • Dick JonesDick Jones Posts: 777
    adam42381 wrote:
    That was too painful to read. Not the words, but the page setup. White on black just isn't working and gave me a headache.

    Copy and Paste my friend, I printed it out and took it to the shitter.
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  • murph83murph83 Posts: 122
    something to add to the idea of the fibonacci sequence...

    in the title track, lateralus, the syllables of the lyrics go with the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...

    black - 1
    then -1
    white are - 2
    all i see -3
    in my in-fan-cy -5
    red and yell-ow then came to be - 8
    reach-ing out to me -5
    lets me see -3
    there is - 2
    so -1
    much -1
    more that -2
    beck-ons me - 3
    to look thru to these - 5
    in-fin-ate poss-i-bil-it-ies -8
    as below..... - 13
    etc.

    and it appears other places in the song. and I also read that dannys drum beats follow it somehow as well.

    yes, i have very boring days at work
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Man this was posted like 3 years ago. As cool as it is, half the album still sounds the same and can't touch Aenima.

    Also Tool fans are pretty much my least favourite ever, but that is another story alltogether
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  • SongburstSongburst Posts: 1,195
    Did you know that if you take the differential equations that describe the acceleration of Daney Carey's drum sticks on the 6th song of every album and then integrate them from 46 to 2, you find out that John Lennon actually shot JFK at Area 51?
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  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Echoes wrote:
    Man this was posted like 3 years ago. As cool as it is, half the album still sounds the same and can't touch Aenima.

    Also Tool fans are pretty much my least favourite ever, but that is another story alltogether

    I lost a ton of respect for Tool fans when I expreienced them booing King Crimson. What a bunch of doorknob-humping retards. :(

    Same as the fucksticks that booed Sonic Youth when they were opening for Pearl Jam. Knuckle-dragging trogdolytes
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    They love 'progressive' bands like Tool but boo King Crimson, eh?

    Morons.
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Why didn't they just sequence it that way and be done with it then?! This is my one and only gripe with Tool that stops me loving them as much as some other bands, as cool as the music sounds, it's so focussed on technical precison that it sometimes eschews human emotion. Don't know if anyone else gets what I'm saying? It just seems like it sometimes lacks a human heart beat - I heard the same thing said about NIN and Filter before.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    enharmonic wrote:
    I lost a ton of respect for Tool fans when I expreienced them booing King Crimson. What a bunch of doorknob-humping retards. :(

    Same as the fucksticks that booed Sonic Youth when they were opening for Pearl Jam. Knuckle-dragging trogdolytes
    Anybody who boos King Crimson deserves to be called nasty names......the same goes for the belly-achers who bitch about Sleater-Kinney.
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  • PJammin'PJammin' Posts: 1,902
    it was too much to read. Tool doesn't do it for me.
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  • murph83murph83 Posts: 122
    PJammin' wrote:
    it was too much to read. Tool doesn't do it for me.

    it is a lot to read, for anyone else who thinks that, to makes a long article short, play the album in this sequence:

    6,7,5,8,4,9,13,1,12,2,11,3,10 .....and it flows a lot better, or the ending of each track will match the intro of the next nicer.
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Another reason why I love Tool!! New album's gonna KICK ASS!!
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  • ImInHidingImInHiding Posts: 4
    murph83 wrote:
    it is a lot to read, for anyone else who thinks that, to makes a long article short, play the album in this sequence:

    6,7,5,8,4,9,13,1,12,2,11,3,10 .....and it flows a lot better, or the ending of each track will match the intro of the next nicer.

    Wow thats some crazy stuff.
    Out of curiosity are there any other albums done like this?
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  • VitalDissidenceVitalDissidence Posts: 160
    I was always felt that there was something more with Lateralus but I could never put my finger on it. This is pretty cool.
    Oh yeah, anyone know the latest on the new Tool album?
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    TOOL have a satanic reputation?
    i'm soooo glad i only pay attention to the music.
    oh please, the thing about the fibonacci sequence is old news. and dare i say probably bullshit.
    people try to make so much out of TOOL it's gotten nauseous. it's not as if you can ask the band cause they'll string you along just to get a laugh at your expense.

    just listen to the music. don't try to get any meaning out of it, cause there probably isn't any. it's just good music.
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  • Oh, JimmyOh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Here is another Tool theory. How many people think they named their band Tool, just so they could laugh at all the people that wear their shirts around. It seems like their sense of humor.
  • MoondemonMoondemon Posts: 93
    I heard that the new Tool album will be far more agressive thant Lateralus was... To me, that is good news !
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    Here is another Tool theory. How many people think they named their band Tool, just so they could laugh at all the people that wear their shirts around. It seems like their sense of humor.

    i think that everytime i wear my TOOL shirt.
    yes i am a tool. it's like an admission of some sorts.
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  • LBC1076LBC1076 Posts: 224
    VitalDissidence wrote:
    I was always felt that there was something more with Lateralus but I could never put my finger on it. This is pretty cool.
    Oh yeah, anyone know the latest on the new Tool album?


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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Songburst wrote:
    Did you know that if you take the differential equations that describe the acceleration of Daney Carey's drum sticks on the 6th song of every album and then integrate them from 46 to 2, you find out that John Lennon actually shot JFK at Area 51?
    heh I laughed out loud at this. nice post :D
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  • SongburstSongburst Posts: 1,195
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    heh I laughed out loud at this. nice post :D

    Well thank you. But I didn't indicate what to integrate with respect to. Now my old profs are going to beat me.
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  • keyser_sozekeyser_soze Posts: 205
    Eraserhead wrote:
    Haha, who said Tool fans are pretentious?

    a little pretension never hurt anyone!!!! just look at led zeppelin, radiohead and pink floyd!!!
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Songburst wrote:
    Well thank you. But I didn't indicate what to integrate with respect to. Now my old profs are going to beat me.
    hell I'm the only one in my Physics class who doesn't take maths and when he went on about integration with regards to advanced mechanics I was totally lost so you ain't the only one!
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