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  • JamnPearl
    JamnPearl Posts: 204
    pearl jam rules wrote:
    by a band that has put out 4 albums that all sound the same?

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  • Obscured1
    Obscured1 Posts: 56
    Intension and Right in Two do it for me. The 2nd half of the album is filler material, WHAT???
  • dirt
    dirt Posts: 398
    I don't think any track on any Tool album is filler. I think they take a different approach than most. If you want catchy riffs and accessible lyrics for every single song there are lots of other bands to check out.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    pearl jam rules wrote:
    inept? just because i don't appreciate pretentious, moody bullshit by a band that has put out 4 albums that all sound the same?

    no.
    it's that it seems that you were dismissive of music that isn't accompanied by words. whether you can appreciate music without words, i don't know. whether you like TOOL, i don't care. i was being more general than specifically applying it to TOOL.
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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    If they hadn't taken so much time in between albums, I don't know if this is how the album would've turned out. I mean.. 5 years is a long time between albums, and I know that was how much time was between Ænima and Lateralus, but I think that was also mainly because he wasn't fully immersed in APC yet? I just think the new Tool album has more of an APC sound than Tool sound. Sadly, I have only given the cd 1 spin and heard most of it in someone else's car... yes I should give it another chance, in which I will, but lately (due to the nice weather), I haven't been feeling Tool at all. It'll prolly be during the winter when I listen to it next, or possibly a night when I'm pissed to the max, but that's a rarity.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    here's how i listen to TOOL.
    i lie on my bed with the lights out. late at night. burn a little incense. put my headphones on and let everything else drift away. my mind is totally occupied with what it's hearing. so of course it'll hear it differently than if i was on a train during rush hour. i have never believed that TOOL were a band you could listen to without giving them your whole attention.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Mojopin
    Mojopin Posts: 216
    catefrances wrote:
    here's how i listen to TOOL.
    i lie on my bed with the lights out. late at night. burn a little incense. put my headphones on and let everything else drift away. my mind is totally occupied with what it's hearing. so of course it'll hear it differently than if i was on a train during rush hour. i have never believed that TOOL were a band you could listen to without giving them your whole attention.

    This is a great way to listen to Tool. I think you nailed it!

    Mojo
    "A consistently good band works all the different elements well. A song has to appeal sentimentally, intellectually, physically, viscerally, and dig deep down into your soul and suck you into it. And after that, of course, it'd be a matter of taste." ~ Kim Thayil from Soundgarden
  • Kricket
    Kricket Posts: 707
    catefrances wrote:
    here's how i listen to TOOL.
    i lie on my bed with the lights out. late at night. burn a little incense. put my headphones on and let everything else drift away. my mind is totally occupied with what it's hearing. so of course it'll hear it differently than if i was on a train during rush hour. i have never believed that TOOL were a band you could listen to without giving them your whole attention.

    Yah I've found that TOOL albums are great to listen to that way, especially with a new album.

    Seeing them tonight in Detroit!
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    ahh its great

    every album is different and experimental, you cant get bored of it!
  • Matt8townsend
    Matt8townsend Posts: 112
    verb_to_trust wrote:
    don't feel like you have to convince yourself to like this. It is indeed quite lacking.

    its an EP with a bunch of filler noise..........and none of the real songs are standouts or really memorable. Thy are jsut ok. Any tool fan who is not a sheep fanboy should be slightly disapointed with this

    Don't agree its all filler - but yeah it is slightly dissapointing and lacking compared to Lateralus. I find the problem is every track sounds like it's endlessly just building to something that dosn't come - it never breaks into the kind of killer riffs and climactic moments that Lateralus does.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    JLukin wrote:
    I agree that in 5 years time you would have thought they could have come up with more music and less filler crap. Although I do love a couple tracks on the album there are really only like 7 songs.

    PS- Have you played 'Intension' backwards for the 1st 1:30 ? If you do you will find a little message from Maynard.

    That's kinda neat. I could only really make out "Listen to your mother". The album is boring though. The only song I like is Jambi.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • eloesch1
    eloesch1 Posts: 42
    EVERY song they make has a meaning despite people calling it "filler." Anyone kno when maynards releasing lyrics? by the way how bout the artwork...its enough to keep anyone busy for hours!!!
  • harrymanback
    harrymanback Posts: 435
    regarding "filler", checked out some other sites and found something interesting

    length of (Viginti Trees + Wings (pt1) )= length of 10K days (pt 2) .... pretty obvious after the fact

    combine viginti and pt 1 (which one goes first is in question) and play at the same time as 10k days ... waiting to try it out myself.
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