 "Wonderful" | 2009-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: AEER2Z8MTDZPU |
| Nothing else to say! Except Evans Blue or A perfect Circle, no band can be compared to Tool! |
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| "Hard place to start, but the Best place to end" | 2009-07-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1W80HJ2BKNB2D |
Tool is not the music that the majority hears and finds love for instantly. It is often dissonant and it's odd time signatures and complex song structures make this album more than just relaxing music. But it's involving music. The album is more of an full body and mind experience than a mere collection of songs. I think this is alot of inspired bands try to accomplish but its not easy.
Each song from the album has a way of reaching inside of you and holding a mirror infront of you. You come face to face with yourself, and not only Maynard's compelling lyrics but also the instrumentals' sheer power/ contemplative ambience bring you to another place.
Well that was kind of deep. The best part about this, is that once you do love it, the music can touch anyone on any level. No matter what your life is like, you will find something in Aenima. You will have a new perspective of yourself, the world and humanity as a whole. Pry open your third eye and give this album/ experience an oppourtunity to engulf you. |
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| "Bad Reviews" | 2009-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3PV8KHGES0Y7S |
| I am really confused by all the negative reviews Tool generates, mostly by intellectual baffoons who just want to show that they know how to use dialogue that most Tool fans won't even understand, much less care about. Honestly, it comes off more like self-loathing than a music review. Tool is not for everyone, but they work very hard at what they do, and I think they do a pretty good job at it. |
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| "MODERN LED ZEPPELIN...YEP, I SAID IT." | 2009-06-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1JFBGZPRAB7KW |
This is TOOL's best CD ever produced. It was an experiment that went right for them. I was able to see this tour, and I never looked back. TOOL is by far my favorite band. I don't know if it's the mysticism, their music, the live shows or what, but they really do it well.
I think TOOL is our modern day LED ZEPPELIN.
If you've never heard TOOL before (I can't image you haven't), start with this one. Then LATERALUS, their second best. 10,000 DAYS was good, but not great, I think all the fillers pissed me off on that CD. So please experience this band. I don't know why there are a few haters rating this the way they are. I can't believe that someone could NOT like this...oh well, just flush them all away. |
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| "Looking for an album with atmosphere" | 2009-04-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2FFOPBF820WXZ |
To be honest, its hard to feel either joyous and celebratery over Lateralus and 10,000 days, then theres the Perfect Circle album and then the next one, followed by the final one (at least for the moment) Emotive which was collection of covers and some of the bands original material.
But when you hear or read the name Maynard James Keenan the guitarist Adam Jones, Justin (Chance)llor or Danny Carey the drummer you will be thinking of this album for some strange joyous and of course naturally celebratery reason.
I remember when this album came out, or around the time it came out anyway. But of course I was to busy listening to Green Day, or waiting for Green Day to come on the radio (thats right, remember when Green Day used to play guitar rock band riffs like Tool??? as well, much the same I supposee so it makes sense)
Anyway, these songs from what I remember were constantly on the radio, and I think eventually all of them got played at one point or another.
To be honest, there is'nt alot of distinction between them, but they are undeniably by Tool the band, and they are all over them in a soundscape wise looking at it way.
Strange then how if you listen to Stinkfist and the start of it with its bizzaree spoon on bone electrical spoon in blender drum like beat and your immeditaley cast back to October 1996 when everything that was on the radio seemed to have loud guitars, heak even what some might call bands that have become more pop sounding if you will (Better than Ezra) for example were banging out amplifiered fury like fuzz that wanted and tried to rival something that you'd hear in a song that goes by the name "Hooker With a Penis."
Still its impressive none the less, and if your looking for Tools best album, well where is it? Well, I'm not sure if you can define someone bands music by one single album they put out 13 years ago, but if you listen to it, you can see that in 1996 no one had heard (in modern music lets say for the perhaps would be groaners "I don't know they're around") that "no one" had heard anything like this, and no one had heard something like Stinkfist on the radio getting thrashed to death and still perhaps be willing to hear it.
So in conclusion ladies and jellyspoons, as Eddie Izzard would say (not Bill Hicks, no) this is a gloomy, dark, depressing, self wallowing, chin stroking, fun kicking, frightening, intrigueing, deluding, mind numbing, back aching, cryin in fear good time to party with a frog on your head, wearing a hat with a bag tied to its leg wearing Bunja mix (thats the spiccy hot crunch stuff you will, or would likely find in supermarket areas, or somewhere in supermarket areas anyway) sly, horse round in circles going round and round till a parrot falls from the sky shouting "Hooray I've eaten a squashes mars bar" time.
Well there you go, does that sum it up for you.
By the way "Useful Idiot" should have been longer.
Expect a new album soon. Is it going to send you to another unviverse like planet way of living life like this one???....of course it is!!!! |
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| "Do your really understand.. tool " | 2009-04-10 |
| - Reviewed By formaldehyde52 |
Its really ironic.
That Tool's crowning acheivement to the masses on Amazon is Nick's review. There on the front page of Aenima, Nick has over 1000 helpful votes, where he implores the reader to 'vote yes' to his review if they love tool and disagree with the 4.5 stars. A review that appeals to the most superficial of impulsions.
Aenima is a phillisophical masterpiece. Stripping the body of flesh, it swarms into the psyche, and swims its way through the spiritual realm.
And what Tool see is dark and engrossing as it is beautiful and liberating.
The album's chaotic tug of war is spellbinding. And from what I have read of negative reviews is the source of most criticism.
Here is where the confusion lies. Tool is not a heavy metal band. They defy the verse chorus verse onslaught of this genre. This isnt armagedon whereby the listener is treated to wave after wave of explosions. Tool is more like a rattle snake, spitting, shaking, tensing and then finally biting your f~c(ing head off in the final exchange. This will bore listeners with a short attention span whilst completely enthralling the patient listeners. Most of Tool's crushing blows come in the final moments of their songs, which is obviously missed by people who tend to skip tracks halfway on their easily accessible ipods. I know, I too was guilty of this the first time round. But it was my brothers persistance that eluded me to the fact that I need to listen start to finish.
Here is a way for the short attention listeners to get started.
Start with
1.Stinkfist
2.Aenima
3.Hooker with a Penis
4.Forty Six and two
5.H.
6.Eulogy
(slowly develop an attention for the music this way)
Just listen to each one individually until cooked before proceeding to the next track.
For each track
After 2-3 listens a melody starts to reveal itself... a few more listens then turns into a few more swarming but striking melodies... then the lyrics bite... and finally once you start to abosrb the dynamics, it culminates into something much more mesmerising than anything you have heard before. Have you ever stared at one of those images which turn 3D if you concentrate hard enough. Or have you ever stared into the clear night sky and notice that the longer you stare the more stars that start to appear that you couldnt see before.
ITs there... it just takes time to train the senses. The reward is yours and yours alone.
After step 6 only then are you ready to embark on the album in its entirety as one cohesive ensemble. I am convinced you wont regret it. I cant believe I was stubborn enough all these years not to give this masterpiece my full attention. It took one weekend and now its been weeks I cant stop carrying it around.
And Nick...
well Nick makes this some sort of race. Dehumanizes, packages and serves this as a yes-no vote. Dare I say, even corrupts and profits.
What is the point. Just be thankful you had the mind to hear it.
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