Favorite TOOL song?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

My favorite has been The Patient, unfortunately when Mookie and I went to TOOL in S.A. back on November 12, 2002, they never played it....

I have been listening to TOOL alot more recently and i have to say THIRD EYE is by far their best song.

Just listening to live versions blows my mind away.

What do you all think?

[Trooper 2112]

Lateralis is my favorite bc the song structure is put together so well. I wouldn't add anything or take anything away from it. Damn, I miss Tool.

[OnlyOneGinobili]

I like H. But Third Eye is a close second.

[spurschick]

Forty Six and Two... my hands down fave.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Forty Six and Two... my hands down fave.

spurschick youre the coolest spurs chick ever

yeah forty six and two is like a close 2nd or 3rd imo!

[OnlyOneGinobili]

For some reason, ... I'm sure alot of you will agree with me here.... Listening to tool reminds me of sex.

[ZStomp]

I'm a sucker for Sober...I've been listening to A Perfect Circle the last few days.

Maynard is a genious!

[ObiwanGinobili]

Lateralis is my favorite.
My husband's fav is a split between Prison Sex and Schisms.


but mostly I think they're videos kick a55.

[ZStomp]

Any chick that posts in this thread is HOT! :)

[E20]

Didn't they do a song called 'Rape Me'?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I'm a sucker for Sober...I've been listening to A Perfect Circle the last few days.

Maynard is a genious!


APC is the shit I love them. You do realize Maynard only writes the lyrics right?

Adam Jones and Danny Carey write the music for tool...imo they're bigger genius' than maynard (although in some tool songs the lyrics are the best part)

Billy Howerdel writes music for APC, and even though maynards vocals are more melodic in APC, I think the heart of Thirteenth Step was the music-music over the vocals

[ZStomp]

APC is the shit I love them. You do realize Maynard only writes the lyrics right?

Adam Jones and Danny Carey write the music for tool...imo they're bigger genius' than maynard (although in some tool songs the lyrics are the best part)

Billy Howerdel writes music for APC, and even though maynards vocals are more melodic in APC, I think the heart of Thirteenth Step was the music-music over the vocals

Hmmmm, I didn't know that. I thought that He wrote a lot of the stuff. Interesting....then Jones and Carey are the bigger geniouses....;)

[spurschick]

I'm a Tori-file and love that she calls Maynard at night to sing her lullabies when she can't sleep.

[OnlyOneGinobili]

can we please use the word Genius, instead of genious?

[ZStomp]

:lol

My bad!

I was typing fast.....this is a TOOL thread...i got excited...

[ObiwanGinobili]

Didn't they do a song called 'Rape Me'?


uhm,

dude -


that was Nirvana. :smokin

[mookie2001]

apc sucks

anyway its hooker with a penis

[Spurminator]

Eulogy.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Hmmmm, I didn't know that. I thought that He wrote a lot of the stuff. Interesting....then Jones and Carey are the bigger geniouses....;)


Adam Jones is the fucking bomb. He got a degree in like sculpting or modeling or something like that and did art design work for horror movies like designing a monsters face or something like that (this was back when we did movies with real physical objects not computer animation)

Adam Jones designed the sculpture on the cover of Undertow, which for some reason was evil enough for them to cover up on later editions with a sleeve.

Danny Carey is the occultist....his dad was into Masonic rituals and like father like son I guess.

Thats where all the fucked up music of TOOL comes from. The mind of an occultist and a psycho hahaha

[Guru of Nothing]

"If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning." - greatest euphemism ever.

And then there's that chainsaw song by Jackal.

That's all I can think of.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I'm a Tori-file and love that she calls Maynard at night to sing her lullabies when she can't sleep.


Yeah Tori is the shit. I one time missed a spurs game during the 2003 spurs-phoenix series to see her at the Majestic in SA. It was amazing.

[SequSpur]

Aenima

[scott]

Prison Sex or Third Eye.

And I stand by my feelings that Lateralus blows ass.

[blackbucket]

I'm a Tori-file and love that she calls Maynard at night to sing her lullabies when she can't sleep.

From the "Muhammed My Friend" live perfermance with Tori and Maynard. It is awesome. I have a copy but the sound quality stinks.

Tool is one of my 3 all time favorite bands.

Top song is tough to pick. If I had to pick one, I'd say.......

Pushit

Undertow, Aenima, and Lateralus are the type of albums I listen to for hours, with headphones, laying down and letting my mind relax. With headphones, you can hear all of the different nuances in the music and almost something new everytime.

If anyone is interested, I have tons of bootlegs. I don't mind burning copies.

[MannyIsGod]

From the "Muhammed My Friend" live perfermance with Tori and Maynard. It is awesome. I have a copy but the sound quality stinks.

Tool is one of my 3 all time favorite bands.

Top song is tough to pick. If I had to pick one, I'd say.......

Pushit

Undertow, Aenima, and Lateralus are the type of albums I listen to for hours, with headphones, laying down and letting my mind relax. With headphones, you can hear all of the different nuances in the music and almost something new everytime.

If anyone is interested, I have tons of bootlegs. I don't mind burning copies.
Jess has a video of that performance (Amos and Maynard). Jess is probably the biggest Toriphile I've ever seen. But, because of that I've been inundated in her music and I've become a large fan myself.

A larger number of people from this forum apparently went to that Magestic show in SA. I know Pakidan, Jess, and Spurschick all went.

I got to see her in Dallas this past March. Well worth the drive up there! She was absoultey incredible and the amount of sound that comes out of that little body is mind boggling. I love her lyrics because they are witty, sarcastic, and all around intelligent.

So yeah, Tori kicks major ass. Probably going to see her again in September in either Austin or Houston.

Ok, now Tool. My favorite is 2 tracks, but really one song. Parabol and Parabola. Other than that, it's probably Eulogy but com'on now, lets be real. Everything they do is fucking amazing. EVERYTHING!

[MannyIsGod]

Oh, and when I saw Tool in Houston a few years back, they were so disapointing. I do however think that had to do with the show format. They spent way too much time between shows. I was also a pretty good distance from the stage at a shitty venue - Cynthia Woods - so that took away from it.

All that being said, when they played it was killer. Just too much crap like the hanging naked man in between songs.

[MannyIsGod]

Oh and I agree Blackbucket. Headphones are the only way to really listen to music if you want to grasp the whole thing.

[scott]

Buy some decent speakers, loser.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

no scott they speaketh the truth

If you get some heavy headphones, old school style, not those little ear pieces, then the quality of the music is unmatched, even by speakers. I agree, listening like this is the best way to listen to good music.

The Majestic Tori show WAS the bomb Manny I had like mad close seats, it was intense!!

[Faccia di Angelo]

I'm a sucker for Sober...I've been listening to A Perfect Circle the last few days.

Maynard is a genious!
Absolutely. Hands down, Sober is an awesome song. I can't get enough of that one sometimes.
Gosh I'm trying to remember the name of the song with the little clay looking guy in the video. That video blew me away. That was some great work. I liked that one too.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

The TOOL VIDEOS mentioned in this thread are worth discussing. They are all the creations of Adam Jones! Like I said, you wanna talk genius, talk ADAM JONES. This guy is the freakin bomb!! Plus I've never seen someone play an entire show absolutely still and kick ass the way he does!

[xcoriate]

Oooh this is a toughy. Back when I first heard them I listened to there stuff non stop for a few months. It was all I'd listen too :lol

Ok in no particular order -

Parabol + Paraboler (Lets face it its one track)
Eulogy
Forty Six and 2

Man theres so many others though, this list could have gone on for ages if I hadn't stopped there. Phenomenal band.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

What do you people think is the meaning behind each of your respective favorite songs?

I'm interested to read your interpretations of songs like Forty Six & 2.

[mookie2001]

adam jones is to cbf as vince young is to me

[Samurai Jane]

Sober is my all time favorite, but I think Prison Sex is also up there.. that was my favorite album for a very very long time...

[MannyIsGod]

no scott they speaketh the truth

If you get some heavy headphones, old school style, not those little ear pieces, then the quality of the music is unmatched, even by speakers. I agree, listening like this is the best way to listen to good music.

The Majestic Tori show WAS the bomb Manny I had like mad close seats, it was intense!!
:lol

Scooter is just being an ass.

Reel Classey!

[mookie2001]

hooker with a penis is about a prostitute with male genatalia

[spurschick]

The Majestic Tori show WAS the bomb Manny I had like mad close seats, it was intense!!

Front row baby!!! The show was awesome, except for that bitch during the opening act.

[MannyIsGod]

We had some damn bitch that woudln't stop screaming during the show up in Dallas. I wanted to climb up to the Balconey and rip out her fucking lungs.

[Jekka]

Front row baby!!! The show was awesome, except for that bitch during the opening act.

Yeah, I'm glad they got her out of there before Tori started playing. I just wish they had miked the piano better - I was somewhere around 10th row, and I could hear the upper octaves really well, but anything below middle C got totally drowned out by the bass and the drums. It was better in Dallas where it was just her.

It's hard for me not to love her - we're both jaded daughters of Methodist ministers.

As for favorite Tool song ... I really do love Lateralus still. If I had to pick a favorite (which is hard enough) that would be it - though I do really love Sober as well. I would say Vacant because the lyrics are incredible, but it's technically not a Tool song, and it's only been done once live - I was lucky enough to have a friend send me the MP3 - it's supposed to be a Tapeworm Project track ... but that never has fruitioned. Maynard's deliverance of it was awesome.

[mookie2001]

i scoff the shit out of cbf for liking tori amos and he scoffs me for liking don walser

i didnt know she was so pops

[spurschick]

Jekka - love your new avatar! :lol

[ObiwanGinobili]

hmmmm the meaning of Prison Sex..

lets see:
It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young and vestal then,
you know it hurt me,
but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
I've got my hands bound,
my head down, my eyes closed,
and my throat wide open.

Do unto others what has been done to me,
Do unto others what has been done to you

I'm treading water,
I need to sleep a while.
My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.
Won't you come a bit closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this,
I can't stand to burn too long.
Released in this sodomy.
For one sweet moment I am whole.

Do unto others now what has been done to me
Do unto others now what has been done to you.

You're breathing so I guess you're still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
Won't you come just a bit closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this.
I need this to make me whole.
There's release in this sodomy.
For I am your witness that
blood and flesh can be trusted.
And only this one holy medium brings me piece of mind.

Got your hands bound, your head down,
your eyes closed.
You look so precious now.

( Show me something
Thought I could make it end
Thought I could wash the stains away
Thought I could break the circle if I
Slipped right into your skin
So sweet was your surrender
We have become one
I have become my terror
And you my precious lamb and martyr.)

I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this
shit, blood, and cum on my hands.

I've come round full circle.
My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon.
You look so precious."



hmm..... class? can we say "perpetuating a circle of abuse and violence will not cure your inner demons"?

[Jekka]

hmmmm the meaning of Prison Sex..

hmm..... class? can we say "perpetuating a circle of abuse and violence will not cure your inner demons"?

Yes, well, Maynard is all about masochism - and so are a lot of the diehard fans. Not in the cutting kind of way necessarily, but in the living with mental anguish kind of way. Most fans don't listen to Tool to find a way out.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Yes, well, Maynard is all about masochism - and so are a lot of the diehard fans. Not in the cutting kind of way necessarily, but in the living with mental anguish kind of way. Most fans don't listen to Tool to find a way out.

yeah.
i guess except for me. when I was big time into TOOL I was a cutter.
i was perepetuating my own little cirlce on myself.

[MannyIsGod]

hmm..... class? can we say "perpetuating a circle of abuse and violence will not cure your inner demons"?
The worlds best art is that which is brutaly honest.

[Jekka]

yeah.
i guess except for me. when I was big time into TOOL I was a cutter.
i was perepetuating my own little cirlce on myself.

Oh I didn't exclude cutting by any means, I know a lot of Tool fans that do - and I know a lot of Tori fans that do for that matter - I used to. But I can still listen to the music in a similar state of mind without the cutting, which is why I used "mental anguish" - it's more all-encompassing. It's all about having an outlet, not necessarily a way out.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

When i saw tori at the majestic some Emo chode opened for her not a girl

It was some white dude on acoustic guitar and these chicks kept trying to go up to him on stage and they got escorted away hahahaha

[ObiwanGinobili]

I hate how my husbands name is associated with "woe is me" music.
:makemyday

[ObiwanGinobili]

Jekka - I'm not disagreeing with you. I know why myself and others listen to this music.
I was stating the meaning I got out of it.

[spurschick]

When i saw tori at the majestic some Emo chode opened for her not a girl

It was some white dude on acoustic guitar and these chicks kept trying to go up to him on stage and they got escorted away hahahaha

I wasn't talking about the guy who opened. I was talking about the girl who kept going up to the stage, as you were referring to. She was trying to get him to come over to her and then stood there and flipped him off when he wouldn't oblige. It really pissed him off. Pissed me off too. What an idiot.

[Jekka]

Jekka - I'm not disagreeing with you. I know why myself and others listen to this music.
I was stating the meaning I got out of it.

Yeah I know, it's cool :spin

[herbivore female]

i need a 5 16ths wrench i can jam out to this one all day boop it dee bop boom boom

[ObiwanGinobili]

Emo.
I know your in here.
you can't hide.

[scott]

I don't give a shit what headphones you have... they will never tough a pair of top end speakers ($15k+) pushed by a nice amp ($2k+).

Since Manny only has an Aiwa boombox, I guess you are right though.

[Jekka]

I don't give a shit what headphones you have... they will never tough a pair of top end speakers ($15k+) pushed by a nice amp ($2k+).

Since Manny only has an Aiwa boombox, I guess you are right though.

I disagree, I think that headphones really allow you to be totally enveloped in the music - and this is coming from someone with good Bose speakers hooked up to my receiver.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Dude theres no way you can tell me listening to Smashing Pumpkins Adore on your high end speakers can let you experience that album better than on a pair of heavy headphones. Theres just no fucking way. You'd have to do some serious twinking to be able to hear all the slight low tracks behind each song, and even then it would ruin the quality overall cuz the main stuff would sound like shit. With heavy headphones its all just right there, its like those big ass expensive speakers are inside of your head and you can hear everything as it was meant to be heard.

The same applies to TOOL cd's

[ObiwanGinobili]

I have to agree with the headphone thought.
To really get enveloped in an album you have to have a kickass pair of giant old fashioned headphones. It's liek a portal to anther world.
It not only surrounds you in the music but it shuts out all other sounds.

[Spursy]

I dont think "Prison sex" and "my husband" should be used in the same sentence

[ObiwanGinobili]

I dont think "Prison sex" and "my husband" should be used in the same sentence

A. I'm representing reality. :lol

B. the jig is up. everyone knows your my husband. :spin

[scott]

I disagree, I think that headphones really allow you to be totally enveloped in the music - and this is coming from someone with good Bose speakers hooked up to my receiver.

Having a top of the line stereo system and the ability to turn up the volume achieves the same effect.

Go look at the dynamic response ratings for the best pair of headphones you can find, and I'll beat them.

Just because your favorite food is a BigMac, doesn't mean it's the worlds best burger. The same is true with speakers. Obviously, what sounds good to some will sound different to others. Dynamic frequency response ratings are the only truely objective measure.

Lateralus still sucks.

[scott]

Dude theres no way you can tell me listening to Smashing Pumpkins Adore on your high end speakers can let you experience that album better than on a pair of heavy headphones. Theres just no fucking way. You'd have to do some serious twinking to be able to hear all the slight low tracks behind each song, and even then it would ruin the quality overall cuz the main stuff would sound like shit. With heavy headphones its all just right there, its like those big ass expensive speakers are inside of your head and you can hear everything as it was meant to be heard.

The same applies to TOOL cd's

What is your idea of high end speakers? I suspect you've never actually heard good speakers.

[Jekka]

What is your idea of high end speakers? I suspect you've never actually heard good speakers.

Yeah, you just continue being an asshole so you can parade around your $12k speakers there, buddy. In the meantime, I still maintain that headphones envelope you in the music more - if for no other reason than proximity to your ears.

And just because I didn't drop $12k on a speaker set does not mean that I don't know what I'm talking about. So take your Big Mac and shove it.

[scott]

I don't have $12k speakers either - but that doesn't mean they aren't better than headphones.

You can maintain anything you like, but that doesn't have any relevance towards objective statistics.

As for promimity to your ears... I'd put it this way: I think a big screen HDTV looks better from 15 feet away than a $100 13" TV from 3 feet away.

[MannyIsGod]

:lol

I prefer earphones. Simple as that.

[SequSpur]

12K for a pair of speakers?

WTF?

Do they come with KY Jelly to?

[blackbucket]

As for favorite Tool song ... I really do love Lateralus still. If I had to pick a favorite (which is hard enough) that would be it - though I do really love Sober as well. I would say Vacant because the lyrics are incredible, but it's technically not a Tool song, and it's only been done once live - I was lucky enough to have a friend send me the MP3 - it's supposed to be a Tapeworm Project track ... but that never has fruitioned. Maynard's deliverance of it was awesome.

From what I understand, A Perfect Circle took this song and put it on the "Thirteenth Step" record. It is now called "Blue". I wasn't fortunate enough to hear the original Tapeworm version so I don't know how different it is.

Jekka, does it sound remotely similar?

[Jekka]

From what I understand, A Perfect Circle took this song and put it on the "Thirteenth Step" record. It is now called "Blue". I wasn't fortunate enough to hear the original Tapeworm version so I don't know how different it is.

Jekka, does it sound remotely similar?

Blue is a totally different song - they recorded something like Vacant on the cover/political album they did after Thirteenth Step - it's called Passive, but it had a different title and sounded really different - a friend played it for me, and I didn't even recognize it immediately.

[nickbroken]

Pushit,3rd eye,reflection and parabol/parabola...well all of them...but those for me;)

[Tres_Till_it_MHz]

Aenema

I've listened to this song about a million times and I still find a new message coming from these lyrics everytime and thats why I think Maynard is genius and this song kicks ass. I guess everyone can find something in his lyrics that they can relate too.

Arizona bay, can you imagine a better world without Califas?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Okay guys, i am now officially back to believing The Patient is the Best TOOL song ever.

Is this a test? It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on.
Draining patience.
Drain vitality.
This paranoid,
paralyzed,
vampire acts a little old........


And i'm still pissed they did not play The Patient on tuesday, november 12, 2002, at the freeman coliseum in San antonio, tx.

[TOP-CHERRY]

aenema

[nickbroken]

Eh I've been away too long, Viva la TOOL!

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Having a top of the line stereo system and the ability to turn up the volume achieves the same effect.

Go look at the dynamic response ratings for the best pair of headphones you can find, and I'll beat them.

Just because your favorite food is a BigMac, doesn't mean it's the worlds best burger. The same is true with speakers. Obviously, what sounds good to some will sound different to others. Dynamic frequency response ratings are the only truely objective measure.

Lateralus still sucks.


rofl

classic scott

[DieMrBond]

Come on, what about Ticks and Leeches? That song is FANTASTIC - danny at his best. The only downside is that they cant play it live, because when they recorded it, maynard so destroyed his voice that they agreed never to play it live. My favourite though is Jimmy, without a doubt. I love it. But other than that (and the rest of their catalogue, of course) my favourites are:

Jimmy,
Ticks and Leeches,
Third Eye,
Aenema,
Pushit,
Eulogy,
H,
The Grudge,
and lastly their cover of Led Zepplins, 'No Quarter' - one of the best cover songs EVER.

[JMarkJohns]

It's gotta be H...

they have some great, great songs, but H is an absolute classic that never gets old. I've literally spent hours upon hours listoning to just the one song on constant rotation.