To appreciate the percussion in this band watch the drum cam of danny Carey playing pnuema. The 8 arm octopus. Also, tool lyrics are very deep and cryptic so figuring them out on the first pass probably will not happen. Enjoy
This is the one. The song that began my journey with the TOOL Army- it seems like a lifetime ago. Thank you so much for playing this and your heartfelt reaction.
For future reference, those chaotic instrumentals are a part of Tool’s style. It’s done like that on purpose. Other songs to check out are Stinkfist, H., Eulogy, Forty Six & 2, Enema, Schism, Parabola, Lateralus to name a few.
Fantastic picks. I'd add to this list: Third Eye, Prison Sex, Bottom, Jimmy, Tick & Leeches..... F**k it. ANYTHING by Tool is life-changing. Do the whole damned discography and you'll never regret it.
Amazing reaction lilly. Tool is one of the greatest bands of all time. This is my favorite song by them. As someone who has been a recovering addict for six years now, this song has always helped me through difficult times. 💙🙏
This was written about a musician friend of the band who felt that his musical talents were best when he wasn’t sober. Gotta react too songs 46 & 2 (think chromosomes and evolution) and Schism, also the Grudge!!
I've read a lot that this song is about a friend of the band (possibly Bill Manspeaker) that felt he could only be creative when under the influence. You should watch the live remastered version of this song which Maynard really brings out the emotion in the song. Also this was with Tool's original bassist Paul D'Amour who left the group between the Undertow and Aenima albums.
This song every morning for 14 months while I did my morning lines trying to get sober and not be deathly ill with withdrawals, now I’m FINALLY 6 months off daily use actually haven’t taken anything waiting for the right moment and can save it for the special occasions they are made for loveeeee TOOL
New here, been watching for about 2 hours and so far best reaction content, since not only you FEEL the music but you’re honest, passionate and surrender to it all. With that being said, please don’t not overlook Forty Six & 2 by this band. Like every tool song is a journey, this one in particular is an one of the inner kind. ✨🤘🏾❤️🔥
This is why I like watching your videos because your astute commentaries are always so spot on. I haven't heard this song is a really long time. When I was listening to it I was pretty young in fact and more or less just got caught up in the music and the general ambiance of the song but never really paid much attention to the lyrics. Until now I didn't realize just how deep this song really is. Excellent commentary as always. ETA: Would love to see you react and hear your thoughts on Schism; another great song of theirs.
Damn girl, I have listened to far to many Tool reviews and you have such a different view of where they are coming from than others. I watched your reviews on Schism and The Pot and I have to say...Awesome work. As far as the next Tool song Eulogy will blow you away.
Favorite band of all time. Hands down, no one else comes close. Maynard is the sh*t. First heard Undertow and Opiate at the same time as the first came out in 93. Fan since and never will not be.
Tool guitarist Adam Jones explained in an interview wtih Guitar School: "The song and video are based on a guy we know who is at his artistic best when he's loaded. A lot of people give him s--t for that. I don't tell people to do or not do drugs. You can do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for what happens. If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault."
I appreciate your perspective on this song. It's a good one. Tools music is so much about interpretation and so intelligent. That's what makes them so different in my opinion.
One of "those" Tool fans here. Good choice and great reaction! I enjoyed this very much. Thank you! The comment section has already done a good job of explaining the song, so I won't do it here. What next, you ask? Pushit, The Grudge, Lateralus, Pneuma, & Right in Two are some of my favorites, but this is not an exhaustive list by far.
Ouch.. This song has a place in the hole, that is in my own Heart ...its a beautiful song, that hits a cord with me, and I'm sure others... I wish i could be different ..but it's true, i wish, i could sleep all day 😔 "trust me, TRUST ME"
This was my Introduction to Tool in my early teens, very impactful and while they probably have better songs overall, this is still my personal favorite tool track. As a side note this song comes with a really great music video
Search for: Kids Cover Sober By Tool / O'Keefe Music Foundation O'Keefe Music Foundation is kind of a music school for "poor kids" with messy lives. Which makes the actual lyrics and the song even more emotional.
A lot of people don't get that he's saying... Why can not we NOT be sober? Living in a state of intoxication indefinitely. He wants to live that way, but he doesn't. It's an internal struggle with himself.
I don't care what anyone says, that's best guitar lead (5:58) in human history. Straight to the point. Also, I beat addiction. As in I totally defeated it. Never looked back, never fell, don't even think about it unless the topic comes up. I win.
Please Please PLEASE Find the live video of this. What Manerd can do with his body to tell the story is just insane. I think for an empathetic person like you it will mean so much more.
You should do a reaction to The Maynard's mom trilogy. Which are 3 songs that Mynard( the lead singer of Tool & a another band called a perfect circle ) wrote about and for his mother. But their is a certain order to these songs. Start with 1.) Judith by a perfect Circle 2) Wings for Marie by Tool 3.) 10,000 Days by Tool.
Whether Maynard meant it or not, the last line: I WANT WHAT I WANT...? Well, that's the actual down to the nitty-gritty problem with humanity as a whole. Think about it. Or don't. I don't care.
The entire Undertow album (Sober is on it) is about abuse, addiction, and the battle against it. I definitely recommend listening to it from beginning to end. Or at least the songs, Bottom, Undertow, Swamp Song, and Flood. The next album, Aenima, seems to be about facing reality and dealing with it. And the album after that, Lateralus, is about rising above and finding peace. There are songs that are better than others but they’re all good in my opinion.
U Gotta Do ‘Sober’ Live Version…W/Maynard In His Pink PJ’s Underwear..1993 Festival Good Lord!..Maynard Dives Deep Into Character Of The Lyrics That’s About A Friend That Couldn’t Perform Or Create Music Unless He Was Chemically Enhanced…By Far My Top 3 Live Vocal Performances I’ve Seen In My 40Yr Journey Of Music!!
Yo yo yooooooooooo Lilly Jane! You should react to 2 recent Rae Sremmurd songs: 1. Denial (they dropped that song back in June summer ‘22) 2. Torpedo (they just released it so it’s new) 🔥🔥🔥
This song I know it's about alcohol but for me it's drugs because of the lyric 3:06 how many times have you heard someone lie "I'm clean, I'm not using I swear" the you find out they ODed I don't know how heroin has such a way of taking someone over
The next Tool song you should check out is prison sex don't worry it's not what you think or schism. Not even a longtime Feud with their record company can't slow this band down. As a 60 year old black male I love tool. And check-out Godsmack to their cool band as well.
Hello there, please listen to: Blind Guardian - Valhalla (live), Suicidal Tendencies - You can´t bring me down, Over Kill - Hello from the gutter, Nuclear Assault - When freedom dies and (jepp another one and something totally different) The Edgar Broughton Band - Death of an electric citizen. I mean I have even more...but 😁. Greetings from Germany.✌
You really can't go wrong with most Tool songs you select. But I would like to see you go off the beaten path and maybe hit some tracks that aren't covered by most reaction channels. Like "Eulogy" or "undertow", "Opiate" or "Third Eye".
Since you seem to resonate with the meaning behind Maynard's words, you may want to try out one of his other bands, A Perfect Circle. I recommend "Judith". It's about his very religious mom's lost battle to cancer. Maynard is not a fan of Christianity after that, to say the least.
Been on them since 1990. Shrink said I would be for the rest of my life. Discernment provides me sanctuary for the experience. I called out to God as I crawled up that hill without most of my blood inside anymore and freeing myself from my own boot laces that were around my neck since I was left to die. One move at a time and the search party found me a few hours later. I was extracted and went into surgery with a doc that hadn't seen anything like me since Vietnam. A few weeks later back home to my mom. I love life so much.
@@tommywalker3746 I seriously can't. The chemistry of my brain changed after being tortured, disfigured, hung by my own boot laces after holes in my body would have turned into holes in my soul. I actually feel normal even though I know I am not. Perhaps I am still alive because of the pills. Ironic as it sounds I think it's true. Most people don't need them for more than a few years. Not me. Big difference. Ever have sticks and fingers pushed into your wounds and hear the sucking sound come from a hole near your kidney as you fill up with air?
@@TrianglesAndCircles I have bullet holes too. your a slave to the VA pills, there holding you back. Get sober and go out and see the world it's beautiful outside
What TOOL song should I react to next ??
TOOL - Invincible
Maybe "Vicarious"
7empest, Eulogy, Jambi, Invincible or Vicarious, all these songs are Masterpieces by the one and only TOOL.
TOOL is FOREVER.
To appreciate the percussion in this band watch the drum cam of danny Carey playing pnuema. The 8 arm octopus. Also, tool lyrics are very deep and cryptic so figuring them out on the first pass probably will not happen. Enjoy
Forty Six & 2
The live version of this is exceedingly powerful. Maynard's theatric performance is unforgettable. Loved the reaction.
This is the one. The song that began my journey with the TOOL Army- it seems like a lifetime ago. Thank you so much for playing this and your heartfelt reaction.
Please do the live version of this at the 'Reading Festival'!! Its my favourite performance of all time!!
For future reference, those chaotic instrumentals are a part of Tool’s style. It’s done like that on purpose.
Other songs to check out are Stinkfist, H., Eulogy, Forty Six & 2, Enema, Schism, Parabola, Lateralus to name a few.
The beginning instrumental sounds like the perfect soundtrack for a heroin junkie in withdrawl. Long, piercing chords.
Aaaand the uploader just mentioned this exact same thing. Subbing lmao
Fantastic picks.
I'd add to this list: Third Eye, Prison Sex, Bottom, Jimmy, Tick & Leeches.....
F**k it. ANYTHING by Tool is life-changing.
Do the whole damned discography and you'll never regret it.
Love that you are reacting to Tool! It's a very cerebral journey.
Amazing reaction lilly. Tool is one of the greatest bands of all time. This is my favorite song by them. As someone who has been a recovering addict for six years now, this song has always helped me through difficult times. 💙🙏
Right on. You can make it, brother. 🙏🤘
The live version of think is the single greatest performance I have ever seen.
This was written about a musician friend of the band who felt that his musical talents were best when he wasn’t sober.
Gotta react too songs 46 & 2 (think chromosomes and evolution) and Schism, also the Grudge!!
I've read a lot that this song is about a friend of the band (possibly Bill Manspeaker) that felt he could only be creative when under the influence. You should watch the live remastered version of this song which Maynard really brings out the emotion in the song. Also this was with Tool's original bassist Paul D'Amour who left the group between the Undertow and Aenima albums.
i have read the same
Great song! amazingly I think I have this as there 11th best song and thats nuts its no knock just they've consistently gotten better every album
Great to see you enjoying Tool! There isn't a bad Tool song! 46&2, Right in Two, Eulogy, some others worth checking out!
This song every morning for 14 months while I did my morning lines trying to get sober and not be deathly ill with withdrawals, now I’m FINALLY 6 months off daily use actually haven’t taken anything waiting for the right moment and can save it for the special occasions they are made for loveeeee TOOL
Another great reaction and review, Lilly Jane! This song hit like a freight train back in the day, because nobody was doing anything like that.
Going to see them in May at Welcome to Rockville...can't wait
Love you! You always make my day better
That’s the first time anyone ever called me an earthling. Great reaction!🤘🏻
Love love love this song
New here, been watching for about 2 hours and so far best reaction content, since not only you FEEL the music but you’re honest, passionate and surrender to it all. With that being said, please don’t not overlook Forty Six & 2 by this band. Like every tool song is a journey, this one in particular is an one of the inner kind. ✨🤘🏾❤️🔥
This is why I like watching your videos because your astute commentaries are always so spot on. I haven't heard this song is a really long time. When I was listening to it I was pretty young in fact and more or less just got caught up in the music and the general ambiance of the song but never really paid much attention to the lyrics. Until now I didn't realize just how deep this song really is. Excellent commentary as always.
ETA: Would love to see you react and hear your thoughts on Schism; another great song of theirs.
My favourite tool song. He's a genius ❤
your a g fr. thank u for making life way easier . best reactor fsss
Damn girl, I have listened to far to many Tool reviews and you have such a different view of where they are coming from than others. I watched your reviews on Schism and The Pot and I have to say...Awesome work. As far as the next Tool song Eulogy will blow you away.
Favorite band of all time. Hands down, no one else comes close. Maynard is the sh*t. First heard Undertow and Opiate at the same time as the first came out in 93. Fan since and never will not be.
Great band pick! There's practically an endless supply of Tool songs to react to! Even their new stuff is epic!
I love ❤ this song 🎵 so much because it's so deep and I can definitely relate to it real talk 100
When he screams,” WHYYYyyy can’t we…”
Damn, I feel that 😞💔
Tool guitarist Adam Jones explained in an interview wtih Guitar School: "The song and video are based on a guy we know who is at his artistic best when he's loaded. A lot of people give him s--t for that. I don't tell people to do or not do drugs. You can do what you want, but you have to take responsibility for what happens. If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault."
Please do their ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY. They honestly don't have a bad TRACK. 🤞✌️
Facts!!!
Not one bad song by tool
Right in two is another great Tool song
Always makes me cry. Listen to live version 93
as an addict this song means a lot to me. been clean for a while now and trying to get out is hard
Vicarious, Parabola, and Schism are all also some of Tools top songs and def worth checking out imo.
I appreciate your perspective on this song. It's a good one. Tools music is so much about interpretation and so intelligent. That's what makes them so different in my opinion.
You gotta see the music video with this song. It's great!
Swamp song (off this same album) is my favorite song off of undertow! I think you'd really dig it!
Really should watch the live version of this
Have a great year 23! Go strong!
Super dope track Lily!
I used to troll my local dive bar every night playing this in the jukebox. Now I just play it at home.
One of "those" Tool fans here. Good choice and great reaction! I enjoyed this very much. Thank you! The comment section has already done a good job of explaining the song, so I won't do it here. What next, you ask? Pushit, The Grudge, Lateralus, Pneuma, & Right in Two are some of my favorites, but this is not an exhaustive list by far.
Nice TAKE! MAYNARD'S lyrics have help me so many times to get through shit. ✌️
All of them
Ouch..
This song has a place in the hole, that is in my own
Heart ...its a beautiful song, that hits a cord with me, and I'm sure others... I wish i could be different ..but it's true, i wish, i could sleep all day 😔 "trust me, TRUST ME"
The hardest thing you could imagine.
Slayer - Angel of Death?
🤘
The whole album!
Nice review. There is a double meaning. He is speaking as the addict, as well as personifying the addictive substance.
watch the video for vicarious!! it is fantastic and so is the song!!!
This was my Introduction to Tool in my early teens, very impactful and while they probably have better songs overall, this is still my personal favorite tool track.
As a side note this song comes with a really great music video
Fear Inoculum, one of my favorites..
Welcome to the Tool-box
"Stinkfist"! 👊 GREAT reaction! You should also check out A Perfect Circle(Maynard on vocals), I would recommend the song "Judith" to start with. 🙂
Def should have done the live version
You should watch the this song Live in 1993 Tool concert and see Maynard act it out
Search for: Kids Cover Sober By Tool / O'Keefe Music Foundation
O'Keefe Music Foundation is kind of a music school for "poor kids" with messy lives. Which makes the actual lyrics and the song even more emotional.
A lot of people don't get that he's saying... Why can not we NOT be sober? Living in a state of intoxication indefinitely. He wants to live that way, but he doesn't. It's an internal struggle with himself.
I don't care what anyone says, that's best guitar lead (5:58) in human history. Straight to the point.
Also, I beat addiction. As in I totally defeated it. Never looked back, never fell, don't even think about it unless the topic comes up. I win.
Please Please PLEASE Find the live video of this. What Manerd can do with his body to tell the story is just insane. I think for an empathetic person like you it will mean so much more.
You should do a reaction to The Maynard's mom trilogy. Which are 3 songs that Mynard( the lead singer of Tool & a another band called a perfect circle ) wrote about and for his mother. But their is a certain order to these songs. Start with
1.) Judith by a perfect Circle
2) Wings for Marie by Tool
3.) 10,000 Days by Tool.
Whether Maynard meant it or not, the last line: I WANT WHAT I WANT...? Well, that's the actual down to the nitty-gritty problem with humanity as a whole.
Think about it.
Or don't.
I don't care.
The entire Undertow album (Sober is on it) is about abuse, addiction, and the battle against it. I definitely recommend listening to it from beginning to end. Or at least the songs, Bottom, Undertow, Swamp Song, and Flood. The next album, Aenima, seems to be about facing reality and dealing with it. And the album after that, Lateralus, is about rising above and finding peace. There are songs that are better than others but they’re all good in my opinion.
Hands down, best TOOL ALBUM
Disposition/Reflection/Triad. It's a threefer!
Great to see you react to Schism by TOOL
Tool being deep as usual
Try some of Maynard's wine.... truly awesome 😊👍🤘🤘🤘
The Grudge! Or Schism! Or 46&2! Or Parabol and Parabola! Or Lateralus! Or.... well, their entire discography?
Other Tool songs to check out soon:
StinkFist, Eulogy, Schism
U Gotta Do ‘Sober’ Live Version…W/Maynard In His Pink PJ’s Underwear..1993 Festival
Good Lord!..Maynard Dives Deep Into Character Of The Lyrics That’s About A Friend That Couldn’t Perform Or Create Music Unless He Was Chemically Enhanced…By Far My Top 3
Live Vocal Performances I’ve Seen In My 40Yr Journey Of Music!!
Check out A Perfect Circle "Judith". I'm bettin you dig that one😉
getting sober is not easy!
Yo yo yooooooooooo Lilly Jane! You should react to 2 recent Rae Sremmurd songs:
1. Denial (they dropped that song back in June summer ‘22)
2. Torpedo (they just released it so it’s new)
🔥🔥🔥
This song I know it's about alcohol but for me it's drugs because of the lyric 3:06 how many times have you heard someone lie "I'm clean, I'm not using I swear" the you find out they ODed I don't know how heroin has such a way of taking someone over
Id think you would appreciate reacting to Pneuma live. Its just speechless.
Schism and Pneuma are my fav right now tho.
🤘🏻🌀
"WHY CANT I BE SOBER!!!"
TOOL IS FOREVER!!
The next Tool song you should check out is prison sex don't worry it's not what you think or schism. Not even a longtime Feud with their record company can't slow this band down. As a 60 year old black male I love tool. And check-out Godsmack to their cool band as well.
Metall is the best Music 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️👌👌👌
Sorry I love that hair. The song is amazing also.
Hello there, please listen to: Blind Guardian - Valhalla (live), Suicidal Tendencies - You can´t bring me down, Over Kill - Hello from the gutter, Nuclear Assault - When freedom dies and (jepp another one and something totally different) The Edgar Broughton Band - Death of an electric citizen. I mean I have even more...but 😁. Greetings from Germany.✌
Do the 'Live version. It will completely boost the experience you have with the song, in good or bad.
Tanks for the review :)
You really can't go wrong with most Tool songs you select. But I would like to see you go off the beaten path and maybe hit some tracks that aren't covered by most reaction channels. Like "Eulogy" or "undertow", "Opiate" or "Third Eye".
Finally someone not reacting to the live version. Studio audio OP lol
You really should do the video to sober it’s cool
Please do parabola please
Tool was dominant in the 90s. Maynard’s voice is distinguishable from most
Since you seem to resonate with the meaning behind Maynard's words, you may want to try out one of his other bands, A Perfect Circle. I recommend "Judith". It's about his very religious mom's lost battle to cancer. Maynard is not a fan of Christianity after that, to say the least.
46 & 2 next
Please do reaction to this song Live at 1993
Patient.
Been sober from VA pills since 2015. Pharmaceutical pills are just as bad as old school hard stuff
Been on them since 1990. Shrink said I would be for the rest of my life. Discernment provides me sanctuary for the experience. I called out to God as I crawled up that hill without most of my blood inside anymore and freeing myself from my own boot laces that were around my neck since I was left to die. One move at a time and the search party found me a few hours later. I was extracted and went into surgery with a doc that hadn't seen anything like me since Vietnam. A few weeks later back home to my mom. I love life so much.
@@TrianglesAndCircles Glad your home and safe. Get off the pills there going to kill you
@@tommywalker3746 I seriously can't. The chemistry of my brain changed after being tortured, disfigured, hung by my own boot laces after holes in my body would have turned into holes in my soul. I actually feel normal even though I know I am not. Perhaps I am still alive because of the pills. Ironic as it sounds I think it's true. Most people don't need them for more than a few years. Not me. Big difference. Ever have sticks and fingers pushed into your wounds and hear the sucking sound come from a hole near your kidney as you fill up with air?
@@TrianglesAndCircles I have bullet holes too. your a slave to the VA pills, there holding you back. Get sober and go out and see the world it's beautiful outside
@@tommywalker3746 I live in two different worlds. Both are equally disturbing.
Wait till she hits Lateralis and Parabol-Prabola
You have to watch the live version😢
The lyrc is why can't we drink forever.
Personally, I like Stinkfist, Ænema, Hooker with a Penis best.
These are less complicated, shorter Tool songs.
46 and 2
Highly suggest doing Pneuma, but be sure to do the Danny Carey drum cam version. You won’t be disappointed
Never clicked on anything so quick 🥰🤘
Nice reaction 👌🏼 but you must check the live version, it’s much better and epic 👍👍👍