Doesn't matter how many times I've heard it, any time someone wants to go back and hear something again in a Tool song, please, by all means, as many times as you want.
Your reaction to the lyrics is a perfect example of why he writes them that way. He wants you to think; ask yourself questions. Relate it to yourself. It's a testament to the depth of his artistry and his intelligence. His lyrics tend to often be an allegory about "us" as people.
9:08 Sudden, violent, inexplicable loss like that is just indescribable. Shock and heartache like that can be deadly. "Heartstrings" are tendons (chordae tendineae) that connect parts of the heart, and they can rupture under extreme stress. That part of the song almost always brings tears to my eyes. For as hard and heavy as this song is, it's one of the hardest ones for me to sing along with for that reason. My throat just closes right up. But it brings the message that much closer to home. These are not things to celebrate, and yet our society thrives on them. Blessings on that family in your mom's neighborhood.
Danny, Adam & Justin put the music together, then Maynard sits down and puts words to each song. Amazing really. One of their best lyrically and musically!!
I’m so ashamed of myself. I’ve been a fan for decades and never knew that 😳🤯😔I thank you for providing yet another piece of their amazing beyond words pure genius puzzle❣️
You definitely "get" Tool. It's obvious in your reactions that you want to absorb every sound, every lyric, every nuance. And I LOVE watching your journey 💜
You want to hear Maynard almost rap ( very fast too) listen to their song called Lost Keys/ Rosetta Stoned. It is about an alien abduction. Creative Genius!
At around 9 mins where your saying maynard uses his lyrics to enhance the bass guitar. You nailed it, maynard thinks of his voice as just another instrument in the band.
I heard this from another reaction channel a perfect analysis “ WHAT IS ANOTHER BANDS MAGNUM OPUS IS A REGULAR TOOL JOINT ! ! !” His partner on the channel says “TOOL doesn’t seem to be able to do regular they put out so many songs that are epic”
Thank you for another anazing reation! Love your openness to expression and your own feelings and take on Took especially, and absolutely love love your candidness about ur own feeling's. It's SO on point and resonates with me greatly. I have been ro 3cTool concerts and it's TRULY an EXPERIENCE that is SURE to change tour entire life - for reals. Thank you dor all you do and for veing so open and honest. I hope you get ro see them live someday because the live show is even BETTER than rhe albuns. No joke at all! Best wishes. Ve kind,: it's easy ❤❤ Laura from Boston love your channel a million times over!!❤
If you love Maynard's lyrics and creativity you need to check out his other projects too. The bands "Puscifer" and "A Perfect Circle". I'm shure this isn't the first time you get this suggestion :)
Bro when you said “I’m not gonna lie, I watched a kid fall out a tree” I completely lost my shit. Awesome video man. Please never stop doing you. Keep it up💪🤘
What a holistic and honest review of an incredible song. If you pay attention, you can always tell the fake reviews from the real ones. Here is the genuine article. What a great job!!
This is my favorite Tool song but am I the only one who thinks the lyrics aren't cryptic at all? This is one of the more straight forward Tool songs in my opinion. He's just straight up admitting we all like watching drama and carnage and such through a screen. But obviously dont want that done to ourselves.
I've always kind of thought of Tool being their own genre, the effort that goes into each and every song every note,it speaks to me in a way that no other music does.
I love the fact that you always use the lyrics and try and decipher just what Maynard was trying to say and the meaning behind it, that's awesome how you use you mind in these video reactions / breakdowns, keep doing that way..
great reaction, the most important thing is that you understood the message of this song. Many people don't even pay attention to the lyrics in this song, which means they miss the most important aspect of this song.
Man you gotta listen to this again when you're NOT looking at the lyrics, close your eyes and listen, you'll get SOOO much more out it! This is an absolute top tier piece!
That’s the simplest way to put it yes, but during Undertow and Ænima eras, Maynard added more than once in interviews that he used to be more unloved with the music being made, he wouldn’t tell the band what to do, he would just give them insight on his own ideas on certain messages the songs should give people that listen to it, like Jimmy, Ænema, Stinkfist, Pushit, Hooker with a Penis, and even Wings for Marie and 10,000 days, according to the band, the song Third Eye and Forty Six and Twi was the only songs off Ænima that Danny, Justin, and Adam created themselves before introducing it to Maynard while he was writing lyrics, which makes the recording process from Ænima to Lateralus much more interesting and intense
I’m glad you listened to this song and did a reaction video. It’s the first I have seen! I feel like a lot of people touch an edge they don’t want to with the message behind this song. Ugly truth.
4:30 Nailed it right away. Except for not picking up on it being an analogy for everyone, not just a specific subject like a villain. We LIKE death and suffering. Its more than just human, its animalistic nature. Those instincts have helped us to survive, our shadow selves, our darkness. That darkness will rule us if we are unwilling to admit we like to live vicariously through others suffering. It makes us feel better about ourselves
One of my favorites for sure. The build toward the end right before the last chorus (starts around 18:25 in this vid) is excellent, with the instruments each slowly changing their patterns to become harder and harder. The stream was a lot of fun to hang out on, thank you! Glad you are enjoying this band!
Yeah even before that when the news broadcast part ends and Danny starts playing that almost monotonous sounding beat almost as if time is passing by, while slowly evolving it into this anxiety inducing thunder. Meanwhile Adam goes from playing a clean innocent sound, to this head smashing riff that literally feels like it's pulling the energy out of you. Then of course you have Maynard's incredibly powerful lyrics on top of all this. Yeah it might be the best bit of music ever recorded
Tool is my #1 band for this song. The instrumental is amazing, untouched by anything else, and the lyrics still resonate to this day, 15~years later. It’s just *chefs kiss*.
Had you said “they are like the Lebronda’s of music” I’d have never watched another one of your videos. Thank you for recognizing true greatness when you see it and hear it. Jordan is the G.O.A.T. TooL are the greatest band to ever form and will be combed over and studied and compared long after we are all gone. ➕💯. Sub’d
Reactions are so important, and so many reactors ARE helping to keep the legendary recordings alive and introduce them to new fans. So many times I got into music and enjoyed it so throuroughly, and wanted someone else I knew, anyone else I knew to listen and get the same kind of joy and energy I did upon my first listen. Time and time again I sat in anticipation waiting for friends to have some kind of similar reaction, but usually it was someone sitting there kind of bored and talking through/over the music cause they were not digging it like I did. Finally, thanks to Reactors on YT, I get to VICARIOUSLY watch fan after fan discover these songs and react in the same ways I have. There's a supreme joy in watching people enjoy things, and a certain connection I seem to form with certain content providers such as yourself for appreciating similar things in music as I do. Thank you for what you do. Keep up the great work man. I'll be watching.
Yes! love this song. Good insights, nice reaction. This stuff is definitely art. The joke is that Tool is their own genre.. but probably they’d be progressive metal.
Little kid fall off the tree...lololol. yes this song is so true, some people won't admitted but, if a guy stops freeway in the morning attempting to jump off the bridge, you know how you want that to unfold.
Awesome reaction and talk at the end! You're doing perfectly. On Pneuma (I think) you said you wanted to do a album stream. Since you listened to at least one song on all albums, I recommend staying with that now and do the Opiate EP (which is from before their first album Undertow and uses mostly raw live recordings) as a full album reaction. The way you talked about preserving this music and giving it to future generations to listen to, that hit me. You are amazing, thank you for your videos ❤
Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men… Pull your head on out [of] your hippie haze and give a listen…shouldn’t have to say it all again… The universe is hostile, so impersonal, devour to survive, so it is, so it’s always been… Don’t know why, but this section of lyrics is in my top 10 Maynard phrases. There’s something so raw, but deeply philosophical and insightful about it, kinda cynical but honest.
Maynard said that the band wrote the music first, and then he added vocals to it, just coming up with whatever he thinks fits. He said that he wasn't even present during most of the creation of the instrumentation for the album, he was working on all of his other projects (wine business, clothing store, other music projects, etc, and his family)
New subscriber here. Came for your Sleep Token Ascensionism reaction and found Tool! My two favorite bands! And not to put too fine a point on it but I love watching first time reactions to my favorites and seeing a new fan born. Kinda vicarious. Lol
So the band maticulously write the music, often for 5-10 years, then the singer listened to the tracks, and lays down the lyics/vocals in a week or two. It's why Maynard is in like 4 bands.
4:44 To flip your words, there is a song by a 90's band named Live called Selling the Drama, I think you'd like it...they're the same group that does, Lightning Crashes...If you are familiar (It's also about death and birth)...but I totally agree, Tool has the BEST drops...and they can do it with any instrument or Maynard's vocals... EDIT: ROFL, I like how you call him by his middle name...Maynard James Keenan is his actual stage name (Real name: James Herbert Keenan), but I've got no objection to calling him MJK, K-Dog, Maynard, James, or anything else...I've never met the guy...
tool does a really good job of building tension with build ups and rythem. the song is a social commentary on the human condition. we all cant look away when a car crash, or terrorist attack or anything like that. thia album is from 2007,
If you can, listen to each album from beginning to end in order. You'll realize their full genius when you hear how the songs are connected. Your reactions are genuinely awesome!
I wonder if he knows that pretty much all tool songs after Ænima was recorded by the drummer, bassist, and guitarist at once all three with each other in the studio, and Maynard wrights all the lyrics himself while the band wrights the music, and once the music is recorded Maynard puts in the lyrics then the band practices as a whole for live shows, just imagine what it’s like hearing these songs without any vocals
“ I gotta hear that again, y’all” said every Tool fan!!!!😅
Facts!
Doesn't matter how many times I've heard it, any time someone wants to go back and hear something again in a Tool song, please, by all means, as many times as you want.
Your reaction to the lyrics is a perfect example of why he writes them that way. He wants you to think; ask yourself questions. Relate it to yourself. It's a testament to the depth of his artistry and his intelligence. His lyrics tend to often be an allegory about "us" as people.
MJK taught me the work allegory lol. Also Elegy.
@@heatheral-hammadi3046 and eulogy
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Maynard said that he never wanted to mess with the music and that he wanted his voice to be an instrument in the band. He uses his lyrics as such
Stood the test of time... and released in 2006. That's a year BEFORE Twitter existed
I was interested to see you get to this one. They'll hold up the mirror for us even when we're ugly.
To describe the bass, I would say instead of tension, it's like the adrenaline of pursuit. Like a cougar hunting its prey.
So jealous of hearing Tool for the first time. 1. Lateralus, 2. 7empest, 3. Parabol(a), 4. Aenema, 5. Right in Two.
I think that exact same thing often. The first time I heard Sober in the 90's, it changed how listen to music.
Watching Brothers discover Tool is a joy I could have NEVER seen coming in the 90s. Love it
Watching your face during Tool reactions is priceless 😊 It makes me soooooooo happy 💜
@@violetfemme411 Stank face then 🤔
Every tools song ever 😂
9:08 Sudden, violent, inexplicable loss like that is just indescribable. Shock and heartache like that can be deadly. "Heartstrings" are tendons (chordae tendineae) that connect parts of the heart, and they can rupture under extreme stress. That part of the song almost always brings tears to my eyes. For as hard and heavy as this song is, it's one of the hardest ones for me to sing along with for that reason. My throat just closes right up. But it brings the message that much closer to home. These are not things to celebrate, and yet our society thrives on them.
Blessings on that family in your mom's neighborhood.
Danny, Adam & Justin put the music together, then Maynard sits down and puts words to each song. Amazing really. One of their best lyrically and musically!!
I’m so ashamed of myself. I’ve been a fan for decades and never knew that 😳🤯😔I thank you for providing yet another piece of their amazing beyond words pure genius puzzle❣️
Tool being Jordan of music is a bold claim that I support 100%
You definitely "get" Tool. It's obvious in your reactions that you want to absorb every sound, every lyric, every nuance. And I LOVE watching your journey 💜
This song makes me think Maynard predicted social media 💀
You want to hear Maynard almost rap ( very fast too) listen to their song called Lost Keys/ Rosetta Stoned. It is about an alien abduction. Creative Genius!
Well, it's either about an alien abduction, or a guy tripping balls in the desert.
@@tonyzahn8911 agreed!
Both😂
@@tonyzahn8911 i always thought it was about a DMT or LSD trip
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Tool. Love your reactions, keep it real. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
At around 9 mins where your saying maynard uses his lyrics to enhance the bass guitar. You nailed it, maynard thinks of his voice as just another instrument in the band.
As every good vocalist does!!!!
I heard this from another reaction channel a perfect analysis “ WHAT IS ANOTHER BANDS MAGNUM OPUS IS A REGULAR TOOL JOINT ! ! !” His partner on the channel says “TOOL doesn’t seem to be able to do regular they put out so many songs that are epic”
Thank you for another anazing reation! Love your openness to expression and your own feelings and take on Took especially, and absolutely love love your candidness about ur own feeling's. It's SO on point and resonates with me greatly. I have been ro 3cTool concerts and it's TRULY an EXPERIENCE that is SURE to change tour entire life - for reals. Thank you dor all you do and for veing so open and honest. I hope you get ro see them live someday because the live show is even BETTER than rhe albuns. No joke at all! Best wishes. Ve kind,: it's easy ❤❤ Laura from Boston love your channel a million times over!!❤
Sorry for all the typos, my nails are WAY too long, but I am sure you get the gist..❤
You are speaking some serious truths
There’s no other band like tool. A perfect circle is close because Maynard is in it but other than that. No one else
Both SO good.
If you love Maynard's lyrics and creativity you need to check out his other projects too. The bands "Puscifer" and "A Perfect Circle". I'm shure this isn't the first time you get this suggestion :)
Bro when you said “I’m not gonna lie, I watched a kid fall out a tree” I completely lost my shit. Awesome video man. Please never stop doing you. Keep it up💪🤘
I just got to live a little Vicariously through you. Thank you.
I wish I could hear it again for the 1st time.
I love watching the birth of new tool fans.
What a holistic and honest review of an incredible song. If you pay attention, you can always tell the fake reviews from the real ones. Here is the genuine article. What a great job!!
I love your Tool reactions! Looking forward to more 😊
More to come!
It's a song about how humans are living Vicariously through everyone else's phones and videos.
This was the first tool album I ever got. Pop it in and this drop comes on. Sheesh. I’m hooked forever
MySpace was the place to be when this came out...
This is my favorite Tool song but am I the only one who thinks the lyrics aren't cryptic at all? This is one of the more straight forward Tool songs in my opinion. He's just straight up admitting we all like watching drama and carnage and such through a screen. But obviously dont want that done to ourselves.
Exactly! My fav as well. It’s a blatant and honest call out on human nature. Beautiful.
You must see them live at least once. They are amazing.
Going twice in November!!! 😎
@@paultullo3275Nice. I’m seeing them for my 8th time in November as well. Toronto on November 20th
@@jmathieson15 sweeeet! Upcoming for me is Allentown (bought the VIP for that one) and Philly. Planning on both NYC shows next year too!
You're doing an exceptional job on your TOOL reactions, man. Keep up the good work.
Welcome to the family my brother spiral out
I secretly love that you call him James 😂
I've always kind of thought of Tool being their own genre, the effort that goes into each and every song every note,it speaks to me in a way that no other music does.
I love the fact that you always use the lyrics and try and decipher just what Maynard was trying to say and the meaning behind it, that's awesome how you use you mind in these video reactions / breakdowns, keep doing that way..
This is my favorite Tool song today.
You have such a great outlook on music. I can tell its not just tool. You truly love just music in general
great reaction, the most important thing is that you understood the message of this song. Many people don't even pay attention to the lyrics in this song, which means they miss the most important aspect of this song.
Man you gotta listen to this again when you're NOT looking at the lyrics, close your eyes and listen, you'll get SOOO much more out it! This is an absolute top tier piece!
My understanding is that the band creates all the music then gives it to Maynard and then Maynard puts his lyrics to it
Correct
That’s the simplest way to put it yes, but during Undertow and Ænima eras, Maynard added more than once in interviews that he used to be more unloved with the music being made, he wouldn’t tell the band what to do, he would just give them insight on his own ideas on certain messages the songs should give people that listen to it, like Jimmy, Ænema, Stinkfist, Pushit, Hooker with a Penis, and even Wings for Marie and 10,000 days, according to the band, the song Third Eye and Forty Six and Twi was the only songs off Ænima that Danny, Justin, and Adam created themselves before introducing it to Maynard while he was writing lyrics, which makes the recording process from Ænima to Lateralus much more interesting and intense
Yeah. And Maynard's other bands work the other way around.
Him using the name “James” let’s me know it’s a real reaction. Love it.
Funny enough they ask people not to film their live shows, but this is the song they always allow people to film for
I’m glad you listened to this song and did a reaction video. It’s the first I have seen! I feel like a lot of people touch an edge they don’t want to with the message behind this song. Ugly truth.
Jambi is good to listen to after this song
Someday, all of us (and the members of Tool) will be gone from this world. And yet this music may be around for another 100 and maybe 1,000 years.
at least 27 years
You mean itll be around for 10,000 days?
4:30 Nailed it right away. Except for not picking up on it being an analogy for everyone, not just a specific subject like a villain. We LIKE death and suffering. Its more than just human, its animalistic nature. Those instincts have helped us to survive, our shadow selves, our darkness. That darkness will rule us if we are unwilling to admit we like to live vicariously through others suffering. It makes us feel better about ourselves
One of my favorites for sure. The build toward the end right before the last chorus (starts around 18:25 in this vid) is excellent, with the instruments each slowly changing their patterns to become harder and harder.
The stream was a lot of fun to hang out on, thank you! Glad you are enjoying this band!
Yeah even before that when the news broadcast part ends and Danny starts playing that almost monotonous sounding beat almost as if time is passing by, while slowly evolving it into this anxiety inducing thunder. Meanwhile Adam goes from playing a clean innocent sound, to this head smashing riff that literally feels like it's pulling the energy out of you. Then of course you have Maynard's incredibly powerful lyrics on top of all this. Yeah it might be the best bit of music ever recorded
I love the song Jambi. I think it’s often overlooked because they have so many great songs
Tool is my #1 band for this song. The instrumental is amazing, untouched by anything else, and the lyrics still resonate to this day, 15~years later. It’s just *chefs kiss*.
I love, love, love your TOOL journey. Welcome, my friend 🖤🤘🏼🖤
My mother told me I'd love this guy, I'm 52, banana for scale, and she's right, this dude is astute. ❤
This is one of my favorite Tool songs that I wrote a whole 5 page paper on the song back in 2009 in high school.
Its so much fun to watch you react to my favorite music.
I just saw your first Tool reaction about an hour ago and now I'm going through all of them, haha! Glad to see you enjoying the ride so much my guy 🖤
Vicariously we relive our first time hearing Tool's songs through reactors.
Had you said “they are like the Lebronda’s of music” I’d have never watched another one of your videos. Thank you for recognizing true greatness when you see it and hear it. Jordan is the G.O.A.T. TooL are the greatest band to ever form and will be combed over and studied and compared long after we are all gone. ➕💯. Sub’d
Love ur reactions my man, from Philly
Jordan and effortlessness are synonymous 😂
The last part of this song specifically, is one of my favorite moments in music ever
TOOL is a drug that always satisfies and you always want more.
The intro is the hippy haze. And the song, telling its truth starts when the alarm clock rings, ending the slumber.
My favorite song is always the last Tool song I've listened to.
Tool is all about depth and introspection ! They want you to think about what's going on around you !
Dude, talking about the pain of a parent. I swear it must be the greatest pain
Tool is it's own genre, but it's 100% a subgenre of metal.
I love that you are doing this. Tool is my happy place, I'm loving watching it become yours. Welcome to the club!
The outro along with the drum buildup, outstanding.
Reactions are so important, and so many reactors ARE helping to keep the legendary recordings alive and introduce them to new fans. So many times I got into music and enjoyed it so throuroughly, and wanted someone else I knew, anyone else I knew to listen and get the same kind of joy and energy I did upon my first listen. Time and time again I sat in anticipation waiting for friends to have some kind of similar reaction, but usually it was someone sitting there kind of bored and talking through/over the music cause they were not digging it like I did. Finally, thanks to Reactors on YT, I get to VICARIOUSLY watch fan after fan discover these songs and react in the same ways I have.
There's a supreme joy in watching people enjoy things, and a certain connection I seem to form with certain content providers such as yourself for appreciating similar things in music as I do.
Thank you for what you do. Keep up the great work man. I'll be watching.
Yes! love this song. Good insights, nice reaction. This stuff is definitely art. The joke is that Tool is their own genre.. but probably they’d be progressive metal.
I usually say psychedelic prog-metal, but yeah they're kind of sui generis
This party was great! What a fun stream!
Appreciate You LuckyKid
This was the first reaction to Vicarious I have seen. Good job
Tool doesn't make music, they make art. 🌀☝️🇺🇲🤘
I gotta say out it all the tool reactions I’ve watched I enjoy yours the best man . Your hearing TOOL with the right headspace .
Little kid fall off the tree...lololol. yes this song is so true, some people won't admitted but, if a guy stops freeway in the morning attempting to jump off the bridge, you know how you want that to unfold.
Right in two is another really great song by Tool
Awesome reaction and talk at the end! You're doing perfectly. On Pneuma (I think) you said you wanted to do a album stream. Since you listened to at least one song on all albums, I recommend staying with that now and do the Opiate EP (which is from before their first album Undertow and uses mostly raw live recordings) as a full album reaction.
The way you talked about preserving this music and giving it to future generations to listen to, that hit me. You are amazing, thank you for your videos ❤
Ive lost 2 sons unexpectedly i know that cry 😞 Maynard is pretty particular about how it sounds, progressive rock😊
A friend of mine meet Joe Baresi who recording This album , and he said Tool record Alive and without métronome ❤
To answer your question on who recorded first. Bass and drums record together.
Got goosebumps on this video when James yells vicarious!! Always do
Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men…
Pull your head on out [of] your hippie haze and give a listen…shouldn’t have to say it all again…
The universe is hostile, so impersonal, devour to survive, so it is, so it’s always been…
Don’t know why, but this section of lyrics is in my top 10 Maynard phrases. There’s something so raw, but deeply philosophical and insightful about it, kinda cynical but honest.
This was my 1st album of their's, hooked from then on
Maynard said that the band wrote the music first, and then he added vocals to it, just coming up with whatever he thinks fits. He said that he wasn't even present during most of the creation of the instrumentation for the album, he was working on all of his other projects (wine business, clothing store, other music projects, etc, and his family)
New subscriber here. Came for your Sleep Token Ascensionism reaction and found Tool! My two favorite bands! And not to put too fine a point on it but I love watching first time reactions to my favorites and seeing a new fan born. Kinda vicarious. Lol
It will be my new saying “A bands’ Favorite band is 🔥☄️🔥TOOL 🔥☄️🔥
Tool is so incredibly intelligent with music
So the band maticulously write the music, often for 5-10 years, then the singer listened to the tracks, and lays down the lyics/vocals in a week or two.
It's why Maynard is in like 4 bands.
4:44 To flip your words, there is a song by a 90's band named Live called Selling the Drama, I think you'd like it...they're the same group that does, Lightning Crashes...If you are familiar (It's also about death and birth)...but I totally agree, Tool has the BEST drops...and they can do it with any instrument or Maynard's vocals...
EDIT: ROFL, I like how you call him by his middle name...Maynard James Keenan is his actual stage name (Real name: James Herbert Keenan), but I've got no objection to calling him MJK, K-Dog, Maynard, James, or anything else...I've never met the guy...
Very glad I came across your channel bc you’re saying what I’m thinking, many thanks
tool does a really good job of building tension with build ups and rythem. the song is a social commentary on the human condition. we all cant look away when a car crash, or terrorist attack or anything like that. thia album is from 2007,
If you can, listen to each album from beginning to end in order. You'll realize their full genius when you hear how the songs are connected. Your reactions are genuinely awesome!
TOOL ARMY IS ALIVE AND WELL
It's like an orchestra, they all play off each other.
Very good lyrics. Also in the "right in two"
Pretty shocked at how fast you picked up on tool and the little things it took me a while to figure out listening to them a lot… really cool to see
Tool's genre is... TOOL
Mang, I am an avid Tool fan and your interpretations have invigorated my love of the foursome!
I wonder if he knows that pretty much all tool songs after Ænima was recorded by the drummer, bassist, and guitarist at once all three with each other in the studio, and Maynard wrights all the lyrics himself while the band wrights the music, and once the music is recorded Maynard puts in the lyrics then the band practices as a whole for live shows, just imagine what it’s like hearing these songs without any vocals