Fear Inoculum - inoculation against the fear of... Pneuma: being alone Invincible: becoming irrelevant Descending: death Culling Voices: being judged 7empest: that which we can't control
Great reaction. I will take responsibility to give you the hypotheses of the whole album concept. It is called "The Great Turn", like artwork for the album with the dude with two heads. The album can be listened in two ways. From Fear Inoculum to Tempest (from light to dark) or otherwise from Tempest to Feat Inoculum. In the middle we have Descending. Descending was initially called Ascending/Descending, the first part of it is light, the second part is dark + it was the first for this album to be written and the most complex one. Basically through the album we have a journey from one side to another Fear Inoculum - immunity to fear (being the core evil in the album), enlightenment Pneuma - searching for the inner light, embracing it Invincible - preparing for the inner battle + winning the battle in the end, which greatly showed by Danny's drums in the second part of the song. Treat it as going on march and fighting with your nemesis and eventually winning. Descending - call for arms + fight Culling Voices - doubts within the mind Tempest - infection with fear. Those descriptions are obviously do not reflect the whole depth of the songs. But it shows the transition within the journey and that it can go both ways. mostly from dark Tempest side actually, since every tool first album songs are really heavy, which is not the case with FI. There are a lot of hints, but the core key for all of this is the artwork "The Great Turn" by Alex Grey. You can also see that the middle of the artwork is the spiral, which is reflected on the album cover + reflects Descending song. + there is a video created with this figure from "The Great Turn" where it is floating in the spirals and getting soaked into a red eye creature. So if you take this video and add to it its backwards version it perfectly matches Descending song. The narrative hidden depth of this album will amaze generations to come.
Inoculum - (noun) a substance used for inoculation. For me, Tool is the modern day "Pink Floyd" in that not only are they incredible musicians, they speak to the human experience and social issues. This song speaks to our journey toward overcoming fear and it's control over our actions, or better stated, overcoming the ability of fear to suppress / oppress.
Fun fact: if you fold the image on the album cover in half 'TOOL' appears to be a syringe. Which is interesting not only because of the album title but also because of all the songs by them that can be layered upon each other to make "new" songs out of the old ones you already know. Lost keys/Rosetta stoned with faaip de oiad on top is haunting. Tool is really the gift that keeps on giving, always enjoyable to hear your discussions on them. Can not wait until you get to 7empest. The dirty solo is the best thing I've ever heard from Adam Jones
While I've always admired and loved Adam Jones' compositions (his perspective of what is required by the guitar at every point in all of their songs to achieve greatness is the height of creativity)...he truly upped his game on this album and 7empest in particular.
Inoculate the fear of getting old. Inoculate the fear of releasing an album after 13 years, and hoping it will be relevant. I heard Maynard say that during an interview. Remaining relevant as you get older seems to be the main theme of the album in my opinion.
I absolutely am so excited for next wk... Its time for you to discover Pneuma!! Tools masterpiece.. Godbless and as always, your reactions are "so good".
So glad I splurged and went to see this tour twice in 19! You never know when your favorite band is going to call it quits (or the whole world will get flushed down the toilet) and it damn sure was nice hearing the band play an ass load of new material. In Cincy after the intermission Danny unleashed that giant gong of his out to the front of the stage and made it his bitch for about 10 minutes. We were all tripping out on it. Tool is one of a few bands that sound as good or better live and the stage show has evolved into visceral psychedelic eye candy as well. As a bonus I was lucky enough to have my boys with me at both shows and we caught Descending both nights. Descending wasn't played at many of their North American concerts so we totally lucked out. My advice if and when the tour ever resumes, buy the fucking tickets and go see the show. I'll be that tall asshole in front of you that won't sit down, and I am not sorry at all. Buy your tickets before me if you want a better view, and for fuck's sake stand up. This isn't a James Taylor concert bitches.
Amazing song. I got choked up when the band opened with this song at the show. So beautiful, so powerful. Absolutely love this MASTERPIECE. Love your reaction!!
Finally made it to Fear Inoculum. Fantastic. I just wanna put it out there that when you go into this album it really helps to drop any expectations of what you expect to hear. Many people either, don't like this album at first, or are unsure about it. But after more exposure to it they find out how truly amazing it is. A masterpiece. Plz enjoy. Also, how about after the grand finale of this album, Mister can do a face reveal? Merely a suggestion
To me this song is relevant from anyone’s perspective. We all act and react to fear. And usually our fears lead us down paths in life away from what and where we’re truly meant to be. But also, the fear that we’re fed daily thru media. At least I feel, in American culture. We’re all fed fear which keeps us distracted, from truth and faith, true faith. I see this song as almost a prayer to remove fear. To inoculate it.
*Always* studio/album versions first -- it's the way they wanted it presented to the world. Then you can treat yourself to live versions, since those were meant for the intimacy of the attendance.
Innoculated FROM the source of fear. This song is where the pinnacle of personal growth is realised.. Like many tool songs, this speaks to the divided self, ego/soul, higher self / lower self ect. The devil on your shoulder, that inner critic giving negative whispers that keep us from thriving and hides from our concious awareness. Now that it is unvieled and seen for what it is he can release it from its control over him and exhale in relief from the chaos and fear that this aspect of him brings.
I cried when I heard this album, I hope I was the first to hear it full when it showed up on youtube as a video with the full track and it was like almost 1 in the morning. Amazing album
@Trent Webb I was captivated and in tears as well! So much emotion after so much anticipation. Did whole album alone, uninterrupted, in dark with great headphones...such an incredible gift and pure perfection. Seeing them play live again in NOLA 2/1/20 was amazing 👏
1:22 its not about doing better for your audience, its important to know the lyrics and to try and grapple with them yourself, thats why people get on those listening to Tool for the first time about lyrics. Its deeply metaphorically rich, and Tools music isn't just about listening to it and having a good time but theres a lot of philosophy and metaphor in it. So don't worry about pleasing the audience and acting unnaturally like we're your boss or something, just try to enjoy the music and take it as other people giving flawed directions for more ways to experience the music. Because people do suck at giving directions and this comes out a lot as angry sounding words and insults borne from frustration. Easier to blame other people for not getting something instead of yourself.
This is the album of the past decade. There's no other band getting even close to what these guys do. Even when not at their peak, they're better than everyone else.
@@garrettgearhart6123 your so lucky man, the tour got cancelled when I planned on seeing them in Toronto due to covid.. But honestly, im happy for you man, must of been great.
Maynard is a sommelier in his life outside of music. He has a wine business and grows vineyards. So I read somewhere that this has had a great influence on this album, especially in this song. Innoculation against poison and parasites to help life grow.
Invincible and Pneuma immediately stood out to me on this album. The rest grew on me hard and now I feel this is their 2nd best album after Lateralus. Enjoy
There is an incredible amount of meaning in Fear Inoculum. But, where to start unpacking it all? I'll start by saying that I think the whole album is based on aging and the changes in fears, concerns and purpose that come with aging and experience, with Fear Inoculum setting up the themes of the entire album. In the first two lines there is "Immunity / Long overdue" giving a hint that this has developed with time and age. This is followed by "Contagion / I exhale you / Naive / I opened up to you / Venom in mania // Now, contagion / I exhale you". Fear is obviously the contagion that naiveté allowed him to fall prey to, and that fear is poisonous, contagious and prone to creating manic responses. It is that mania that is venomous as, based in fear, the mania is irrational. "Naive" indicates his youth, his inexperience, in allowing fear to infect and control him. Note that exhalation is the expelling of air that has reduce oxygen and increased carbon dioxide. I think we can treat "exhale" and "expel" as synonyms, here, as show by the later lines, "Exhale, expel / Recast my tale / Read my allegorical elegy." There is also a tie here to Pneuma with repeated references to exhaling, and thus to breath. If you look the meaning of pneuma it comes from Greek and means "breath." The interpretation of breath has spirit exists in Greek thought, but is also found in the first verses of Genesis. Genesis 1:2 reads (as per the NIV) "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." If you look at the Hebrew, the word translated as spirit also means breath, so we have the same connection between breath and spirit. In Genesis 2:7 (NIV) there is "Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." God's breath or spirit is used to give life, breath, spirit to a man. In English, apart from pneuma's meaning as spirit, we end up with the more mundane pneumatic tires and pneumatic tools, which are air filled and air powered. But, here we are dealing more with the etymological, religious and historical usage as spirit, which is carried into the next song. (The theme is also carried into Invincible, where "the warrior" fears not the fears of youth but of loss of meaning and relevance as his life, his breath, his spirit, wanes with age.) The sources of fear are the deceiver, and the fear acts to possess him, isolating him from the light (knowledge) of others, the spirit of others. But as experience, the breathing in of life experience (not just fear) grows in others he sees that light, that life, that clarity, and is inoculated against the fear. But, as the other parts of the album show, not all fears are baseless. Inoculation against the control that fear can exert makes the responses much different. They are no-longer controlling and isolating, nor motivating to the self-destructive. Rational fears understood rationally motivate rational responses. He wants to enumerate the steps he must take to separate himself from irrational fears, and thus his irrational spiritual clone that has acted out of fear, delusional from the manic responses he has had to those irrational fears. The whole song is symbolic, and thus allegorical. It is a sad, almost tragic tale of how he was controlled by fear, and is the an elegy for how life was. And so, he weaves the allegorical elegy we read and hear, with the remainder of the song speaking of the expelling of irrational fears and their responses, along with the ending of their control over him. The lines "Exorcise the disparate / Poison for eternity" should be read as a single statement, just as the lines "Purge me and evacuate / The venom and the fear that binds me" should.
Besides Tool, which like your partner I am kind of obsessed with, you shout react to Soundgarden Beyond the Wheel live, April 16, 1990 at Philipshalle. Düsseldorf, Germany.
I would suggest the audio only version of pneuma first so you can concentrate on all the instruments and vocals. Live drum cam is great to watch for Danny drumming focus.
After 13 years maybe they were fearful of how this album will be received. This song seems almost like they are summoning something from the past, in order to sacrifice it in order to move forward. he chants a little spell "deceiver says" part.. and the "innumerate all that im to do calculating steps away from you" is like the planning and preperation of what they need to do in order to "divide from mania" it feels like a metaphor for what they went through releasing the album maybe.. Anyway, just a thought.
"Purge me and evacuate the venom and the fear that binds me" I think that's rather straight forward line. :) Clense me from the fear and hatered (venom) I have inside of me.
When you two listen to pneuma you should have her hear album song first then watch Danny Carreys drum performance video live in concert. Trust me itll be worth it! Love you guys your reactions are awesome
15:14 during a time where fear is becoming a more prevailing force in the world, love and art and understanding the beauty even in the ugly things in the world can inoculate you from the self inflicting madness of fear when it becomes your driving engine. Both in the meaning of the song, and even the construction of the music itself. I believe you can activate parts of your brain the resonate with certain tones and frequencies just the same way your brain resonates with an optical illusion in just the right way to create this appealing experience, but we only ever think about these experiences in the terms of drugs when those are just the easiest paths to these fundamental truths found in alien perspectives. Besides fear itself, what you you think is the disease that comes from it?
Initum I'd like to see you react to the studio version first so that you can experience this truly amazing song then immediately watch Danny Carey's drum cam so that you can see with you own eyes how amazing Danny is. The drum sticks in his hands literally look like hummingbirds wings. 🤞✌🤯
Really really love your videos. Very much looking forward to Pneuma. I would also strongly recommend the audio with lyrics first, and then the Danny Carey video.
I interpreted this as getting rid of confirmation bias. The upward bell notes at the beginning (to me) are likes on a social media platform; note that there is an accompanying downward note that goes with it noting the long-term effects of an echo chamber.
I really love your interpretation of this. This is still new to me. After you started figuring it out, I enjoyed it more. Please watch Danny Carey cam, but I would like to hear you do both. Maybe song first, for the whole experience. Then let the drums show you how great the individual instruments are. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to next week.
It's mezmerizing to watch you listen to their music, but I knew it would reach it's peak when you would start to listen to their latest album. It's even more of a journey than their earlier albums, with Pneuma argueably being at the top.
I strongly recommend listening album version of Pneuma first.. just to not be distracted by Dannys performance... but I would also recommend to return to drum cam version.. maybe after finishing whole album. Other thing is that there are some differences between album and live version of Pneuma.. so.. yep.. :) Hope you enjoy Pneuma as much as I do.. from my point of view it's one of best songs and I had days when I listened that in loop for almost whole day.. and I didn't had enough of that... and I had to break that circle not because I was fed up with Pneuma.. but because I missed other masterpieces from them.. :)
I took the song to be about being inoculated against the venomous rhetoric we are exposed to every day. To me, it was a direct rebuke of a certain leader of a certain country who spreads fear of immigrants, fear of the poor, fear of anyone that doesn’t look like you. The inoculum is the wisdom to see through the lies and recognize the deceit. To see the truth.
You forgot to say that they had played Invincible and Descending in concert and there were leaked videos of the songs on TH-cam since the middle of Summer 2019. Not the best quality but you could hear the songs.
Yes, that's true, I haven't attended those concerts and I restrained myself from listening to those on TH-cam before the release tbh. But that's right (him)
@@initum1599 I only listened to them one time each, because honestly I didn't like to listen to the crowd talking over the new music... They had been so disrespectful. It was like they had no idea they were getting new Music.
Pneuma up next Studio version, then hopefully Danny Carey drum cam video, let's be honest we all allow time every Sunday to watch these videos lol 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Pneuma audio w/ lyrics first then Danny Carey Drum cam video of Pneuma second. I love the Danny Carey drum cam video. The audio is excellent. Make sure the play back speed if correct so when you post your reaction the video of Danny doesn't play at 0.8x speed. I've noticed other reactions where the video plays a little slow. Great reaction loved it.
This channel allows me to live the fantasy that I am back in college discovering Tool and Philosophy with my wonderfully brainy and insightful college girlfriend.
Consider this: replace the word "deceiver" with (ideological extremist of choice). I have long-thought of Maynard as prophetic, though, in my maturity have come to realize that he has a firm grasp upon reality and is globally conscious. Thus, evidence of his awareness is inherent in all he produces and he knowingly obfuscates his perceptions to prevent the wrong parties from realizing the impact of his influence. The phrase "a magician never reveals his secrets" belies the simplicity of a trick to perpetuate the suspension of disbelief. Or, I have had too much to drink and need to sleep.
Red pill and listen to this album this was a year and six months from covid19 and now theirs a spiritual awakening happening all over the world 🙏🙏🙏 pneuma
Pneuma studio version first. You have to listen first to the perfect mix they have put it to the highest level. The drumcam is fixet specially on the drums so you want have the whole experience what tool's intention is. The drumcam is just an awe moment on Danny's complex math writing skills. Looking forward to both reactions.
Honeslty dont even pay no mind to the angry Tool fans, they're barely fans, no apology necessary, English isn't even your guys first language, these imbeciles complaining about your passion can barely muster the mastery of their own language let alone two languages. They're in essence... Useful Idiots. Good for a view on your page and not much else. Love your channel
Almost sad you are at end but there is the side projects which are far from B projects. Listen without missing out of APC and puscifer i would love to see you do Bullet train to Iowa. Its just fits well with all that's going . Thoroughly enjoy your input on much anything at this point lol.
32:30 you guys missed pretty much all the religious and metaphysical references in there. For instance, deceiver stands for the literal devil and the christian depiction of him, or it could be a reference to the snake, which itself can all be an allegory for the spread of an intangible force that parasitizes people with deception. The world is increasingly being filled with societies that grow a greater and greater use of deception for monetary practices and its becoming quite normal even acceptable sometimes. Point is, lots of this stuff is meant to map onto both the present and representations of things that have been repeated not only throughout human history but the history of all life and even the story of the struggle between chaos and order in the cosmos. 32:48 "Why does he say poison the eternity then" I think this is part of that answer. You can't "recover" from the darkness thats within people, evil is just a concept we place onto actions with a story normally to describe it. Its the Yin and Yang, one cannot exist without the other and if one side of the coin ever gets too strong any system it operates in will destabilize and collapse to find equilibrium again.
Thanks for interesting insights. We actually discussed exactly that (the literal deceptive devil) soon after we finished recording. I (him) have thought that finding and inner devil inside oneself is important - as a way to knowing a dangerous /evil part of oneself, knowing how not to be defeated by it, but rather use it for good. But also never being safe from it, as it might be impossible
@@initum1599 no problem, I enjoy talking about philosphy and art. These songs are dense, so theres a lot of correct interpretations of it. Thats why meta-textual stuff is really cool, when theres some underlying truth it applies across a huge number of different subjects. Like Yin and Yang does. Speaking from personal experience, it is my experience with what I can only call evil that has both given me a great capacity to have compassion for enemies and a tolerance for evil people and their corrupting influence. Having overcome my own darkness and acknowledging that its a part of me, like greed, lust, wrath and all these other things we associate with negative emotions, I am less likely to be swayed by my fear and these other emotions that might tempt me to react. When you understand that you and your enemy are the same, the fighting becomes pointless. Ultimately we are all part of same collective spirit. God was the anchor that tied people together like this in the past, but "god is dead and we killed him" -Nietzsche Parts of religions may have been based off of lies but there was some truth in it and it allowed people to find collective meaning. Religion served as a buffer between evil/chaos and disorder but it did not serve well as an inoculation of it, just avoidance. Yeah you can't be safe from evil. You have to learn that good and evil are just concepts, that any virtue becomes a dark thing went valued to the exclusion of all other virtues. There is ultimately no safety from tension, from friction. There is no escape from death, nor is there from suffering. But find that balance and you can reduce the harm as well as make something meaningful from that pain and transcend it. If I had to use a specific example of what type of things people are being inoculated against, one of the prime suspects would be advertising, and politics as entertainment. Two very corrupting destabilizing forces that prey on our baser instincts. Sorry this was pretty long.
Inoculation against fear, whatever the fear might be of. Definitely do the studio version of Pneuma first, can always check out the drum cam video later.
Fear Inoculum - inoculation against the fear of...
Pneuma: being alone
Invincible: becoming irrelevant
Descending: death
Culling Voices: being judged
7empest: that which we can't control
Very good.
👏👏👏👍👍✌️
oooohhhh exellent
perfect
Calm down Oprah.
Fun fact: the word ''mitosis'' (a process where a single cell divides) is exactly half way through the song.
That's very interesting, thank you
That is so... Tool!
I LOVE this album
Of course it is!!
Maynard is so cerebral. Lateralus was written around the Fibonacci sequence.
Not fair....you were supposed to wait 13 years before you heard this, like the rest of us! 😉
lol
@@mostresticator3000 ikr...lol
the bless of late birth.
Ok, that was pretty funny
Right
This is a home cooked heart warming stew of gorgeous music🔨🔥Toolarmy
Great reaction.
I will take responsibility to give you the hypotheses of the whole album concept. It is called "The Great Turn", like artwork for the album with the dude with two heads.
The album can be listened in two ways. From Fear Inoculum to Tempest (from light to dark) or otherwise from Tempest to Feat Inoculum. In the middle we have Descending. Descending was initially called Ascending/Descending, the first part of it is light, the second part is dark + it was the first for this album to be written and the most complex one.
Basically through the album we have a journey from one side to another
Fear Inoculum - immunity to fear (being the core evil in the album), enlightenment
Pneuma - searching for the inner light, embracing it
Invincible - preparing for the inner battle + winning the battle in the end, which greatly showed by Danny's drums in the second part of the song. Treat it as going on march and fighting with your nemesis and eventually winning.
Descending - call for arms + fight
Culling Voices - doubts within the mind
Tempest - infection with fear.
Those descriptions are obviously do not reflect the whole depth of the songs. But it shows the transition within the journey and that it can go both ways. mostly from dark Tempest side actually, since every tool first album songs are really heavy, which is not the case with FI.
There are a lot of hints, but the core key for all of this is the artwork "The Great Turn" by Alex Grey. You can also see that the middle of the artwork is the spiral, which is reflected on the album cover + reflects Descending song.
+ there is a video created with this figure from "The Great Turn" where it is floating in the spirals and getting soaked into a red eye creature. So if you take this video and add to it its backwards version it perfectly matches Descending song. The narrative hidden depth of this album will amaze generations to come.
The good news is that there are official lyrics to this album!! I can't get enough of this album. I'm so excited for Invincible!
Inoculum - (noun) a substance used for inoculation.
For me, Tool is the modern day "Pink Floyd" in that not only are they incredible musicians, they speak to the human experience and social issues. This song speaks to our journey toward overcoming fear and it's control over our actions, or better stated, overcoming the ability of fear to suppress / oppress.
This is what 13 years gets you, Pure Perfection!!!
How prophetic is this song? First lines of the song and album set the stage for 2020 events. Keep up the good work.
It is indeed :)
Absolutely
Fun fact: if you fold the image on the album cover in half 'TOOL' appears to be a syringe. Which is interesting not only because of the album title but also because of all the songs by them that can be layered upon each other to make "new" songs out of the old ones you already know. Lost keys/Rosetta stoned with faaip de oiad on top is haunting. Tool is really the gift that keeps on giving, always enjoyable to hear your discussions on them. Can not wait until you get to 7empest. The dirty solo is the best thing I've ever heard from Adam Jones
While I've always admired and loved Adam Jones' compositions (his perspective of what is required by the guitar at every point in all of their songs to achieve greatness is the height of creativity)...he truly upped his game on this album and 7empest in particular.
Inoculate the fear of getting old. Inoculate the fear of releasing an album after 13 years, and hoping it will be relevant. I heard Maynard say that during an interview. Remaining relevant as you get older seems to be the main theme of the album in my opinion.
I agree with the people saying that you should listen to Pneuma first and then do the Danny Carey drum cam version. Both are absolutely great.
Also, I feel like Maynard’s pen is extra mighty on this album. Every song is poetry.
He made sure to keep it close after forgetting it that one time
@@chokovok7231 Never to shit the bed again 😂
for sure
@@chokovok7231 🤣🤣🤣
I can hear too many previous tunes in this , the lyrics are awesome.
I absolutely am so excited for next wk... Its time for you to discover Pneuma!! Tools masterpiece.. Godbless and as always, your reactions are "so good".
So glad I splurged and went to see this tour twice in 19! You never know when your favorite band is going to call it quits (or the whole world will get flushed down the toilet) and it damn sure was nice hearing the band play an ass load of new material. In Cincy after the intermission Danny unleashed that giant gong of his out to the front of the stage and made it his bitch for about 10 minutes. We were all tripping out on it. Tool is one of a few bands that sound as good or better live and the stage show has evolved into visceral psychedelic eye candy as well. As a bonus I was lucky enough to have my boys with me at both shows and we caught Descending both nights. Descending wasn't played at many of their North American concerts so we totally lucked out. My advice if and when the tour ever resumes, buy the fucking tickets and go see the show. I'll be that tall asshole in front of you that won't sit down, and I am not sorry at all. Buy your tickets before me if you want a better view, and for fuck's sake stand up. This isn't a James Taylor concert bitches.
Stop apologizing . You too are doin great . Stoked you 2 are digging in the mind of Maynard .
🎶 for thought .
Exactly, no apology necessary.
Its been enjoyable watching your journey through Tool.
New reactor listening to Tool. I know a few of us are always on these videos. 😁 Tool Army 🤘
Can' t wait for your reaction to " descending" my favourite song ever not just Tool favourite my favourite among thousands
It’s one of my favourites too!! 👍🇦🇺
Agreed! I cried when I first listened to Descending. So perfect.
I fell asleep the first three times I tried to listen to this song. Not because it was boring but because it was peaceful. My fears were inoculated.
Maynard didn't forget his pen on this album.
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Don’t worry about negative comments. Anyone who comments negatively are idiots, you are doing a great job
Amazing song. I got choked up when the band opened with this song at the show. So beautiful, so powerful. Absolutely love this MASTERPIECE. Love your reaction!!
Finally made it to Fear Inoculum. Fantastic. I just wanna put it out there that when you go into this album it really helps to drop any expectations of what you expect to hear. Many people either, don't like this album at first, or are unsure about it. But after more exposure to it they find out how truly amazing it is. A masterpiece. Plz enjoy.
Also, how about after the grand finale of this album, Mister can do a face reveal? Merely a suggestion
the song and this album (fear inoculum) is basically hinting to wanting to cure or become immune to fear, loved the reaction keep it up!
To me this song is relevant from anyone’s perspective. We all act and react to fear. And usually our fears lead us down paths in life away from what and where we’re truly meant to be. But also, the fear that we’re fed daily thru media. At least I feel, in American culture. We’re all fed fear which keeps us distracted, from truth and faith, true faith. I see this song as almost a prayer to remove fear. To inoculate it.
*Always* studio/album versions first -- it's the way they wanted it presented to the world. Then you can treat yourself to live versions, since those were meant for the intimacy of the attendance.
Seems like you blazed through to get here
it’s been a pleasure to see your reactions to this great art
this album is so good
Best album after Lateralus
A masterpiece
Innoculated FROM the source of fear. This song is where the pinnacle of personal growth is realised..
Like many tool songs, this speaks to the divided self, ego/soul, higher self / lower self ect.
The devil on your shoulder, that inner critic giving negative whispers that keep us from thriving and hides from our concious awareness.
Now that it is unvieled and seen for what it is he can release it from its control over him and exhale in relief from the chaos and fear that this aspect of him brings.
I cried when I heard this album, I hope I was the first to hear it full when it showed up on youtube as a video with the full track and it was like almost 1 in the morning. Amazing album
It's really heady..
@@randomness3235 heady? What do you mean
@Trent Webb I was captivated and in tears as well! So much emotion after so much anticipation. Did whole album alone, uninterrupted, in dark with great headphones...such an incredible gift and pure perfection. Seeing them play live again in NOLA 2/1/20 was amazing 👏
1:22 its not about doing better for your audience, its important to know the lyrics and to try and grapple with them yourself, thats why people get on those listening to Tool for the first time about lyrics. Its deeply metaphorically rich, and Tools music isn't just about listening to it and having a good time but theres a lot of philosophy and metaphor in it.
So don't worry about pleasing the audience and acting unnaturally like we're your boss or something, just try to enjoy the music and take it as other people giving flawed directions for more ways to experience the music. Because people do suck at giving directions and this comes out a lot as angry sounding words and insults borne from frustration. Easier to blame other people for not getting something instead of yourself.
You are really going to enjoy this album!!! Especially Culling Voices
My favourite Tool song
this song is a musical banishing ritual
This is almost a prophetic song Maynard wrote ...think bout what's going on fear inoculated....the whole world ....
Who else is here because TH-cam recommend ALL people who react Tool videos?? :D (and i watch all em.. )
Sadly it doesn't connect to APC or Puscifer as much as it should.
I love tthe guy being there giving quick facts before the listen. Helps prepare a bit more before the dive in.
This tune has music elements from all across the globe ..deep
This is the album of the past decade. There's no other band getting even close to what these guys do. Even when not at their peak, they're better than everyone else.
When you do pneuma do the studio version first than do the live version with Danny carey but you better buckle for this ride your mind will be blown
Maybe studio version, discussion and then followed by the drum cam.
You took the words out of my mouth... I cant wait.. Pneuma Baby
Yes definitely drum cam that tour was great I caught two shows in AZ
@@garrettgearhart6123 your so lucky man, the tour got cancelled when I planned on seeing them in Toronto due to covid.. But honestly, im happy for you man, must of been great.
YES! Definitely a mind-blowing song, and Descending as well!
Maynard is a sommelier in his life outside of music. He has a wine business and grows vineyards. So I read somewhere that this has had a great influence on this album, especially in this song. Innoculation against poison and parasites to help life grow.
Invincible and Pneuma immediately stood out to me on this album. The rest grew on me hard and now I feel this is their 2nd best album after Lateralus. Enjoy
Somehow FI went from my least favourite to my absolute favourite
Lateralus , perfect. Fear Inoculum, nearly perfect but It could mature over time, like a good 🍷. 😉
if got goosebumps and tears at the same time by this song...
There is an incredible amount of meaning in Fear Inoculum. But, where to start unpacking it all? I'll start by saying that I think the whole album is based on aging and the changes in fears, concerns and purpose that come with aging and experience, with Fear Inoculum setting up the themes of the entire album.
In the first two lines there is "Immunity / Long overdue" giving a hint that this has developed with time and age. This is followed by "Contagion / I exhale you / Naive / I opened up to you / Venom in mania // Now, contagion / I exhale you". Fear is obviously the contagion that naiveté allowed him to fall prey to, and that fear is poisonous, contagious and prone to creating manic responses. It is that mania that is venomous as, based in fear, the mania is irrational. "Naive" indicates his youth, his inexperience, in allowing fear to infect and control him.
Note that exhalation is the expelling of air that has reduce oxygen and increased carbon dioxide. I think we can treat "exhale" and "expel" as synonyms, here, as show by the later lines, "Exhale, expel / Recast my tale / Read my allegorical elegy." There is also a tie here to Pneuma with repeated references to exhaling, and thus to breath. If you look the meaning of pneuma it comes from Greek and means "breath." The interpretation of breath has spirit exists in Greek thought, but is also found in the first verses of Genesis. Genesis 1:2 reads (as per the NIV) "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." If you look at the Hebrew, the word translated as spirit also means breath, so we have the same connection between breath and spirit. In Genesis 2:7 (NIV) there is "Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." God's breath or spirit is used to give life, breath, spirit to a man. In English, apart from pneuma's meaning as spirit, we end up with the more mundane pneumatic tires and pneumatic tools, which are air filled and air powered. But, here we are dealing more with the etymological, religious and historical usage as spirit, which is carried into the next song. (The theme is also carried into Invincible, where "the warrior" fears not the fears of youth but of loss of meaning and relevance as his life, his breath, his spirit, wanes with age.)
The sources of fear are the deceiver, and the fear acts to possess him, isolating him from the light (knowledge) of others, the spirit of others. But as experience, the breathing in of life experience (not just fear) grows in others he sees that light, that life, that clarity, and is inoculated against the fear. But, as the other parts of the album show, not all fears are baseless. Inoculation against the control that fear can exert makes the responses much different. They are no-longer controlling and isolating, nor motivating to the self-destructive. Rational fears understood rationally motivate rational responses.
He wants to enumerate the steps he must take to separate himself from irrational fears, and thus his irrational spiritual clone that has acted out of fear, delusional from the manic responses he has had to those irrational fears.
The whole song is symbolic, and thus allegorical. It is a sad, almost tragic tale of how he was controlled by fear, and is the an elegy for how life was. And so, he weaves the allegorical elegy we read and hear, with the remainder of the song speaking of the expelling of irrational fears and their responses, along with the ending of their control over him. The lines "Exorcise the disparate / Poison for eternity" should be read as a single statement, just as the lines "Purge me and evacuate / The venom and the fear that binds me" should.
Besides Tool, which like your partner I am kind of obsessed with, you shout react to Soundgarden Beyond the Wheel live, April 16, 1990 at Philipshalle. Düsseldorf, Germany.
Great song. Feels like they're slowly waking up from their slumber. Sets the mood ande structure for the rest of the album.
I would suggest the audio only version of pneuma first so you can concentrate on all the instruments and vocals. Live drum cam is great to watch for Danny drumming focus.
I agree. Next week do the album version. Then the week after that, do the cam version. Then continue on with the rest of this amazing album.
I agree 👍
After 13 years maybe they were fearful of how this album will be received. This song seems almost like they are summoning something from the past, in order to sacrifice it in order to move forward. he chants a little spell "deceiver says" part.. and the "innumerate all that im to do calculating steps away from you" is like the planning and preperation of what they need to do in order to "divide from mania" it feels like a metaphor for what they went through releasing the album maybe.. Anyway, just a thought.
Can’t wait for the rest of the album...
Imagine how many minds will be blown when you take the logo from the album and fold it in half horizontally from between the two "O"s
"Purge me and evacuate the venom and the fear that binds me"
I think that's rather straight forward line. :)
Clense me from the fear and hatered (venom) I have inside of me.
IMO this has the best production values of all their albums
Absolutely
When you two listen to pneuma you should have her hear album song first then watch Danny Carreys drum performance video live in concert. Trust me itll be worth it! Love you guys your reactions are awesome
15:14 during a time where fear is becoming a more prevailing force in the world, love and art and understanding the beauty even in the ugly things in the world can inoculate you from the self inflicting madness of fear when it becomes your driving engine. Both in the meaning of the song, and even the construction of the music itself. I believe you can activate parts of your brain the resonate with certain tones and frequencies just the same way your brain resonates with an optical illusion in just the right way to create this appealing experience, but we only ever think about these experiences in the terms of drugs when those are just the easiest paths to these fundamental truths found in alien perspectives.
Besides fear itself, what you you think is the disease that comes from it?
Please do the whole album it's incredible
Initum I'd like to see you react to the studio version first so that you can experience this truly amazing song then immediately watch Danny Carey's drum cam so that you can see with you own eyes how amazing Danny is. The drum sticks in his hands literally look like hummingbirds wings. 🤞✌🤯
Great channel. And great book collection!!
Really really love your videos.
Very much looking forward to Pneuma. I would also strongly recommend the audio with lyrics first, and then the Danny Carey video.
At first I heard the first bit, "immunity, long overdue" as "in unity, long overdue," like the band finally together again
Pneuma - Listen to the album version first, then the live drum cam
Always so good
Thank you both so much 🙏
‘Your veil now’ wait what, I’m sure it’s ‘Unveil now’ just nitpicking. Another great reaction, thank you both
I interpreted this as getting rid of confirmation bias. The upward bell notes at the beginning (to me) are likes on a social media platform; note that there is an accompanying downward note that goes with it noting the long-term effects of an echo chamber.
From now on I will say it..."Welcome on our channel..." hope you're enjoying your journey through Tools discography!.
I really love your interpretation of this. This is still new to me. After you started figuring it out, I enjoyed it more. Please watch Danny Carey cam, but I would like to hear you do both. Maybe song first, for the whole experience. Then let the drums show you how great the individual instruments are. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to next week.
It's mezmerizing to watch you listen to their music, but I knew it would reach it's peak when you would start to listen to their latest album. It's even more of a journey than their earlier albums, with Pneuma argueably being at the top.
Invincible and Decending had live versions posted online before fear innoculum got released 👍
It only gets better from here. When I listened to Descending it hypnotized me, I woke at the end saying WTF just happened?
It was such a long wait. Enjoy the final leg of your journey.
I strongly recommend listening album version of Pneuma first.. just to not be distracted by Dannys performance... but I would also recommend to return to drum cam version.. maybe after finishing whole album. Other thing is that there are some differences between album and live version of Pneuma.. so.. yep.. :)
Hope you enjoy Pneuma as much as I do.. from my point of view it's one of best songs and I had days when I listened that in loop for almost whole day.. and I didn't had enough of that... and I had to break that circle not because I was fed up with Pneuma.. but because I missed other masterpieces from them.. :)
I took the song to be about being inoculated against the venomous rhetoric we are exposed to every day.
To me, it was a direct rebuke of a certain leader of a certain country who spreads fear of immigrants, fear of the poor, fear of anyone that doesn’t look like you.
The inoculum is the wisdom to see through the lies and recognize the deceit. To see the truth.
I knew something was missing from my Saturday
FEAR INOCULUM... a prophetic album...
You forgot to say that they had played Invincible and Descending in concert and there were leaked videos of the songs on TH-cam since the middle of Summer 2019. Not the best quality but you could hear the songs.
Yes, that's true, I haven't attended those concerts and I restrained myself from listening to those on TH-cam before the release tbh. But that's right (him)
@@initum1599 I only listened to them one time each, because honestly I didn't like to listen to the crowd talking over the new music... They had been so disrespectful. It was like they had no idea they were getting new Music.
Just wait for the rest of this album... You're just scratching the surface.. Enjoy
Pneuma up next Studio version, then hopefully Danny Carey drum cam video, let's be honest we all allow time every Sunday to watch these videos lol 🇦🇺🇦🇺
It's a banishment spell
I felt the same way, in terms of cliffhanger. I thought this was a perfect intro to the album. And when it was released it was the teaser trailer.
Pneuma audio w/ lyrics first then Danny Carey Drum cam video of Pneuma second. I love the Danny Carey drum cam video. The audio is excellent. Make sure the play back speed if correct so when you post your reaction the video of Danny doesn't play at 0.8x speed. I've noticed other reactions where the video plays a little slow. Great reaction loved it.
I need to do work but as soon as I saw this posted I just have to watch it
Goosebumps!
You should also do one -on- of the Tool songs, "Right in Two".
lol, I see you already did.
This channel allows me to live the fantasy that I am back in college discovering Tool and Philosophy with my wonderfully brainy and insightful college girlfriend.
You can find all official lyrics on toolband.com.
Yes! I can't wait for Pneuma
Consider this: replace the word "deceiver" with (ideological extremist of choice). I have long-thought of Maynard as prophetic, though, in my maturity have come to realize that he has a firm grasp upon reality and is globally conscious. Thus, evidence of his awareness is inherent in all he produces and he knowingly obfuscates his perceptions to prevent the wrong parties from realizing the impact of his influence. The phrase "a magician never reveals his secrets" belies the simplicity of a trick to perpetuate the suspension of disbelief. Or, I have had too much to drink and need to sleep.
She was grooving to this one haha such a heavy baseline throughout!
Cheers from Kansas city
Red pill and listen to this album this was a year and six months from covid19 and now theirs a spiritual awakening happening all over the world 🙏🙏🙏 pneuma
Pneuma studio version first. You have to listen first to the perfect mix they have put it to the highest level. The drumcam is fixet specially on the drums so you want have the whole experience what tool's intention is. The drumcam is just an awe moment on Danny's complex math writing skills.
Looking forward to both reactions.
Honeslty dont even pay no mind to the angry Tool fans, they're barely fans, no apology necessary, English isn't even your guys first language, these imbeciles complaining about your passion can barely muster the mastery of their own language let alone two languages. They're in essence... Useful Idiots. Good for a view on your page and not much else. Love your channel
To get the full effect of this song you have to wait to hear it for 13 years like the rest of us haha
Almost sad you are at end but there is the side projects which are far from B projects. Listen without missing out of APC and puscifer i would love to see you do Bullet train to Iowa. Its just fits well with all that's going . Thoroughly enjoy your input on much anything at this point lol.
The very end of this song sounds just like the end of Eulogy (I think, it's been awhile)
32:30 you guys missed pretty much all the religious and metaphysical references in there. For instance, deceiver stands for the literal devil and the christian depiction of him, or it could be a reference to the snake, which itself can all be an allegory for the spread of an intangible force that parasitizes people with deception. The world is increasingly being filled with societies that grow a greater and greater use of deception for monetary practices and its becoming quite normal even acceptable sometimes. Point is, lots of this stuff is meant to map onto both the present and representations of things that have been repeated not only throughout human history but the history of all life and even the story of the struggle between chaos and order in the cosmos.
32:48 "Why does he say poison the eternity then" I think this is part of that answer. You can't "recover" from the darkness thats within people, evil is just a concept we place onto actions with a story normally to describe it. Its the Yin and Yang, one cannot exist without the other and if one side of the coin ever gets too strong any system it operates in will destabilize and collapse to find equilibrium again.
Thanks for interesting insights. We actually discussed exactly that (the literal deceptive devil) soon after we finished recording.
I (him) have thought that finding and inner devil inside oneself is important - as a way to knowing a dangerous /evil part of oneself, knowing how not to be defeated by it, but rather use it for good.
But also never being safe from it, as it might be impossible
@@initum1599 no problem, I enjoy talking about philosphy and art.
These songs are dense, so theres a lot of correct interpretations of it. Thats why meta-textual stuff is really cool, when theres some underlying truth it applies across a huge number of different subjects. Like Yin and Yang does.
Speaking from personal experience, it is my experience with what I can only call evil that has both given me a great capacity to have compassion for enemies and a tolerance for evil people and their corrupting influence. Having overcome my own darkness and acknowledging that its a part of me, like greed, lust, wrath and all these other things we associate with negative emotions, I am less likely to be swayed by my fear and these other emotions that might tempt me to react.
When you understand that you and your enemy are the same, the fighting becomes pointless. Ultimately we are all part of same collective spirit. God was the anchor that tied people together like this in the past, but "god is dead and we killed him" -Nietzsche
Parts of religions may have been based off of lies but there was some truth in it and it allowed people to find collective meaning. Religion served as a buffer between evil/chaos and disorder but it did not serve well as an inoculation of it, just avoidance.
Yeah you can't be safe from evil. You have to learn that good and evil are just concepts, that any virtue becomes a dark thing went valued to the exclusion of all other virtues. There is ultimately no safety from tension, from friction. There is no escape from death, nor is there from suffering. But find that balance and you can reduce the harm as well as make something meaningful from that pain and transcend it.
If I had to use a specific example of what type of things people are being inoculated against, one of the prime suspects would be advertising, and politics as entertainment. Two very corrupting destabilizing forces that prey on our baser instincts.
Sorry this was pretty long.
No need to be sorry for the length of the message. It read well, thanks.
@@initum1599 (:
Inoculation against fear, whatever the fear might be of. Definitely do the studio version of Pneuma first, can always check out the drum cam video later.
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Danny came up with the lyrics from his latest “hi colonic “ out of body experience lol
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Thank you :)
This song helped me stay strong when my family and I were sick with COVID 19.