Absolutely their most sonically satisfying album to date. 3 years old and already a timeless masterpiece. The most beloved band in the history of this planet. Top 5 on Saturn as well.
As someone whose seen TOOL 11x live, and considers himself to be one of the biggest TOOL fans, if not the biggest, and whose researched and thought about their songs heavily; I'm always surprised by your reviews and thoughts on the songs. I'm really blown away by the things you have to say. I thought I had looked at all their songs from every angle but you've humbled me sir. Thank you for your reactions. #TOOL #HOG #APC
Yup, saw them live in Sacramento this past January. Their first time ever playing this song live. It was so cool to see them all sitting together at the front of the stage playing acoustically.
This song is, to me, the creepiest song they have made. It’s the fear that arises after you think you’ve got it “all figured out”; workouts, meditation, relationships. Abundance.It’s all going great, until it’s not. Until you face a test from the universe and come up wanting. Happens to the best of us, but still. Keep your head up on the path
i find disgustipated the creepiest and most disturbing by far. not really a song but it features percussion. The sound of the lambs, the chief yelling to the followers, it gives me the creeps..
Don't get creepy either. To me this is Maynard, a very private person, bashing the culture of social media. People making up stories and encounters that never happened, making judgements based on others comments, feeling they have some given right to a relationship with anyone. He wants no part of it (don't point that at me).
@@achafilms3968 lol the phone call at the end is so great. very creepy vibes. personally I'd have to say either jimmy or pushit, but maybe thats just bc of the fan made music video for that one....
I had heard an interesting take on Culling Voices that has stayed with me: its a criticism of social media and how it brings out the worst in people. Getting into arguments with complete strangers online benefits no one but only feeds into the psychopathy that we immerse ourselves in.
"Heated altercations we've never had." Such a small amount of words to this song, but I connect with all of it. I was terrorized as a child in a neighborhood I lived in and my home at that time was not sanctuary, but a place floored with eggshells. I would repeat in my head nearing the end of my 2nd grade school days, "More school. Less home." Just imagine what that means for an 8 year old to be chanting that in their head. It unfortunately shaped me into a very untrusting person. I'm either always reaching out for connection or hiding away in isolation. Always dwelling upon recent conversations and what wasn't said to me but was thought of me. The bad things kept from me that will eventually blow up in my face. It's hard to shut down these thoughts that always ultimately become self-fulfilling prophecy. I also have occasional dreams of having it out with that family that didn't protect me when I needed it and only made me feel unwelcomed and like a bad child. I know these conversations will never happen and that I'll never get those family members to understand what they did wrong. I haven't spoken to them in a couple years even though we live in the same town still. That closeness always weighs on me. I still don't feel free from it. I still don't feel that my home is my sanctuary.
I had the same experience as a child. The abuse didn't stop at school for me. I was viciously bullied and ostracized throughout my school career and also had to deal with a horrible and abusive home life. I also grew into an untrusting and hypervigilant individual and regularly would play out these "imagined interplays" and "altercations we've never had" as I confronted my abusers. I also don't talk to my family. I hope things get easier for you and you find the sanctuary you deserve.
@@Dr.Faceman That's exactly how is was for me. School became terrible in junior high and up because I developed a severe fight/flight concept that made me a target. It's not all my family. I had a loving mother but she was working nights and it was her sister's family that abused me. Overall, my family has issues of stubbornness, that Japanese judgemental type shit and I always felt like I was looked down upon, but I do have a relationship with some of my family. Just not the ones that live closest to me. I have to remember that most people don't understand what I've been through and I can't force that on them. I have to see it from their perspective of how I come across and adjust accordingly if I'm to be able to coexist with others. It's hard, but it's possible and all up to me. I am responsible for myself regardless of who's at fault for how I became.
As time goes by. This album will emerge as their greatest work. A masterpiece and one of much debate. For the record I think they're all quintessential. ✌️
I was at the show that they played this live for the first time. It was really cool and unexpected. All 4 of them sat in a semi-circle at the front of the stage with Maynard singing and the other 3 (even Danny) playing guitar
I like how Maynard comes into this song literally on an odd part. It adds to the unsettling feel of the song. Then he has the one line then Adam comes in on the even part then it evens out. I personally relate too much to this song. For me it’s about how the inner workings of your mind can prey upon you and even victimize you in never ending cycles unless you recognize it and end it.
This song had all members sit down together for the start and confetti dropping down all across the stadium during the 2022 concert. Beautiful moment, Danny on guitar was not something I expected either
For me the most amazing thing that Tool does is see normally you have a thought and it triggers an emotion with tool they have the ability to trigger emotions absent the intrusive thoughts or the thoughts in general that trigger the emotion. They're a cathartic band for me because it's almost like a trigger for emotions you may not have an outlet for. There are literally times where I have started tearing up and I don't even know why
This record is a little harder to get the groove worked into _your soul but once it gets traction the greatness reveals itself and you can never escape the truth that it's flat out bad ass.
It’s been a treat going on this journey with with you. I’m sad that there’s only one song left. I really hope you deep dive into Puscifer and A Perfect Circle next. Very insightful and genuine reactions. Spiral Out….Keep Going
When you get around to Pucifer's Existential Reckoning it is the tag to Fear Inoculum. It's last line is "It's gonna be alright, everything will be alright." Even if humanity dies off.
Danny plays guitar live in a semi circle with Adam, Justin & Maynard singing it's amazing so Danny's is there in the beginning 😀 he gets up after & gets to the drums asap.
So what’s really cool, is that when played live, Danny plays the beginning guitar riff. Then when the repeating riff fades, his drum part begins. Interesting seeing the drummer play a different instrument!
This one will grow on you just as Descending did, you will notice more and more of the small changes within the track. Buckle up your seat belt for 7empest🤘🏻🌀
Yeah, you can see how Tool is playing smarter not harder on this one. Like an aging NBA player picking his spots instead of driving to the bucket all the time. Also feeling that theme in the tone too, sorta like Skullz, the more I listen to it-it’s been like 3 years and I’m still slowly warning up to this album. In a good way though.
We love you too brother!! Me and my fiance (Wife on layaway) have been here since the very beginning of your Tool journey almost what seems like a spiritual rebirth for you! Idk I could just be projecting what happened to me and what Tool did for me during a time of real struggle and rapid loss of motivation to keep going, now I have always had Tool in my life my mom played the Opiate EP all the time when I was a little kid so I have always had them, but my rebirth came after my last deployment in which I sustained a life altering injury. I ended up with a debilitating opiate addiction, ended costing me my 1st marriage that and my P.T.S.D. Of course I promised myself i would never us that as a crutch or excuse for my behavior. Anyways my love for Tool and my rediscovery of the feelings I always got from Tool before all that happened, and well that is what lead to my rebirth and not having to think so hard on a reason to not to pull the trigger of the gun in my mouth (sorry for the graphic nature of this story, but it's context.) So from there on I promised myself that I will allow myself to be Ok that I didn't have to be guilty for making it back home when so many didn't. Ultimately this is when I met my Michelle and she has helped me this whole time and understood my spiritual and emotional connection to Tool, so they became a essential part of my recovey and therapy and I guess what I am trying to convey is that you can be standing at the precipice of pure self-destruction and still reach out and come back from it if you can find a reason to come back and start to push forward in the other direction. So Skullz again thanks for your kind words and again we Love you too man and thanks for using your platform for positive reinforcement by simply listening to great and impactful music with your friends. Keep up the great work man. ( Also sorry for the length of this soliloquy, this all just hit me a different way and felt compelled to share it with this special group of people that are your fans, so again thank you for all that you do).
Hey Skullz, hope everything’s alright and that you’ll be finishing up the journey soon! I’ve enjoyed your TOOL journey since the very beginning, and the end has been so close for a few weeks now!
This track live follows choc trip trip. A Danny solo song that is every bit as epic live as ud think. Then he does this sweet synth, follows up with the guitar! and takes us back 2 school on the kit. I MEAN COME ON! LEGEND
The climax of this album is so satisfying the whole catalog is one big epic journey up until this point, Maynard already concurred the shadow and fought with his ego and this is him defeating the ego to become one’s true self 🙏
Yo Skullz, we miss you bro. Hope you are doing well. We’ll be here when you get back. I wouldn’t blame you though if you went ahead and finished the album on your own. We would still love to hear your thoughts. Spiral out🌀🤘
I was thinking that too but he seemed like he’d be the type of guy to have the courtesy to make a small update letting everyone know. That’s kinda why I’m kinda worried.
Loving your journey with this album. Invincible and Descending are my two favorites. The interesting thing about invincible, which I know you liked but it wasn't your favorite, is that I think a lot of my enjoyment of it has to do with the fact that I'm older. At 41, I'm really certain to feel a lot of what that song is conveying. However 15 years ago I don't think that it would have had the same impact on me.
This song is about false accusations and bringing to him/them altercations/conversations "we never had" and accusations "without evidence." I believe it was inspired by something that happened in 2018. Shortly after the latest APC album came out, a brand new, anonymous Twitter account came out and accused Maynard of rape. They gave few details, and Maynard only responded to say it's disgustingly false. They wouldn't really answer many questions, and then said they were going to do an interview with Rolling Stone about it. Instead the account was deleted shortly after and nothing about it was ever heard from again. No interview ever took place.
I was fortunate to be at the show in Sacramento when they played this live for the first time. This wasn't particularly one of my favorite songs off FI. I left with a much different appreciation for this song. Seeing the four of them sitting down at the front of the stage was new. The lights and this shiny confetti they dropped from the ceiling in very subdued blue/purple lighting, it felt like the confetti was weightless and floating in mid air. It was beautiful.
This song resonated with me strongly. Through my life experience it caused me to think back on the concept the older you become and the more knowledge you obtain, the closer your eye gets to the keyhole to see and become aware of how little you actually know. The universe is too big and too old to ever "arrive."
Just subscribed love this react. This is just great work yet again by tool. Relevant to the times and to the people. Still one of my top 3 shows I have ever seen.
So I've been "aware" of Tool since Sober was a MTV staple, and could certainly identify them when I heard them, but just never really LISTENED. But I bought tickets to a festival where Tool is the headliner on the last day ( for Tool Army folks, Pusifer is also playing, 2 days earlier). I decided to dive in. I stumbled on your videos and am now going track by track listening, and then watching your corresponding reaction. Should be fun.
Musically this song seems to share some DNA with the trilogy in Lateralus almost, I feel like a slower Triad energy in this song. Also shares that theme of crucifying the ego found in reflection.
Love your videos. You have the best reactions/breakdowns. Also, thank you for acknowledging how sick Justins bassline is when it drops. So stank-face nasty. But please, fix those 2 dots on your wall at the top right of the frame LOL. I keep thinking it's something on my monitor!
Completely agree with your take, it IS a hard first listen. Probably the hardest, it’s gone from my least favourite to my most favourite in a couple of years
Welcome back bro, I figure your going to do Chocolate Chip Trip next which is a Danny instrumental where he incorporated other electric synth sounds with the drums. But wait till you react to Tempest (7empest) that song is a ride bro, Adam has like a 4 1/2 minutes guitar solo in it. Plus Tempest won a Grammy for best Rock/Metal song in 2019, and really sticks out on this album. Be ready to rock out when you do the reaction. Absolutely 💯🔥 and really shows the creative musicianship of the whole band IMO.
Alot about this song gives me the vibe of something you said at one point, that this is a person too stuck in their own head. They run these hypothetical scenarios in their head of how conversations should go or should have gone if they thought of the right thing to say. I know my anxiety can get me into that kind of head space sometimes. But, the narrator of this song seems to go the extra mile and can't distinguish that these mental constructions aren't real.
May take on this song has been that it’s the conversations you go over in your head with people that have different views. Even though you may like the same things in other areas, there’s one point of view that keeps you from speaking. So you have these heated conversations in your head that keep you from talking to each other.
Fantastic song and great lyrics as always. I'm sure it arises from something personal to Maynard but he tells it in a way that can be applied to us all.
Once this TOOL journey end are you gonna go down another rabbit hole? If so, you should check out the band Avenged Sevenfold. You could throw a dart at their catalog and always land on a good song, and quite often land on an epic adventure. Check out their song The stage and see for yourself
Danny plays the guitar for about the first two minutes. They played this the last time they toured. They four of them sitting in a circle on stage before Danny heads back to jump on the drums.
Sounds almost like a wink to Tori Amos. I'm sure there has to be a duet mix or performance with the two, sometime in the future. Tori's high's would kill on this track.
Danny playing guitar in this in the beginning is so cool, I’m sad that the main journey is coming to an end man 😢 just this and opiate2 left but you gotta go back and do the rest of Salival bro it’s to good to skip , plus the other music videos and live shows you should definitely check out 🌀
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This was the most underrated song in the set list touring this album . It was so amazing
This to me is the dark horse of the album. No one really mentions it, but when you listen to it…man it goes so hard.
Thats cause it's the worst song on the album
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Absolutely their most sonically satisfying album to date. 3 years old and already a timeless masterpiece. The most beloved band in the history of this planet. Top 5 on Saturn as well.
Uhh correction... a fucking timeless masterpiece. 😜🤘
@@jeffhelton3364 you are 100 fucking percent correct, sir
@@kennethcrenshaw8359 see you on the other side see you on the other side see you on the other side..... when Saturn comes back around 🤘
As someone whose seen TOOL 11x live, and considers himself to be one of the biggest TOOL fans, if not the biggest, and whose researched and thought about their songs heavily; I'm always surprised by your reviews and thoughts on the songs. I'm really blown away by the things you have to say. I thought I had looked at all their songs from every angle but you've humbled me sir. Thank you for your reactions. #TOOL #HOG #APC
Agreed. He has a surprising take and what I think is more interesting... different, but not wrong from mine after 300 listens.
"considers himself to be one of the biggest TOOL fans" said every tool fan ever
29 year OGT too and I agree 👍 👍 I had never linked every album together as 1 storyline/biography the way he has!
Noteworthy, in the live performances, Danny starts out playing the acoustic guitar for the intro and first verse. It really adds to the haunting feel.
Yup, saw them live in Sacramento this past January. Their first time ever playing this song live. It was so cool to see them all sitting together at the front of the stage playing acoustically.
Yeah this was a highlight of the show definitely. Was so funny seeing Danny using Adam's Les Paul, make it look like a toy guitar haha
It was crazy to see Danny play guitar live back in Feb. It looked so tiny in his hands he is giant.
Man, I just hope they filmed anything
Yep and he said there was no Danny
This song is, to me, the creepiest song they have made. It’s the fear that arises after you think you’ve got it “all figured out”; workouts, meditation, relationships. Abundance.It’s all going great, until it’s not. Until you face a test from the universe and come up wanting. Happens to the best of us, but still. Keep your head up on the path
i find disgustipated the creepiest and most disturbing by far. not really a song but it features percussion. The sound of the lambs, the chief yelling to the followers, it gives me the creeps..
I don't really understand where you get "creepy" from, I think its the most beautiful song they've ever made
Don't get creepy either. To me this is Maynard, a very private person, bashing the culture of social media. People making up stories and encounters that never happened, making judgements based on others comments, feeling they have some given right to a relationship with anyone. He wants no part of it (don't point that at me).
I’ve never worked out or meditated so I can’t relate
@@achafilms3968 lol the phone call at the end is so great. very creepy vibes. personally I'd have to say either jimmy or pushit, but maybe thats just bc of the fan made music video for that one....
I had heard an interesting take on Culling Voices that has stayed with me: its a criticism of social media and how it brings out the worst in people. Getting into arguments with complete strangers online benefits no one but only feeds into the psychopathy that we immerse ourselves in.
"Heated altercations we've never had."
Such a small amount of words to this song, but I connect with all of it. I was terrorized as a child in a neighborhood I lived in and my home at that time was not sanctuary, but a place floored with eggshells. I would repeat in my head nearing the end of my 2nd grade school days, "More school. Less home." Just imagine what that means for an 8 year old to be chanting that in their head. It unfortunately shaped me into a very untrusting person. I'm either always reaching out for connection or hiding away in isolation. Always dwelling upon recent conversations and what wasn't said to me but was thought of me. The bad things kept from me that will eventually blow up in my face. It's hard to shut down these thoughts that always ultimately become self-fulfilling prophecy. I also have occasional dreams of having it out with that family that didn't protect me when I needed it and only made me feel unwelcomed and like a bad child. I know these conversations will never happen and that I'll never get those family members to understand what they did wrong. I haven't spoken to them in a couple years even though we live in the same town still. That closeness always weighs on me. I still don't feel free from it. I still don't feel that my home is my sanctuary.
You became your own protector and safe space. Don’t forget that when you’re considering what you lost as well. That’s amazing.
I had the same experience as a child. The abuse didn't stop at school for me. I was viciously bullied and ostracized throughout my school career and also had to deal with a horrible and abusive home life. I also grew into an untrusting and hypervigilant individual and regularly would play out these "imagined interplays" and "altercations we've never had" as I confronted my abusers. I also don't talk to my family. I hope things get easier for you and you find the sanctuary you deserve.
@@Dr.Faceman That's exactly how is was for me. School became terrible in junior high and up because I developed a severe fight/flight concept that made me a target. It's not all my family. I had a loving mother but she was working nights and it was her sister's family that abused me. Overall, my family has issues of stubbornness, that Japanese judgemental type shit and I always felt like I was looked down upon, but I do have a relationship with some of my family. Just not the ones that live closest to me. I have to remember that most people don't understand what I've been through and I can't force that on them. I have to see it from their perspective of how I come across and adjust accordingly if I'm to be able to coexist with others. It's hard, but it's possible and all up to me. I am responsible for myself regardless of who's at fault for how I became.
As time goes by. This album will emerge as their greatest work. A masterpiece and one of much debate. For the record I think they're all quintessential. ✌️
It’s their best technical album for sure
Well we all need to appreciate the complexity of this art before it's gone. This band is in a world of its own.
I was at the show that they played this live for the first time. It was really cool and unexpected. All 4 of them sat in a semi-circle at the front of the stage with Maynard singing and the other 3 (even Danny) playing guitar
Hope everything is alright with Skullz..
I hope he is okay
Fun fact: Danny plays guitar on this in the beginning when they perform it live and then goes back and drums the rest of the song.
I like how Maynard comes into this song literally on an odd part. It adds to the unsettling feel of the song. Then he has the one line then Adam comes in on the even part then it evens out. I personally relate too much to this song. For me it’s about how the inner workings of your mind can prey upon you and even victimize you in never ending cycles unless you recognize it and end it.
This song had all members sit down together for the start and confetti dropping down all across the stadium during the 2022 concert.
Beautiful moment, Danny on guitar was not something I expected either
Seeing this live made me fall in love with the song even more. I'd say my favourite track of the new album, atleast in the top three.
For me the most amazing thing that Tool does is see normally you have a thought and it triggers an emotion with tool they have the ability to trigger emotions absent the intrusive thoughts or the thoughts in general that trigger the emotion. They're a cathartic band for me because it's almost like a trigger for emotions you may not have an outlet for. There are literally times where I have started tearing up and I don't even know why
Alright pal, you updated the playlist 3 days only gotta upload it
At least we know he’s alive lol
@@StiffyCapp true lol
Ready for the 7empest review!
Btw 7empest is the heaviest song on the album and I love the buildup to it, Tools albums when played all the way through is such a treat
Man this guy knows how to build suspense.
Honestly, I can't stress enough how happy I get to hear Adam Jones shine!
This is Adam's album from start to finish. He's at his absolute best on all the tracks.
This record is a little harder to get the groove worked into _your soul but once it gets traction the greatness reveals itself and you can never escape the truth that it's flat out bad ass.
It’s been a treat going on this journey with with you. I’m sad that there’s only one song left. I really hope you deep dive into Puscifer and A Perfect Circle next. Very insightful and genuine reactions. Spiral Out….Keep Going
Thank you for giving Justin recognition. He deserves it.
When you get around to Pucifer's Existential Reckoning it is the tag to Fear Inoculum. It's last line is "It's gonna be alright, everything will be alright." Even if humanity dies off.
Danny plays guitar live in a semi circle with Adam, Justin & Maynard singing it's amazing so Danny's is there in the beginning 😀 he gets up after & gets to the drums asap.
Oh yes! So amazing! 😍
I saw the first show they did this at.
Where you at? Gunna finish the album?
So what’s really cool, is that when played live, Danny plays the beginning guitar riff. Then when the repeating riff fades, his drum part begins. Interesting seeing the drummer play a different instrument!
You really need to check out the video of the live debut of this song. The intro is perfection. I won’t spoil it, you’ll see why
I always love when Justin just comes in swinging.
Skullz react to PINK FLOYDS entire album 'ANIMALS'. It's based loosely on Orwells Animal Farm. It's only 5 songs. It's a MASTERPIECE. 🤞✌️
Tool and Pink Floyd, my 2 most favorite bands. I love the Animals album!
This one will grow on you just as Descending did, you will notice more and more of the small changes within the track. Buckle up your seat belt for 7empest🤘🏻🌀
Yeah, you can see how Tool is playing smarter not harder on this one. Like an aging NBA player picking his spots instead of driving to the bucket all the time. Also feeling that theme in the tone too, sorta like Skullz, the more I listen to it-it’s been like 3 years and I’m still slowly warning up to this album. In a good way though.
TOOL is therapy. You are realizing why they are held so dear to those of us who have grasped that concept.
We love you too brother!! Me and my fiance (Wife on layaway) have been here since the very beginning of your Tool journey almost what seems like a spiritual rebirth for you! Idk I could just be projecting what happened to me and what Tool did for me during a time of real struggle and rapid loss of motivation to keep going, now I have always had Tool in my life my mom played the Opiate EP all the time when I was a little kid so I have always had them, but my rebirth came after my last deployment in which I sustained a life altering injury. I ended up with a debilitating opiate addiction, ended costing me my 1st marriage that and my P.T.S.D. Of course I promised myself i would never us that as a crutch or excuse for my behavior. Anyways my love for Tool and my rediscovery of the feelings I always got from Tool before all that happened, and well that is what lead to my rebirth and not having to think so hard on a reason to not to pull the trigger of the gun in my mouth (sorry for the graphic nature of this story, but it's context.) So from there on I promised myself that I will allow myself to be Ok that I didn't have to be guilty for making it back home when so many didn't. Ultimately this is when I met my Michelle and she has helped me this whole time and understood my spiritual and emotional connection to Tool, so they became a essential part of my recovey and therapy and I guess what I am trying to convey is that you can be standing at the precipice of pure self-destruction and still reach out and come back from it if you can find a reason to come back and start to push forward in the other direction. So Skullz again thanks for your kind words and again we Love you too man and thanks for using your platform for positive reinforcement by simply listening to great and impactful music with your friends. Keep up the great work man. ( Also sorry for the length of this soliloquy, this all just hit me a different way and felt compelled to share it with this special group of people that are your fans, so again thank you for all that you do).
Hey Skullz, hope everything’s alright and that you’ll be finishing up the journey soon! I’ve enjoyed your TOOL journey since the very beginning, and the end has been so close for a few weeks now!
Too bad he disappeared.. 7empest is such a gem
This track live follows choc trip trip. A Danny solo song that is every bit as epic live as ud think. Then he does this sweet synth, follows up with the guitar! and takes us back 2 school on the kit. I MEAN COME ON! LEGEND
This song is medicine for constantly running thoughts.
The climax of this album is so satisfying the whole catalog is one big epic journey up until this point, Maynard already concurred the shadow and fought with his ego and this is him defeating the ego to become one’s true self 🙏
While listening to Tool mentions Godspeed you! Black Emperor, I call you my friend now.
Thank you for shouting out all the people going through a rough time, needed to hear it right now, love you dude x
Reveille is the music the Bugle plays to WAKE UP the troops in the morning !!
Where you at,, hope all is well Skullz
This goes hard at the end. What a beautifully dark song.
Most beautiful song in the album. Always thought this song was also about mental health. Way underrated.
Hope you are well. ✌️
The instrumental, then 7empist!! Can't wait.
Dude I love your insights on these tool songs. We agree on almost every bit. Keep up the good work.
Yo Skullz, we miss you bro. Hope you are doing well. We’ll be here when you get back. I wouldn’t blame you though if you went ahead and finished the album on your own. We would still love to hear your thoughts. Spiral out🌀🤘
Does anyone know if Skullz is alright? I’m sure that it may be due to Christmas, New Years and other projects but just checking.
I was thinking that too but he seemed like he’d be the type of guy to have the courtesy to make a small update letting everyone know. That’s kinda why I’m kinda worried.
@@StiffyCapp Agreed
Also came here to check up on him. Last time he missed a week he let us all know, sometimes life gets in the way, im sure he'll be back soon. 🙏
Loving your journey with this album. Invincible and Descending are my two favorites. The interesting thing about invincible, which I know you liked but it wasn't your favorite, is that I think a lot of my enjoyment of it has to do with the fact that I'm older. At 41, I'm really certain to feel a lot of what that song is conveying. However 15 years ago I don't think that it would have had the same impact on me.
I have been waiting for this. Great song!!!
Are you okay @Skullz??
Everybody waiting on Chocolate chip trip & 7empest
This song is about false accusations and bringing to him/them altercations/conversations "we never had" and accusations "without evidence."
I believe it was inspired by something that happened in 2018. Shortly after the latest APC album came out, a brand new, anonymous Twitter account came out and accused Maynard of rape. They gave few details, and Maynard only responded to say it's disgustingly false. They wouldn't really answer many questions, and then said they were going to do an interview with Rolling Stone about it. Instead the account was deleted shortly after and nothing about it was ever heard from again. No interview ever took place.
I was fortunate to be at the show in Sacramento when they played this live for the first time. This wasn't particularly one of my favorite songs off FI. I left with a much different appreciation for this song. Seeing the four of them sitting down at the front of the stage was new. The lights and this shiny confetti they dropped from the ceiling in very subdued blue/purple lighting, it felt like the confetti was weightless and floating in mid air. It was beautiful.
This song resonated with me strongly. Through my life experience it caused me to think back on the concept the older you become and the more knowledge you obtain, the closer your eye gets to the keyhole to see and become aware of how little you actually know. The universe is too big and too old to ever "arrive."
Just subscribed love this react. This is just great work yet again by tool. Relevant to the times and to the people. Still one of my top 3 shows I have ever seen.
Can't wait until you hit 7empest!!
Second favourite song on the album. So beautiful.
Saw this song live and they drop confetti during the song. And each was a puzzle piece that had print on it that made different tool logo designs.
I love this thanku so much ...so lovely to see you missed you an your incredible reactions ..made my day thanku so much love an God bless always x
Hey brother, where have you been? Waiting for the conclusion of FI...
I go back and forth between this song, descending, and pneuma for my fav on the album. Top to bottom this album is a work of art.
Adam killed it. ✌️
So I've been "aware" of Tool since Sober was a MTV staple, and could certainly identify them when I heard them, but just never really LISTENED.
But I bought tickets to a festival where Tool is the headliner on the last day ( for Tool Army folks, Pusifer is also playing, 2 days earlier). I decided to dive in. I stumbled on your videos and am now going track by track listening, and then watching your corresponding reaction. Should be fun.
Danny was there from the 1st note lol An Octopus 🐙 🐙 with a 6 string, MJK plays too
I can't wait for you to react to 7empest
The, catch your headphones, maneuver is inevitable while listening to this song
I’m here for it skullz 🙋🏻♀️
Nice to see you reference GY!BE. Post rock is my favorite genre after metal. 🤘
Musically this song seems to share some DNA with the trilogy in Lateralus almost, I feel like a slower Triad energy in this song. Also shares that theme of crucifying the ego found in reflection.
Love your videos. You have the best reactions/breakdowns. Also, thank you for acknowledging how sick Justins bassline is when it drops. So stank-face nasty.
But please, fix those 2 dots on your wall at the top right of the frame LOL. I keep thinking it's something on my monitor!
Completely agree with your take, it IS a hard first listen. Probably the hardest, it’s gone from my least favourite to my most favourite in a couple of years
Been waiting for this
That slow burn build is just too filthy!!
Welcome back bro, I figure your going to do Chocolate Chip Trip next which is a Danny instrumental where he incorporated other electric synth sounds with the drums.
But wait till you react to Tempest (7empest) that song is a ride bro, Adam has like a 4 1/2 minutes guitar solo in it. Plus Tempest won a Grammy for best Rock/Metal song in 2019, and really sticks out on this album. Be ready to rock out when you do the reaction. Absolutely 💯🔥 and really shows the creative musicianship of the whole band IMO.
Hope it's just the holidays keeping you from updating
Alot about this song gives me the vibe of something you said at one point, that this is a person too stuck in their own head. They run these hypothetical scenarios in their head of how conversations should go or should have gone if they thought of the right thing to say. I know my anxiety can get me into that kind of head space sometimes. But, the narrator of this song seems to go the extra mile and can't distinguish that these mental constructions aren't real.
May take on this song has been that it’s the conversations you go over in your head with people that have different views. Even though you may like the same things in other areas, there’s one point of view that keeps you from speaking. So you have these heated conversations in your head that keep you from talking to each other.
Fun fact: When playing this live Danny plays 2nd guitar until it's his time to shine 😁
Fantastic song and great lyrics as always. I'm sure it arises from something personal to Maynard but he tells it in a way that can be applied to us all.
Danny play the second Guitar, really.... No joke... Look Culling Voices Live
Oh come on and just do the 7empest reaction already! You said you liked hearing Adam go off. You’re killing me.😂😂😂
I really really hope you will listen to the album in full length as one piece after you are done with this reaction stuff.
Once this TOOL journey end are you gonna go down another rabbit hole? If so, you should check out the band Avenged Sevenfold. You could throw a dart at their catalog and always land on a good song, and quite often land on an epic adventure. Check out their song The stage and see for yourself
Danny plays the guitar for about the first two minutes. They played this the last time they toured. They four of them sitting in a circle on stage before Danny heads back to jump on the drums.
If they ever make that new Crow film I think they got the theme
This is my top song on this album
Live Danny is playing at the beginning on guitar, I don’t know if that is how they recorded it.
Under-rated song from this album.... And yet one of my favourites. That drop when they all come in is sick!
Are you ok?
Sounds almost like a wink to Tori Amos. I'm sure there has to be a duet mix or performance with the two, sometime in the future. Tori's high's would kill on this track.
Danny playing guitar in this in the beginning is so cool, I’m sad that the main journey is coming to an end man 😢 just this and opiate2 left but you gotta go back and do the rest of Salival bro it’s to good to skip , plus the other music videos and live shows you should definitely check out 🌀
I give up 😂🤷♂️ wish you’d come back
Is there a video release today?
For real, I hope he’s ok. Skullz if you are there man, the community is sending positive vibes and we hope you are well.
Danny plays acoustic guitar on this one and in concert too 👍🏻😎
7empest coming up 😭🤟❤️🔥💯☠️