The last of the 80's .................

New album, Norman ****ing Rockwell, out today btw

I love Lana

OMG

First new Tool album in 13 years was released TODAY!

Fear Inoculum




15 minute long Tool songs?

I'm in heaven.

I never got into them. I listen to albums over playlists. What's their best full album?

d-beat

D-beat, you really can’t go wrong with anything, but I think Lateralus is a nice one to Start with, right in the middle of their ouvre.

oh man, very excited to listen to the new album

Thanks. Will listen tonight.

d-beat - absolutely start at track one and listen through

continuity with tool is essential - main reason why they get so little radio play

their tracks typically build off one another and callback to earlier riffs

they also play on a different set of beats than what's standard so it can be very offputting the first few times you hear it

i hated tool until i was at a jobsite where the manager basically played nothing but tool and system of a down every day - after a few days I become indoctrinated in the genius that is tool

there's actually a lot of really interesting academic papers written on their music as they are in the subgenre of math rock - especially lateralus - which I concur is the best one to start yourself off one

for a one off, sober is probably the closest thing they have when it comes to having a single

At least post the brilliant video to the song...

What's the best album to listen to them experiment with beats?

(I've never liked Tool, but that may be because my ex-wife played the same tool **** over and over.)

I remember Sober and AEnima as songs

Lateralus was brilliant. I fell asleep to it, which is a good thing. If I don't like music, it annoys me too much to sleep. Thanks, Dominic!

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Drove around cranking the new Tool...it’s pretty amazing.

Say what you want about Britney, but tricking public daytime radio into playing a song about how "all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to **** me" is pretty sweet.

finally listened to new tool album all the way through, i enjoyed it, but they seem to be going in a much mellower, more instrumental direction

Decided to give Tool another try after reading comments ITT. Decided on Lateralus, and made it through 1:40 of The Grudge--a personal best. I'm sure they're fine musicians. They seemed to take their music and themselves very seriously.

Well said. They have good stuff, but I definitely have this picture of them.

100%, in pure seriousness, they have publicly stated a large part of the reason behind the 15 year gap or so is that they were so full of doubt of not being able to create something good enough.

Phatmack, you'd enjoy the pitchfork review of the album, perhaps you wrote it , the author focuses more on Maynard's obsession with his vineyard (which is actually producing legit top wines) than the album itself

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums...fear-inoculum/

This is a great review. Tool is obviously more than the frat band I've always taken them for, and it would seem impossible for me not to like a band that wallows in polyrhythms and prurience--but now I have a better sense of why I don't.

Here's an outtake from Fear Inoculum: