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Tool - 10,000 Days results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
VeryInsane (10)
FoolFantastic (12)
neonreaper (12)
RyoCaliente (12)
Snake5555555555 (12)
HBJDubs (14)
Seanchan (14)
ZeroSignal (16)
MarkS2222222222 (18)
Steiner (18)
NFUN (20)
Blur (22)
Johnbobb (22)
ChichiriMuyo (28)
firefdr (28)
Raetsel_Lapin (28)
rwlh (30)

General Album Comments

Snake5555555555: Overall, Tool hones their style down to a T on this album. Ranging from minimal ambient sections to lots of experimental approaches, I feel like 10,000 Days is a creative endeavor all its own and free from influence that pokes fun at the chaos and mayhem of modern society and tears down the wall between artist and listener. A complex, diverse, ambitious, and innovative album from a major rock act that's one of my favorite albums of all time.

rwlh: Neat album! Lots of variety. I especially enjoyed the top two songs.

Blur: Wings for Marie is one of the greatest ballads ever written for a deceased figure. Rosetta Stoned is a cool, trippy, funny, great but overrated song.

I said it

Steiner (responding to Blur): the section that begins "overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position" and ends with my signature is one of maynard's best ever performances and that alone makes you nuts

ChichiriMuyo: Gonna be honest, I like Tool, but this is definitely not their best album. I'd have much rather listened to Aenima or Lateralus. There's really not much else to say.

Seanchan: I'm so conflicted on how I feel about this album. I've done two listens so far and it's kind of failed to make an impact. All the songs just kind of glom together, and so my attention keeps wandering. Granted, there's nothing "bad" here but the album kind of puts me into a stupor. This might be one of those albums that you're supposed to be paying more attention to the lyrics...which doesn't jibe with how I usually listen to things.
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Well, I did 3 listens and made a ranking list. I can tell you this album will absolutely not stick with me. I think there's a lot to like about the general soundscape but this isn't anything I'll want to revisit.

What it did do is make me want to listen to Mer De Noms again, which is the first album by A Perfect Circle and features the same singer as Tool (not that I really need to tell anyone in this topic). For whatever reason, I owned that album but nothing from A Perfect Circle or Tool other than that.

HBJDubs: My favorite Tool album. I nominated this in the past and I'm glad we get to rank it! For me this has a whopping seven songs that I can place #1, and most times it really comes down to which specific moment in a song am I digging the most right now. At this time, that moment is the intro to Rosetta Stoned, such a banger

ChichiriMuyo: Last thought - I probably should have smoked some pot before listening to this album. It is meant to be listened to while high, no doubt. The problem is that the album that proceeded it was also one I'd say the same thing about, except so much more work went into making those songs. I think that Seanchan said all of these songs "glom together" and yeah... if you're not a "true" fan of the band and any song of this album plays you could be forgiven for mistaking which one it is, or even which album it's from. It definitely sounds like "Tool: The Generic Album That Defines Our Sound." I literally just put on Lateralus and one song in it's absolutely the sound of Tool, yet The Grudge isn't so damn generic and bland as most of 10,000 days. And when I put on AEnima, well that album actually has a self-realized identity compared to 10,000 days. You, and by you I mean the fans of Tool, you will not take half the length of the track to figure out which song you are listening to on Aenima, no matter how high you are. That's compared to 10,000 Days where you could listen to half the album and not know which album you're hearing.

/Rant

Steiner (responding to ChichiriMuyo): regardless of how juvenile the like "oh you should be high to enjoy this" angle is, I just don't get how you can say Rosetta Stoned, The Pot and Wings are aren't all unique things. also;

"except so much more work went into making those songs."
is there a documentary on the making of the albums i missed?

Johnbobb: the album is solid the entire way through but it's that first 40 minutes that really sells it

MarkS2222222222: First time listening to this and I found it surprisingly boring compared to their earlier work