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I heard a rumor that Tool was like most bands. Can anyone confirm???

Tool has minutes of greatness inside hours of slog.

Rosstin316 posted...

Tool has minutes of greatness inside hours of slog.

Damn! Tool must be the James Cameron's Avatar of music!

Rosstin316 posted...

Tool has minutes of greatness inside hours of slog.

Acceptable opinion, but they're also very consistent. Listen to an album without skipping a track

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Tool

...in that they are hugely over-rated?

They're more of a magnet for terrible fan theories than the average band.

MartavisBryant posted...

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Tool

...and here is the other part of Tool that is unlike other bands, their fans are something else. They're like Rush fans if Rush fans lacked the self-awareness to understand why most normies will never "get" their favorite band.

Annoying fanbase.

Since this topic is full of *woosh*:

When you're listening to Tool, just remember that they're not like other bands. Their music is incredibly artistic, almost to the point where you have to be paying complete attention to them to even remotely understand them. I remember listening to a song on Lateralus (though I can't remember what it was), where I thought a song was absolute bollocks during the listen. Then, I closed my eyes for a second, and all of a sudden the song had an entirely new meaning. It was insane the way Tool could just become something so different when you take a look into the music.

Another thing you should note about Tool is that it's easy to get a headache listening to them. Not because they're a bad band, but because of how many ideas their music is riddled with and how complex they are. Soon enough your head will fill to the brim and the rest will just sound like noise to you. Just turn it off and give it a listen the next day.

If you don't like the music, you'll definitely at least enjoy reading through the lyrics, and picking apart the song itself and all of the artistic values that go into making it the complexity that it is.

Mainstream commercial garbage. Get out there and research indie bands. Open your eyes to a whole new world of music.

Torgo posted...

...and here is the other part of Tool that is unlike other bands, their fans are something else. They're like Rush fans if Rush fans lacked the self-awareness to understand why most normies will never "get" their favorite band.

I was referencing the Rick and Morty copypasta, since TC was referencing the Tool copypasta

I do like Tool, though

The second worst band of all time after Creed.

TheDurinator posted...

The second worst band of all time after Creed.

So I'm assuming Nickelback is third on your list?