What's the best song by Tool?

[leftist_rebel1569]

I personally would have to go with "Sober", although I do like the other songs on the list quite a bit...

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Oh come on!

My list:

1. H.
2. Aenema
3. Lateralus
4. Opiate
5. Flood
6. Undertow
7. Stinkfist
8. 4 Degrees
9. Parabol/Parabola
10. 46 & 2

-heather, obsessive tool fan

[leftist_rebel1569]

2. I know...you were formerly

Toolfan, right? before the software switch?

I'm not a big fan of Tool, and the 6 up there were on my playlist at the time. But, I added a few from your list up there...

[bicentennial_baby]

3. That's me!

Thanks for the additions! If you ever get the chance to see Tool live, go! They are probably the best live band playing these days, and I'm not just saying that 'cause they're my favorite :P

[leftist_rebel1569]

4. I wish I could...

the more I hear of them, the more I like. But, I also heard they're on hiatus until 2005...:(

I assume you've heard of A Perfect Circle then?

[bicentennial_baby]

5. APC!

APC is on tour right now and they have an album out next month. Have you heard the first single? I like it a lot.

I have'nt seen them live yet, but I hear it's great!

[leftist_rebel1569]

6. I haven't heard it...

but I keep hearing about APC all the time. What's the name of their single? Oh, and they're gonna be in town IN 3 DAYS! I think I should round up some of my friends and go...

[bicentennial_baby]

7. You can hear it here

http://www.aperfectcircle.com/

with either Windows Media Player or Real Player

The single is called "Weak and Powerless".

If you can get tix, you should go!

[leftist_rebel1569]

8. I like this song...

I just might have to buy their album when it comes out...

Oh, and if I can get some of my friends to go (odds are they'll be a bit skeptical of a band they prolly haven't heard before), I would go. Tickets are still on sale, 30 bucks...

[bicentennial_baby]

9. Go! Go!

I can pretty much guarantee you will not be disappointed. Maynard & co. always put on good show for the fans.

You should pick up their first album sometime, Mer de Noms, which is excellent as well.

Bring your friends! Share the wealth of good music, which is so hard to come by these days!

:bounce:

[leftist_rebel1569]

10. okay, i'll look for it

next time i'm at the store...

I'm going over to my friend's house tomorrow, so I guess I could try to talk them into it. It fits my music tastes well, but more of my friends are either 1) broke off their asses and can't go without begging their parents, or 2) not into the type of music they do...:(. Oh well, I think I can find someone to go with me...

[The_Gopher]

11. Die Eier von Satan for its quirky lightheartedness

nothing beats a cookie recipe being read in german.

what i love about the Lateralus album is that it's like the first band i ever got into, Floyd, the whole album just flows.

saw Tool in DC fall of '01. best concert i've ever seen. how can you top contortionists?

[leftist_rebel1569]

13. lucky you...

you got to see Tool in concert...I'd love to go and see them sometime in my life (they're on hiatus until 2005), I've heard they're good.

[The_Gopher]

15. maynard doesn't waste time with silly banter, gets straight to rockin out

tight show. i hate that they take so long in between projects though. but i guess it's better than having crap churned out every 8 or 9 months.

[leftist_rebel1569]

16. yeah, true.

But Maynard's out with A Perfect Circle on tour right now, and i'm hoping I can see them, they're coming in 3 days...

[Skip Intro]

12. The lyrics have haunted me from the day I first heard Sober

Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over.

[leftist_rebel1569]

14. I know...

It's weird, the first time I heard the song...the lyrics just clicked with me. I wasn't having a good day, though...


There's a shadow just behind me
shrouding every step I take
making every promise empty
pointing every finger at me.
Waiting like a stalking butler
who upon the finger rests.
Murder now the path called "must we"
just because the son has come.
Jesus won't you fucking whistle
something but the past and done?
Jesus won't you fucking whistle
something but the past and done?
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over.

I am just a worthless liar.
I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you.
Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you.
I will chew it up and leave,
I will work to elevate you
just enough to bring you down.

Mother Mary won't you whisper
something but what's past and done.
Mother Mary won't you whisper
something but what's past and done.
Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over.

I am just a worthless liar.
I am just an imbecile.
I will only complicate you.
Trust in me and fall as well.
I will find a center in you.
I will chew it up and leave,

Trust me.
Trust me.
Trust me.
Trudt me.

Why can't we not be sober?
I just want to start this over.
Why can't we drink forever.
I just want to start things over.

I want what I want.

[leftist_rebel1569]

17. kick

for the late-night tool fans

[proud patriot]

18. My Favorite is "46 and 2"

My shadow's
Shedding skin and
I've been picking
Scabs again.
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in.
I wanna feel the changes coming down.
I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow.
Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again.

I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within

My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to
Grow, take and give and to
Move, learn and love and to
Cry, kill and die and to
Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate and fear and to
Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to
Lie, kill and give and to
Die, learn and love and to
Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

[VelmaD]

23. me too me too

Love 46 & 2. That line "Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to." has just stuck with me since the very first time I heard it.

I'm also a big fan of Stinkfist. Gotta love songs about fisting. ;)

And H always makes me think of the guy I'm doing right now.

I have to say that the first half of Aenima is some of the best music ever written to fuck to. Right up there with NIN's Downward Spiral in my book.

I think the reason I like Tool so much is because they're so complicated rhytmically. Not a lot of that straight ahead, 4/4, 3 chord rock for them. Their drummer is a god.

Darth Velma

[sasquatch]

19. Third Eye

it's along song that I love that is about Bill Hicks

[opiate69]

20. So hard to pick just one....

But "Reflections" just blows me away every time I hear it. I also love their remake of "No Quarter".

[leftist_rebel1569]

21. I know...

Tool has so many good songs! it makes me wish they had more spaces to put songs in...

[opiate69]

22. As far as the "hiatus" goes...

Word around the campfire is they're going to be releasing a live dvd to keep us rabid fans from forgetting about them... good thing, too, since they've been to Seattle about 10 times and I've only been able to buy tickets once.. bastards sell out in 20 minutes every time they come to town.

[leftist_rebel1569]

24. That's always good...

I've never seen them live, myself...but, I haven't ever tried to get tickets, but I haven't been a fan of Tool for that long and I think they sold out last time they came here. Not sure, though...