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The greateness that is Tool

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  • The greateness that is Tool

    I don't think people fully realize how deep the thought process of making music goes for Tool. They're big math, philosophy, and language buffs, and it shows in quite a bit of how the music is layered, and what the lyrics are based on. For example, let's look at one of their more extreme examples; the title track from their last album, Lateralus. I'm not sure how the hell the first person realized this (Tool never discusses the music much themselves), but I listened to it again after someone on the Toolshed.net forum mentioned it, and it was completely accurate.

    The Fibonacci Sequence is a mathematical series in which every number is the sum of the two proceeding numbers, like so:

    1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233.....

    Well, someone noticed something with the way Maynard was singing the lyrics (the pauses in between each syllable, which was very deliberate. The -'s represent pauses within the syllable of each word):

    (1) Black
    (1) Then
    (2) White are
    (3) All I see
    (5) In my in-fan-cy
    (8) Red and yel-low then came to be
    (5) Rea-ching out to me
    (3) Let's me see


    (13) As be-low, so a-bove and be-yond I i-magine
    (8) Drawn out-side the lines of rea-son
    (5) Push the en-ve-lope
    (3) Watch it bend

    The visual for th Fibonacci Sequence creates a spiraling effect spinning out infinitely from the center. Patterns of this can be found throughout the album art, and the song Lateralus itself revolves around seeing beyond the black and white to extend to places no ones been to.

    "Swing on the spiral of,
    our own divinity and,
    still be a human"

    "Spiral out. Keep going, spiral out...."

    And this is all within one song. I could go on like this about almost every one of their songs. There's so much to learn and discover about how each song came to be, and how much has gone into them, that it's almost frieghtening. They just don't make artists like this anymore. Well....or ever. They've taken the best of all their predecesors, and combined them with a touch of their own style. The precision of Rush, the sound experimenting and slow song developements/build ups of Pink Floyd, the catchy riffs with varying time signatures of Jethro....they are the all encompassing band.

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    Sober by tool is my fave song-- i hope thats who youre talking about.. right? hehe

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    • #3
      Sober is everyone's favorite song...When they frist Listen to Tool its the song that gets them interested.
      But I do love their lyrics.... their last album, Lateralus.....Helped me Get an A on my religious studies paper!!!!
      You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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      • #4
        Yeah, I admit Sober was what introduced me to Tool, as well. It was the only song of theirs that would get any radio play. A co-worker had the CD in his car one day. I asked if I could barrow it to make a copy of Sober. He said "it's not mine, I barrowed it from someone a long time ago and never returned it. Take it if you want, I don't need it anymore". So I'm like "ummm.....ok....". I heard the first track, Intolerance, and...well...the rest is history. I just thought it was good music at first. Then I started learning more about the lyrics and art work. And then I had to learn loads of various info just to have a solid ground to stand on when interpreting the lyrics. They were kind of like....the cool teacher I never had, someone who added a twist that actually got you excited about learning, someone who led you down the much less traveled path, to a point where you have to design your own path through what you've learned. They offer no answers, but lend you directions to find your own way. As another fan so correctly stated on another website, "Tool is my compass for life."

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        • #5
          I never really knew anything about Tool...Just like you..one of my close friends loves them..and one day we were talking about it...and he just happened to mention it. It was really interesting. When I read their lyrics I would get goose bumps all over...hehee...and your are right...they do offer you to take your own path. Yes, someone can tell you what they think or feel or what the lyrics mean but my own ideas and my own thoughts about Tool have made me understand them in a whole new level.
          You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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          • #6
            tool is one of my favs!! tehyre so talented. when you listen to tehir music there are so many thing to focus on and its cool how they take one part of a song and make a whole song out of it by constantly changeing it a little like in 46and2.

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            • #7
              Schism. That song puts knots in my stomach and chills down my spine.



              ::No one saw me here::

              ::looks around, then runs out of the thread::

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              • #8
                Violette I am hypnotized by the smilies in your avatar. Can you please tell me what exactly are they doing?

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                • #9
                  Molesting the one in the middle.

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                  • #10
                    it's shushan press! they're discussing the latest gossip

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