You got the Kanye lyrics wrong. It's scoopy-didd-whoop, not scoop-diddy-whoop. Who has ever heard of a scoop-diddy? That just doesn't make any sense. Everyone knows it's scoopy-didd. Poseur.
As Maynard confirmed in one of his interviews, the song eulogy is about "tendencies" and as I delved into it, more specifically, I found it to be about "ego death", the loud voice within you that feels like it has a lot to say, as in, you have so much to prove to people and getting you own "self" recognized and credited for it, and feel a sense of superiority over others on a subconscious level, and the last line of the song provides the resolution to it, as in, how it is so much important for us to recognize and crucify that dormant ego within us in order to dedicate ourselves purely for the service of mankind excluding the selfish motives. And as I proceeded to look at the entire song through this lens, entire lyrics started making sense.
Favorite Tool album. Thank you so much for your break down. One of the first albums I ever bought way back in the 90's as a teen. I knew some of the info but you filled in a lot of the gaps. You're awesome and so is your video. Appreciate you!
See any MJK interview and he pronounces the name of the album On-ima. I don’t know how you can argue with the guy who was part of creating this masterpiece.
46 and 2 gets into some odd territory. It's supposed to be about humanities next stage of evolutionz which is the 46 and 2 chromosomes. We have 44 and 2 now. It also talks about our shadow, which is a Jungian concept. Our shadow is the part of ourselves that we don't like and we don't want to face, but in order to evolve, to reach the 46 and 2, you have to turn, face your shadow and engage with it. Hence the "I've been wallowing in my own chaotic, insecure delusions, I want to feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning" and "step into my shadow, coming out the other side, step into my shadow, 46 and 2 just ahead of me." There's some seriously wild ideas on this album, double so because back before everyone had the Internet ideas like the above are difficult to be exposed to, unlike now where you can run across any information at any time. Plus religion was still pretty entrenched back then so those new age type concepts were seen as dangerous. I learned about the whole third eye thing back in 98 because of what else, the song Third Eye. I hate it when people say "this is art" but everything about this record is art.
I msg"d the TOOL website the day it launched and asked questions about them recently coming to NZ and if 46&2 had anything to do with Carl Jung's Shadow theories. The reply exactly as typed.... Loved NZ. Loved the Beer.Loved the People. 46&2 is partly Jung, partly others, partly ours.....that was it. Not signed off by any name but I was very pleased to get this email.
I think the track Intermission has much more meaning when taken in the context of the following track. It represents the playfulness that came with Maynards childhood to me. The very abrupt change from the whimsical organ to the heavier guitar riff makes me think of a sudden, dark change in Maynard’s life
@@mysto_fps Thank you! I really love your interpretation of Pushit. The slower part at the beginning of the second half of the song really does feel like a mental break to me; and it makes the narrators decision to kill the other person in the relationship feel that much more visceral. Great video! :D
This was a very important album to me before I got into Nine Inch Nails, and friends… but, I don’t dwell on past phases too much. But Stinkfist, the lyrics hit me specifically as an adult. The constant search for emotional validation, nothing ever feeling good anymore, being further and further away from feeling entirely. It really makes me feel like, really represented. Especially as someone who’s really emotionally cold and distant. To me, it really reflects on my borderline personality disorder. And the depersonalization I feel
Imo its the greatest album of all time. This album struck such a strong cord with me. My pfp should show my love. I honestly can't name my favorite track as I love every single one.
Jimmy always reminds me of home. I live in Ohio about a quarter of a mile from state route 11 so I always think of it when I come home from anywhere bc “under a dead Ohio sky, 11 is dead and will be waiting…..I’m so glad that I have found you, I am wide awake and heading home”
My favorite album, i even have the eye that's on the back of the cd tattooed on the inside of my right arm, a part of the body that really hurts when tattooed, this album changed my life, as this band did too, thank you sir for doing this, keep going, spiral out!!
This Album IMO The Greatest Art Ever Assembled. My Lord For 25 Years YES Meant Sooooo Much To A Man Who's Diagnosed With Schizophrenia And A Man Going Through This Life Solo. (Staring down the hole again hands around my back again survival is my only friend Terrified of what may come). From Something has to change All the way to Pry and open my third eye. One point Told My Brother Bury this CD by my side.
18:00 Further to your point, Aenima's lyrics are a direct reference to the Bill Hicks standup segment 'Arizona Bay' during which he talks about his personal hatred of Los Angeles and the people that live there. Arizona Bay is the theoretical name for the body of water that would be created when the 'big one' Earthquake destroys the City of Los Angeles and sends it beneath the Pacific Ocean, destroying the City and killing everyone in it in the process. Maynard shared Hicks' hatred of Los Angeles and the people that lived there, only choosing to live there because he had to due to the music industry. He has since moved to Arizona.
Your videos on these albums are always a treat, It's great to know that people still love and think about music like this. Since moving to a new campus so many people here just dont seem to care much about this stuff, and even if they do, it feels so hard to just break that invisible barrier and connect in meaningful ways. I think the themes of this album are more relevant than ever and it sucks that people have failed to learn these lessons over and over again. Such an important album. Aside from that, I am happy you're getting more funding for these, would also love to see you explore stuff from bands like Karnivool, APC, or even SOAD. But I dont know all your tastes and would prefer to see stuff that you personally enjoy anyway. Hope all is well!
Yeah incredible job. I’ve been listening to Aenima since it came out but I still learned a lot. I can’t come close to figuring out what ANY musicians are saying so this was really nice.
I love these videos! Im saving the lateralus one for later when i get off work lol you should make them on specific songs where you can go more into depth on the ideas
I always saw stinkfist as a dual meaning with each one relying on one another to say what it means. One being more obvious about being fisted as you say to go deeper within you to feel it more like you used to to get better sexual stimulation as you need this stimuli to breath, feel, and know you’re alive. The other being less about sex of course but about how everyone keeps chasing more and more feeling and experience but you obviously never get to any sort of satisfaction because it’s all already gone, you’ve taken it all as you’re shoulder deep and that’s as far as you’ll get in it. And now, forever bent apart you can never return to a love. And what I mean by “you” is humans as a whole species. We always chase and go faster and faster till the terrane around us is blurred. We’ll never enjoy a scenery again. As of Ænima I feel similar. I basically see it as a hate letter to humans and an ask to Mother Nature to perform an enema on herself to flush all the dirty shit away (humans). Also what is the animation the starts in the beginning of the video. I really recognize it and I think I saw it years ago when I was a kid but I had no idea what it was then.
This is always likely to be my favourite Tool album - possibly my favourite album ever - as it is the one that pulled me willingly into the moshpit. A work of art and a truly amazing sounding record. Fun fact about useful idiot is that on the vinyl, the sound of the needle jumping runs off into the groove, and so if your record player for whatever reason doesn't eject the stylus, the track never ends and you are the weaver.
Rosetta stoned beats third eye in my opinion third eye has more meaning but Rosetta stones has so much going on chaotic parts peaceful parts and more fun than emotion. But it's close third eye is my second favorite song from them. Great videos keep it up.
Third Eye didn't really stand out for me... before I heard the live Salival iteration of it. that version is just pure concentrated insanity and an emotional rollercoaster, holy hell. I get goosebumps every time I hear it, definetely my pick for the №1 TOOL song. Rosetta is also one of my favs, discovered recently that some people really disliked it for some reason and was shocked a little :o
@bullscifer agree to disagree I don't think any of their stuff is weak effort, I agree with most people 10000 days isn't their best album by far but Rosetta has a lot of memories built around it for me.
The title track has always been my personal favorite, with Eulogy being the close second. It's the most hateful song I've ever heard, and yet all of that anger is justified in its pure intentions to wipe the slate clean of all the crap. It's a twisted dream for a better world by any means necessary, and I love every second of it.
I always felt like Eulogy was also meant for a "persona" that a person creates for themselves. People listen, absorb, and even become that persona which is not really who you are. That persona is what people want to be or feel they should portray to the outside world. When the time comes, when you grow as a person, you start to kill that persona, that shell, that cacoon. This song is also an eulogy for that person. Part of your ego, a liar that won't die for you. A persona that stands above the ground and you are so eager to identify with someone above the ground. We also personify the religious figures and all that. I think this song has a parallel to the masks people put on themselves.
If you haven’t already you should make a video about cracke the Skye! One of my favorite albums ever and the story it follows is insane on top of it also being about the drummers sister
Thank goodness there won't be another tool. The truth is every band that achieves greatness needs to have its own identity. You are not a member of tool, therefore you will not be in access to their brains and experiences and whatever... This is a blessing. Do you think for yourself and strive to follow their example
The whole "Considerately killing me" thing doesn't lend itself to parenthood, or new life, or a relationship with his new child in my analysis of the lyrics. The snake has always been a representation of heroin addiction e.g. a syringe likened to fangs. When you gear lyrics about the snake biting, it's about heroin. Thought you knew that. An alternative view would entail an addict confronting his addiction and alluding to his past experiences and feelings as liabilities-nobody knows how low you will go until you are strung out, dope sick and the crawlies threatening eruption any time. That us what he is trying to address, distancing himself from dope but its pull is very strong even from a distance; in his mind it's right next door. In the end he realizes the need for the taste will always be there. It's time for him to make a decision ... Edit- one is loath to assign meanings that would be abrasive to common mankind as well as possibly fostering the belief that one's weltanschauung leans misanthropic. I merely presented a perspective that has a bounty of evidence to back it up and provenance in literature and in visual media.
I always figured the “claw your throat away” line in Pushit wasn’t so literal, but instead meant that, after reaching their breaking point, the person undergoing the abuse reached their breaking point and retaliated, acting in a way that had no purpose other than to harm them “lethally” in an emotional sense. Easily one of if not the best Tool song
The track "Jimmy" hits me so hard. My mom left when I was 11 and I had to live with my father. It wasn't pleasant and I suddenly found myself alone in life.
In my opinion, I find pushit to be the best track on this album, it feels so surreal throughout and the change from being soft to heavy all throughout the song just hits so hard. The lyrics are so fantastic and it’s so well written. And the vocals at the end of the song are so powerful and beautiful.
personally, i am 1000% certain that AEnima, as a whole, is the re-telling of a long, deep, beginning-to-end path of psychologic therapy that maynard took & experienced.
I was lucky enough to see the band on the Ænima tour... The venue was heaving with energy. Less of the pretence of 10000 days era and after, just the band at their energetic peak playing to an audience ready to submit to the collective audience power. Lateralus is the "better album", but Ænima is the more powerful.
Eulogy was totally about L Ron Hubbard, he sings about him in enema , L Ron Hubbard try to recruit him into Scientology, and they did a whole concert at the Scientology celebrity center !
Im probably just dumb, but i cant find the document you mention around the 15:50 timestamp in the description? And it goes without saying, (but i will anyway) another great video! ive always had my own idea of what H and Pushit meant to me, but hearing it laid out like you did metamorphosed the way i interpret them now.
Eulogy is literally about Maynards friend Bill Hicks. Theres even the little painting of Hicks in the album art. Another dead hero. The title track contains the lyric " see you down in Arizona Bay", a reference to a music/ comedy album Hicks was writing when he died of Pancreatic Cancer in 1994, which was later released in 1997. And the obvious samples of Hicks at the beginning of Third Eye. The idea for the song Aenima came from Hicks bit about California breaking off and sinking into the Pacific due to a massive quake.
When the timing of him talking about the part in Pushit converged with the song playing in the background it reminded me of when the ball in pong would hit right in the corner of the TV screen.
As a Christian im interested to hear your take on the part where you mentioned the egocentric martyrs who want to feel important and what you meant by that. I mean if martyrs die for the sake of or in defence of their faith, wouldnt you agree that ego would need to be absent. And in Jesus case their was truly no ego because he died for the sins of others he didnt commit in order to give them a chance at eternal life with the father in heaven. Maybe you agree with Maynard, maybe you dont, but i would like to hear your perspective
Two perspectives here: 1) the book "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors" discusses the overarching point of the cross in the song. 2) A case could be made that every loud and assured person post (or pre?)-Jesus, unable to look within before pointing outward, was attempting to recreate the recipe Jesus established, attempting to make their loud, boastful words into a way to absolve the sins of mankind, without an awareness that nobody really cared about their sacrifice, and that sacrifice would be forgotten. I think both perspectives apply equally, as Maynard likes to have more than 4 or 5 simultaneous meanings to his songs.
Taking psychedelics is ripping open your 3rd eye. Cheating in a way to experience the creators realm. Some attain it safely through Christ, others create a void that can be filled by any Jin or spirit that isn't necessarily benevolent or has your best interest.
I attended a tool show at the church of Scientology..there was a very large female woman in a bikini dancing on stage with the band. Maybe 200 people were there..
Interesting video that the algorithm just shuffled to me...! Die Eier. It is pronounced "dee I err". Cheers from Germany! I saw Tool live once in Berlin early 2000s, but didnt like it much, probably due to the sound. And my ignorance. It is by far my most loved band now for years.
You got the Kanye lyrics wrong. It's scoopy-didd-whoop, not scoop-diddy-whoop. Who has ever heard of a scoop-diddy? That just doesn't make any sense. Everyone knows it's scoopy-didd. Poseur.
This video is for tool fans only🖕now go away
i LOVE HOW YOU put some chill parts of the songs as background music. Top content.
ya ya gud jerb
H. is such an intensely beautiful and vulnerable song. I love it.
Favorite video series currently, fear innoculum NOW
dude I LOVE these videos keep em coming. As a tool fan this is a real treat
As Maynard confirmed in one of his interviews, the song eulogy is about "tendencies" and as I delved into it, more specifically, I found it to be about "ego death", the loud voice within you that feels like it has a lot to say, as in, you have so much to prove to people and getting you own "self" recognized and credited for it, and feel a sense of superiority over others on a subconscious level, and the last line of the song provides the resolution to it, as in, how it is so much important for us to recognize and crucify that dormant ego within us in order to dedicate ourselves purely for the service of mankind excluding the selfish motives. And as I proceeded to look at the entire song through this lens, entire lyrics started making sense.
it's also what it sounds like it's about... art
Holy fuck, now that song makes 100 percent sense! Thankyou.
Favorite Tool album. Thank you so much for your break down. One of the first albums I ever bought way back in the 90's as a teen. I knew some of the info but you filled in a lot of the gaps. You're awesome and so is your video. Appreciate you!
one of the only youtubers that i’ve heard pronounce Ænima correctly lol. amazing video man!
See any MJK interview and he pronounces the name of the album On-ima. I don’t know how you can argue with the guy who was part of creating this masterpiece.
I wanted so bad to post a video link of every band member calling it On-ima.
Aw-nim-uh
who is? Cuz it wasn't this one. It's AH-nima.
Incorrect.
Thank you, your analysis and editing is absolutely great for a small channel. I'm always excited to watch your new videos.
46 and 2 gets into some odd territory. It's supposed to be about humanities next stage of evolutionz which is the 46 and 2 chromosomes. We have 44 and 2 now. It also talks about our shadow, which is a Jungian concept. Our shadow is the part of ourselves that we don't like and we don't want to face, but in order to evolve, to reach the 46 and 2, you have to turn, face your shadow and engage with it. Hence the "I've been wallowing in my own chaotic, insecure delusions, I want to feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning" and "step into my shadow, coming out the other side, step into my shadow, 46 and 2 just ahead of me."
There's some seriously wild ideas on this album, double so because back before everyone had the Internet ideas like the above are difficult to be exposed to, unlike now where you can run across any information at any time. Plus religion was still pretty entrenched back then so those new age type concepts were seen as dangerous. I learned about the whole third eye thing back in 98 because of what else, the song Third Eye. I hate it when people say "this is art" but everything about this record is art.
I msg"d the TOOL website the day it launched and asked questions about them recently coming to NZ and if 46&2 had anything to do with Carl Jung's Shadow theories. The reply exactly as typed.... Loved NZ. Loved the Beer.Loved the People. 46&2 is partly Jung, partly others, partly ours.....that was it. Not signed off by any name but I was very pleased to get this email.
Lateralus is the better album front to back, but I listen to songs from Aenima more often
real shit
Lateralus is widely accepted as the best
I think the track Intermission has much more meaning when taken in the context of the following track. It represents the playfulness that came with Maynards childhood to me. The very abrupt change from the whimsical organ to the heavier guitar riff makes me think of a sudden, dark change in Maynard’s life
I like this idea a lot!
@@mysto_fps Thank you! I really love your interpretation of Pushit. The slower part at the beginning of the second half of the song really does feel like a mental break to me; and it makes the narrators decision to kill the other person in the relationship feel that much more visceral. Great video! :D
That’s how I’ve thought of Intermission
This was a very important album to me before I got into Nine Inch Nails, and friends… but, I don’t dwell on past phases too much. But Stinkfist, the lyrics hit me specifically as an adult. The constant search for emotional validation, nothing ever feeling good anymore, being further and further away from feeling entirely. It really makes me feel like, really represented. Especially as someone who’s really emotionally cold and distant.
To me, it really reflects on my borderline personality disorder. And the depersonalization I feel
Thanks for you interpretations - I like your perceptions and find them very helpful to see things I was blind to.
Imo its the greatest album of all time. This album struck such a strong cord with me. My pfp should show my love. I honestly can't name my favorite track as I love every single one.
Jimmy always reminds me of home. I live in Ohio about a quarter of a mile from state route 11 so I always think of it when I come home from anywhere bc “under a dead Ohio sky, 11 is dead and will be waiting…..I’m so glad that I have found you, I am wide awake and heading home”
My favorite album, i even have the eye that's on the back of the cd tattooed on the inside of my right arm, a part of the body that really hurts when tattooed, this album changed my life, as this band did too, thank you sir for doing this, keep going, spiral out!!
16:30 how is it possible that I literally learned about this in school today?? Great video, I love tool!
This Album IMO The Greatest Art Ever Assembled. My Lord For 25 Years YES Meant Sooooo Much To A Man Who's Diagnosed With Schizophrenia And A Man Going Through This Life Solo. (Staring down the hole again hands around my back again survival is my only friend Terrified of what may come).
From Something has to change All the way to Pry and open my third eye.
One point Told My Brother Bury this CD by my side.
I love the videos, I love TOOL, great work man please keep me coming!
I found your channel about a week ago and watched the 10000 days video. I subbed after about two minutes. Very nice job mate.
18:00 Further to your point, Aenima's lyrics are a direct reference to the Bill Hicks standup segment 'Arizona Bay' during which he talks about his personal hatred of Los Angeles and the people that live there.
Arizona Bay is the theoretical name for the body of water that would be created when the 'big one' Earthquake destroys the City of Los Angeles and sends it beneath the Pacific Ocean, destroying the City and killing everyone in it in the process.
Maynard shared Hicks' hatred of Los Angeles and the people that lived there, only choosing to live there because he had to due to the music industry. He has since moved to Arizona.
Your videos on these albums are always a treat, It's great to know that people still love and think about music like this. Since moving to a new campus so many people here just dont seem to care much about this stuff, and even if they do, it feels so hard to just break that invisible barrier and connect in meaningful ways. I think the themes of this album are more relevant than ever and it sucks that people have failed to learn these lessons over and over again. Such an important album.
Aside from that, I am happy you're getting more funding for these, would also love to see you explore stuff from bands like Karnivool, APC, or even SOAD. But I dont know all your tastes and would prefer to see stuff that you personally enjoy anyway. Hope all is well!
Yeah incredible job. I’ve been listening to Aenima since it came out but I still learned a lot. I can’t come close to figuring out what ANY musicians are saying so this was really nice.
I love these videos! Im saving the lateralus one for later when i get off work lol you should make them on specific songs where you can go more into depth on the ideas
I don’t think anyone else has dissolve this album the way you did. Thank you for unlocking your perspective and give us more.
I always saw stinkfist as a dual meaning with each one relying on one another to say what it means. One being more obvious about being fisted as you say to go deeper within you to feel it more like you used to to get better sexual stimulation as you need this stimuli to breath, feel, and know you’re alive. The other being less about sex of course but about how everyone keeps chasing more and more feeling and experience but you obviously never get to any sort of satisfaction because it’s all already gone, you’ve taken it all as you’re shoulder deep and that’s as far as you’ll get in it. And now, forever bent apart you can never return to a love. And what I mean by “you” is humans as a whole species. We always chase and go faster and faster till the terrane around us is blurred. We’ll never enjoy a scenery again. As of Ænima I feel similar. I basically see it as a hate letter to humans and an ask to Mother Nature to perform an enema on herself to flush all the dirty shit away (humans). Also what is the animation the starts in the beginning of the video. I really recognize it and I think I saw it years ago when I was a kid but I had no idea what it was then.
I've been listening to TOOL since the early 90s. I'm happy to have found your channel. Cheers, my good sir.
I love these videos so much
I love that little quote you said for H. When I was first getting into tool on my own that was one of the first concerts I heard
This is always likely to be my favourite Tool album - possibly my favourite album ever - as it is the one that pulled me willingly into the moshpit. A work of art and a truly amazing sounding record. Fun fact about useful idiot is that on the vinyl, the sound of the needle jumping runs off into the groove, and so if your record player for whatever reason doesn't eject the stylus, the track never ends and you are the weaver.
Third Eye may be my favorite tool song of all time. Good video.
Pushit live from salival is one of the best recordings ever.
Rosetta stoned beats third eye in my opinion third eye has more meaning but Rosetta stones has so much going on chaotic parts peaceful parts and more fun than emotion. But it's close third eye is my second favorite song from them. Great videos keep it up.
Third Eye didn't really stand out for me... before I heard the live Salival iteration of it. that version is just pure concentrated insanity and an emotional rollercoaster, holy hell. I get goosebumps every time I hear it, definetely my pick for the №1 TOOL song.
Rosetta is also one of my favs, discovered recently that some people really disliked it for some reason and was shocked a little :o
rosetta is their weakest effort
@bullscifer agree to disagree I don't think any of their stuff is weak effort, I agree with most people 10000 days isn't their best album by far but Rosetta has a lot of memories built around it for me.
i think that rosetta stoned has a lot of cool ideas that go nowhere
@@n1codabosh878 yeah its definitely more standalone than the rest of tools stuff it doesn't fit in anywhere
The title track has always been my personal favorite, with Eulogy being the close second. It's the most hateful song I've ever heard, and yet all of that anger is justified in its pure intentions to wipe the slate clean of all the crap. It's a twisted dream for a better world by any means necessary, and I love every second of it.
This has been an amazing series. Love your content. Don’t stop please
You, Sir, are a professional.
I always felt like Eulogy was also meant for a "persona" that a person creates for themselves. People listen, absorb, and even become that persona which is not really who you are. That persona is what people want to be or feel they should portray to the outside world.
When the time comes, when you grow as a person, you start to kill that persona, that shell, that cacoon. This song is also an eulogy for that person. Part of your ego, a liar that won't die for you. A persona that stands above the ground and you are so eager to identify with someone above the ground. We also personify the religious figures and all that. I think this song has a parallel to the masks people put on themselves.
Finally!! I've been waiting for weeks
Seeing them live on this tour was life changing
💯
I've been waiting for this for a long while
Stinkfist & 40six&two played as much a role in me playing guitar as KoRn and Deftones in the mid 90s. Awesome tracks.
Phenomenal video and even better analysis. Thank you!!
Been waiting for this one to drop 🔥incredible analysis once again🔥
I found your channel last night and immediately was looking forward to you covering this album. Absolutely insane timing. Also you sound like redlyne
Great video and analysis.
Love that Bill Hicks clip in the intro he's one of my fav comedians
Hell yeah been waiting on this one!
Excellent video on an excellent album! Bravo man!
Simple thought on the baby screaming and con/di-vergence. It's both. A new life makes connections and breaks others. Maybe not always but probably.
If you haven’t already you should make a video about cracke the Skye! One of my favorite albums ever and the story it follows is insane on top of it also being about the drummers sister
Stellar job on this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These videos are amazing, you gotta get all the tool albums done
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE OMG
Thank goodness there won't be another tool. The truth is every band that achieves greatness needs to have its own identity. You are not a member of tool, therefore you will not be in access to their brains and experiences and whatever... This is a blessing. Do you think for yourself and strive to follow their example
I cant wait till fear Inoculum my personal favorite tool album
Aenima is the greatest drum album ever recorded, no contest 😀🙌
The whole "Considerately killing me" thing doesn't lend itself to parenthood, or new life, or a relationship with his new child in my analysis of the lyrics.
The snake has always been a representation of heroin addiction e.g. a syringe likened to fangs. When you gear lyrics about the snake biting, it's about heroin. Thought you knew that.
An alternative view would entail an addict confronting his addiction and alluding to his past experiences and feelings as liabilities-nobody knows how low you will go until you are strung out, dope sick and the crawlies threatening eruption any time.
That us what he is trying to address, distancing himself from dope but its pull is very strong even from a distance; in his mind it's right next door.
In the end he realizes the need for the taste will always be there. It's time for him to make a decision ...
Edit- one is loath to assign meanings that would be abrasive to common mankind as well as possibly fostering the belief that one's weltanschauung leans misanthropic.
I merely presented a perspective that has a bounty of evidence to back it up and provenance in literature and in visual media.
All their songs sound like the throwing muses with a angry dude singer
I've been waiting for this....
I always figured the “claw your throat away” line in Pushit wasn’t so literal, but instead meant that, after reaching their breaking point, the person undergoing the abuse reached their breaking point and retaliated, acting in a way that had no purpose other than to harm them “lethally” in an emotional sense. Easily one of if not the best Tool song
The track "Jimmy" hits me so hard. My mom left when I was 11 and I had to live with my father. It wasn't pleasant and I suddenly found myself alone in life.
In my opinion, I find pushit to be the best track on this album, it feels so surreal throughout and the change from being soft to heavy all throughout the song just hits so hard. The lyrics are so fantastic and it’s so well written. And the vocals at the end of the song are so powerful and beautiful.
Even better on salival
personally, i am 1000% certain that AEnima, as a whole, is the re-telling of a long, deep, beginning-to-end path of psychologic therapy that maynard took & experienced.
My fav album of all-time
I was lucky enough to see the band on the Ænima tour... The venue was heaving with energy. Less of the pretence of 10000 days era and after, just the band at their energetic peak playing to an audience ready to submit to the collective audience power. Lateralus is the "better album", but Ænima is the more powerful.
Eulogy was totally about L Ron Hubbard, he sings about him in enema , L Ron Hubbard try to recruit him into Scientology, and they did a whole concert at the Scientology celebrity center !
Im probably just dumb, but i cant find the document you mention around the 15:50 timestamp in the description?
And it goes without saying, (but i will anyway) another great video! ive always had my own idea of what H and Pushit meant to me, but hearing it laid out like you did metamorphosed the way i interpret them now.
I forgot to add it! Its there now but heres the link
docs.google.com/document/d/1DdckvgUFpZY5pzKBMxciS9NQM9WQTFi8bJVUBz76ics/edit?usp=sharing
Undertow
Excellent review and interpretation
What’s the stop motion video in the background?
Maybe you'd enjoy reading the Zhuangzi.
Eulogy is literally about Maynards friend Bill Hicks. Theres even the little painting of Hicks in the album art. Another dead hero. The title track contains the lyric " see you down in Arizona Bay", a reference to a music/ comedy album Hicks was writing when he died of Pancreatic Cancer in 1994, which was later released in 1997. And the obvious samples of Hicks at the beginning of Third Eye. The idea for the song Aenima came from Hicks bit about California breaking off and sinking into the Pacific due to a massive quake.
It's not true, they had good relationship, obviously, unlike the person reffered to in the song. They, litterally, dedicated Aenima to Bill Hicks.
Beautiful
I like how you snuck the Deftones Change (In the house of flies) in there
should've snuck-in "Passenger".
@@SosumiInche used it with the word “change” so passenger wouldn’t fit. Great song tho for sure
Thank you brother. 😊
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Tools awesome. If you want an album that will blow you away, give Acid Baths When the Kite String Pops a listen to.
Undertow deep dive is gonna hit like crack
When the timing of him talking about the part in Pushit converged with the song playing in the background it reminded me of when the ball in pong would hit right in the corner of the TV screen.
amazing!
As a Christian im interested to hear your take on the part where you mentioned the egocentric martyrs who want to feel important and what you meant by that. I mean if martyrs die for the sake of or in defence of their faith, wouldnt you agree that ego would need to be absent. And in Jesus case their was truly no ego because he died for the sins of others he didnt commit in order to give them a chance at eternal life with the father in heaven. Maybe you agree with Maynard, maybe you dont, but i would like to hear your perspective
Two perspectives here:
1) the book "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors" discusses the overarching point of the cross in the song.
2) A case could be made that every loud and assured person post (or pre?)-Jesus, unable to look within before pointing outward, was attempting to recreate the recipe Jesus established, attempting to make their loud, boastful words into a way to absolve the sins of mankind, without an awareness that nobody really cared about their sacrifice, and that sacrifice would be forgotten.
I think both perspectives apply equally, as Maynard likes to have more than 4 or 5 simultaneous meanings to his songs.
Taking psychedelics is ripping open your 3rd eye. Cheating in a way to experience the creators realm. Some attain it safely through Christ, others create a void that can be filled by any Jin or spirit that isn't necessarily benevolent or has your best interest.
Yo...coldexer makes killer animations.
5:05 you could’ve cited where the quote was from, I believe you got it from the 1996 electric factory performance? Good video nonetheless!👍
Thank you
If Third Eye isn’t your favorite track from Aenima, I don’t know what to tell you.
You should review Maynard's other albums with Puscifer and A Perfect Circle!
I might hit some APC records but I don't really enjoy Puscifer!
@@mysto_fps Fair enough, Puscifer is a weird band.
@@mysto_fps I would kill for an analysis of eat the elephant
I attended a tool show at the church of Scientology..there was a very large female woman in a bikini dancing on stage with the band. Maybe 200 people were there..
You gotta do Opiate next
Interesting video that the algorithm just shuffled to me...! Die Eier. It is pronounced "dee I err". Cheers from Germany! I saw Tool live once in Berlin early 2000s, but didnt like it much, probably due to the sound. And my ignorance. It is by far my most loved band now for years.
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the shortest track in tools discorgraphy is hush
Pleass do Untertow and Fear Innoculum at some point.
I think there is more to intermission
Is I think from 'something wicked this way comes' played on calliope
Martyrs air egocentric is the most dip shit statement I’ve ever heard
Can you please do fear innoculum next
Maynard wrote Eulogy for the comedian Bill Hicks. 👍
i think i’m here a little too early
It has been fixed!
Pushit my favorite all time song, by any band.
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