First Time Hearing Tool Schism (Reaction!!)
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I thought the vocals were just okay when I first heard this. It’s a grower, trust me! His staccato vocals on this are perfect for the theme of the song and now I can’t imagine any other vocal melody or rhythm on Schism.
Your stick thingies in the background were made for this song
What are all these Legos doing all over the floor?!!! I know these pieces fit, and you best get 'em together, and FAST!!! 😂
If you haven't heard Tool Sweat yet, you NEED to. It's 1st on Tool's 1st album because if'n you ain't ready to Sweat, just leave the Tool in the box, boy.
FYI, aliens are simply fallen angels/devils in disguise. The Rapture will happen very soon. Everything he said to watch for, we're seeing. He said when you see it, REJOICE & fear NOT. Seeing all this means he is VERY close. Come quickly Lord Jesus
“Cold silence has the tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers”
One of the best lines ever put to paper imo
And something everyone who's been in a failing relationship can relate to.
Those lines have been echoing in my head since I first heard them 30 yrs ago
I generally think of the line without the last three words, but it is also beautiful to think of it that way!
@@jesseturnip 22 years ago
Interesting choice for a favorite line out of all Maynards stuff. Personal experience with that?
That spinny thing in the back goes well with Tool music
Can’t help but stare at it lol
That's Justin with the riff starting the song! Despite this being such a played Tool song, in the right state of mind, its totally entrancing
There's way more played out songs from Tool, but yes this did get a ton of radio play, thankfully. Can't even imagine a song this long and this complex on the radio today 😅
It's a totally entrancing riff to play on guitar, or bass, as well. You can get lost in that sh*t!
@@hettel_visual 7empest got radio play...
Yeah John, it amazes me how many people give Adam credit for Justin's music. But that's why Justin is a great bassist! 👍
Justin is the GOAT. He might not replicate Les Claypool but his tone and technique and creativity are second to none.
I'm thoroughly convinced that Tool is the most important band in music.
Tool Army inbound in 3...2...1...
1 2 3 5 8 11
yes hello, Private McGee reporting in
Or more like 1...1....2.3....5.....8
🫡
😂😂
This song has something like 47 meter changes, with 12 time signatures, but instead of just being noise for the sake of noise, it is a nuanced, emotionally devastating and powerful song. There are other bands that achieve this, but none as consistently as Tool. To balance the emotion and the technical prowess is rare. Often it is one or the other.
Still hoping for a 6 hour Tool | Radiohead show one day. Just the weird stuff that won't ever make the radio often can do.
Well said my friend 👊
Time signature and Meter are basically the same thing. I like to think of TOOL in meter more than signatures. Because of the way they add phrases or beats in between measures so that polyrhythms may align or Maynard can have an extra word etc…you can tell they are writing by feel, not by counting. They make statements that are concise like sentences and when people outside the band come in and chop it up you have to say well look there is a bar of 3/4 and then one of 7 and one of 5 and then there is an extra beat so Maynard can finish his line….. thats interesting but its NOT what the band is doing when they are writing. It reminds me a lot of Djembe playing in West Africa. Especially who ever is soloing at the moment. They split up the groove into polyrhythms by playing different times over the main rhythm of the Dun Dun’s. But they do not think about numbers. They are patterns that make phrases but MOST importantly you practice so that they become FEELINGS and then you express your feelings. They do not think about time and the grand masters are the greatest drummers on Earth. Its the same with TOOL. They may use some numerology in the initial construction of the songs but by the time they have the tunes practiced, you take off the training wheels and just rip it up time feel, execution and sonic creativity.
Check out Isis (the band). Justin played bass in one of their songs
i love that i only had to read this to learn this. thank you so much for posting this, love it
This is the song that introduced me to Tool, and the rest is history. Glad you finally got to hear this one, very sentimental to me.
Same for me. I was in middle school when it came out. It was unlike anything I had ever heard before. I’ve been craving more and more ever since.
Same for me! 👏
TOOL has an uncanny ability to make you sit back and breathe with the song. It's what makes their music so powerful. This is why everyone references riding the spiral. It is a full on experience in ever sense of the word. Nice react, Polo, my dude!
I have a feeling this one will grow on you A LOT with more listens. It's really something special. Solidly in my top 10 list for TOOL.
You couldn't tell me this wasn't in their top 5 when I was listening 15 years ago now there's so many other songs that I find myself liking just as much or more that I used to think weren't as good. I was so happy this got put on guitar hero over so many other good choices. It's weird maybe it depends on which songs you heard first, this was one of the first songs I listened to back then when a friend showed me who they were so maybe that has something to do with it.
@@greggjohnson5634 It was the first TOOL song that I really fell in love with and it was my favorite until Pneuma came along. Then I finally got around to exploring more of their earlier work and now I'm a huge fan.
This song is hypnotic and trippy as fuck. This record came out during a time in my life when I was absolutely immersed in LSD, and this song rapidly became not only one of my favourites from this record, but eventually one of my favourite Tool tunes of all time.
It’s so hard to believe you have listened to more tool songs than I can count and haven’t reacted to this one yet. Mind blown 🤯
I was thinking the same thing.
I actually discovered Tool through this song via Guitar Hero 3, when I was about 13. Been hooked ever since, love this song
This was in World Tour not 3
This was in World Tour, one game after. But yeah I also discovered Tool through Guitar Hero at a very young age
First time I saw them live was I believe 9/20/01 in Cleveland OH. I'm pretty sure it was the 20th, at least it's in my head that it was 9 days after, either way it was in that ballpark. It was surreal looking out over the crowd after days of not being sure if the show was even going to happen at that point or not. Not to mention what had just happened. It was a great way to start getting back to something like normal. It goes without saying that the show was phenomenal.
I remember that because it had you play Parabola/Schism/Vicarious back to back. Kicked my 12 year old ass. 😂 The only set in the game I failed in Hard Mode.
@Justin Freitag dude, that’s impressive. I haven’t even played the game in probably 10 years.
Ok, I discovered Tool about a year ago. In the nineties, I was listening to other stuff and being totally ignorant, I thought they were a metal group. I based it on how they looked. SMH now. I was blown away when I finally listened to them. I’m a child of the 70’s and love hard rock of that era. At age 66, I’m a big fan of their musicality, the vocals, everything!
I'm assuming you're around my age (42) I got into tool when I moved from an "urban" school to the burbs. Had to adapt to a totally different vibe and try and be open minded. That's when one of my friends introduced me to tool (and other rock/metal). 25+ years later I'm still a massive tool fan. TLDR; welcome to the club 😊
Tool is metal
I'm so glad you found them and have fallen in love with their incredibly amazing music!! My dad is 63 and didn't like ANY of my music growing up, but he's a huge Zeppelin fan (as am I of course!), so I played Tool for him once and he instantly loved them and knows every single lyric now! He even happens to live in the same town as Maynard now and has met him a couple of times! I'm so jealous! 🤣
Well then, welcome to the Tool army Ruth! I’ve been a member ever since I saw them live on their very first tour in the early 90’s. I was 17-18 and I’m now nearly 49.
@@davidsuch8942nope lol. Prog rock.
One of the deepest songs EVER!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
What!?! After all those other Tool songs you’re finally doing Schism!? My mind is blown. But dood, I’m really looking forward to your reaction to Third Eye, the studio version. Whenever that happens, I want to be there see you transform…
For me, I love this particular song because it really builds a repetitive, frustrated tension based on the subject matter. It seems to be about a relationship slowly falling apart, both in communication and feeling, and that comes out in the repetitive, aggressive way it's composed and in Maynard's voice. It's almost like he's recounting how it happened over and over in his head, repeating to himself that he can make it work again and trying to come to terns with things.
It doesn't have the crazy moments like some other Tool songs, but I feel that the entire song is it's own 'crazy moment' because it paints in both music, tone, and tempo such a distinct, strong story and state of emotion.
This is the song that actually got me into ToOL, I remember me and my older brother were watching MTV together when I was a teen and this music video would come on and I was just amazed by how eerie the video was. This song stuck with me for ever and then one day much later in life is when I revisited their music and THEN I became a blown out Tool fan.
It's been what... just about 30 years now or something... I still find myself strumming the guitar riff of this with finger taps while doing stuff at work constantly. This song is infectous.
22 years
We aren’t that old yet ha it’s only been 22 years
That little toy you have back there complements the music so well
I remember first hearing on the radio as the lead off single for this album. It was mind blowing. You could tell that TOOL had made an evolution in their music and the album was going to be something special. Then the radio station here in Oklahoma (100.5 KATT before it got bought out), played the full album the Sunday before it was released. Suspicions confirmed: It was something special. Great reaction.
Remember tool Tuesday on that station when I used to live in okc
I was in basic training (Army) 20 years ago and we were allowed phone calls on certain nights. I would call my friends and ask them to play certain TOOL songs over the phone.
Because I didn’t want to talk. I just wanted to hear greatness.
This is for you, or anyone reading this who has gone through a heartbreaking split up, or who are going through tough times with a significant other. Or if you can’t stop thinking about that someone you grew apart from: turn on Schism with your headphones on, turn up the volume and think about them, and really pay attention to the lyrics. It might take a couple listens, but this song will surely resonate even stronger with everyone.
One of the great "mainstream" tool songs... many people's 1st exposure
This song just goes deeper and deeper as it unfolds. nice quality
Thi song does something strange as you keep on hearing it and it changes into a complex work of genius. You won’t catch it one first listen or even third but you’ll notice over time you stop skipping over it to get to the higher energy songs. Almost 30 years since I first heard it and it has morphed so many times. I think that’s the genius about Schism.
This was the first single off of this album. I remember waiting on mtv for it to premiere and it was absolutely worth it.
I had to be class that day so I set my VCR timer (remember those?) to record it.
@@jrod112278 and going to record stores to buy physical copies on release day! Hell, I went to L5P in Atlanta to buy the vinyl when it came out.
@@chadcross8008 I paid to reserve my physical copy at Hastings prior to purchasing my copy.
I remember waiting at Zia records in line in Phoenix at midnight of Tuesday am when they started the sale of the CD. Same with 10,000 days my cousin who recently passed and I would do this. Love you Joe.
Adams riff right as the bridge starts is one of the most heaviest, awesome riffs ever written. It’s simple yet so awesome
This song was one to grow on me and it’s now one of my favourites. A deserved Grammy. A tidy and complete composition with all members shining.
The cool thing with all of these tool videos is knowing what polo is in for as the song progresses and having the moment of "oh you like that? Well check this part where they turn it up a notch"
I’m always like … “BUT WAIT THERE’S MOREEEEEEE!”
One of my absolute favorite Tool songs. Really just one of my favorite songs altogether.
This is one of my favorite songs, not just by Tool, but overall. Thanks for reacting to it. Once you've had a chance to listen to all of the individual songs on the album, I'd recommend listing to the whole album 2 times: once in order track listing order, so you can see how the musical themes presented in the first few help to build the album as released and once in "Fibonacci Order" (AKA the "Holy Gift"), so you can have your mind totally blown.
You should check out a live Schism performance. They add a fast interlude that's fire.
Actually, they have several songs that they extend live.
It is Toolsday 🤙🤘 that's what's up. I remember back in school when this was on the radio.
This was the song that made me a Tool fan. I remember the first time I heard it... sitting in a Taco Bell parking lot and I was completely hooked from the first listen
Same for me, my first TOOL love!
Yep then watching the music video on MTV
This was my hook too. First time I heard them and I immediately had to hear more.
Hearing this song for the first time is something you could never forget.
My Taco Bell manager got me into Tool.
This is one of those Tool songs that grow with you once you get familiar with it. This is actually one of their greatest songs. Gotta give a couple listen.
The blank face for the last 10 seconds of the song told so much ... almost disbelief that you were hearing that and trying to keel up with danny gettin TF .. OFF.
LOVE YOUR REACTS ❤.
You are one of the most authentic and best Tool Reactors. Your facial expression alone is worth its weight in gold. You feel it and I love it. Best regards from Germany
My friends every time back in the day.
Me:"Check this song out."
Them:"It's ok."
Me, staring at them as the song progresses.
Them, their head bobbing:"It could grow me."
Me, all Pedro Pascal smile in the passenger seat staring as they start headbanging.
Them:"It was ok."
A couple days later...
Them, all ravenous like they haven't eaten:"Hey man I gotta hear that song again. I couldn't get it out of my head!!"
Days later...
Us, driving down the road, jamming and screaming at the top of our lungs, album on repeat.
Sometimes this process took months but once they got it they were hooked.
Reminds me of some of your reviews. Love it.😂
Dude, if I could afford to do it, I would be honored to attend a tool show with you and buy your ticket!
They sound the same live. It is an amazing experience. I’ve seen them 3x.
Can't wait to see them at Aftershock in October, it will be my first time seeing them at a festival. And agree, they can back up their talent live, it's one of the many reasons they are the 🐐
@@RosettaStoned462 I’ll be seeing them for the 7th time but first festival at Rockville! Along with Puscifer! I’m beyond stoked! Everyone should experience them live at least once.
I've had this song as my ringtone forever. Everytime it rings it creates a schism. It totally disrupts whatever else is going on. The irony is the device leads to communicating. Ah TOOL, you 4 genius bastards. I'm 50/50 on them being from this planet. Especially the Octopus, " H "
So happy you got to it!!! Heck yes!! The melody will grow on you. It took awhile for me but once it clicked, it fit
When this song debuted on the radio, I was hella baked, driving through downtown Seattle just after rush hour.
When the bridge/guitar solo section came in, I had to pull over… until the song was over… Then I just turned the stereo off and just sat there.
I then after a minute (I think) of silence and city noise, I noticed a few people standing kinds close to my car. Yup, my window was down and they were like, “Dude! Was that the new Tool!?”
“Yup!” ,I replied, as I came out of that sonic bubble Tool had created.
To the sound of “Later dude” I got back into traffic and went work.
I didn’t turn the stereo back on the whole way to work.
Brilliant.
😬
Danny’s drum parts at the end of every song are so good it’s ridiculous
Tool is unique. The only band I know that every one of their songs sound better and better with each listen. Most bands if you listen over and over you get tired of it. Not Tool. With every listen you hear something new and you grow to appreciate the song more and more. Everyone of their songs is like that. Not saying you didn't like this one, but listen a few more times and you will think it's incredible.
The song is mainly about themselves. They had a bit of a falling out with each other after the aenima album and the record label legal troubles. They basically forced themselves to get back together, and they created this album. The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, Finding beauty in the dissonance!!! Between supposed brothers
This is one of those songs that the more you listen to, the more you love it. It’s easily top 10 for me
I think Schism is one of those songs that needs a couple of plays before it gets good(er). Granted, most Tool songs need more plays but I feel that liking Schism after one listen is rarer than The Pot for example.
In my case, one listen to this song 20 years ago was all I needed. I will never forget that day. Then Prison Sex and Sober closed the deal!
My favorite Tool's song, masterpiece
Godspeed brother. Schism what enlisted me in the Army. I'm a lifer. Uniform on
Please don’t forget Opiate… the song and the album… it’s the first thing I ever heard from Tool and many of the songs are live recordings. I love Tool, but my favorites are still Opiate and Undertow just like Bleach is my favorite from Nirvana still. Little more raw and messy, but those are qualities I like and they do it so well! Just as good as the other stuff, but different.
I’ve been on an Opiate bender lately and have listened to it straight through every day for the last month or so. I agree it’s so raw, but sooo damn powerful! Jerk-off is my jam, and I can’t wait for Polo to hear Maynard play God! 🔥
@@itsayswithoutgoing9571 I agree!! I love Jerk Off! I first heard it when it came out and I still have Opiate benders too! I just know Polo is going to love it! lol 🔥🤘
In this song Justin and the lyrics are of another planet!
Top 10 tool songs (in no particular order):
Schism
Rosetta Stoned
Right in Two
Eulogy
Vicarious
Descending
Pneuma
Lateralus
Parabola
Reflection
I don't know how to play an instrument, but I absolutely love the intro where it sounds like the base is literally doing a rolling "R" sound. CHILLS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
And this was Justin's riff. The two of them are equally credited as to the amount of ideas and writing there is. As well as Danny of course...u know the greatest drummer on the planet
Tool is epic. Such amazing musicianship and progressive melody. They are def in my Top 5 all time
This one of the only Tool songs i've ever heard on the radio, it's that good.
"Beautifully aggressive" is a perfect description!
This song is a brutal skeleton. It's bones are tribal rhythm and math rock complexity. It's tight skin is a blissful harmony. Melody rides in the back seat on this one. It's a grower!
Beautifully Aggressive. Best description ever.
That opening riff is actually the bass guitar and it is THE bass line that haunts Guitar Center stores everywhere.
I can't imagine this bass riff behind stairway to heaven. 😂
@@lobotomizedjellyfish2171 thanks to Stranger Things it’s currently paired with “Master of Puppets”.
First TOOL song I ever heard. Was going through a break-up at the time and I have to say, this song hit me like a brick in my face. Still my favorite of theirs for how meaningful and introspective it is, especially when compared to most pop music break-up songs.
The gentleman and scholar on the bass guitar Justin Chancellor with that intro 👌
This...
The single song that hooked me!! ❤🔥
The bass in the interlude in this heals my soul!
My first time hearing Tool was Sober when it first aired on mtv. I was hooked right away by that bass opening. I have always enjoyed their music but never really, I mean really got it consciously till about a year ago when I started to practice bass and tool was my number one. It took awhile to realize why their music is tough to learn. I am grateful that I didn't miss this train!!!
Bro! How have you gone this long without hearing this one! This song is amazing
💚💚💚💚💚
"I KNOW the pieces fit, cause I WATCHED them fall away"
This song won a grammy and probably most successful song (often part of guitar hero video game too)
Adam, Justin, and Danny complement Maynard’s vocal cadence very well, or vice-versa. Collectively, they build crescendos and sink into diminuendos very smoothly.
10:25 there’s Danny being the octopus that he is!
I love that you took the time to make the "Tool to everyone else" VS. the "Tool vs. Tool" distinction. I feel like this was important.... Great stuff as always, keep on keepin' on... ;)
This song has a lot of value in the lyrics.
One of my favorites by Tool, but than again, there are so many favorites :D
The amount of different time signatures in this song are ridiculous even how they overlap between drum, guitar and bass playing in diff time is amazing. Which is why this is one of my favorite Tool songs
Watched Lateralis tour in Sac in 02… Most amazing show I’ve ever seen… My favorite bass line to play as well
Gotta say favorite Tool song
They played this one on the radio a LOT back when alternative rock stations were still a big thing. This one, The Pot and Sober might have gotten the most air play on radio. Somebody help me out with other Tool tracks that were on the radio a lot.
My favorite Tool song by far
Easily, easily a top 10 Tool song.
This was a song had to grow on me. Now it is one of my favorite songs to play on the bass.
This is your first reaction video that I have watched. Your raw reaction to the elemental diversity of Tool brought tears to my eyes. As a mixed race person who enjoys Tool it is beautiful to see you embrace the music. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
Just so you know, there's a lot of people from every race in the world that like tool they aren't just something only white people listen to
Love love love this song
It’s definitely a mood for this one. I am so lucky to have camped with friends and seen them live at the Gorge in WA. The part from 7:25 to about 9:30 bounced and echoed off the canyon walls and it was transcendent. It will be one of those memories I daydream about when I’m old(er) to remind myself of a life well lived. 💜
With Tool, you need to remember that sometimes the music is a vehicle to deliver the lyrics, sometimes the lyrics are the vehicle to deliver the music. After you finish your reactions to Tool, dive into the lyrics.
Keep doing what you do. No complaints about what you do, but if you want to truly appreciate everything they do, look at the lyrics.
Ahh my first Tool song. I was actually shown the music video and it was so strange it made me keep thinking about to point I delved in again to understand the meaning
This shits spiritual. Btw, The time signature is in 12/8 time which can also be called 6/4 time. But we count it in eight notes because makes more sense in this song. Go ahead count to 12 while listening to where it repeats. This is how time signatures work. You’ll be able to pick them out after a while. Poly rhythm means more than one rhythm at one time. For example the guitar could be playing a riff in 4/4 time and the drums could be playing in 3/4 which would would cause both lines to drift away from each other and come back together to meet after…you guessed it…12 counts altogether. Danny will play two rhythms at once on the drums alone at times.
This is my favorite Tool song to play on guitar. One reason is I love putting my pitch shifter effect pedal to use for the part in the middle of the song!
I'm a tool fan but I was born in Memphis, so I love the blues. I love u Polo, u are genuine ill subscribe.
Welcome to tool Polo. You're now one of the army. You got a lot more to listen to lol
Great honest review! One of the greatest basslines ever composed by Justin or anyone outside of Primus.
Schism is perfection the melody is solid thru out the beginning has feel of peace in the beginning vocals then the fire and then back to soft of opening melody it’s very solid ❤
I bought the swinging sticks from amazon and they came in the mail today. Got it set up as a sensory item for work as I work in community services/mental health. Cheers for the recommendation. 👌
Just saw your Bone basketball story, I'm 45 and grew up on the east side of Cleveland. Who knows, there may have been a time you heard earlier tool blasting from my car and wondered what's wrong with that white dude. Love your channel, takes me back to hearing all these for the first time.
Yooooo, those swinging sticks in the back are perfect for tool reactions. Get a couple more of those perpetual motion thingies on shelves. It'll look like metronomes for Danny.
We are Tool. You will assimilate. Love watching your reactions.
"beautifully aggressive"
Love it!!
I remember from the concert during the extended intermission they had tall silver painted figures walk through in A shape bobbing their heads. The out of world visuals in combination with such music will forever occupy my memory.
"Beautifully aggressive " legit made me LOL!
So many reactors seem to think some of Tools riffs are Adam, but in actuality, it’s Justin on the bass . Like the bass solo in Invicible