"What came before" is a very haunting line, I feel he's hinting at the idea of reincarnation or some alternate universe or plane of existence we dwelled in before being born..
Parabol/parabola is a must. It's a classic of their parabola album. Parabola is an intro into Parabola so it's a both needed situation. Although it's possible to go straight into parabola
"They really know how to make a 9 minute song fly by" is my absolute favorite comment you guys have ever made. years of watching y'all, and that one is it. How to describe Tool in the most understated way.
Oh yes, couldn't agree more. I myself is a Tool fan, and when they said that, i was like "no way this song is longer than 4/5mn". I didn't remember how long the song was. 9 freaking minutes ! Since this album dropped, i always thought this song was about 4 or 5 minutes length ! They do really know how to make time fly by...
Kind of in the same vein, I've been listening to Triad a lot lately and I'm always amazed at how a track that has no lyrics can keep me engaged through its entirety. It takes an incredible amount of talent and creativity to make an instrumental draw you in and keep you totally captivated for near on nine minutes.
Maynard’s poetry here is a sharp point. He doesn’t attack mankind. He simply leads us through the experience of overhearing a conversation about us. But we don’t know if we’re hearing it in a dream, or if we are lurking outside closed doors, looking to hear treacherous words about us. Stalking everyone due to our lack of ability to trust.
"Repugnant is the creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of it's fleeting time here" The single greatest lyric Ever written in Rock music imo.
@@ericflaherty4668 It's a good one, but I prefer: "Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver And she shows it off to all her friends One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her So she caged him up with a cyclone fence Along came Lou with the old baboon And said, 'I Recognize that smell.' Smells like seven layers That beaver eats Taco Bell!"
@DanielRodriguez-eh1qd Oh you son of a B, I love that one so much bro. I don't care what anybody says, Pearl Jam is one of the greatest bands and that's coming from a dude who got introduced to rock music and guitar playing by Nirvana. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my life story 😆
Very bland song imo, like most APC stuff after Mer De Noms. Would much rather them take on a technical song that encourages a deep analysis (Most Tool) or classics that don't get enough attention these days.
If you notice, the music progresses and evolves like the monkeys. It starts off very primal and slowly builds up into a frenzy as if they've gone from clubs to a blade, to an explosion ending in WW3
Cut It All Right in Two is also a reference to the Judgement of Solomon. Two women were fighting over a baby, so Solomon said to just cut the baby in half, knowing that the true mother would rather see a stranger raise her child, than to watch it die.
Agree this is amazing. However the bass is not playing with a wah pedal but with a pitch shifter pedal called a Digitech Bass Whammy. It’s quite different from a wah…
This is one of my favorite TOOL bangers of all time! I've been a fan since the 90's and still get goosebumps hearing TOOL songs!! They're epic every single listen! The lyrics of this song are so amazing on so many levels! It always makes me think about how everything we use are 'pieces of the ground'. Wood, metal, grass, trees, even our money is made of paper and metals that come from the ground! We mine for minerals to make other things! EVERYTHING we have are just pieces of the ground in different forms! Great video guys, and thanks for introducing TOOL to so many people!
This song is still so powerful. Great choice, guys. Thank you for continuing to do this. I’ve been watching for five years now and I’ve enjoyed your videos very much. Also discovered some artists that I really dig, here on your channel, so thanks for that too. The Mars Volta and Ren specifically, both artists you didn’t seem to dig but that’s cool, you still served as a conduit for new music and that is beautiful. Thanks
easily my favourite Tool song.. its absolute musical perfection and the perfect music-feeding-the-lyrics-feeding-the-music prog song. The song builds as the primitive 'monkeys' become more sophisticated and start to divide and take whats 'theirs'.. then the all out blitz (war).. and a return to the simple riff of the opening when everything is reset. The whole band just kills this tune. genius.
I’m biased because you all usually listen to so many of my favorite bands and songs But you remain the best and most relatable reactors on RUclips because of just HOW you listen to the songs and take them in, and how you let your reactions happen so naturally and instinctively. You also always make similar observations as I do, even if it’s your first listen. And I feel like taste-wise I’m such an equal 50/50 split between Ryan and George in terms of what I gravitate towards in a song 😂 Thanks for making me fall in love with my favorite artists again guys, and really being the gateway to reaction content in general. Real OG shit 🫡
My Tool top 10, in no particular order. 1. Parabol/Parabola 2. Ænima 3. 46&2 4. Pushit 5. The Grudge 6. Pneuma 7. Bottom 8. Hush 9. Lateralus 10. Third Eye
Lyrically, this song is incredibly deep and very much about humanity being judged by their actions. The lyrics skew it towards themes of war/occupancy, but the theme goes beyond that. Thanks for covering it, the song really resonated with me given the past week.
Probably my favorite Tool song from a meaning perspective. Makes sense the angels would be able to pinpoint the exact fundamental flaw of mankind. If you ask people, they might say we pollute the oceans, fight each other, don’t help the poor, etc etc. and while those are all flaws, the single FUNDAMENTAL flaw is that where there’s one we’re bound to divide it right in two. Beautiful to state that since we can’t solve all those other issues unless we address the ROOT issue. Those issues I mentioned (and more) aren’t THE problem, just symptoms of the problem. Taking one and dividing it right in two. I love to try to keep that in mind at all times
I’ve been listening to Tool for over Thirty years now. Watching you guys take on these songs makes me realize how different Tool still, seeing your anticipation or expectations for the song to go a certain way.
I figured this must have been a repost of an old reaction but i click anyway. I was thinking to myself "surely this REALLY didn't just drop. I thought i've seen all of their TOOL reactions. Well what the f--k.". Watching your older TOOL reactions (back in the day) is what got me hooked on watching TOOL reactions. You guys and TOOL is like comfort food to me now.
this song was so eye opening to a young me back in the day, and it is so relevant today more than ever... everyone should listen to these lyrics and meditate. We need to stop dividing everything right in two, it will be our demise as a species.
The best thing about this song just like alot of tool songs is even after like 20 years of listening to it, ya hear or notice things ya never coped before.
You really need to do Bottom from undertow. That song is right up your alley. Plus I don’t think you guys have explored their old stuff, at least not publicly anyways. Like others are saying, the whole album is 🔥🔥🔥
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. Lyrics burned in my head
My favorite lyric of all time. So much wisdom in those words.
Deliberately timeless lyrics.
Truth upon truth, and how it remains so relevant day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year. So sad.
And burned into our very DNA for centuries...this song's message will resonate as long as we live
Yeah that line, chefs kiss
The fact that Parabol/Parabola hasnt been done is crazy. That song is a masterpiece in itself.
"What came before" is a very haunting line, I feel he's hinting at the idea of reincarnation or some alternate universe or plane of existence we dwelled in before being born..
definitely needed
that needs to be the next video
I hope they do more deep cuts. Id love to hear reflection.
Parabol/parabola is a must. It's a classic of their parabola album. Parabola is an intro into Parabola so it's a both needed situation. Although it's possible to go straight into parabola
"They really know how to make a 9 minute song fly by" is my absolute favorite comment you guys have ever made. years of watching y'all, and that one is it. How to describe Tool in the most understated way.
Oh yes, couldn't agree more. I myself is a Tool fan, and when they said that, i was like "no way this song is longer than 4/5mn". I didn't remember how long the song was. 9 freaking minutes ! Since this album dropped, i always thought this song was about 4 or 5 minutes length ! They do really know how to make time fly by...
Kind of in the same vein, I've been listening to Triad a lot lately and I'm always amazed at how a track that has no lyrics can keep me engaged through its entirety. It takes an incredible amount of talent and creativity to make an instrumental draw you in and keep you totally captivated for near on nine minutes.
It has to be that way ...given the topics
For me it's the anticipation of something amazing coming that makes the song time go fast. If that makes sense. Haha
On point! Exactly my feelings when listening to Tool......all of the music of Tool!
Maynard’s poetry here is a sharp point. He doesn’t attack mankind. He simply leads us through the experience of overhearing a conversation about us. But we don’t know if we’re hearing it in a dream, or if we are lurking outside closed doors, looking to hear treacherous words about us. Stalking everyone due to our lack of ability to trust.
10,000 days is still my favorite tool album. Whole album slaps and goes deep
I have a list of "Perfect" albums. 10,000 Days is on that list.
Aenima is the Best album
@@marianocaminiti2382 Glad you think so. Opinions vary.
Me too, that album is a very personal album for me, the time, the lyrics. The pieces fit!
I thought Anema was better, but it's just my opinion.
This is one of their best songs in my opinion.
Yes and then you go to the next song and that becomes their best song haha
@@scotchboyWhat's wrong with the next song? (Viginti Tres if I remember correctly) To me it's actually a very cool ambient piece, never got the hate
💯 personally? THE BEST
"Repugnant is the creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of it's fleeting time here"
The single greatest lyric Ever written in Rock music imo.
@@ericflaherty4668 It's a good one, but I prefer:
"Wynona's got herself a big brown beaver
And she shows it off to all her friends
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her
So she caged him up with a cyclone fence
Along came Lou with the old baboon
And said, 'I Recognize that smell.'
Smells like seven layers
That beaver eats Taco Bell!"
@@Ervinabrahamian inspiring
@@Ervinabrahamian
Primus sucks
“I know one day you’ll have a beautiful life, you’ll be a star in someone else’s sky but why, why can’t it be mine?”
@DanielRodriguez-eh1qd Oh you son of a B, I love that one so much bro. I don't care what anybody says, Pearl Jam is one of the greatest bands and that's coming from a dude who got introduced to rock music and guitar playing by Nirvana. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my life story 😆
Btw Constantine has a dope single from A Perfect Circle "Passive". Sounds like a good time to check it out.
the soundtrack version is also slightly different.
I second that! Great song:)
Very bland song imo, like most APC stuff after Mer De Noms. Would much rather them take on a technical song that encourages a deep analysis (Most Tool) or classics that don't get enough attention these days.
My favourite APC song
@@TurkeyRooThirteenth Step is better imo
Tool has been my favorite band since 89. Their musicianship And lyrics . The way they construct a song still amazes me.
If you notice, the music progresses and evolves like the monkeys. It starts off very primal and slowly builds up into a frenzy as if they've gone from clubs to a blade, to an explosion ending in WW3
I always feel the full climax is full on Nuclear war 🎉
Splitting of the atom right in two 💣
And then devolves on the way out...
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey. Goes from homids bashing each other with clubs to floating nuclear space stations and AI.
@jonathanhenderson9422 Yes !!!! I had the same thought
Have to finish out this record with Jambi AND Rosetta muthafuckin’ Stoned
Rosetta Stoned is gonna blow their fricken hair back. Maybe the best Tool song
The pot as well
Lost Keys...Rosetta Stoned it is definitely one unit and must be consumed as appetizer and main course
Hell mother fuckin yeah!!
@@Ryan01224 Theyve done the Pot Im pretty sure
Cut It All Right in Two is also a reference to the Judgement of Solomon. Two women were fighting over a baby, so Solomon said to just cut the baby in half, knowing that the true mother would rather see a stranger raise her child, than to watch it die.
My favourite Tool song, which I have been requesting for years 🤣 cheers guys
It's finally here. I've been waiting for them to do Right in Two for years.
Those high pitched wiggly sounds are bass harmonics with a wah pedal. Shout out to Justin and Adam. I love what they did with this song.
Justin rarely gets props, thank you for acknowledging him here.
Agree this is amazing. However the bass is not playing with a wah pedal but with a pitch shifter pedal called a Digitech Bass Whammy. It’s quite different from a wah…
@ yes you’re right I get them confused since I personally don’t use a ton of effects when I play bass. Your covers are great btw.
@ all good. 😀 Thank you for the kind words 🙏🏻
Whammy pedal
Goosebumps right there 12:10. the build up is just mind blowing. God bless ya for this upload guys!
This is one of those songs you put the lyrics on the screen. Imagine being an angel and watching us like “in HIS image???”
it's about time fellas. I recommended this way back when...
This is one of my favorite TOOL bangers of all time! I've been a fan since the 90's and still get goosebumps hearing TOOL songs!! They're epic every single listen! The lyrics of this song are so amazing on so many levels! It always makes me think about how everything we use are 'pieces of the ground'. Wood, metal, grass, trees, even our money is made of paper and metals that come from the ground! We mine for minerals to make other things! EVERYTHING we have are just pieces of the ground in different forms! Great video guys, and thanks for introducing TOOL to so many people!
This song is still so powerful. Great choice, guys.
Thank you for continuing to do this. I’ve been watching for five years now and I’ve enjoyed your videos very much. Also discovered some artists that I really dig, here on your channel, so thanks for that too. The Mars Volta and Ren specifically, both artists you didn’t seem to dig but that’s cool, you still served as a conduit for new music and that is beautiful. Thanks
One of my favorites. Glad you guys reacted to it!
Best song ever written about the human condition IMO.
I feel the the stage by avenged sevenfold is a great one too, especially with the music video
Absolutely!!! Right on Point!!
@@ampedexlegendary music video
Still need to hear their BEST song….. “Losts Keys” into “Rosetta Stoned”. Absolutely mind blowing!!!! Off same album, 10k Days.
Can't believe they haven't done that yet wow
Calming me down with some orange slices and some fetal spooning
they did but didnt like it
@ didn’t see it on their Tool playlist.
yes
The drums, guitar and bass are phenomenal. Their timing is impeccable...and then the lyrics and singing just make this amazing thing known as Tool.
About darn time guys. 🤘
Still love the lyrics to this. Saw them playing it live in Berlin recently and it was awesome!
Oh hell yah, can’t wait to watch this one a dozen times. Super underrated song from them.
Finally!!!! In theTop 3 of my favorite tool songs
Yessss! Been waiting FOREVER for you guys to do my fave Tool song! ❤
This was a long time coming man.
More tool, Amen
A-Maynard lol
I've NEVER CLICKED SO FAST. YES!!!!
SAME!
This is their pinnacle of their work, their mona lisa
It is an absolutely perfect rock song. A masterpiece.
Wings For Marie/10,000 Days
Seeing you try and bob your heads to this is hilarious. Good shit. 🤘
It's also referencing the splitting of the atom "right in two". More destructive methods made by talking monkeys.
Yeah but I'm hoping for 46+2. So we evolve out of violence.
@@1848revolt lol
“Swamp Song” or “Crawl Away” are jams you guys should check out.
@@RenR70 I second this. Both are 🔥 but swamp song live is another level
The track "bottom" also
@ “My fear is naked!!!”
Vote for Flood
Thank you! And thank you for letting me listen to that with you! Angels
12:24 love seeing George's smile showing he's hearing greatness
Even by Tool's incredibly high bar, this song is exceptional. Everyone absolutely kills it. And some of Maynard's best writing.
Finally! One of my favorite tool songs!🤘💯🖤🔥
Maynard writes the lyrics after Adam Justin and Danny write the music
Right In Two genuinely changed my view of the world
Their best track and I'm so early. I suggest listening to the whole album back to back. It makes the album context for everything so much better.
easily my favourite Tool song.. its absolute musical perfection and the perfect music-feeding-the-lyrics-feeding-the-music prog song. The song builds as the primitive 'monkeys' become more sophisticated and start to divide and take whats 'theirs'.. then the all out blitz (war).. and a return to the simple riff of the opening when everything is reset.
The whole band just kills this tune. genius.
Music is amazing but the lyrics is on another level in this song. One of my favorites 🖤👌
This is one of their more meaningful songs. That says a lot for Tool
"Repugnant is a creature who would sqaunder the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here." My favorite all time lyric
Everyone hangs on this line in particular. That's because it's a universal truth. We all feel it.
First time I heard that line, I just couldn’t imagine words more true. It’s a weird thought. Just brilliant, but the truth!
I have this verse tattooed on my chest
Let’s goooooo❤️
I’ve been waiting for you guys to get to this one for soo long! Happy you did it!
That cool instrument you hear in the beginning and end is a Xylaphone. Creates an awesome atmosphere to this amazing song.
I’m biased because you all usually listen to so many of my favorite bands and songs
But you remain the best and most relatable reactors on RUclips because of just HOW you listen to the songs and take them in, and how you let your reactions happen so naturally and instinctively.
You also always make similar observations as I do, even if it’s your first listen. And I feel like taste-wise I’m such an equal 50/50 split between Ryan and George in terms of what I gravitate towards in a song 😂
Thanks for making me fall in love with my favorite artists again guys, and really being the gateway to reaction content in general. Real OG shit 🫡
Also, this is a top 5 Tool song easily and if you disagree you’re wrong
@@Exile29 typical insufferable...
The music alone: incredible. The lyrics alone: amazing. Together: masterpiece
LOVE this song so much and am glad you have finally gotten to it.
There is this kid on RUclips that is drumming whole Tool albums in a single take.
Yes!!! And it's gotta be edited...like how do you play a whole album straight and not shit the bed
He’s amazing
@@nomanbroman3556 GODDAMN!
Who is it?
This is one.of their most beautiful songs. And the point is easy to grasp. It's probably one of the songs I would show someone who is new to Tool.
Thanks for finally getting to it. Love you guys
One of my favorite songs period, its perfect.
Closer to the tool final boss, Rosetta Stoned.
This track isn't even close to the final boss. It's like the beginning boss. It's so overrated and basic lol
"They know how to make a nine minute song fly by" - never were truer words spoken :)
One of my favorite songs. Great reaction gentleman 😊❤
I missed you guys!!! Y’all haven’t been in my feed for a minute!
Rosetta Stoned is also great from this record. But The Patient and Parabol/Parabola from Lateralus are highlights from their whole discography.
My Tool top 10, in no particular order.
1. Parabol/Parabola
2. Ænima
3. 46&2
4. Pushit
5. The Grudge
6. Pneuma
7. Bottom
8. Hush
9. Lateralus
10. Third Eye
@Ervinabrahamian That would be a fire set list, actually. Chuck in 4 degrees and Descending or 7empest.
@@zacharywedel4202 How could I forget 7empest and 4°?!?!
The Patient and Reflection are my top Tool tracks of all time. The Patient gets no love.
Lyrically, this song is incredibly deep and very much about humanity being judged by their actions. The lyrics skew it towards themes of war/occupancy, but the theme goes beyond that. Thanks for covering it, the song really resonated with me given the past week.
"All those little pauses to me man. Dat shit . . ." gets me every time. Love it. :)
Yesssssss, George and Ryan finally with Tool again 🎉
Probably my favorite Tool song from a meaning perspective. Makes sense the angels would be able to pinpoint the exact fundamental flaw of mankind. If you ask people, they might say we pollute the oceans, fight each other, don’t help the poor, etc etc. and while those are all flaws, the single FUNDAMENTAL flaw is that where there’s one we’re bound to divide it right in two. Beautiful to state that since we can’t solve all those other issues unless we address the ROOT issue. Those issues I mentioned (and more) aren’t THE problem, just symptoms of the problem. Taking one and dividing it right in two. I love to try to keep that in mind at all times
Maynard usually does the writing as far as the lyrics. The other band members write the music, that's why they are all listed.
I’ve been listening to Tool for over Thirty years now. Watching you guys take on these songs makes me realize how different Tool still, seeing your anticipation or expectations for the song to go a certain way.
"I just love the way that shit sounds"... hearing you loud and clear mate !
You guys are so great! Thank you!
I’m internally and externally smiling simultaneously
Love that you guys finally got around to this song. It’s simply one of their best.
This is my favorite album, so many great songs.
My favorite Tool song
Mine too.
It’s such a great song. Thx for doing this one!!!!
This song hits me in my soul. Great reaction guys ❤
Been forever since i watched a video of yours but i TURN UP for tool.
I know the feeling when you started shaking your head right when the music starts.
There is a fan made video for this that just blew me away, it really captures the story being told. might want to check it out.
I figured this must have been a repost of an old reaction but i click anyway. I was thinking to myself "surely this REALLY didn't just drop. I thought i've seen all of their TOOL reactions. Well what the f--k.". Watching your older TOOL reactions (back in the day) is what got me hooked on watching TOOL reactions. You guys and TOOL is like comfort food to me now.
First time hearing this song but it makes me nostalgic! Reminds me of my early years exploring rock music as a young teen.
Tool has some of the greatest music ever recorded.
Ryan'
Very smart and insightful analysis.
George too of course.
🎶🎵😎
You guys gotta do “Descending”. Justin’s bass playing is just flat out EPIC
One of my favorites from this album
They give you so much variety and details in songs, never boring. Listen to words and relate it. Think.
The Kareem analogy is a pretty damn good one
this song was so eye opening to a young me back in the day, and it is so relevant today more than ever... everyone should listen to these lyrics and meditate. We need to stop dividing everything right in two, it will be our demise as a species.
Just a marvelous song and reaction to it.
This is easily a top 5 Tool song
Beautiful song🎵
God I love TOOL ( love you guys too, been watching for 4 years )
Fun fact. The weird bends and stuff during the intro are the bass
I've literally been waiting years for them to react to this. Lol My personal favorite song of all time.
Lets go boys good stuff for the reaction
The best thing about this song just like alot of tool songs is even after like 20 years of listening to it, ya hear or notice things ya never coped before.
My favorite tool song of ALL time😍
You really need to do Bottom from undertow. That song is right up your alley. Plus I don’t think you guys have explored their old stuff, at least not publicly anyways. Like others are saying, the whole album is 🔥🔥🔥
I agree but I think that whole Undertow album is completely up their alley. 🔥
One of their best, everytime you think it's over, it ups the ante
Whole album
4 degrees
Dropping this right after the election? Bless you guys
Earth is healing itself.
Beautiful song.