Hope you guys appreciate the honesty - not enough channels actually voicing an honest opinion these days 🤷🏼♂️ Dropping a like would be much appreciated ❤️
Make yourself a Tool playlist that includes all their tracks and just listen through, you'll be surprised which ones end up being your favorites. Then, after you slay the beasts that are APC and Puscifer, add them to the playlist: welcome to heaven.
Drew... You should really check out A Perfect Circles Eat The Elephant... Specifically Talk Talk or Hourglass. Hourglass is a much different singing style Maynard hasn't done on any other album, it's kind of an '80's synth-rock-angsty-pop. The whole album is good.
"Pet" + "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" by A Perfect Circle in one video would be cool. "Counting" is the band made remix of "Pet". Both are extremely heavy in their own right, and doing them back to back for immediate comparison would make for an awesome vid.
We ain't mad at you, you are experiencing them in a completely different way then we did. If we knew in the early 90s the rest of the albums to come, we would probably look at undertow differently as well. You got to experience them in reverse, to hear what they are capable of, and where they came from. We got to grow with them, and hear what they were to become. The difference for us older heads is we have emotional connections to those earlier albums so they are always going to hold a special place in our hearts. Everyone has a different lens to view life through.
When i got into Tool, Lateralus was my first album, Ænima was my second and that’s all I knew from them for a little while. When I discovered Undertow and Opiate i wasn’t too fond of it. I had to go through multiple listens to really appreciate where they started and how they evolved their sound. I love each album in a different way.
DutchMastah07 I was the same way, Opiate actually grew on me a lot faster than Undertow; when it comes to Tool I either like things super melodic or super aggresive, and Opiate as a whole definitely delivers the most on the aggressive front! Although this record is still great, it’s still easily my most skippable one as while it has decent moments of both melody and aggression, it’s just not quite intense enough in either aspect to satisfy the way the others in their catalog do! That’s just my opinion though
i know you went through the tool discography backwards...seems great to me that young people today like the new album and are thinking..hey, this band is incredible..let's hear what they did before and when they do..and are awed by the greatness then they are really amazed that they never heard about Tool before..well, kids.. i have news for you..explore the early 90's and you will discover some of the best music ever made!!
I got into Tool when this album came out, so absorbed the music as they evolved, (and believe me it was a bloody long wait between each release so I had lots to time to absorb it). We had no idea what they would evolve into, they just had something interesting about them that appealed. I fully understand your opinion on this album after coming from their later releases, we have just listened to it from completely different angles. To me, Undertow is the easier way into Tool, it has simpler song structures and was closer to other music that was being release at the time. Thanks for doing this one Drew, I appreciate your honesty.
@@paulwellens3324 Oh ok my bad I must've him mixed up with 1 of the other guys i watch. Yeah he has to do No Quarter soon. I kno it's a cover but it's one of the best Tool songs ever.
Finally…I’ve been asking for this since I watched your first TOOL video. I think 4 is one of their most underrated songs. You should have started at Opiate then gone to Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 days and then Fear Inoculum. That’s the discography. Look for the live version. Thank you
You're effin right about that! 4 degrees, Bottom and Jimmy are highly underrated !! This song however is the most beautiful thing I've heard. It's quite exquisite.
I agree with some of the comments on here as per it’s release time and leading a change of sound in music at the time. I bought it in 1993 and it sounded different and new then, just as hearing Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush The Show in 1987 was a real paradigm shift in that genre of music, never heard anything like it before.
I LOVE TOOL BUT I AGREE THEY GOT BETTER WITH EACH ALBUM, STARTING WITH LATERALUS IS WHEN THEY BECAME AMAZING. TOOL IS MY #1 BAND MY #2 BAND IS (ALICE IN CHAINS) PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT, LAYNE STALEY HAS A UNIQUE YET ABSOLUTELY AMAZING VOICE, THE ONLY WAY TO LISTEN TO THEM IS LIVE, WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF THE FEW BANDS THAT ARE BETTER LIVE THEN ON THE DEMO. THEIR BEST PERFORMANCE IS LIVE AT THE MOORE THEATER IN SEATTLE, SOME OF THEIR BEST SONGS ARE (IT AIN'T LIKE THAT ANYMORE) (BLEED THE FREAK) (SEA OF SORROW) AND (LOVE HATE LOVE) ONCE AGAIN THESE SONGS CAN BE HEARD AT THEIR BEST, LIVE AT THE MOORE THEATER, I PROMISE YOU WILL BE AMAZED.
There's *no modern band as important as Tool has been for decades now.* Yeah, I'm a fan, but they're a modern Zeppelin or Floyd. Their songwriting is unparalleled.
This has always been my favorite that I go back to. I, of course, love most of their work, but I always have to listen to this.... It could be that this was my first album from them and it has some nostalgic hold over me, but this is TOOL to me... back then there was nothing like it. You had to have experienced it.
First of all, never apologize for trying to take care of yourself. Glasses and braces don't turn you into a nerd and compensating for it with tattoos is funny. You're awesome so never apologize to anyone. Ok so as far as the review, I'm happy you found another Tool song to experience even if you're not a fan of their early stuff. Still waiting for you to check out Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" and then the cover of the song Tool did. I prefer the Tool version but I grew up with Tool. To each his own though. You'll love the cover they did! Trust me...
Once you start your process of going back and listening to songs and albums multiple times you’ll discover the layers. Maybe you’ll hear something new, a new instrumental part, a new vocal part. Etc. No matter what album you go back to; you discover new things within the music
Hey man. Keep it real. I appreciate the honesty. I've been listening to tool since Sober hit MTV back in '93. Undertow is a good rock out album. I'm a guitar player, and Prison Sex is one of my favorites to mess around with. The album is definitely a grower, though. I love how you are doing the whole discography. Keep up the grind. Almost there!
Huge love from turkey. We have a good history. In 1847, when Ireland was dealing with 7 years of famine, Sultan Abdulmecid was the only one to help Ireland with at least a hundred ships full of wheat while european countries and england had ignored. Ships went to Dublin first. But Queen Victoria of Britannia obstructed them. Then they went to Drogheda. That is why Drogheda United F.C has a crescent and a star on their amblem representing the turkish flag :)
Was a very different time back then. What you wouldn’t understand is that when Undertow came out there was nothing on the planet that sounded like this. There also was no internet to just skip to the next trending song. So once you heard something that you loved you hung on to it for life and death, read through the booklet for clues on who influenced them than rode your skateboard down to the record store and flicked through everything that got a mention in the booklet.
It's bizarre how some toolheads complain about the vocals on FI being quiet and subtle, when songs such as 4° exist, which have exactly the same vocal style style
Just so you know, Maynard loves conor mcgregor as well! For this song you need to read the lyrics for the full effect, very risqué and there’s also a live video of him preforming this with a model... I won’t say more than that....
I had to come back to undertow a few years later to appreciate it. It’s actually a good thing you don’t like this album now because one day you will have that new exciting feeling again with “new” music.
thank you for every sitting you do for whatever is next in your ‘tool’ landscape. Some songs sound like molehills, some sound mountains, and some of the same leave folks asking “did you catch that?” It’s the tool formulas 🤭
Really like your honesty, and i completely agree. I usually have the same feeling whenever i try to go backwards in a discography, that the old stuff is not as good as (or in some cases, lacks the oomph) the newer stuff.
@@underleveled6920 Well, FI has some for sure. And if you count the silly interludes, they're generally skippable, except on Lateralus. Now that I think about it, Disgustipated from this album is pretty bad. It's not a bad idea, but then it's ruined by the cricket thing.
For me, as a fan of Tool for 28 years, I find Undertow to be their most complete album - that is to say it's the only album I like every song on. No doubt they have created greater songs since this album.
I kinda agree with you about Undertow... I loved them at first but sort of got tired of them except for Sober, Swamp Song, Bottom and 4° (Sober being a long time Tool classic)
Thanks for your honesty. There a tree e a lot of "diehard" Tool fans that believe the band can do no wrong. I've been a fan since the beginning and really appreciate your perspective.
Great reaction, as always! I think 4 degrees is like one movement of a symphony. Or like listening to only the middle 5 minutes of Pneuma. Or it's like you open the door and inside the room are a bunch of people hypnotized, and you have no idea why they're hypnotized because you missed the magician setting it up. You know what I mean? To be honest, I listened to this album for decades as a cassette tape, and then as two continuous mp3 rips of each side of that cassette, and as such I had only a poor idea of where one track ended and the next began due to the gapless playback. So until Tool released their discography last year to streaming, I never experienced 4 degrees as an individual song. All that to say, I think once you work through the remaining songs on the Undertow album, and then have a chance to go back and listen to the entire album start to finish it will be an entirely different experience, and by the time you reach this song you will be hypnotized and in the middle of typical Tool euphoria.
as you said its very raw tool, and they were still finding their sound back then. almost no one would say undertow is a better album than aenima, lateralus, 10,000 days etc. so don't worry you aren't alone on that. i enjoy it mostly because i try to disconnect it from the rest of their discography and just take it as a cool innovative 90s grunge era album. but of course that music isn't for everyone.
Hey Drew. If you enjoy progressive bands like Tool, check out "Wheel - Wheel (Moving Backwards)". They are a fairly new band, and I think they have an excellent sound.
It's more like "we'll do it out way, take it or leave it." They do the music they like, and hope ppl appreciate it, but don't give a shit if it's not for you, him, or the next guy.
Drew - you should know by now that you gotta listen to Tool a few times to appreciate it. Yes, working backwards. It's different. But finish the damn album. Who cares if you don't like it as much. Who cares if you repeat yourself. Do the reactions... And not a month apart. That's what is disappointing.
As much of a Tool nut as I am, I must admit this has never been one of my favorite albums either; just not really my preferred style of theirs overall. Love that you always keep things real man; don't sweat it at all about the commentary, I honestly don't think any other RUclipsr has ever even attempted to do what you've done going through literally every single song in an entire 6 album discography, and you've only got 1 more to go!! Don't even bother with Disgustipated, the track length is misleading as fuck because it's literally not even an actual song, it's just a roughly 6 1/2 minute spoken word interlude and then after around the 7:00 mark it's literally just crickets chirping for the entire rest of the track. And I’ll just keep saying it.....”Orestes” by APC please! 🙏🏻🤘🏻 🌀
I totally get and understand regarding going backwards. All their music is great but I appreciate the last 3 albums more. For me personally, Lateralus is my favorite. I love 10,000 days and of course Fear Inoculum is awesome too.
This is a brilliant, honest and sense making opinion from you here, mo chara. I totally get what yer saying. Theres no point in filming yerself going "Man, this is sick. This is great", just cos other reactors online do that, as thats what people want to see. Any long term band- when you listen, love and absorb best the later , career defining albums its amazing. But in some cases, digging up the early early stuff can be a very interesting experience, and sometimes a little underwhelming. I got a copy of the Undertow album a few months after Aenima totally enveloped me- and to be honnest lad, it fell a bit flat with me. Although a lot of the album grew on me- Bottom , Sober, Crawl Away are amazing- I still dont come back to it anywhere as much as their other albums. Im surprised too,at people saying that there wasnt anyting like it at the time. Yes, they totally had a patented, distinctive sound off the bat, that would fantastically flourish to genius at Aenima onwards. But Undertow has a definite early 90s alt metal feel to it aswell that fits in with their peers at the time, like Rollins Band, Soundgarden, Helmet, and some RATM maybe. I can understand how this album isnt hittin as as instantly as the others did,so again the honest opinion is good and grand to hear. Shur y'know yerself, every song out there gets better with more listens and getting familiar with it, so itl be interesting to see how these songs do when heard again alongside other Tool songs you realy like in a playlist, etc. Great, honest reaction. Sound, bud.
Regarding Disgustipated. I absolutely love that track, but honestly, I skip about 6 minutes of crickets. If any other commenters see this, is there a good version that Drew can listen to with just enough crickets, but not too much. Haha. Know what I mean?
Just because we love undertow doesnt mean any true tool fan doesnt recognize its musically inferior compared to subsequent albums. Og fans started with opiate and undertow so its a different mind fuck to work backwards
I agree completely. I enjoy Undertow but it is my least favorite. In fact I really didn't even care for most of it (except Sober) until after I fell in love with Aenima and Lateralus. I was about your age when it released. Today I love it.
I really enjoy Tool, but can NOT listen to more than one song in a row. My playlist has a Tool song about every 5 songs or so. Their rhythms are so unique, that is what has captured my attention for them. Thanks for doing this one, Drew.
unless i am much mishapen, you appear to have omitted a couple of tunes, which is a pity. when you get majorly into a band, generally the album that makes you fall in love with them tends to remain your favourite, and working backwards from that album will always feel like going backwards. i got into them with aenima, and i felt like this when i heard undertow. it's impossible not to compare, and i tended not to listen to it much. watching live footage on youtube of gigs going right back to the beginning, you understand and appreciate how incredible they were. you know you are in the presence of something really unique in terms of intensity. they are still a great live show, but i feel that the whole ship is still sailing on the torrent of anger pouring from mjk's early performances. i have recently had undertow on in my car and have finally come round to it as the great piece of work that it is. please do the title track undertow, and have the lyrics to see the piece from maynard's perspective. peace.
I'm wish you'd hear the older stuff before the newer. You'd see the progression, the awesomeness. Honestly, Fear Inocolum was "meh" to me. The older albums is what hit me hard. Tool has been my band since high school. 1997
I think you're a little young to really get Tool. I would try the older albums again in 5 years. In 93, no one sounded like this. This was new, and fresh. But like you said, you have their later stuff. But in 5 years you may be able to understand more. Which will affect how you listen to the newer stuff as well.
@@nuckinfuts9744 dude, he likes all their newer stuff. He doesn't have enough patience, that's all. When he's a little older, and he can understand how it applies to his life, he will be able to make a connection.
@paula I was sixteen when Opiate came out, I loved it. But their other albums didn't exist. And there was nothing else like it, at that time. But I didn't really get Tool, till my mid 20's, when lateralis came out. Then I went back and started from the beginning.
You are so much more concerned with your mouth than this song. I know you have new “braces” but this song Is amazing. Quit licking your gums and drinking water and listen to the damn music. Focus.
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Hope you guys appreciate the honesty - not enough channels actually voicing an honest opinion these days 🤷🏼♂️ Dropping a like would be much appreciated ❤️
Make yourself a Tool playlist that includes all their tracks and just listen through, you'll be surprised which ones end up being your favorites. Then, after you slay the beasts that are APC and Puscifer, add them to the playlist: welcome to heaven.
This album was from the early 90s and nothing sounded like this. I think each of their albums are great for different reasons.
It’s cool. You can’t make yourself like a thing. At least you are giving the album a listen, because it’s worth hearing.
Drew... You should really check out A Perfect Circles Eat The Elephant... Specifically Talk Talk or Hourglass. Hourglass is a much different singing style Maynard hasn't done on any other album, it's kind of an '80's synth-rock-angsty-pop. The whole album is good.
What you have to understand is that this sound was really a breakthrough for this time. Nothing sounded quite like this for early 90’s
4° is another grower. It's one of my favorites on the album.
Definitely one of my favorites. Just have to put it on and let it play
on a pretty loaded album as it is. One of the Bests though.
"Pet" + "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" by A Perfect Circle in one video would be cool.
"Counting" is the band made remix of "Pet". Both are extremely heavy in their own right, and doing them back to back for immediate comparison would make for an awesome vid.
And so many others!
Here’s the link. Live. it’s a banger Drew n will get the blood flowing bruthu
ruclips.net/video/gacQaCV4wSE/видео.html
The link I posted is live version of a mashup of Counting and Pet ImO
Go back to sleep...
We ain't mad at you, you are experiencing them in a completely different way then we did. If we knew in the early 90s the rest of the albums to come, we would probably look at undertow differently as well. You got to experience them in reverse, to hear what they are capable of, and where they came from. We got to grow with them, and hear what they were to become. The difference for us older heads is we have emotional connections to those earlier albums so they are always going to hold a special place in our hearts. Everyone has a different lens to view life through.
When i got into Tool, Lateralus was my first album, Ænima was my second and that’s all I knew from them for a little while. When I discovered Undertow and Opiate i wasn’t too fond of it. I had to go through multiple listens to really appreciate where they started and how they evolved their sound. I love each album in a different way.
DutchMastah07 I was the same way, Opiate actually grew on me a lot faster than Undertow; when it comes to Tool I either like things super melodic or super aggresive, and Opiate as a whole definitely delivers the most on the aggressive front! Although this record is still great, it’s still easily my most skippable one as while it has decent moments of both melody and aggression, it’s just not quite intense enough in either aspect to satisfy the way the others in their catalog do! That’s just my opinion though
Drew’s going to get new tattoos that claim that he was OGT, back from ‘92, from the first EP.
Dont forget swamp song!
i know you went through the tool discography backwards...seems great to me that young people today like the new album and are thinking..hey, this band is incredible..let's hear what they did before and when they do..and are awed by the greatness then they are really amazed that they never heard about Tool before..well, kids.. i have news for you..explore the early 90's and you will discover some of the best music ever made!!
Where's Swamp Song and Undertow?
Ikr.. It was sick they played it for us at the Philly show but wont lie 4 degrees is my shittttt
definitely need to do Undertow..
Tool poster wayyyyy cooler than a Connor McGregor poster.
I got into Tool when this album came out, so absorbed the music as they evolved, (and believe me it was a bloody long wait between each release so I had lots to time to absorb it). We had no idea what they would evolve into, they just had something interesting about them that appealed. I fully understand your opinion on this album after coming from their later releases, we have just listened to it from completely different angles. To me, Undertow is the easier way into Tool, it has simpler song structures and was closer to other music that was being release at the time.
Thanks for doing this one Drew, I appreciate your honesty.
One of my favourites off the album.
Keep the Tool coming, I just subbed 👍
“Because there’s only so much I can take in” -reacting to 4 degrees;)
LOOOOL
tool - no quarter ;-)
Pretty sure he already did that one
@@benjibanks7894 Nope, he's only done the live version of PushIt from Salival
@@paulwellens3324 Oh ok my bad I must've him mixed up with 1 of the other guys i watch. Yeah he has to do No Quarter soon. I kno it's a cover but it's one of the best Tool songs ever.
This is one of my fav albums I love the raw angry sound
Finally…I’ve been asking for this since I watched your first TOOL video.
I think 4 is one of their most underrated songs.
You should have started at Opiate then gone to Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 days and then Fear Inoculum. That’s the discography.
Look for the live version.
Thank you
You're effin right about that!
4 degrees, Bottom and Jimmy are highly underrated !!
This song however is the most beautiful thing I've heard. It's quite exquisite.
I agree with some of the comments on here as per it’s release time and leading a change of sound in music at the time. I bought it in 1993 and it sounded different and new then, just as hearing Public Enemy’s Yo! Bum Rush The Show in 1987 was a real paradigm shift in that genre of music, never heard anything like it before.
Always been my favourite Tool song. In fact my favourite song period. You need to give it more time
I LOVE TOOL BUT I AGREE THEY GOT BETTER WITH EACH ALBUM, STARTING WITH LATERALUS IS WHEN THEY BECAME AMAZING. TOOL IS MY #1 BAND MY #2 BAND IS (ALICE IN CHAINS) PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT, LAYNE STALEY HAS A UNIQUE YET ABSOLUTELY AMAZING VOICE, THE ONLY WAY TO LISTEN TO THEM IS LIVE, WHY? BECAUSE THEY ARE ONE OF THE FEW BANDS THAT ARE BETTER LIVE THEN ON THE DEMO. THEIR BEST PERFORMANCE IS LIVE AT THE MOORE THEATER IN SEATTLE, SOME OF THEIR BEST SONGS ARE (IT AIN'T LIKE THAT ANYMORE) (BLEED THE FREAK) (SEA OF SORROW) AND (LOVE HATE LOVE) ONCE AGAIN THESE SONGS CAN BE HEARD AT THEIR BEST, LIVE AT THE MOORE THEATER, I PROMISE YOU WILL BE AMAZED.
There's *no modern band as important as Tool has been for decades now.*
Yeah, I'm a fan, but they're a modern Zeppelin or Floyd.
Their songwriting is unparalleled.
Bro did you skip Undertow? o.O
Gojira - Oroborus or flying whales
The Mars Volta - Inertiatic Esp
This has always been my favorite that I go back to. I, of course, love most of their work, but I always have to listen to this.... It could be that this was my first album from them and it has some nostalgic hold over me, but this is TOOL to me... back then there was nothing like it. You had to have experienced it.
No Swamp song? No Undertow? What gives?
I'm sure he will. Flood is my fav
First of all, never apologize for trying to take care of yourself. Glasses and braces don't turn you into a nerd and compensating for it with tattoos is funny. You're awesome so never apologize to anyone. Ok so as far as the review, I'm happy you found another Tool song to experience even if you're not a fan of their early stuff. Still waiting for you to check out Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" and then the cover of the song Tool did. I prefer the Tool version but I grew up with Tool. To each his own though. You'll love the cover they did! Trust me...
Drew, Tool fans love A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.
Try this dude - ruclips.net/video/JoisbHYe04I/видео.html
Once you start your process of going back and listening to songs and albums multiple times you’ll discover the layers. Maybe you’ll hear something new, a new instrumental part, a new vocal part. Etc. No matter what album you go back to; you discover new things within the music
Hey man. Keep it real. I appreciate the honesty. I've been listening to tool since Sober hit MTV back in '93. Undertow is a good rock out album. I'm a guitar player, and Prison Sex is one of my favorites to mess around with. The album is definitely a grower, though.
I love how you are doing the whole discography. Keep up the grind. Almost there!
I love all their music. The raw aggressive stuff has its place. Depends what mood you're in.
Ticks and leeches took awhile to grow on me but same it’s one of my favs now
THAT BASS THROUGHOUT OMG!!!!
Skipping the song Undertow isn’t an option
Huge love from turkey. We have a good history. In 1847, when Ireland was dealing with 7 years of famine, Sultan Abdulmecid was the only one to help Ireland with at least a hundred ships full of wheat while european countries and england had ignored. Ships went to Dublin first. But Queen Victoria of Britannia obstructed them. Then they went to Drogheda. That is why Drogheda United F.C has a crescent and a star on their amblem representing the turkish flag :)
Was a very different time back then. What you wouldn’t understand is that when Undertow came out there was nothing on the planet that sounded like this. There also was no internet to just skip to the next trending song. So once you heard something that you loved you hung on to it for life and death, read through the booklet for clues on who influenced them than rode your skateboard down to the record store and flicked through everything that got a mention in the booklet.
You've gotta finish up the album and react to Disgustipated. Really enjoying your journey so far!
Btw, you get a like, as you've asked for, just for your efforts.
Greetings from Pennsylvania!!
It's bizarre how some toolheads complain about the vocals on FI being quiet and subtle, when songs such as 4° exist, which have exactly the same vocal style style
Just so you know, Maynard loves conor mcgregor as well! For this song you need to read the lyrics for the full effect, very risqué and there’s also a live video of him preforming this with a model... I won’t say more than that....
I had to come back to undertow a few years later to appreciate it. It’s actually a good thing you don’t like this album now because one day you will have that new exciting feeling again with “new” music.
thank you for every sitting you do for whatever is next in your ‘tool’ landscape. Some songs sound like molehills, some sound mountains, and some of the same leave folks asking “did you catch that?”
It’s the tool formulas 🤭
Really like your honesty, and i completely agree. I usually have the same feeling whenever i try to go backwards in a discography, that the old stuff is not as good as (or in some cases, lacks the oomph) the newer stuff.
I love that you took down your McGregor poster and put up a tool poster fucking Bravo bro
This album has no skippable songs.
Every Tool's song is unskippable!
@@underleveled6920 Well, FI has some for sure. And if you count the silly interludes, they're generally skippable, except on Lateralus. Now that I think about it, Disgustipated from this album is pretty bad. It's not a bad idea, but then it's ruined by the cricket thing.
For me, as a fan of Tool for 28 years, I find Undertow to be their most complete album - that is to say it's the only album I like every song on. No doubt they have created greater songs since this album.
I kinda agree with you about Undertow... I loved them at first but sort of got tired of them except for Sober, Swamp Song, Bottom and 4° (Sober being a long time Tool classic)
Do No Quarter off the Tool album, Salival....its incredible!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your honesty. There a tree e a lot of "diehard" Tool fans that believe the band can do no wrong. I've been a fan since the beginning and really appreciate your perspective.
Great reaction, as always! I think 4 degrees is like one movement of a symphony. Or like listening to only the middle 5 minutes of Pneuma. Or it's like you open the door and inside the room are a bunch of people hypnotized, and you have no idea why they're hypnotized because you missed the magician setting it up. You know what I mean? To be honest, I listened to this album for decades as a cassette tape, and then as two continuous mp3 rips of each side of that cassette, and as such I had only a poor idea of where one track ended and the next began due to the gapless playback. So until Tool released their discography last year to streaming, I never experienced 4 degrees as an individual song. All that to say, I think once you work through the remaining songs on the Undertow album, and then have a chance to go back and listen to the entire album start to finish it will be an entirely different experience, and by the time you reach this song you will be hypnotized and in the middle of typical Tool euphoria.
as you said its very raw tool, and they were still finding their sound back then. almost no one would say undertow is a better album than aenima, lateralus, 10,000 days etc. so don't worry you aren't alone on that. i enjoy it mostly because i try to disconnect it from the rest of their discography and just take it as a cool innovative 90s grunge era album. but of course that music isn't for everyone.
Hey Drew. If you enjoy progressive bands like Tool, check out "Wheel - Wheel (Moving Backwards)". They are a fairly new band, and I think they have an excellent sound.
I think the issue about the harping on things, is that you keep harping on it. You don't HAVE to repeat that stuff every time.
Maybe have a look at Year of the knife. More of a hardcore band, but pretty progressive and in your face - you might like it.
You're right, you would appreciate this album if you didn't go backwards and the production and craftmanship pales in comparison to their newer stuff.
7:56 "Come on... Give me something big!
TOOL: You will wait, and you will like it!
It's more like "we'll do it out way, take it or leave it."
They do the music they like, and hope ppl appreciate it, but don't give a shit if it's not for you, him, or the next guy.
@@devanhammack695 exactly! That's why we love everything they do!
Drew - you should know by now that you gotta listen to Tool a few times to appreciate it.
Yes, working backwards. It's different.
But finish the damn album. Who cares if you don't like it as much. Who cares if you repeat yourself. Do the reactions... And not a month apart. That's what is disappointing.
You have to listen to Heilung - Alfadhirhaidi !!
No punt intended man you good, you're the only one that kept up reacting to their music tbh. That alone is a plus.
As much of a Tool nut as I am, I must admit this has never been one of my favorite albums either; just not really my preferred style of theirs overall. Love that you always keep things real man; don't sweat it at all about the commentary, I honestly don't think any other RUclipsr has ever even attempted to do what you've done going through literally every single song in an entire 6 album discography, and you've only got 1 more to go!! Don't even bother with Disgustipated, the track length is misleading as fuck because it's literally not even an actual song, it's just a roughly 6 1/2 minute spoken word interlude and then after around the 7:00 mark it's literally just crickets chirping for the entire rest of the track. And I’ll just keep saying it.....”Orestes” by APC please! 🙏🏻🤘🏻 🌀
Hew Drew, so far, Justin Chancellor or Paul D’Amour?
I totally get and understand regarding going backwards. All their music is great but I appreciate the last 3 albums more. For me personally, Lateralus is my favorite. I love 10,000 days and of course Fear Inoculum is awesome too.
This is a brilliant, honest and sense making opinion from you here, mo chara. I totally get what yer saying. Theres no point in filming yerself going "Man, this is sick. This is great", just cos other reactors online do that, as thats what people want to see. Any long term band- when you listen, love and absorb best the later , career defining albums its amazing. But in some cases, digging up the early early stuff can be a very interesting experience, and sometimes a little underwhelming. I got a copy of the Undertow album a few months after Aenima totally enveloped me- and to be honnest lad, it fell a bit flat with me. Although a lot of the album grew on me- Bottom , Sober, Crawl Away are amazing- I still dont come back to it anywhere as much as their other albums. Im surprised too,at people saying that there wasnt anyting like it at the time. Yes, they totally had a patented, distinctive sound off the bat, that would fantastically flourish to genius at Aenima onwards. But Undertow has a definite early 90s alt metal feel to it aswell that fits in with their peers at the time, like Rollins Band, Soundgarden, Helmet, and some RATM maybe. I can understand how this album isnt hittin as as instantly as the others did,so again the honest opinion is good and grand to hear.
Shur y'know yerself, every song out there gets better with more listens and getting familiar with it, so itl be interesting to see how these songs do when heard again alongside other Tool songs you realy like in a playlist, etc. Great, honest reaction. Sound, bud.
What you see is the evolution of Tool. IMO all of the albums are great and are a timeline of there evolution of music..... Best Album?.... Subjective
Regarding Disgustipated. I absolutely love that track, but honestly, I skip about 6 minutes of crickets. If any other commenters see this, is there a good version that Drew can listen to with just enough crickets, but not too much. Haha. Know what I mean?
At least he won't have to see all the tracks go by to get to 69 like we did
I literally just told him to straight up skip that one man, it's barely even an actual song; definitely not worth an entire reaction video
Hey, just take it for being their first full length album. But it's still a very good album!
Please listen to Tool's No Quarter. An amazing cover of Led Zeppelin
Just because we love undertow doesnt mean any true tool fan doesnt recognize its musically inferior compared to subsequent albums. Og fans started with opiate and undertow so its a different mind fuck to work backwards
Wow!!!! undertow is the best! How about you start from the beginning. Do the whole opiate album then Undertow please
Please react to Sacred Mother Tongue - A light will shine or Evolve/Become. 🤘
I agree completely. I enjoy Undertow but it is my least favorite. In fact I really didn't even care for most of it (except Sober) until after I fell in love with Aenima and Lateralus. I was about your age when it released. Today I love it.
He skipped Undertow-
One Ok Rock - we are 18 fes ver... please🙏
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I really enjoy Tool, but can NOT listen to more than one song in a row. My playlist has a Tool song about every 5 songs or so. Their rhythms are so unique, that is what has captured my attention for them. Thanks for doing this one, Drew.
Kathy H# I'm the opposite..... 5 tool songs, then an APC song
unless i am much mishapen, you appear to have omitted a couple of tunes, which is a pity. when you get majorly into a band, generally the album that makes you fall in love with them tends to remain your favourite, and working backwards from that album will always feel like going backwards. i got into them with aenima, and i felt like this when i heard undertow. it's impossible not to compare, and i tended not to listen to it much. watching live footage on youtube of gigs going right back to the beginning, you understand and appreciate how incredible they were. you know you are in the presence of something really unique in terms of intensity. they are still a great live show, but i feel that the whole ship is still sailing on the torrent of anger pouring from mjk's early performances. i have recently had undertow on in my car and have finally come round to it as the great piece of work that it is. please do the title track undertow, and have the lyrics to see the piece from maynard's perspective. peace.
I'm wish you'd hear the older stuff before the newer. You'd see the progression, the awesomeness. Honestly, Fear Inocolum was "meh" to me. The older albums is what hit me hard. Tool has been my band since high school. 1997
Drew do the drug in me by falling in reverse soon cant wait to see your reaction
Dude you gotta react to Lacquer Head by Primus
Has the title track been done yet?
Why did you skip 2 tracks??
Just like that....
React to annihilator king of the kill ruclips.net/video/m0eQDHPwgNk/видео.html. They are a Canadian thrash metal band.
This is my absolute favorite song from tool!!!!! Newer toll is kinda eh
More progressive rock bands reactions and you"ll have guaranted views
I think you're a little young to really get Tool. I would try the older albums again in 5 years. In 93, no one sounded like this. This was new, and fresh. But like you said, you have their later stuff. But in 5 years you may be able to understand more. Which will affect how you listen to the newer stuff as well.
This is the most ridiculous comment I've ever read.
@@nuckinfuts9744 why is that?
@@ianscottt3642 because it's stupid to blame disinterest for tool on age. I'm younger than drew and love tool.
@@nuckinfuts9744 dude, he likes all their newer stuff. He doesn't have enough patience, that's all. When he's a little older, and he can understand how it applies to his life, he will be able to make a connection.
@paula I was sixteen when Opiate came out, I loved it. But their other albums didn't exist. And there was nothing else like it, at that time. But I didn't really get Tool, till my mid 20's, when lateralis came out. Then I went back and started from the beginning.
If you get a face tattoo, I will never talk to you again
Not one of Tool's best songs, it is a middle of the road one for them. Not bad, just not great.
I feel like you didn't respect it for what it it I still enjoyed the reaction though
@hudson true
Too young to appreciate it. Not your fault that you were born to young.
Everyone is born young..... If you were born old that would be weird
You are so much more concerned with your mouth than this song. I know you have new “braces” but this song Is amazing. Quit licking your gums and drinking water and listen to the damn music. Focus.
Dude, lighten up
My least favourite album too