The way the band composes their songs is rather unique. The guitar player ( Adam Jones ) and the bassist ( Justin Chancellor ) come up with some riffs then get together and play around with them. Once they have something they get with the drummer ( Danny Carey ) and experiment with different time signatures, tempo, structure and tone. They then compose a finished piece of music that they're satisfied with. Only then do they send it to Maynard James Kennan the lyricist and singer. He listens to the tone and emotion of the music and comes up with lyrics that match. Until their latest album they never included a lyric sheet, wanting the listener to listen to the music first and then to listen and interpret the lyrics on a personal level. So how your doing this reaction is exactly how the band would intend it be done. You're getting precariously close to a hole you will soon find yourself sucked into. Enjoy the ride.✌🤘
@@ethanrosen5517 , every musician I know or have talked to say as far as the song writing process, that it's a collaboration between the lyricist and the musician, so I don't think it's all that common. Elton John and Bernie do it opposite of that. Bernie gives the lyrics to Elton, then Elton writes the music.✌
This is why they have the band name Tool. It's the tool that you use for whatever you are going through. Interpret the lyrics how you see fit to help you through whatever shit is going on in your life. No interpretation is wrong as it is dependent on the listener. Tool is absolutely brilliant and take an approach to music that is the complete package.
Listening to Tool and wearing a Beavis & Butthead t-shirt... LOL, so awesome! This was my first Tool favorite. I love the bass intro, the constantly changing tempo, the epic build-up in the latter half of the song, and the intense drumming at the finish. Just a great song and so worthy of winning the 2002 Grammy for Best Metal Performance. It's good that you followed up with they lyrics afterwards because they're always deep and thought-provoking and it's a lot to decipher while you're taking in the complexity of their music. Anyway, keep going with the Tool... there's so much more to discover!
Teez McGee if you want to understand TOOL and their Lead singer better, listen to songs off their Ænima album, enjoy your TOOL journey and thank you for sharing your journey with us- TOOL ARMY 🤟
You are so right about patience. One of the main lessons Tool teaches us is patience. Just listen and wait, don't anticipate where you think the music is going next, just let go and let the music take you there. It will *always* satisfy you if you relax, let it flow, and have patience.
Best lyric in any break up song ever: "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers" Perfect and painfully true.
10,000 Days, you MUST listen to. I've spent so many hours listening to this song with my eyes closed, breathing it in. Right In Two, Pushit, Forty-Six and 2 should absolutely be on the list too. And Jambi hits hard.
Solid reaction! The logical next choice for Tool reactions would be The Grudge - first song on the album literally kicks you in the face with music. The lyrical themes relate to those of Schism and there are also multiple time changes. I feel strange saying it, but Listening to Tool really can make one a better person because the music is so internal and personal to whatever the listener is going through.
5:45 "Cold silence has, a tendency to, atrophy any, sense of compassion... Between supposed lovers." My favourite part of the song, it gives me MASSIVE goosebumps!
I simply love all the latest video you made, I finished binging all your reaction since "Hey you", it's beatiful to see someone appreciate two groups I loved for so long like tool and floyd. I suggest you to listen to "a change of seasons" from Dream Theater, I understand that a reaction may be difficult since is a 23 minute song, but just listen to it, it doesn't have to be a job. you earned a subscriber today, keep going, seeing you discover this world is amazing
Liked and subbed for more Tool bro great reaction man! I love how u listened to the music before delving into the lyrics, definitely the way you should listen to Tool for your first time- just appreciate the music as a whole piece then after dive into the lyrics
Tool is unorthodox. They strive to be like nothing you've ever heard before. Don't worry about trying to understand the lyrics on your first listen. It takes a few sit downs to really understand their philosophies. Some songs also have more than one meaning, some are pretty straight forward, and some are them just messing with their fans when they make it seem super cryptic but they are actually just explaining the recipes for cookies. They are wild man!
Tool actually never included any lyrics in their albums (cds) until the most recent one in 2019... the packaging was usually just artwork from 1992 until now. Listeners had to figure the lyrics by just playing the albums..
This is my favourite album of all time. Each song leads into the next, kind of like Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, which is another one of my favourite all time albums Also yeah this song changes time signatures 47 times, so it can be hard to head bang sometimes. I’d recommend The Grudge as the next tool song
Teez McGee haha well I may be a bit biased, as both my parents were tool fans so I grew up listening to them all the time. Regardless, I think most people can agree that they’re a talented group. Keep up the reactions!
Wow, that first interpretation is a bit out there. It doesn't actually have anything to do with religion. The song is about the break up of a relationship. The pieces used to fit, they used to get along and love each other, but they stopped communicating and that cold silence will doom the relationship completely if they don't start talking again. They need to "re-discover communication" or they will "watch the temple topple over" the "temple" is their relationship, this special thing they built together that is crumbling down. It's a call to reconcile. But Maynard writes all the lyrics of all the songs to be open to interpretation, yet he also chides in another song, "over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind, withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind." So basically, the principle of Occam's razor in terms of interpreting his lyrics. Maynard sings and writes for two other bands, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, and most times those are more straightforward than what he writes in Tool. I have subbed to the channel and am looking forward to following your Tool journey. Cheers and stay safe! :D
Surprisingly that *tempo change is actually a time signature change. Something I recommend is finding the beat, the place to tap your foot to, although time signatures change, tool strategically changes them while still keeping the beat on the same tempo. They just change how loud they play or where to accent the notes to through you off, but the root beat will most likely stay the same.
Don't worry too much if you get a little lost. They change up the timing of the song alot, and the lyrics can be really overwhelming as well. Most people can't even find a comfortable way to bob their head while listening. These songs are complex so just experience them as you can first time around. I think the most outstanding lyric, that I have to keep in my thoughts all the time because of social issues: "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion." Keep communicating, don't keep yourself bottled up inside.
Ok I need to say this. How i became a Tool fan. Back in 1994 I think🤔 I was watching bevis and butthead ,and this video came on they were doing.....it was Tool/Sober Since that I was the hugest fan and I have those two fools to thank..enjoy the ride/best band hands down
The “distorted guitar” solo is the bass player. Also I think if maybe you read over the lyrics real quick beforehand, it’ll help you “hear” what he is singing.
It's all up to your interpretation brother.....Maynard James Keenan (lead singer) is the writer.....they want to make you think.Their music is like a puzzle I love it!
I don’t think it has anything to do with religion. The temple is a metaphor for a relationship. The song is about how communication breakdowns can ruin a relationship.
the lyrics were influenced from maynard trying to write lyrics and vocal melodies, but the other members kept changing the composition making the lyrics and melodies not fit with the song anymore XD which is why he waits till everything is finished on their end to write
A reason they don't list chorus 1, chorus 2 is tool doesn't really follow the standard song pattern. I'm suggesting Jambi by Tool. The guitar solo is everything. Spiral out.
I hate to make this assumption, but you come from the rap game right? You know how you break down bars? Tool is similar, but I would start with perspective, when you read the lyrics pretend you're talkin to yourself. Different parts of yourself feel different ways. This song is pretty straightforward. It's about relationships.
Great that you try to musically take it in, it's a direct contrast of what many people are used to focusing on the lyrics because music layer is 4/4, very repetitive and therfore so expectable. To the meaning: It's not about a singular thing as understanding is a matter of where you are emotionally. I could give you a whole interpretation that stems a relationship case but to me it seems too unplausible to limit this great lyrics to that as it has much deeper potencial, for me anyways. The song, for me, is about ideologies and is very fitting to the current outrage of blacklivesmatter for example. The ideologies (worldviews) be it raccism, Religion, et cetera, are forces that divide a common fact, that we are all one, one and the same species (the pieces fit in contrast to these ideologies differentiating us in separate "worths"). "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy.. compassion", while the church bells come along: Imagine this, where people are sorted out simply because they don't worship a certain God. Or when the church dictates what you can not say or be, these things therfore are not spoken about creating antipathy for the humans affected by it (homosexuality, et cetera). It's these kind of divisionary ideologies that split humans apart, this silence that won't let us overcome these ridiculous separations and only if we talk openly about these issues we can overcome our ideologies who put these biases upon us. I hope you carry on with Tool, their whole music is very critical and personal and tries to help you and me to grow beyond our own little worlds problems by searching rather in ourselves and not in others. All sorts of emotions are to be found and discovered, eventually leading one to be more self aware and open. Be well ✌️
The way the band composes their songs is rather unique. The guitar player ( Adam Jones ) and the bassist ( Justin Chancellor ) come up with some riffs then get together and play around with them. Once they have something they get with the drummer ( Danny Carey ) and experiment with different time signatures, tempo, structure and tone. They then compose a finished piece of music that they're satisfied with. Only then do they send it to Maynard James Kennan the lyricist and singer. He listens to the tone and emotion of the music and comes up with lyrics that match. Until their latest album they never included a lyric sheet, wanting the listener to listen to the music first and then to listen and interpret the lyrics on a personal level. So how your doing this reaction is exactly how the band would intend it be done. You're getting precariously close to a hole you will soon find yourself sucked into. Enjoy the ride.✌🤘
Jeff Matthews thank you for that! Sincerely! Thank you 🙌
That's really normal though
@@ethanrosen5517 , every musician I know or have talked to say as far as the song writing process, that it's a collaboration between the lyricist and the musician, so I don't think it's all that common. Elton John and Bernie do it opposite of that. Bernie gives the lyrics to Elton, then Elton writes the music.✌
@@jeffmatthews6672 IDK it just seemed like you presented the whole process as abnormal, really just Maynard is the odd man out
@@ethanrosen5517 , MJK has said he prefers to get the finished musical score first as it lets him organically come up with the lyrics.
This is why they have the band name Tool. It's the tool that you use for whatever you are going through. Interpret the lyrics how you see fit to help you through whatever shit is going on in your life. No interpretation is wrong as it is dependent on the listener. Tool is absolutely brilliant and take an approach to music that is the complete package.
Yeah, Tool! Try to my favourite trips:
1. Parabol/Parabola
2. Wings for Marie (pt.1 and pt. 2)
3. Disposition/Reflection/Triad
Enjoy the adventure ❤️
Listening to Tool and wearing a Beavis & Butthead t-shirt... LOL, so awesome!
This was my first Tool favorite. I love the bass intro, the constantly changing tempo, the epic build-up in the latter half of the song, and the intense drumming at the finish. Just a great song and so worthy of winning the 2002 Grammy for Best Metal Performance. It's good that you followed up with they lyrics afterwards because they're always deep and thought-provoking and it's a lot to decipher while you're taking in the complexity of their music.
Anyway, keep going with the Tool... there's so much more to discover!
You are seriously getting the TOOL ARMYS attention, subbed!! Fantastic reaction sir, TOOL ARMY APPROVED 🤟🤟🤟😎
James Burk appreciate that! I have so much more of their stuff to get to, thank you, sincerely
Teez McGee if you want to understand TOOL and their Lead singer better, listen to songs off their Ænima album, enjoy your TOOL journey and thank you for sharing your journey with us- TOOL ARMY 🤟
You know you are over the breakup when this song no longer stings.
Big facts
Oof 💔
Loving the Tool reactions. Subbed.
Awkward Dawn Investigates History it’s much appreciated! Thank you! More to come 🙌
Welcome to the tool family. Keep listening. And also put your patience pants on. It's a journey with every song. Love the reaction
You are so right about patience. One of the main lessons Tool teaches us is patience. Just listen and wait, don't anticipate where you think the music is going next, just let go and let the music take you there. It will *always* satisfy you if you relax, let it flow, and have patience.
You might be my new favorite reactor. I love the format of digging deep into the lyrics after listening. Keep up the good work man
you reading the lyrics and "meanings" brings one quote to mind, "spiral out, keep going"
Best lyric in any break up song ever:
"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers"
Perfect and painfully true.
10,000 Days, you MUST listen to. I've spent so many hours listening to this song with my eyes closed, breathing it in. Right In Two, Pushit, Forty-Six and 2 should absolutely be on the list too. And Jambi hits hard.
Solid reaction! The logical next choice for Tool reactions would be The Grudge - first song on the album literally kicks you in the face with music. The lyrical themes relate to those of Schism and there are also multiple time changes. I feel strange saying it, but Listening to Tool really can make one a better person because the music is so internal and personal to whatever the listener is going through.
5:45 "Cold silence has, a tendency to, atrophy any, sense of compassion... Between supposed lovers."
My favourite part of the song, it gives me MASSIVE goosebumps!
Great reaction! No need to change anything, unless you want to.
Recommends: The Grudge, Lateralus, and Vicarious for now.
I simply love all the latest video you made, I finished binging all your reaction since "Hey you", it's beatiful to see someone appreciate two groups I loved for so long like tool and floyd.
I suggest you to listen to "a change of seasons" from Dream Theater, I understand that a reaction may be difficult since is a 23 minute song, but just listen to it, it doesn't have to be a job.
you earned a subscriber today, keep going, seeing you discover this world is amazing
Francesco Turtoro hey man I really appreciate the kind words, thank you and I will definitely look into that record, more stuff on the way 🙌
Liked and subbed for more Tool bro great reaction man! I love how u listened to the music before delving into the lyrics, definitely the way you should listen to Tool for your first time- just appreciate the music as a whole piece then after dive into the lyrics
Ben Bhogal appreciate you man, I think I’m going to keep this format. Thank you for the sub as well! 🙌
Tool is unorthodox. They strive to be like nothing you've ever heard before. Don't worry about trying to understand the lyrics on your first listen. It takes a few sit downs to really understand their philosophies. Some songs also have more than one meaning, some are pretty straight forward, and some are them just messing with their fans when they make it seem super cryptic but they are actually just explaining the recipes for cookies. They are wild man!
Tool actually never included any lyrics in their albums (cds) until the most recent one in 2019... the packaging was usually just artwork from 1992 until now. Listeners had to figure the lyrics by just playing the albums..
tidewell wow I didn’t know that, I guess it’s up to us to interpret, music is relative and we can put together our own assessment of the records
This is my favourite album of all time. Each song leads into the next, kind of like Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, which is another one of my favourite all time albums
Also yeah this song changes time signatures 47 times, so it can be hard to head bang sometimes. I’d recommend The Grudge as the next tool song
J P damn favorite is of all time?? Wow that’s high praise man, i still have so much to listen to
Teez McGee haha well I may be a bit biased, as both my parents were tool fans so I grew up listening to them all the time. Regardless, I think most people can agree that they’re a talented group. Keep up the reactions!
Best 2 albums ever? Darkside and lateralus?, cant disagree there.
Lateralus is my favourite album too man
Subbed for more Tool!
Julio Rodrigues appreciate you! Welcome! I got you 🙌
5:13 of your video there goes that bass whammy pedal again
Wow, that first interpretation is a bit out there. It doesn't actually have anything to do with religion. The song is about the break up of a relationship. The pieces used to fit, they used to get along and love each other, but they stopped communicating and that cold silence will doom the relationship completely if they don't start talking again. They need to "re-discover communication" or they will "watch the temple topple over" the "temple" is their relationship, this special thing they built together that is crumbling down. It's a call to reconcile. But Maynard writes all the lyrics of all the songs to be open to interpretation, yet he also chides in another song, "over-thinking, over-analyzing separates the body from the mind, withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind." So basically, the principle of Occam's razor in terms of interpreting his lyrics. Maynard sings and writes for two other bands, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, and most times those are more straightforward than what he writes in Tool. I have subbed to the channel and am looking forward to following your Tool journey. Cheers and stay safe! :D
Surprisingly that *tempo change is actually a time signature change. Something I recommend is finding the beat, the place to tap your foot to, although time signatures change, tool strategically changes them while still keeping the beat on the same tempo. They just change how loud they play or where to accent the notes to through you off, but the root beat will most likely stay the same.
ERROR 58 thank you 🙌
@Teez McGee Don’t mind the 3 weird salesmen at the door, you have a dude hidden behind your door. 😁
Don't worry too much if you get a little lost. They change up the timing of the song alot, and the lyrics can be really overwhelming as well. Most people can't even find a comfortable way to bob their head while listening. These songs are complex so just experience them as you can first time around.
I think the most outstanding lyric, that I have to keep in my thoughts all the time because of social issues: "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion." Keep communicating, don't keep yourself bottled up inside.
Lyrics are from maynard James Keenan
Adam S he’s unbelievable man
The singer writes the lyrics.
Dude, I hope you do more Tool. If so I’ll sub.
Two years ago? I must have been sleeping.
Ok I need to say this. How i became a Tool fan. Back in 1994 I think🤔 I was watching bevis and butthead ,and this video came on they were doing.....it was Tool/Sober
Since that I was the hugest fan and I have those two fools to thank..enjoy the ride/best band hands down
Penny Rogers lmaooo great story man, I actually forgot I had the shirt on, that’s great!
The “distorted guitar” solo is the bass player. Also I think if maybe you read over the lyrics real quick beforehand, it’ll help you “hear” what he is singing.
That’s a great idea, and thank you for that info that’s insane
Using a digitech bass whammy pedal and some tasty delay
Dig your reaction style and approach... keep it up. Pneuma album version then Danny Carey drum cam version..🤯🥁🤯
It's all up to your interpretation brother.....Maynard James Keenan (lead singer) is the writer.....they want to make you think.Their music is like a puzzle I love it!
The Awakener gorgeous writing man, simply 🙌
I would say definitely watch lyric videos while you listen. How MAYNARD sings the lyrics provides a lot of understanding.
Must do lyrics! Maynard is a genius!
Try "Lateralus" and do the Fibonacci scale video to experience the true genius of the whole band.
If you go back and relisten, the lyrics will make sense more and more. Basically I see it as a relationship that was once good has gone bad.
5:16 Bass
I don’t think it has anything to do with religion. The temple is a metaphor for a relationship. The song is about how communication breakdowns can ruin a relationship.
the lyrics were influenced from maynard trying to write lyrics and vocal melodies, but the other members kept changing the composition making the lyrics and melodies not fit with the song anymore XD which is why he waits till everything is finished on their end to write
You are doing a great job! This one is simple, if you just break it down to communication
Gina Arendtson thank you!
Teez RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. ROLL RIGHT or MIC CHECK or ASHES IN THE FALL. ✌
Black Sabbath - Paranoid. Old rock/metal song.
Tool - Lateralus
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What ever helps you do it your way
Fuxking AWESOME DUDE!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Goatthemanager lmaooooooo!!! My boy!
Teez McGee 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😭😭😭😭
I like lyrics after the song, Tools instrumentation is complex enough to digest with full attention
Julio Rodrigues yes indeed, this record was already unorthodox, I didn’t want to complicate things
Maynard rights all the lyrics
A reason they don't list chorus 1, chorus 2 is tool doesn't really follow the standard song pattern.
I'm suggesting Jambi by Tool. The guitar solo is everything. Spiral out.
GeiselDrache makes complete sense now, thank you! 🙏
Look up Maynard lol
I hate to make this assumption, but you come from the rap game right? You know how you break down bars? Tool is similar, but I would start with perspective, when you read the lyrics pretend you're talkin to yourself. Different parts of yourself feel different ways. This song is pretty straightforward. It's about relationships.
Ian Scottt thank you for the advice! And yes I do come from the hip hop world, still trying to getting my feet wet
Teez McGee It’s all good, I’m just trying to help. If I was you I would go back to the Aenema album start from the beginning, 100% psychological.
Great that you try to musically take it in, it's a direct contrast of what many people are used to focusing on the lyrics because music layer is 4/4, very repetitive and therfore so expectable.
To the meaning:
It's not about a singular thing as understanding is a matter of where you are emotionally. I could give you a whole interpretation that stems a relationship case but to me it seems too unplausible to limit this great lyrics to that as it has much deeper potencial, for me anyways.
The song, for me, is about ideologies and is very fitting to the current outrage of blacklivesmatter for example.
The ideologies (worldviews) be it raccism, Religion, et cetera, are forces that divide a common fact, that we are all one, one and the same species (the pieces fit in contrast to these ideologies differentiating us in separate "worths").
"Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy.. compassion", while the church bells come along: Imagine this, where people are sorted out simply because they don't worship a certain God. Or when the church dictates what you can not say or be, these things therfore are not spoken about creating antipathy for the humans affected by it (homosexuality, et cetera). It's these kind of divisionary ideologies that split humans apart, this silence that won't let us overcome these ridiculous separations and only if we talk openly about these issues we can overcome our ideologies who put these biases upon us.
I hope you carry on with Tool, their whole music is very critical and personal and tries to help you and me to grow beyond our own little worlds problems by searching rather in ourselves and not in others. All sorts of emotions are to be found and discovered, eventually leading one to be more self aware and open. Be well ✌️
Way Above unbelievable breakdown and it makes complete sense! I read every word, thank you!