My First Time Hearing Tool - Lateralus (Reaction!)

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  • @poloreacts27
    @poloreacts27  Год назад +57

    Just want to say thanks for watching my crazy reactions! If you enjoy what I do on this channel consider supporting me. 70% of my videos are not monetized. Between setting up the studio daily, filming, editing, thumbnails, and research which all take away from my family, you guys motivate me to put out content daily. Consider buying me a coffee here www.buymeacoffee.com/poloreacts or my Patreon www.patreon.com/poloreacts PEACE!!

    • @frederikvanaverbeke8840
      @frederikvanaverbeke8840 Год назад +3

      In case you're not amazed enough yet; Do you realize that the rhythm of the lyrics follows the Fibonacci series? 🙂
      1: Black
      1: And
      2: White Are
      3: All I See
      5: In it's Infancy
      ...
      Tool is amazing!

    • @elhorrendo7026
      @elhorrendo7026 Год назад +2

      Hey man. I know the word "crazy" has become a very broadly used phrase in contemporary north American lexicon... I argue too broadly... But your reactions are so far the only ones on a sewer-storm of "reactions" that I respect. And they are not "crazy", they are rational and authentic. That is why is respect them.
      What is "crazy" is people not Thinking for themselves and the "reaction" genre completely bloated and put of control. That is lock, hermano.
      You offer a reaction and a review. And while I still prefer to react to things myself, you are the only "reactor" (can't believe I'm even giving props to a reactor) that I can respect. Tu no loco. To el racional.

    • @mobeus84
      @mobeus84 Год назад

      Bro a good Standalone video to watch is Danny Carey playing this song live in his Studio with his gold drum set it's just insane how good this dude is

    • @danblanzara3174
      @danblanzara3174 Год назад

      They are amazing

    • @tylerthomas413
      @tylerthomas413 Год назад

      Bro love your reactions. Makes me feel like I'm experiencing it for the first time...... Amazing and thank you! I also want to give you a little secret..... This whole song is based on the fibinaci sequence which is found in everything in nature the ratio makes a spiral (spiral out). From the time signatures to the lyrics. Check it! Fibinaci is simple you start with one and add the number before the last to get the next 1+1# 2+1# 3+2#5+3#8 and so on. Even Maynard's lyrics black(1)+(1)and # white (2) are # all I (3) see # in my in (5)fan cy# red and yellow them(8) came to be# reaching(down to 5) out to me let's me see (finishing descending back to 3). So the lyrics/syllables literally go 1 2 3 5 8 5 3 which are all fibinaci or sacred numbers HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! So creative literally made out of creation of life! Hope this grabs you guys like it did me

  • @hank35682
    @hank35682 Год назад +536

    The greatest band, the greatest album and greatest song ever 🌀 this song saved my life, I was battling depression for years until I discovered this song, it changed everything for me 🙏

    • @waytospergtherebro
      @waytospergtherebro Год назад +20

      That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

    • @trumphatesyou
      @trumphatesyou Год назад +11

      @@waytospergtherebro Except the ending.

    • @art2736
      @art2736 Год назад +11

      Shrooms....future reference

    • @TsmithJustin
      @TsmithJustin Год назад +7

      Shrooms saved mine. Music helped but drugs did the heavy lifting.

    • @hank35682
      @hank35682 Год назад +13

      @@TsmithJustin I didn’t mention I was also on acid for the first time while hearing this song for the first time, and I agree but they should only be used a few times I feel like making a life style out of tripping can lead to some pretty negative results too, all I needed was 3 shroom trips and 2 LSD trips and I felt like a changed person, I don’t even smoke weed now all I do is Tool 😆🌀ridin the spiral

  • @JasonLevine1178
    @JasonLevine1178 Год назад +278

    "I've never heard anything like this"
    None of us had! That's why Tool hooks you so deeply so quickly. It's also why Tool reactions do so well. We're all junkies chasing that feeling of the first high. We can't hear Tool again for the first time, but we can take pleasure in watching someone else do it.

    • @shanejovanovic6073
      @shanejovanovic6073 Год назад +25

      I never realised that's why I'm watching these kind of vids, but there it is

    • @claudiamcclusky7641
      @claudiamcclusky7641 Год назад +19

      That's the mf truth! It's why I'm here

    • @Phil_LFC_9
      @Phil_LFC_9 Год назад +8

      I was really deep into Tool a decade ago. I put it down for several years and then recently dove back in a couple of months ago. It was almost...almost like hearing Lateralus for the first time. It was bad ass.

    • @othername2428
      @othername2428 Год назад +2

      👏🏆🏆🏆

    • @RustBatman
      @RustBatman Год назад +7

      @@Phil_LFC_9 Like taking a tolerance break. Ha! I love it

  • @poloreacts27
    @poloreacts27  Год назад +301

    I was so messed up from this song I forgot to add my usual closing statements. Hope you guys enjoyed it. Please like video if you enjoyed it with me 🤘🏾 leave a comment I’ll add my closing statements to Patreon but I think you guys get me 🤯

    • @donrodztx
      @donrodztx Год назад +17

      Amazing reaction. It's like you felt what I felt when I first heard it. Just wait. There is so much more. And your favorite songs will fluctuate. They're all that good. Can't wait until you hear The Grudge

    • @MoreMushroomThanMan
      @MoreMushroomThanMan Год назад +17

      Wings Of Marie parts 1 & 2 😉

    • @davidbaca7853
      @davidbaca7853 Год назад +9

      Disposition, Reflection, and Triad all together but it will be long to review

    • @77BigDirty
      @77BigDirty Год назад +13

      Now search up 'what makes Lateralus special' and prepare to have your mind blown.

    • @brendonford3838
      @brendonford3838 Год назад +10

      @poloreacts this is definitely another great car banger for you. Hearing this in the car is what really changed my perspective on some things. I think it’s interesting how you pick up tool and Pink Floyd at the same time, which are my two favorite “experience” groups of you know what I mean.
      Check out A Perfect Circle sometime if you want similar vibes. Another Maynard project you’d probably enjoy.

  • @cambodianz
    @cambodianz Год назад +196

    Lateralus is Tool at their absolute apex. The entire album is flawless. The hungriest, most ambitious, free, vulnerable, introspective, healing and striving for something deeper. The album closes on a trilogy of songs that create a singular musical piece that might be the most amazing moment in rock music. That might be hyperbolic, but maybe not.
    This album will never be replicated. The Lateralus fans are the monks. Welcome to the fold. Spiral out.

    • @KairosTemporalis
      @KairosTemporalis Год назад +7

      The Holy Gift

    • @nomoreinhellpodcasts5332
      @nomoreinhellpodcasts5332 Год назад +11

      To me it feels like that perfect crossroads album that fused their earlier albums with the band they would go on to become after this album. When I grew up Aenima was my fav album of theirs for years because I was that magic age when it released, but I think this Album has overtaken it.

    • @bumpert2217
      @bumpert2217 Год назад +1

      What he said

    • @novembersun8102
      @novembersun8102 Год назад +1

      Not hyperbolic

    • @ManyMagix
      @ManyMagix Год назад

      Agreed.

  • @robertturner2475
    @robertturner2475 9 месяцев назад +34

    This is one of the greatest songs ever created. I used to tear up listening to it. Then about three years ago my wife was diagnosed with late term cancer,she is doing well now after a brutal battle but will be dependent on medication for her entire life. When he sings embrace my desire to...and then conveys all of these deep human feelings including weeping like a widow I can't help but she's a tear. I thought I would feel that for a while and was always overthinking and worrying. This song speaks to my soul on a level that no other song does. It's fucking beautiful and painful and full of wonder and love and open-mindedness, desire and true need. It's terrifying and comforting at the same time. Just incredible. Truly one of the greatest pieces of music ever.

    • @coryjohnson2486
      @coryjohnson2486 6 месяцев назад +2

      I hope you are well my friend 🙏🏻. Shed a tear reading your story. I hope your wife is well and I hope you are well 😢

  • @Kingsryche
    @Kingsryche Год назад +82

    That swinging pendulum you have in the background fits TOOL music so well. Where can I get one!

    • @GeorgeOrwell1984-j6m
      @GeorgeOrwell1984-j6m Год назад +13

      Yeah, but I'm waiting for it to do a full rotation and it can't quite get around. Reminds me of watching for the old bouncing DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen.

    • @ThisIsGers
      @ThisIsGers Год назад +1

      @@GeorgeOrwell1984-j6m 😂😂😂

    • @prestocatronium
      @prestocatronium Год назад +1

      check out perpetual motion machines, should be able to find them online pretty easily and there are a bunch of different types

  • @INDRIDCOLD83
    @INDRIDCOLD83 Год назад +40

    Ahhh it's finally being played!

  • @tambuistuff
    @tambuistuff Год назад +135

    I've had decades to mull over Tool's discography, and while my #1 of theirs is an endless cycle of "what I'm hearing right now is #1", I keep coming back to this one as my #1 more than the others. Let's be real, this song is original, unique, creative, complex, meaningful, and just a flat out banger.

    • @jasondarland2383
      @jasondarland2383 Год назад +4

      "what im hearing right now is #1" is spot on. i've given up on trying to pick a favorite. Though, if i had to at this very moment, it would be Jambi

    • @familiarparabol8279
      @familiarparabol8279 Год назад +2

      @@jasondarland2383 I literally can never decide. I’ll narrow it down to best album or to best title track but it can never be decided. Every Tool song is amazing in its own way

    • @jeremiahblum7833
      @jeremiahblum7833 Год назад +2

      I tend to agree, I love a lot of tool songs but if I had to pick one to save for humanity it would be this one. Perfect song

    • @jwdrums8948
      @jwdrums8948 2 месяца назад +1

      Well said. Hands down one of the greatest songs ever written.

  • @hank35682
    @hank35682 Год назад +132

    Now you get it haha 😂 there’s a reason so many of us requested this song cause we know the moment you do your life changes forever when you discover Tool you look at things in ways you never have, and you realize it’s the only music in the world that’s actually worth a damn at the end of the day lol

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons Год назад +3

      I'm about to listen. It sounds like a musical psychedelic. Here we go.

    • @simonpacer1594
      @simonpacer1594 Год назад +2

      bro APC and RATM have just as much influence ......My pic has been Alex grey since 96

    • @hank35682
      @hank35682 Год назад +1

      @@simonpacer1594 RUclips didn’t exist in 96 😆

    • @novembersun8102
      @novembersun8102 Год назад +2

      Everything changes when you hear this.

    • @Hipno702
      @Hipno702 Год назад

      You’re talking about the fettuccine sequence right?

  • @gregbull11
    @gregbull11 Год назад +75

    "Right In Two" by Tool is a Song that is so important and appropriate for the days we currently are living in

  • @trumphatesyou
    @trumphatesyou Год назад +27

    You saying overanalyzing at the beginning made me chuckle.

    • @pdog547
      @pdog547 Год назад +1

      Haha I know, me too.

    • @shaunkerr8721
      @shaunkerr8721 4 месяца назад

      This guy gets it...

  • @andimetrum
    @andimetrum Год назад +80

    Danny is an earthquake on drums. Justin brings the thunder with the bass. Adam scorches the sky with crackling bolts of lightning on the guitar. Then Maynard pipes in with the disembodied voice of a god. Tool is Mount Olympus.

    • @danutd94
      @danutd94 Год назад +10

      FUCKING DAMN STRAIGHT

    • @mightywind5888
      @mightywind5888 Год назад +6

      1000 years ago Maynard would have been a prophet.

    • @heathregoetz3678
      @heathregoetz3678 Год назад +3

      Well said Toolkin!!! Spiral out!

    • @evanoglesby9504
      @evanoglesby9504 5 месяцев назад

      Justin is the one that really gets my body movin’ with this band

  • @BucketOfFail
    @BucketOfFail Год назад +70

    It may just be me, but I appreciate Danny's drumming even more after having watched his drum cam.

    • @flipclone
      @flipclone Год назад +7

      Tool's music has so many sounds that aren't "normal" sounds you would expect from the instruments they are playing so I never really thought about where they were coming from.
      so when I saw the Pneuma drum cam video I was astounded by how many of those sounds were coming from Danny, and I too found a new level of appreciation for him and his skills.

    • @matthewclem2220
      @matthewclem2220 Год назад +1

      Absolutely! It's not just you 😁

    • @nikkiwilliams8508
      @nikkiwilliams8508 Год назад +2

      I love it when people find this out lol, he is the foundation for their music, he really is the metronome and the driver it’s just crazy watching him. One time I saw them me he did like a 15 minute drum solo that was so insane and mind bending you really didn’t even notice it! 😂

    • @coyoboyo
      @coyoboyo Год назад

      He's all we've got at this point. I don't see any Disney kids stepping up to actually play drums and look ugly. Rock might be fucked.

    • @emperortime4907
      @emperortime4907 Год назад

      I always knew Hisoka had great taste in music

  • @jasonpate7900
    @jasonpate7900 Год назад +35

    "Lateralus" is a masterpiece. The lyrics are in the rhythm of the Fibinacci Sequence. Amazing!

  • @NRG2
    @NRG2 Год назад +20

    “Nobody’s messing with this band, man” hahaha DAMN STRAIGHT BRO 🙏😁

  • @LanceThompsonKssooner
    @LanceThompsonKssooner Год назад +24

    I was a casual TOOL fan back when this came out. I knew their radio stuff, Sober, Schism, Aenima....A friend of mine insisted that I go see them. The first time I heard this was in concert. This song was like a religious experience. When it was over, I said, "What in the hell was that?" He just said, "probably the greatest song ever written." 🌀🤘

    • @seangwill
      @seangwill Год назад +1

      A tribute?

    • @LanceThompsonKssooner
      @LanceThompsonKssooner Год назад

      @seangwill not sure I understand your question

    • @seangwill
      @seangwill Год назад

      @@LanceThompsonKssooner
      Sorry. It's a Tenacious D reference. I'll see myself out 👍

    • @LanceThompsonKssooner
      @LanceThompsonKssooner Год назад +1

      @seangwill oh yeah, the "Greatest song ever written." I got it.

  • @beelzebob23
    @beelzebob23 Год назад +9

    That "feel inspired, fathom the power, witness the beauty, bath in the fountain..." part is a spiritual experience every time i hear it.

  • @SkindrixX
    @SkindrixX Год назад +57

    POLO, No matter how many times it has been done or how late your are. The most Unique thing about Tool is that everyone, everyone has a different perspective on their music and everyone has a Unique experience to their music and we are here for all of it #ToolArmy #Tool

  • @Element_y
    @Element_y Год назад +42

    When I saw it live, I was with a friend of mine. After it ended and the lights came on, the whole stadium was stunned. I'll never forget that

    • @dbartley555
      @dbartley555 Год назад +4

      Same.. nobody left their seat the entire concert. And every left in awe..

    • @korylinn2251
      @korylinn2251 Год назад +4

      Same. I wish I could re-live that experience. The first time I ever heard the song was live on the tour for this album. I’m old. But it was mind blowing.

    • @ryder536
      @ryder536 Год назад +4

      Same here. Summer 2002 in Buffalo. Tremendous show. They were on fire that tour.

    • @Consider00
      @Consider00 Год назад +4

      Same 2002 Portland Oregon. Did they have those acrobats decend from the ceiling during the intermission at your guys show too?

    • @korylinn2251
      @korylinn2251 Год назад +1

      @@Consider00 yes! They were like contortionists! I’ve never seen them do anything like that in the dozen or so times I’ve seen them since then. And Maynard stayed behind a screen the whole time. I’ve seen him do that off & on since them. Our show was at Shoreline Amphitheater in California

  • @finnr0890
    @finnr0890 Год назад +44

    Listen to parabol/parabola next. It's two tracks and Parabol acts as an intro to Parabola. The transition between the two is extremely powerful

    • @flipclone
      @flipclone Год назад +3

      the transition from Intermission to Jimmy was my favorite... until i heard Parabol/Parabola

    • @TheEternalElir
      @TheEternalElir Год назад +4

      The Holy Trinity's transitions are cool as well. Also Lost Keys/Rosetta Stoned and Intension/Right in Two

    • @thespookybuilding
      @thespookybuilding Год назад +2

      Yes!! Parabol/Parabola

    • @cwilson31
      @cwilson31 Год назад

      & an outro… that song fades out with Parabol☺️

  • @shellyvine44
    @shellyvine44 Год назад +31

    You're making me smile. My pup and I would drive around listening to Tool. He passed away in my arms a couple of days ago. Your enjoyment of our band is... really making my heart happy. Thank you. 💔 also, don't apologize ever. Replay them and go back as many times as you want... thats why we adore this. Living "Vicarious"ly (great song too) through you again 😉

    • @julietoddjulie
      @julietoddjulie Год назад +3

      ❤️

    • @Drummr88
      @Drummr88 Год назад +6

      Sorry about your pup! That's the only thing dogs do wrong - they leave us too damn soon...

    • @shellyvine44
      @shellyvine44 Год назад +3

      @Drummr88 aww thank you. Their only flaw.... this community is amazing. But I do miss everything about my boy-o

    • @CptBumFlufff
      @CptBumFlufff Год назад +2

      Sorry you lost a friend, sounds like he was loved.

    • @shellyvine44
      @shellyvine44 Год назад

      @Dan Spice the MOST loved. Ever in the world. A pretty easy feat... since he was probably the coolest dude on the planet. I'm keenly aware because his brother is a derpy thing and is scared of music... especially tool and mommas other "scary sounds". Sigh... I miss my cool dude. But alas, it's just derp town over here now... I love the derpy fella too, don't get me wrong. I guess I just want my buddy back

  • @tostades
    @tostades Год назад +5

    I love how Maynard's voice practically acts as an instrument in their songs, it's so diverse and adds so much to the song. It's just a part of the music and doesn't take over the songs, every instrument has it's place and stands out

    • @rjzavala87
      @rjzavala87 5 месяцев назад

      I love how he adds a soothing quality to TOOL despite it being so heavy. Just amazing.

  • @chrisv8898
    @chrisv8898 Год назад +3

    Ok. I now love this channel. You just said one thing I will forever remember. " even their songs that are considered long....aren't long enough " spoken like a true music enthusiast and art lover

  • @Viccerz
    @Viccerz Год назад +28

    This feeling you're getting?
    Imagine it live.

    • @adammorvant
      @adammorvant Год назад +2

      I smiled literally the entire show. Lol

  • @DomZwd
    @DomZwd Год назад +17

    I won't die in peace if I'm not witnessing this song live once in my life. Greatest piece of music ever written.

    • @benkelly7182
      @benkelly7182 Год назад +1

      I saw this one live two weeks after 9/11. I was smashed against the railing at the front. The whole show was fucking insane!
      I hope you get to see them, dude.
      ❤🌀

    • @DomZwd
      @DomZwd Год назад +1

      @@benkelly7182 well I saw them in Paris in May but sadly Lateralus wasn't on this tour setlist.

    • @benkelly7182
      @benkelly7182 Год назад

      @@DomZwd ah right on. I saw them that same tour also. Incredible show but yeah no Lateralus for me either.

    • @somekindoflatindude9497
      @somekindoflatindude9497 Год назад +1

      I second this strongly, brother in name

    • @beantown702
      @beantown702 Год назад

      Saw em 2 months before the Vid 19 but they didn't play it 😢

  • @alecpetsikas4985
    @alecpetsikas4985 Год назад +2

    Hey man, never cut yourself off from talking about your experience with the music and the band overall. It’s genuinely so cool to see someone who would probably not typically listen to tool, become a fan right in front of our eyes. Us Tool nerds love it!

  • @travisepsteen3234
    @travisepsteen3234 Год назад +15

    My guy, you have barely scratched the surface. There are 7 albums of pure gold bangers.
    Each one a master class in song writing and dynamics in its own way.
    Opiate
    Undertow ( my personal favorite)
    Ænima
    Lateralus
    Salival ( live album)
    10,000 Days
    Fear Inaculum
    Keep going. Spiral out. You won’t be disappointed.

  • @Consider00
    @Consider00 Год назад +75

    I'll be "That guy." Hip hop has bars, Tool's got little easter eggs like this. Tool wrote this song to the fibbonacci sequence. Which is a geometrical patern seen through out nature, when you use arcs to connect the boxes that the fibonacci sequence outlines it makes a spiral, it's closely related to the "Golden Ratio" and is one example of what has come to be called "Sacred Geometry." The numerical sequence goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144.
    The introduction section of the song is 01:12 long (0, 1, 1, 2 are the first four numbers in the sequence).
    The first verse starts at 97 seconds, which is approximately 1.618 minutes - (The Golden Ratio)
    Each verse is 55 seconds long (11th # in sequence).
    The syllables in the verses coincide with the sequence, as the first part of the first verse goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3
    Black 1
    Then 1
    White are 2
    All I see 3
    In my infancy 5
    Red and yellow then came to be 8
    Reaching out to me 5
    Lets me see 3
    This song has A LOT of stuff you can geek out on.
    Also the "chugging" or "reving" you're talking about on the guitar is a combination of distortion effect, and "palm mutes" on the picking hand. Adam Jones is a Master of palm mutes, it's a nifty way of being able to play the same riff but have it occupy different spaces in the arrangement, Driving, undertone, build up. You can add a lot of dynamics to a song just by changing it up between palm-mutes, clear/open tones, and switching the effects you use on your guitar.

    • @alika124
      @alika124 Год назад +15

      I was wondering how far I would have to scroll down

    • @MrMattie725
      @MrMattie725 Год назад +12

      Don't stop there! The time signature from the main riff is 9/8, 8/8, 9/7 with 987 being the 17th Fibonacci number!

    • @codegrinny
      @codegrinny Год назад +9

      And the song is about not overthinking things, including this song...

    • @6ic6ic6ic
      @6ic6ic6ic Год назад +6

      The cool thing as well is the lyrics following the fib seq. are true to how we perceive light as we grow within the womb. Tieing in the concept of birth (the heartbeat), life, death, and the journey, the spiral.

    • @boogabuga7657
      @boogabuga7657 Год назад +6

      @@codegrinny That's just Maynard's sense of irony coming through.

  • @20th_century_Ghost
    @20th_century_Ghost Год назад +8

    P.S. - Tool is the absolute pinnacle of mind expanding music. There is so much thought and emotion in their music and lyrics that they never get old.

  • @ted1976hailspiralout
    @ted1976hailspiralout Год назад +9

    With everything that you just said, I highly recommend your next Tool reaction by Vicarious!!! 🤘🏻🌀

    • @nikkiwilliams8508
      @nikkiwilliams8508 Год назад +1

      Yes! So we can Vicariously experience it for the first time again lol

  • @raymondnolasco7453
    @raymondnolasco7453 Год назад +8

    Michael Jordan “shrug game” = Lateralus. I love this analogy! Both masterpieces. Parabol/ Parabola or Schism next please!

  • @marksummers666
    @marksummers666 Год назад +18

    Yeah you're definitely hooked. Finding new meanings and feelings on multiple listens is part of the fun of Tool. Lots of layers, lots of little bits and sounds you'll continue to discover, especially on this album which is mixed SO unbelievably well. It alternates between stank face and head trip for 79 minutes

  • @PeteOliva
    @PeteOliva Год назад +6

    This song reinspired me for an entire lifetime when it came out when I was in college. And it still is. This song taught me to embrace my own creative spirit, to follow my whims, to not get caught up in the what ifs, to not second guess myself at every turn, to trust my instincts, to embrace the daily energy of life. Don't overthink, just do. Live. To me it's the ultimate YOLO song. Live in this moment and embrace the beauty of everything that inhabits it. It will only come once. Seize it.
    One of the most important songs in my life's journey.

  • @Swenners
    @Swenners 6 месяцев назад +2

    Don't ever apologise for rewinding. I wish more reacters did it. I love seeing what hooks you in 🙂 This is one of my favourite Tool songs, and a joy to watch your reactioned. L&S.

  • @michaelbrown3128
    @michaelbrown3128 Год назад +2

    You finally said it! Your hooked! You said, ITS MORE THAN MUSIC! Nuff said!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @jaredo9666
    @jaredo9666 Год назад +29

    This is absolutely my favorite Tool song, you should check out Right in Two by Tool as well.

  • @pdog547
    @pdog547 Год назад +28

    You must watch the video that explains the meaning of this song and the Fibbonacci Sequence (in text, while the song plays). It's next level. Spiral out :D

    • @WAF74
      @WAF74 Год назад +3

      That video only explains half of it. 😁 The golden ratio is the natural log of Phi. Phi is the square root of 5 +1 over 2. Phi is an irrational number. By definition irrational numbers can't be expressed as a perfect ratio or fraction. The Fibonacci sequence when dividing a term over the next term *approximates* the natural log of Phi. But that division intrinsically is rational. Since the Fibonacci approximation is inherently rational, and the Golden Ratio is inherently irrational; This dichotomy is alluded to throughout the lyrics. "Over-thinking Over-analyzing separates the body (Golden Ratio) from the mind (Fibonacci)" "Separates my wind (Golden Ratio) from will (Fibonacci)"
      The message of the song strongly suggests to stop "interpreting" and just "experience" things, life, music, existence. Something that atheists and the devout should agree on is that only God is omniscient; the sum of human knowledge is not synonymous. Understanding is not and cannot be Experiencing as we lack the prerequisites.
      Swing on the spiral, brother.

    • @breakfree4177
      @breakfree4177 Год назад

      Wow

  • @snidefultodd
    @snidefultodd Год назад +19

    The "revving" I believe you're referring to is called palm muting. When you rest the palm of your pick hand on the bridge of the guitar while you pick, it slightly dampens the vibration of the string and especially when played with distortion through an amp, creates that heavy chug chug chugga chugga chug. Stay with the path and you'll get into the djentier bands Tool helped influence and see the true depths of chug.

  • @73av8r5
    @73av8r5 Год назад +2

    Layers and layers and layers of pure genius.

  • @glennmoore977
    @glennmoore977 Год назад +11

    Parable-Parabola would be a good listen next. Be sure to get the 2 songs together. Powerful song as well.

  • @karsonmapes
    @karsonmapes Год назад +21

    ayyyyy brother man congrats on 100k! i subbed yesterday and you were at 99.9k lol
    i love to see open minded, genuine souls amongst the sea of fake, attention seeking channels on youtube nowadays. i really appreciate your open mindedness when it comes to music of all types. i always say it is so dismissive when people claim to hate a song or a bands etc. in any piece of art, there is something going on within the piece that you can find to appreciate and get into. be it the kick drum pattern, bass lines, background vocals, melodies etc. when people say they hate something it’s because they already have their bias and with that their preconceived notions just look for something to not like about it. therefore they can say so quickly that they don’t like it. turning their minds off to giving the piece any sort of chance
    keep on being you man ✊👍👏🙏

    • @flattryan5541
      @flattryan5541 Год назад

      I just subbed and now he's at 133k! 🙏 🙌 🙌

  • @Ahov
    @Ahov Год назад +12

    The entire album is a masterpiece. You won't be disappointed by investing the time for it.

  • @kaekazakas4597
    @kaekazakas4597 Год назад +6

    TOOL - The Grudge

  • @douglasdrain
    @douglasdrain Год назад +6

    The genre is categorized as TOOL !!!
    Dude, your reactions are priceless. Don’t change !!!

    • @keithk1559
      @keithk1559 9 месяцев назад

      Perfect comment!!!
      ✌️✝️

  • @jbrassic5434
    @jbrassic5434 Год назад +12

    @19:34 - the moment you realise how deep you're in it now lol. @poloreacts you're one of us now brother. No need to react to anything else from these guys, you really owe it to yourself to enjoy the albums in full, start to finish, instead of broken and scattered. The songs are on another level when consumed in the context of the album, and you're ready. You could even do album reactions, editing in your highlights and summarising at the end. I recommend starting from Opiate!

  • @brendonford3838
    @brendonford3838 Год назад +5

    This song won top metal song on “top 100 metal songs of all time” in some big article a while back, and a lot of metal heads didn’t understand, but tool heads did, and music fans do now through reactions like this one ☝️ thanks polo 👏

  • @Jagermeiister
    @Jagermeiister Год назад +4

    This song was a true gateway for me. When I was a young chap, I would listen to this song eyes closed, ears wide open. I would listen to this song over and over and over, each time focusing my ears on something new, follow the drums one time, the bass the next, the guitar, the vocals. Each layer to the song took me somewhere new. When I needed to get through something rough, this song was the background track to my life. I could lose myself in this track so easily. Thank you for giving us your true feelings on this song. Ever since your first Tool track, I've been waiting for you to get to this one, cause this song....this fucking song....

  • @SparkimusPrime
    @SparkimusPrime Год назад +8

    One of my favorite songs and albums from them 🖤🖤🖤

  • @reflectionist
    @reflectionist Год назад +3

    The James Bond comment at 6:18 was hilarious, even though I know you meant Mission Impossible. Not busting your chops, just appreciating the reference. :D I like where your head's at, this song is definitely going to take you waaaaaaaaay out there, but at *this* particular moment, we're still on this side of the pond, learning to swim in Arizona Bay.

  • @mikelary88
    @mikelary88 Год назад +5

    Probably the best song ever. If I only had 1 song I could listen to for the rest of my life, this most likely would have to be it.

  • @NRG2
    @NRG2 Год назад +32

    Both Tool & Puscifer are really hard to place in a genre. Maynard is something else in his art form. Stoked youre getting in to this one. Youve got to check out the song Rosetta Stoned too. There is the most insane breakdown like 3/4 of the way through

    • @MoonlitBrenya
      @MoonlitBrenya Год назад +1

      OMG, Yes pleasse!!

    • @KWin246
      @KWin246 Год назад +1

      Gotta listen to Lost Keys in the same listen but yes

    • @derk8665
      @derk8665 Год назад +3

      Rosetta Stoned and Jambi

    • @NRG2
      @NRG2 Год назад

      @@KWin246 for sure!!!

  • @voidwraithprime8521
    @voidwraithprime8521 Год назад +3

    Yeah. Lateralus is a true masterpiece. Descending is my current favorite Tool track as well, but only because it has that new track shine...and it would be crazy for Lateralus to be my favorite track for 21 years, right? Either way, you have so much more greatness ahead in your Tool journey. I envy all of you reactors in that way. Have a Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and spiral out...

  • @willburton6622
    @willburton6622 Год назад +4

    Thanks for your very intelligent reactions - better to over think than under think.

  • @jamiestevener1248
    @jamiestevener1248 Год назад +3

    I know it’s slower and not as technical but “The Patient” is my “current” favorite Tool song off this same album. Been experiencing Tool since my early teens and there’s something that just stimulates all your senses when you really feel their music. Been loving your reactions, Polo! So glad I subscribed!

  • @nathanielhagen3652
    @nathanielhagen3652 Год назад +13

    As others have likely stated, this song utilizes the Fibonacci Sequence. I guess I was too lazy to type it all out, so I asked ChatGPT to:
    "The song "Lateralus" by the band Tool does indeed use the Fibonacci sequence as an inspiration for its structure and lyrics.
    The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical series in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on. The sequence has many interesting mathematical properties and can be found in nature and art.
    In the case of "Lateralus," the Fibonacci sequence is used in the song's time signature and in the number of syllables in certain lyrics. The song alternates between the time signatures of 9/8 and 8/8, which creates a pattern of 9-8-8-9-8-8-9-8-8-9-8-8 and follows the same pattern as the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.
    In addition to the time signature, the song also uses the Fibonacci sequence in the lyrics of the chorus, which goes:
    Black
    Then
    White are
    All I see
    In my infancy
    Red and yellow then came to be
    Reaching out to me
    Lets me see
    If you count the number of syllables in each line of the chorus, you will notice that the first line has one syllable, the second has two, the third has three, the fourth has five, and the fifth has eight. This sequence of syllables matches the Fibonacci sequence.
    Overall, "Lateralus" uses the Fibonacci sequence as a way to create a unique structure and rhythm for the song, and to tie together the different elements of the music and lyrics in a way that reflects the order and beauty of the natural world."

    • @elbolsillo
      @elbolsillo Год назад +2

      Oh cool. By reading that, it changed my understanding of it from 0% to 0.01%.
      So, thanks for that!

    • @danajones760
      @danajones760 9 месяцев назад

      Right on, Nathan! Thank you ✌️

  • @daviddidder3781
    @daviddidder3781 Год назад +5

    10000 days, Tool’s best album. “Rosetta Stoned” mind blowing, “right in two” also really good.

  • @robfrawley
    @robfrawley 9 месяцев назад +8

    For anyone as mezmurized by Danny Carey's drumming as I am, check out my active drum transcription of this song: ruclips.net/p/PLeaK9tcJzll3J89tut-aSN91hmXLrOwL8

  • @Im_Old_Gregg
    @Im_Old_Gregg Год назад +1

    I love watching new Tool fans being born. It takes me back to the way i felt in the mid 90s when i was a little kid hearing Tool for the first time.

  • @cameronbodell7985
    @cameronbodell7985 Год назад +4

    One does not simply listen to Lateralus…Can’t think of another band that causes such a range of emotions. Great reaction.

  • @andrewholub1632
    @andrewholub1632 Год назад +3

    Tool is the greatest rock you will ever hear mixed with the greatest otherworldly rock you will ever hear. Truly an experience.

  • @nateprusia9158
    @nateprusia9158 Год назад +1

    I didn't discover Tool until Schism hit the radio in my area in 2001. As soon as I heard the full album & heard this title track, I knew I had found the greatest collection of musical talent ever to happen upon each other. I've been a fanatic ever since.

  • @floydmccullough5555
    @floydmccullough5555 Год назад +4

    In my mind, this is one of the greatest pieces of musical art ever created. It’s always such a joy to see people experience it for the first time. This album dropped at one of the lowest places of my life, and it truly helped pull me out of a downward spiral. The song “the patient”, will always have a special place in my heart. Great video!

  • @chriswhite2389
    @chriswhite2389 Год назад +3

    Yes!!

  • @douglbryson
    @douglbryson Год назад +4

    Tool is another level in rock. Tool makes my bones chill. Imagine waiting over 10 years for Fear Innoculum to be released!! More to check out..... Disposition, Third Eye and Right in Two, If you were to one more..... THIRD EYE

  • @yadyad01
    @yadyad01 27 дней назад

    First off I’m 75 year old led Zep fan. I was blown away by the overall sound Tool produced. Especially the drum work. That guy is great!!!

  • @awdimprezal
    @awdimprezal Год назад +1

    Finally you listened to not only the greatest tool song, the greatest SONG of all time. Thank you!!!

  • @RyanF311
    @RyanF311 Год назад +4

    This particular song is absolute perfection. My favorite song on my favorite album. I can’t hear this song (specifically the last two minutes) without getting goosebumps every single time I hear it.

  • @betweentheair
    @betweentheair Год назад +6

    This album is their masterpiece

  • @jamesgreer9366
    @jamesgreer9366 3 месяца назад

    One of my all time favorites by these guys!! The builds, the drops, the offset beats, lyrics, vocals!! Beautiful song!!!

  • @gracemichelli.2am124
    @gracemichelli.2am124 Год назад +1

    Tool is one of the best. Love this song. Great reaction.🥰

  • @sirshade222
    @sirshade222 Год назад +14

    Never a better cardio mix than Tool's albums, so easy to get lost in their music and before you know it you've cracked your record. You want to really be impressed, see them live.

    • @hookerface81
      @hookerface81 Год назад

      Facts! They’ve always been my go to when working out.

    • @ryanclose1
      @ryanclose1 Год назад

      I joke with my running buddies because I listen to tool a lot when I run. They ask how far I ran and I say about 2 Tool songs, or 4ish miles for the plebes. 😅

  • @flexygoo1295
    @flexygoo1295 Год назад +7

    Fourty-Six and Two next

    • @flexygoo1295
      @flexygoo1295 Год назад +2

      Also, have some lyrics handy. That shits deep

  • @Countryboybiker
    @Countryboybiker Год назад +1

    Your favorite Tool song will always change. The songs change with you. Your outlook, your emotional state, your frame of mind always changes. There’s always the perfect Tool song waiting for each of them.

  • @thepot462
    @thepot462 Год назад +2

    I absolutely love your comment "Danny's gonna let you know he's there" and your grooving leading into 16:23 when you realize what you are hearing and freeze up. You talk about goosebumps; I get them every time with the drum section starting at 18:02

  • @Mubiki
    @Mubiki Год назад +5

    This has probably already been said, but the thing I love most about this song, is that the entire message is about branching out and experiencing new things. This means that by listening to it for the first time, you are basically living the message in the song, even if only for only a few minutes. The song itself is basically a self fulfilling prophecy, and that's dope.

  • @ToxicDover
    @ToxicDover Год назад +3

    Man, this song is such a masterpiece. That last verse that kicks off with "With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds..." gives me chills EVERY time haha.

    • @ricardomartinezxx
      @ricardomartinezxx 6 месяцев назад

      Absolute perfection!! My favorite part as well!

  • @galvanizedgravitas
    @galvanizedgravitas 4 месяца назад

    I keep coming back. I love watching Tool reacts. This song is amazing.

  • @TsmithJustin
    @TsmithJustin Год назад +1

    Been a tool fan since I was like 14. My favorite song of there's has changed 1000 time and will change 1000 more.

  • @nicquinn7291
    @nicquinn7291 Год назад +4

    Please try parable/parabola with lyrics. It’s one of the best songs ever in my opinion.

  • @magpieMOB
    @magpieMOB Год назад +3

    One reason why those Adam Jones solos just hit different might be because he experiences Synaesthesia - extra connections between senses, where someone might experience tastes looking at certain colours - Adam Jones "sees/feels" sound, so he's the one who takes the longest in the studio "sculpting" how exactly he wants his guitar parts to sound, because otherwise it would "feel wrong", like a sauce with too much salt or a landscape painting where the trees are the wrong shade of green

  • @StergyCreates
    @StergyCreates Год назад +1

    As the others have said, one of my favorite songs...not only from tool but in general. Their music is meant to speak to the soul...
    I am really enjoying your reactions to Tool and would love to watch you react to "Right in Two" from 10,000 days and "Forty Six & 2" from ænima...

  • @momishka7
    @momishka7 Год назад +2

    I love that you’re growing to love them, you’re not late, you’re welcome. Hugsnbellyrubs Polo

  • @tl-hfit3408
    @tl-hfit3408 Год назад +3

    Lateralus is THE PERFECT ALBUM! From the beginning to the end!!!

  • @deadohiosky1701
    @deadohiosky1701 Год назад +3

    Love the MJ analogy, so true. And just like MJ, that greatness was the result of taking raw talent and then working harder than anyone else to perfect their craft. I don't any band spends more time crafting a single song than Tool. This is my #1 Tool song because it encapsulates the best of everything the band is to me: Unique, energetic, complex, powerful, beautiful, spiritual masters. And yeah, that ending :)

  • @thomasharris4942
    @thomasharris4942 Год назад +2

    The most crazy intellectual rock song that unfolds gradually but with a great groove

  • @davidfetherston2083
    @davidfetherston2083 Год назад +13

    This was voted the greatest rock song of the 21st century.

    • @Consider00
      @Consider00 Год назад

      I love the song but, who ever created that pole is getting a little a head of themselves no? Still got most the century left before any kind of relevent comparison could be made. What if they invent a way for you to listen to music directly through your dick? We might not even know what true rock hard music is right now.

    • @GobRogan
      @GobRogan Год назад +2

      Should be all time

    • @rogermarr9067
      @rogermarr9067 Год назад

      Yep I remember that and then I do want to say that they're album enema was voted and it tied with AC/DC's back in black as the greatest rock album before the 2000s I could be wrong but I think I believe and remember that off the top of my head

    • @elbolsillo
      @elbolsillo Год назад

      For realsies?

    • @davidfetherston2083
      @davidfetherston2083 Год назад

      @@elbolsillo It truly was

  • @dshay2012
    @dshay2012 Год назад +1

    Polo: "NOBODY'S messin' with this band, man! Not for me..."
    Me: "AMEN BROTHER. A-FRICKIN-MEN."

  • @rushslayer8647
    @rushslayer8647 Год назад +3

    You’re right tool is not a band, it’s a force to be reckoned with. The arrangements in their songs just cannot even be gotten close to buy other bands. They just don’t have that type of mindset and to have 4 people meet up and be able to pull this off is just like an absolute miracle, I am so glad you have found tour and opened your mind. A lot of people listen to tool, but don’t read the lyrics, it looks like you kind of read the lyrics off to the side and I hope you do because it takes each song to an even bigger level! As if it even could be. So, if you haven’t read the words, please do. Maynard has said that he thinks of himself as an instrument in the band, and just as they put all of their effort into their instruments, he tries to top them with his lyrics and how he sings his lyrics, because, as you know, he has like 20 different voices, and a voice to cover every mood of every part of a song to make the song that more poignant and perfect. Sorry I can’t stop writing, because just seeing you go down the tool rabbit hole brings me back to when I did it, and I love it. It is so awesome to see someone hear this stuff for the first time and get their reaction, and their honest reaction to something that we will probably never hear again musically

  • @ThePeca1988
    @ThePeca1988 Год назад +4

    This whole album is something really special, and thats an understatement

  • @kimb2914
    @kimb2914 4 месяца назад

    Favorite song of all time. It's so crazy to see played live I literally had tears in my eyes

  • @westloves
    @westloves Год назад +1

    this song is a masterpiece, never gets old.

  • @sarahappleby1800
    @sarahappleby1800 Год назад +4

    First time? Well better late than never. Now you'll be listening to it nonstop. Spiral out

  • @johnnyb6067
    @johnnyb6067 Год назад +6

    In my opinion this song is the pinnacle of the cream of the crop for Tool. It’s not necessarily always my favorite of the moment but it’s always the best. I don’t think this album will ever be topped for me.

  • @jerjoh22
    @jerjoh22 Год назад

    Saw Tool for the first time at Lalapalooza in the Gorge in George, WA back in 93! Every show i have been to has been incredible! Go see them while ya can

  • @infinitecarz
    @infinitecarz Год назад

    Loved this reaction, this is my favorite TOOL song, loved the way this group peices their songs together.

  • @0_fksgvn955
    @0_fksgvn955 Год назад +3

    I bet years down the line, if you keep up with listening to tool, you'll start to watch videos of people listening to tool for the first time also.

  • @billheikkila1784
    @billheikkila1784 Год назад +5

    Wait till you find out the syllables in the lyrics follow the Fibonacci sequence.

  • @Brit-hi8lf
    @Brit-hi8lf 4 месяца назад

    This song is 23 years old now. Hits EVERY TIME!!!!

  • @michaelflanagan8881
    @michaelflanagan8881 Год назад

    Out of all the reaction jawns yours r the coolest! Been listing 2Tool 4years & seeing u brings me back2how I was hearing this stuff4 1st time, it's awesome... "SPIRAL OUT, KEEP GOING"....