TOOL

I decided to do my first band review on TOOL cuz i've been stuck listening to them for a long time. For around six months now, their 4 studio albums have been on repeat on my music player. That's really way too long for my anyone's good.
I have no idea what i can make out of them actually. They are either pseudo-philosophers. Mere men, pretending to create something SOOO special to ta

ke the world for a ride. Or they could probably be lunatics, who think of themselves as so intellectual that they are too great for this world, that they are mere tools of something greater. Whatever that greater being may be.

Or they could truly be TOOLs of an infinite force unseen. A channel, for the universe's energy to flow into our ears through their music. That is what they claim anyways.

Maynard James Keenan, their infamous vocalist (w

ho dresses up in women's clothing and wigs for fun) has mentioned that many times. He claimed that they are mere humans w

ho are channels or tools of something greater. He also said we are all are tools.

Well maybe we are, but we ain't no freaking rockstars. So what he says matters most anyway...
Anyway, their music is really a blend of trash from the ground and stardust so to say. Their most famous single to date, "Sober", from their album Und

ertow is certainly mind numbing. The phrase, "why can't we not be sober, i just want to start this over" certainly drives deep into the mind of people even in the slightest pool of s**t.

Tool's music seems to be the soundtrack to life itself. It could really reach out to touch the soul no matter how you feel. Songs like "Parabola" , "Push it" and "Aenema" are just perfect in its being. These are songs that seem to remain beyond the touch of humans. Well, I know it's just hard rock songs, bu

t i swear i'm not exaggerating. It's phenomenal.

Nevertheless, there are points you can

 see the very hu

man part of the band. Especially their obsession on being anti-Christ. I find bands who put their anti-religion expression rather hypocritical as it shows their self dilemma and conscience for not adhering to religious beliefs in the first place. This conscience is probably instilled by family values and all, and these musicians just don't realize it. But, just like any other Tool song, even their anti-christ songs sound so deep and addictive. Namely the song "Opiate" from the album Opiate. Personally, i find the ending to the song very amusing. It's actually a description about stoned people and the havoc they wreck, i won

der if they are stoned on religion in the first place?!
There are certainly, many ways that Maynard could entertain us with his 'dick joke' humour in between the "great wonders of the universe", as portrayed by Adam Jones, the lead guitarist, Danny Carey,drummer, and Justin Chancellor, bassist. Songs like "Maynard's Dick", a hidden track in the Saliva! album was practically a song about oral sex on f**kin Maynard. I bet it's every rockstars dream to get away with that sorta s**t. It was a heck of a good laugh to all who listens to it anyway. Classic rock prank on the world.

One of my early personal favorites was "Hooker with a penis" from the album Aenima. That's an 

authentic song from a band

 who's stuck it up to "the MAN", but also the band who agrees they are the f**kin MAN. This reminds me of how they shunned a freaking Grammy, cuz they believed that the Grammy Awards are just a bunch of rich producers trying to promote music to the mass, like a big annual "I'm loving it" advertisement by Mickey D's. Well, it certainly takes the MAN himself to resist another.

Their music is definitely an excellent listen. It 

may not be in the first try. It's not exactly "radio worthy". But, eventually you are gonna love at least one song. One song that will keep playing itself in your head till the day you die, or fall into a coma, or whatever.

Conclusion: Music by a higher force channelled through 4 people towards "intellectual" mature audience. I'd give Tool a 21 gun salute when all of em die someday :D

Check out the band website. There are some cre

ative content there to make you ponder about existence or it could make you winch in disgust or you couldn't be less bothered. It is your call :P

http://www.toolband.com/

This Maynard James Keenan's fan based website. There are some interesting free music available for download. Mainly bootlegs and early works by him. Worth signing in for the free material

http://themaynardproject.wetpaint.com/

Rock n roll never dies :)