I just wanted to tell Jim the pyjamaboy that Tool is not some sort of new, hip "modernrock"-band. Definetely not! I live in Sweden and have never heard any of their songs on the radio. Iīve been listening to Aenima almost every day for almost two years. If I were a religious person MJK would be my GOD! Heīs got a voice of an angel. Just listen to "Pushit"(I most persuade you another way). Just waiting for Aenimaīs follow-up. Thatīs all I had to say...

I've got some advice for you, little buddy. before you point your finger you should know that I'm the man. I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well so you can point that fucking finger up your ass all you know about me is what I sold you (dumb-fuck) I sold out long before you even (heard my name) I sold my soul to make a record (dip shit) then you bought one why do I love those lines so much? not like the usual Tool poetry dream underwater sound...he sounds so angry...angry angel Maynard.... hope you got an album or an mp3 by now Jim-boy, you're missing out here. (constant...over-rated....stimulation....numbs me...but I would not want you any other way) half the fun is figuring out what the hell he's singing. Opiate, all you beautiful sorabjians

Now i have been listening to TOOL for over 6 months now. Before Then i was not really into music a whole big bunch, but when i first heard tool on the radio, a surge of energy went through my body. so i went out and i bought lateralus and undertow. now i was surprised that every song on that cd was good.now other band they may have 5 songs out of 15 that are good that you can enjoy but TOOL is different. now i i own every cd of theres. there music opened my eyes to a new sight of looking at the world so I would never say that the band was full of them selfs. If they where full of them selfs they would not be making this great music for us to hear. TOOL FOREVER

I have been listening to Tool for about a year and a half. The first song I heard was AEnema. at first no one understands Tool. After a while it grows on you. My intepritation of Tool's songs is slightly different from others when it comes to H. At first I thought it was refering to heroine. "Days away I still feel you toaching me changing me and concideratly killing me." The lyrics "My blood before me begs me open up my heart again" also led me to belive what I thought. As I listen to It more I now think it could be refering to the chimical symbol for Hydrogin. When Maynard says "and I fell this coming over like a storm again" could be making a gesture twords crying. Water combines with Hydrogyn and forms tears. That is what Lachromology is about(the study of crying) and that is Tool's beliefs. Always form your own interpritatoin of these songs . I am still working on Lateralus, which is one of their best albums next to AEnema.

Um...Joel dear...the "follow up" for AEnema came out LAST YEAR...of course..maybe not in Sweden, for some odd fucking reason...as Zac mentioned it is called Lateralus. LISTEN TO THE CRIES OF THE CARROTS REV.MAYNARD! And for all of you who just jumped on the TooL bandwagon..if you don't have Opiate you don't have life..if you haven't had sex or done hard drugs to any tool album...your missing out...

Maybe if you kept away from the "hard drugs" (whatever that means to you), you would have noticed that Joel posted in 1998. That's four years ago, ok?

speaking of four years ago, i remember when opiate first arrived at the college radio station where i dj'd... o, TEN years ago. when you were 7 (almost 8!) star, dear. dumbass. bandwagon jumper.

I have only heard of Tool. A friend of mine from work (how many years ago was that? O.K. about 8 years ago) had gone to a Tool concert. Never heard of them. She had a great time. Other than that I don't know their music. Then again I don't know much about hard drugs anyways. Not my thing. Hope they don't go hand in hand.

I'm listening to A Perfect Circle right now, myself.

i met the husband of a very prominent designer this weekend. his wife supposedly has an addiction to heroin, via eye drops. i had never heard of such a no fuss method of taking in heroin, but i suppose for the chic, there are no tracks, no smoke and no snorts. but then again, its your eyes man. i also was chatting on and on with a guy about music only to find out he was the guitarist for the Lily's. I praised their first album 8 years ago but didnt say anything about the stuff they've done since, as its not very good.

heroin eye drops? compatable with contacts? or need contacts to supply them?

fuck you, just stick it in your ass!

can't we all just get along?

eat me cockmouth yeah thats him i dont think you understand how exciting this was for me. here i am geeking about records (he schooled me that indeed "I Dont Care If You Go" Velocity Girl single on Slumberland was NOT the first single by them, but rather the third. Here i was thinking i had a copy of the very first and very best.HA!), telling him my indie rock crush on Sarah from Velocity Girl, led to me to play music, which led him to say he was in a band, when he revealed who, I, in my tipsy stupor was floored. Here i was outside a downtown hotel bar, having a smoke with a member of the Lilys, whos album had courted many a drunken, high stupors, many a sex-filled evenings, many mellow evenings. I was also a bit shocked (apprently im not the only one) that the Lilys arent english. They are from Philly. Its an easy mistake to make considering they hit the scene right around the same time with MBV, Ride, Lush, Spacemen 3, Slowdive and Stereolab....all english, all with comparable sounds. Its an easy mistake. A bit later as we were leaving he was chatting with nico and apparently he fondly regarded me as a giddy school kid dorking about music and such. Thats fine, I felt as such and didnt mind.

fuck you geocities. here.

Well,Patrick,thats pretty damn cool. Laginappe,for living on the west coast!

upon reading this message board I was just wondering why all of you think Tool is full of themselves. Please tell I'm "dying" to know the answer

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Dave, did you type that or just cut and paste?

i typed 3 of em. copied and pasted the rest.

Tool is one of the few group of artists that has produced timeless creations. Meaning, you will not find one song from them that fits only into a certain time period or genre/generation. From where they speak is infinite, and is within all of us. That is not to say they are above everything or everyone. They simply are more in touch with the true nature of themselves and the universe than most other beings, which enables them to consciously change and to help others realize who and what they are (they are a 'tool' for evolution, lachromology, consciousness...thus the name Tool). Their art is strongly connected to and a part of the process of the collective unconscious becoming conscious. That is why many people have a strange feeling or connection when they listen to them deeply. It is as if Tool is the sound of yourself becoming more one with yourself. Their music is the release during this process of evolution. They are surely not the only artists that are strongly connected to themselves and this process (which is actually one in the same), they are just perhaps the most prominent and influential to come along in quite some time. Oh yeah, and they rock like you wouldn't believe.

oh yeah, step away from the crack pipe.

I had a dream about Maynard James Keenen the other night. He was part of a group of guys (I think it was the rest of APC) that I was going on some kind of video game adventure with. But it was like a virtual reality world that we stepped into. Before we left, we went into this drug stores for supplies, but all they had was water, twix bars, and some other kind of orange drink.

The name Tool also refers to a PENIS. So you know. Low-brow, high-brow, all is good. I bought a Judas Priest greatest hits tape at the gas station for a lark the other day, $5, "Prisoner of Pain". I popped it in the 4runner and one of my employees got all excited and started raving about how timeless Judas Priest's music is. Keep that in mind. Not that I'm dissing Tool, mind you...

Dave is a moron, and probably smokes crack. But anyway, I don't think Tool is the only band that makes timeless music, and I can see how lots of artists could seem timeless to different people. But good points anyway.

I like Tool, but MJK has the kind of face that invites a smack from time to time. lay off the daveman

so, nick a.k.a johndoechachacha, you're saying that, maybe in 30 years, we'll be treated to as-advertised-on-tv k-tel timeless music classics featuring tool? timeless music? that's the kiss of death.

u can lead a horse to water but u cant make it drink it.... new tool album due in early months of 2005 much heavier than Lat. 10-12 tracks once MJK finishes with APC in June this year he'll start laying vocals to pieces of music that have and are being created.

you people are realy lame and need to get a life!

Stop being critical and be inspired by Tool