rodrigo90: Why I stopped listening Tool

LethalPaintball 10.06.17	its pretty fucking pathetic if you stop listening to a band solely because of its fanbase spoiler alert: every band has a shitty fan base so you should just stop listening to anything
LethalPaintball 10.06.17	but yeah agree latetalus is overrated
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	I respect that you like Meshuggah more than a Tool album. Meshuggah all the way, baby. And while I agree with mostly everything you said to at least some degree, Tool is still in my top 5. As douchey as they are and as irritable as the fanbase is, I still fucking love the music.
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	"its pretty fucking pathetic if you stop listening to a band solely because of its fanbase" [2]
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	Also Lateralus is one of my favorite albums of all time - that's one of the few albums that everyone freaks out over that I think is justified.
Thalassic 10.06.17	Hot take: the "annoying Tool fanboy" thing is an imaginary narrative. I've never come across one of them in my life - when you don't go looking for them, they're easy to ignore.
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	I've honestly come across more annoying Tool anti-fans than fanboys. It doesn't come up much though, because I'm fairly ambivalent towards Tool (decent stuff though)
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	@Thalassic, clearly you didn't go to a liberal arts school
Thalassic 10.06.17	@DarkSideOfLucca I'm a bit of a blue collar guy lol, liberal arts colleges weren't in the cards for me
Aerisavion 10.06.17	Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate the best thing about this band; Adam Fucking Jones. That is all.
butcherboy 10.06.17	shite band anyway.. check no wave
emester 10.06.17	just realized Tool and Rick and Morty or basically interchangeable in this context
Thalassic 10.06.17	@DinosaurJones [2] I honestly see way more rabid Tool haters (whose borderline furious comments often make me think that Maynard raped their mom with a bottle of his homegrown wine) than I see hardcore Tool fans
ashcrash9 10.06.17	It's pretty silly to suggest the rabid Tool fans Rodrigo's describing here don't exist; look at literally any comment section to a Tool video and they're bound to come up but as other people itt have said, the anti-fans can be just as irritating, and at the end of the day "its pretty fucking pathetic if you stop listening to a band solely because of its fanbase" [3]
Kalopsia 10.06.17	if you're letting other people influence your personal enjoyment of a band, you're doing it wrong.
AlexKzillion 10.06.17	Nothing is not better than Lateralus sorry goat list tho
Drifter 10.06.17	Undertow*
Kalopsia 10.06.17	is this the music equivalent of people protesting the NFL?
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	I haven't watched R&M still. I assume I'd like it, but boy, watching rabid fanboys and anti-fans battle it out recently has been entertaining.
KjSwantko 10.06.17	There are better albums than this such us meshuggah's nothing. [2] m/
Scoob 10.06.17	this is so ridiculous
DikkoZinner 10.06.17	Demolition Hammer >
Scoob 10.06.17	I wouldn't go that far but I've been bumping demo all day which seems more important than this post
LethalPaintball 10.06.17	id take 10,000 days and aenmia over lateralus any day TBH
Azertherion 10.06.17	"Maynard is a God is the closest thing that the world could ever create after Nieztche, or even Sartre" Do you mean that Maynard is a reflection crafted by Socrates so he could bring down the tragical dimension of life and relagate mythology to the ground ? This list is hilarious.
ArsMoriendi 10.06.17	"The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page" trolololololo
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	Oh right, yeah. throws bricks through windows of small businesses sets fires
onionbubs 10.06.17	everyone grab your pitchforks and torches this guy doesn't like tool
Orb 10.06.17	I dig this list and agree with it. High five hombre.
Valkoor952 10.06.17	"Let’s all just take a moment to appreciate the best thing about this band; Adam Fucking Jones." Danny Carey actually.
Allergist 10.06.17	You go on and on about how Tool fans are so stupid and immature, yet you're here bashing music because of their fan base. Also I've never encountered any of these douche tool fans everyone speaks of. I can think of 10 bands with douchier ruder fanbases. I've honestly come across more annoying Tool anti-fans than fanboys
Kalopsia 10.06.17	"The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page" they should close your account, but for reasons that you are a terrible person with terrible tastes in music
Scoob 10.06.17	Is there a kettle And is it black
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	the REAL question is... was there corn popped in that kettle? because kettle corn is the shiz-nite.
Scoob 10.06.17	Yes indeed that would be aenima
DinosaurJones 10.06.17	Duly noted.
TheSonomaDude 10.06.17	Rodrigo I love you but good god...honestly Tool fanbase bashers are far more annoying than Tool or its fanbase. @allergist yah i agree i've never met any asshole pretentious tool fans. most tool fans i know are just really stoned and/or super chill. like "whoa man, tool bro". my best friend lists tool as his favorite band and he's literally the nicest guy i've ever met. i feel like the internet just likes to pretend that tool fans are obnoxious because the music seems like it'd have an obnoxious fanbase. like, the OP lists meshuggah as a better band but meshuggah literally has the worst fanbase of all time.
Allergist 10.06.17	Ooh, Meshuggah obsessed fanboys are the fucking worst. Basically everything rodrigo90 said about Too fans but even more extreme.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	"Danny Carey actually." [2] Allsooooooo Meshuggah >>>>> Fight me, Allergist. I'm the only Meshuggah fanboy I know.
TheSonomaDude 10.06.17	i once told a meshuggah fanboy in hs that all meshuggah songs were in 4/4, and he called me a retard. so i put on "bleed" and literally counted 4/4 in front of him and he just stared at me with a blank look before telling me i "had no idea what i was doing" and said "go listened to disturbed", insisting the song was in like 23/16 but didn't count it because he clearly had no idea how to count time sigs. he purposely ignored me for the rest of the class period and never made eye contact with me for the rest of hs.
Scoob 10.06.17	Rekt
Nazzadan 10.06.17	Yeah fuck you for that, btw. I was going to invite you to parties until you pulled that shit
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	@TheSonomaDude - aha that guy sounds like a tool, but there is a lot more going on with odd time signatures with the guitars. Also, they often play in different time signatures simultaneously - Haake also does different shit with the cymbols and that song is pretty fucking impossible to play on drums so yeah it's in 4/4 but like...it's not like they're a simple band when it comes to that shit.
Egarran 10.06.17	So happy im high rn
WatchItExplode 10.06.17	I for one appreciate you taking the time to clear this up.
TheSonomaDude 10.06.17	@darkside yeah no doubt meshuggah is pretty complex and i actually like them, but they're admittedly a pretty silly band that dont take themselves seriously. so it's annoying to come across fanboys who think they're music is godsent, especially fans who claim meshuggah have never written in 4/4 and all of their music is in, like, 14.3/16 or something. all bands have annoying fans, infact, all fanboys of anything are usually pretty irritating tbh
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	@TheSonomaDude- Yah I agree with that. I genuinely love everything that Death and Meshuggah have released so I have to hold back my fanboyism at times, but people who act snobby about their favorite anything as if it is objectively superior are always annoying as fuck.
Spacesh1p 10.06.17	Fuck yeah rodrigo
Allergist 10.06.17	Hahaha Sonoma, those sound like a typical Meshuggah obsessed dweeb. "ANY BAND THAT USES 4/4 IS GAY" oh and DarksideLucca I like you, no worries :)
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	daww :-)
neekafat 10.06.17	This list is hilarious
chemicalmarriage 10.06.17	Dude I'm a tool fan and I don't give a fuck about what other music you listen to, or if you do or don't listen to tool for that matter. I've got a whole lotta other fucks to give about things in my life than petty bullshit like this. Cheers
ShaquilleONeal 10.06.17	"clearly you didn't go to a liberal arts school" Id argue that the annoying/toxic fan base that goes to a liberal art school is the fucking Beatles, not Tool. "I've honestly come across more annoying Tool anti-fans than fanboys." [3]
Nerdurosis 10.06.17	Dude, if you like the music then that's all that should matter... I see where you're coming from, but it's totally pointless to shun a band due to gay fanbases.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.06.17	@Shaq - well, it was with a few different things. Some obvious classic rock bands, indie groups, and then you had your snobby Tool cunts. It was like going to a school of different sects of snobs. I actually enjoyed high school and post college more.
Log S. 10.06.17	Maynard probably likes Duran Duran has that already been said?
DungeonBoy 10.06.17	Don't let fanbases ruin your enjoyment of entertainment [1000000]
ShaquilleONeal 10.06.17	@Darkside Maybe its just the school I go to. There is alot of wanna be hippies who think that John Lennon is practically a god. It must be a Minnesota thing lol. Where I go to school, I have spoken to more BTBAM fanboys than Tool fanboys.
Jasdevi087 10.06.17	are you god?
superluminals 10.06.17	Tool are fool [2]
hal1ax 10.06.17	Freud >>> Jung
superluminals 10.06.17	I am so proud of u rodrigo
Egarran 10.06.17	Rodrigo >>> God
grannypantys 10.06.17	good overly dramatic joke list on the real though - tool sux
RaveChild 10.06.17	good for you. music should be fun and thought-provoking. Tool is just boring and nauseating.
Flugmorph 10.06.17	lmao list of the year
zaruyache 10.06.17	I'm constantly surprised to hear that people legitimately still give as much of a shit about a band that only put out four albums and haven't done anything in a decade. How is there anything else to even discuss about the band by now?
Scoob 10.06.17	"Tool is just boring and nauseating" Do you even m/
RaveChild 10.06.17	its the same prog-heads who never listen to Pain of Salvation and other prog-metal bands. these prog-heads are mostly inbred backwater subhumans.
Scoob 10.06.17	Like the ones that dig fates warning and think dream theater is overrated?
RaveChild 10.06.17	"Do you even m/" bro you probably never heard of Jenovavirus so suck your daddy's dick and eat a burrito to wash all that cum
Scoob 10.06.17	I just had a burrito actually damn you're gifted
Ovrot 10.06.17	A tools food
Drifter 10.06.17	"especially fans who claim meshuggah have never written in 4/4 and all of their music is in, like, 14.3/16 or something" This actually made me lol
Scoob 10.06.17	Sorry I haven't heard of a band that weren't determined enough to finish their lp Have you even heard my garage band beats
Drifter 10.06.17	No
Scoob 10.06.17	Drifter please collab
Drifter 10.06.17	k
zaruyache 10.06.17	"especially fans who claim meshuggah have never written in 4/4" I think Haake said one time that like all their stuff is 4/4? lol. I'd have to find it again to confirm tho. edit: ya Haake said that they wrote ObZen with the mindset that it was all in 4/4, even though they would do weird stuff on top of it.
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	the fuck is this
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	Literally so spiritually evolved that you have ascended beyond Tool
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	Your critique of their work is art in itself
Scoob 10.06.17	lmao
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	You are the one mind of the collective tool conciousness struggling to understand its new found self awareness
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	you have become maynard, hating the world and not wanting to be a part of tool
TheSpaceMan 10.06.17	did you actually major in philosophy?
Scoob 10.06.17	No need I listen to tool
Orb 10.06.17	Ahhha fucking checkmate
RaveChild 10.06.17	hahahaha that's pretty good
Jasdevi087 10.06.17	pickle rick hahaha
hikingmetalpunk 10.06.17	new morbid angel stoked
laughingman22 10.07.17	Tool fan here Duran Duran rules
Log S. 10.07.17	Duran Duran fan here can testify they do in fact rule
BlazinBlitzer 10.07.17	Pickle Richard "just realized Tool and Rick and Morty or basically interchangeable in this context" [2] Doesn't make me shy away from Tool, though.
Dedes 10.07.17	Fanbases can suck so maybe just dont pay attention to them and focus solely on the music. Meshuggah fans can be irating but I don't let that effect my opinion of Meshuggah.
artiswar 10.07.17	damn Rodrigo you killing me with this list... Lateralus is not overrated! It's a really good album. I'm not mad that you don't like Tool, just sad and slightly confused. sad face
Scoob 10.07.17	Problem is he doesn't like us bc we 5 lateralus
Cygnatti 10.07.17	is "your taste got slightly better" a valid answer?
sixdegrees 12.15.17	no
Jots 12.15.17	The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page
artiswar 12.15.17	I forgot about this. Rodrigo really killed me with this list, pretty sure he did it just to start shit with me.
sixdegrees 12.15.17	you made him stop listening tool, not cool dude
artiswar 12.15.17	You got me, I'm the one who banned him from the Facebook page. I mean, he listens to Duran Duran
sixdegrees 12.15.17	what facebook page would that be
lostemails 12.15.17	We all know you just fucking want attention.
artiswar 12.15.17	He was already on probation, then he had the gall to insinuate that Maynard looked like a 6.5 in lingerie. BOOTED.
sixdegrees 12.15.17	is this a secret club?
artiswar 12.15.17	yeah sorry no plebs allowed
sixdegrees 12.15.17	APC >
artiswar 12.15.17	that would maybe be true if they didn't release emotive before falling off the face of the planet
Thalassic 12.15.17	It's December 15 and Tool still suck
MotokoKusanagi 12.15.17	thanks man I was really concerned you deleted your tool ratings, wasn't sure what to do with myself
DinosaurJones 12.15.17	Puscifer >>>>
InFlamesWeThrash666 12.15.17	I would wish it all away if i thought tomorrow would take you away
Spacesh1p 12.19.17	It's December 19 and Tool still suck
hasan 12.19.17	new CD comes out NEVER haha
Cygnatti 12.20.17	Base still says tool is good so idk.
Egarran 12.20.17	Most geniuses seem autistic to the common moron.
sixdegrees 12.20.17	it takes a certain level of intelligence to really appreciate a rodrigo90 list
LieutenantFartbreath 12.20.17	Solid points tbh
Egarran 12.20.17	You can't save this, old man.
rodrigo90 03.31.18	Based on this guys other lists I have come to the conclusion that he is autistic HEY, that's offensive dude!. Although I feel sad for those who suffer from autism and asperger
brainmelter 03.31.18	Tool is fucking trash why you ever start to begin with?
RippingCorpse1986 03.31.18	Is this regressive metal? Poor Aiwaz aka Thrust!, aka Desdinova, aka artiswar
hexfix93 03.31.18	Yeah some Tool fans are ridiculous. I remember Danny Carey making a joke about accidentally "trapping a demon" inside Lateralus, and a lot of people actually took it seriously and think if you listen to it in a certain order, the demon will be released. Or some shit like that, I don't even know lol But not all Tool fans are insane like that. A good portion are, but I don't see a reason to stop listening to them just because some of the fans take them way too seriously.
Asdfp277 03.31.18	lmao
deathschool 03.31.18	k
dbizzles 03.31.18	Great list. Totally agree.
Egarran 03.31.18	"a lot of people" More than one at least.
hexfix93 03.31.18	There was a bunch of people discussing the "demon" back in the day on toolnavy and other forums. Might've gotten the track re-ordering confused with something else though. There's far too many "theories" about the "hidden meanings" of Tool's albums to keep track of.
artiswar 03.31.18	great bump, classic thread.
RippingCorpse1986 03.31.18	''The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page'' RIOT OF VIOLENCE RIOT OF VIOLEEEEEEEEENNNNNCEEE Sweet
SitarHero 04.01.18	rodrigo90 on 11 September 2017: "Tool is pretty popular, and [Lateralus] is the best example how they took the best of prog rock of the 70's the aggressiveness of helmet, and show her that metal is not only creative, but also complex and technical, there's nothing boring about listening a song in 9/8." - How to explain the metal genre to your crush rodrigo90 on 6 October 2017: "Sorry aiwaz, but [Lateralus] is so overrated that irrates (sic) me to the bone. There are better albums than this such us meshuggah's nothing." - Why I stopped listening Tool LMFAO! I'm dying.
rodrigo90 04.01.18	LOL at my mispelling
SitarHero 04.01.18	misspelling*
rodrigo90 04.01.18	-_________- no comments.
RippingCorpse1986 04.01.18	Borry for sad English bro
rodrigo90 04.01.18	Dude I'm angry with myself, I'm studying English teaching, I shouldn't commit this silly mistakes at this point.
RippingCorpse1986 04.01.18	I know that feeling my man. Always read my posts twice before clicking the ''submit'' button hahaha.
artiswar 04.01.18	*commit these silly mistakes
Casavir 04.01.18	While I got pretty bored with much of Tool except for Lateralus and Undertow, this entire list just seems to be an attempt to grab for attention. No one cares if you stop listening to a band for whatever reason.
artiswar 04.01.18	That's a bit presumptive, I for one care a lot!
rodrigo90 04.01.18	*commit these silly mistakes Do'h
MeatSalad 04.01.18	*D'oh
rodrigo90 04.01.18	I can't even put a fuckin apostrophe right. This is clearly not my day.
rodrigo90 04.01.18	I should send this thread to my English language teacher and grammar teacher, They would probably make fun of me for the rest of the year.
rodrigo90 04.01.18	While I got pretty bored with much of Tool except for Lateralus and Undertow, this entire list just seems to be an attempt to grab for attention. No one cares if you stop listening to a band for whatever reason. No, not at all, my lists spontaneous thoughts that I want to express in this site, whether they are music related or not.
rodrigo90 04.01.18	And yeah this is pretty much one of my billboard's top 5 list of the last year
artiswar 04.01.18	As an English major I can safely say language is overrated. The world today is riddled with hatred, miscommunication and chaos. Humans are demented, they don't even abide grammar. They're animals. No filter between brain and mouth at all. I sometimes fuck farm animals. I don't plan to, it just sort of happens some days and I think it's underrated frankly especially when it's consensual. I staunchly stand by that.
MeatSalad 04.01.18	ye same
TheSpaceMan 04.01.18	As a not English major I can safely say English classes are the worst
Storm In A Teacup 04.01.18	"The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page: I don't care if your counter answers are better than mine, I'll not change my opinion, If I do, well I'd retire this list of this site, until then, I won't do it." you sound like a straight up hillbilly from the sticks
Storm In A Teacup 04.01.18	"Dude I'm angry with myself, I'm studying English teaching, I shouldn't commit this silly mistakes at this point." Do those of humanity, Earth, and all existence a favor; don't become a teacher.
TheSpaceMan 04.01.18	lmao
artiswar 04.01.18	I think he should keep going. You can do it rod. You're my spirit animal.
InFlamesWeThrash666 04.01.18	spiral out rod
rodrigo90 04.01.18	Thanks for the positive energy guys
neekafat 04.01.18	Still the worst list I've ever read
Storm In A Teacup 04.01.18	i mean you can teach it as a 2nd language to people maybe but that raises entirely new concerns. do we want the best or the worst of teachers instructing those who are new to english? we have enough political issues to worry about already damnit rodrigo
parksungjoon 05.12.22	I don't like people who are cynical, especially those who make sure that he can't be fooled in any form, no matter how innocent is the intention, Maynard is a God is the closest thing that the world could ever create after Nieztche, or even Sartre.
parksungjoon 05.12.22	The admins are free to close my account if this starts a riot in the page: I don't care if your counter answers are better than mine, I'll not change my opinion, If I do, well I'd retire this list of this site, until then, I won't do it.
asanisimasa 05.12.22	this is such a tool fan kind of post
kevbogz 05.12.22	lol bullied
Storm In A Teacup 05.12.22	He makes it too easy.