Holy shit. You guys. Tool. Saw them Tuesday. I don't think I can articulate quite how good that was. Best live show I've ever seen, for starters. One of those rare bands that elevates the material live and sound better than on recording. We smoked a couple joints and got there just in time for the first song. I have never been so happy in my life than those first few songs. My fiance does not like metal or heavy music, but I think she actually liked it. The light show they put on is amazing. Plenty of psychedelic visuals and music videos. I just remember taking a mental snapshot of that moment, dopamine washing over my brain,
and realizing I might never see live music, and a live show, so good ever again. I savored the shit out of that show.

I have so much more respect for these guys now. I "get it". Tool is all about the live show. The experience. The music on album is incidental....this is how it's meant to be experienced.

Flawless and passionate. Everyone was firing on all cylinders. They even played some of a work-in-progress new song!

Cool, nice to read that Nomos, last vids I have seen from last tour saw them lost during a song, Maynard forgetting the lyrics, etc...

Album Rating: 4.5

But was Maynard dressed as robocop?

Album Rating: 4.5

100% agree on that.



I used to appreciate his lyrics though.



Yes I'm talking in past simple because I appreciate more Cornell's lyrics. Maynard tries to be Sartre but he has failed for years. Cornell on the other side is the next step in the existentialistic poetry.

Album Rating: 4.5

I bought a copy of this album. But I'm regretting of have buying it because it's not even the original version and by original I mean the 3D glasses thing.



I WANT MY MONEY BACK

Album Rating: 4.5

I have studied Cornell lyrics a lot because I have an obsession with philosophy and I always try to related to philophical movements.

They made versions of this without the glasses things? Wtf

Album Rating: 4.5

Maynard's a bit of an inconsistent lyricist at times but overall I've always really liked his lyrics, and has one of the most distinctive and best voices of modern rock/metal music.

Aiwaz just because he doesn't play an instrument and doesn't release music all the time makes him overrated? Frustrating maybe, but none of that relates to his talents as a singer, lyricist, and frontman.

Great singer: fuck yes
Great Lyricist: for the most part yeah
Great frontman: gonna have to take a pass on that one

Album Rating: 4.5

Not so sure rodrigo was being facetious but understood



Scream why do you say that? He seems to consistently give his all in performances, even going above and beyond with humorous acts like that time he was straddling the guy on stage who tried to hug him, while singing a whole song.

Album Rating: 4.5

I think that's a complex question. Also shit pop music has always existed, but that aside, a lot of professional singers might say that the voice is an instrument, and therefore that makes them musicians. But it's obviously different from a guitar, flute, or marimba because it's part of your body, so idk I guess it's up to the individual if a singer is just as much of a musician as a guitar player. I think I would used to say no, but lately I'm leaning toward yes.

Album Rating: 3.5

"He seems to consistently give his all in performances, even going above and beyond with humorous acts"



hard to be a frontman when you're standing and singing in the back corner of the stage.



"like that time he was straddling the guy on stage who tried to hug him, while singing a whole song."



wasn't that him choking out a fan who had jumped up on stage?

Like Dominion said, he stands at the back of the stage in the shadows (took me most of the first song to realise he was even there), barely interacts with the crowd in any way other than a couple of lines about open mindedness and skepticism

Album Rating: 4.0

"Especially in the new era of shit pop music that's 100% mediocrity being praised as artistic."



woke

Album Rating: 4.5

I haven't seen them live so I wouldn't know firsthand, but most live videos I've seen he's interacting with the crowd, or saying something intelligent or funny between songs, and occasionally does something wacky and entertaining like taking down the hugger and pinning him while singing Pushit.

I thought the standing at the back of the stage during a concert was more of a recent thing. I don't think he did any of that shit in the 90s or early 2000s but I could be wrong. I remember reading that he needs to do that for really serious songs to give an emotional performance worthy of it.

The 90s were 20+ years ago man, gotta let go sometime;)

I read on forums that he does it because he feels like people will focus too much on him otherwise and he wants to give the rest of the band a chance to get the recognition they deserve but TBH I don't know how reliable that is

Album Rating: 4.0

I will never let go of the 90s tbh

Album Rating: 4.5

W... why wouldn't you consider the voice an adequate instrument?

"W... why wouldn't you consider the voice an adequate instrument?"

Because your definition of an instrument involves it being an object (so separate from the body)?

Not saying I agree but it isn't a complicated concept or anything

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