sounds like ur more qualified to discuss vocals than 99% of this site

Album Rating: 3.5

vox are vox

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

big if true

"Mail me something Japanese expensive and shiny."
Tsssk fine how many kids do you want?

Album Rating: 3.5

>sounds like ur more qualified to discuss vocals than 99% of this site





Definitely more qualified than me!

Album Rating: 5.0

It's good to have someone who keeps track of these things.

Album Rating: 3.0

Maynard changed his vocal approach because he can't belt high notes anymore so he has to sing in that light head voice now, same thing he did for the most part on the Eat The Elephant album.



You can hear on songs like Descending that if he just pushes slightly more he is going to crack.

Album Rating: 4.0

As you age your larynx gets harder and loses its flexibility. You really can do thing with your voice in your 20s you can't do 15 years later. Many rock singers struggle with these things, some learn to deal with it somehow, others don't.

Maynard held up quite well compared to his peers And that's just nice

maynard's voice was an unsustainable boner, goodness knows he nursed it well while it lasted.

Album Rating: 3.5

Then you have someone like Bobby Blitz from Overkill, who somehow sounds even better than he did in the 80s... and he's in his goddamn 60s and went through cancer and a stroke. Guy's indestructible

Album Rating: 4.0

Maynard is very good on this.

Album Rating: 5.0

"Tears in my eyes, chasing Ponce de Leon's phantom soul

Filled with hope, I can taste mythical fountains"



how can anyone hate those lyrics?

Album Rating: 3.5

At least they're better than "calm as cookies and cream, so it seems"

Album Rating: 4.0

I dunno, at first glance the majority of Tool lyrics are cringe trash but then after you take LSD or become Christian or step on another spiritual platform you realize their lyrics are in fact quite true to the soul, even tho they sound kitschy. Yes, Maynard is a pseudo-intellectual, but only in the way he describes things, cause empirically the man is 100% wise. So, in order to enjoy Tool lyrics you basically have to be grown-up and stop acting like a spoiled child who thinks he's bigger than words. The irony is that most people who criticize Maynard mostly listen to questionable fake-ass lyricists.

Album Rating: 5.0

>empirically the man is 100% wise.



Oh, sounds like you have some science to back up your claims.

Album Rating: 3.0

Tool's lyrics have almost always (with some exceptions on this album) been great. The pseudo-intellectual charge has never stuck with me and has always seemed much more a device to discredit another aspect of the band than any meaningful engagement with the lyricism.

Album Rating: 3.0

And also yes, the "calm as cookies and cream" bit unironically made me physically cringe when I heard it for the first time. The whole of 7empest lyrics and Maynard' performance sounds like he is trying to get angry or irritated for the sake of getting irritated on a Tool song but the end-result is a half-hearted and hilarious attempt at aggression.

Album Rating: 3.5

"I dunno, at first glance the majority of Tool lyrics are cringe trash but then after you take LSD or become Christian or step on another spiritual platform you realize their lyrics are in fact quite true to the soul, even tho they sound kitschy. Yes, Maynard is a pseudo-intellectual, but only in the way he describes things, cause empirically the man is 100% wise. So, in order to enjoy Tool lyrics you basically have to be grown-up and stop acting like a spoiled child who thinks he's bigger than words. The irony is that most people who criticize Maynard mostly listen to questionable fake-ass lyricists."



I genuinely don't know if you're taking the piss or not and it's freaking me out.



"At least they're better than "calm as cookies and cream, so it seems"



Truth.

id assume theyre half serious half joking


but yeah band is full of pseuds and for pseuds, and i myself am a pseud for calling other people pseuds without listening to the music itself

its pseudo intellectualism all the way down guys

Album Rating: 3.5

"I genuinely don't know if you're taking the piss or not and it's freaking me out."



It's Baseline, what do you expect?