[QUOTE=opeth_oasis]i'd say morningrise is the best album, but bwp is a good album to get first[/QUOTE]

Morningrise is the most melodic. I'd say that BWP, ****ation, or Deliverance would be more to the likes of many Tool fans; they have more of a dark, brooding quality rather than high mdeival style.

I have this Rock and Popular music class at my university. The teacher said that for one class we could bring in some music we like and play one song for the class (150-200 students). I brought in the Aenema disc and said I had a 13 minute song (Third Eye), and asked if we could skip the first 2 minutes and play half. Unfortunately I trusted my teacher to do this and he accidentally skipped like 8 minutes. We heard the remainder but... :upset:

Eh, in that case it would have been better just to have shown a shorter song, even if it wasn't as good as Third Eye. I maintain that Third Eye, Lateralus, and Reflection are the greatest peices of music Tool has written, but in a case where you can't play 10+ minute songs, you'd be more fit just to show the whole of a shorter one.

Ænema would have been a good song for that. Very user friendly for the new Tool fan.

Notsogood choice-Ticks & Leeches. :p

You could have also acquired the radio edit versions of Laterralus and/or Schism. They chop out about half of each song. :rolleyes:

I've never heard the radio cuts of either of those... but I'd imagine them to be fairly butchered.

I hate when they do that to songs. Mr. Radio dickhead did the same thing with Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine. They cut out the breakdown near the end where Morello is just trem picking as fast as he can, and Zack is just saying "Fu[B][I][/I][/B]ck you I won't do what you tell me" repeatedly. :rolleyes: Oh well, I never listen to the radio anyways.

The singles are probably your best choice for a shorter, good to play Tool song. Like Stinkfist, Sober, etc...

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo] Oh well, I never listen to the radio anyways[/QUOTE]

There you go.

I've never heard the radio edit of Lateralus, and based on your description I really don't want to. I've heard Schism on the radio before, but it was the whole song, at least I believe it was.

I don't think Schism has a radio edit.

If it does, I think they cut out the quieter intermission part in the middle. That'd make the most sense.

The only radio editing Tool has done is censor out swear words, such as on "Aenema" or "Eulogy".

Every song they've put on the radio I have heard in their entirety, including "No Quarter"

Hello, I use to be a part of this forum (stumpetioto) but i left i was here earlier on and i use to joke about song meanings and people took me a bit serious but im back i just wanna share some stuff i found out..

You know the cow on the back of Undertow? The reason its licking its *** is because Bill hicks once said that "who would of thought that heaven is made in a cows ***" (a reference to shrooms) Has anyone else noticed that?

**** radio-edits...

I hate it when they do that. With Alice in Chains, they completely messed up the vocals in the songs, and sometimes did something like add a stupid guitar, cut a solo short or did a new drum part.

Therefore I would stick a scalpel in my eye before listening to a radio-edit of a T00L song.

My friend just left. We jammed to Schism. It was quite fun. I'm getting microphones and whatnot to record a solo from the drum contest in the drum forum. When I do I'm gunna try to get these guys to record Schism with me. I can't wait to get my recording stuff.

/highly anticipates

Are you going to get a good set of several drum mics?

In time yes, but for the drum solo I'm only getting two, because I have little money at the moment. As time goes on I'll keep buying more and more.

[QUOTE=Sliptallica]I don't think Schism has a radio edit.

If it does, I think they cut out the quieter intermission part in the middle. That'd make the most sense.[/QUOTE]

Actually I think they stop it just before the quiet bit. They dont even play the outro. at least that's what I remember...

[QUOTE=Kage]Are you going to get a good set of several drum mics?[/QUOTE]

On second thought, my Birthday is before the entry for the solo is due, and maybe I can get more mics for my birthday. That'd be awesome.

I find it hard to believe that Tool would have radio edits in some places and not in others.

Seriously, I've always heard Tool songs in their entirety on my station...even 9 minute Lateralus and 12 minute No Quarter.

Radio stations probably differ. THe DJs on my favorite station like Tool a lot, so I don't think they'd cut songs.

This is well off topic but I found an interesting little tidbit while listening to "blue" off of 13 step.

He mentions in Anima a bunch of times to learn to swim right? Well in blue he mentions that he never quite learned how to swim. The mans a hipocrit...lol I just thought that was kinda funny...I'll shut up now..

A bit back i read that someone commented on Maynard's hair, and how they thought he had a receding hair line in '94 and long hair at the back... it's actually a mowhawk on top and long hair at the back.

EDIT: Woah I just found out that this video (Tool live in london '94) has No Quarter live :D

[QUOTE=Darkness Of Greed]This is well off topic but I found an interesting little tidbit while listening to "blue" off of 13 step.

He mentions in Anima a bunch of times to learn to swim right? Well in blue he mentions that he never quite learned how to swim. The mans a hipocrit...lol I just thought that was kinda funny...I'll shut up now..[/QUOTE]

The bit about swimming is that he doesnt really care for anyone but himself

^ That doesn't make sense. He says "best to keep things in the shollow end, cuz i never quite learned how to swim" how does that imply that he doesn't care about anyone else?

like he didnt really have time or care for what others think so he doesnt quite know how to swim or you could take it as he wasnt a social person or to high

[QUOTE=BlindWriting]I've never heard the radio cuts of either of those... but I'd imagine them to be fairly butchered.[/QUOTE]


this was a ways back but it reminded me of something. i heard the radio cut of lateralus, and i wanted to cry. they started the song in the first chorus. they skipped 3/4 of the verse each time, skipped half the notes in all solos. how could you do such a thing to a masterpiece? that should be 1st degree murder.

They should be arrested for stuff like that...

Or shot or hung... or both...

[QUOTE=Darkness Of Greed]They should be arrested for stuff like that...

Or shot or hung... or both...[/QUOTE]

Yes...*

Well, I personally think the radio edits suck too, but the only half decent stuff on the radio here is a lot of pop-rock and nu metal, so I rarely listen to it anyway.

[SIZE=1]*No, don't be silly.[/SIZE]

That edit of Lateralus really is disgusting. I'm glad I've never heard it.

But still, I don't understand why people bitch about radio. The radio doesn't play the type of music a lot of people on these forums like, so why would you even listen to it? That's why I bring a CD or CDs everywhere I go, because I generally don't like what's played on the radio. It's like saying, "This band doesn't play the type of music I like, but I'm going to keep listening to them anyway to see if maybe they'll start playing the music I like."

True....the only radio I listen to is my local classic rock station (love it, BTW), and I rarely listen to that. I always have my MP3 player with me, I'm actually listening to Ticks and Leeches now. I have more Tool on here that anything.

I have more PF on my mp3 player, mostly because I havn't got around to transferring all my Tool cd's onto the comp/mp3 player.