Any TOOL listeners?

[Kuriozidee]

Was wondering how many INTJ's have listened to and/or appreciate the band TOOL? I am also interested in opinions or ideas on their songs?

[raconteur213]

LIFE LONG FAN!

HUGE fan of Maynard

[pallasathena]

I've heard their music before and they are very good. A bit dark, but very talented. I like to find out which music influenced certain bands and the evolution of their sound. Wikipedia said Tool was influenced by The Melvins, Meshuggah, and King Crimson. Can you hear it in their songs?

[Santana28]

Can't stand 90% of Tool, and Maynard James Keenan is quite possibly the world's most repulsive man to me....


BUT... i love A Perfect Circle. I even have a tattoo of the symbol off the album artwork. And i've been front-stage watching MJK twitch his naked scorpion oh, 8 or 9 times now? ::shudders to think::

[Kuriozidee]

I've heard their music before and they are very good. A bit dark, but very talented. I like to find out which music influenced certain bands and the evolution of their sound. Wikipedia said Tool was influenced by The Melvins, Meshuggah, and King Crimson. Can you hear it in their songs?
They may have gained some influence from other bands but, as he said, check out their reading list... they have alot of other influences and/or meanings behind their songs that the average listener tends to miss. Also, if you check out Maynard's bio, you can tell that his background, as well as his developed beliefs, are influential as well.

[ElstonGunn]

Tool? Hey, a band that's named after its fans. :blank:

Nah, they're alright. I just never get tired of that joke. I think I have one of their albums around here somewhere. I can't say that I'm a fan of Tool, but I wouldn't ask someone to turn it off around me.

[pallasathena]

They may have gained some influence from other bands but, as he said, check out their reading list... they have alot of other influences and/or meanings behind their songs that the average listener tends to miss. Also, if you check out Maynard's bio, you can tell that his background, as well as his developed beliefs, are influential as well.

Thanks, I will. I'm always curious to find out why people do what they do, especially artists.

[raconteur213]

Tool? Hey, a band that's named after its fans. :blank:

Nah, they're alright. I just never get tired of that joke. I think I have one of their albums around here somewhere. I can't say that I'm a fan of Tool, but I wouldn't ask someone to turn it off around me.

Delve into the lyrics and enjoy them in a new light.

Their commercial success ruined their complexity for a true admirer. My last TOOL show was when a bunch of kids were running around on "E" while Maynard was belting out Schism. Tragic :angry:

[Uberfuhrer]

My favorite song by Tool is "Die Eier von Satan."

[Deadgod]

Tool: I'm caught in between following and loving their music and totally dismissing their music as just another teen-angst farce. King Crimson to me has serious depth. Tool? Not as much. They seem to be just another redundant quasi-Prog band.

[geonerd]

I enjoy Tool, as well as APC's first album.

Depth is irrelevant for me. I just like how the stuff sounds.

[vad1981]

Loved to listen to Tool from the time their first album came out to their penultimate album. Now I find its a little too dark for me and laborious to listen to, but at that time (when I was in high school) it was my favorite band...

BTW I even bought a King Crimson album based on the fact that Tool was influenced by it (from Columbia house 12 cd's for a $1) and that was one of the most unlistenable things ever...you really have to be in an altered mental state to listen to that...probably on LSD

P.S.

Love 90's music though...

[INTJCanuck]

The musicians of Tool are truly skilled. Keenan has an amazing voice and Carey is probably the best drummer out there right now. He can do more with one foot than other drummers out there can do with two arms and two feet. I love the cerebral nature of their music.

Lateralus is no doubt their greatest work. It's a masterpiece. Listening to the entire album late at night (all 78:58 of it) is sheer bliss. They took a step backward with 10,000 Days in my opinion. I am not a big fan of overly hard metal, and Tool is as far as I would go in that direction. I think I like Tool because I am a huge listener of Pink Floyd and I can definitely hear a strong influence in Tool's music.

[Geek007]

I enjoy Tools' music, especially the relentlessness of their rhythm.

[OddFactor]

I really dislike them.

[philonightmare]

ENTJ here, but love TOOL (and APC because of Maynard). I've worn my CDs out over the years and have to keep buying replacements.

[deicruxified]

yes... and i love tool :)

[Motor Jax]

no

but i've had friends that are die-hard TOOL fans

i'm more for Gunther than anything

oh, i occassionally like some ICP

but usually i stick to old country or cajun music

[errrzarrr]

well well, what to vote...
I listen a lot to progresive metal and prog rock bands. But Not exactly tool.

Talk me about Dream Theater, Spheric Universe Experience (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Spiral Architect, Pain of Salvation, a bit of porcupine tree or Opeth in the Prog Metal side. And about Yes, Pink Floyd, Led Z, Rush, King Crimson, The flower kings. I have tried Tool and they are very good, but I do prefer the mentioned above.

[Myrak]

Loved Tool a few years back, very much a 'gateway' band into helping me discovering other great bands and genres and just adapt the way I listened to music. One of my favourite memories is being recommended Tool by a friend, specifically AEnema, Stinkfist, Sober and Schism. Downloaded those four, listened to AEnema first and it was just the weirdest stuff I'd heard at that point.

Turned it off 2 minutes in, deleted the four songs. Came back around months later, decided to give it another go- this time with lyrics. Still sounded very foreign to me, but after a few listens this time something just clicked in my mind and suddenly it all worked for me. Such a fantastic feeling, and one I will never forget. After years of being unwillingly exposed to nothing but FM Radio, the relative harshness of AEnema grating on my ears was just something else entirely- I loved it. "Learn to swim."

Later down the track I moved onto listening to Lateralus, which happened to coincide with a rather dark time in my life. The album really impacted on me a lot, and now I have trouble listening to it without bringing back memories. Still a great album though, very powerful.

I had the pleasure of seeing them live as well, they put on a great show. Lateralus was utterly brilliant live.

Oh, and I happen to be born on the same day as Maynard James Keenan. :D

[Roy G Biv]

I don't know if I have ever heard Tool (I suspect they don't get much radio play, and I don't listen to a lot of radio anyway), but I have been meaning to.

Robert Fripp likes them, so they must be good. I like music that rocks hard.

I'll go check YouTube now.

[Isolation]

I like TOOL.
I remember this guy in high school was obsessed. He had like a binder with all their lyrics in it and he seemed to think it was his bible. Meaning he thought that TOOL was some sort of prophetic band. I guess you could say that TOOL was his religion.

They are somewhat esoteric... sometimes.

[replicant]

I am not a die hard but I enjoyed their Undertow and Aenima. I only bought Aenima because my husband has Undertow. I appreciate their arrangements. I tend to listen to them when I am feeling really detached.

But Tool in comparison to other music, I would rather listen to more symphonic and dark metal.

[zoophilia]

I like tool, but their best stuff is behind them. Do you like the deftones?

[Doppelbock]

Strangely I have not listened to Tool (or Dream Theater, for that matter) although I am a HUGE fan of both Rush and Porcupine Tree. (not to mention Neal Morse, Spock's Beard, etc.) Which Tool album should I listen to first?

[Zadoc]

Was wondering how many INTJ's have listened to and/or appreciate the band TOOL? I am also interested in opinions or ideas on their songs?

I like a lot of their music, but I think the quality of both the music and the lyrics came to an abrupt halt after Anema, and have quit listening to them since. Not a fan of A Perfect Circle either.

[phantasma]

Strangely I have not listened to Tool (or Dream Theater, for that matter) although I am a HUGE fan of both Rush and Porcupine Tree. (not to mention Neal Morse, Spock's Beard, etc.) Which Tool album should I listen to first?

No way!! Another Porcupine Tree fan! Well, in that case, I think you'd like both Tool and Dream Theater. I think you should start with Lateralus or Aenima. It's got a lot of the same elements you'd find in Porcupine Tree, though not as much with Rush.

[Eric86]

well well, what to vote...
I listen a lot to progresive metal and prog rock bands. But Not exactly tool.

Talk me about Dream Theater, Spheric Universe Experience (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Spiral Architect, Pain of Salvation, a bit of porcupine tree or Opeth in the Prog Metal side.
Same here, though I actually can't stand Tool at all. They just bore me to death. I much prefer the more extreme/underground/dark forms of metal, though (like death, doom, black, thrash, sludge, grindcore).

[Mercury]

I used to listen to Tool all the time. not so much now *shrug*