10,000 Days is the title slated for Tool’s fourth full-length studio album, announced for release on 2nd May, 2006. The album was leaked on the Intenet via torrents network and I am here to write my review after almost 20 full listens to it.
In My Humble Opinion 10,000 days is my second favourite Tool album after Ænima. As per my view the first 5 songs of this album is the best first half that any Tool album has ever done. This is what I think of some of my favourite Tool songs in order of track listing:-
- Vicarious - A very catchy and deserves-to-be-leaked-first song. The guitar riffs are amazing, specially before the ‘Lie-Lie-Lie-Lie-Lie’ part. One of the best lyrics I have ever heard after stinkfist. I give it a 4/5
- Jambi - The best drumming in the entire album. I would agree with Andy King that it is Hendrix like here. A pretty addictive song and definitely deserves a 4.5/5.
- The Pot - Definitely the most bizarre and the best song in the entire album. Maynard’s voice should no longer be called monotone as he has experimented a lot in this song. The song is fun to hear and has been rightfully called ‘Hooker With a Penis’ of ‘Ænima’. The song is damn addictive and I have been listening it all night. Unobjectionably this one deserves a 5/5.
- 10,000 Days/Wings For Marie - A very different and the most personal/emotional song Maynard has ever written in my opinion. Amazing lyrics keeps you stuck to the song. 4.5/5 would be nice.
- Rosetta Stoned - A great song, stands out due to its outlandish lyrics. This one takes away the ‘Crazy Song Of the Album’ tagline. Maynard must be high while writing this one.
- Right In Two _ another great and mysterious song. The lyrics are very vague and thee song wants to remain hidden for reason. The only good song of the second half in my opinion.
So where does this album lack? It fucking doesn’t lack anywhere and is an awesome album overall. But, I will have to agree that the second half when compared to other albums like Ænima or Lateralus isn’t at par. The lyrics are comparatively weak and nothing ‘progressive’. It sounds very Toolish and has nothing new compared to the first half.
Overall, its by far Tool’s one of the greatest work and I’d recommend you to go ahead, buy it and support the band so that we keep getting the great piece of fucking music from the fucking great band. I spent a sleepless night yesterday listening to the album and have already got the album pre-ordered by a cousin in the UK.
My Ratings - 
It’s an awesome album, no doubt. I would also agree on the songs you picked as favorites although I like Vicarious most. I wouldn’t agree on the second half slacking though - it has Rosetta Stoned and Right In Two. It just has a different feel to it. Lateralus had the best saved for the second half while Aenima had good songs spread across the album. Undertow started off great, slacked a little and then picked up again. Overall, I would rate this album at par with Lateralus and hence only slightly weaker than Aenima. I for one never doubted MJK’s vocal talent. The man helms two bands with differing sounds and does well on both of them. But he shows us his vocal range in this album more than in any other single album.
I really hope I can get those tix for the Tool Concert next month. Could be a problem with New York having a big fanbase. I think Rosetta Stoned would be amazing LIVE!
Hmmm…
I haven’t heard it till now. Will try to get my hands on the album…
Hmm good job chinnu.Now put some content mature content in here
Ive also listened to the whole album several times..and i am very impressed with the variety of songs. Maynard’s vocal ability never ceases to amaze me with his haunting and chilling voice. In my opinion, this album does not match up to aenima, but it is still a great one nonetheless.
This album displays similarities to a perfect circle, laturalus, and old TOOL.
ITs fuckin awesome regardless.
thought it was a very different album, new is always refreshing though, gives a new outlook on things, and Maynards expression of anything is worth a 10,000th listen to.
I think the album is a masterpiece. I’ve been a die hard Tool fan for over 10 years and it took me a while to accept but once it grew on me… wow. Give Intension a listen as well… I considered it one of the tracks that should have been left off. Wow. Shoot me.
How can you say Right in Two has vague lyrics??
“Angels on the sideline, puzzled and amuzed, Why did Father give them free will? And this is what they choose.
Monkey killing Monkey killing Monkey over peices of the ground.”
Sounds to me MJK is baffled at human’s choices of war and selfishness.
This album has a good mix of Aenima like lyrics (socio-political critiques) and Lateralus (deep, emotional lyrics).
Anyways….great album, good review.
I have had one full listen, and a few songs a couple times. I think its amazing in its own right. It’s meaty. You can just take a bite right out of it. It’s mixture is so eloquently done. Some parts, are such melodic grit like sandpaper to silk. The more I listen, the more it grabs me. It definitely draws from old TOOL. I’m really diggin’ it! = )
Can’t wait to hear it live.
Well, I gotta say that the second half of the album slacking isn’t all that true after all. May be I should take my words back because Intension and others grew up on me pretty well.
@well - Yeah, I didn’t find Intension all that great in the beginning but later it grew up on me like every other Tool songs
@Chris - You are right about Maynard baffled about human choosing to fight but the song ain’t all that simple after all. In the song, Maynard chooses to compare humans with other living beings like Animals, Angels, etc and throws light on the ’social’ human nature as well. He aprreciates our power of reasoning
The angels ask, “don’t these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?”- here, the reference to the Garden of Eden is used to show that if the humans who were put in the garden decided to share what was on it with one another rather than try to possess parts of it for themselves, humans would have never fallen out of the state of paradise they were put into to begin with. Instead, the humans chose to divide everything “right in two” and fight with eachother over all the land and resources that the earth had to offer them.
This album is most definitley an artistic masterpiece. (Suprised?) All four members of the band are firing on all cylinders throughout the whole album. Danny Carey is further engraving himself as the best drummer to ever walk the planet with heavy rolling fills in “Jambi,” and the soft touch of bongos in “Right in Two.” Justin Chancellor releases sounds of bass that I didn’t know the instrument was capable of making. Adam Jones continues his influencial guitar style with absolute perfect picking and angular riffs. I was also pleased to hear a clean sound on the guitar in “Wings for Marie,” and “Right in Two,” which there wasn’t much of on previous albums. Once again MJK is brilliant. The expression he leaves on his lyrics gives me the chills. Maynard is further making his mark as one of the most influencial vocalists of our time.
I will see you May 13th in Chicago!
This album just like all the other TOOL albums is a LLLLLOOOOONG anticipated masterpiece. I believe this album is by far the heaviest one. It’s heavily guitar driven and the drumming is amazing and the bass has a refreshingly different sound unlike anything we’ve heard. and the voice…needless to say, i’m not surprised at all. Maynard’s got some of the best pipes out there and this album proves it. It is a definate balls to the wall great heavy and melodic album. I don’t agree w/ comparing it to the other albums or songs. it is both amazingly simplistic w/ the punchy heavy riffs and undenialbly complex w/ the vocals and lyrics. We placed our order, the chefs cooked our meal and served and slammed it in our faceand i love it…mmm tasty. it is well worth the wait!!!!!!!!
Nice blog and love your template…very very nice! Never hear of tool and I was just beginning to start searching for new bands to listen to. The last band I followed was Cold! Will give Tool a try now.
Absolutley no suprises here. The high expectations were there, and the band delivered. I listened to the whole album all the way through with a friend for the first time. We heared new experimental flourishes that were completley new and unique, but then, there were heavy, intricate, and complex sequences that left us saying, “yea, that’s Tool.”
Your right on alot of parts,but I don’t think its fair to critique this Tool album againts the other’s because Maynard definetely tried something new on this album and I think it comes nowhere close to Opiate or Aenima.I think every Tool album in it’s own way is fucking great,and i’d never knock them unless thery went greenday on me.By far the Pot will go down as the best cut on this cd.Excellent drum riffs and melancholy moments,Tool remains the leader.
Seriously! Help Me!
I can’t get myself to push the STOP-button! On my umphteenth consecutive full-repeat-listen here (today alone!)
Help me!
’nuff said ^^
Tryphodemos, I won’t e much of help there because I am suffering from the same syndrome these days
Just picked up the CD and it is amazing. Especially Jambi, 10000 days part 1 and 2, the pot, Right In Two, The Pot. Basically the whole damn CD.
not to rile anyone up. but from a musical, non-fanboy, stand point, the album lacked. i know i know: maynard is some kind of occult god-like entity or what-have-u. but it’s just a rehash of everything tool has done in the past. i hear nothing new. and most of the lyrics: lame. sounded like a highschool attempt at quasi-meaningful prose. where is the poet i once knew? and what have u done with his eloquence? by the way, maynard’s opening vocals on THE POT sounds undeniably like MAROON 5’s adam levine .. kinda weird how that can be. there is a rumor that this release is merely tool’s b-side to be intentionaly leaked over the net, and that there will be a release later this month containing the actual album and other goodies. i don’t know if that is true, but i fucking hope so. 10,000 days is 10,000 ways to be disappointed in a great band. lateralus beats Ænima hands down on musical technicality. i think people just like Ænima more for its bad-ass, in ur face-ness. i think u can find that in simple plan these days. peace, homies.
but, the little stereoptic lenses on the cd cover along with the stereoptic pictures inside are a nice treat.
john the fag is correct……he is a fag
Good album.
More experimental.
Whereas Aenima was a singles-driven album, Lateralus ventured off into a concept album, and 10,000 Days is closer to Lateralus in that respect.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I forgot to add, that the artwork for this album is the best in the band’s history. Its definitely worth the price just for the artwork alone.
John the fag, I personally am not attached to the idea that Tool is a good band. I can say in all objectivity from my “musical, non-fanboy” perspective that this album goes deeper than any other. You just haven’t listened to it enough times.
I think Jambi has got to be the best track on the whole album. And I love the fact that they have branched out and experimented with their music a little more. This is the first guitar solo that I’ve heard from them besides Eon and the one at the beginning of Prison Sex. And neither of those compare to Jambi.
Lyrically and vocally, I think Right In Two is the best song.
I don’t think the album is weak in the second half, I actually find it to be much stronger than Lateralus, and right up there with Aenima. I think this is the best album to come out of Tool and was defintely worth the wait. Maynard is a genius and I’m glad to see that Adam and the other guys were able to branch out a little more and let their talents be heard as well.
Awesome, need I say more?
wow. thats all i have to say about this album. all the songs are amazing, the lyrics are amazing, and the sound itself has a broad variety… everything in here is deep. I love this album.
My favs are
5. Rosetta Stoned ~ The beginning is trippy, the sound is unique, and the title makes me wanna be like Rosetta, then go listen to the album again…
4. Jambi ~ The heavier side of the album… the drumming is so kickass.
3. The Pot ~ Fuckin awesome. Thats all i should have to say about this one.
2. Vicarious ~ the lyrics on this song cuts everyone to the bone with the truth of it… why cant we just admit it?
1. Right in Two ~ gives me chills, not only the sound of it but the meaning behind it and the lyrics themselves. All aspects of this song flowed together beautifully and I must say this is probably my favorite Tool song yet.
10,000 days has the power of Undertow and EAnimea, and the progressive, conseptual aspects of Lateralus. The guitar and bass tones are huge and I love the way Justin and Adam’s parts weave in and out of each other. Danny is just monsterous and inspirational and I can’t say enough about how much he adds to the Tool sound. I had heard that Maynard was experimenting with different vocal stylings for this album and The Pot is a perfect example of that. It threw me for a loop at first, but I was singing the opening line of that song all day at work. I can say that I am completely satisfied with the album. Some may say the lyrics lack from previous albums, but I disagree. I realize that some people don’t like polical lyrics or that they may disagree with the content of the lyrics, but their is no doubting the artistic expression in the lyrics. Its really a thing of beauty to me. I saw this comming from a mile away. With the current world events taking shape the way they are, everyone that has a voice is stating their opinion. I just had a feeling that this album would have polical topics laced within its contents. A ,100%, a masterpiece, and its better than the crap that is crammed down our throats on TRL or top 40 radio day after day. I can’t wait till they come to Oklahoma. dmw
Amazing. Everytime they take 10,000 days to put out a new album(yeah that was an awesome pun and you know it), and everytime it is an amazing album. Most people i talk to say the same thing about this album as was said about latteralus, which is “so,so”. They mature every album and every album has atleast one song that i can listen to for 10,000 days(man its so good i used it twice). Maynard is an amazing vocalist and as stated really showed his vocal range on this record. The lyrics are amazing, drums amazing, guitar amazing, and they have created one of the most amzing sounds in music. Great album and worth every penny.
i’m only partial to vicarious, 10,000 days, and right in two. the other tracks sound more like disorganized jam sessions. yes, yes, individually, the band members sound freakin’ AWESOME! but they sound less like a unit on this album. the tracks tend to meander aimlessly. and .. um .. that little hospital skit was rather laughable to me. i don’t mind political lyrics, etc. i’m a so-so fan of rage against the machine. but the lyrics on this album just seem less thought out. perhaps that was maynard’s intent, but i’m not digging it too much. his experimentations (or age) compromise his otherwise transcendent vocals. just my opinion.
I have read almost all of these posts and it makes me realize how great of a band Tool is. Every one of the new songs on 10,000 Days makes a connection to the fans in different ways. I don’t necessarily think fans should criticize Maynards lyrics or the direction he takes. TOOL is a band. These songs represent what every member is feeling at this particular time. And I think every member of TOOL has presented it and they all meshed it together to produce a brilliant albus, just like they always do. To compare this new album to Lateralus, or Aenima is really kooky. Don’t try to pick this album apart. Listen to the whole record and not just one song here or there. The record reminds me (in some ways) of “Dark Side of the Moon” and/or “The Wall” with the mood and the way the songs flow.
Danny Carrey is once again blown me away with his mastery of percussion. He is truly the greatest drummer since John Bonham. Adam’s guitar is pretty much the same sound which is his trademark. But his riffs are catchy. Maynard has once again hit a homerun with his lyrics and arrangement. What I was most pleased with was Justin Chancellor. This is by far his best record. He keeps the songs flowing and holds everything together which is pretty amazing considering the drummer he has to keep up with. All in all, the album was well worth waiting 5 years for. Like someone posted on here before me, I think 10,000 Days is a blend of everything the band has done in the past. Which isn’t a bad thing. It’s refreshing to hear a band come out with a record that makes me want to listen again and again and still discover something new everytime. When Pearl Jam, Godsmack, Nickelback, and Nine Inch Nails rule the airwaves with the same old “sounds like everything else we do” TOOL again shows the world why they are probably the most talented, gifted, intelligent, thought provoking, pry-your-mind-open band.
Has anybody figured out the puzzle with the band members pics? Do you have to bend the pages together or something? Blair mentioned it today on Toolband and I have almost went crosseyed trying to get it……….
I’ve been a tool fan from the beginning and they never cease to amaze me. From the first play of this cd I’ve loved it and I was completely set back that others didn’t have the same opinion.
Luckily I was one of the few who was able to get tickets to the 5/10 concert at the Temple Buell in Denver. Seating only 2800 people, and we’re 20th row from the stage. I can’t wait to see the band play this stuff LIVE!!!!
This is by far the most different and experimental album that TooL has produced. Though the sound that they have trademarked since the beginning is still there, they have used many elements they have not before this album.
I have heard a lot of controversy about 10,000 Days, but those people haven’t any clue about music and art. I AM glad to see Alex Gray teamed back up with TooL. He is an amazing artist, and one of my favourites.
I just read every post, and decided I would add my opinion. I’m 50/50 so far. I’ll agree that it is an excellent album. Compared to most other bands in our time (I’m 26,) Tool has few peers. This album definitely demonstrates Tool’s ability to “wow”, but at the same time I feel like I have heard this album before. Tool is by no means Godsmack (by which I mean every single song sounds the same, and a whole album sounds like one long,long song.) My apologies to Godsmack fans (if any.) Some argue all bands are only capable of sounding like themselves, the unique element that each band has (some in abundance, like Tool,) creates a distinct band sound. I have always thought higher of Tool. For some reason (the overwhelming talent and unity of the band,) I expect a great deal more from Tool in the sounds they produce. So while I highly enjoyed the album, and it’s subsequent re-listens, I think the band is deserving of fair criticism, and that is this is a great album, not their best, but certainly better than 99% of the remaining music of today.
to all the people out there that think this album isnt as good or better than any other tool album is smokin rocks. if you listen carefully to the lyrics you will find hidden meanings and metaphors. take right in to, maynard is not only mocking man but also god and religion in general, if you dont belive me listen to the song again. the changes in not only rythem but time and the abilty to bring it all back togeather again is the pinical of musical progression. so i highly suggest you buy this album and stop picking it apart.
matt the tool fan is retarded, but i cant spell.
Angel hair pasta is good for the soul! TOOL rocks! I don’t care what you guys say about it and how it sounds like this or that. Its Tool, it sounds awesome, i love it, and thats all that matters in my world not your criticle opinions and thats how people should feel about stuff but instead everyone argues and relays on others opinions. I bet Maynard would agree…especialy about the angel hair part!
i picked up my first tool album in the mid 90s from BMG and at first i wasn’t impressed; the album, “undertow”. i may have been a little too you to grasp what i was hearing, but after getting bored with the same old tired sh*t from countless “rock” bands and as i matured into adulthood, tool became one of my favorite bands. i can put any tool disc into on and never feel the urge to “skip to the good track”. 10,000 Days is no exception. like many of the other posters here i cannot bring myself to listen to anything else. “the pot” is one of the best songs i have heard from any band. my taste in music has always had a fondness for sounds & rythms that i haven’t heard 10,000 times before. and seriously has anyone figured out the supposed puzzle with the album art??
Holy shit this cd is AMAZING, and I love his vocal range, but I must say Laterallus is still my favorite album.
Unbelievable…I cant stop listening to or thinking about this album. Im a graduate student with hundreds of pages of reading and endless papers to write all in the next 3 weeks, but all I want to do is listen to this album. I also play various hand percussion instruments and this album has inspired me to start practicing. Each song is like a puzzle that gets better with every listen…I feel like I gain something new from every listen. Basically, I love this album, I just wish it came out a month after it did
A very different album. I have always seen Tool’s music as a progression, from Opiate to Lateralus. Every album seems to have its own identity which is imperative in my opinion.
This album does feel alot like a mix of their progression, from Opiate to Lateralus. This is no doubt a different album, but yet I have said that about every Tool album since Opiate so….
It’s simply Tool.
Get a life people please. By the way, the puzzle in the images took me about an hour and a half to figure out. Pretty awesome message, worth the effort and very deep and insightful!
This album sux! Tool are dead. They lost anything they had after Enema. What was Lateralus supposed to be? They’ve turned into try hards. They’re not gods people, get a grip. I hope Tool changed all you losers into god loving hippies. The closest thing to god I know is me blowing stuff away with my 12 gauge. Go shoot some stuff! Yeah!
ps 10,000 days makes a great clay pigeon
so if you figured out the puzzle then what is it? ive been trying to figure it out for weeks!
Johhny Rotten, you obviously do not understand the beauty of music that is uncapable of being understood by any two people in the same fashion. Tool is achieving the one thing they always have, blow everyone away and leaving them wonder what the hell just happened. They are great for the same reasons that Pink Floyd was. everybody percieves the melody and emotion to fit their own, its more then music. its throwing you off when you least expect it, getting you used to one thing and then changing it up, and making it perfect all at the same thing. to me, they have done it but once again, achieved once more what so many people are uncapable of doing… the unexpected.
well i dont know about everyone else but im 17 and have been listening to tool since i was 13. not very long if you think about it, but either way i happen to think that this album is kick ass. ive been listening to them for about 4 years of my life and that whole 4 years i have been looking for new bands to listen to but could not find a single one. i couldn’t find one band that even compares to tool so for 4 years the only band i have listened to is tool. i guess ive just had to high expectations for any other band. so for toughs of you who think it sucks and that this doesn’t sound like tool then you dont know tool because this is tool, but i do think that its not like any of their other albums and it it a little deferent but its just that they chose to express their feelings threw this album in a different way. ive been to a number of different sites and read countless opinions and saw a lot of disappointed fans and all I have to say is if you didnt like it I feel sorry for you because you are missing out on the great band tool.
Oh and also john the fag where exactlly did you find this information that tool will be releasing the real album later this month? cute name by the way.
Hey Deejay, how cool is the puzzle? I can’t beleive they would expose that stuff. Anyway cool puzzle, bad album. Do yourself a favour Jambi and figure it out. I think it’s cool that you really have to know Tool to figure it out. It’s gunna seperate the fans from the @#$%&s!
hi. me no good at knowing music bout it much. me know so little lesser than u, o-mightier-than-me-deep-thoughtededed-fan-of-tool. me very unable to perceive much beauty in musical worky work. i’ve attempted to read everyone’s post. but i had to stop half-way for most of these opinions fucking suck. “i love maynard so much.” “tool gives my life meaning.” “i’d swallow any shit that comes out of adam jones’ ass and smile.” “i like and praise tool; therefore i’m better than u.” listening to tool does not make u any more intelligent than the next man .. or prone to seeing any more visions. please don’t try to out-wit the next poster because his/her opinion does not concur in urs. it just makes u look exactly like the self-loathing reject that u probably are, cloaked in the blackest black and thinking thoughts. “i also know such-and-such very obscure rock bands and play this many instruments, thus my opinion is twice as valid!” (sarcasm). as a consumer, i’m allowed to say exactly what i don’t like about an album. tool is not some unquestionable entity. i paid good money, i expect a good product. what is a review if it consists only of: “maynard’s shit doesn’t stink. i know because i spent a very personal 2 minutes sniffing it”? look, the album art is cool. some of the songs are decent. lateralus is better than Ænima in musicmanship, it’s a fact. i like Ænima alot, but it’s not better.
jambi: it’s just a rumor.
Just saw Tool last night in Denver - AMAZING! Very small venue, very intimate. Maynard with mohawk, sunglasses and green pants ala Travis from Taxi Driver. Couldn’t wait to hear the new songs live, and they sure didn’t disappoint! Every member of the band was dead-on in their playing, and I saw more personality and crowd/band interaction from Maynard than any of the other 5 times I have seen them. Only played 4 songs from 10,000 Days - opened with Rosetta Stoned, later played Jambi, Vicarious and The Pot. Danny Carey’s birthday last night (Maynard mentioned this about 6 times!) and my husband caught his drum pad signed by him with a Septagram and Eye of Horus symbol. Blown away as always…
About the album - all I can say is that if you don’t appreciate it now, lock yourself in a dark room and listen to it with headphones just one time and you will change your opinion on this one!
What the hell is wrong with you people. This album is horrible. It isn’t even an album. Let’s see there are 11 tracks. Take the entire length of the album and subtract it by tracks which are completely not songs: Lipan conjuring, blame hofmann, and viginti tres. Minus the quasi songs: wings for marie and rosetta stoned. Minus the two minutes it takes each song to start and end. And your not left with much, maybe half of an album. I didn’t buy a music cd to here lightning, wind, and other wierd noises. I was hoping to hear a bit of music. The musicianship is okay for tool but nothing special. Danny Carey at his best? Yea if your still conscience when he starts playing. Vicarious is a great song but it sounds like it came off of Laterlus. Rosettia Stoned could have been the best song they ever wrote. The awesome lyrics combined with the opening guitar riff and melodic vocals gives me chills, but there is too much bull shit inbetween the song and it never rocks enough like awesome ass tool songs usually do. The other songs: Jambi, the pot, 10000 days, and intension are good but not great. This is by far the worse tool album ever. Here are all the tool albums in order of greatness (just in case you are wondering) 1.Aenima (of course) 2.Undertow 3.Laterlus 4.Opiate 5.10000 days. I think drugs make music better but only for a couple of albums.
yeah. the album wasn’t that great. great albums shouldn’t take this much time to grow on people. of course, the backstreet boys were instant hits. so i could be wrong. lateralus grew on me. but only more over with how much i had already liked it. most of the filler in 10,000 days pretty much does kill the songs. and danny hardly plays. not as much was i’m accustomed to him playing, anyway. build-ups are cool. but these tracks just drag and drag. maynard’s lyrics are more straightforward than what he’s written in the recent past. this could be a good thing, but i prefer his ambiguous works better; they are open to interpretations. i feel that this album will show its age poorly in the future.
Regarding the puzzle, has anyone read Wikipedia or the stuff on http://www.toolnavy.com regarding the Wings For Marie Pt. 3 solution?
Something about mixing 3 tracks together.
(Viginti Tres Wings Pt.1) 10,000 Days = Wings For Marie Pt. 3
This equates to a Fibonacci sequence:
1 song Pt. 1 Pt. 2 = Pt. 3 Hence 1,1,2,3
The hint regarding the band pics supposedly is that the number ‘11′ is represented in the lower right of the pics.
Danny - Stems of flowers make an ‘11′
Justin - Left hand holding bird is pointing towards the 11 visible candles on the table (there are really 12 candles, 1 hidden, 11 in plain view)
Maynard - Hands on clock point to 11
Adam - 11 glass containers on table (his right hand points to their direction)
More info regarding numerology at the sites mentioned above
the number 11 in the song “jimmy” is James maynard Keenan’s age when his mother had a stroke…. (11 and she was gone, 11 is when we waved goodbye, etc)… that is approximately 10000 days from the date of her death. hence, all the references to the number 11 in the artwork…..
did u know? that i don’t care? wow, u guys are like “trekkies” .. or however the hell u’re supposed to spell that. woopty-doo eleven eleven eleven eleven. now, i can die with the satisfying knowledge that eleven. “look at me! i like tool because i prefer to interpret every lyric maynard writes as an insult to god! doesn’t that rack up the shock value?!? god means so little to me, in fact, that it’s fucking retarded that i bother saying this shit in the first place. why don’t i go and shoot myself now.”
this is deffinatly one of tools best works. Not saying that all of there work is the best. i find that its a combination of all there albums combined. you can hear every song they ever made all over the place. the riff from scism for example is in a couple of songs. i love the lyric content. the song 10000 days seems to be about lucifer going back home to heaven. jambi is kind of intriging as well.they even have a song about fucking alien abduction. bass lines guitar riffs and drum patterns are all there and all great. i also like how they slowed things down abit almost a perfect circle aproach. time displacement is amazing espeacialy in track 2. TooL is the shit keep it up guys.
DaYVd
uh .. right.
this band is a bunch of fucking lords, and all u assholes who dont appreciate their music are probably terrible musicians with shitty backstreet bands who cant ur crap together, and when u see everyone praise this band its like an insult or some shit to your petty brain…this album is incredible, and should not be compared to other albums, just like lateralus should not be compared to opiate and shit like that….theyre a progressive band with new ideas and new ways to play their instruments year after year….its not like they went into this project thinking they gotta play like they did on lateralus or anema….fuck that, they do their own shit, and we enjoy whatever they spit out….like someone said, put this cd on, listen to it 10 times in a row in a dark room, and youll end up respecting the music…FUCKING AWESOME CD, JAMBI IS UP THERE WITH ANY TOOL SONG AS IS RIGHT IN TWO
If you dont like Tool, then dont post. Geez? Tool is an awesome band! Reading lyrics, and figuring all this stuff out is amazing, so dont hate on it. Dont be ignorant and try it yourself
I didn’t like how you guys posted about the puzzle. It was intended to find it for yourself the meaning of the pictures. Thanks for ruining it. Ha