You were pretty much right at the beginning! Society as a whole has a blood thirst that we love to watch from outside of harm. Human nature I guess. You both had good points for each gender, males have that primal feel for the hunt or kill and woman have an insatiable thirst for revenge/justice in those murder shows they love. Well done you two. Also proud of you not pausing on the last drop through the Vicarious scream Brad, and I love Lex's nose wrinkle and instant smile when the first drop hits, she's totally a metal head. Can't wait to watch you get deeper into Tool.
Way back then you needed psychopaths, which were mostly men, to conquer new lands. That's why women weren't fighting on the front. I notice it over and over when I talk to my male friends about grewsome content, when women are near. They start to look at us in disgust while we don't really care about it. There are no emotions attached to talking about someone else's suffering. Of course, not every man is like that and not every woman is like what I described, but many are and those were the warriors of a nation and the women were the ones keeping up the home while the men were fighting out the wars. It's embedded into our dna per nature.
Maynard is a different level. Every album is like 7 years apart from one another and their most recent album, we waited like 15 years for. Tool really is a different level band. No artist could stay relevant having so so many years between albums.
You guys are so smart and have such an open mind...love it! Tool isn't for the Sheep...it's for those who have a third eye open! Thanks for this, this is warms my heart that people still think!
I agree with you, Trace, that those 2 songs would spark a ton of discussion, but I wonder if you don't have to have quite a bit of discussion first about Maynard's Mom's Trilogy, Judith and Right in Two first. They're both great songs, but understanding the background a bit more makes the total experience greater than the sum of the parts, if that makes sense. I don't know, maybe I'm really off base here. What do you think?
@@854medic I agree they could use a little background info on Judith before they react, they would definitely start getting the idea on their first time listening but it would have a little more impact if they were in the know.
The twenty-four hour "news" cycle was around over a decade prior to RU-vid. Before that, footage of things like the JFK assassination was shown in jmiddle schools with disturbing frequency, alongside horrifying crash footage in driver's ed courses. There's nothing new about the ugly nature of being human.
Lex is becoming one of my fav human being... love her reaction and her attitude. Great heart and soul, you are a real music human, I'd like to have you in my circle of friends 🤘🏻
"Killed by the husband Drowned by the ocean Shot by his own son She used the poison in his tea And kissed him goodbye That's my kind of story It's no fun 'til someone dies" Still one of my favorite set of lines, this is my favorite Tool song and I'm glad you guys reacted to it you guys were pretty damn accurate with the meaning behind the song at the start love it keep killing it you two!
You nailed this from the start. He’s referring to humans in general. Nice Maynard-intuition 😂❤️ This song is so hard hitting - not just lyrically, but musically. Love it. Wish more people would listen and LEARN
Hands down on of my favorite lyrics of all time is in this song towards the end... "Credulous at best, your desire to believe in angels in the hearts of men". Sad, but powerfully accurate statement.
We are all obsessed with death especially our own. We just don't like to admit how much our pursuit of 'achievement', 'money', 'sex' and 'resources' is simply and clearly our attempt to prevent, delay and mask the reality of our obsession with our own death. Why is pain our greatest teacher? Why are mistakes what we remember the most clearly? Why indeed
Its what religion prays on. Fear of death. It indoctrinates you to live your life preparing for an afterlife. But everything listed is a fear. The reality of the situation is that noone, and i mean noone, knows what happens after death. There is a 99.9% chance all religion, philosophies, or even current understandings of the universe are wrong. We are, afterall, just a very complex computer. We are what we believe to be sentient, but thats only an interpretation, and thats how we explain our conciousness. But in the end, we only require oxygen, just like a computer requires power. When lose consciousness, everything goes black, and we essentially shut down like a computer. Our dna is literally just a bunch of on/off switches, like transistors, that determine what we are, look like, and function and operate. So the real question i always ask people is: why worry about death when we dont know the answer in the first place? Just live life the best you can, while you can. Why should pain and pursuit of being better than others matter so much to our mindsets? It costs nothing to be a decent person. You being the richest, or strongest person, or better at something, should not really matter, because you are still just as expendable as anyone else, so treat people with more respect. I will never understand why human nature is to have something we dont, or to crave for more. Like you said, its our obsession, and masks our fears. We remember our mistakes vividly, but we often dont learn from them. We fail to critically think all too often.
I performed this song for my year 12 Music Group Performance class final assessment, way back in 2007. It's definitely commentary on society's obsession with not only the macabre, but the human condition in general. We can't look away from a car crash. I came to this channel for the Tom MacDonald content but was pleasantly surprised to see this sort of stuff too! Really enjoy you guys.
So I totally love this dynamic. Lex is clearly a natural born metalhead. No doubt about it. Brad is more into the analytical side of things. A really big chunk of metal is metaphor though, so you have to feel and think abstractly. It's a good balance I think. You guys are fun. You've done a ton of great stuff so far. Really makes you want to hang out with you guys and talk music. Keep it up!
This song changed my life. After hearing it, i never looked at TV and the news the same. I constantly catch myself being drawn to the dark parts of life and i remember this song and then decide to think consciously and focus on the good.
Two live vids to check out are Sober and Pnuema drum cam. Sober is from their debut album and their first big song. Pnuema is off their most recent album and you’ll get the see Dany Carey aka “The Octupus” really get to show his skills.
I love how Ol'dude is working stuff out in his head like.. "Do i like this...hmmm maybe..." and she be sitting next to him just straight vibing lmao. Love to see it.
Thanks for the great reaction! Love you reaction videos -especially the Tool ones. The song themes always generate great conversations between you two.
its not just about vicariously experiencing destruction, you can live vicariously watching travel instagrams o people doing things that you love the idea of, while sitting on your couch
Lost my father to copd combined with a brain tumor. His death rattle lasted for hours. Extremely unsettling and haunting . Five hours of never knowing what/when his last breath would be. Also to mention he was unresponsive. According to the nurses he is could still hear us (based on how they would know that I have no idea)?RIP Dad rest with the best and Rock out with Legends.
RIP top you’re dad. Yea the death rattle is no joke, not mom took video and he was like rolling his eyes back and filtering them, completely unresponsive and somewhere between life and death 🥺👀🤭
@@BradAndLex really appreciate you willing to share your experience. Means a lot to have someone to speak with who can relate on the basic idea of what that experience can be like. My personality has a emotional or mental memory of always burying that down and not deal with it. I try to be self aware that the situations I don’t choose to deal with doesn’t effect my social life, my work, and just trying to be self aware of who I am and how I effect people/situations. “I’m always trying to be better than I was yesterday......” Thanks Y’all
I love your all’s take on it. It’s not about loving violence, it’s about loving a story like a murder mystery. We can disassociate ourselves from TV until we are faced with it in full view in the actual world. “Pretend until it’s true”. It’s also a stab at mainstream media for exaggerating a story to gain views instead of reporting the truth.
This was fantastic! I loved how both of you always find your *meaning* to Tool. In that process, I get to learn about you, unfiltered. Most sincerely, Michael.
Also this song came out in the mid 2000’s and while it holds eternal truth, remember the Iraq war was going on and the images being flashed across tv were of “mother’s holding their child watching them die/hands to the sky screaming why oh why? The lyric “neither the brave nor the bold/the writers as the stories told” alludes to this also.
Absolutely loved the talk you had during this. Just came so natural and it made you think and share your views - not on the music but your views on humanity and your own human behavior! The whole reaction was very well done, good job!
I think you did hit the nail on the head. I feel like he's calling out our fascination with the morbid (as long as it happens to someone else), but to avoid sounding preachy or hypocritical he's admitting he isn't above it either. He's a human too. It's just bringing your attention to the darker aspects of human psychology that a lot of us pretend we don't have. Love me some Tool.
I love how deep you guys go on these things, that's the whole point of these songs! Just to add another angle: there's a theory that I find very believable about human fascination with the death of other creatures (especially fellow humans, but other animals also), that our instinct to watch it even if it makes us sick is part of the survival instinct. That survival instinct is stimulated pleasantly when we see something else die, but it doesn't touch us. We feel powerful in that moment, because we witnessed Death, but it passed us by. More pragmatically, especially for women who faced different kinds of challenges to our survival in society than men did, we watch to learn. What strategies can be used in a life-and-death open conflict? We watch to observe, in case we need it one day ourselves. Anyway, it's fascinating to think about.
You're at the same time hilarious and very clever and honnest in the way you react to the songs, see my name you can imagine that Tool is my favorite band and Vicarious my favorite song. Love your smile too, a real pleasure to watch you videos thank you. Ho, and of course I see you like breaking bad, so of course you are quite perfect :-)
It sounds to me like the perspective is one person reflecting on society, reflecting back on self. Looking into the mirror and seeing the things we dislike about society as aspects of ourselves (shadow work), and beginning to understand the connection. Projection and introspection, two sides of the same coin / energy, and both have a purpose.
I’m relatively new to your channel but I have quickly figured out just by the videos I have watched that Lex is a METAL HEAD !!!! And I love it !! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Always have a dictionary handy when listing to Tool vi·car·i·ous adjective experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
Truest thing I've heard throughout the whole video..."we're all weird in our own way"...I tell folks this ALL the time when I hear them say that's/ he or she/your weird. Great reaction, I enjoyed it!
Each Tool album has a "theme" orange mood. This is from 10,000 days, my favourite album. The song "Right in Two" fits hand in hand with this song. Then listen to "the Pot" off of the same album.
Top 10 Tool 1. The Grudge 2. Wings for Marie/10,000 days 3. Third Eye 4. Pushit (live version) 5. The Patient 6. Pneuma 7. Lateralus 8. Right in Two 9. Reflection 10. Eulogy
Lex you are so smart you give takes on music I have listened to for years, I never thought of. A true Genius, you make my recurimg listens to these songs more vivid
So, I now watched this reaction, my eyes always cry when I'm listing to tool. Great reaction both of you are tool heads, metal heads. Keep on rocking on.
I like how insightful you two are and how well you work together. Keep up the great work, guys. Not easy to have a good, workable relationship these days, but you do it well-----and celebrate my favorite band in the process. Thank you.
Personally in the process of elevating my own consciousness. I am a plebian in the process. Always a pleasure to see others exposed to higher vibrations. Thanks for the react! There is so much more out there, and I am not talking about the music of tool.
I dig your channel. I initially watched a video of y’all’s because y’all are a ridiculously attractive couple. Stayed for the tool. Lol. Welcome to the Tool Army y’all.
You guys are so close. It isn't just that we all like to watch these things. It is that we want to watch it while being safe, in our homes. We love it when it happens to someone else, and when it happens to us we scream about how the bystanders do nothing and use it for media fame. It isn't just that we like watching death, it is that we demand it as an audience, but we always want it to be someone else. We don't care who, as long as it isn't happening to us.
GREAT reaction! This is one of Tool’s lyrically less complex, but more deep songs. Another song you will probably like, with deep, in-your-face lyrics, is Porcupine Tree’s “Fear of a Blank Planet” and don’t forget the lyrics!
I love watching you guys chat after these. This song is the perfect example of why I like this style of music. There is so much art in not only the instruments but the lyrics. So many layers. I would like to suggest a song that I think would make for a great discussion Bring Me the Horizon - Hospital for Souls. It’s a deep track from a record a couple years back but I think you guys would really enjoy the subject matter. Thanks for a great video!
You 2 are awesome! love the way you are open to branch out and explore different areas . Everyone should be like this to learn and grow in life. And as a man Brad's a cool dude I could hang out with and Lex is an absolute sweetheart!
You need to check out (NIN) Nine Inch Nails “Head Like A Hole”. I saw them and Tool in the same concert and it was phenomenal! NIN plays live as a band but one guy is really the entire band. He writes it all, sings, plays every instrument, and then blends it all together. Then live, other guys play the instruments but it’s amazing how he does it all.
It's about the inherent schadenfreude in the human psyche. From gladiatorial arenas to "reality" television and the twenty-four hour "news" cycle. It's why we laugh at pratfalls and ogle at seven car pileups. The saying among MSM types, "If it bleeds, it leads," is said for good reason. We want to witness suffering because it makes us feel better about our own circumstances.
