@@jvstbvrn I'm pretty sure only a handful of TOOL songs are serious. Maynard wants us to be bopping songs about buttsex and shitting your bed because he thinks its funny. There isn't any "deep" meaning unless you're going out of your way to make up elaborate explanations for some wacky lyrics
Hot take but 10,000 Days is actually my fav Tool album. Wings 1 & 2 are just a whole experience. The Pot is also my favourite Tool song. Banger album. Great video!
I remember I bought the 10,000 days CD last Halloween, when I got home I put it in the CD player, Turned off all the light's and put on a good pair of headphones. It was the first time I truly listened to it without any distractions, it changed my life. When the title track ended I was left there thinking "holy shit that was beautiful", it is easily Tool's most beautiful track and my favourite ever since.
TOOL has successfully alienated their fans into thinking they are this ascended band that should only make ground-breaking albums like AEnima and Lateralus, and then great albums such as Undertow and 10,000 Days gets brutally pushed behind. I do not know why it is like that, maybe people are just dumb. I mean, 10,000 Days is not my favorite TOOL album and it has disappointed me heavily at some moments, but the underrated status this album generally has is sometimes unjustifiable.
10 000 days has always felt more special to me, byt it is hard to rate music. Also at 2:22 ive always heard whispers in vicarious and other tool songs but never understood what was said, thanks for claryfing.
10,000 days is and will probably always will be my favorite tool album. it doesn’t have the peaks of lateralus or ænima, and it’s not as heavy or exciting as undertow or fear inoculum, but it’s consistently banger after banger. vicarious and wings pt 2 will always be in my top 5 favorite songs
Theres something, a minor detail I think you missed. Vicarious has a specific line, “Credulous at best your desire to believe in Angels in the hearts of men…”, and you do acknowledge that he goes back on that statement and belief but only at Intension. He goes back on it wayyy earlier with 10,000 Days, his mother is that Angel that he believed in, that truly pure soul that he saw, just after one other song. I’ve read the first 4 songs as going together to show their overall growth and evolution in the way they think throughout the years. Vicarious is so good, but very overly edgy at times, almost like it’s written by a 14 year old who’s angry at god. Then it moves to Jambi, where he’s slowly realizing that there truly is good in this world, that he doesn’t have to express only through hate and negativity, then Wings where his mother dies and he realizes that he’s exactly what he was criticizing but embraces it. Though, Vicarious does still have that overtone that’s about how we all feed on negativity on the news, and even the negativity of his own life, which he then tells in the next songs. Instead of a mother holding her dying child crying “why oh why”, it’s the child holding the mother crying. As with a lot of their songs, there’s like 15 layers and tons of ways to read into all of this shit. I like yours and others’ interpretations, this one is just my own
So, when you analyze a song or music, you focus mostly on the words? The lyrics?? Do you ever listen to music WITHOUT the words (singing)??? And then evaluate what a song might be about WITHOUT the words???
@@Coconuthut1 there is more to music than words, singing, lyrics, etc such as : melody, rhythm, harmony, key, mode, tempo, bpm, etc (not to mention instrumentation, analog, digital, etc) ie, i dont agree 10k days is darkest TOOL album, at least not just song names & lyrics, which is more about letting go of past, remember good times, but not 'blaming' self or anyone for what happened, but to move forward with hope. thats just the words Maynard provides. the Rhythm section, Dany and Justin, complement by riff machine of Adam, makes 10k days a pretty happy little album. just 'my opinion', your humble TOOL SuperfaN. lol.
