I caught him during his 2012 spoken word tour, in Christchurch, New Zealand, a year that saw several thousand quakes hit the region. It was a small venue, so he was only a few metres away, and looked at each of us directly. Really interesting orator.
In this episode of Brad & Lex, danger delight is evident as the rough and violent drumming and vocals assassinate the couple in a good way bringing Brad to an inquisitive "side to side sway" as Lex premieres her "bottom bop".
Lex has an exceptional ear for music. She’s never hung up on lyrics. The musicianship, feel, rhythm, the beat and groove. Take in the music first and foremost. Lyrics and or story should be an afterthought. Doing it any other way would be depriving yourself.
Just ignore the man screaming "fearless now...naked now!" when interpreting the song? This song is about as straight forward as a Tool song gets. Pay attention to the words of the screaming man. It's about THAT.
Maynard once said in an interview "if you go straight to the lyrics, you are missing 3/4 of the project". Tool as been my favorite sense 95 or so. They age like wine. Better and more intricate.
That’s so true. Especially with a band that has complex songs such as Tool. Like if you try to decipher the lyrics to Rosetta Stoned on your first listen then you’re in for a bad time lol.
Took me about 6 years to like tool, they're my favourite band but yea, you can't really introduce people to them because it takes a bunch of listens to understand the music and internalised the rhythms
This has been my person theme song for almost 30 years. It hits me deep down and it has always kept me motivated and feeling powerful. It got me through a divorce and mutiple combat tours in the Army. It still gives me goosebumps when Maynard screams at the end. Not only my top favorite Tool song, but my favorite song period. So happy you reacted to this. Much love from Texas.
@@Syzygy77 ok but he also says that a lot of the lyrics are deeply personal to him and have profound meanings and the reason why he doesn't want people for fixate on them is because he's expressing what he feels from the music and wants you to do the same thing.
@@WookieWarriorz He definitely does both. There's several levels of Tool lyrics. Simple, funny songs like Hooker with a Penis and Aenima, fairly straightforward but thoughtful ones like The Grudge, or Bottom, and then there's really deep ones like Lateralus or Parabola.
THIS!! Too bad every song of theirs uploaded to this site has a comments section bombarded by fanboys who think they alone know the secret of the lyrics.
Please, please!!! Check out Tool - Flood from the same album. Or, anything else from this album. Thank you for giving them respect in your reactions. Feed Love! Starve hate. 🤘
Although I lived through all of the Tool years, I wasnt exposed to them until this album (Undertow). Im still a big fan of the band, but I cant tell you what it was to listen to this and hear HENRY ROLLINS on THE NEW TOOL ALBUM. Talk about a Chocolate/Peanut Butter combo that only the 90s could deliver. Tool has so many great songs, but Bottom is still a Top 5 song for me....for the Rollins spoken part alone. This song helped raise me....it should have claimed me as a dependent on its taxes.
after highschool I went into the military mostly into tupac, bone thugs, boys to men, Keith sweat, usher, fiona apple, toni Braxton..I liked mainstream Rock music when I heard rhc peppers or GnR, metallic, etc...1997 the second I incidentally heard Tool playing at work, my friend was playing I was captivated..borrowed the CD and blown away by how different it was lyrically and the way they delivered the music..each song can be Mystical, atmospheric and edgy and tender and explosive and can be spiritual if you let yourself marinate in it and then challenge yourself to iimprove your own life each day the best you can..they show the ugliest things in life but how to except it, and then turn the bad that has or will happen and use that shit to basically fertilize your soul into something good..
Brad where's your lyrical analysis when we need it? "I'm broken, looking up to see the enemy And I have swallowed the poison you feed me But I survive on the poisons you feed me And leavin' guilt fed, hatred fed, weakness fed And it makes me feel ugly" yeah $hit add up at the bottom... Brad you let me down. I knew Lex would want 5 ears and 3 eyes for this song ;-)
This is a special song y’all chose to react to, even for Tool. Undertow is seen as the angry period in their years of recording, and Bottom of all songs is a deep pessimistic dig at oneself. Lyrics are pretty forward:Bottom is literally being rock bottom emotionally; although feeling angry and lost but also realizing the only way out is eventually…up. The spoken word in the middle of the song is legendary punk singer Henry Rollins. Rumor has it he lost a poker game with whomever from Tool and simply paid it back with his vocals.
So, we definitely want some more Tool! Brad, as you probably know, Tool lyric videos are hard to find. Lyrics for Tool are very important. Just find the lyrics on Genius or something and pull it up on another device. Lex, you're good, you could actually feel the music like the rest of us.
'Prison Sex' is a more straightforward sound off of this album. But the lyrics are not family friendly. They do have a deeper meaning about the cycle of abuse. I love the sound though.
Tool is easy music to listen to once you stop trying to analyze everything and have like meaning to it and just concentrate on how the music makes you feel
Awesome reaction as always. The vid was 11:11 long and you know what they say about 11:11 right?! It's a sign. It's a sign you should react to Tool at least once a week. I Googled it. Yup, that's what it means 😆✌🏼
Lex, there are a bunch of Progressive Metal bands that you need to hear. Start with “Metropolis pt. 1” by Dream Theater. Then check out “The Odyssey” by Symphony X. It’s over 20 min. But it has about a million transitions and it tells the story of Odysseus. Brad will love it.
SO cool you guys did this song, it's not one of their more well known ones! When I was in my early twenties I started getting to a dark place. Not suicidal, but in a serious funk. I was drinking too much and dwelling on negative things in my life. I would get really torn up, sit in front of my fireplace, and totally zone out and get lost in the flames. This album, and this song in particular, were the soundtrack to those times. Hearing it again just now brought a flood of old memories back. It's still a badass song though!! 🤘🤘
This is early Maynard too. I love all of their work, but I admit I would like to hear how a 30 year old Maynard would have approached the Fear Inoculum album.
Lex wants to hear all the music. Normal people only want to hear the vocals with Tool the instruments and layers are really the voice of Tool. MJK just adds his instrument at the end to tell a story or flame a thought. The listeners decided where that go from that.
All the others are great, but this is my all-time favorite album. It came at the perfect time in my life, when I needed something to relate to and help vent some negative emotions. I bought the cassette at least 5 times because my truck kept eating them. Basically, on auto-play for a couple years.
I get that. I bought this when it came out and it was just such a great shift away from the hair metal of the 80s I hated so much in high school yet different from the grunge scene that was all over everything at the time. It gave me something besides Zeppelin and Floyd to go deep into. Can’t say it’s my favorite album considering how great the others are and how much they’ve grown as a band, but it’s definitely badass
@@bulkheadsoundchamber2293 Dang! 5 times? It'd been good if you could've found someone to install a different cassette player in your truck. I know during that time most were going to CD players, but I had a cool one put in when I got stationed in England that played both cassette & CD's. Sorry that happened to you back in the day. It's awesome we don't have to deal with stuff like that anymore.
@@samuelgirard1407 yeah, I actually just started stuffing my boom box behind my seat with batteries. Pretty cheesy but I had tunes. By Anemia I was on cd’s. The only drawback to the digital stuff is no album art, but it’s nice to hear a band you like and be able to download all their music within minutes.
Best band of all time and their music will be around forever. Their technicality is phenomenal and each member brings greatness to the table. People mock them and write them off quite a bit, but there's a lot of deeper meaning behind the vast majority of their catalogue. Their live shows are an experience (in the best of ways) and I'm fortunate to have that branded in my memory. Will always be the best "band" I've seen live, slightly edging out Sabbath
The spoken word part on the studio track was done by Henry Rollins, as someone else mentioned. In fact, you can even find a video of the recording session here on RU-vid. I've also seen a video of a festival they played where it was done on stage by Zach De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine.
Please check out some Puscifer, Maynard's own solo project instead of Tool and Perfect Circle. I'm not saying it's better. I'm saying it's Excellent and gives you more of an idea of Maynard's mindset. Thanks for the great reactions!
✌💞🤘🤘🤘🤘 💞💞💞💞 I love the hard, head banging rock and then you get hit with the very heavy groove of him speaking then it revs back up to the rock. Fits my old hippie heart perfectly. So glad you reacted to Tool. Now you have to do it again. ✌💞🤘🤘🤘💞😘
I have tickets for the January 31st show in Dallas. I don't see myself introducing new people to rock by playing Tool for them. I'm thinking something more straightforward rock. Yes, I say more progressive rock.
I, also, was a regular person (like Brad) before TOOL messed with my shitty perception of what pop music was supposed to sound like. I mean, yeah... I was already well-versed in Elvis and The Beatles and Pink Floyd and Boston and Zeppelin and The Police and Michael Jackson and Duran Duran and Public Enemy and NWA and Nirvana and Pearl Jam and yada yada... But this goddamned band came along (around 1992) and completely upended my expectations. Not to mention my idea of what was possible with drums, bass, guitar, and vocals. I don't wanna come off like a hyperbolic fanboy, but... TOOL is just different. Period.
Oh man, Lex loves the layered multi-rhythem complex music it's time we introduced them to The Mars Volta. Check out "Cygnus, Vismund Cygnus" or "Take the Veil Cirpin Taxt"
Stop focusing so much on the lyrics...let the music consume you..that's the whole idea behind Tool..Brad you are always dialed in on the screen that's why you are always lost. Lex keep grooving girl..you absolutely get it.
Poor Brad. Another TOOL song….😤😤 Looks like he’s getting a colonoscopy through every one! 😅 The constant “I can’t understand what he’s saying” look on his face 😂
Just imagine being 12years old and secretly listening to this band and your parents have no idea and then going to school singing all these song by Tool and everyone thinks you're nuts cause they have no idea who Tool is except the ones who also have this album was the best shit from my childhood outside of nirvana and pantera pearl jam stp..... and many more bands like primus soundgarden Back then these band were the bands to listen to.
I always thought it was “chin, eyes, up from the the bottom” not shit adds up from the bottom” both have a great meaning for me and sometimes I still sing along with chin eyes up, just makes me want to take on the day and deal with the bs!
