First Time Reaction | TOOL - "Lateralus" 

It's your reaction, so stop and talk when you want. I would definitely leave those headphones on after the reaction, shut your eyes, and listen without stopping.

Loved it, we all got emotional with you, even if we heard it many times before! It’s all good. 😊 Invincible should definitely be on your list at some point. That one hit hard for me personally about getting older, similar to where the band is at in their long career. Right in Two is a good one too, you can’t go wrong, spiral out!

Tool is by far the most oddly emotional music I've ever heard. It's not that's it's sad, it's very introspective lyrically thus the listener can be put into a vulnerable state. A girl I dated years ago was really having a tough time dealing with the loss of her mother. I was 22 and she was 19. It had been about 9 months since she had died but she just couldn't allow herself to grieve. She was on a loop basically. Well, I had some mushrooms but I didn't want to give her any because I was worried about her not being able to hande them. I eventually caved because I a man and pretty girls are sneaky and stuff... Anyhow, Tool had just released 10,000 days. I put that on and it was incredible. We were in awe. The title track off that album is a two part song Maynard wrote for his mother. I don't know if I can accurately explain this but I watched her, my girl, actually deal with everything she had kept bottled up. We didn't talk at the time, that's kinda difficult on heavy doses of hallucinogens, but she could not contain her emotions. She was better after that. She was able to visit her grave and process the death as one has too to keep moving forward through life. It was like a cheat code for the grieving process. Sorry for the length, I just wanted you to know that's perfectly ok to feel how you felt. I have no idea what your life is like but I appreciate your candor and willingness to just be yourself. Keep doing that. ✌️ & 💕

No need to apologize......seems like you're ready for the live version of Tool, Sober.

I had a lot of trauma as a child, by the time I was in highschool my life could have been over, this album went a long way in helping me cope with the world. I listened to it daily. There are so many things to get out of this album about life, love and spirit. Emotional and physical connections... The grudge opens you up to your conflicts, the patient brings you to a place of self acceptance, schism tackles your problems communicating, Ticks and leaches addresses your adverse relationships, lateralus walks you through life from birth to death. That's the turning point in the album. After that you've dealt with your emotional and physical side, now the spiritual journey begins. From lateralus through disposition, reflection and triad you relax and feel your spiritual self. It's a different feeling from the first half of the record. By the time you get to Faaip de Oiad, you should be in a better place than when you started the album. Lol Of course then there's the outro about alien abduction to shock you out of it. Have fun with it.

And yet so small. Only 5-6 albums in 30+ years.

Death, Emperor, Mr. Bungle, maudlin of the Well, Swans, Daughters, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Soundgarden. Broaden your horizon.

@@rayromero815 Stay mad.

@@rayromero815 Only Zeppelin can stand with Tool. Tool took what Zeppelin did and went to a new level.

@@grntbggr126 In part because when they first signed it was a 5 record deal and their studio screwed them over so they decided to get back at them by not releasing any more albums. That is why they all have side projects and why maynard himself has lead in 3 other bands. Pneuma was the last album in the contract so the hope for more is now out there.

Yeah, fully agree. Right in Two really puts Tool over the line into a category all their own. Never met a soul who wasn't blown away by that song.

Old song that will never lose its relevance. Seeing it live for the first time a few months ago when they came to the Bay Area blew my mind. But honestly every song they played that night did.

Please include Intension, they go together

One of my favorites

Yes. The pot and right in two

At the risk of sounding like a fan-boy....this is mona lisa levels of musical masterpiece. Just the single note from the gong shake me to the core every time I hear it. Literally no other song have I ever heard an instrument play a single not in an entire song and it be so profound.

The first tool song my friend showed me …. I’m a math guy so I instantly recognized the pattern they were doing and then the second half blew my mind

@@mookiestewart3776challenge flag thrown!

Yep, Live your own life, and you'll see, think, and do things nobody else has ever done in quite the same way before. All life is an experiment.

Same. Its still incredible

Truly one of the greatest works of musical art ever created. This entire album is about enlightenment.

Best song on the album is Resolution

@@justinquamme916... reflection?

I agree Parabol/Parabola are definitely overlooked. Killer song.

This!

Right In Two is an INCREDIBLE song...beautiful melody, writing, and lyrics! Really makes you think, which I love about music

THIS!

Choosing the best Tool song is like choosing between sight or hearing, but I think "Vicarious" is a more mature version of the "Third Eye." And the clip is a good launchpad for being shot into space. It can be scary and beautiful at the same time.

7empest is the video game's final boss. Third Eye is the IRL realization that you're playing your life like a video game.

So good to see you once again, I thought you where hiding from me.

thank you for sharing how you feel! I too can relate with the anxiety..These lyrics really hit me so hard as well

@@AileenSenpai please check out A Perfect Circle " by and down" it's the same singer different band. It's his best vocal work in my opinion 💯🔥🤘 keep the reactions coming 🤘

Maynard has another band named "Pusicifer"(some decent songs) but I could never get into them like Tool or A Perfect Circle" (just BRILLIANT 👏 😉 😀)

Tool are the what Pink Floyd were back in the 70's. (Unique, Masterful and one of a kind musicians)

Same day... some day people will learn to comment on RU-vid without using colons.

Whats my drug of choice? Well, what have you got? I don't go broke....but i do it a lot, I DO IT ALOT! YEAH!

Hahaha yes I say that all the time! TOOL is my drug of choice 🤯

lsd + tool + a good headspace + a good environment = mmmmNMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@@zaclovesschool2273 and good headphones 🎧

Thank you for watching ❤️❤️

Same for me!! 89 ER visits in one year due to panic attacks!

Thank you for this wonderful comment! I’ll be looking into these as well ❤️❤️❤️

Why does nobody mention Jimmy and Orestes in the Maynard's mom saga? Should go from Jimmy to Judith to Orestes to Wings part 1&2

@@richardclark1127 Jimmy lyrically is incredible...well the whole song is haha

@@richardclark1127 you're right! Orestes is such an amazing and emotional song! I figured, by the time she got there that people would let her know about the whole saga.

Maynard's mothers song saga concludes with "Horizons"

Descending is a trip, no doubt

Descending is a Master Masterpiece.

For me, 10:33 to 11:13 of Descending is towards the top of the best things I've ever heard in my life... gives me chills every. single. time.

@@cthibodaux21 Concur

When it's LIVE.. Sh*t..

I appreciate your suggestions! I’ll be doing those ASAP! 🤘🏼💗

Imagine how many other things we are taught to notice, separate and categorise and which are in fact irrelevant.

Sometimes pointing out things that do not need to be pointed out is utterly useless. Especially skin color.

There's a video here on youtube from a channel called Polyphonic that does an amazing breakdown of Lateralus. It's actually mindblowing just how much thought went into the creation of this song.

1,1,2,3,5,8,5,3 actually

@@ascendedsleeper5693 or maybe the song practically wrote itself... 🤔 how much thought goes into growing a snail shell?? (Fibonacci spiral) 😂😂🤘

@@mokane86 Yeah I agree that it all fits perfectly because of the math behind it, but if you watched the video I'm talking about then you'd see a lot of it is intentional.

@@Kryptoche Came to second this comment. Follow the syllables of the words. 1 - black 1 - then 2 - white are 3 - all i see 5 - in my in-fan-cy 8 - red and yell-ow then came to be 5 - reach-ing out to me 3 - lets me see Each line added together makes up the next line in the sequence. The sequence creates perfect spirals. Roughly what the Fibonacci sequence was discovered to create. The next line in the song also feeds into the sequence after 8 13 - As a-bove so be-low and be-yond I i-ma-gine It's really an incredible piece of writing.

This

Yeah. Good call

And the Salival version of Push It...but only after hearing the studio version!

Yeah the live Sober would be good.

This was the song that baptized me too lmao

Here are some of my favorites, sober, undertow, Jimmy, pushit, parabola, jambi, the pot, and invincible!

I wish humanity would be advanced enaugh for music like this to be on the top in mainstream media but in a way it makes it special the way it is now. Not everyone can be self aware enaugh to see the beauty in dissonance. Have a wonderful day friend

When you listen to the top ranking songs on the charts you start to realise how primitive humanity still is. Literally all these hip hop songs sound the same with the same boring beats and topics about drugs, sex and alcohol.

It's not "based off" the Fibonacci sequence. They just incorporated elements of it into the rhythms and time signatures.

my other fav by them is the song H.

brings me to tears everytime :) enjoy ur reactions