Song reaction - Tool - Lateralus 

This isn’t just my favorite Tool song, might be my favorite song ever.

Possibly the best song ever.

Ive been a Tool fan since 95'. Descending is a masterpiece. A lesson in music appreciation. After the 5min mark, it just never lets up.... So great.

Disposition+Reflection+Triad together in the next video, right?? :)

yes, the Fibonnaci Sequence IS everywhere. it's not just leaves and rabbits, it's everything in nature. it's a perfect structure of the random that rules the entire universe. don't see it only as an spiral, it's also about the proportions of matter (like human body). the point of the song is that we embrace that random and, just like the never ending spiral, we need to keep pushing our boundaries, to try and reach that horizon in the distance, until we "watch it bend".

Ive never opened a notification faster. So hyped!

I enjoy that the two of you discuss deeply, all of the nuance in these songs. I feel that this is Tool's intent. Thank you :-)

Best rock song of all time IMO. The more you listen the better it gets.

OMG I was thrilled to hear her BF talk about mathematics simply being a language that is used to describe observations (@21 minutes)!!!!! Indeed, math is not a thing unto itself; it is merely a tool that people have created in order to communicate their observations to each other.

Here's the entire Fibonnaci Sequence contained in the syllables of the lyrics: "Black (1) then (1) white are (2) all I see (3) in my infancy (5) red and yellow then came to be (8) reaching out to me (5) lets me see (3)" "As below so above and beyond I imagine (13) drawn beyond the lines of reason (8) push the envelope (5) watch it bend (3)" "There is (2) so (1) much (1) more that (2) beckons me (3) to look through to these (5) infinite possibilities (8)" "As below so above and beyond I imagine (13) drawn outside the lines of reason (8) push the envelope (5) watch it bend (3)"

I actually had tears in my eyes of joy watching you enjoy this for the first time. No lie. Thank you.

The first video I chose to watch today when I opened RU-vid. ✌ Spiral out.

I looooooooooooove that you dont pause a bunch during the videos. So freaking polite!!!

I'm just like halfway through and you're talking about "push the envelope" which is a pretty obscure phrase in English, and if you don't know it, you just don't know it. :) So, an envelope can be a thing you send a letter inside. But also can be a metaphor for a border or a boundary, and is kinda assumed to be repressing or confining, an all-encompassing thing ("I was enveloped in grief" is something you could say, but it's not everyday language, it's very poetic) so "push the envelope" is a metaphor to rebel against whatever constrains you, expand your horizons. I always imagine someone trapped in a box (the envelope) and they make the box larger and larger by will, by action, by being positive, until it is no longer a prison for them And then "Watch it bend" I think is a message of hope, as in, if you push, it will bend. You might not think it would, try it and see the results I hope this made sense :D

Guys , I'm the one who thinks we should see your man as well once in a while , the voice behind the play button. I am a fan of tool, love them . They are my Depeche Mode Ella Fitzgerald Stevie Ray Vaughan Pavarotti and Bach of their genre. Today I fell right upon your reaction and listened in and although I've heard it xyz amount of times today it sounded different to me and I tripped all over again , my hair was standing on edge I was , happy and calm and it just felt like honey, if that makes sense . You've done me a great favor today I feel like I owe you guys somehow lol.

When a new born open his/her eyes they literally see in black and white. Red and yellow brings in color vision.

Both of you consistently put out some of the best Tool reactions on RU-vid. And you're very thorough and dig deep into your own interpretations which is wonderful!

Love your reaction and time you both put into it. Y'all need a podcast. 👍

Absolutely love what you guys do!! I subscribed and I enjoy 😊😊😊

We think about the future so constantly that we have to actively try to remember to enjoy the present. We are so cerebral, we separate our body from our mind and forget to live in the moment.

One thing I find really interesting about this song is that Maynard has said on JRE that he thinks it was kind of silly that they made the song using the sequence because at the end of the day everything ends up that way anyways. I have two issues with this. First, I don't believe that this is probably the most loved Tool song just because people know that they used the sequence. Second, at the end of the song, after the last "keep going", you can just barely hear him saying "going" again, and in live performances he does that multiple times and fades out. You can also hear that the pace of the "going" sound is increasingly delayed at the end because that's how the sequence works. You really don't hear stuff like that in music in general. On one hand I could see people say its probably not a good idea to force yourself to use something like the fibonacci sequence to make art, and that sounds reasonable, but I really wonder what incredible art we could have if more people tried it, especially in other forms of entertainment.

“Check out the big brain on Brad!” Luv this video.

Came for the song, stayed for the commentary. It was really good, it's hard to find people that go beyond, "oh, hey, good drums." Well, yes, but there's a whole ass composition here. The music and lyrics both point to something way deeper. I'm of the mind that the hook of the song is that it's based on the Fibonacci sequence and it pulls in people predisposed to over thinking, over analyzing. It's really brilliant. My initial response was "cool, let's do math and feel smart", but then I was dunked into the realm of fucking spirituality and consciousness that is so innately without mind that I struggle with it.i love it. I love that it's something you can apply numbers to and still not get it. 10\10

One of the greatest masterpieces in the Tool canon. I had the pleasure of hearing the awesome Lateralus 3X live in concert. It is quite simply, a brilliant brilliant song.

That is Danny´s Song,the best Drummer ever.Masterpiece for the Eternity.

Theeeee most genius and beautiful song EVER made. Ridiculous and almost hard to believe.

I see TOOL i subscribe, its that simple

Hi Initum .. Thank you very much for this whole project.. it's real pleasure to watch you on your journey... journey which I had maybe 10 years ago.. and I am quite sure that I won't be far from truth if I say that since I discovered Tool.. it became my one and only drug for all of my pains.. BTW: from which country you're comming from? You (gorgeous lady) strongly reminds me somebody who I know.. and I know that that person it's not you.. but still.... :)

I think listening to you guys discover Tool has been my favorite so far. You talk about all the philosophical stuff that most other people miss. Or rather they focus on the technical aspects of Tool and how proficient they are, rather than the meaning of what they are doing. Which I care about more.

A TOOL jam followed by a female ASMR voice analysis. A good Saturday indeed...

Authentic, great reaction.

The conversations are what we are here for!

To add to the "black then white are all I see..." portion of the song, this also simply describes sight development in infants. Starts out black and white, then develops into basic RGB spectrum, "let's me see". As always, great video.

Love your channel

Ride the primordial spiral all the way to the godhead! 2nd hermetic principal the principal of correspondence “As Above so Below As Below so Above.” Push the envelope watch it bend. Change on the material plane by direction of the will.

Tool army, checking in (Spiral out!)

Peak Tool lyrics

Nothing more enjoyable than a beautiful woman listening to inspiring music!

This is quality content!

Incredible

This is part of the reason why I wanted you to wait to react to Wings for Marie. This song seems to be a major landmark on the journey to WIngs. Could just be me... Enjoyed your reaction, keep up the good work.

this is a multiple toolgasm song... the song of the divine.

spiral out.... keep going !!!!!!!!!

"This was something."

Damn all those yrs wasted in math class in high school. I've learned so much more from this song alone than I did the whole time I was in HS. 😂

Go, girl

Eargasicm

Have you guys thought of analyzing tool music videos??? Love your guys discussions after the songs 👍🏻 they’re getting deeper 👁😎

it is a song about a creation process

I think that Tool is saying that reason is not the pathway to attaining enlightenment. Nature (both seen and unseen) is expressed as the hidden genius of the Fibonacci sequence that underlies the universe, but it's not accessible via reason. Or, at least, identifying the sequence doesn't bring us any closer to truth. Instead, we are afforded an equivalent of the truth that lives only in our imagination, but not throughout our being and experience. Spiritual enlightenment must be experienced by drawing "outside the lines of reason." The goal is to "swing on the spiral of our divinity" during our human lifetime. Rather than trolling, I think that Tool is providing a useful example in the form of the song. Overthinking and overanalyzing is what brings us to an understanding of the structure of the song, but how does this really increase our enjoyment of the song? We feel accomplishment in the understanding and identification of a purely intellectual concept, but we aren't really in tune with the experience of the song if we're only approaching it intellectually. The song exists in its rhythms and musical themes as much as in its lyrics. If we only concentrate on the lyrics and structure, then we miss half of it or more.

Psychedelics.. push the envelope watch it bend

I would love for you guys to engage the concepts of free will and determinism further. It could be argued that free will is illusory because you cannot consciously choose against your deepest, preconditioned, subconscious inclinations. What you respond to with elation is not always something you can consciously control. When you layer these discussions of the will with the concept of time and the predictions of physics, you may see the traditional idea of free will crumble.

The black and white phrase also refers to the fact babies literally only see in black and white until they get older then they begin to see more and more as they develop.

You can't get too much Tool. Having said that, your subconcious might get invaded by Tool mites. Interesting dreams and the like. Just go with it!

Their Magnum Opus. Their Masterwork. The timeline of Tool is separated in my mind as Before Lateralus and After Lateralus. Every song written before was lacking a connected "soul"; while, after it, all of their songs have felt much more connected to an entire body of work. That doesn't degrade or devalue the work Pre but maybe those exist in a Pre-Enlightenment dusky gloaming vs the broad daylight of Post awakening of Lateralus and beyond.

I certainly appreciate the time you took to try to figure out this music and lyrics. The whole 10,000 days album is like this. It is like a story from beginning to end....close the lights and just have some wine. They aren't typical and I highly suggest if we have concerts again. You must go....If I can't suggest. Listen to Aenima album. Very good discussion. I enjoyed it. You either understand the band and lyrics. Or not. I feel you are doing a good job getting it. But one thing means completely different to another.

I can't wait to watch her reaction to The Holy Trinity.

The syllables of the lyrics follow the fibinochi sequence. It's just genius writing on maynard's parts.

I would like to add that babies only see black and white at birth. As they progress, they see red and yellow next. If you go down the baby isle, you should notice those colors.

If I may suggest.. maybe you could revisit at some point songs which have official videoclip (Parabol/Parabola, Schism, .. ) this is adding at least one more layer to that.. And I also hope that when you get to Pneuma.. we will see not just reaction to song.. but also to drum cam video.. Without that you might not be fully aware what "beast" sits behind drums.. ;)

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Spiral out!

Greetings from México

Danny is a God in this song

There's a ton here that could be touched on. The band is really interested in the occult. As a result, I looked into some of these things and Black, White, Red, and Yellow play into certain themes in tarot cards. Black on its own is mystery, unknown, dark. White by itself is innocence and purity. Together they symbolize the femanine receptive principle(black) and the masculine active principle(white) pillars of the Tree of Life. Red by itself is action, passion, inspiration, energy, strong will and masculinity. Yellow by itself is the superconscious and the expression of the will. So it could be you start with the unknown mystery, are born innocent and pure, then we are creatures of passion and primal instincts, then we regulate those things with our will. And once we get to that point, we need to reflect back along each part to understand their value to see the original mystery from a different perspective. 'As Below So Above' is a common thing from religion/occultism. It is used to say that the supernatural realms share certain traits with the mundane world. How things are changed in one change the other. In this case, they might be saying we don't know what level we are on, and even the level above us likely has 'an above' and that as well. Into infinity.

🙃 i heart spirals

You should listen to some Deftones too, you'll love it! Rosemary, for example. :)

Cool I don't know it's hard to describe what school really means because it means different things to different people but this is like an influential band just like many other than just play Pink Floyd Jimi Hendrix the doors Beetle Alice cellphone and so on so many so many fans that move people on this is just one example of it but you will love this and you fall in love and enjoy the ride spiral out

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Did you notice the Ultra sound heartbeat from an unbourne Baby in the initial build up?

Nice movie

This song is so impressive. There really might not be a lot of songs better

The song that created the bands unofficial slogan lol

The first verse is also literal. At birth humans are colour blind (black and white). Red is the first colour we learn to see and we can see the entire spectrum of colours by 5 months of age. Of course your interpretation is applicable, Tool didn't write this verse as purely a biology lesson but the metaphor is drawn from actual science.

I love tool! Btw could you also react to some blink-182? Anything off their “Enema of a state” album

BTW.. "Black then white are all I see in my infancy".. is most probably reference to fact that all babies are being born color blind.. but of course.. as almost each tool song it have several layers of interpretation..

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Clues: try to see the separation form body and mind not as a something bad but as a goal, so the body can be the envelope limited by the senses . Following this idea, if you go over your body, "overthinking" you will be able the bend the reality, to bend the spoon in the matrix because there is no spoon, because what you see black and white as human applies only in our society based on a tiny planet ruled by tiny humans, but cosmos is "infinite" so what about the outside? What about all these creature we have not evolve to sense yet... what about the light spectrum we cannot see? What about the lie of religion? What about spiritual world? What about God? What about love? Think about it can make you travel inside your mind, but about if you overthink about it?

Please listen to Right in Two! 10,000 days and wings please!

Initum break out the calculator for this one. ✌

Leteralus to me equals Lateral us.

Intuition is a "gut feeling" to separate the body from the mind would mean to lose intuition.

Spiral OUT!

Please do Enema

Interesting conversation but what was your take on Poles and Czechoslovakians again, Mr. Camera Guy? Her point was that they’re not optimizing their group interest due to individual choices affecting the whole; you counter her with “we’re all African?” LOL what does that mean? Btw Disposition, Reflection and Triad have to be experienced together. No way around that love.

Most of the examples of nature fitting to Fibonacci and the spiral based on it, etc. are not exact, but approximations. People over-exaggerate this.

Basically these tool fans are going to freak out about numbers and how music is the answer to all answers but it isn't. All mathematics work within a closed system, so all mystical mathematics eventually reach into a plane that come back to reality. The outer is so out of bounds that it is irrelevant.

If you love Lateralus, wait until you listen to 10,000 Days.

This song is so progressive, even hard core leftists dont understand it.