Tool Lateralus Reaction!!! 

Maynard writes a song about not over analyzing and we all happily over-analyse it. Gotta love his sense of humor

Awesome. I can't blame Vin. That part blows my mind every time.

I love how Sori closes her eyes and just feels the music. I've heard this song hundreds of times and it still gives me goosebumps. Be prepared for a great journey if you choose to continue your TOOL reactions.

Who can't wait for the new Tool album ? 🤘⭐⭐

Hands down my favorite Tool song it is just amazing on so many levels. I want to point out to you though a view of things involving the "Swing on the Spiral" lyric. The Fibonacci syllable count he uses... 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) there is(2) so(1) much(1) more and(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). So the Fibonacci sequence he is using there lyrically is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 8, 5, 3. Which is basically "swinging" back and forth on the spiral not endlessly spiraling out. To me it references the fact that the further you go into the unknown the scarier it gets so you pull back from it. He wants to spiral out and keep going but he is only human so he does reach his limits and he stops and retreats back to the known, but he does eventually try again pushing a little further each time. So he is swinging on the spiral growing a little more with every swing because first it stops at 8 before going back, but the next time it reaches 13 the next step forward. That is just another way to look at it and how I interpreted it.

Spiral out, keep growing and learning. Be the lead singer of three bands, plant a vineyard, learn jiu-jitsu. Live your life to the fullest, no limitations.

Best. Tool. Song. Ever. Fibonacci sequence for days. Spiral out ~

I'm an Atheist who grew up in the church and I feel more "bewilderment" now by the beauty and mystery of the cosmos than I did when I thought I had it all figured out. The box can work both ways

I love how we the community turned these two into tool fans 🤘

tool is not music, it's an life experience.

"To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds And open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me. Whatever will bewilder me." My favorite lyrics of all time. Words to live by.

Lateralus is the Best album of 21century.

I love Lateralus !!! Pretty much the message here is to not live your life in a straight linear path, go beyond and do things lateralus'ly. Keep growing, Keep expanding, keep learning, think outside the box, go above and beyond, push the envelope, go where no man has been before and so on. Love the channel, glad to see more Tool fans on the RU-vid!!!

Single best song written in history

Sori listen by yourself with great headphones with your eyes closed- Toolgasm!

Ten years ago, this song planted the thought processes that I truly believe saved my life. Thanks Tool ❤️

I love the fettuccine sequence it's so tasty

I am so loving this album review! You guys are great!

i love it when vin stops and rewinds back to that epic drop in the song. Emitting such a profoundness through words and music. and emotion.

I just found your channel tonight, and it's a very lonely night for me. You're keeping me some great company, and thank you for that. I've recently got into reaction videos, but you guys spend so much of your time ACTUALLY reacting! You don't just talk for 30 seconds after the song, ya know? I know if I ever meet y'all in person, I'd immediately connect with you. Keep doing what you're doing. As always, peace and love.

Black, White, Red, and Yellow is a reference to the Medicine Wheel. It represents the 4 seasons, 4 cardinal directions, and 4 stages of life. I recommend digging deeper into this concept.

Surprise Sori with tickets to a Tool show!

This song might be deeper than you guys think. When Maynard sings "As below, so above and beyond", this is a Hermetic Principle: The Principle of Correspondence. "As below so above, as within so without". Reminds you something? "On earth as it is in heaven". Yes, it is the same thing, basically. There are seven Hermetic Principles. It's really interesting. Google it.

Lateralus is by far my favorite Tool song.

@14:21... The phrase that EVERY married man has heard a thousand times 😂

And to think you guys haven't even heard Cold & Ugly, Jerk-Off, Bottom, Crawl Away, Flood, Eulogy, 46&2, H, Hooker WAP, Pushit, Third Eye, Vicarious and whatever else I forgot. Good times ahead folks. Good times ahead :)

Your guys love for tool is so refreshing. They changed my life. And I love seeing people experience it.

Anybody else air smash the gong at 8:11 ?

The whole "Spiral out, keep going..." part makes me feel energetic and full of life. It's great. Loved your thoughtful and engaged reaction! Subbed!

Danny Carey is the best drummer in history.

You knocked Sori out of the moment when you rewinded, Vin. And me too! But thumbs up, guys! Try Undertow next, please.

Hi,I have been following TOOL since the beginning of the 90's. I am a disabled veteran but I have seen and felt Maynard and TOOL go from this one point to another and always stayed a musical phenomenon. I felt a lot of spirituality wanting to break through!

9:00 - I agree Vin! The climax of this song makes my heart explode!

The spot where Maynard sings "feel the rhythm" and Danny hits the quick double bass mid-syllable just gives me the fucking chills. You know how when two violinists or singers do a beautiful harmony together and it just has that perfect pitch or buzz to the ear? To me it feels just like that but between a voice and drums (and whatever else was playing in the background I couldn't identify). Does it hit anyone else that way?

AHHHHHHH Absolutely my favorite reaction from both of you!!! Seeing both of you in that middle part rock-out together was to me the most you two have enjoyed a song together, loved it!!!

I'll be rocking out to tool even in my 90s

Vin and Sori its awesome when someone actually breaks it down. Top of your game and doing nothing but getting better. Thanks guys. I hadn't realized how much i missed some of these albums until your reactions. Its not just hearing it. Its feeling

Been watching your Lateralus reviews in order...you two are so awesome. People like you give hope to humanity :) (deep, eh?). BTW...LOVE how you two rock out to some TOOL songs. Vin...for a newby, you are so in tune with the lyrics. Very impressed. Lastly...you two HAVE TO catch TOOL live. That is pretty much a life changing experience.

It's so interesting to watch people who are listening to the same music at the same time and how they individually react to it. For so much of the song, Vin tends to fall into the more stereotypical, hardcore mode with the furrowed brow and the headbanging/fistpumping to the beat of the music. Contrast that with Sori and how she closes her eyes and seems to feel a different part of the music that's playing at the same time with her head moving slowly side to side. To me, that's feeling the same music two completely different ways, but neither is right or wrong. It's finding that thing that moves you and latching onto it. So cool that music allows us to do that without each of us feeling like we need to convert each other to our way of thinking or feeling.

Seeing you gus rock out at the end made my day!!! Keep having fun and spiral out!!!!👊👊👊👊

Now THIS is the Tool song I've been waiting for them to react to for a while now for obvious reasons.

Sori...seeing that Gorgeous smile peek out during this song and seeing how you really feel it all the way down to your soul makes me love you even more!! And...yes, Vin is TOTALLY a Tool fan! Lol

I really like you two! you don't stop the songs so far that i have seen and i really appreciate you guys feeling it first and then talking about it after. this is a really good choice i feel for your channel. awesome job

I absolutely love your guys reactions to this. I'm a long time tool fan, coming across them on the second stage at Loolapolooza 93 in Vancouver. I think your reactions perfectly illustrate the primal and emotional that is the foundation of Tool music. Throughout the song, Sori, is listening intently closing her eyes feeling the emotional aspect while still at times connecting to the primal with head bobs etc. Vin, is touching the primal mostly with moments of emotional introspection. The best is at the end when you both descend into the primal power of what you've heard and the powerful emotion that it provokes. Love it, and hope to see you at a Tool, Perfect Circle or Pusifer show sometime in the future.

Sori, I'm Tool girl also. Their music moves my soul.

i heard that Maynard doesnt write lyrics til all the instrumental parts are done. he fits the words in like a puzzle. what a fucking BAND

6:36 her reaction, in the cut, feeling it... that is what this band's music does...100% TOOL

The way these guys break down Tool is so informing. They are so great at breaking down the meaning of this song and use their own interpretation to explain it. Just great people.

My all time favourite song off my all time favourite album. Thank you so much for this!

Great reaction,this song gives me goosebumps every time,weep like a widow,I believe the undertone of this song is Maynard wanting so much to connect with something higher than himself,the desire to really live since he is so heartbroken about life in general.theres a spiritual emptiness within that he wants to fill but nothing in this world satisfies it, so he takes it upon himself to feel the truth through music, to take his intuition beyond this realm.

Gorgeous sori

Their brilliance comes from their musical ability to paint such a picture for me. I can feel the music and listen to the lyrics and tune into something I cant feel with anything else. Other artists can do this but the feeling Tool gives me is undeniably unique, it feels brilliant.

I saw them live in 02 on the Lateralus tour, this song live alone is a outer body experience, my body the next day was like I was involved in a car crash. Tool live is the best way to experience them. They are even more genuine then in studio, they sometimes improvise their material which most times is better. Enjoy your Tool journey, Spiral Out keep going...

Ouch...Vin with the big faux pas!!! Broke Sori's groove, we feel you Sori when her eyes close... we know, we know ❤

This has been my favorite song of all time, of any genre, of any timeline, ever. since I’ve first listened to it.

how are whispering the lyrics perfectly along with it if this is their first listen?

sometimes its good to revisit old videos from yall cause you speak from a human perspective. i see you and i feel you

Vin: I gotta hear that part again!!! Attaboy! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🙂🔥

I'm calling b.s. on Sori never hearing Lateralus before! She makes the EXACT same expression I do @6:36, but she does it before that verse hits. It's a conspiracy! :)

I love how yall were really getting into it towards the end

"I'm hoping my epidermis will handle that." 😂 I've been there man!

Such a brilliant song on so many levels. From 7:30 on sends shivers down my spine to this day. Vin, your exuberance there brought a smile to my face. Spiral out!

LOL That was GREAT! I can't tell you how many times I have moved is back to listen again....wait till you watch them in one of the hundreds of live videos on here.

The beginning about black and white is also possibly a dual meaning because when a baby is born they only see black, white and grey, but as their grow and their eyes become more "human" they see red and then yellow as they literally grow into an adult. That's why many newborn toys are black and white with hints of red and yellow in them.

This song is absolutely amazing

ive listened to this song hundreds of times....and get chills each time..Love everything about the song!!!

Spiral out buddies!!! Welcome in the rabbit hole! 🌀🤘

It must be laundry day I don't see the Tool shirt! Lol you guys are awesome that is one of my favorite Tool songs.

"How am I gonna edit that?" Does so flawlessly. 😁

I love how you jumped right into the song ^^

Red and Yellow is a reference to the Alchemical process. He is talking about the process of Alchemy, the Colors which gradually come up.

easily my favorite Tool song.. lyrically, instrumentally..

I became a huge Tool fan back in college when everyone was stoner. I used to sit in my room for hours, high of course, and listen to each of their albums in their entirety. It's like journeying to a whole new plane of consciousness. Tool is definitely an experience!

Been watching you guys on and off for a bit now and I must say this is the first video that I've seen were sori had a strong point and felt it and expressed it right after the song ended and mad respect to vin for letting her take a min to express her though love the break down of what you got out of it earned my sub

Vin feels the song in his core 🤘🤘🤘

Tool isn't a band and their concert isn't just a concert. It's an experience of the cerebral kind

not that i mind that you usually stop a song for comments but this song was SO worth listening every bit the way through with no stops i love this song

5:30 into the song always makes me emotional to the point of tears when I listen to it. ♡♡

Tool: making music in 2000 to be discussed and understood in 2020

Vin's reaction is gold. I want more of this passion!

Allegaeon “Proponent for Sentience III- The Extermination” Two amazing lead guitarists and great lyrical content to react to.

Good point! Over thinking over analyzing seperates the body from the mind.. you have a convo and worry too much about how they took it ( their thought patterns of you! Instead who you really are! Be who you are and if they like you they do.

Sorry so late on response but you 2 are amazing. Sori you are stunning. Close your eyes and listen is the only way to hear tool. Vin you have a awesome palate of music. New subscriber today.

Tool is such a great band PERIOD

I stumbled on reaction videos completely by accident, so this whole concept is fairly new to me. Having said that, I love watching you guys react to music that I love. There's something tremendously satisfying about seeing someone exposed to something very familiar and cherished and sharing that experience with them. It makes me happy to see people focus and celebrate the common things that bring us joy but at the same time to be able to hear a point of view that doesn't perfectly align with their own but yet find merit in it. Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more good stuff from you!

“You’ve gotta feel there is some order out there” that really spoke to me.

8:30 thought y'all were gonna start moshing lol love the power and spiritual cadence that this song exhibits

These two showed they were human. I respect that. Also, a great break down of this masterpiece from their unique viewpoints. Loved it. Please do not stop.

To me, I feel this song is about the creative process itself. Almost as if he's giving us a peak into his methods of creation. Start with a foundation, then allow the "colors" to reach out to you organically, think outside the box, push the limits of what has been done or what's expected, but don't overthink it, let your intuition guide, open yourself up to whatever may come, don't stifle your own creativity, connect to the rhythm, appreciate the beauty, lose yourself in it, let it overwhelm your senses, but stay open and you may just create something no one has ever seen/heard/experienced before. I think it can be applied to any facet of creativity.

Have to say ive just stumbled on your videos because I am a huge mjk fan so tool and apc mostly. I really enjoyed seeing you both fall into the different patterns of the music. Sori just zones out the way I do and seeing vin jam out to the last bit twice was cool. Its a fantastic album.

By far my favorite Tool song.

LOL, by analyzing TOOL you come to discuss about Aliens.... good job Maynard ;-). This song is so great in itself, the music and in the deeeeeep lyrics. Open your mind, ride the spiral to the end... SPIRAL OUT! Love that song so much and of course your reviews ;-) Keep up the good work dudes!

Just a point in case no one else made it yet: newborns are color blind because the cones in their eyes aren't fully developed yet. When they are born, the only colors they can see are black and white but as they grow and develop and mature the cones for red and yellow come in and that allows for all types of shade and nuance. The metaphor is remarkably insightful.

@12:20 ... OH OH.... Did my boy touch a nerve??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That whole album is worth its w weight in gold and silver

REACT TO PANTERA - SUICIDE NOTE PT. 1 & 2 PLEASE!!!!!!!! Both songs would make a cool discussion. It's also Pantera's softest song with part 1 and part 2 is their heaviest.

I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. - Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines. - I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason. - Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. These lines refere to eachother and show how he step by step dares to let go of the borders. There is a very weird rithm going on throughout the song until after that last line. A very clear rithm follows. The first verse that comes in this steady rithm starts with I embrace my desire to I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected The music makes us feel in harmony with the steady guitar Rithm. later when we get lost in the guitar and overwhelming metal we hear With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds And open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. Just a lill thing that I noticed :D

I like your reactions because of your in depth analysis of the lyrics. Well done.

But anyway, I love how this song makes you feel, as long as you keep going, and being open to opportunities. You can do and succeed at ANYTHING as long as you KEEP GOING!

This is the first time I've ever thought about this, but in the children's song "Jesus Loves the Little Children" their colors are red and yellow, black and white... probably just coincidence, but given Maynard's upbringing it is interesting.