Definitely one of their masterworks. It goes way deeper than you might think....It's heavily influenced by a mathematical sequence of numbers known as the Fibonacci Number Sequence. The sequence goes as follows... 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Interestingly, this can also be plotted out graphically, as a spiral...and not just ANY spiral...but a very specific one, which can be found literally everywhere in nature...for example, the curl in a chameleon's tail, the seed pattern in the middle of a sunflower (and many other plants follow this spiral as well) , to the way hurricanes are shaped, allll the way up to the Spiral Arms of our Milky Way Galaxy. You called the opening verse, Maynard is describing the beginning of life, and the process of gaining vision, at fist everything is black, then you are born and slowly contrast becomes necessary to discern, so whites come into play, more like light vs dark...and then once our light receptors (Rods) are formed in the retina, Cones begin to develop, and the first 'colors' we see are in the longer wavelength of light, and so reds and yellows. BUT, check this out 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) Let's me see (3) (its an ascending and desceding Fibonacci number sequence going by syllables, also, just like a spiral, growing larger, then shrinking) and again with the bridge As below, so above and beyond, I imagine (13) Drawn beyond the lines of reason (8) Push the envelope, (5) watch it bend (3) This song also has three general time signatures within the 'main chorus' section, one in 9, then in 8 and then in 7....987 is one of the numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence. In the end, this song attempts (and succeeds) in highlighting the interconnectedness of all and everything, as below, so above. From the twist in our double helix DNA to the very shape and form of our galaxy, the pattern runs through it all. After making this point, he urges us to embrace our humanity, To feel inspired , To fathom the power, To witness the beauty, To bathe in the fountain...to live life as a human, but still be aware of our oneness with the entirety of reality, our Divinity. The song ends with a strong and clear message to open yourself up to the universe, and to enjoy the ride while we are here. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been Spiral out, keep going :0) If i missed anything folks can leave a comment reply...but i think i got the basics covered. Again....its truly a friggin masterpiece of art, thought, music and humanity. THIS is why Tool is the best band on earth :0d imho.
@@ettsn Well thank you, that's very kind of you to say. Tool's been my top fav for many years and I loooove digging as deep as i can into things, especially their music and lyrics. When Jamel asked for someone to do a quick explainer, all my gears starting turning furiously...steam whistles going off...the whole nine yards! lolol But thanks for that, I appreciate it. :0)
One needs to listen to this song four times. Once to listen to the words. Once to listen to the music. Once to listen to both together. and another with the repeat button on lock.
This is how it goes. You hear this song for the first time and think wow what a unique and powerful song. Then somebody tells you everything behind it. You then listen to it again and your mind is blown.
I don't think there is a more meticulously crafted song in all of music. Masterpiece. It literally changed my life as a kid and helped me to always think more in terms of the collective instead of the individual; to hope for real ascension and fulfilling our potential as a species.
MrShabbyTiger ... it’s also a reference to the spiritual beliefs of the aboriginals, and their “dream walking” beliefs and cosmology, black and white then red and yellow are very important to their beliefs of the creation of the universe. This is taken from a webpage talking about the significance of the colors in their artwork: Sacred Colours The sacred Aboriginal colours, said to be given to the Aborigines during the Dreamtime, are Black, Red, Yellow and White. Black represents the earth, marking the campfires of the dreamtime ancestors. Red represents fire, energy and blood - 'Djang', a power found in places of importance to the Aborigines. Yellow represents water, and the markings on the back of the great snake ancestor (see our last blog on the Rainbow Serpent Myths). White represents the sky and stars, which are filled with the Aborigines ancestors who returned to the sky after creating the earth. This is taken from www.aboriginalartuk.com/post/2017/11/21/aboriginal-culture-scared-colours ... which also has great examples of the aboriginal artwork which specifically uses those four colors. Check it out!
Yep. It's a song about being continually open to experience, being continually in the moment, and being willing to see where Life and the universe takes you
It also means the colors of all my relations meaning humans. Native American Indian culture in which he lives in the SW of America New Mexico or Arizona where Natives are predominate.
It also is a reference to as an infant you can only see black and white...then after a few weeks of growth, red and yellow become visible and then all the other colors. Maynard is a master at layered meaning.
Tool has grown from those days into the magic they are now. Opiate, Undertow, Aenima were the "angry" and "pissed" days of the band. From Aenima they evolved into a more serious and spiritual and even mystic thing.
what a classic religious tool fan. They're good but they seem limited in their creativity. As in... it's like they're painting pictures with the same 3 colours all the time. I need more melodic variation personally. I get the appeal with the hypnotic rhythms and long songs though - I was a massive fan a decade ago. The breakdown in the middle of this song is peak tool.
In my humble opinion.....given how it was written (in reference to the fibonacci sequence), matching mathematical rhythms, poly rythms, time signatures, instrumentation and then lyrics.....quite feasibly one of the greatest songs ever written. That song would be PHENOMENAL with no lyrics at all, and the lyrics could stand alone as AMAZING poetry. Gonna be sad to see these guys go.....because there will NEVER be another band like tool. So unique. Just splendid.
Danny Carey's work in this song is incredible (drummer). My favourite Maynard lyrics. Favourite Tool song and one of the best pieces of music ever written. There's nothing like that 3 minute buildup to the drop at 9:25. Unreal.
Ah, Lateralus! I wrote a whole damn paper on this song in high school lol. Epic epic track! It also follows the fibbonaci sequence in its lyrical delivery and meter!
The lyric structure is based on the Fibonacci Sequence. 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) Look up the song on wiki
It was not "based" on it, it was probably just the Fibonacci Sequence naturally occurring as it usually does... Maynard most probably didn't put much thought into it and intuitively felt that that was the right way to sing the lyrics...
Jamal, you really want to watch the video explaining how they wrote this song based on the Fibonacci sequence, so damn interesting. This band is full of pleasant surprises.
Maynard has 2 other bands. All 3 bands kinda reflect different facets of Maynard's psyche. Tool is primal, guttural and intense. A Perfect Circle is melodic, emotional, and passionate. Puscifer is sexual, humorous, and silly at times. Definitely do some reactions to APC and Puscifer.
APC (Tool Lite for people who can't appreciate Tool) & Puscifer (MJK's vanity "because I can and people will buy it" project) prevented us from getting more Tool albums, imo. "Bah!" & "Feh!" says I.
Looks like you're ready for the holy trinity, "disposition, reflection and triad" 3 of them together by Tool. Oh and show some love to your followers from the South Pacific nation of New Zealand and have a watch/listen to the official video for Kaitangata by Alien Weaponry.
Hell yeah on Alien Weaponry, Im form NZ and feel like a proud dad when I see videos these of guys playing live to big crowds, especially seeing foreign fans singing in Te Reo
Smudgie If (or when) he does Rosetta Stoned, it would be highly recommended that he does Lost Keys first.. "Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)" RIGHT INTO "Rosetta Stoned," (You see what I did there;) he might get a little bit of a better understanding of Rosetta Stoned as opposed to doing Rosetta Stoned by itself. It's kind of understood that Lost Keys ALWAYS goes with Rosetta Stoned.. But I certainly agree, lyrics are mandatory.. He'll get lost without them. On that note; SPIRAL OUT !!!
@@robertshulenberger IMO he should find some way to do them as a single review. Hm... they aren't readily separable if you've ever experienced nutbag letters stuffed in your mailbox in the Southwest US. Just bite the bullet and do the whole thing at once, all the way through. Anyone who actually cares about the reaction (like us) will totally watch the whole thing, even the "boring" parts.
Man, this album dude! It came out when I was like14, which is an impressionable enough age in itself, but I was also just getting into heavy metal (starting with rage against the machine a year and a half prior) and had started learning to play guitar a few months before it came out. The Lateralus tour a year later was my second concert ever and the first one I paid money to see... my dad insisted I needed a chaperone so he bought a ticket as well despite never hearing their music before, and called it one of the best live shows he’d ever seen (out of dozens if not over a hundred). All of that left a pretty big impression on me, but not as much as 3 years ago when I was in midst of a manic episode (bipolar, quit taking meds) and become reasonably convinced that the album contained the meaning of life, infinite knowledge, the secrets of the universe, etc. There were a lot of synchronicities and while I’m no longer in that moderately delusional mindset, it’s still a sort of bible for me. Really does “make you use your brain” I definitely agree on that one, man. Great reaction. 👍
Watching you sing along to music I've enjoyed for so long makes me happy. Tool - Reflection A song that made me pick my self up when I thought I couldn't. Wings for Marie - Parts 1 and 2 together I do not trust, or wish to associate with, a person who does not at least get choked up listening to this masterpiece. There are worse ways to pick your friends lol
The colors are a metaphor, using the idea of vision improving as an infant, to be symbolic of increa sing knowledge and understanding. There is a video that someone made as a class project that breaks down the song a bit. It is worth a watch.
I saw the lateralus tour...it was amazing. This song KICKED ASS!! From 9:30 to 10:45 was what TOOL fans call a "Toogasm" I'm so grateful to have heard it live. SPIRAL OUT...KEEP GOING!
The fact that you appreciate this music man..... brings great joy to my heart. Music is the life that compliments the rhythm of our heart beat. I commend you my friend.
Maynard leaving his bitter angry phase and looking for deeper meaning in life.. Apparently a lot of fans didn’t like that and when an interviewer asked him about it he told them to go listen to his early work bc he didn’t want to be that angry, bitter person anymore. It’s kind of a shift you have to make if you don’t want to die young, or worse become some angry over the hill asshole. Reminds me of something I told my ex bf. We’d had a fcked up relationship fueled by drugs & alcohol. I got pregnant and got my shit together, which included leaving him. He then went into a downward spiral. He ended up with a crazy gf (crazier then I ever was, she literally put him in the hospital with stab wounds) and a heroin addiction. But he was in his 30’s now and I told him he’d either die or become that creepy old dude who we always saw at parties. That guy you’d always think to yourself that you’d rather die then be that guy. 60 years old, living in a room house who got alcohol bc he’d go buy it for the underage kids who’d hook him up for buying it. Fortunately my ex got clean. If you look at artists who don’t try and find peace, who stay the same, they don’t do well. Most of them die young.
I love the transition and progression of Maynard's outlook on life. He went from bitter to angry to philosophical and eventually to beautifully sad mixed with a kind of love and acceptance (10,000 Days). I haven't thoroughly listened to Fear Inoculum yet, so I don't have an opinion of where I think he might be mentally now. I'm happy to hear you got through that part of your life. I had a somewhat similar 5 year relationship. It's like having a giant anxiety filled weight lifted off my back
LiveAction Link most of fear inoculum is about finding your inner youth and strength (invincible), and using it to push forward through hardship and toxicity (descending, fear inoculum) while reminding yourself that we're all human and that's all that matters (pneuma). culling voices and 7empest are separate from that story though
One of the best ways to stop an addiction is seeing yourself turning into "that guy" . That's as real as it gets. You can see it, you can grasp it, it's real.
LiveAction Link I’ve been listening to Fear Inoculum as well and still trying to digest it and see what I think about it. It’s a tricky balance for artists bc great art seems to come from misery and angst. It’s interesting how that works. I often wonder if some maybe subconsciously choose to die when they hit that point where they have to stop and get help or spiral into the depths. Idk it’s tough bc fans can be brutal. I’m also glad Maynard found some modicum of happiness. I feel some of my own life reflected in his. His music has often been the soundtrack to my life, ever since I discovered Tool & APC. I’ve also really enjoyed some of the experimental stuff he did in Pusifer. Like humbling river. I really like that song. Anyways I remember that day I moved into my tiny, mostly unfurnished apt with my baby. I was sad bc I still loved my bf & he was punishing me for leaving him by refusing to talk to me. But when I woke up with my baby girl I felt like a weight had been removed from my shoulders. Ever since I’d given birth my bf had been trying to tempt, cajole, & pressure me into getting fcked up. It was tough for me bc I still had the tendencies but I was breastfeeding & wasn’t willing to risk my baby. It wasn’t overnight but I’ve managed to work through a lot of that lingering desire for drugs. My kid is my life & she’s given me a motivation, a purpose I never had.
I HAVE THE DOCUMENTS -for sure. There are addicts that are revolting and you want to be as far away from what they are as possible. Still I feel like it takes more often. Healthy ppl don’t become addicts. So on some level being able to figure out and deal with what’s causing that need to escape is necessary. Not that I’ve done a great job at that. More like I stuffed it in a box and sealed it away. But I will eventually have to deal with it. I still have that lingering desire and I’ve found that shit can manifest in new and unpleasant ways. My older sister works with experts in brain science and she’s been teaching me a lot. It’s fascinating bc you could almost map out what would happen to me and my sister based on the traumas we suffered as kids. There’s changes to the brain that are devastating to future health & happiness. Knowing what I know now makes me see the world differently and my innate desire to protect children is increased. I now listen to Maynard’s work through various bands and can see how he’s worked through his pain, his trauma. His music seems to mirror his own evolution and that’s very cool. There’s also a book I read called “Chasing The Scream: The First & Last Days Of The Drug War” that really started my understanding of addiction. It’s not just about the insane and fcked up beginnings of the drug war, it’s also touches on the science of addiction. It’s an amazing and infuriating book.
OMG when Jamal stopped it and says, " he talking about kids?!" I spit my coffee everywhere. I wasn't sure where he was going with that. Glad he explained himself there though. LOL
Me too lol. I thought "Oh no... Please don't". Luckily he went in the right direction. He might not have understood the whole meaning behind the song, which is normal if you haven't had time to take it all in, but he did interpret parts of it well
Nobody ever ties these together but I truly believe he’s also talking about spiral dynamics. It’s a model for physiological reason. It’s a color coded model. A color progression of growth. Check into it.
Here's a little tid-bit. The song is 9 minutes and 24 seconds long. That makes the mid-point of the song fall at 4 minutes 42 seconds. The lyric that falls exactly on that mid-point is "Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come." So that lyric is the passage between the first half of the song (our present situation and short-comings) and the second half of the song (our potential and the path to enlightenment). To transcend our present state (the first half of the song) and reach our potential (the second half of the song) we must pass through that transition and reach out to embrace the randomness of the universe and embrace whatever may come. These guys are freaking wizards!
I believe the first lyrics also fall on a Fibonacci derived number as well (97 seconds or approximately 1.618 minutes - The Golden Ratio). Also, the introduction section of the song is 01:12 long (0, 1, 1, 2 are the first four numbers in the sequence)
Now listen to this song again and really listen to each of the individual instruments as well as vocals. Its truly amazing how masterful each member of the band is at what they do.
All aboard the magical train ride Tool creates for you my Brother! It takes you on a journey from our own beginnings and escalates in power & volume just like many of our lives do? Maynards ability to be breezy and light or crashing with powerful vocals blended with that amazing accompaniment of hard riffs & drums almost hides that powerful bass line that lurks just under the surface! I love how Tool can slowly build up in a song, then switch to quick & thunderous powerful crashing beats by Danny Carey's drums only to transition again back and forth to smooth & easy grooves! Great pick & reaction once again. Happy New Year & hope it is another successful year for you. Keep up the good work. Wondering when you are going to checkout another phenomenal artist? He is known as "Buckethead" and is in my humble opinion the greatest guitarist on the planet. His material is massive and breathtaking!
I think the "infancy" that is being referred to here is that of a spiritual infancy. That things are binary in the sense that there are only two options. Then as time passes other avenues present themselves and suddenly there are infinite possibilities.
Brett Marlar I don’t necessarily disagree with you here, but I wouldn’t limit that to only spiritual. There can be much deeper meanings to these lyrics, including in time, evolution/human development, child like vision and spirituality, etc. There are a LOT of layers to all of their music, including to the developments in the rhythm and everything of their music and some of the member’s views about that.
Anything you begin new, that's infancy. Starting a project is an infancy. You learn as you go. I get an idea, I see it in black & white terms, then red & yellow come, letting me truly see the picture.
I love Tool and I am immensely enjoying watch you unravel the layers as it seeps into your soul as an unrecognized earworm! Tool forever! Just don't make us wait another 20 years for new work!
Their I took me a while to warm up to Losing It. Once I actually sat and listened to the lyrics and really soaked it in, I realized what a moving song it is
Thank you so very much for digesting this song in your own unique way. My initial reaction to it was a supreme state of spiritual overwhelm. Even after all these years, hearing this song makes me feel things and I’m grateful for it, and for you to share it with many new people.
As a fractal artist this song is particularly meaningful and amazing! thanks for introducing me to this band, Jamel! I had been very out of touch with the music world for a long time but you have brought me back to my first love. Music!
Break down: stop over analyzing life and enjoy the present, let life take you where you are to go and you’ll never know how beautiful the world is if you are always looking for the explanation.
There was a time when I had favorite tool songs, now I can only like each song as it comes to me. The more you listen to Tool, the better every song gets. Ranking them or trying to say this my favorite is so futile. For many years this was my favorite though. I find it extraordinarily inspirational.
R. Nashoba also love the back story about how the track came to be. The record executives told Tool they needed a harder song(for radio play) on the album. First off don’t tell Tool what to do...lol. So they did Ticks n Leeches. But the best part is they made it soooo long so it couldn’t be played on the radio as executives wanted. They trolled the execs. But Maynard really hurt his voice on that song w all the screams(or so I’ve researched).
greetings from new zealand, if you want a completely different experience try some new zealand maori metal from the band alien weaponry who sing maori the song" kai tangata" but you must watch the video with it , they are 17 and 18 years old,
Soooo recent sub and huge Tool fan here, I know this is an older video and you prob won't see this but YOU ARE THE FIRST person that caught and spoke about the lyrics about how vision develops in an infant!!! Everyone always focuses on the fibonacci, which is cool, but THANK YOU!
I have been surfing around on different reaction vid channels and stumbled on here. I started watching your Tool vid playlist and I love the way you have the lyrics in front of you and the music makes you want to sing by the end of the song. Even though you don't know the song you are trying to sing a long by the end. Welcome to the Tool Army...glad to have you... keep digging. Spiral out brother...
The artwork on most of Tool's albums is by a man named Alex Gray. The cover of 10,000 days is from a painting he did that is over 10 feet high by 20 feet wide.
Definitely one of their masterworks. It goes way deeper than you might think....It's heavily influenced by a mathematical sequence of numbers known as the Fibonacci Number Sequence. The sequence goes as follows...
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, ... The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Interestingly, this can also be plotted out graphically, as a spiral...and not just ANY spiral...but a very specific one, which can be found literally everywhere in nature...for example, the curl in a chameleon's tail, the seed pattern in the middle of a sunflower (and many other plants follow this spiral as well) , to the way hurricanes are shaped, allll the way up to the Spiral Arms of our Milky Way Galaxy.
You called the opening verse, Maynard is describing the beginning of life, and the process of gaining vision, at fist everything is black, then you are born and slowly contrast becomes necessary to discern, so whites come into play, more like light vs dark...and then once our light receptors (Rods) are formed in the retina, Cones begin to develop, and the first 'colors' we see are in the longer wavelength of light, and so reds and yellows. BUT, check this out
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)
Let's me see (3)
(its an ascending and desceding Fibonacci number sequence going by syllables, also, just like a spiral, growing larger, then shrinking)
and again with the bridge
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine (13)
Drawn beyond the lines of reason (8)
Push the envelope, (5)
watch it bend (3)
This song also has three general time signatures within the 'main chorus' section, one in 9, then in 8 and then in 7....987 is one of the numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence.
In the end, this song attempts (and succeeds) in highlighting the interconnectedness of all and everything, as below, so above. From the twist in our double helix DNA to the very shape and form of our galaxy, the pattern runs through it all. After making this point, he urges us to embrace our humanity, To feel inspired
, To fathom the power, To witness the beauty, To bathe in the fountain...to live life as a human, but still be aware of our oneness with the entirety of reality, our Divinity. The song ends with a strong and clear message to open yourself up to the universe, and to enjoy the ride while we are here.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been
Spiral out, keep going
:0) If i missed anything folks can leave a comment reply...but i think i got the basics covered. Again....its truly a friggin masterpiece of art, thought, music and humanity. THIS is why Tool is the best band on earth :0d imho.
Bricktowne Media I regret only that I can give this a single like. Great commentary, sir!
@@ettsn Well thank you, that's very kind of you to say. Tool's been my top fav for many years and I loooove digging as deep as i can into things, especially their music and lyrics. When Jamel asked for someone to do a quick explainer, all my gears starting turning furiously...steam whistles going off...the whole nine yards! lolol But thanks for that, I appreciate it. :0)
I'm just really glad that you already explained all of this so now I don't have to. lol Great job!
Small remark.
Push the envelope (5)
watch it bend (3)
Great work with the rest :)
BRUHHHH💀mind blown
Glad to see my favorite "music reaction" guy is listening to my favorite band.
Same here! I love this guy and how much he loves Tool!
One needs to listen to this song four times.
Once to listen to the words.
Once to listen to the music.
Once to listen to both together.
and another with the repeat button on lock.
Well said, well said
As with ALL TOOL songs. The only way to listen. For newbies at least
Lol, I don't know the lyrics to any Tool songs. I just drown myself in the music.
@@PaulGuy missing out buddy especially aenima and 10000 days.
After the music, focus on the instruments individually... Carrey is a master at that drum kit.
This is how it goes. You hear this song for the first time and think wow what a unique and powerful song. Then somebody tells you everything behind it. You then listen to it again and your mind is blown.
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE LOVE THEM SO MUCH
Avi Gayegos pure power as introspective light. Maynard is genius.
@@ettsn agree
I've listened to this song thousands of times and it still gives me goosebumps in the same instances every single time.
Not only this song..but their whole discography
like hearing it again for the first time.
Jamal: Y'all ain't slick!
TOOL: HOLD MY FIBONACCI
LOL!!
lmao
for some reason as i read that i heard "HOLD MY FIBONACCI" in the Mortal Kombat voice, lol
@@callistis8733 baaha! That works though 😎👌🤣
😂😂😂
Finally, lateralus is one of my top 5 songs ever
THIS. I still get goose bumps from this song all these years later.
It's definitely one of their bests - musically and lyrically.
I feel like hearing Lateralus is like a right of passage. Its such an incredible work of art.
Someone should be studying synonyms and not music reaction videos.
@@johnd5398 homophones. If you're going to be a jerk get it right
I don't think there is a more meticulously crafted song in all of music. Masterpiece. It literally changed my life as a kid and helped me to always think more in terms of the collective instead of the individual; to hope for real ascension and fulfilling our potential as a species.
The "black and white I see .. in my infancy" refers to the rudimentary perception of his unawakened mind
MrShabbyTiger ... it’s also a reference to the spiritual beliefs of the aboriginals, and their “dream walking” beliefs and cosmology, black and white then red and yellow are very important to their beliefs of the creation of the universe.
This is taken from a webpage talking about the significance of the colors in their artwork:
Sacred Colours
The sacred Aboriginal colours, said to be given to the Aborigines during the Dreamtime, are Black, Red, Yellow and White.
Black represents the earth, marking the campfires of the dreamtime ancestors.
Red represents fire, energy and blood - 'Djang', a power found in places of importance to the Aborigines.
Yellow represents water, and the markings on the back of the great snake ancestor (see our last blog on the Rainbow Serpent Myths).
White represents the sky and stars, which are filled with the Aborigines ancestors who returned to the sky after creating the earth.
This is taken from www.aboriginalartuk.com/post/2017/11/21/aboriginal-culture-scared-colours ... which also has great examples of the aboriginal artwork which specifically uses those four colors. Check it out!
Yep. It's a song about being continually open to experience, being continually in the moment, and being willing to see where Life and the universe takes you
It also means the colors of all my relations meaning humans. Native American Indian culture in which he lives in the SW of America New Mexico or Arizona where Natives are predominate.
It also is a reference to as an infant you can only see black and white...then after a few weeks of growth, red and yellow become visible and then all the other colors. Maynard is a master at layered meaning.
Yes it's part of infant development, I think that's where he got it from but can also be taken as a metaphor. Very Maynard
As much as I love Undertow and Aenima, Lateralus is Tool's finest masterpiece!
There's a good argument for 10,000 Days but both are masterful
Agreed
Tool has grown from those days into the magic they are now. Opiate, Undertow, Aenima were the "angry" and "pissed" days of the band. From Aenima they evolved into a more serious and spiritual and even mystic thing.
Entire record start-to-finish is just incredible.
This should be required listening for Life, forget just being a music fan. Calling it a "song" is almost a disservice to this work of art.
Agreed. Tool is not a simply a "band" and their work is more than just "music", they are Enlightenment in the form of music.
what a classic religious tool fan. They're good but they seem limited in their creativity. As in... it's like they're painting pictures with the same 3 colours all the time. I need more melodic variation personally. I get the appeal with the hypnotic rhythms and long songs though - I was a massive fan a decade ago. The breakdown in the middle of this song is peak tool.
Tool is an Art. A little bit of an acquire taste, but once it grows on you. Its the finest of wines!
In my humble opinion.....given how it was written (in reference to the fibonacci sequence), matching mathematical rhythms, poly rythms, time signatures, instrumentation and then lyrics.....quite feasibly one of the greatest songs ever written. That song would be PHENOMENAL with no lyrics at all, and the lyrics could stand alone as AMAZING poetry. Gonna be sad to see these guys go.....because there will NEVER be another band like tool. So unique. Just splendid.
Danny Carey's work in this song is incredible (drummer). My favourite Maynard lyrics. Favourite Tool song and one of the best pieces of music ever written. There's nothing like that 3 minute buildup to the drop at 9:25. Unreal.
Yea and the three different time signatures just in the chorus alone
Listen to The Grudge by Tool
Yes! 👍
Please please please do this
The Grudge takes you through it all. One of Tools best songs for sure.
definitely one of the best drum rolls of all time in The Grudge.
My favorite Tool song, by far.
This is one of their best songs.
The best Tool song is whichever one you are currently listening to.
Ah, Lateralus! I wrote a whole damn paper on this song in high school lol. Epic epic track! It also follows the fibbonaci sequence in its lyrical delivery and meter!
Tool - Parabol/Parabola
Yessss....the way they flow together.
Yeess please
This.
Parabol/Parabola
My favorite song of all time.
My all time favorite. This song never gets old.
There will never be another band like Tool and I'm grateful to have been able to grow up listening to them.
One of the best complete albums ever f all time in my mind. It will never leave my rotation.
Tool's music is certainly in depth, substantive, though provoking and genuinely unique. You're not going to confuse them with any other band.
Swing on the the spiral
Of our divinity.
And still be a human.
I sense Alex Grey's spirit here.
Overthinking and over analyzing separates the body from the mind-Tool
I live by them word!
I think therefore I am.
The lyric structure is based on the Fibonacci Sequence.
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)
Look up the song on wiki
It was not "based" on it, it was probably just the Fibonacci Sequence naturally occurring as it usually does... Maynard most probably didn't put much thought into it and intuitively felt that that was the right way to sing the lyrics...
There is always some dude on any Tool video that points this out
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Because it is interesting
@@antondavidovic3996 And just maybe you watched Maynard on the Joe Rogan podcast say that? Who knows right?
Jamal, you really want to watch the video explaining how they wrote this song based on the Fibonacci sequence, so damn interesting. This band is full of pleasant surprises.
I think you need to do the whole album
Just such a great experience bro 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏽
The entire album is incredible.
Yeah, it really is their best album!
For sure...profound music.
Yeah, this whole album is physically interactive somehow. Magical.
@@michelm306 it's not even music it's spiritual and emotional theatre
Maynard has 2 other bands. All 3 bands kinda reflect different facets of Maynard's psyche. Tool is primal, guttural and intense. A Perfect Circle is melodic, emotional, and passionate. Puscifer is sexual, humorous, and silly at times.
Definitely do some reactions to APC and Puscifer.
Definitely up for some Puscifer. Humbling River, Grand Canyon, Momma Sed (Alive at Nokia)...
The Humbling River by Puscifer....hands down...one of their top 5 best songs
APC (Tool Lite for people who can't appreciate Tool) & Puscifer (MJK's vanity "because I can and people will buy it" project) prevented us from getting more Tool albums, imo. "Bah!" & "Feh!" says I.
Ive heard this song a hundred times and it still gives me chill bumps.
I'm so happy that you do reactions, Jamel. I really mean it.
for those of us who are musicians, you are the hope that someone is paying attention.
Looks like you're ready for the holy trinity, "disposition, reflection and triad" 3 of them together by Tool.
Oh and show some love to your followers from the South Pacific nation of New Zealand and have a watch/listen to the official video for Kaitangata by Alien Weaponry.
These songs really show that on this album, Adam was really spreading his wings.
Hell yeah on Alien Weaponry, Im form NZ and feel like a proud dad when I see videos these of guys playing live to big crowds, especially seeing foreign fans singing in Te Reo
Exactly!
Oh for the love of God, please do Rossetta stoned with lyrics (you will need them)
its time man, its time!
Smudgie If (or when) he does Rosetta Stoned, it would be highly recommended that he does Lost Keys first..
"Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)" RIGHT INTO "Rosetta Stoned," (You see what I did there;) he might get a little bit of a better understanding of Rosetta Stoned as opposed to doing Rosetta Stoned by itself.
It's kind of understood that Lost Keys ALWAYS goes with Rosetta Stoned.. But I certainly agree, lyrics are mandatory.. He'll get lost without them. On that note; SPIRAL OUT !!!
@@robertshulenberger agreed
Hell yeah
@@robertshulenberger IMO he should find some way to do them as a single review. Hm... they aren't readily separable if you've ever experienced nutbag letters stuffed in your mailbox in the Southwest US. Just bite the bullet and do the whole thing at once, all the way through. Anyone who actually cares about the reaction (like us) will totally watch the whole thing, even the "boring" parts.
The best TOOL song ever.
Man, this album dude! It came out when I was like14, which is an impressionable enough age in itself, but I was also just getting into heavy metal (starting with rage against the machine a year and a half prior) and had started learning to play guitar a few months before it came out. The Lateralus tour a year later was my second concert ever and the first one I paid money to see... my dad insisted I needed a chaperone so he bought a ticket as well despite never hearing their music before, and called it one of the best live shows he’d ever seen (out of dozens if not over a hundred).
All of that left a pretty big impression on me, but not as much as 3 years ago when I was in midst of a manic episode (bipolar, quit taking meds) and become reasonably convinced that the album contained the meaning of life, infinite knowledge, the secrets of the universe, etc. There were a lot of synchronicities and while I’m no longer in that moderately delusional mindset, it’s still a sort of bible for me. Really does “make you use your brain” I definitely agree on that one, man. Great reaction. 👍
As I’ve said to others who are discovering Tool-you don’t listen to Tool, you experience them🤘
And use them to complete one's "Honey Do" lists 'round the house...
@@rosecityronin honey do lists are endless and do spiral out to infinity! 🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Watching you sing along to music I've enjoyed for so long makes me happy.
Tool - Reflection
A song that made me pick my self up when I thought I couldn't.
Wings for Marie - Parts 1 and 2 together
I do not trust, or wish to associate with, a person who does not at least get choked up listening to this masterpiece. There are worse ways to pick your friends lol
can't just do reflection have to do disposition/reflection/triad
WOOOO!! Happy Tool day Jamel! hahaha starting the year off with some solid tracks. This is some top tier Tool.
In another life Danny Carey was a tribal drummer.
@@kinggrimlock5812 maybe his last three....haha
The drums in “Ticks & Leeches” will blow your mind. Danny Carey is incredible.
will felder the first 59 seconds of Ticks & Leaches is the greatest drumming ever done by a human
marc guidetti Factual statement, sir.
Danny is a fucking BEAST.
and rosetta stoned too
This is the quintessential Tool song imo, got me through some tough times too. Easily one of my favorite songs ever.
The colors are a metaphor, using the idea of vision improving as an infant, to be symbolic of increa
sing knowledge and understanding.
There is a video that someone made as a class project that breaks down the song a bit. It is worth a watch.
Is it on here?
@@JinxMarie1985 Yeah I believe so.
I saw the lateralus tour...it was amazing. This song KICKED ASS!! From 9:30 to 10:45 was what TOOL fans call a "Toogasm" I'm so grateful to have heard it live. SPIRAL OUT...KEEP GOING!
8:48 this part gives me chills every time!! Saw them twice and this part takes me on a journey!! Causes me to raise my hands in the air!
The fact that you appreciate this music man..... brings great joy to my heart. Music is the life that compliments the rhythm of our heart beat. I commend you my friend.
Word
Jamel, you want an intro? Listen to ‘Eulogy’.
My #1 fav of all time
Awesome song!
Red Nightshade sweet pfp dude. i love gojira
@@leyfemasso1319 thanks man! 🤘🤘🤘one of my faves definitely!
Eulogy = Tool at the top of their game...that is my #1 from them ever...followed closely by Third Eye...amazing pieces of art
My favorite is still Parabol/Parabola. That song just sucks me into another dimension.
No he is talking about expanding your inner horizon as a thinking-loving-responsive human being.
once you're hooked on tool... you never go back. got yo ass "swinging on the spiral" now bruh'
Maynard leaving his bitter angry phase and looking for deeper meaning in life.. Apparently a lot of fans didn’t like that and when an interviewer asked him about it he told them to go listen to his early work bc he didn’t want to be that angry, bitter person anymore. It’s kind of a shift you have to make if you don’t want to die young, or worse become some angry over the hill asshole. Reminds me of something I told my ex bf. We’d had a fcked up relationship fueled by drugs & alcohol. I got pregnant and got my shit together, which included leaving him. He then went into a downward spiral. He ended up with a crazy gf (crazier then I ever was, she literally put him in the hospital with stab wounds) and a heroin addiction. But he was in his 30’s now and I told him he’d either die or become that creepy old dude who we always saw at parties. That guy you’d always think to yourself that you’d rather die then be that guy. 60 years old, living in a room house who got alcohol bc he’d go buy it for the underage kids who’d hook him up for buying it. Fortunately my ex got clean. If you look at artists who don’t try and find peace, who stay the same, they don’t do well. Most of them die young.
I love the transition and progression of Maynard's outlook on life. He went from bitter to angry to philosophical and eventually to beautifully sad mixed with a kind of love and acceptance (10,000 Days). I haven't thoroughly listened to Fear Inoculum yet, so I don't have an opinion of where I think he might be mentally now.
I'm happy to hear you got through that part of your life. I had a somewhat similar 5 year relationship. It's like having a giant anxiety filled weight lifted off my back
LiveAction Link most of fear inoculum is about finding your inner youth and strength (invincible), and using it to push forward through hardship and toxicity (descending, fear inoculum) while reminding yourself that we're all human and that's all that matters (pneuma). culling voices and 7empest are separate from that story though
One of the best ways to stop an addiction is seeing yourself turning into "that guy" . That's as real as it gets. You can see it, you can grasp it, it's real.
LiveAction Link I’ve been listening to Fear Inoculum as well and still trying to digest it and see what I think about it. It’s a tricky balance for artists bc great art seems to come from misery and angst. It’s interesting how that works. I often wonder if some maybe subconsciously choose to die when they hit that point where they have to stop and get help or spiral into the depths. Idk it’s tough bc fans can be brutal. I’m also glad Maynard found some modicum of happiness. I feel some of my own life reflected in his. His music has often been the soundtrack to my life, ever since I discovered Tool & APC. I’ve also really enjoyed some of the experimental stuff he did in Pusifer. Like humbling river. I really like that song. Anyways I remember that day I moved into my tiny, mostly unfurnished apt with my baby. I was sad bc I still loved my bf & he was punishing me for leaving him by refusing to talk to me. But when I woke up with my baby girl I felt like a weight had been removed from my shoulders. Ever since I’d given birth my bf had been trying to tempt, cajole, & pressure me into getting fcked up. It was tough for me bc I still had the tendencies but I was breastfeeding & wasn’t willing to risk my baby. It wasn’t overnight but I’ve managed to work through a lot of that lingering desire for drugs. My kid is my life & she’s given me a motivation, a purpose I never had.
I HAVE THE DOCUMENTS -for sure. There are addicts that are revolting and you want to be as far away from what they are as possible. Still I feel like it takes more often. Healthy ppl don’t become addicts. So on some level being able to figure out and deal with what’s causing that need to escape is necessary. Not that I’ve done a great job at that. More like I stuffed it in a box and sealed it away. But I will eventually have to deal with it. I still have that lingering desire and I’ve found that shit can manifest in new and unpleasant ways. My older sister works with experts in brain science and she’s been teaching me a lot. It’s fascinating bc you could almost map out what would happen to me and my sister based on the traumas we suffered as kids. There’s changes to the brain that are devastating to future health & happiness. Knowing what I know now makes me see the world differently and my innate desire to protect children is increased.
I now listen to Maynard’s work through various bands and can see how he’s worked through his pain, his trauma. His music seems to mirror his own evolution and that’s very cool. There’s also a book I read called “Chasing The Scream: The First & Last Days Of The Drug War” that really started my understanding of addiction. It’s not just about the insane and fcked up beginnings of the drug war, it’s also touches on the science of addiction. It’s an amazing and infuriating book.
When you started mouthing along the words at the end it just filled me with so much happiness!
My favorite song on Earth. By my favorite band. Spiral out, my friends
Welcome to the wormhole known as Tool. MORE
Low key embarrassed but I can't go a day without listening to this song lol
Don’t ever be embarrassed to enjoy something you love. Within reason and the law, of course. Rock out. Have fun.
@Shawnaldo75 lmfao
I remember lying in the floor of my room in the dark listening to Tool and just letting the music absorb into my being. I’d get chills every time.
OMG when Jamal stopped it and says, " he talking about kids?!" I spit my coffee everywhere. I wasn't sure where he was going with that. Glad he explained himself there though. LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bruh. Me too! 😂😂😂😂
Me too lol. I thought "Oh no... Please don't". Luckily he went in the right direction. He might not have understood the whole meaning behind the song, which is normal if you haven't had time to take it all in, but he did interpret parts of it well
im in tears rn from it lol
Lol the long delay between reading the lyrics and saying that really fuels the humor
I concur with Boris Talarmin, you have to do the Grudge as well as Parabol/Parabola (must be done together).
Nobody ever ties these together but I truly believe he’s also talking about spiral dynamics. It’s a model for physiological reason. It’s a color coded model. A color progression of growth. Check into it.
9:26 goosebumps all over, every time, always!!
This album as a whole is a masterpiece.
110%
120%
"Another ride..." Bruh, just you wait!
After doing like 5 more tool songs, I think you'll be ready for Third Eye.
RIP Bill Hicks. Gone but NEVER forgotten..
best Tool song *ever*!!
Pry. It. Open.
By far my favorite Tool song. I could just put those albums on for days and listen to them.
Here's a little tid-bit. The song is 9 minutes and 24 seconds long. That makes the mid-point of the song fall at 4 minutes 42 seconds. The lyric that falls exactly on that mid-point is "Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come." So that lyric is the passage between the first half of the song (our present situation and short-comings) and the second half of the song (our potential and the path to enlightenment). To transcend our present state (the first half of the song) and reach our potential (the second half of the song) we must pass through that transition and reach out to embrace the randomness of the universe and embrace whatever may come. These guys are freaking wizards!
I believe the first lyrics also fall on a Fibonacci derived number as well (97 seconds or approximately 1.618 minutes - The Golden Ratio). Also, the introduction section of the song is 01:12 long (0, 1, 1, 2 are the first four numbers in the sequence)
do parabol-parabola , eulogy and Ænima
I’m just gonna slap that like button before I watch... because I already know he’s gonna love it. 😜😂🤣
Now listen to this song again and really listen to each of the individual instruments as well as vocals. Its truly amazing how masterful each member of the band is at what they do.
It's always amazing to see somebody spiral out for the first time 🤘🤘🤘
U pick up on the sound at the beginning? Heartbeat, then born...infancy
All aboard the magical train ride Tool creates for you my Brother! It takes you on a journey from our own beginnings and escalates in power & volume just like many of our lives do? Maynards ability to be breezy and light or crashing with powerful vocals blended with that amazing accompaniment of hard riffs & drums almost hides that powerful bass line that lurks just under the surface! I love how Tool can slowly build up in a song, then switch to quick & thunderous powerful crashing beats by Danny Carey's drums only to transition again back and forth to smooth & easy grooves! Great pick & reaction once again. Happy New Year & hope it is another successful year for you. Keep up the good work. Wondering when you are going to checkout another phenomenal artist? He is known as "Buckethead" and is in my humble opinion the greatest guitarist on the planet. His material is massive and breathtaking!
So glad I got to see this band live. I HIGHLY recommend getting a ticket whenever they play wherever you are located.
I LOVE seeing how much you love, appreciate, and understand TOOL!
I think the "infancy" that is being referred to here is that of a spiritual infancy. That things are binary in the sense that there are only two options. Then as time passes other avenues present themselves and suddenly there are infinite possibilities.
Brett Marlar I don’t necessarily disagree with you here, but I wouldn’t limit that to only spiritual. There can be much deeper meanings to these lyrics, including in time, evolution/human development, child like vision and spirituality, etc. There are a LOT of layers to all of their music, including to the developments in the rhythm and everything of their music and some of the member’s views about that.
This is another great song, just about a hit. Its great when they play this an Aenima back to back.
The end puts you in a trance. A very emotional song.
Anything you begin new, that's infancy. Starting a project is an infancy. You learn as you go. I get an idea, I see it in black & white terms, then red & yellow come, letting me truly see the picture.
This song is referring to the Fibonacci Sequence and how it spirals out in a pattern throughout nature and how we should do the same.
So the next step (not necessarily better, just different but related) would be A Perfect Circle and then Puscifer.
That school of rock cover of this is the best cover of a tool song.
I love Tool and I am immensely enjoying watch you unravel the layers as it seeps into your soul as an unrecognized earworm! Tool forever! Just don't make us wait another 20 years for new work!
Spiral out - keep going
Spiral out keep going
I recommend Rush-Losing it from their signals album.
Their
I took me a while to warm up to Losing It. Once I actually sat and listened to the lyrics and really soaked it in, I realized what a moving song it is
Keep your Rush comments out of Tool reactions. Nobody cares.
@@mrrobotobrains People who enjoy music that makes you think, care. If that's not you, than WTF are you doing on a Tool song?
Because that song doesn't even come close to what this man just heard.
My favorite song on Lateralus album! So beautiful and so many levels that just keep going like a story!
Thank you so very much for digesting this song in your own unique way. My initial reaction to it was a supreme state of spiritual overwhelm. Even after all these years, hearing this song makes me feel things and I’m grateful for it, and for you to share it with many new people.
Check out the Mars Volta.
Roulette Dares!!!
Any song but the Widow.
SODA STEREO - CIUDAD DE LA FURIA
I freaking love that song! Gustavo Cerati is my spirit animal.
This is my favorite song, from my favorite band. Thank you for reacting!
As a fractal artist this song is particularly meaningful and amazing! thanks for introducing me to this band, Jamel! I had been very out of touch with the music world for a long time but you have brought me back to my first love. Music!
Break down: stop over analyzing life and enjoy the present, let life take you where you are to go and you’ll never know how beautiful the world is if you are always looking for the explanation.
It’s about the evolution of perception and expanding consciousness to the nth.
You've discovered Led Zepplin and now TOOL welcome to greatness. Love your reactions 🙌🙌
There was a time when I had favorite tool songs, now I can only like each song as it comes to me. The more you listen to Tool, the better every song gets. Ranking them or trying to say this my favorite is so futile. For many years this was my favorite though. I find it extraordinarily inspirational.
I absolutely love seeing another new recruit into the Tool Army! Warms my heart brother!!
People can see things as “black and white” for their entire life.
TOOL: TICKS AND LEECHES
amazing if not one the best by them
R. Nashoba also love the back story about how the track came to be. The record executives told Tool they needed a harder song(for radio play) on the album. First off don’t tell Tool what to do...lol.
So they did Ticks n Leeches. But the best part is they made it soooo long so it couldn’t be played on the radio as executives wanted. They trolled the execs.
But Maynard really hurt his voice on that song w all the screams(or so I’ve researched).
nice reaction. love to see new members of the tool family.
This is one of the greatest albums ever.
It’s a masterwork of symphonic proportions.
Should be played in album order live
I believe he’s talking about the beginning of existence
greetings from new zealand, if you want a completely different experience try some new zealand maori metal from the band alien weaponry who sing maori the song" kai tangata" but you must watch the video with it , they are 17 and 18 years old,
everytime i see someone reacting to this song... i have to pause whats going on and experience it with them
Soooo recent sub and huge Tool fan here, I know this is an older video and you prob won't see this but YOU ARE THE FIRST person that caught and spoke about the lyrics about how vision develops in an infant!!! Everyone always focuses on the fibonacci, which is cool, but THANK YOU!
Tuesdays should be renamed Toolsdays
DOPE👍🏾
@@jamelakajamal jamal.please do TOOL TUESDAY there is 11 albums you need to hear lmao !!!
Tool. Eulogy
I have been surfing around on different reaction vid channels and stumbled on here. I started watching your Tool vid playlist and I love the way you have the lyrics in front of you and the music makes you want to sing by the end of the song. Even though you don't know the song you are trying to sing a long by the end. Welcome to the Tool Army...glad to have you... keep digging. Spiral out brother...
The artwork on most of Tool's albums is by a man named Alex Gray. The cover of 10,000 days is from a painting he did that is over 10 feet high by 20 feet wide.