The musicians write the music first then hand it off to MJK and he adds the lyrics so the lyrics are the last thing. To me this song is about human apathy and how we have let the planet go to hell through greed and selfish abuse of the environment and resources etc. Add in our innate warlike, power-grabbing nature, and he’s warning us we need to wake up and change our ways before we either destroy ourselves or leave the earth too damaged to even live on. This is actually my fave Tool song, something new to catch or pick up on every time I listen to it.
Exactly! Besides the lyrics, the ocean/water sounds that open and close the song also give credibility to the idea it’s about the climate crisis. And- if you’re listening to the song with that idea in mind- the fact that Maynard’s vocals stop, the instruments get softer and build up again, yet vocals don’t come back in, could be interpreted as: humans may go extinct in this mass extinction but life will persevere
God, i fucking love Tool. The only problem is all other music has basically been tuined for me. Ill tolerate shit, but it's never the same as when i listen to Tool.
Tool is always pushing sonic boundaries with their music. Contrast this track next to Sober and the growth of the band will blow your already blown mind.
Maybe the end humanity as many of us know it.....unless those of us that are "free" wake up from our "wanton slumber" and hear the obvious alarm bells that have been ringing for well over a decade.
"Ticks and Leetches" on Lateralus is a good one. There is a story behind it and it's a big 🖕 to the music label executives that wanted Tool to do a more basic rock song that wasn't long and radio-friendly because Lateralus album is more progressive.
In the states, it is a word to wake the military up from their slumber. Also, I think the word you are looking for in English is enamoring. Tool is enamoring
Maynard, as I'm sure others have explained adds the lyrics, melody/rhythm afterward and it's often explained that he uses his voice as essentially another instrument. So melodically, rhythmically, everything, is intentionally for how it comes across. He could just hum these songs and I'd love it, but I would never have guessed what the other musical geniuses inspired him.
Yeah Reveille is the bugle call to wake up the army folks at the barracks as well as war time. The bugle player guy. ;) ua-cam.com/video/8r5Ieh0OuQY/v-deo.html
For Tool listening I like to imagine eyes closed, head down, letting the bass and percussion root you to the ground while the guitar and vocals flow over and around you.
They actually played this as an instrumental for a long time before Maynard put lyrics to it. There is still the instrumental video on YT. EDIT: There is always snare, but Danny often shuts off the snares. So it kinds has a thud instead.
This whole album is about what is going on in the world today!! Just pay attention to the lyrics!! Fear Inoculum track is about the JAbErDoO!!! An Awakening is upon HUMANITY!!!
Maynard considers himself as another instrument and not a vocalist. In live performances he will often put himself at the back in darkness as not to draw attention to himself. This is why you notice his lyrical style as being different perhaps.
If you don't trip but want to get an idea of what would happen - if you're ever stuck awake over night because you couldn't sleep throw this on headphones during the late afternoon, maybe 3-4PM when your second wind is starting to flag a bit. You won't get the full effect but you'll definitely get the shape of it.
Worth it getting comfortable, poor a glass of the finest spirits, light up and enjoy the whole album. Interludes included ofcourse. Future Sound Of London (Life Forms) meets Tool .. it's great 😊
With regards to time signatures for Tool songs, the drums throw me off. Listen to Justin on the bass and you’ll pick up the click better. Him and Danny seem to toss off to each other to keep the pulse.
I personally think the song is about the ruin of the environment and the call to arms is for us all to get up off our fat asses and do something about it.
Super important....Adam, Justin and Danny write the instrumental parts and spends many months doing that.. Then, the pass it off to Maynard who writes the lyrics and vocals. He's described as the 4th instrument because of that. It helped me hear that as two pieces and became easier for my ear to blend them. It's truly art at the highest level. I'm not sure these guys really conceive how gifted they are .
It's harmony at its most chaotic. Systematic disfunction. Stuttering balance. Description often said by someone acclimating themselves to ToOl. Don't know how to say this but its music that doesn't match but yet it does. You ever notice sometimes when the music is most chaotic all of a sudden drops into a perfect groove? Most ToOl fans will tell you that drop counting is a myth. Lol
I dont really know what time measues are, but they're grouping beats and then sequencing varying group sizes which makes it hard to deduce some form of pattern.
The key to Tool's rhythm is math. Always remember, 3 4s make 12 just as 4 3s do...or 6 2s...10 3s make 30 like 5 6s....move your body in 2s and you'll never miss. Tribal
To me, you may first hear a Tool song and think “it doesn’t fit “. But you soon realize that it’s almost like it couldn’t POSSIBLY be any other way. It’s perfection. And the fact that you can never ever predict what the melody will be is one of my favorite parts. Nothing is more annoying to me than hearing a song on the radio for the first time and being able to sing along within 30 seconds. Too predictable, too generic. That ain’t creativity… it’s bubble gum for the lazy masses. Tool makes you think. Tool takes you on a journey. Four masters of what they do… each individually creative and totally unique and yet somehow able to collaborate. Amazing.
4:17 structure yes i would describe it as entrancing and tribalistic like with the constant rythm or beating of a drum ir the beating. Yes ive describe their music myself as such. I feel the same .
Of which is why I can lose myself in their music. They are put on in times like when I don't want to think I just want to relax and clear my head ya know
Of which is why I can lose myself in their music. They are put on in times like when I don't want to think I just want to relax and clear my head ya know
You like tool, check out the band Wheel and the song Dissipating, I would say that this song is musically similar to Descending, slow build up to a epic finale, lyrics wise is like a precursor to Descending.. they are probably a band that's closest to tool's kinda music creativity.
Tool loves to do bars of 7, 8, and 9 in sequence. It fools you because it averages out to 8/8 which is 4/4 ish. But the stagger loses you. But then you catch it again, only briefly.
I always pictured it to be an Angelic battle. That people are so foolishly "sleepwalking" thru this life not caring where we come from or what we're doing here just being in a wanton slumber pissin our lives away! No regard to this gift of life we've been afforded. So he's looking for the "dread" alarm from the heavens saying guess what people.....times up! So NOW we have :to be or NOT to be- DO or DIE! And THEN we wake the fuck up n appreciate our lives cuz now we're fighting for the lives we took for granted? But, idk? lol That's just my opinion of course. 1 thing that confused me tho?Is I always thot the reveille was the trumpet sound off used to wake the troups in the armed forces? The dread alarm being Gabriel's trumpet sound on the END OF DAYS!!?? Yeah! Thats why I thought of an Angelic Army!!?? Am I getting senile? Dammit my phones dead n cant find charger!!! Ahhh!
It's about humanity not doing anything about global warming and impending climate disaster despite knowing we were on a bad path since the 1970s. If humanity doesn't unite to save itself, we'll all find ruin together.
Exactly! Besides the lyrics, the ocean/water sounds that open and close the song also give credibility to the idea it’s about the climate crisis. And- if you’re listening to the song with that idea in mind- the fact that Maynard’s vocals stop, the instruments get softer and build up again, yet vocals don’t come back in, could be interpreted as: humans may go extinct in this mass extinction but life will persevere
Yet the same people who cry about climate change have become multi millionaires,live in beach front mansions and fly around in private planes to go to climate change events telling us plebs we are the problem.
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This song should be more terrifying to people that listen to it. It's a call to arms against our own self-imposed extinction
It's ominous considering what is in the lyrics and that the vocals cease about halfway through.
yup - allowing ourselves to destroy the planet and ourselves. mobilize! STAY ALIVE!!
Came here to say just that. It’s Maynard’s “Don’t go gently into that good night”
The dying of an empire.
I always think of it as the music version of 'Don't Look Up'
There will never be another band like Tool at this level 💯
Not true, i will make this next band
💯
Word!!!
God bless, that will be great if you do.@@Literallyjustmint
Comfort and relative luxury caused us to sink into apathy. No hunger, drive or will anymore. Its a call to "arms" to return to sanity.
greed and malice too
Do I see 5440? I grew up listening to those guys. Seen them live so many times. My brother worked with them more than once. West coast!!!!!!!!! 😉✌️💙🎵
Reveille is played in the morning (between 5-6 depending on base) and retreat is played at the end of the day (usually 5:30pm).
Maynard says I’m not a singer I’m another instrument in the band
Seeing them tonight i OKC!!!
Hell yeah! First show?
Experience and enjoy the hell of it!!! If first time - strap in!!!😊
Hell ya, saw them in Nashville, spiral out and have a great time!!!
@@GeoffPeterson33 for them yeah. Can't wait
@@rheath329 Enjoy it man, pumped for ya!
4 geniuses and that's the truth
At some point trying to count becomes a distraction, just let the music do its thing and see how it makes you FEEL.
The musicians write the music first then hand it off to MJK and he adds the lyrics so the lyrics are the last thing. To me this song is about human apathy and how we have let the planet go to hell through greed and selfish abuse of the environment and resources etc. Add in our innate warlike, power-grabbing nature, and he’s warning us we need to wake up and change our ways before we either destroy ourselves or leave the earth too damaged to even live on. This is actually my fave Tool song, something new to catch or pick up on every time I listen to it.
Exactly! Besides the lyrics, the ocean/water sounds that open and close the song also give credibility to the idea it’s about the climate crisis. And- if you’re listening to the song with that idea in mind- the fact that Maynard’s vocals stop, the instruments get softer and build up again, yet vocals don’t come back in, could be interpreted as: humans may go extinct in this mass extinction but life will persevere
Descending is so amazing! I saw Tool last night in OKC and they were brilliant, as always.
Hell yeah Sharon!
Definitely go back and forth to old and new Tool to see there progression.
This and cullin voices are definitely my two favorites of the new album
Lateralus and Descending are my favorite Tool songs
Loving your Tool journey!! Thank you for sharing!
God, i fucking love Tool. The only problem is all other music has basically been tuined for me. Ill tolerate shit, but it's never the same as when i listen to Tool.
This band is just next level. Completely untouchable.
Thank you Rus!. Thank you Anthony for reacting to this wonderful band!
Tool is always pushing sonic boundaries with their music. Contrast this track next to Sober and the growth of the band will blow your already blown mind.
The waves sounds were recorded at Danny's house in Malibu. ❤
Thanks Russ!
YEEESS. I saw this live and it was incredible the energy in the stadium was electric.
Maybe the end humanity as many of us know it.....unless those of us that are "free" wake up from our "wanton slumber" and hear the obvious alarm bells that have been ringing for well over a decade.
The eyes are in reference to the pineal gland third eye😉😊❤
My read of the lyrics: Descending = devolving and human extinction.
Literally a hamburger commercial during the best part of the song.
This is Tool’s opus
"Ticks and Leetches" on Lateralus is a good one. There is a story behind it and it's a big 🖕 to the music label executives that wanted Tool to do a more basic rock song that wasn't long and radio-friendly because Lateralus album is more progressive.
Tool changes your brain. The brain lights up like it never has. ❤ Tool forever (I'm 53)
Basically we rise up out of the water, then descend back in (could be a rising ocean theme, not sure).
Danny keeps his snare off most of the time but trust he is playing the hell out of it lol. You need to do Tools cover of No Quarter by Led Zeppelin.
In the states, it is a word to wake the military up from their slumber. Also, I think the word you are looking for in English is enamoring. Tool is enamoring
Tool loves eyes. All CD's after undertow have eyes all over them.
including Ænema?
@@NochSonKerl Ænema has the dual pupil eye on it. so, yes including Ænema :)
You really down the tool rabbit hole now. Next step, see them live
Maynard, as I'm sure others have explained adds the lyrics, melody/rhythm afterward and it's often explained that he uses his voice as essentially another instrument. So melodically, rhythmically, everything, is intentionally for how it comes across. He could just hum these songs and I'd love it, but I would never have guessed what the other musical geniuses inspired him.
Yeah Reveille is the bugle call to wake up the army folks at the barracks as well as war time. The bugle player guy. ;) ua-cam.com/video/8r5Ieh0OuQY/v-deo.html
side note, your beatboxing is pretty sweet btw. lol.
For Tool listening I like to imagine eyes closed, head down, letting the bass and percussion root you to the ground while the guitar and vocals flow over and around you.
They actually played this as an instrumental for a long time before Maynard put lyrics to it. There is still the instrumental video on YT.
EDIT: There is always snare, but Danny often shuts off the snares. So it kinds has a thud instead.
Greatest newer tool song
Thanks man great review
Love your reactions, fantastic reviews. Thanks for the entertainment
This whole album is about what is going on in the world today!! Just pay attention to the lyrics!! Fear Inoculum track is about the JAbErDoO!!! An Awakening is upon HUMANITY!!!
Maynard considers himself as another instrument and not a vocalist. In live performances he will often put himself at the back in darkness as not to draw attention to himself. This is why you notice his lyrical style as being different perhaps.
If you don't trip but want to get an idea of what would happen - if you're ever stuck awake over night because you couldn't sleep throw this on headphones during the late afternoon, maybe 3-4PM when your second wind is starting to flag a bit. You won't get the full effect but you'll definitely get the shape of it.
This song is a warning to rouse all from their spiritual slumber before it is to late.
Danny Cary goes polyrythmic on the drums🤘❤️🔥🙏
He writes the lyrics after the music is completed.
12:20 My guess is that we talk about how human overexploit the Earth.. How we are losing our common sense in order to make live easier.
Tool doesn't make music, they make art. Spiral out young man. 🌀 ☝️🇺🇲🤘
Worth it getting comfortable, poor a glass of the finest spirits, light up and enjoy the whole album. Interludes included ofcourse.
Future Sound Of London (Life Forms) meets Tool .. it's great 😊
tool is goat.
Awesome reaction video! Like the aspects you react and comments on! New subscriber!
Thanks Russ.. And thank you Anthony Ray
I think it's about the decline of humanity and is a call for consciousness.
With regards to time signatures for Tool songs, the drums throw me off. Listen to Justin on the bass and you’ll pick up the click better. Him and Danny seem to toss off to each other to keep the pulse.
A song named DESCENDING that is only ascending throughout.
Disposition & reflection 👌🏻
I personally think the song is about the ruin of the environment and the call to arms is for us all to get up off our fat asses and do something about it.
Thank you Russ much appreciated 👍✌️you as well Anthony
1:15 - To me it looks like a charged metal coil wrapped in ferrofluid.
Super important....Adam, Justin and Danny write the instrumental parts and spends many months doing that.. Then, the pass it off to Maynard who writes the lyrics and vocals. He's described as the 4th instrument because of that. It helped me hear that as two pieces and became easier for my ear to blend them. It's truly art at the highest level. I'm not sure these guys really conceive how gifted they are .
Bass is keeping the 7/8 feel for most of the song, but the pulse is more on the drums than any other instrument in this one, I feel.
It's harmony at its most chaotic. Systematic disfunction. Stuttering balance. Description often said by someone acclimating themselves to ToOl. Don't know how to say this but its music that doesn't match but yet it does. You ever notice sometimes when the music is most chaotic all of a sudden drops into a perfect groove?
Most ToOl fans will tell you that drop counting is a myth. Lol
Instrumentals first, then Maynard creates the lyrics.
I dont really know what time measues are, but they're grouping beats and then sequencing varying group sizes which makes it hard to deduce some form of pattern.
The key to Tool's rhythm is math. Always remember, 3 4s make 12 just as 4 3s do...or 6 2s...10 3s make 30 like 5 6s....move your body in 2s and you'll never miss. Tribal
can confirm, Tool and hallucinogens go great together
I am planning to take shrooms or acid soon, I think FI or Laterlus would be the album. Any tips on first time experience?
Dude please do either Lost Keys-Rosetta Stoned, Third Eye, or Pushit! U won't be disappointed I guarantee you that 💯
Studio and live versions are both special experiences!!
I feel like Rosetta isn't the best choice right now. But, he should definitely do Pushit (album) and then Salival to follow:)
It’s not from Pneuma,, it’s from the FEAR INOCULUM Album 😞😂😂
MUSIC IS MAGIC, GEMATRIA MATHMATICS.
To me, you may first hear a Tool song and think “it doesn’t fit “. But you soon realize that it’s almost like it couldn’t POSSIBLY be any other way. It’s perfection. And the fact that you can never ever predict what the melody will be is one of my favorite parts. Nothing is more annoying to me than hearing a song on the radio for the first time and being able to sing along within 30 seconds. Too predictable, too generic. That ain’t creativity… it’s bubble gum for the lazy masses.
Tool makes you think. Tool takes you on a journey. Four masters of what they do… each individually creative and totally unique and yet somehow able to collaborate. Amazing.
Droning
Drone - ing
Very similar structure of word
Lol @ trying to get the time signature. Of which instrument? Pretty sure they were all in different signatures at that point.
4:17 structure yes i would describe it as entrancing and tribalistic like with the constant rythm or beating of a drum ir the beating. Yes ive describe their music myself as such. I feel the same .
Even hypnotizing in a way very trance like with the continuousness of thumping
Of which is why I can lose myself in their music. They are put on in times like when I don't want to think I just want to relax and clear my head ya know
Of which is why I can lose myself in their music. They are put on in times like when I don't want to think I just want to relax and clear my head ya know
Thank you Russ 👊🙌
You like tool, check out the band Wheel and the song Dissipating, I would say that this song is musically similar to Descending, slow build up to a epic finale, lyrics wise is like a precursor to Descending.. they are probably a band that's closest to tool's kinda music creativity.
Can't wait for invincible!!
TOOLs time signatures are all organic..
Tool loves to do bars of 7, 8, and 9 in sequence. It fools you because it averages out to 8/8 which is 4/4 ish. But the stagger loses you. But then you catch it again, only briefly.
The working title for Lateralus was originally 987. Which just happens to be a number in the Fibanocci sequence which is wild.
Thanks Russ
Thank you Rus
I always pictured it to be an Angelic battle. That people are so foolishly "sleepwalking" thru this life not caring where we come from or what we're doing here just being in a wanton slumber pissin our lives away! No regard to this gift of life we've been afforded. So he's looking for the "dread" alarm from the heavens saying guess what people.....times up! So NOW we have :to be or NOT to be- DO or DIE! And THEN we wake the fuck up n appreciate our lives cuz now we're fighting for the lives we took for granted? But, idk? lol That's just my opinion of course. 1 thing that confused me tho?Is I always thot the reveille was the trumpet sound off used to wake the troups in the armed forces? The dread alarm being Gabriel's trumpet sound on the END OF DAYS!!?? Yeah! Thats why I thought of an Angelic Army!!?? Am I getting senile? Dammit my phones dead n cant find charger!!! Ahhh!
Screw the time signatures Tool is meant to just sit back and enjoy the damn music
Always an adventure
Hey, have you listened to Justice? Have you reacted to their music? I fall in love with what they put together ✌️💙🎵
Hypnotic possibly
No way you can enjoy Tool music trying to count it, just relax and let the music flow over you...Once you 'get it' you'll know!
🤘🏻🌀
Ty Rus. 🎉
Just keep counting to 7 and sometimes 9 lol.
It's about humanity not doing anything about global warming and impending climate disaster despite knowing we were on a bad path since the 1970s. If humanity doesn't unite to save itself, we'll all find ruin together.
Exactly! Besides the lyrics, the ocean/water sounds that open and close the song also give credibility to the idea it’s about the climate crisis. And- if you’re listening to the song with that idea in mind- the fact that Maynard’s vocals stop, the instruments get softer and build up again, yet vocals don’t come back in, could be interpreted as: humans may go extinct in this mass extinction but life will persevere
Yet the same people who cry about climate change have become multi millionaires,live in beach front mansions and fly around in private planes to go to climate change events telling us plebs we are the problem.
BS.
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I have a feeling Maynard is smart enough to know that fear mongering over climate change is a load of crap.
"Where's the one?"
Droning would be the word? like drone
Vicarious
Danny uses very little tension on his snares on the drum almost sounding as if it’s off
It's about climate change and the fact that we're mostly ignoring the impact we're having on it.
Over thinking over analyzing…. Separated the body from the mind 😂
Ok
To me it’s about the survival of the human race
Go look at the Vatican hall same as album picture
I take this song to mean our downfall due to climate change. But thats just my interpretation.
This song turned me into a misanthrope. But those riffs are sick, so I guess its ok.
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