Is Tool Perfect or Overrated?! Descending - Reaction Video
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I felt like I slept on descending until I heard it live. It literally made me feel like I was entering the pearly gates. One of the best moments of my life.
Their live show this tour is transcendent.
People need to see them live seriously. Disposition/Reflection blew my mind in 01 live still my favorite tool experience.
@@PrymalChaos Truly
@@chrono050 i go back & forth between the trinity (Disposition/Reflection/Triad) in 2001 and Wings 1 & 2 in 2007 as to which is my favorite live Tool experience. Both were incredible nights and the best concerts of my life. I've seen them 10 times now and they NEVER disappoint.
Had the exact same experience
The thing about Tool for me is that as I’ve gotten older, they’ve gotten older. They’ve been a huge part of the soundtrack of my life and I’ve been their lifelong audience. When I was a conflicted teenager, they reflected that. When I got older and started maturing, they matured as a band.
IDK, I just love them and am so thankful for their work.
Yeah their albums do mature considerably with each release. I've really never seen anything like it. I just love Tool so much and FI is absolute gold.
@@cassiuscarter2832 Me too man, FI is a masterpiece IMO
You broke that down very well. I've been trying to explain the greatness of Tool to my friends but could find the right words. Tool will find You, when you're ready.
Yeah. I've never really been successful introducing tool to people. They find it on their own.
One of my favorites off the album. Just a beautiful song
This song really was a stand out when I saw them in January. The whole presentation and sound was incredible live.
Just saw them for probably the 15th time Sunday and going again Saturday. I’m 40 and it took me a handful of months to get through 10,000 days mostly because of Time. I was pushing 30 and building a business. I was in college when Lateralus dropped so I could absorb everything because I had time. Because I remembered being disappointed in myself in letting it take me almost a half year to really get “taken” by 10K days like their previous albums, I made sure to engulf myself in F.I. This song stood out on first listen and one thing I’ve noticed and have never seen ANYONE ELSE SAY, is that the lyrics end at EXACTLY the midway point of this song. Coincidence? Maybe, but doubtful. Does it represent the completion of Man’s descension into extinction, based on lyrics?? That was my pull but I’m really high right now.
Haha. Look after yourself mate! Also, wow! I didn't even notice that the vocals ended that early. Excellent insight!
So we're on the down slope after the pinnacle? Could be. I like to be a pinch more optimistic than that but I like your take and appreciate your time that you took to come up with your interpretation. Continue to spiral out!
Jewel of the album
This song is so incredible. Easily one of my all-time favorites.
The real question is; what is your least favorite song? Much harder to determine.
@@AlchemyofAspirations There are several I really don't care for, but I'd probably go with Third Eye. I really don't understand why so many people seem to love that one. It's really hard for me to listen to.
@@PongGod Interesting.
It's like asking Google to play ocean sounds that lull you into a sense of peace, and then once you are calmed and enveloped, a freak storm comes up and drags you into the depths...and you are totally okay with that, because the peace never left you.
Great analogy!
Great breakdown mate. So much better than the usual mindless reactions you get on YT. Thanks for sharing.
What you described as foot steps of ducks made me laugh, I always heard it as like oscillating electricity
It's probably closer to your description. 😂
Nothing left?? Been listening for 30 years and I still find gems.
I'm definitely finding this now with my channel. The amount of insanely talented players in the Japanese scene is mind boggling.
Such a masterpiece from every angle: lyrics, guitar, structure, mysticism, etc etc. My favorite (very narrowly) from the album, itself a masterpiece.
I need to punish this album more. I think I’m just waiting for the right time. I typically reach for 10000 days at this point. I never gave it the time of day when it came out. Now I’m right into it.
Thanks mate, good review.
Peace. I’ve done exact same shit….man.
Lonely…..right?
This music encompasses you in a way that no other band can find.
Cheers friend!
🤘🇨🇦✌️
Loved this live listen and review. One of the few to approach the song and actually break it down. One thing about the synth, they've been using this since Aenima or maybe before. Reflection, a song very similar to this has a lot of it. It blends so nicely with Danny on drums, whichever Tom effect he had on Reflection. I think that's what completes this song the descending through their catalogue. Also serious hints of Floyd and Maiden on this track as well, actually would love to see a Maiden rendition of this especially for the first solo and twin guitars.
Infectious to the soul, womb like comforting musical therapy.
I totally get what you’re saying about not devouring new music. Tool was an exception to that for me when I heard Sober the first time back in 93. I was still learning Zeppelin songs trying to be Jimmy Page and listening to little of new stuff at the time. Just saw Tool a couple of days ago and they played this song. Very good live too and yes it’s a slide on his guitar
When i listen to this song it's like I am swimming at night in the peaceful ocean off Hawai'i, and slip beneath the waves to find this huge megalithic staircase that slides me down into the ancient temples of the gods, where I am shown both the truth of the world, and what we must do.
Just absolutely epic.
Having swam in the peaceful ocean off Hawaii surrounded by spinner dolphins.. I feel you man.
Great description
@@PrymalChaos I've lived in Hawai'i for ~20 years. Used to live steps from the ocean. Its... yeah.
For me Adam’s guitar playing paints landscapes. I can’t explain why, but it always transforms into abstract paintings of landscapes.
Wired but wonderful
Very basic but extremely difficult to replicate his playing and his tone. Best guitar tone ever in my opinion
thanks for this great video of my favourite ever ever Tool song ,grettings from Mexico
Thanks mate!
If you do more reviews please turn the music volume up.
Noted. I usually do that when I mix/edit the video but I'm sick at the moment so I must have missed it! Sorry! And to make that mistake with a Tool song! I'm hanging my head in shame.
It’s all good. Maybe it helped me listen more closely 🤷♂️. Feel better.
So, I do recall that back during the recording sessions of Fear Inoculum, there was a photo posted of Adam with a lap steel guitar in the studio... I'm assuming this was used for his solo here.
Also, any "sound effect" is usually samples that Danny is playing through his electronic pads 👍
Yeah that makes sense.
@@PrymalChaos I'm not a musician but it's a slide, you see him drop it when it changes to the solo.
I think he actually uses a women's vibrator as a slide for some songs on this album.
Hypnotic is the word you might've been looking for. 😵💫
I think so!
"Falling isn't flying
Floating isn't infinite"
Love those lyrics.
I personally love the instrumentals in this song. I get major chill bumps during the last half of this song
It's certainly a journey.
Man… you have to do the rest of the album! I’ll wait.
At 16:13 what your calling a muted bass is Adam’s muted guitar. One cool thing about Tool is sometimes the bass and guitar sort of swap roles.
This song is absolutely amazing imo :,)
It just exists in its own space.
Thanks for doing a track from Fear Inoculum. My favorites are "Invincible" and "7emptest" so it's nice to remember how great all these songs are. "Chocolate Chip Trip" can be equally mind-blowing -- although it's sans Maynard. Keep exploring this record, brother! (btw, I am equally blown away by Jinjer. So when will you do a song from Gojira? They have replaced Tool as my favorite band. I recommend "Pray live at Red Rocks")
Oh shit I gotta do 7empest. Didn't that win a grammy?
It does make sense. When 10,000 days came out, I was in need of hard tool..tool I was use to. So I skipped over the slow ones or ones with long intros... Which meant I didn't find wings for Marie pt1&2 or Rosetta stoned until years later when I was showing the album to my son's. I do believe the music finds you when you are ready.
Dude I only discovered Rosetta Stoned last year! It's a miracle of a song!
@@PrymalChaos crazy right! And some songs I have loved sonically but never listened to the lyrics til recently.
Danny Carey the patron saint of drum fills
Fun fact: Adam jones used to play the violin as a kid and then started playing the guitar
I guess you were in the right mindset for Tool. :D
That sound in the intro that you mentioned, I think is a Cormorant or "Shag". A seabird that dives for small fishes.
Adam introduced a Flying V for this song, I'm fairly certain it's the first time he's used one on stage.
I heard a rumour. Possibly a signature model.
you can use anything to replicate the efffect of a slide. eye know for a fact that for the solo on this tune adam used a naked toblerone dark. danny calculated that to maximise shimmer reduction, the optimum device would be a triangular prism. sounds like a bereverbed handclap to me. 29:26 sounds like a 7s version of the grudge.
You always gotta keep an eye on your shimmer reduction calculations!
Great reaction mate. Love to see a reaction to Opeth - Ghost of perdition one day. Or Karnivool Deadman. Cheers mate keep up the good work
Opeth is definitely on the cards.
@@PrymalChaos nice mate. If you do Ghost of perdition please do the live at the roundhouse tapes version or studio version not the red rocks one everyone does. Have a good one 👍
That chooka chew sound is a sample from either or a Roland mc 303 or Roland 505 groovebox played by Danny on a pad….I know that sound anywhere as I’ve used it many times myself….
Cool insight! Thanks!
On the Internet there are only two conditions, "perfect" or "overrated." In reality there are dozens of degrees between the two.
Allow me to apologise for the clearly "click baity" title. It's pretty much the oy thing the UA-cam algorithm understands. 😆🤘
Tool are one of a kind.
Naturalistic I think it's the word you were looking for. 👌🏻
Yes. That’s probably it. 🤟
Subconscious,, hypnotic, rhythmic patters. Good luck counting any of it out.
Glad it's not just me. I swear I've seen reactors with zero musical experience review tool and act like they just straight up "noticed" the fibonacci sequence in the vocals of Lateralis.
I'm sitting here wondering if it's 4/4 but with a really unusual snare accent going on.
@@PrymalChaos The trick is not caring, cause nobody cares. All I know is, it sounds amazing. There are no points awarded or prizes won for figuring out how TOOL does what they do. It's an experience, not a test. Spiral Out! 🖤🖖🏿
@@Sumbodysdaddy couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you.
Adam has a looper down with his collection of pedals and will preroll certain overlays into it live in between parts while muted from the PA. So he does do the layering live, near exactly the same, and it's not always the same old prerecorded add-track.
Man. That's crazy! I love that tools records are completely playable by them as a 4 piece. It doesn't sound like it would be possible, but it is.
Of course everyone will suggest the Pneuma live drum cam video, but in that you can see what sort of enormous crate-rack of equipment Danny has, and some of how his magical Mandala pads make all sorts of other sounds. But then on top of all that, he's an octopus.
And then imagine the other three are doing their version of the same thing to the same level of *"what?"*
I kinda thought you'd be a critic of the album because of the title but I enjoyed listening to this analysis. Most reaction channels talk about their interpretation of tool's lyrics instead of analysing the music (probably because they have no knowledge of music theory or audio engineering). Also it doesn't matter whether you pause alot. I've never understood why people get annoyed by this they can just listen to the song by itself. The fear inoculum album took multiple listens for me to enjoy it. Descending and invincible are the two songs that stand out to me from this album that I think compete with any tool song. Overall I'd rank the album like 4th behind anima, lateralus and 10000 days.
Yeah I think I would proba my rank them that way too, however Tool albums have this way of growing on you and occasionally they tend to reshuffle over time.
Also sorry about the title.. one of the main tenants of UA-cam success seems to be click bait titles. Seriously it's a real thing. Believe me the answer to the question is "Perfect" 😆🤘
@@PrymalChaos Lol no worries I understand dude its for the youtube algorithm
Please somebody confiscate this man his spacebar button
As if that wasn't bad enough, imagine uploading a tool song and forgetting to balance the audio properly! Believe me, my level of self loathing far outweighs what you're feeling. 😆🤘
@@PrymalChaos hahah it's ok man, you're a fellow comrade in the Tool army, we still love you
Preach!!!!!
Perfection.
Carry on. :D
Agreed.
Perfect of course. Never overrated . :P
Oddly like songs like numa I can perfectly follow his right foot with my hand all the way through the f*cking song but the second I start trying to add anything else it all goes to shit lol
Hahah. That polyrhythm he does near the start of the song with his right hand in Pneuma kills my brain every time.
I think that snappy percussive sound is a sample of a klaxon
Yeah could be!
Holy shit yes. Enough said
Maynard mad me sing to the holy spirit
That Synth sounds almost identical to the synth from the tool song "the grudge"
It's the same synth effect (played by Adam himself with a bass pedal) from the song "Reflection".
It's the same synth bass pedal.
Great review....much more Tool. Rush. Porcupine Tree. Enjoy. I did.
Thanks mate!
Before i even watch.... Nothing is perfect but for me Tool is as close as it gets, an amazing band, Maynard is amazing in all 3 of his bands so i think he is the Key.
I don't look for much new music either but Maynard, Chino and a few other guys i follow for 25+ years
Maynard is certainly special, but honestly any band that I have ever heard that are Tool - Adjacent seemed to be lacking Danny more than anything. 🥁
Dude are you South African? Anyway South African living in Dublin and I Saw then live last Friday. Epic man epic
Ha! That’s funny! No I’m Australian (Sydney). But I guess I don’t have a very ‘stereotypical Aussie’ accent. And South African and Aussie aren’t all that different. You guys just hit your hard consonants more precisely. . . We are far more lazy
@@PrymalChaos nice man. Yeah but definately check out Tool live if you can one day. Fuck me what a trip
@@dexter161 oh man. I saw them here in Aus before the lockdown. I also saw them years ago. But this tour is absolutely mind blowing.
Without even watching your vid yet I am gonna say kinda mostly PERFECT! But I am biased I own every piece of music you can have from them so yes perfect sounds right!
I'm with you. I have to apologize for the click bait title 😂 seems to be the only thing UA-cam's algorithm recognises.
I'd love to hear Dave Navarro and Adam Jones jam together. They're both 'epic', just that Navarro's more Gilmour and Jones is like a moodier Fripp.
Tool is a perfect band.
The reason Tool reminds me so much of Pink Floyd is both bands take the time to let the song breathe which lets them build in the nuance.
Perfect. Next question? 😁
I think the best way to sum up my feelings on this band is that I absolutely love this song, and it probably isnt in their top 20 songs to me.
What do the lyrics make you think about? I really enjoyed your analysis, however it was primarily on the musicality side, and I was a little disappointed that you didn't offer up more of what the lyrics made you think and feel. Any visualizations which you can put into basic words? For me, well.... Anybody get the impression that MJK is low key trying to save the world, giving us a warning perhaps, telling us to save ourselves from ourselves? I don't know, but I hope it's not just me and I'm not crazy for thinking this shit. Our Scientific brains have evolved by leaps and bounds, however our emotional intelligence is so far behind that the entire human race, although connected conventionally, lacks the desire for cooperative peace and revolving systems of consistency and sustainability over chaos, volatility, fear, anger and uncertainty. And it might not be too long before we destroy ourselves and ruin of the entire surface of the earth for thousands of years. There's tons of movies out there with a similar theme. Like seriously, what if there really was a giant meteor hurling towards earth, and our only chance of survival was all hands on deck, work together and solve the problem or we're all dead. LOL Oh well, I know I was born and I know I will die, and no one can prove the existence of an afterlife. So when I'm dead and gone, I'll be just that, dust in the wind, and eventually never to be remembered, just like the many billions who have died before us.
Great comment! Yes I believe Maynard, much like the great Ronnie James Dio does his best to warn us about things in his lyrics.
Maynard is deliberately vague most of the time in lyrics, but for what it's worth here's how Interpret Descending.
To me, he is essentially calling out our apathy as a species. Mankind seems to be spiralling into a maelstrom of self involvement. We are less a species and more a collective of self fixated drones who seem to not only revel in mediocrity but actually aspire to be more self centred.
While we are so fixated on looking inward and focussing on the "I" we become exponentially more oblivious to the development of the "us". And while we are all units rather than a whole, we can't achieve progress. A progress that is sorely needed to advance as a species and survive the limitless perils kicking on out door. Whether that be global disasters, acts of God, or just the demise of the species through inner turmoil.
To that end, specifically it could be about borders, overbearing government, social media, popular culture addiction.. but I suspect that it is more likely about losing grip on identity politics. While everyone is too busy attempting to unify or balance society by calling attention to each of our fractally innumerable differences, we may be losing sight of the fact that we are far more powerful as a single unified organism.
I mean the man has done a bunch of psychadellics.
I don't know, there is a bunch of reading between the lines there, but that's just the vibe I get. For what it's worth.
You do more TOOL and you'll get this subscriber I'll tell ya that!
Please do the rest of the album and more Tool. As someone else said, you need to turn the music volume up a bit.
Yeah sorry. Normally I try to balance the audio but my covid addled brain forgot this time. No-one is more disappointed than me. How do I mess up Tool of all bands.
Perfect is what Tool are 😌
Unlike the volume levels in this video. I'll do better. 🤘🤘😆
been 10,000 days since Paul was in the band...😐
29:28: the bridge in 46 & 2, perhaps?
You may have nailed it! Thank you!
No problem; great reaction!
It is a slide.. there's a video of Adam recording it
Oh cool!
When you're done playing around with other music and you've had your fix with what the average of the populous likes - you'll be ready for TooL.
Then and only then will you understand that.
The question on the thumbnail is rhetorical, right?
Tool is perfect. But I suppose it depends on who you ask. People are either all in on Tool or just don’t get it. Not much in between.
You know the answer. Spiral out. 😊
It's funny how the spiral just keeps going. 🤗
Early Gang \m/
Welcome!
Perfect.
FYI, Adam is also a violinist so he must have an amazing ear....
I did not know that!
@@PrymalChaos classically trained
Wow, you barely mentioned Danny, that’s almost like neglecting your own eyes.
Haha. It's mostly because I dust font understand his magic. It terrifies me. 😆😆
Perfect
its a slide on an old dobro with hot pickups
It's a great sound!
@@PrymalChaos Go search for Adam Jones recording slide solo and you can see the guitar
@@aspark9101980 thanks for the tip!
THIS IS THE GREATEST BAND EVER 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤😢😮😅😊 I FEEL ALL THESE EMOTIONS
It’s a slide
I like the nature reference...I always found their music to either sound like its coming from middle earth or from within the life of water or space like LATERALUS and fear inoculum..its hard to articulate the perspective..maybe as if the Earth and the universe made music it would sound like Tool...
Ready to have your mind blown.... The universe DID Make Tool's music! 🤯
@@PrymalChaos lol very true...the last of my mind is all over the walls now!!
I wonder if "that sound" in the percussions is some sort of clapping with effects
Could be!
Those are frogs. They've used them before.
Makes sense.
I think is a breath technique🤔
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The slide sound is coming from an old school cry baby wah pedal
There's a video of him using a slide during a live performance and then just flicking it off when transitioning to the next section.
@@JL-1123 just gunna leave the same comment
19:10 that's why i dont listen to metal anymmore, dumb in your face lyrics for over 30 years. Tool's not metal in my view
They are really in a league of their own.
Okay, but keep in mind, you asked. I think Tool is Phish for hard rock fans.
Fair call!
Tool actually has songs
Definetely not overrated, perfect i don't know. Tool are one of my top10 bands ever, but to me sometimes they are way too weird and their songs are way too long. Still they have those 4-5 masterpieces that i could listen to forever.
You're familiar with "a perfect circle"? It's another band with the same frontman of tool, maynard. They have so many beatiful songs even if they are way less "metal" than tool.
If you want to try something for the channel i think that "the outsider" is the best song to do a reaction for. But there's also weak and powerless, the package, the hollow, orestes, 3 libras, etc
I love a couple of tracks from APC but I suppose there are plenty of songs I don't know, so I can see myself diving into them at some point.
And don't forget about Puscifer...
@Wiktor Łyziński Like i've said, tool are in my top 10 bands. Songs like vicarious and lateralus for example feels like 5 minutes to me, like you've said. But many more songs from them i don't know, i can enjoy them but i get tired of them sometimes. I guess i'm just too much of a new metal (back in 2000's) / metalcore (now) kid, i listen to very few bands that goes beyond 4-5 minutes and don't have "classic songs" structure (like...intro, bridge, chorus, bridge, chorus, breakdown, chorus, outro). Tool, meshuggah, opeth and very few other.
Congrats - you've managed to reach the apex of annoyance here on planet Earth! Take more time between Tool experiences - that should allow most of us to pass to the other side without having to be subjected to this BS ever again.... lord have mercy. 30 mins lost in this lifetime... thanks.....
I guess Tool fans are passionate. Who knew.
Well nobody's perfect, but Tool doesn't have a bad song, let alone a bad album, so they ain't overrated by any measure
Allow the music to engulf you
Overrated????
Or it retrospective on your own shitty life, but,…..what you can still become.
Bruh… I’m sorry you don’t understand Tool.
Hi Brandon.. my argument would be that if you feel like you DO understand Tool you have probably missed the point entirely.
@@PrymalChaos Lol clever!
Got to see them in Daytona Beach years back, with Tomahawk as the opener.
Maynard came out and gave a speech..
“Repeat after me…..
Think for yourself and
question authority.”
I laughed as the crowd repeated it.
@@Loki.Lyesmyth My favourite is this one. The message of the song is that people in positions of power are controlling you, at about 3:30 you see 100000 kids repeating "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" verbatim - as instructed by the guy with the microphone. 😂
I love Rage as much as the next guy, but I can't unsee the irony.
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Your voice is too loud vs the song.....
No
Stop
We’re not confused. I knew he was using a slide on the very first note. I honestly don’t think you’re as musically talented, as you let on. Jus sayin…. Keep in mind…. You can’t BS people that are knowledgeable in their craft. No matter what craft it might be. Example…. I know enough about a golf swing to know how little that I actually know about it. It would be like me trying to sound intelligent explaining the golf swing to a tour pro(not knowing he’s a tour pro). Or, talking about changing an alternator on my vehicle trying to sound like a mechanic, but the person I’m talking to builds racing engines. My false sense of expertise, and not realizing just how VAST his knowledge is, makes me sound like a poser to him. Even though, I think I’m sounding smart. In all actuality, the more we learn about a specific topic, the more we should realize how much that we DON’T KNOW about it. Sorry, it’s just amusing to me when people try to BS people about things.
You stop WAY too much! I dont need leasons!
My channel is about providing insight along side the "reaction". Gotta stop to say what's on my mind. Most people seem to like it.
Go listen to the song on Spotify then? 😂 this was a great video!
Then go listen to the song.... these comments are so ignorant to me