That was such a spot-on comment. This song is on the more lightwork poppy side for them and it's something the majority of bands couldn't do in their dreams.
Just saw Tool in concert the other night...I was a huge fan going in and came out with Tool as my all time favorite band. That sound live is like from another dimension.
I’m 43 years old, been a hardcore Tool fan since 12 years old. I was tearing up watching your video. It’s awesome to watch someone else’s perspective with new ears. Tool has shaped me in my life more than any other influence. I have become the music and the lyrics.
I'm same as you now I got a son that's almost a 12 and he also loves tool and we are going to see them live a week from today in Nashville. Going to be great 👍
No cap I never even noticed how much I loved the drum parts in parabol/parabola and vicarious for like 15 years and I listen to the entire discography a few times a week.
Watching these dudes go from being totally new to metal, rock and prog to full blown fans to the point where they be saying shit like time signatures and knowing the names of all the band members is like a proud parent watching they kids succeed 😂😂😂. I'm a life long musician and metal head and it's great to see the transition 😂. Reminds me of my journey early on , rock on my metal friends. 🤘.
"I don't even know what my favorite Tool song is" Spoken like a true fan. Couldn't agree more. Great reaction as always with Tool, never get bored of them, can't wait for more
I actually took the time to really think about a 5 desert island tool song play list and after much deliberating, it came down to this for me: 4 degrees, Pushit, Reflection, Right in Two and Descending. Wasn't intentionally 1 song from each album, just worked out that way lol.
Ngl before I saw Tool live my longtime fav song of there's is Lateralus but the performance of Parabol/Parabola was just on another level. The chills I got....I'll never forget it.
First time I saw them live I couldn't believe how many parts he played that I thought were Adam on guitar, and how much he carries the grooves is nothing short of incredible. He's right up there with Cliff Burton for my fav bass player ever.
The guitars in 7:13 ; I believe it’s called a volume swell. It’s when a guitarist plays a note at very low guitar volume and then slowly turns the volume knob and increases it. Adam Jones uses it really well as an effect in many Tool songs ; and its sounds super cool. Sounds even better live !!
I wish they would play Wings part 2 but like some other comments, I'm not sure they will do it. Im not sure why, but part 2 always hits me harder than Part1
I'll never forget the first time hearing this song... I was stationed in Japan serving in the Marines and I knew they were about to release a new single. I streamed radio stations based in California hoping to catch the new song when it first came out. I had been a Tool fan since the mid 90's. Keep in mind this was before UA-cam and major streaming platforms... Finally one evening Vicarious played over my speakers (streamed from some online radio station from California) while sitting in my barracks room in Japan... It was 2006. The song still gives me goosebumps.
Been waiting 6 legit ass years for this video - I have since I found you guys 6 years ago, gotten my degree and started a family. Vicarious has been the nr 1 song I have wanted you guys to react to, and see this video now gives me so. Much. Joy. So thanks guys - love from denmark
Like you said. A magnum opus for almost any other band, but just another Tuesday for Tool. I like the Idea of you guys doing full albums for these bands that have been on your channel for all these years. Especially the ones you really liked. 10,000 Days/Wings for Marie off of this album is basically a "sequel" to Judith from A Perfect Circle, which you guys reacted to years ago and loved.
Crafting an album is probably a dying art given the way music is most commonly distributed these days, you're damn right it'd be interesting to look at albums as a whole, the way they fit together
@@THEDEEPDIVE they're also perfectionists and create these works for themselves not necessarily to pander to the public. What they've also done it set the bar so high even from the get-go, like Aenima was so mindblowingly good, anything that fell obviously short of that project would reflect so poorly on them that it just wouldn't see the light of day.
I will ALWAYS find time to watch your reaction to Tool songs. I'm such a huge tool fan and I love seeing the looks on your faces when you get to experience something I love for the first time. It's like I get to experience my first listen all over again. Bravo.
This was the big single released before the album. I knew I was gonna be on the road for work, so I took the entire satellite radio system out of my car, packed it, and installed it in the rental car to MAKE SURE I WOULD HEAR IT AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Totally worth it.
I love how much you guys geek out about these guys as new listeners. I still feel the same way hearing it again every time. Like a great movie, hearing something new every time it is replayed.
Tool doesn't spoonfeed you their groove. You have to spend time actually listening and paying attention to what's going on in order to find it. But when you do and can begin to follow along, it becomes so clear how incredible they are.
Other song writers strive for a passive listening experience. They establish pleasant rhythms and melodies and the listener gets to passively enjoy. Tool is so committed to challenging the listener in every capacity. Musically and lyrically.
@@dharmalock5032 but not so much that it becomes a pretentious exercise in technicality for technicalitys sake, just the right balance between complexity and simplicity, minimalism and fluff, accessibility and challenges. They pull off the balancing act masterfully.
@@dharmalock5032 You are so so correct. Everyone likes music and your lowest common denominator of music listener is someone who enjoys music but does not wish for the experience to be so intricate and deep that you can't just get it right away. Tool is made for those of us who wish to listen again and again, picking up on new things until the picture is clear. Even then there is more!
You'll never be able to take them for granted. Tool has remained one of my 4 GOATs since the release of Undertow, which was the first CD I ever bought.
The lyrics resonate to this day. Everywhere in the world there's conflict of some sort, news feeds off of people that Vicariously look for that type of news. The groove and overall progression of this is so top tier Tool. People that slept on 10,000 days missed out big time on grabbing some of that old school Tool style.
I think the key to Tool sounding like that is that they each get out of each other's way. They compose apart and then bring it all together later. It's a far more collaborative project than having the traditional bandleader-band dichotomy. Freedom always produces the best results, and it's too bad our culture has forgotten what freedom sounds and feels like.
This song is amazing. The crescendo is one of my favorites of all time. I remember this live, and I couldn't understand how they even came up with it. I was floored.
Ryan basically hit it on the head towards the end. Tool works if you want to really sit down with a great pair of headphones and concentrate solely on the music and really appreciate the technical depth to the song. It also works if you're working or whatever and just want something that will make you nod your head going in the background. There are a lot of bands that make more technical music than Tool. Tool's secret is that they take all those complex elements and make them groove, which is a rare gift.
I consider this your best vid yall ever made to date. Killed it. Watching you guys take in and process how dope Tool is over the years has been really great. Well done.
Yes this song doesn't get enough love. Opiate album gets more attention than Salival. Lyrics are also an amazing reversal of the original Led Zeppelin song where the POV of the song is switched. No Quarter by Tool is the best Led Zeppelin cover.
I absolutely love your reactions!! Watching the groove take y’all and bob your heads is priceless. Glad y’all are still doing it after all these years!
I absolutely love these guys. It has been so much fun to live Vicariously through them and see them enjoy these songs for the first time. It’s also been a blast to watch them, grow musically and expand their horizons and become legitimate fans of heavy music. I was so pumped when they said they had actually gone to a Tool show.
I saw Tool last year and gonna see them again this year. I'm new to Tool sinds 3-4 years. It's 🔥 front to back. So unique. Keep reacting to these guys. 💪
I’ve been a massive tool fan for a very long time and to hear two black, very intellectual gentlemen sit and talk about this song alone is very, very refreshing! and very lovely to hear. I bless both of you.
As much as I love tool, a lot of their fans are really annoying, and that turns people off. It's not as simple as them just hating the band because we love it. You can love something and not be a dick when others don't, and some fans never got that memo.
You guys are entertaining as sh*t! I really enjoy that you pause for commentary but also let the music play over top while you comment underneath. The mix is set so well that we can hear both clearly. Add to that, your musical observations are quite astute. Subscribed.
Glad that you guys enjoyed this song so much. One of my favorites of all time from Tool I always understood this song as a criticism to people that look at life vicariously and that think that others should look at things the same way as them. Basically as an example that we should all be better.
great reaction guys... I've grown up listening to tool and I get stoked when others feel like I do when listening to these dudes. Adam was a model maker in films before tool got big, you can see his name in the credits in the original Jurassic Park. He dipped out to go be in a rock band.
Tool is how I found this channel, and the fact that they are just now doing Vicarious is absolutely perfect timing considering I'm about to see them in concert next week. I love this channel and I love Tool. Keep it up guys, y'all are amazing
Followed you guys for years now and checked the Tool vid list. CANNOT believe you guys haven't reviewed 2 greatest tracks EVER recorded in music history - PERIOD. The Grudge. Descending.
Thank you for being one of the only reaction people that truly understand TOOL. Every song is a journey and a story. You get the beginning, then go for a quest where you get little hints of how the song started and,BOOM, the story ends like it started. Every band member compliments each other .
I really enjoyed your reaction to this. Glad you got back to Tool. I like counting their time signatures. This one is almost entirely in 5/4, or 10/8 in some places. But it boils down to 5 head bobs per measure instead of the usual 4. Once you know that it doesn't feel weird anymore.
Regarding Tool's shifting grooves, I feel that Aenima is perhaps their most instantly likeable album to the Tool newbie as it has progressive music but with more straight forward grooves. It took me longer to really get with Lateralus and 10,000 days I must be honest but the rewards are deeper there
You look to the discography of this band and realizes "how the hell they just can't do wrong?". Absolutely phenomenal band, we're lucky to witness, nuff said
I've gotta say, watching the two of you react to this for the first time, takes me back to 2006 when this song was released as a single, from an, as of then, yet unreleased album. I had been waiting 6 long years, and this song was everything I had been waiting for from my favorite band! It was so awesome, and seeing you react the same way I did so many years ago, is just so great! Thank you!
I subscribed when you reacted to Pneuma. Still my favorite reaction on youtube to this day. This did not disappoint either. So much Tool left to discover. I hope you pick either Right in Two, or Jambi next. Y'all kick ass!
I think people struggle to understand Tool because of 1) The fanbase 2) The myth behind the band and 3) They are complicated which means you need to find a entry point that resonates with you. Now that you guys have hit 10,000 Days, you need to do Wings of Marie and 10,000 Days back to back (they are similar to Parabol and Parabola) and Right in Two.
@@cougarcartel4658 So wrong lmao their technicality peaked on their last record. Their popularity might've peaked at Lateralus but Aenima - Lateralus - 10k days are almost always considered at the same level with Aenima being the sweet baby. FI however is where they're all at their absolute best (which obviously doesn't mean the best songs) but to say it's a snooze fest, you might as well not be into the genre.
@@Audard It's funny how you tell me to stay off the internet when you're the one being offended by someone's different opinion. No wonder you communicate with mirrors.
Being a long time tool fan and watching your reactions to their songs, the face the “top five 5 bands” you mentioned everything makes me smile and almost laugh at times. Thank you guys for the experience of watching you experiencing Tool from an outsider’s perspective. For lack of a better term.
@@Mxulin yeah definitely agree with the merch aspect. They overprice everything. I guess that’s how all musicians are these days but definitely sucks when it’s your favorite band and you can’t even afford to get a poster without having to pay half the price of your ticket
So, I’ve heard that ToOL is meant to be an experience, just wait until you start listening to their albums in their entirety--from beginning to end--like how they were TRULY meant to be listened to. I swear there is a place for each of their songs, every song was written so carefully to what feels like a flow in their albums. Anyway, this was an amazing reaction, glad y’all have become such fans. Glad to have you aboard. 🤘🏻🔥👁️
Tool is like experiencing an art gallary. Every song stands out on its own, and has its own unique traits. Sometimes you just need to sit and appriciate the art. I have heard this song hundreds of times, and everytime, it still grabs me and takes me on a journey....
This is Tool’s best album to me. I know all of them are breakthroughs but to me, seniority here is through the roof. Not even mentioning Wings for Marie pt 1 and 2 yet.
@@adamjones7014 eh depends on the person I suppose. 10k Days was more accessible to me and it's what kickstarted my love for Tool. I still rarely listen to Undertow because I'm not really into grunge. But tracks like Vicarious, Jambi, and The Pot are all very accessible. Right In Two is also pretty accessible for a longer, more prog Tool song. Rosetta, Wings, and Intension are pretty inaccessible, though.
@@Gnix1996 I've heard ppl say 10K got newer fans into TOOL because of the commercial friendly songs. The 'hits' on 10K have that 4 on the floor, "sabbath type groove" -MJK quote. However, the same can be said about Aenima (Stinkfist) & Laterlaus (Schism, which was a massive commercial success). TOOL always writes a few songs for commercial play on every album not Undertow. idk if I consider Undertow grunge. It's hard rock. TOOL said, when they were trying to 'make it', they chose their heaviest songs for 'Undertow', because that was the sound back then.
Culling Voices is the weakest TOOL song, after the first chorus it sounds like the band didn't know what to do next, so they just repeated the song from the pre-chorus.
Respect to you both for treating these requests like an end of the day glass of wine. Take months (but not years) between the reactions. Love your take each time. Great reaction🔥🔥🔥- If I may be so bold Sir George- was really looking fwd to more of a read on the lyrics- pretty sure you would/did get a chuckle at the ‘hippy’ phrase near the end. That Maynard, what wordsmith! Keep doin what your doin and I’ll keep enjoying the hell out of it guys. 🤘🏽🌀
Jambi, right in two, parabola would be some good listens for you guys too. I think Jambi would definitely be something Ryan absolutely loves tho. You both would love it but I know Ryan is gonna lose his shit lol
I'm a long time fan of Tool and you guys have this magic to make me enjoy the music as if when I heard it for the first time again, I have no idea how you guys do it but I enjoy listening to Tool much more through this channel somehow.
Great reaction fellas! Can't go wrong with Tool! You guys should check out Tool's cover of "You Lied" by Peach. Justin was the bassist in the band Peach if you guys didn't know. And its live too!
I know why i love your videos. It's like we are buds hanging in highschool and someone busts in and is like YO, you gotta hear this! Just brings me back to so many times I was able to discover new bands and songs with my friends. Appreciate you.
“That’s just a regular Tool song. Someone else’s magnum opus is a regular Tool song.”. Such a perfect synopsis.
Yeah that was spot-on. I use this to describe Tool now, couldn't quite find the words before.
🔥 🔥 🔥 enough said 🔥 🔥 🔥
That was such a spot-on comment. This song is on the more lightwork poppy side for them and it's something the majority of bands couldn't do in their dreams.
No... Most still fall short.
Oh yeah! You got it!😎
George's "stank face" the ENTIRE song...cracks me up.
Love these guys.
Love this band.
Love this channel.
This needs to be the top comment so bad!!!
I love how George loves Tool. He loves them. And deftones. Two of my faves.
The best tool song is the tool song you're currently listening, anytime.
This.
Ha 👍no doubt 🖤🤤best band to ever do it ….in my opinion 🤷🏼♂️
So true
Real!!… the first song that got me into TOOL is The Pot and it was my fav but now it’s this one and also Lateralus and whatever the next may be 🔥🔥
This and Invincible, can't decide which one is better.
Just saw Tool in concert the other night...I was a huge fan going in and came out with Tool as my all time favorite band. That sound live is like from another dimension.
What a great description. They’re from “another dimension”. 👌🏻
Indeed. '97 Lalapalooza was amazing
Right in Two would be a great one. Awesome lyrics
Second this, I think it would be a great reaction!
absolutely
If they want another movie for the channel they’ll listen to this request. Has the potential to be one of their best reactions.
I second this
I wrote an analysis essay for Right in Two. Got me a perfect score
I’m 43 years old, been a hardcore Tool fan since 12 years old. I was tearing up watching your video. It’s awesome to watch someone else’s perspective with new ears. Tool has shaped me in my life more than any other influence. I have become the music and the lyrics.
I'm same as you now I got a son that's almost a 12 and he also loves tool and we are going to see them live a week from today in Nashville. Going to be great 👍
Same. 43. Since I was a kid. Shit, named my son Maynard James.
43 here and I was also 12.
44. Listening since 14. Hello, friends.
I'm 102 and have been listening to tool since I was 8
The best part about Tool is that you can listen to this 17 years later and still feel like you can hear things you hadn't heard before.
No cap I never even noticed how much I loved the drum parts in parabol/parabola and vicarious for like 15 years and I listen to the entire discography a few times a week.
A good reaction channel does similar for me
Totally true!
There's weird chimes in and out that give me flashbacks even tho I've never heard them discernabaly.
The worst part about Tool is that maybe in 17 years you'll get some new songs
Watching these dudes go from being totally new to metal, rock and prog to full blown fans to the point where they be saying shit like time signatures and knowing the names of all the band members is like a proud parent watching they kids succeed 😂😂😂. I'm a life long musician and metal head and it's great to see the transition 😂. Reminds me of my journey early on , rock on my metal friends. 🤘.
if only metal had something in common with tool. most metal just is not it at all.
"I don't even know what my favorite Tool song is"
Spoken like a true fan. Couldn't agree more.
Great reaction as always with Tool, never get bored of them, can't wait for more
That's easy. My favorite Tool song is the one in currently listening to at any given time.
@@Droogie128Or the Tool song you haven't heard yet 😉
I actually took the time to really think about a 5 desert island tool song play list and after much deliberating, it came down to this for me:
4 degrees, Pushit, Reflection, Right in Two and Descending. Wasn't intentionally 1 song from each album, just worked out that way lol.
@@TroublesomeOwlSolid list 4 degrees is one of their most underrated songs in my opinion
Pneuma, Aenima, Sober, 7empest, Parabol/Parabola, Right in Two. I still don't know.
Top 5 Band of all time for sure, couldn't agree more. Top 1 for me personally.
Parabol/Parabola would be a sick one for you guys to do.
Hate to sound corny but that song literally changed the way I look at life. It's like tripping without taking anything
I second this
One of the greatest lead-in song to another of all time.
And yeah, life changing message to it also
Ngl before I saw Tool live my longtime fav song of there's is Lateralus but the performance of Parabol/Parabola was just on another level.
The chills I got....I'll never forget it.
@@parithian8462 but if you were tripping also, you'd be inside a tool music video
Vicarious is so underrated with reactors... song is just sick on so many levels. So glad you guys embraced it
Every other reaction channel is repetitive, disingenuous, click bait thumbnail garbage.
Justin Chancellor doesn't get enough credit for contributing to the greatness of TOOL, imo. He's like the root of this band.
AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1,000,000 precent
It’s how locked in with the god Danny Carey he is.
1000000000000 percent!
anyone who has ever tried to play his basslines, THEY KNOW.
First time I saw them live I couldn't believe how many parts he played that I thought were Adam on guitar, and how much he carries the grooves is nothing short of incredible. He's right up there with Cliff Burton for my fav bass player ever.
The guitars in 7:13 ; I believe it’s called a volume swell. It’s when a guitarist plays a note at very low guitar volume and then slowly turns the volume knob and increases it. Adam Jones uses it really well as an effect in many Tool songs ; and its sounds super cool. Sounds even better live !!
i didn’t know that wow
To add to that, it's not really even a note from playing a string but feedback from the amp - more volume, more feedback
They are ready for:
Parabol/Parabola
Lost Keys/Rosetta Stoned
Wings for Marie Pt1 & 2
Nah bro, it's taken them this long to get to Vicarious.. no way they are ready for Wings for Marie 1&2. That's like the final boss of Tool music.
@@Astro_city_pyro that song is heavy
The lyrics on Rosetta Stoned are entertaining.
This and also Jambi. They still have plenty of Tool songs to go.
I wish they would play Wings part 2 but like some other comments, I'm not sure they will do it. Im not sure why, but part 2 always hits me harder than Part1
All throughout the 90s my dad was telling me to shut that shit off, by the time this song came out he had it on repeat... undeniable
Right in Two off 10,000 is one if my favourite TOOL tracks. You guys will love it
It's perhaps the most Tool Tool song in all of Tooldom.
I'll never forget the first time hearing this song... I was stationed in Japan serving in the Marines and I knew they were about to release a new single. I streamed radio stations based in California hoping to catch the new song when it first came out. I had been a Tool fan since the mid 90's. Keep in mind this was before UA-cam and major streaming platforms... Finally one evening Vicarious played over my speakers (streamed from some online radio station from California) while sitting in my barracks room in Japan... It was 2006. The song still gives me goosebumps.
Been waiting 6 legit ass years for this video - I have since I found you guys 6 years ago, gotten my degree and started a family. Vicarious has been the nr 1 song I have wanted you guys to react to, and see this video now gives me so. Much. Joy. So thanks guys - love from denmark
When I got the notification for this I couldn’t believe y’all hadn’t reviewed it yet.
Jambi will mess you up..... By far, one of the best musically written songs of tool (and the world)
Like you said. A magnum opus for almost any other band, but just another Tuesday for Tool.
I like the Idea of you guys doing full albums for these bands that have been on your channel for all these years. Especially the ones you really liked.
10,000 Days/Wings for Marie off of this album is basically a "sequel" to Judith from A Perfect Circle, which you guys reacted to years ago and loved.
it helps that Tool take so much time between their albums. Build up a lot of ideas in between.
Crafting an album is probably a dying art given the way music is most commonly distributed these days, you're damn right it'd be interesting to look at albums as a whole, the way they fit together
@@THEDEEPDIVE they're also perfectionists and create these works for themselves not necessarily to pander to the public. What they've also done it set the bar so high even from the get-go, like Aenima was so mindblowingly good, anything that fell obviously short of that project would reflect so poorly on them that it just wouldn't see the light of day.
I will ALWAYS find time to watch your reaction to Tool songs. I'm such a huge tool fan and I love seeing the looks on your faces when you get to experience something I love for the first time. It's like I get to experience my first listen all over again. Bravo.
Finally got to see Tool after waiting 30 years and it was everything I could have asked for and more.
Watching this reminded me of the first time hearing this song. I think anyone who loves Tool had this exact reaction too.
Tool is simply on a different level.... period!
This was the big single released before the album. I knew I was gonna be on the road for work, so I took the entire satellite radio system out of my car, packed it, and installed it in the rental car to MAKE SURE I WOULD HEAR IT AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Totally worth it.
This is a legendary thing to do tbh
FINALLLLYYY. Tool is back on the channel. Been waiting over a year.
I love how much you guys geek out about these guys as new listeners. I still feel the same way hearing it again every time. Like a great movie, hearing something new every time it is replayed.
Tool doesn't spoonfeed you their groove. You have to spend time actually listening and paying attention to what's going on in order to find it. But when you do and can begin to follow along, it becomes so clear how incredible they are.
spot on!
Other song writers strive for a passive listening experience. They establish pleasant rhythms and melodies and the listener gets to passively enjoy. Tool is so committed to challenging the listener in every capacity. Musically and lyrically.
God I love tool. God their fans have to be the most pretentious losers
@@dharmalock5032 but not so much that it becomes a pretentious exercise in technicality for technicalitys sake, just the right balance between complexity and simplicity, minimalism and fluff, accessibility and challenges. They pull off the balancing act masterfully.
@@dharmalock5032 You are so so correct. Everyone likes music and your lowest common denominator of music listener is someone who enjoys music but does not wish for the experience to be so intricate and deep that you can't just get it right away. Tool is made for those of us who wish to listen again and again, picking up on new things until the picture is clear. Even then there is more!
You'll never be able to take them for granted. Tool has remained one of my 4 GOATs since the release of Undertow, which was the first CD I ever bought.
Who are the other 3?
The lyrics resonate to this day. Everywhere in the world there's conflict of some sort, news feeds off of people that Vicariously look for that type of news.
The groove and overall progression of this is so top tier Tool. People that slept on 10,000 days missed out big time on grabbing some of that old school Tool style.
Even now more so with social media considering this was technically pre social media.
@@soakedbearrd Exactly. Gives a whole new meaning to a song that already was powerful back then.
It's hard wired into us to look for disaster. It's a survival mechanism.
My favorite Tool song has always been Right In Two. Its perfect.
they still haven't heard Jambi ☠
Banger
At least they’ve now heard Vicarious
o my goodness.
They haven't heard Jambi. Is this real life?
they've 100% heard it when they saw them live. I don't think they have done a set in the last 15 years that didn't have Jambi in it lol
Love seeing you back on Tool. Always puts a smile on your faces. This goes right into Jambi which is an amazing transition. Got to hear it!
JAMBI!!!
That drop...
Pleaseeeee
JAMBI!!! 🙏🏻
@Droogie128 it's sexy af
@@Droogie128 shit is stank face worthy fr
I think the key to Tool sounding like that is that they each get out of each other's way. They compose apart and then bring it all together later. It's a far more collaborative project than having the traditional bandleader-band dichotomy. Freedom always produces the best results, and it's too bad our culture has forgotten what freedom sounds and feels like.
Vicarious is one of the best songs in the history of music…there is no questioning this.
Agree, it’s probably my favourite song of all time, any band, and genre
Not gonna lie, I hated 10,000 days when it came out while I was in college. Hands down now, my favorite album
@@ericeagle9837Perfect album and I didn’t care for it when it came out. Now, in my 50s it’s perfection
I’m so happy you guys love TOOL🙌🏻🙌🏻
My favourite band since the 90s 🥰🥰
This is their most compact and sophisticated statement. A musical and lyrical masterpiece.
This song is amazing. The crescendo is one of my favorites of all time. I remember this live, and I couldn't understand how they even came up with it. I was floored.
Met you guys and we took a pic at the Tool show. You're the best 🤘
Ryan basically hit it on the head towards the end. Tool works if you want to really sit down with a great pair of headphones and concentrate solely on the music and really appreciate the technical depth to the song. It also works if you're working or whatever and just want something that will make you nod your head going in the background. There are a lot of bands that make more technical music than Tool. Tool's secret is that they take all those complex elements and make them groove, which is a rare gift.
I consider this your best vid yall ever made to date. Killed it. Watching you guys take in and process how dope Tool is over the years has been really great. Well done.
My favorite band. Vicarious is in my top 5 favorite songs. The lyrics are so true. Music, always lit. 🔥
Their cover of No Quarter(Zeppelin) is pure fire.
Yes this song doesn't get enough love. Opiate album gets more attention than Salival. Lyrics are also an amazing reversal of the original Led Zeppelin song where the POV of the song is switched. No Quarter by Tool is the best Led Zeppelin cover.
Omg yes I like it more than Zeppelins tbh
No question. I don’t usually like covers but dare I say it’s just as badass as Zeppelin.
I haven’t listened to this in quite a while. It was great to groove along with you guys on this. I had a shit eating grin on my face the whole time
I absolutely love your reactions!! Watching the groove take y’all and bob your heads is priceless. Glad y’all are still doing it after all these years!
I absolutely love these guys. It has been so much fun to live Vicariously through them and see them enjoy these songs for the first time. It’s also been a blast to watch them, grow musically and expand their horizons and become legitimate fans of heavy music. I was so pumped when they said they had actually gone to a Tool show.
I saw Tool last year and gonna see them again this year. I'm new to Tool sinds 3-4 years. It's 🔥 front to back. So unique. Keep reacting to these guys. 💪
I BEEN REQUESTED THIS! Finally yall have blessed yall ears with the masterpiece that is Vicarious 🔥🔥
I love it when I see anyone ‘GET’ tool. It validates what I hear 🤘🏻. Ya all have the best reactions
I find with Tool, it's like listening to 2 songs into one. The work and craftsmanship they put into their songs , it crazy.
I’ve been a massive tool fan for a very long time and to hear two black, very intellectual gentlemen sit and talk about this song alone is very, very refreshing! and very lovely to hear. I bless both of you.
Whoa did not expect this one! But I'm here for it! Underrated track imo, crossing my fingers and hoping y'all like it!
This album is an absolute masterpiece.
I remember the first time I heard this song at release, I got full-body chills for like, 10min after. Simply incredible.
I love watching you guy's react to TOOL. Honestly it is the only reason I watch
You're giving the haters too much credit. The only reason they hate Tool is because they see a lot of other people loving them
As much as I love tool, a lot of their fans are really annoying, and that turns people off. It's not as simple as them just hating the band because we love it. You can love something and not be a dick when others don't, and some fans never got that memo.
You guys are entertaining as sh*t!
I really enjoy that you pause for commentary but also let the music play over top while you comment underneath. The mix is set so well that we can hear both clearly. Add to that, your musical observations are quite astute. Subscribed.
Definitely one of my favorites, my favorite of this album.
Glad that you guys enjoyed this song so much. One of my favorites of all time from Tool
I always understood this song as a criticism to people that look at life vicariously and that think that others should look at things the same way as them. Basically as an example that we should all be better.
great reaction guys... I've grown up listening to tool and I get stoked when others feel like I do when listening to these dudes. Adam was a model maker in films before tool got big, you can see his name in the credits in the original Jurassic Park. He dipped out to go be in a rock band.
Tool is how I found this channel, and the fact that they are just now doing Vicarious is absolutely perfect timing considering I'm about to see them in concert next week. I love this channel and I love Tool. Keep it up guys, y'all are amazing
Followed you guys for years now and checked the Tool vid list. CANNOT believe you guys haven't reviewed 2 greatest tracks EVER recorded in music history - PERIOD. The Grudge. Descending.
Word…
They said in a previous video they'd heard Descending off camera and they love it.
They did do the grudge.
@@CMill78 I guess that negates the
Point of having a "review" channel.
I loved how you guys recognized when the guitar comes back in the second verse it’s so subtle but at the same time so epic.
Man, laughed so hard at 15:18 when you guys almost paused it but realized how good the climax was gonna be and had to keep listening. Unreal track!
Vicarious is not only the peak of Tool songs, it's the peak of all of it has been done in rock music as a whole.
"from my heart to my mind to my hand" - the album art artist Alex Grey
Jambi is also a great song off this album. Not too many people talk about it but its a banger
If pressed for a favorite “JAMBI” would be it. Other than that it would the tool song that I’m currently listening too
Thank you for being one of the only reaction people that truly understand TOOL. Every song is a journey and a story. You get the beginning, then go for a quest where you get little hints of how the song started and,BOOM, the story ends like it started. Every band member compliments each other .
I really enjoyed your reaction to this. Glad you got back to Tool. I like counting their time signatures. This one is almost entirely in 5/4, or 10/8 in some places. But it boils down to 5 head bobs per measure instead of the usual 4. Once you know that it doesn't feel weird anymore.
My most listened song ever. Probably listened to it more 500 times, can´t believe you finally did a reaction to it.
Regarding Tool's shifting grooves, I feel that Aenima is perhaps their most instantly likeable album to the Tool newbie as it has progressive music but with more straight forward grooves. It took me longer to really get with Lateralus and 10,000 days I must be honest but the rewards are deeper there
Parabola is their most entry level song imo. It's what got me into them and it's what makes my friends go "oh I get it."
Your commentary is so unique! I enjoy the perspective. Also, I love Vicarious-one of my favorite Tool songs. It slaps so hard.
i love vicarious but its almost too overwhelming
You look to the discography of this band and realizes "how the hell they just can't do wrong?". Absolutely phenomenal band, we're lucky to witness, nuff said
I've gotta say, watching the two of you react to this for the first time, takes me back to 2006 when this song was released as a single, from an, as of then, yet unreleased album. I had been waiting 6 long years, and this song was everything I had been waiting for from my favorite band! It was so awesome, and seeing you react the same way I did so many years ago, is just so great! Thank you!
I subscribed when you reacted to Pneuma. Still my favorite reaction on youtube to this day. This did not disappoint either. So much Tool left to discover. I hope you pick either Right in Two, or Jambi next. Y'all kick ass!
Yes!!! Finally!! Been telling you for years this will be one of your favorite Tool songs.
It's like Queen putting out Bohemian Rhapsody on every record! Tool Live is insane! best bands I saw live. Tool, Maiden, Metallica
Tool is my favorite band and when I am having a rough day, I just watch your reaction videos to their songs. It brings me so much joy.
I think people struggle to understand Tool because of 1) The fanbase 2) The myth behind the band and 3) They are complicated which means you need to find a entry point that resonates with you.
Now that you guys have hit 10,000 Days, you need to do Wings of Marie and 10,000 Days back to back (they are similar to Parabol and Parabola) and Right in Two.
@@cougarcartel4658 So wrong lmao their technicality peaked on their last record. Their popularity might've peaked at Lateralus but Aenima - Lateralus - 10k days are almost always considered at the same level with Aenima being the sweet baby. FI however is where they're all at their absolute best (which obviously doesn't mean the best songs) but to say it's a snooze fest, you might as well not be into the genre.
@@cougarcartel4658 Couldn't disagree more. Invincible and Descending are two of the best pieces of music ever created.
@@SN4K3P1T000 You are part of the problem with this fan base. Probably best you stay off the internet and communicate with a mirror.
@@Audard It's funny how you tell me to stay off the internet when you're the one being offended by someone's different opinion.
No wonder you communicate with mirrors.
They’re untouchable. They’re unstoppable. They’ve taken the greatest parts of the greatest musicians and made a machine that cannot be matched.
For this song to be as old as it is and STILL hit this hard.. is bananas!
Being a long time tool fan and watching your reactions to their songs, the face the “top five 5 bands” you mentioned everything makes me smile and almost laugh at times. Thank you guys for the experience of watching you experiencing Tool from an outsider’s perspective. For lack of a better term.
Greatest band ever. Criminally underrated. Never sold out.
I agree with the first two parts but they did sell out, have you seen the prices on the same recycled merch?
Said I’d NEVER tattoo a band on my body. Last week, that became a lie:)
@@Mxulin yeah definitely agree with the merch aspect. They overprice everything. I guess that’s how all musicians are these days but definitely sucks when it’s your favorite band and you can’t even afford to get a poster without having to pay half the price of your ticket
@papajules7511 or when they re release an album for $500 💀
Top 3 for sure..
Haven't seen you in years!!! Good to see you still discover new TOOL songs. :D
Btw you were always the best. I love your reactions.
So, I’ve heard that ToOL is meant to be an experience, just wait until you start listening to their albums in their entirety--from beginning to end--like how they were TRULY meant to be listened to. I swear there is a place for each of their songs, every song was written so carefully to what feels like a flow in their albums. Anyway, this was an amazing reaction, glad y’all have become such fans. Glad to have you aboard. 🤘🏻🔥👁️
lol you've heard that huh?
@@checkle1 Yes, I have 😬
Tool is like experiencing an art gallary. Every song stands out on its own, and has its own unique traits. Sometimes you just need to sit and appriciate the art. I have heard this song hundreds of times, and everytime, it still grabs me and takes me on a journey....
This is Tool’s best album to me. I know all of them are breakthroughs but to me, seniority here is through the roof. Not even mentioning Wings for Marie pt 1 and 2 yet.
Love to see y’all still reacting. Y’all were the first ever reactors that I subscribed to. As Life time member of the Tool Army, I thank you.
10,000 days is their most accessible album by far. Jambi is a must from this album!
I would say the undertow album, is more accessible then 10k. 10k still has a ton of freak out jams & long tracks. TOOL calls 10k their blues album.
@@adamjones7014 eh depends on the person I suppose. 10k Days was more accessible to me and it's what kickstarted my love for Tool. I still rarely listen to Undertow because I'm not really into grunge. But tracks like Vicarious, Jambi, and The Pot are all very accessible. Right In Two is also pretty accessible for a longer, more prog Tool song. Rosetta, Wings, and Intension are pretty inaccessible, though.
@@Gnix1996 I've heard ppl say 10K got newer fans into TOOL because of the commercial friendly songs. The 'hits' on 10K have that 4 on the floor, "sabbath type groove" -MJK quote. However, the same can be said about Aenima (Stinkfist) & Laterlaus (Schism, which was a massive commercial success). TOOL always writes a few songs for commercial play on every album not Undertow. idk if I consider Undertow grunge. It's hard rock. TOOL said, when they were trying to 'make it', they chose their heaviest songs for 'Undertow', because that was the sound back then.
Huge, huge love from Melbourne, Australia, been watching you guys since 2016 - this is video of the year so far.
Right in Two - Maybe the best TOOL song lyrically
Culling Voices - Most underrated TOOL song imo
Culling Voices sucks. Sounds unfinished. Far and Away the frog on fear inoculum
@@ForestDumper666Who hurt you
Culling Voices is the weakest TOOL song, after the first chorus it sounds like the band didn't know what to do next, so they just repeated the song from the pre-chorus.
@@BirdsElopeWithTheSun09 It was you wasn’t it
Respect to you both for treating these requests like an end of the day glass of wine. Take months (but not years) between the reactions. Love your take each time. Great reaction🔥🔥🔥-
If I may be so bold Sir George- was really looking fwd to more of a read on the lyrics- pretty sure you would/did get a chuckle at the ‘hippy’ phrase near the end. That Maynard, what wordsmith!
Keep doin what your doin and I’ll keep enjoying the hell out of it guys. 🤘🏽🌀
Jambi, right in two, parabola would be some good listens for you guys too. I think Jambi would definitely be something Ryan absolutely loves tho. You both would love it but I know Ryan is gonna lose his shit lol
I'm a long time fan of Tool and you guys have this magic to make me enjoy the music as if when I heard it for the first time again, I have no idea how you guys do it but I enjoy listening to Tool much more through this channel somehow.
Great reaction fellas! Can't go wrong with Tool! You guys should check out Tool's cover of "You Lied" by Peach. Justin was the bassist in the band Peach if you guys didn't know. And its live too!
You Lied and No Quarter are amazing covers.
I know why i love your videos. It's like we are buds hanging in highschool and someone busts in and is like YO, you gotta hear this! Just brings me back to so many times I was able to discover new bands and songs with my friends. Appreciate you.
You need to mention the production and mixing of this. Each instrument sounds crystal clear amongst all the chaos.