Ænima embraces the awful and the awfully funny. What transpires for the next hour and twenty minutes looks for comparisons where few exist. Drawing from Carl Jung, Freud’s pupil, and Bill Hicks, one of the world’s greatest stand-up comics, both would have been proud of Maynard James Keenan’s lyrical use of psychotrauma and dick jokes. Landlocked rhythms and riffs forged in the mind’s shadows. “Stinkfist,” Tool’s opening descent into an album with cinematic and psychologically crippling themes throughout, provides the invocation with guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey, and bassist Justin Chancellor like three continents converging at exactly the same time. The push-and-pull of notes panning in every direction, looped to the delayed abstraction of infinity, sped up to create momentary euphoria in the midst of perpetual disorientation. I will not be surprised if i get banned for "being different".Happy 25th Anniversary to Tool’s second studio album Ænima, originally released September 17, 1996.įrippertronics introduction. I come on here and point out something new almost everytime (subtract a few bashing posts here and there, I am not like you guys anymore). Those are: The like of the band tool, and complete stupidity and lack of brain functionability to actively and creatively use it to find something complete and utterly new to you, or someone else. You guys just come on here because you can only find a social life on the internet with other people who have the same exact things in common with you. But i dont tend to overanalyze, seeing as my concentration isnt the greatest, but thats beyond the point. Then ill take it further, and analyze it. My greatest thoughts, my greatest discoveries, have come right off the top of my head, without much deep thought. The only reason why you think he thought so deeply about it is because you just dont get it, fuckin idiot. i also think it's safe to say you need to get out more. while thinking so deeply on this, you've only gone further from the right direction. you need to focus on something more constructive. I think it's safe to say you don't get it at all.
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(theoretically) If someone wanted to take this seriously, they could sit down with all 5 releases and plot how many albums Tool will have, how many tracks therein on each album, and the size of Maynard's jock strap. Often, what we percieve is comepletely different from that which was intended. To concieve of brilliant parts within a mechanism, that is nothing For what is a part without a duty to preform its function?īut to concieve of the mechanism as a brilliant whole, and thusly appreciate all individual parts as one, only then can you comprehend the beauty that was intended. I may be wrong, but I see this theme as being one of the more important, prominent, if not understated concepts beyond not only the lyrics, but the complete ideology of the band Tool.
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I'm running low.)īut at what point do we take all this "universe as 1" and "putting 1 and 1 together and getting 1" bullshit seriously? The statement that all Tool albums, and all track listings therein are connected just treats Tool's catalogue like a living entity (which is a conglomerate of multiple entities). I wouldn't put it past them.ĭoes anyone know where I can find lists of track lengths? I'd be interested in doing a study on those as well. Regardless if this IS on track or not, I really think they were alluding to the concept of Lateralis long before it existed. I as well noticed no direct corrolation between 3rd eye and Harry's Msg., but after reading the article in which Danny discusses 987 being the 17th number in the Fibonnaci sequence, I realized that the corrolation of numbers goes beyond Aenima alone. It's a given that the content on the album is artistically brilliant, but I find it so much more impressive when, above and beyond the musical scope, they can include mathematics to their "secrets."Īt first, I was on the same train of thought as you. Upon dissection, there definitely are connections from song to song (someone mentioned Pushit/Eulogy), but song content put aside, I'm dealing strictly with numbers. You must view the album as a single entity, and this is a prime example of the sum of the parts being greater than the given whole. My theory was not to connect the songs, necessarily, but to show that the entire album plots itself out I suggest that the band concieved the track numbers prior to the track listing, that is to say, that they knew they would have 15 tracks, as opposed to, say 14 or 16.