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What put this L.A. band a notch above the rest are better songs and the hints of vulnerability in singer Maynard James Keenan’s voice.
10y
80
With its technical brilliance, musical complexities, and aggressive overtones, Undertow not only paved the way for several bands to break through to the mainstream adolescent mall-rage demographic, it also proved that metal could be simultaneously intelligent, emotional, and brutal.
13y
80
Like The God Machine and Mind Funk, the children of Perry Farrell have arrived, and Tool are definitely at the front of the pack.
1mo
70
Adam Jones' guitar playing discards traditional solos in favor of texture, the stranger the better, while drummer Danny Carey steers the band through a maze of tempo shifts with dazzling agility.
7y
Sober blows everything out of the water on this album lmao
Tool’s debut LP, and it's pretty damn good. Before going all out on the prog-metal scene, Tool was more of an alternative metal band, still incorporating some aspects of prog. And while I like this sound less for them, it still makes for a good album.
There are definitely a lot of great bangers on here, but I feel like on this album Tool is still in the process of developing their classic prog sound. And some of these songs fail ... read more
The rate that this band explores themes and creates narratives while also finishing them in a satisfying way is honestly insane to me. Nearly every song is a banger as well which is typical of TOOL, but there are also some all time great songs in here that deserve to be mentioned. It really shows the insane amount of skill they had even in the beginning of their career. The instrumentals are really good, but they will only improve over time. They aren't as dark or feeling inducing as in ... read more
Early days tool. They didn't find there full sound yet but the sound they did was awesome. If you have never listened to tool you could start here.
damn it started off super strong but just got worse as it went on
the first 3 songs are ultimately the highlights of this album
when i was on ”crawl away” i was already feeling very bored of the sound. it was getting repetitive.
by the time i was on ”4°” i was thinking ”just fucking end already”.
the last song is… definitely unique. atleast it switched up the style. summed up; the album is good but way too long and repetitive
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Track List
| 1 | Intolerance 4:54 | 86 |
| 2 | Prison Sex 4:56 | 91 |
| 3 | Sober 5:06 | 95 |
| 4 | Bottom 7:13 | 88 |
| 5 | Crawl Away 5:30 | 84 |
| 6 | Swamp Song 5:31 | 83 |
| 7 | Undertow 5:22 | 84 |
| 8 | 4° 6:02 | 81 |
| 9 | Flood 7:47 | 81 |
| 10 | Disgustipated 15:47 | 55 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 8 minutes
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2mo
Bro, Bottom goes unfathomably hard holy shit. I did not expect to like it this much more upon relisten.
2mo
Thought I'd be underwhelmed after hearing all their other stuff, I was proven wrong 😎👍
(Althooough... did the cricket noises REALLY need to last 7 minutes??? Classic Tool to have some longass random shit for no reasom 👌)
(Althooough... did the cricket noises REALLY need to last 7 minutes??? Classic Tool to have some longass random shit for no reasom 👌)
2mo
Some guy from Apple Music said it’s the technicality of king crimson fused with the blood letting of swans and I think thats such a perfect way to describe tool and gets at why I love them so much that ive just never really thought of before.
