Best Tool CD

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

I was searching around for some new music yesterday and had a listen to some Tool, and I decided I like them a lot (The Pot, Schism). I found a couple discographies, and ****, these guys have a lot of shit out. What do you guys recommend as their best stuff? I did get a hold of 10000 days but so far I haven't been too impressed, except for The Pot.

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[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

Well my good sir you are in luck.

There best CD that has the most well rounded sound that's appealing to most folks is Aenima. It doesn't have a bad track on it IMHO, they are all wonderful. Usually I try to say listen to this album first because it's the best album to get a feel for what Tool is capable of doing. You probably don't care for 10,000 Days because a lot of the album is slow and melow. Vicarious, Jambi, Right in Two, and The pot are the easiest songs on that album to like. wings for marie part 1 and 2 are wonderful it's just you may not like it at first.

Opiate and Undertow are albums that are the earlier stages of Tool and show a more harder rock/aggressive side of Tool. Undertow you for sure need to check out all of the songs because they are all great IMHO. Especially Flood. That's a treat to catch if you ever get to see them live. I don't believe they've played that one in a while.

Lateralus is a beautiful album because it has The Grudge, The Patient, Schism, Lateralus, Parabol, and Parabola.

Salival is a live album they did which has a wonderful version of third eye and Pushit. Pushit is by far my favorite song by Tool and the Salival version just takes a wonderful song to another level by showing a softer, easier side to a harsh and aggressive song.

I hope that gives you a better understanding of the albums. Ask anyone here, I always love to discuss Tool/APC //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[toolfan89 10+ year member]

Well my good sir you are in luck.
There best CD that has the most well rounded sound that's appealing to most folks is Aenima. It doesn't have a bad track on it IMHO, they are all wonderful. Usually I try to say listen to this album first because it's the best album to get a feel for what Tool is capable of doing. You probably don't care for 10,000 Days because a lot of the album is slow and melow. Vicarious, Jambi, Right in Two, and The pot are the easiest songs on that album to like. wings for marie part 1 and 2 are wonderful it's just you may not like it at first.

Opiate and Undertow are albums that are the earlier stages of Tool and show a more harder rock/aggressive side of Tool. Undertow you for sure need to check out all of the songs because they are all great IMHO. Especially Flood. That's a treat to catch if you ever get to see them live. I don't believe they've played that one in a while.

Lateralus is a beautiful album because it has The Grudge, The Patient, Schism, Lateralus, Parabol, and Parabola.

Salival is a live album they did which has a wonderful version of third eye and Pushit. Pushit is by far my favorite song by Tool and the Salival version just takes a wonderful song to another level by showing a softer, easier side to a harsh and aggressive song.

I hope that gives you a better understanding of the albums. Ask anyone here, I always love to discuss Tool/APC //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

i dont know about you but i havent found any tool album to have a bad song on it.

to the op if i were you i would start out with undertow sure opiate has awsome songs but it is alot different than all the others. dont bother trying to find salival, i could only find it on ebay for over 50 bucks.

 

[Blue Fury 10+ year member]

I just couldnt get over the pot when they first played it on the radio, Id even listen to it on youtube at work. 2kchevy listed the song I like from that album

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

Aenima

Learn to swimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!11111111

 

[2kchevy06civic 5,000+ posts]

i dont know about you but i havent found any tool album to have a bad song on it.
to the op if i were you i would start out with undertow sure opiate has awsome songs but it is alot different than all the others. dont bother trying to find salival, i could only find it on ebay for over 50 bucks.

well but not everyone enjoys all of Tool's work. It honestly takes a while to fully enjoy all of the songs they make. You just have to keep listening and getting a feel for what they are trying to portray as musicians. Now to say there isn't a bad track, well I somewhat agree. There are probably a few songs I could do without but for the most part they are one of those bands where you can listen to an album straight through.

salival, just download it. You won't find a copy unless you buy it used. they made a limited quantity.

I just couldnt get over the pot when they first played it on the radio, Id even listen to it on youtube at work. 2kchevy listed the song I like from that album

the pot is a great song but I enjoy Jambi and Right in Two a lot better. Justins playing in both of those songs is wonderful.

Aenima
Learn to swimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!11111111

dude for serious. and Fuk L Ron Hubbard and Fuk all his clones.

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

I figured with all the Tool nuthuggers on this board it wouldn't be hard. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Looks like I'll be picking up Aenima then, thanks.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

That's like asking the best way to chop off your dick.

Mini Guillotine, by the way.

 

[GabeC 10+ year member]

what?

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

He's just being a douche, but I've done that before too so I can't really flame him that bad.

 

[Vipervenom18 10+ year member]

I was searching around for some new music yesterday and had a listen to some Tool, and I decided I like them a lot (The Pot, Schism). I found a couple discographies, and ****, these guys have a lot of shit out. What do you guys recommend as their best stuff? I did get a hold of 10000 days but so far I haven't been too impressed, except for The Pot.

The Pot is the most commercially stereotypical laid out mainstream-ish song they have on that album. If you don't like the progressive awesomness of the rest of the album, GTFO as you won't like Tool.

 

[528hz 10+ year member]

Spiral out! Keep...going...

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

It's a tossup between Undertow and Aenima.

It's the music that made them who they are, when they weren't putting out commercially influenced music.

 

[mikey7182 10+ year member]

I wouldn't hesitate to pick up whatever you can find. Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days, etc. All great stuff. One thing you may want to consider is listening to each album as a whole, rather than trying to pick a song. Their albums are recorded and written in a way that each song flows together to create one larger musical piece, if you will. Amazing band with insane amounts of talent. Can't wait to see what they put out next.

 

[JBGabriel 10+ year member]

I love Lateralus. But all tool is good. You really cant go wrong.