[chrisfromalbany]

Just something fun to watch..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKXr40gl9_k

 

[claymon]

wow, i can't believe he ditched that band! hahaha

that's too much spandex for one video, and don't get me started on the hair.

 

[AuroraProject]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bubbamc119 News just in; It has been confirmed by 2 people over at toolnavy.com that the album is NOT a HDCD release.

Bummer, oh well.

 

[Bobby B.]

It has been released in Germany today. Needless to say I've received my copy!

The artwork is a true masterpiece. Staring through those lenses makes my eyes hurt a bit but it's just fascinating to look at the pictures!

 

[alexs]

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Originally Posted by Bobby B. It has been released in Germany today. Needless to say I've received my copy! The artwork is a true masterpiece. Staring through those lenses makes my eyes hurt a bit but it's just fascinating to look at the pictures!

Is it true that it comes with a sticker and what not...

 

[Bobby B.]

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Originally Posted by alexs Is it true that it comes with a sticker and what not...

Yes, that's true. It's stuck to the actual protection film of the case. So you first have to remove the film and the sticker to put it on the cover.

I myself am not disappointed with the fact that it's not an HDCD. The sound itself is way more spectacular and lively imo, while the sound of Lateralus was too analytical and cold for me.

 

[chrisfromalbany]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby B. Yes, that's true. It's stuck to the actual protection film of the case. So you first have to remove the film and the sticker to put it on the cover. I myself am not disappointed with the fact that it's not an HDCD. The sound itself is way more spectacular and lively imo, while the sound of Lateralus was too analytical and cold for me.

Well in a few days, I will have a copy of it.

 

[chrisfromalbany]

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Originally Posted by chrisfromalbany LONDON LISTENING SESSIONS From Andy King, TotalRock… New Album playback at 10, Golborne Road, London W10 - February 20th 2006... 4pm and 7.30pm There is something delightfully Toolian about staging a series of European album press/radio playback and ‘meet-the-new-Record-Company’ dates whilst not only not revealing the name of said new album but also keeping all the track titles themselves firmly under wraps. It’s a joy – in this day and age and with such a multi-million selling global mega-band (yes, it really is true, fans!) – to immediately bump into ¾ of the band casually swigging beer from bottles (or, somewhat surprisingly, Starbucks from a paper cup in Maynard’s case) and chatting amiably with the assembled mid-afternoon gathering of hacks. It’s always a joy to meet a man so much ‘his own man’ and Maynard, as usual, manages to take such an expression to dizzy new heights. As inscrutable as the person offspring of Chairman Mao and Wallace & Gromit’s Were Rabbit (slightly caught in the headlights of my immediate and presumptuous ‘hail fellow well met’ self-introduction) Maynard professes to ‘feeling a little jet-lagged’ and at once hops off to safer environs. Meanwhile big haired Danny and Justin look, for all the world, like a brace of ******* hippies from the Bong Shop down the road. As has been revealed – Adam has remained in LA ‘directing the video’. After a 30 minute delay in proceedings – caused by a tardy and self-important bunch of hacks creeping out of some rank corner of the evil EMAP Empire (they’re all Borgs, we suspect) the Anonymous Playback of The Nameless Songs commences…‘probably nearly in their Final Running Order’, we are told. Readers will, hopefully, forgive any inaccuracies in reportage. On first listen I surmised this was an 9 track album, managing to squeeze this figure up to 10 on second hearing, whilst having confirmation from the band that it was, in fact an 11 track album. (They thought). Vicarious Track 1 (7min 3sec). Mesmeric start. Hypnotic beat. Jagged, angular off beats. Familiar trancey passages punctuated by a guitar part reminiscent of an older Tool track. Tribal drum beats f@!# with a lovely melody and climax with Maynard’s vocals. I am going to cry. Jambi Track 2 (7min 12sec) Melodic intro with almost balladic vocals from Maynard. Lighter feel (almost, dare I say it, APC-tinged) but not for long. Danny gets stronger – Baresi releases our tubthumper and the feel gets much heavier into ‘chugga chugga’ off beats. Then – here’s some unusual guitar work. Man, it’s almost Hendix-like! Then back into a heavy tribal groove. I fight off the urge to masturbate furiously. 03 Tool Wings For Marie (Pt 1) 06:11 04 Tool 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2) 11:14 Track 3/4 (This is either one 17 minute monster or two tracks – of 6min 20sec and 10min 26sec – only the Gods Of The Stinfist know the answer). Whichever it is – DO NOT SMOKE THE WEED WHILST LISTENING TO IT! Starting with Buddhist temple-flavoured gong tweaking the collective nipples of Kraftwerk, a deep sphincter-rumbling bass and om chanting might recall ‘Parabol’. After 3 minutes of this nerve-wracking niceness, all Hell breaks loose with mega-heavy riffdom before slipping back into spaciness after 30 seconds. Like an epileptic convulsion in a night of deep sleep. Hawkwind does Greensleeves whilst Pink Floys look on. The Record Company people are starting to look nervous and uncomfortable as if they have seldom HEARD anything so strange and worrying. What the f@!# is this? Let me outta here! I need to go snuggle the Radio One Playlist! Suddenly it’s a crazed sea shanty for whacked-out space travelers. ‘You’re the only one who can hold your head up high. It’s my time now… my time now… give me my… give me my…’ duets Maynard with himself. Danny fights free of the evil clutches of Dr Baresi and goes off on one. Adam’s guitar recalls something off Lateralus again. It’s Triad, I think, but it’s almost impossible to identify one riff whilst another song goes on. The musical equivalent of rubbing one’s head and tummy simultaneously in different directions. They’re doing this on purpose to f@!# with our heads. Bastards! Returns to full-on rhythmic Toolishness to end. No it isn’t the end. It doesn’t end like any other son ends. The Pot Track 5 (Probably. 6min 11 sec definitely). Oooooooh. This is THE one. Ya know what, pluggers? Radio might even go for this! Maynard’s vocals at the start are quite extraordinary. Place equal parts of Chris De Burgh, Tiny Tim and Bilal The Muezzin in a blender and run for your life. Easily the most commercial track to date. In fact, easily the most commercial track Tool have EVER done. That guitar is waaay strong again. Did Adam bribe Baresi? This is still twisted. It’s hard but commercial. The end spells a relief as climactic as a boil bursting. I go ‘Yessssss’ and the whole room of cool jouros looks round at me as if I’m a Bateman cartoon ‘The Man Who Ordered A Pork Sandwich In Blooms’. This is a SERIOUSLY awesome track. Just you mark my words. Lipan Conjuring Track 6 (1min). In which Maynard becomes a Native American for no good reason. Strange, but we like a bit of strangeness. Lost Keys (Blame Hofman) 03:44 Rosetta Stoned 11:14 Track 7 (Maybe. Could be two medium length tracks and a terribly short one, too. I’m now losing the will to live with the stopwatch. It’s 14min 45sec of music, whatever). Guitars to the fore again. One long note with almost blues-like, overlaid note progressions. f@!# me, it’s House Of The Rising Sun cut with Ketamine. There are unsettling whispers and talking. Is this a bad trip or a psychiatry session? Come to think of it, is there a ifference? ‘How Are You Today?’… ‘Tell Me Everything’ then THWACK! Into such a breathtakingly slappy, powerful riff kick that I’m actually physically winded for a nanosecond. Demonic, growling, rap noise over rhythmic heavy heavy groove. Forget the Were Rabbit jibe. This is a f@!# full-on, nasty, shaven headed WEREWOLF. A lightbulb goes mental in the room. The Record Company almost lose all cool and run for it. I damn nearly join them but now I AM crying. I am gulping back wracking sobs at the sheer Toolishness of this monstrous, magnificent track. This is the real deal. Again snippets from Lateralus. You ARE playing with us. You ARE! This is Tool’s equivalent of ‘spot the Hitchcock in the Hitchcock film’! But I don’t care. It’s like The Best Of Tool in one song. The Bomb. It ends like the violent end of a violent life. And then it ends again. Unless that’s another track, of course…. Intension 07:21 Track 8 (6min 44sec). Odd noises. Sea shore meets ironworks. Ever see the cartoon meisterwerk ‘Spirited Away’? You MUST! In it there is a character called Kamajii The Boiler Keeper who has 6 arms and an army of small black coals. This sound is similar. Soon joined by elastic bass and drum twangling over multi-layered Maynard whisperings and chanted vox. Shades of Pink Floyd again. Shades of the more ‘moody’ Lateralus tracks again. Reflection. Disposition. Tribal and hypnotic. Right In Two 08:56 Track 9 (9min 04sec. I think). Melodic, slow, hypnotic. Almost balladic. Wall of Sound build-up. Danny does some Bamboo pole-type drumming into big rif***e. Big, big sound. Tool at their weightiest. It’s almost Chinese at the end. I can think of worse things to be like. Perhaps the boys have their eyes on the World’s fastest developing market? Viginti Tres 05:01 Track 11 but I’m f@!# if I can work out how we got here). The walk out track (their description not mine). Oddness. The Noodles of Satan. And that’s it. First playback and Maynard bids us farewell. ‘Hope you enjoyed it. If you didn’t we could put on a little Green Day for you?’. Second playback and Justin apologises for not being The Arctic Monkeys. We smoodge and chatter. We remember that Danny is actually the World’s nicest (and tallest) man. If only I could feel as comfy in my skin as he does. That’s it – go on, compare my insides with his outsides. We rejoice in the fact that ¼ of Tool is, in fact, English. We clamber onto our pushbike past legions of hoodies whilst the Tool Carnival ups and offs to Amsterdam. f@!# knows where THAT playback will take place but I have a shrewd idea or two…

EDIT.. No April Fools Joke here.. This is the real review that I posted weeks ago..

I don't need personal opinions about the Album, but would like details of the tour, next single, set lists, facts about Tool, and information about the band would be nice. Or more promotion material.

-Chris

 

[chrisfromalbany]

setlist for the Coachella

01. Stinkfist
02. The Pot
03. Forty-six & 2
04. Jambi
05. Schism
06. Eon Blue Apocalypse
07. The Patient
08. Sober
09. Lateralus
10. Vicarious
11. Ænema


http://abc.net.au/rage/guest/wmv/tool.wmv

Anyone interested enough can find bootlegs of the songs played.

 

[yblocgerg]

that setlist rocks

 

[mribnik]

whoa, I got my preordered 10,000 days from amazon today. That was pretty darn quick. I didn't think I'd get it this early!

 

[Alu]

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Originally Posted by chrisfromalbany setlist for the Coachella 01. Stinkfist 02. The Pot 03. Forty-six & 2 04. Jambi 05. Schism 06. Eon Blue Apocalypse 07. The Patient 08. Sober 09. Lateralus 10. Vicarious 11. Ænema http://abc.net.au/rage/guest/wmv/tool.wmv Anyone interested enough can find bootlegs of the songs played.

Oh my God! If they have a setlist like that on their Luxembourg concert I'd drop dead out of sheer happiness! Hearing 46 & 2 live would be an amazing experience.

 

[Big G]

The album has some beutiful moments, brought me to tears listening last night, and thats not an easy feat. Listening to the wings pt1&2 with lyrics in hand, very powerful.

Sounds amazing! I think it sounds better on my Jmlab speakers than on my headphone rig, the recording is stellar, as is the production a real 3d sence of staging. Danny Careys work on the kit is fantastic as usual!

Its definately an album which grows on you, some people ive spoken to didnt like it, perhaps looking for instant gratification, but tool arent a radio hit band, I find you have to invest time in their albums before they really reaveal themself...

So far this album is stellar!

 

[Big G]

Guest programming on Rage this saturday night for Aussie members!

woot!

I hope they screen the new video. or at least cover their entire vid catologue.

 

[jonnywolfet]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big G The album has some beutiful moments, brought me to tears listening last night, and thats not an easy feat. Listening to the wings pt1&2 with lyrics in hand, very powerful. Sounds amazing! I think it sounds better on my Jmlab speakers than on my headphone rig, the recording is stellar, as is the production a real 3d sence of staging. Danny Careys work on the kit is fantastic as usual! Its definately an album which grows on you, some people ive spoken to didnt like it, perhaps looking for instant gratification, but tool arent a radio hit band, I find you have to invest time in their albums before they really reaveal themself... So far this album is stellar!

what do you make of this?

http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=177595