Music

i love this, the genuine expression of joy on his fair face, the passion(in a restrained and structural form) of the conductor, the people singing and playing behind him, not as a background or a 'low' phase leading up to the 'high'(alike drug high) phase but as a wholesome unit of energy that doesn't dissolve in itself and retains hierarchical function oriented order. that being said i most likely am lying to myself, i simply long to be with some honest, direct and joyful spirits, to shake such persons hand and greet them with a smile would be enough for me and this joyful song both feeds and starves that longing in me...

Vinyl sound


I don't even like this song, I just like how good it sounds


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For some reason the vinyl record copy of an album release is very often produced with a better dynamic range than their digital counterparts, which wouldn't have to be the case.
This wasn't that much the case in the 1980s, back then audio CDs were mixed with good dynamic range, as well.

From Krakow(Cracow), civilization towards podhale, towards mountains and villages...singing about the route I took with my dad to get to our home town whilst visiting family few hundred years before..Common memories

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I don't know why they can't make good dynamic range CD/digital releases anymore.


I think the music is good but what made them into this famous success in their "niche" was Maynard (the singer) going with the mysterious strange wise man routine.
Say little, give rarely interviews but when you do allude to great depths of occult knowledge.
Go for dark emo but be cool about it, don't overdo it and add some Jungian psychology themes.

Not much melody in the singing.
It's more of a sermon.
Speak slowly and clearly, people need to understand the words and follow while in a trance through the music in the background.

Fun fact: The theme of the game Doom 3 copied the riff from Tool's Lateralus song. And some of the background vocals sound similar to Maynard in the song Third Eye.



Fun fact 2: Tool was my favorite band around 2013 and I think I have all their songs.

Fun fact 3: Before that, my favorite band was Limp Bizkit. Yeah...

2013 huh?
AEnema and Lateralus was my most listened to music in 2004 and 2005.
When 10000 Days came out in 2006 I listened to that one as well but then it slowly lost its appeal for me.

I had first gotten into contact with their music in 2001 but at the time there was something about the music which was too alien for me. Something I don't like, something dead about it.
In 2004 I had either become solidified and rigid enough to ignore that alien element, or I had become desensitised enough, who knows. So part of me always remained reserved about their music.
I think AEnema is the album with the least alien element to me.

"This poem was written in 1809, during the Napoleonic wars, whilst most German nations were subjugated and had liberal/ progressive reforms imposed upon them."