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DestidePlease help me out here. I was never a huge Tool fan, but I did have Undertow, but I’m missing the joke here.
A lot of the lyrics to tool songs focus on transcendental, spiritual, or psychedelic experiences. They also feature complicated compositions and a high degree of technical skill. As a consequence, some folks that have a “I’m on a higher plane of existence compared to you sheeple” attitude are attracted to the band. Which I think is what the meme is poking fun of.
There is some truth to it I suppose. When pusicfer (whose lead is the singer from tool) released Apocalyptical during the pandemic (a song that was clearly criticizing the stupidity of covid deniers/misinformation consumers) a lot of tool fans got upset because the song was not consistent with their conspiratorial world-view
This is a good explanation. I love tool but I am not very smart nor don’t have a very good grasp in music theory. I just really really like the way their music sounds and it makes me feel a lot of things.
Some tool fans fancy themselves as deep intellectuals, simply because of their understanding of Tool’s lyrical themes, musical scales, etc. and assumption that other people just don’t “get it”. It’s technically very demanding and difficult music, and therefore attracts many holier than thou pretentious types.
Which is ironic because there are other prog bands out there that have far more complicated music. It just happens that Tool is one of the more accessible prog bands to casual listeners, the very ones who claim to like “complex” music.
Mars Volta is true intellectual
I’m sure there’s many other layers to this onion f we wanted to follow the rabbit hole…
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Eidola’s exceptional album degeneterra comes to mind. From memory they claimed the albums concept was like a tesseract that can be viewed from multiple angles through each song.
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There’s probably room for some bad religion in there, too?
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Katatonia probably deserves a mention as well, but it’s all so vague and personal it’s hard to really tie down.
I haven’t studied any of them, however…
Some Tool fans were pretentious. The music is complicated and hard to get into. Some songs are not in 4/4 time. The lyrics are hard to understand, dark and depressing. It was a good band for a kid who wanted to project the image of a brooding misanthrope. Most of the people this applied to are in their 40’s now probably.
As their song goes, “there’s a schism between us, baby.” Or, perhaps more relevantly, “it’s like he’s theologically 46 and mentally 2” from their album Vaginal Biome Destruction.
That man has never listened to tool in his entire fucking life
Bet he’s listened to a tool before
RidderSportI’d bet he has listened to his thoughts - so yeah he has
I’m don’t think he’s had thoughts, except for children
These are the only tools i listen to
Cumtown Sings Schism By Tool
stavvy is a piece if shit with a kernel of gold.
dude is living the dream and nobody can take that away from him.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 A real Tool fan.
But… the one time I listened to Tool I listened to Ænima (on cassette) while taking mushrooms and they kicked in right at the end of (-) Ions and when Third Eye started I was off my face and didn’t know what was happening.
That makes me different… right? 🤒
All experience is subjective and unique.
I’m sure the lyric “shit the bed again, typical” resonated with him very strongly.