Tool singer Maynard James Keenan said in his documentary about his winery that if you do anything for catharsis and find yourself doing the same thing ten years later, either it’s not cathartic or your not interested in healing.

I think about this statement that felt like a throwaway line as he was digging in dirt WAY more than one might believe.

Out of all the bands out there, I actually believe that 1) at least MJK but more and more I’m thinking the whole band are kind of done being the angry guys and 2) Tool fans, for as obnoxious as we can be (and boy can we), we’d probably give them the leeway to just record good music - the music they WANT to make.

You hear it a LOT with Fear Inoculum but I think it really starts with this album. The album starts with a warning about carrying grudges, questions the validity of vampiric activities, has mature takes on breakups, and the music is too notch. This is my favorite Tool album and the only one I would buy two copies of (if they ever come out with one that isn’t on a picture disc).

The track order theory works for playlists/burned CDs or, bare minimum, shuffling on CD. It’s tough to bounce around 4 sides to experience the parabola of the theorized track order.

It’s fine. I got alone perfectly without it for years and now that I listen to albums front to back, I’ll go back to that way.

What a great album.

And Adam Jones is one of the few guitarists that, no matter what, I find myself wanting a signature guitar from. I wish that Gibson would just release a Les Paul Custon without all the extra stuff. Just a normal silver burst in nitrocellulose lacquer. But nooooo, it’s either an Epiphone, a Les Paul STANDARD, or the expensive relic job.

Ugh.

But a big can dream, right?

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