I know, right?!!

Excellent insights, Savage.

Great suggestion for these two big minds. These are my favorite type of reactors to Tool. You almost want to spare them from Sober 😅 But would love to hear their perspective on their progression while aging.

Thanks!

Yeah, I have to invest. Thanks, Travis!

Thank you, Daniel. I'm having fun.

Thank you, Keith.

Hmmmm

I'm a mom and a nurse and have heard many ultrasonic fetus heartbeats. A beat with a whoosh sound. I believe that's what this recording is.

@@carlakane3313 Lovely!

Good insight!

Yeah - the simple beauty of the thought is so moving.

H would be perfect!

Thanks, Zuli!

Thanks. I know not everyone liked that pickup - but the more I think of it, the more I'm convinced that Maynard is constantly drawing multiple references ideas all at the same time. Makes the analysis so rich- there is more going on than is going on!

No. We'll finish too quickly. Lol

@@donrodztx I'm with you - I don't want to rush these!

Thanks!

Hey thanks so much for sharing, that’s awesome! Really appreciate it!

@PomadeJam of course. There are many reactors who fake their way through these videos because they know the TOOL fans love to see people discover this band, but they are easily distinguishable from genuine reactors like yourselves. I love the in depth breakdowns and the way you absorb both music and lyrics. TOOL really are a "tool" for healing and overcoming. I've found myself being carried along the way through many difficult times with this band.

@@donrodztx I've had similar experiences with their music and really love sharing it with others.

Thanks, Don. Your support means a lot to Pomade, and the fan responses and adding to my wispy first responses is very fun for me.

Thank you!

Thanks, eternal!

Thanks you!

Unless it's a Tool Aenima tracksuit.

@@randomsasquatchwithwifi4090 Ha!

100%. I love their videos but the ear buds bug me every time. 😆 GET. HEADPHONES!! I listen to music with ear buds all the time. But Tool comes on and I’m switching gear immediately!

Hey thanks!

Scary for me - but a much better reaction. I hate movie trailers that give everything away; spoils the fun of a first time.

Great insight Daniel. I'm loving how much I'm learning in comments like this.

Thanks, 88. I feel you; doing these reactions is scary for me - Tool opens up heart and soul; a frightening self examination along with Maynard's vulnerable examination.

Awesome! That would be something to watch.

Thanks!

Thanks!

there really aren't many bands that you can keep finding new things about their music decades in.

Thanks, Theo.

@@GaffneyInkwell thank *you* My vote is for “The Grudge” next

One of the best suggestions for new Tool listeners. You really have to step away and revisit. It's always either a brand new mental journey or you hear new notes.

Love this suggestion. As a writer, I know that taking time away from something, then returning makes it so much easier to feel/know more from the work.

I believe initially it is an ultrasound from Danny Carey's daughter before she was born

I am loving that take on the opening sound.

Oh yeah, and the mathematical complexity of the song, juxtaposed with the "overthinking, overanalysing seperates the body from the mind" is just a great comment on how to enjoy this music. Tools music often get overanalysed and people read a lot of mystical stuff into them. I can almost hear Maynard telling me "we made this awesome piece of music, stick your feet on the ground, listen, loose yourself between the sounds, this is not the time to analyze, freakin feel it!"

Great insights, Dennis. Dead on about good lyrics - the power of being personal. Too much art forgets that the art is never complete until the audience makes it their own.

​@@GaffneyInkwellby the way, can I offer you a fun filter to see this song through? I think it is meant to be funny, Tool parodying Tool maybe. First the title, Tool usually have great, meaningful song titles, take "the pot", that has so many great layers when taken in conjunction with the lyrics. Lateralus sounds deep, it eludes to a lot of profound concepts, like lateral thinking, cerebral lateralization or muscles, calling back to forty-six and two, but Lateralus is pig-latin, it doesn't mean anything. The Fibonacci stuff seems really mystical and dense, but the golden ratio is already embedded in the harmony and rhythms of music, putting it into the length of the intro, verse and refrain, and into the meters of the verse is certainly clever, but it is pretty banal, like a painting of the word "painting". The key then becomes the line "overthinking, overanalyzing, separates the body from the mind" Maynard is mocking us for our efforts. If we cut those false trails, and just listen, I think this song is about just planting our feet on the ground and loosing our self between the sounds, open up to let it in, and feel it move across our skin. Like you do at a concert, or when you are a pure listener, like a child. In that light, I think it is a really funny and powerfully simple song.

or on here again. either way. ;)

That is a great idea.

Me, too. Great idea!

Great idea.

@@GaffneyInkwell noticed the videos on your channel are much shorter generally. That'd be fine if you chose to do them there. As I said, here would be fine too. Cheers.

That's not how you spell parable.

@@danielbolin2361 I did that because deep down I knew that it would ruin your day. You and the wife probably got in an argument over it, she took my side because she’s more empathetic than you are and now your getting a divorce because you can’t manage expectations or pick up Susie from daycare on time due to your inability to put down the vodka bottle. 😘

@johncarpenter3751 does it take so little to ruin your day? I had a great one actually. Nice story there. Write what you know n all. 🙃

@@danielbolin2361 I am a story teller by nature. Obviously that was satire and an amusing attempt to crack a joke. I laughed. Hope you chuckled a bit 😂

Excellent insight - verified above by a nurse!

And the song represents a birth into the world, and its eventual aspirations and freedom, into life and spiral out…

Fascinating! Thanks!

Evolution of the eye. Darkness and not-darkness was first. The next receptors to evolve received Red and yellow

you're right again. :) we did say widow one of the times at least. Widow definitely makes way more sense. I still like willow trees though. :)

Yeah - I know the lyric was "widow" - I believe that Maynard was using a common phrase (weeping willow) to expand his lyrics to include the literal AND the echoes of imagery.

I knew about it, but I didn’t tell Sean about it until after he’d analyzed the song. He picked up on it anyway.

Thanks, Tim. The Fibonacci use blows my mind.

fixed

Unless my CD is misprinted, the name of the album is Lateralus, whereas the song on the track list is spelled Lateralis. Same thing goes with their previous album Aenima, the song is spelled Aenema. Most websites have the latter correct, but the song is matches the album for the former. If you have a physical copy, look again. Almost no one notices this.

Yes, yes, yes!!

I agree! 🙂

On the list!

Love to know the process.

Now that you say that, I can totally see it. thanks!

Might have to be.

Doh, thanks! Fixed it.

the truly embarrassing thing is, I took 6 years of Latin. I fixed it.

Ohh pushit is a good one! Great story. Maybe Jimmy could be after Pushit