ITT discuss your favorite Tool song and what it means to you -

[ThatOneLurker]

Eulogy. Always makes me think of my dad.


Just call him a faggot and tell him to eat shit.

I'm in a good mood today or else I would.

 

[Troonos]

None of the above. Tool is garbo.

 

[Y2K Baby]

 

[cuÞbert]

Maynard's Dick? Simply because its a joke song.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

My first exposure to Tool was when Alan 'Fluff' Freeman played Hush on his BBC Radio 1 rock show, obviously without having listened to the track in advance. His only comment in the aftermath was: "That was Tool. Very intense."

I went out and purchased Opiate the following day.

 

[MrTroll]

This song is about how being a conformist is like living on a leash (in the Nietzschean sense of the word). Very deep on multiple levels imo. I never would have made it through 8th grade last year without this song.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

Lateralus, not because of any particular meaning but just because I think it's their strongest song. They have a pretty consistent discography, probably because they don't release albums very often.

 

[Yuuko Aioi]

Fear Inoculum. I'm not a Tool fanatic, but I appreciate them for their rhytms and how fucking clean their sound is. Even the album Undertow sounds sharp, maybe that's normal for bands like them, but for me that was a surprise. Worth listening to their 24-bit releases, because they actually give a fuck about sound quality. Fear Inoculum is not as raw as other songs of theirs, but it has a not too complicated, not too simple structure, it is interesting for me but also has energy. Can't really explain. It kind of gives a spiritual pump.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Sober, just because I liked the video as a kid when I thought claymation was the dopest shit ever. I still like the band as a whole and do genuinely like the song but i think a lot of it is subconsciously just because of that fucking video.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

I grew up with tool, my stepdad was a huge fan back in the early days.

My favorite songs are probably Vicarious, Ten Thousand Days Part Two, and Descending.

10k Days 2 is probably my favorite of the three if I had to pick one because of the fact that I connect with it on a deep level. My mother passed away when I was younger, and something about the shared experience about losing your parent sooner than you would have liked when you know in your heart that they deserved a better exit really hits you hard.

 

[Fools Idol]

Prison Sex.

No, I don't want to talk about what it means to me.