TOOL

I have always maintained that Tool is a lame band with some decent riffs. Well I spent the last 2 hours listening to a bunch of their stuff. I usually dont admit that i was wrong about anything unless i really am or feel that me conceeding will benefit any party involved. I dont think conceeding will benefit anyone in this case, but since im a nice guy I will say, that after listening to hours of Tool and after hearing riff after riff, I realized that tool is a lame band with some decent riffs.

I found that Rhythmically they arent that good. which everyone brags on. They are all good musicians. But they do the same few variations of rhythmic intricacie over and over throughout all their songs. In fact I found a few songs schism and vicarious use the almost the same theme rhytmically and with notes. Almost the same riff.they are a little bit different in their style, but the up beats of each riff shares the same notation, as well as the drumming theme is almost the same in these songs as the drumming is in every song. The guitarist is a decent one, but he and the bassist like hitting everything on the off beat, for that matter maybe the whole band likes accenting those notes. Everything is pretty much in half time or just a slow tempo with a lot of notes inbetween so it sounds like more is going on than actually is. The drummer is definitely the most talented in the band, but even he is repetitive like no other. he loves to do a sweet tom fill so that every time it lands on the "+" beat. being the off beat, the up beat or whatever you call it yourself. But not only that, he almost always ends a fill with a double kick flammed into a snare/crash combo. The guy is talented but not creative past the odd rhythm. I have always known these things from hearing a couple songs, and based my opinion of tool on a few songs alone. I thought well maybe its time to see if that was an inaccurate assessment. It wasnt. Tool bores me, but at the same time, if they come on the radio i would rather hear them than most of the terrible crap on the radio. they have a strong tight rhythm section which i guess just falls into solid heterosexuality. I can head nod to them in the car if they are on the radio and not feel unmanly. But as far as ever thinking, i wish i could rewind that it was so rad, that rarely happens with tool. Of all their songs, i found this one to be the most enjoyable. It is the most well rounded song. Normally they have a good riff, lame singing. Or a decent riff, ok singing and a wicked bridge or some other unbalance in the song structure. But this song is probably the most even as far as decent singing,riff, and bridge. In fact the bridge, at like 4:30 kicks ass. but they only decide to kick that donkey for like 15 seconds which sucks, because i coulda heard that jive for like 3 mins.