Please help me out here. I was never a huge Tool fan, but I did have Undertow, but I’m missing the joke here.
lulz
Submitted 1 month ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 1 month ago
JollyG@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You explained it in much better detail than I did. Thanks.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Many tool fans fancy themselves as deep intellectuals, simply because of their understanding of Tool’s themselves, musical scales, etc. and think that other people just don’t “get it”.
scytale@piefed.zip 1 month ago
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.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Mars Volta is true intellectual
starik@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You know what kind of person doesn’t have to tell people they are intelligent?
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am though. I PROMISE.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Oh yeah if that’s true then you must know that the sum of the square roots of any two sides of an Isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side 👓
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
MTZ@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you just do a scarecrow reference? Decent!
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ಠ_ಠ
RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m sure the lyric “shit the bed again, typical” resonated with him very strongly.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Donnie will never forgive himself for forgetting his giant sharpie pen either.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
A real Tool
fan.Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As their song goes, “there’s a schism between us, baby.” Or, perhaps more relevantly, “it’s like he’s both 46 and 2” from their album Vaginal Biome Destruction.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
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? 🤒
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
All experience is subjective and unique.
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
These are the only tools i listen to
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I hated Stavros and I miss Nick.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
stavvy is a piece if shit with a kernel of gold.
dude is living the dream and nobody can take that away from him.
yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Dissociated purchase of bass guitar with credit card
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That man has never listened to tool in his entire fucking life
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bet he’s listened to a tool before
RidderSport@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’d bet he has listened to his thoughts - so yeah he has