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Kilometers Davis posted:Billionaires using their money for cool weird fun poo poo is my jam. Barnaby Barnacle posted:Elon Musk is the Henry Juskiewicz of electric cars and rocket ships.
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Wark Say posted:
See I like them and their goofiness. I don’t know why but it works for me. I guess because it’s less dudes my age and younger trying to make memes and goofs all the time and more old dudes just being genuinely excited about things and not always totally self aware. Who knows.
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May 9, 2018 14:30
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Grrrrreeeetings and salutations!
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Kilometers Davis posted:Steve’s faces are literally one of the few things that triggers anger in me so quickly and intensely. It’s the worst and why I don’t watch his videos. tbf to kmac he doesn't really too many make dumb faces he's just cursed with a head that looks like an overinflated balloon he's still cool though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocE2mxkwG_w
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May 9, 2018 15:42
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May 9, 2018 18:51
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Kilometers Davis posted:See I like them and their goofiness. I don’t know why but it works for me. I guess because it’s less dudes my age and younger trying to make memes and goofs all the time and more old dudes just being genuinely excited about things and not always totally self aware. Who knows. 
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May 9, 2018 18:53
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Wark Say posted:Chappers and the Cap'n are cool, and Rabea's riffs always bring a smile to my face. Rabea is a loving wonderful guy isn’t he? So genuinely interesting as a player and person. I’ve taken a lot of influence from him over the year or two I’ve been familiar with his music.
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May 9, 2018 19:15
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The Muppets On PCP posted:tbf to kmac he doesn't really too many make dumb faces he's just cursed with a head that looks like an overinflated balloon Tool ARE complete poo poo, aren't they?
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May 10, 2018 00:00
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I'd be totally ok if Tool never released any new music, especially they did it to troll their insufferable fans.
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May 10, 2018 00:26
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I hope it has a dj and some dope beats
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May 10, 2018 01:02
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I hope Tool releases a new album that's just twenty minutes of Maynard rubbing a microphone on his rear end in a top hat while yelling about how much he hates Tool fans, just to see the mental gymnastics all the dorks on geniuslyrics pull to try to make it into some obtuse metaphor. I like Tool but until Rick & Morty came around they had the worst fanbase on the Internet.
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May 10, 2018 01:23
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If the new Tool album is anything like the new A Perfect Circle album, it won't have been worth the wait at all lol
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May 10, 2018 02:55
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:If the new Tool album is anything like the new A Perfect Circle album, it won't have been worth the wait at all lol they put out some snippet a couple weeks back and it sounds like every other tool song
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May 10, 2018 03:01
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The new APC songs are really good.
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May 10, 2018 09:49
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I hope Tool puts out an album with a cover of Smoke on the Water.
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May 10, 2018 11:53
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Tool presents: Absolute Buttrock Classics 24 tracks your redneck neighbor loves, and now you can too!
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May 10, 2018 11:57
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Actuary X posted:I hope Tool puts out an album with a cover of Smoke on the Water. Yeah, I kinda enjoyed that version of the song. 
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May 10, 2018 11:58
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The Muppets On PCP posted:tbf to kmac he doesn't really too many make dumb faces he's just cursed with a head that looks like an overinflated balloon Only thing the video was missing was "add Phrygian mode solo"
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May 10, 2018 15:27
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Anime Reference posted:I like Tool but until Rick & Morty came around they had the worst fanbase on the Internet. Yes, I was part of the problem. Goddamn it was awful almost since it began. I loved With Teeth, and still love much of the Nine Inch Nails catalog, but The Spiral community soured me on the band for a while, despite the fact that back then I could still consider Aaron North a personal friend and I was happy that both him and Alessandro Cortini (whose help allowed me to survive in LA) were raking in the dough and "made it". gently caress The Spiral community, though.
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May 10, 2018 16:18
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I get how people can hate on Kmac, but he's one of the best things this thread has exposed me to. My current stupid music obsession is newspapers doing in-depth analysis of "This is America" video. I think no one is picking up on it being a subtle skewering of trap and rap culture's contribution to gun violence, and no one has mentioned that America is talking about gun violence again, but no one was killed this time. yay music as social device!
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May 10, 2018 16:50
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Kilometers Davis posted:The new APC songs are really good. I wanted to like it, I really did. I still love Thirteenth Step and have ever since it came out like 15 years ago. But there's almost nothing noteworthy on the new album.
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May 10, 2018 20:52
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One of the problems with the new APC stuff is Howerdel wrote a lot of it while learning how to play keys and attempted to avoid everything that made him comfortable playing guitar. It's competent music but there's no solid hook or riffs so it rests entirely on melody and lyricism. Meanwhile all the good APC poo poo has some form of riff that feels circular, I thought that was like their gimmick for a long time. Compare 3 Libras to So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Neither really focuses on aggressive guitars and both are very melody driven songs but 3 Libras starts off with a solid rhythmic hook while "I too read Douglas Adams!" begins with with an asymmetrical melody that lacks impact. Finally when the distorted guitars kick in for both songs, 3 Libras cuts through the mix with a tight focus while So Long feels more scooped and compressed while every other instrument buries the guitars. There's a live youtube video where they play it with more mids in the guitars and it sounds a lot better but it still lacks the same impact as their older riffs and hooks.
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May 10, 2018 23:19
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I mostly just liked So Long a lot. I haven’t heard the entire album though so who knows if it will hit me like that one. Either way I’ll always have Thirteenth Step.
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May 10, 2018 23:24
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wait people other than fat hot topic night managers listen to diet tool?
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May 11, 2018 02:01
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A Perfect Circle was always the superior band. While I like songs off of most of their albums/EP's (and I like most of Ænima as a whole), Tool is what a friend likes to call a "dumpster diving experience". Like, yeah, they have some good-to-great songs, but oftentimes you're gonna have to remove that stinky banana peel off it. Both Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step are pretty good albums, and even the songs that'd give that same old "Tool BS flow-breaking interlude" vibe are solid... except the one where they have Jarboe baby-talking COME THE gently caress ON YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T HAVE A BUTTROCKER IMPRESSION STUCK IN THEIR THROAT AAAAAAAAARGH 
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May 11, 2018 03:56
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The Muppets On PCP posted:wait people other than fat hot topic night managers listen to diet tool? so far we haven't proved this one way or the other
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May 11, 2018 04:06
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Earnest love for Vai and now Tool. I definitely know which thread I’m in. 
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May 11, 2018 19:03
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Both are good but Vai is king tbh
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May 11, 2018 19:10
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I get the hate on Vai, he's a goof-ball. I still love the guy, of course, but I'm an old who grew up worshipping him (he played Jack Butler in Crossroads, which is kinda like the Rocky of guitar nerd movies, and my guitar nerd friends and I must have watched that dumb movie 45 times back then) and the stuff he did with DLR on Eat 'Em and Smile and Skyscraper is simply amazingly awesome. Very earnest love for that stuff, it was the soundtrack of my Junior and Senior years of High School (with Van Halen's 5150 rounding out a great summer). I don't get the hate for Tool, but then again I never owned a Tool CD. My prog band covered Eulogy and Stinkfist and it was fun as hell to play, but that's about the extent of my exposure to Tool except for that one song from MTV... Broken? I thought that was a good song, too. I do recall hearing about the Radiohead vs. Tool tribalism but never got involved. Anybody care to explain what's so bad about Tool to me, and maybe comment on the band rivalry? Were the bands themselves involved or was it just rear end in a top hat fans being assholes?
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May 11, 2018 20:56
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My favorite Steve Vai moment is a live Be In My Video wherein they reference renting a nice French bomb and then he does a crazy dive bomb. Awesome.
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Dr. Faustus posted:or was it just rear end in a top hat fans being assholes? That
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May 11, 2018 21:31
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Tool put out Ænima, which was a fairly solid Prog-Rock / Post-Grunge record in late '96. My 12-year-old self loved the record. I still kinda like it nowadays, but it's definitely more of a "warts and all" record. I think 2 of the interludes work, but otherwise, the record would have been much better without them, because they kinda gently caress with the flow of the record. The 3 opening songs, "Stinkfist", "Eulogy" and "H" are all super solid and probably the most solid chunk of the record because, again, NO INTERLUDES. The record did NOT need an interlude about hash cookies or a phone message about Maynard's roommate being a "son of a whore" in badly mangled Italian or a sheet of paper and a fan along with fly noises. Radiohead put out one of the most memorable alternative rock records of the 90's with OK Computer in 1997. To this day, I listen to that record at least once or twice a month. It's an almost perfect record, even if it owes a lot of its strength on the second half to the Beatles (not joking) and Nigel Godrich's started butt-sexing Radiohead's production along with Chris Blair and Bob Ludwig less-than-stellar mastering jobs. Most of my weirdo friends (including me) in the mid-late 90's / early 00's liked both bands, so I'm honestly bemused as to where this Radiohead vs Tool tribalism came from. Maybe something Gringo / UK teenagers dreamed up?
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I like Tool but tbh I will die for Radiohead in that battle
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May 11, 2018 22:16
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I loved Tool as a dumb teen (and I think they're exactly the sort of band that a dumb music-nerd teen should love) but I've long since left them behind -- to be honest a lot of that is just because they're not on any streaming services for some asinine reason so my only way of listening to them is dodgy rips I got off the internet.
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May 11, 2018 22:28
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How have you all not moved on to the blackest of metal considering the world we now live in?
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:How have you all not moved on to the blackest of metal considering the world we now live in? I've started unironically appreciating blastbeats so I think I've fallen just about all the way down the metal hole now.
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May 11, 2018 22:38
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Anime Reference posted:I loved Tool as a dumb teen (and I think they're exactly the sort of band that a dumb music-nerd teen should love) but I've long since left them behind -- to be honest a lot of that is just because they're not on any streaming services for some asinine reason so my only way of listening to them is dodgy rips I got off the internet. Band members have hinted that they will likely end up on streaming services with the release of the upcoming album, which is supposedly being released in the fall (MJK said on Joe Rogan's podcast that he prefers to release albums in the spring or fall, so if it doesn't come out by this years fall, it will be 2019 before it's finally released).
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May 11, 2018 22:50
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:How have you all not moved on to the blackest of metal considering the world we now live in?
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A Perfect Circle is bad Tool is bad Radiohead is bad Music is bad Stupid Music poo poo is good Wait, no It's bad Bad
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gently caress Your Website posted:A Perfect Circle is bad I agree gently caress Your Website.
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Wark Say posted:I mostly just moved up to Gojira and Isis so whenever I get that edgelord itch, those are my two go-to bands. Isis is edgelord?  Now if you had said Sumac...
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