Their others pale in comparison.

still amazing after 7(?) years of fairly constant listening (well every few months anyway)

best track? i reckon 'Lateralus'. THAT riff at the beginning ! :O

lateralus is good, exceptional in fact, but its not as good as aenima, that is a marsterpiece if you ask me

You'd be gutted if everyone said "nah it's shit compared to (insert Tool album name).

Where did you get it from? How much? I've considered exploring Tool.

Though it's just recently been beaten into 2nd place on my 'FAVOURITE METAL ALBUMS LIST' by Calculating Infinity, which i only discovered a couple of months back.

I only bought it because I liked the artwork, then took it to Spain with me, and it soundtracked my week there perfectly. Actually that's a lie, I spent my week by the pool or playing air hockey and getting electric shocks. Still, it's a great album.

What do people think of 10,000 days? I bought it ages ago but I don't think I've ever listened to it.

THIRD EYE BABY!

FACT

...feel that they have either lost the passion for it or ran out of ideas on 10,000 days? It just seem to lack everything that made the others good.....it was almost too straight up..

The thing with Tool is they often have a good 4 minute song and pad it out with a load of boring shite! Sometimes it's entirely boring shite too. Vicarious on the newest album would be good if it didn't have that dull 3 minute retread of the intro bit halfway through.

buying tool albums after aenima, which i do like a lot. that and undertow too. (the videos for those songs are amazing)
perhaps i'll get lateralus.

10,000 days was a bit disappointing, apart from the 3d artwork which is incredible. i think they put more effort into that than the album

till I saw them on the Lateralus tour then
Lateralus became my favorite till I saw them on the 10,000 Days tour, now I don't listen them much at all. If you get into them you'll come to appreciate each album as massive chunk of music. Even the live cd that comes with "Salival" is a great and weighty document. If you ever get the chance to see Tool, go! The shows are where you really get Tool. Songs that you thought were kind of so so suddenly get legs and you'll go OK, I get that. Plus they do visual stuff you just don't see anywhere else. At the last show I went to they had a huge white stage that they projected images of things like sparks and rushing water onto so I looked like the band was standing in a sea of sparks and rushing water. Incredible lasers, tippy lights and Adam Jones' filmic overlays for the whole show, it is religious.

just makes me feel so much more content than Aenima. Far more of a journey than anything else they've produced.

10,000 Days... I've probably only listened to that a few times. Doesn't really grip me at all. Shame.

is my fave, but i haven't got lateralus.

i do have 10,000 days though which is, well. Not as good as Aenima.

but aenima is an awesome album

the Opiate EP really sound like rage without the rap? Can someone second the opinion?

I've not heard it, just interested.