5/24/2023 0 Comments Tool swamp song meaning![]() The album contains some of Tool’s most metaphorically ground breaking lyrics that are accompanied by Danny Carey’s amazing drumming Adam Jones’ spot-on guitar licks Paul D’Amour’s haunting bass and Maynard James Keenan’s fragile yet strong, soft (not always) yet angry vocals that elevate the songs to another level of consciousness. A big share of its success is often given to the dark, haunting and visually stalking themes present in the album. Produced by former Green Jelly producer Sylvia Massey, Undertow was heavier and darker thanĪt a time when alternative rock and grunge were at its peak, the success of Undertow helped heavy metal remain prominent. What you need is someone strong to guide you.Īfter the success of Opiate, Tool went on to record their first full-length album Undertow, which released in 1993. You are broken now, but faith can heal you.ĭeaf and blind and dumb and born to follow. “If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. ‘Hush’ is particularly amazing because it promotes their dissenting view about the then-prominent PMRC and its advocacy of censorship of music. Opiate has some of the best, dark and hypnotic lyrics Tool has ever written, evident from the lyrics of the title track: The two songs that stood out and became highly popular were ‘Hush’ and ‘Opiate’. Named after Karl Marx’s quote “Religion is the opium of the masses”, the EP was very different from traditional EPs as it contained two live tracks (‘Cold and Ugly’ and ‘Jerk-Off’) and four studio tracks & a hidden track (‘The Gaping Lotus Experience’). Jones later introduced bassist Paul D’Amour to the band and they started practicing and performing live, and two years later they were approached by record labels and eventually got signed to Zoo Entertainment. ![]() Danny Carey used to live above Keenan and was introduced to Jones by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Vocalist Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones met through a mutual friend and soon started jamming together. Tool came into being right around 1990, when grunge was about to explode into mainstream recognition and bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains, etc would become household names. (The original line-up from left to right: Paul D’Amour, Maynard James Keenan, Danny Carey and Adam Jones) I’ll cover their origins, their EP Opiate and their debut full-length album, Undertow. So I pen my love for Tool in this first of four articles that I’ll post and cover their timeline. They’ve been called the biggest cult band in the world and without a shadow of a doubt, Tool is way bigger to contain in just one article. It’s like each and every song is an introspection, deep into the inner self and by the time I finish, I’ve entered a new level of nirvana. It’s amazing that having heard every single song of theirs more than a hundred times, each time I listen to Tool, I’m blown away by their work. I looked at everything through a different viewing glass, my third eye. So I got into research mode and the more I heard Tool the more my left and right brains expanded, a newly evolved temporal lobe had been presented in front of me. Now, the second time I heard Tool, there was a little hint at the back of my mind that I might just have stumbled upon one of the greatest musical acts ever. I realized the world was bigger than I had ever known. I felt as if I had the key to every single question ever put in front of me. I returned from school and listened to ‘The Pot’ at full volume (almost) for the rest of the day. It was almost as if I did not want to listen to anything besides that song. But then, one day in 2011, this urge rose inside of me to listen to them. It was the most bizarre, amazing, and disgusting yet the most beautiful song I had ever heard. I listened to ‘The Pot’ off of their 2006 album ‘10,000 Days’. I clearly remember back in 2010, when I first heard Tool.
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