Dude I LOVE tool. My recommendation is not to watch their actual videos, but instead do lyric videos. At least for the first listen.
@darinrezac2112
Жыл бұрын
Seconds this… enjoy the music
@natebaldree1937
Жыл бұрын
This
@Danny_chew
Жыл бұрын
This is wisdom
@bentowle3478
Жыл бұрын
I can't stand when people pay too much attention to the music videos. The music is the main medium here
@soth1sol
Жыл бұрын
I can't stand when people pay too much attention to lyric videos. The music is the main medium here.
@TB-sp9jy
Жыл бұрын
Steve, I say this with appreciation for what you do. You weren't in the right headspace for this one. Go back and look at your 46&2 video. That energy you had to be curious, to ride the spiral to the end, you need that if you're going to go into the Lateralus album and beyond. You can do it, you were so exciting to watch in the 46&2 video because you were invested, researched and interested. Bring that shit back man, you're quality.
@thegoatchild3545
Жыл бұрын
After watching this video for 20 years I realize this video is basically just a surreal illustration of the lyrics. It demonstrates the divide between the male and the female, one manipulating the other, their inability to communicate, making the other listen...it’s all in there.👍
@rodneyhouser2328
Жыл бұрын
YES! Also, Once they rid themselves of the parasite(s) within themselves they became one.
@jaysmith31275
Жыл бұрын
Schism-a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. He lost his religion when his mother passed away.
@annabelramos4481
Жыл бұрын
This is the true currency of humanity!
@TheSpyderx82
Жыл бұрын
I've always seen this as a mix of the fall of Babel (lower Nun-Ki) and the and the separation of a relationship.
@markwillis675
Жыл бұрын
³things you need to react to Tool. 1. Headphones 2. Lyrics 3. Dictionary Spiral out!
@tanz1280
4 ай бұрын
Your looking externally when you need to look internally. Theen all the pieces will fall in place.
@AlphaProjeKt
Жыл бұрын
Great reaction Stevie, I lol half way through it 😄
@kyleclaxton2793
Жыл бұрын
I know nothing about art and visuals, but the songs to me feels like a relationship. Two people alien to eachother, trying to understand one another. It starts off great but communication crumbles.
@rdub4nd
Жыл бұрын
Steve you're the best brother. Love your reactions your social critiques I've learned a lot from you listen so thanks
@kotykolter
Жыл бұрын
@Jo-JoGro
Жыл бұрын
Wen i hear Maynard sing it puts me in a philosophical head space for days at times
@p4our587
Жыл бұрын
The video that you saw was created by Adam Jones. Tool's guitarist. I believe he was just having fun… messing around? He made a few others for Sober, Stinkfist, more…
@russellpippin550
Жыл бұрын
Bruh you feel exactly like most of us felt the first time we saw or listened to this 😂🤘🏼🙏🏼 If you need a little video guide to explore this generations most artistic and genuine band I can help I bet
@damienbrown6764
Жыл бұрын
Great song listening to tool for years probably my favourite track also love a perfect circle
@johnsayre9935
Жыл бұрын
Between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers
@spiderdoom
Жыл бұрын
Tool's videos remind me of the nightmares I've had when I was sick with a high fever.
@Romanus7867
Жыл бұрын
Love your lyrical analysis, and especially the bravery it takes to do that analysis on the fly, willing to be wrong, test your theory, and keep delving for that deeper meaning. Much appreciated. Also, I think your initial analysis about it being about society at large is valid, but I also think the song gets into individual relationships, and how those break down from lack of communication just as religion, politics, and general society does the same.
@jl6757
Жыл бұрын
@StevieKnight Right in Two best Tool song at least my fav. It's so true with humans in history. "monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground, silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they make a club and beat their brothers down"
@georgegagnon7973
Жыл бұрын
@stevieknight STEVIE MY BROTHER IN-CHRIST & EVERYONE TOOL AND SLIPKNOT IS DEFINITELY INTO SATAN WORSHIP THEY HAVE BOTH STATED IT IN INTERVIEWS THEY ARE NOT SHY OF IT AND THEY DEFINITELY DO NOT HIDE IT AND IT IS VERY SAD TOO BECAUSE BOTH GROUPS HAVE GREAT VOICES….
@tristantknight
Жыл бұрын
I take this song as meaning a failing relationship or a big argument... two lovers and a lack of communication. I take the two aliens as representing the lovers. I'm not quite sure what the tiny person with just a mouth represents. you are right about the division part though, that's literally what schism means. this is one of tool's best songs imo.
@ducksgo
Жыл бұрын
I had to unfollow about 15 people today because they comment in the good point of the music. Stevie knows when to step in and make a comment. So many people stop it when it’s about to be hype. Nj Stevie
@ZacRay28
Жыл бұрын
The Pot!
@e.fstone6217
Жыл бұрын
You’re good at this… thanks for the entertainment
@sadetwizelve
Жыл бұрын
:50 that’s the beauty of prog rock
@Jonyringo
Жыл бұрын
Also lol, you can be completely sober to understand everything that they are beautifully conveying. Don’t be freaked out by the music video and the images open your mind and understand that it is really a message between two people in a relationship growing and falling at the same time brother. And this also can be used as a conduit or tool, if you will lol to strike a match in your own interpretation. Don’t ever forget that. Thank you.
@charleshorseman55
Жыл бұрын
I don't blame you. I tend to listen to Tool for the melodies and zone out on the lyrics lmao.
@John_in_SoDak
Жыл бұрын
Love your thoughts and reaction and breakdown man, keep it up.
@bylligoat
Жыл бұрын
The music videos have very little, if anything, to do with the content of the lyrics. The guitarist creates the music videos - he has a background in special effects and makeup, and he even shows up in the credits of the original Jurassic Park movie. They're definitely an acquired taste, and I don't think many in the Tool fandom would disagree with me when I say you're probably better off looking for lyric videos or just official audio.
@kotykolter
Жыл бұрын
@soth1sol
Жыл бұрын
"The music videos have very little, if anything, to do with the content of the lyrics" wrong.
@Frostrazor
Жыл бұрын
completely disagree. interpretively, these two beings are the protagonists of the mentioned schism, and the course of the video illustrates them trying to find the part/piece that is the source of the infection/problem - like a parasitic leech. Find the source of the schism within oneself, isolate and remove it. This is universally true in nearly every relationship collapse. Once removed, they rejoin to the repeated phrase "I remember the pieces fit"
@aricowens2289
Жыл бұрын
I thought this for almost my entire life, but re-examining it today after some really bad life experiences, it hit me like a truck.
@Hatrimn
Жыл бұрын
Back on some Tool, nice
@chrisparker2118
Жыл бұрын
I think it's easier to understand Tool if you know the work of Carl Jung and shadow work, which is the process of integrating your undesirable traits with the rest of your psyche. Listen to 46 & 2, if you haven't already. FYI: The schism, is in each of us. The schism within the individual is reflected within the larger whole. There is a breakdown in communication between the mind and spirit.
@vincenelson9114
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, bro you frigging kill me!! Keep it up family
@nojjy2006
Жыл бұрын
Vicarious is a good one
@b.l.2130
Жыл бұрын
2 aliens doing some weird shit. Lmao
@NotBenCoultry
Жыл бұрын
"There be some creepy shit goin on" is the best description I've ever heard of Tool 😆
@milner250
Жыл бұрын
Sober and opiate are the 2 best tool songs
@Cid_1
Жыл бұрын
Tool is music for the mind. Something that makes you think and something one can't break down in one sitting. More Tool please.
@chrispitzer7492
Жыл бұрын
TOOL'S lyrics are crazy great!
@MichaelSmith-wo7wh
Жыл бұрын
Always get lyrics when it comes to Tool!
@shaneseward2708
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for you latest tool vid to ask you to check out the pneuma drum cam video you’ll be blown away
@VulcanP90
Жыл бұрын
Surely he's heard the studio version of Pneuma then, correct? Because there's no way you have him listen to the audio on the drum cam video without having heard the studio version of the song, right? I mean that would be dumb as hell.
@danielvincent2815
Жыл бұрын
Ignore the videos. The videos are just stop motion videos done by the guitarist.
@sammysam2615
Жыл бұрын
Unless you've experienced with psychedelics you're better off listening to and not watching IMO
@alt-tiztik
Жыл бұрын
TLDR: Them bugs on drugs and in love To me it sounds like two people in a relationship that is starting to fall apart. But they know that it was once perfect and that it can be perfect again. So instead of "breaking up" they break each other to pieces to analyze where the peices no longer fit. Meaning they are just telling each other what they find wrong with themselves as a whole and as individuals. Maybe realizing that the peices no longer fit together to make the people they once loved but now fit together in a misshapen monsterous representation of something familiar. Instead of ending their damage to each other early on by going their separate ways, they turned each other into monsters that only each other can love because they know what they use to be. I think the couple took some acid and talked about their relationship and that night felt very much like the music video.
@trentbobo4171
Жыл бұрын
Yeah man I'm a huge tool fan but I can't do the videos. I'm sure there's some hidden meaning but I'm not smart enough to get it. They're very distracting when you're trying to understand the song. Great reaction.
@aricowens2289
Жыл бұрын
I’ll say I’ve heard this song for probably 20 years, and today watching this breakdown it all hit me like a truck. I’m sure it’s subjective but there is one specific life experience that “the pieces fit”, even the details of the video and it made me want to cry, not only relating deeply to every word and every piece of the video but finally feeling like I solved a 20 year puzzle.
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
To me this was about the failing of a relationship.
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
It could be government
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
Could be religious
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
This is deep
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
The video has nothing to do with the lyrics. They love that shyt
@luvdatbud
Жыл бұрын
HahHa 🤣🤣👍👍 My fav tool song Not surprised that's what you said after watching this
@Theasiannoodle666
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to the clan then ❤…. And Tool is SO GOOD EDIT listen to fear inoclulum .. their newest album 🔥
@RyMillz
Жыл бұрын
Most listeners are not ready for the videos . Tool is the greatest band of all time on a deep level. Get some good headphones and just close your eyes brother and let it take you in a ride.
@CoachJasonCurtis
Жыл бұрын
TOOLARMY is here. Love your channel SK. Tool is progressive heavy metal to help you on the label. They are the most talented and intelligent musicians I know of. A lot of your favorite classic sci-fi actions flicks like Terminator 2 are done by the guitarist Adam, who does the crazy claymation videos. Check out “reflection” or Undertow by tool💯🔥🔥
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
Danny Carey live on the song psumon
@brandonbanks4394
Жыл бұрын
PNEUMA LIVE WITH DANNY CAREY... ON DRUMS. A MUST WATCH
@garth2445
Жыл бұрын
More TOOL
@WookieWarriorz
Жыл бұрын
haha yea the videos are weird, this one is just showing two weird beings that are unable to communicate.
@s1lentsamurai
Жыл бұрын
with tool you gotta just let it happen. Yes most songs are a message. but As a listener of them since junior high late 90's/00's. I listen to them more now as just an ease to my day, workout, whatever. More of a melody than their message.
@sadetwizelve
Жыл бұрын
:27 Tool is prog
@brettlloyd78
Жыл бұрын
If you haven't already take a look at tool pneuma Live Vic Firth of Danny Carrey you will appreciate it i Think
@bpschmidt4707
Жыл бұрын
The meaning of the song is in the name of the song, typical tool. The definition of a schism is "a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief."
@michaelmedashefski9755
Жыл бұрын
You love tool, you couldn’t even make up your mind. 😂 lol spiral 🌀 out keep going
@dbartley555
Жыл бұрын
Never watch the videos. Just audio.
@vonbass1300
Жыл бұрын
Their music and videos are not really related. Just 2 different versions of art.
@MrWiggnuts
Жыл бұрын
Would like to see a reaction of the contortionist or polyphia- bloodbath
@alexfrank6534
Жыл бұрын
More Tool
@KCDroopy913
Жыл бұрын
The Pot is probably my favorite TOOL song. Would love to see that reaction for sure!
@kotykolter
Жыл бұрын
@Mgpblw
Жыл бұрын
Yes please.
@jimbojones8978
Жыл бұрын
I think Stevie would enjoy this one a lot.
@justinfaulkner8059
Жыл бұрын
The band had been in a long legal battle after aenima. When coming back together after a long time apart they had to learn to work together again, this learning to communicate. How many bands have broken up after becoming famous and not being able to find that spark that made them famous? The time apart had crates a schism between them.
@BM-hb2mr
Жыл бұрын
Couldn't had said better myself. That's exactly right.
@Doug37
Жыл бұрын
This is why i watch tool reactions. But yours is dead on balls accurate. I've been working on this song, trying to turn it into a winter guard show. And the break down that you did with the lyrics, just gave me a fresh perspective on staging, and choreography ideas. I owe you man.
@kotykolter
Жыл бұрын
@scottmayo7545
Жыл бұрын
Keep going with Tool. I subscribed over a year ago when you did them. Stay clear from videos and stick to studio tracks and lyrics. It would take a whole college course in art to break down the song and the video separately. The interpretations you have can vary, intentionally. I see this as a when you are in a relationship that was fueled by desire and the fire will always flame out or fall apart if you fail at communicating with one another. She took his ear off to symbolize finally getting his attention and then they joined hands and bodies once again. First, they had to pull out the demons within that were plaguing the mind. That's what I see and I could be wrong. That's what makes it fun. You will enjoy the more you dive in, I promise.
@alt-tiztik
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah brother. I agree. To me the music video felt like a couple taking acid at home knowing they are going to spend the night breaking each other down to analyze everything about each other and cut out the tumors and cast out the demons. Like emotional surgery on each other, removing the toxicity before it kills them
@p4our587
Жыл бұрын
It’s actually Adam Jones that created the videos. He worked at a place that made masks & creatures & a bunch of artistic stuff. This video is unrelated to the music. It's just showing the things that Jones was involved in.
@p4our587
Жыл бұрын
They weren't under the influence of any drugs. It was literally a passion of Jones' to create this stuff.
@waynewade6723
Жыл бұрын
Fun fact Stevie Maynard Keenan the lead singer graduated from West point, and has an IQ of 200 beast mode!!!💯🔥
@ghosttrails6537
Жыл бұрын
The great schism of 1054 split the orthodox and catholic. Orthodox means original
@vojkanjovanovic7940
Жыл бұрын
Ortho- proper/true; doxa- faith
@frnkrdz1
Жыл бұрын
Keep on with the TOOL journey!!! 🔥
@JessBecause77
Жыл бұрын
I definitely recommend Aenima. I think you will love it.
@tailor826
Жыл бұрын
🤣 Just know that every Tool fan has gone through the same thing of trying to understand what the lyrics mean. I've loved Tool for about 15 years and I'm still here pulling the same wtf reactions like you have. Just don't steer yourself down the Tool rabbit hole, it's endless. Or do. It's wonderful.
@jg5004
Жыл бұрын
I think this song is about a failing relationship and the video is about…….
@ConnerSpeed6
Жыл бұрын
You're going to hear this a lot... NEVER use the TOOL "Music Videos" to react. Lyrics videos work best.
@GGg-ug3jr
Жыл бұрын
"a cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion." I take that verse as if someone is going through something and their way of dealing with it is in "cold silence" and the observers compassion may fade or atrophie
@Frostrazor
Жыл бұрын
Could be. But I think moreso it's saying if two people refuse to communicate (whether we're talking two lovers, or even a parent/child), eventually they will lose compassion for each other - because that silence creates a barrier and wall that prevents communication, understanding, empathy for other's view, and compassion for the issues they're struggling with.
@GGg-ug3jr
Жыл бұрын
@@Frostrazor I think that's what I was trying to say.
@magau3698
Жыл бұрын
But then he says between supposed lovers
@gardenfever4139
Жыл бұрын
Priceless reaction. Tool is different. They are very different and artistically genius. They’re one of the greatest rock bands of our time all will come to know this in the end.
@angelcaraballo4907
Жыл бұрын
Stevie...STAY AWAY FROM THEY MUSIC VIDS!!! Its a visual distraction....the fact u suggested they lyrics u shoulda listened to ur gut cuz they visuals are a distraction to the Tool beginners....keep it lyric videos I promise you my G!!!! #TOOLARMY
@jg5004
Жыл бұрын
“You gone zoom in on the blood cell in the alien’s head and shit?” - Stevie 2022
@neotheone6796
Жыл бұрын
TOOL is a religion or a way of life haha PLEASE do TOOL the pot next And H the song Maynard made for his son. Two of my absolute favorites
@LexyThomas134
Жыл бұрын
Yeah bro, you don't do music videos with Tool haha definitely do the lyric videos. People get too lost watching the music videos. It's irrelevant.
@KCDroopy913
Жыл бұрын
12:28 "How the fuck this shit ain't age restricted?" Lmaooo that's that content brain speaking but shit had me dyin 😂
@finloq2758
Жыл бұрын
if you want to see his views on religion, he has a crazy story told through the song Judith in his other band "A Perfect Circle". People are talking about recommendations but this is the one.
@scottybeats5328
Жыл бұрын
Tool is a band where it makes you think.. makes you delve into the lyrics and use your brain. like Eminem. I've always said that Eminem and Tool were the only 2 that do this to people.
@Jackd-lz2hn
Жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/1oV-0Zl-a4iSeGU KZitem tool uses math they used to Fibonacci sequence in the song lateralus and that video alone explains the whole process
@airxtream2139
Жыл бұрын
I bet you'll like Korn Check out Korn- Got the Life
@mattboselli1099
Жыл бұрын
Don't judge a book by its cover. I haven't watch your reaction to this master piece We call tool. Tool vids are something you need to to watch on your first induction to tool. I hope you enjoy this. Tool army lets go. Knight nation let's to goo.
@VulcanP90
Жыл бұрын
actually you shouldn't watch any official tool music video until you know what tool is about. because if you don't the focus becomes what you're seeing and NOT what you're hearing.
@MarcumDavid
Жыл бұрын
It's simply about a breakdown of a relationship.
@johnwarde4497
Жыл бұрын
You need to check out Hooker with a penis, it's basically a Tool dis track
@nahco3994
Жыл бұрын
The religious interpretation is a pretty safe bet, considering the name. You might want to look up the Great Schism of 1054 between the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. The impact this event had on the secular world is momumental. The cultural and political echoes can still be felt to this very day.
@GnashBistro
Жыл бұрын
Lol. Aenima next for sure. You will dig it
@StrongStyleFiction
Жыл бұрын
Greatest dis track ever written.
@Comrade_mommy
Жыл бұрын
I’m a tool fan but I also recognize Tool fans are a bit much. I appreciate ppl being authentic when they consume something I like/love but unfortunately a lot of fandoms from BTS, to Barbs to Tool fans loose their fcking minds if praise isn’t universal. Not evryone likes the same sht. There’s sht ppl love that I can’t stand. That’s kind of how art works. Like my bestie is a huge Mariah Carey fan and I can’t stand her songs. My kid thinks my music is anxiety inducing and I don’t appreciate the ethereal Nordic singers with high pitched voices that she stans. Doesn’t mean I think their favs are bad (usually), it just means it’s not my vibe, & mine isn’t theirs. Being super rigid in your opinions about art kind of makes you look like an a$$hole. Also it can get super toxic. My kid was part of an anime fandom that ended up causing her to feel negative about a fav show (even before the creators ruined it) all bc some fans shipped characters that weren’t cannon. It turned toxic and ugly, even abusive. So all that being said I wish fans of all art would chill the fck out. Like srsly some fans make me want to hide I’m a fan of certain sht bc they’re so fcking cringe.
@-Manda_SKnight_BeastMoD
Жыл бұрын
SAME!!! Thank you for saying this!
@billbrasky1288
Жыл бұрын
Sober Maynard thinks in ways an LSD user wishes he could.
@traviszander
Жыл бұрын
My first real concert was Tool at SDSU around 2005 / 2006. They are so good live.
@p8triotmode
Жыл бұрын
I LOVE that you are choosing to broaden your music catalogue. It takes a lot to remove yourself from your comfort zone when it comes to genres of music you like to listen to. Tool is a perfect "tool" to use to do this.
@Sultan18951948
Жыл бұрын
Great to see you react to Tool. Would love to see you get into Pearl Jam's first album TEN. Literally a top ten album all genres imo.
@jl6757
Жыл бұрын
That album was fire! Everying about it except Jeremy lol.
@williamvankleijr3839
Жыл бұрын
Black is one of my favorites. Would love to see Stevie break down those lyrics. Absolutely fire
@walkingdeadxx1723
Жыл бұрын
Steve I have always took this as a relationship song. You and your wife “ fit” the spark , passion brought you together . Over time both grow and change. If communication is not maintained , things will fester and fall apart , crumble . The video, at first I believed was filler . Now I see it as religious interpretation of a man and woman relationship. Two separate beings coming together become one . To become whole , perfect. I feel this song should be played to EVERY couple seeking divorce. What happened ?? The pieces fit , you know , because you watched them fall apart , fall away , the tower tumble 😥
@thomasdehart548
Жыл бұрын
he video, which has a lot of variants of interpretation, has a psychedelic feel and full of various concepts like the alchemical concept commonly known as “squaring the circle,” male and female interacting at a subhuman level, symbols of purification human mind and body, and the union of the opposites.
@billbrasky1288
Жыл бұрын
This is Tool’s version of a breakup song.
@quillclock
Жыл бұрын
i think its about a relationship falling apart "i know the pieces fit" like we were meant to be together. but its art you gotta interpret it personally.
@magau3698
Жыл бұрын
Like the lyrics say “cold, silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between suppose lovers”
@gardenfever4139
Жыл бұрын
Your reactions to Tool are priceless 😂!
@mercychoke4475
Жыл бұрын
They have another video of Schism, with war and geopolitical divisions being explored. But per usual, Tool songs are multi-layered and the premise can be applied to many different concepts. This song, to me, is about the Human Condition, overall. #TOOLARMY 🤘
@motorpsycholj
7 ай бұрын
This song is actually about how his band split apart and then got back together. They are some of the highest i.q. people we know in one band and they ALL just butted heads and couldn't agree
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