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Transient Curse

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They're in by brother's room, and he's asleep.

Oh right, best to wait untill it's released then.

I'm listening on a laptop btw.

After one listen I give it: Schism out of ten. I'm mildy annoyed that the triplet riff at the end is something that I've been fucking around with for one of my songs, I'm well sueing them over that.

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Transient Curse

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Bastion Booger said:

Fucking yes. It's got it.

That Sun-on-your-skin, North-American-pines-filling-the-air-with-their-scent sound. I have felt or undergone the experience as if one were taking part in the feelings of another. This feels right. This is Tool.

So glad that I have found you.

I am wide awake and heading home.

Shut up you fool.

:D

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Yeah, I've not really noticed the vocals actually. I'm not sure if it's the excitment at hearing new Tool, or the song itself that's making me love it. I'm about to walk to my friend's houes in the rain, and it's a good 2.5 miles away. I'm gonna give it a good listen then.

I'm off to a party, new song loaded ipod at the ready. It's bastard raining here too. :D

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Marzipan Travolta

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I've been listening to this pretty much all day. I really like the lyrics in part though they lack the subtle complexity of Schism and Aenima, the two tracks this is probably most like. The lyrics are speaking to someone though. I just don't quite think that that person is me and I want it to be. Drums are as amazing ever but the Tool rhythm section in itself is getting rather one dimensional.

It's still the best song I've heard all year and yet I expected a bit more from it in some areas. It lacks depth.

I'm determined to have sex to this track. Just need to persuade my gf that a 7 minute shag to a heavy metal backing track will be good. I've got this theory that it will gain some new sort of meaning.

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a big boy

a big boy

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erm... maynard sounds a bit different! not sure what to make of this; technically not his best. lyrics *are* a bit poo. hope this doesn't mean he's run out of ideas. what's all this lalalala stuff and "the whole world dies"? fook off back to apc and EmOtivE with this shit was my first reaction. BUT this new style does fit the music well and the music is AMAZING...

anyone else reminded of 'the patient'? very lateralus anyway. the drums make me wet. i actually can't think of a better drummer than danny carey in the world. man's a genius. the ending also reminds me of what makes tool the best band in the world: it's exactly the sort of thing that, were almost anyone else to try it, would just be really wanky, but with tool it's so coherent and fits the rest of the song so well you can't help but take your hat off to them.

overall i'd say it's very good but would probably be the worst track on either aenima or lateralus. then again, i said that about everything on lateralus about aenima and undertow when that came out. so.

BRING ON THE ALBUM

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Yeah, they seem a lot better as a whole (as they would, I guess). The lines that were clearest to my broken ears seemed a bit wank before.

Still finding it a bit underwhelming in general to be honest, don't really know what I expected. When Lateralus came out you could sort of see how it might take them five years to make it, but this song sounds like it could easily have come from those same sessions and not made the cut, or morphed into a track that did make the album (the intro and outro in particular sound very 'Tool by numbers').

I'm sure it will sound better on the album though, always the way with Tool songs.

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Yeah, they seem a lot better as a whole (as they would, I guess). The lines that were clearest to my broken ears seemed a bit wank before.

Still finding it a bit underwhelming in general to be honest, don't really know what I expected. When Lateralus came out you could sort of see how it might take them five years to make it, but this song sounds like it could easily have come from those same sessions and not made the cut, or morphed into a track that did make the album (the intro and outro in particular sound very 'Tool by numbers').

I'm sure it will sound better on the album though, always the way with Tool songs.

That's how I feel about it and is one of the reasons I gave it "schism/10" The progresion between the preceding 3 albums (and the EP) is far more marked, I feel (as I have before) that it's mightily impressive that they've not really pushed beyond using pretty much the same scale and key as before while producing distinctly different songs but this times they appear to not really have come up with a new way of presenting them. It does sound very Lateralus to me, which I'm surprised isn't garnering more favourable responses, it's not my favourite album by them but I've heard lots of people here say it is theres.

I'm finding the fairly Nu-Metal esque syncopated riff in 5/4 that occurs at about 3-4 mins in (I'm guessing there, I can't be arsed to put it on) I hope it's not too indicative of the rest of the album but I do hope the main / verse riff is. That bit's still my favourite bit of the song, still we'll see. Perhaps it would've been better if leaks didn't occur and people were trying to snatch a listen from a radio show. It'd prevent all this debate and we'd get to hear it properly in context with the rest of the album.

And on the subject of the album, is there a special release of this one? I know it's not their style but before I put my order in at my online vendor of choice I'd like to be assured that I won't be missing anything.

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Lovelyman

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This whole bit:

Like:

"Killed by the husband"

"Drowned by the ocean"

"Shot by his own son"

"She used the poison in his tea

and kissed him goodbye"

That's my kind of story

It's no fun til someone dies

Don't look me at like

I am a monster

Frown out your one face

But with the other

Stare like a junkie

Into the TV

Stare like a zombie

While the mother,

holds her child

Watches him die

Hands to the sky cryin,

"Why, oh why?"

Is amazing.

It kind of worries me how well the lyrics fit the music, and in fact makes you realise (if you didn't already) that they would not be the same band with any other singer/lyricist.

Once I got over the change of style in the singing, I really do think it's fantastic.

Not sure about that riff at the end like Wahwah* said and I initially thought it was a bit Tool by numbers, but if this is the first single like Schism, then I think we have a lot of good music to look forward to.

Can they even make a crappy album?

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