For those who were not gay but had been sexually assaulted by a homosexual and at some point enjoyed it would be a specific cause of cognitive dissonance within that person. A lot of them seem to answer the question "What made you the person you are today?" in regards to a persons sexual identity. It gives voice to their suffering as perceived by Keenan. I think that the tool songs represent a collection of conversations with those in the gay community. To those who read the entire post: Thank you So don't misinterpret masterpieces or fuck them all up with your twisted minds. I think Maynard James Keenan (or whoever it is who writes these songs, if not Keenan.) is nearly a genius. You should find it amazing, not brain sucking, this way to write. They are hidden because there are many possibilities of interpretation. Usually the context is clear and the "hidden" meanings are not so hidden. When you write an interpretation of a song don't make up a context around second meanings of words or hidden ones. "Blue" could mean "sad" and "ice" could be a crystallized drug or something slippery. Sex is not a close relationship, love is a great relationship, "blue" is not the blue planet, water or the ocean, "blue" is a color and "ice" is not "your cold cold heart" it is just ice. why don't you let words be themselves : let "sex" be "sex", let "blue" be "blue", and "ice" be "ice". but this should help you understand the songs in your own personal way. This is just a general interpretation I am sure it doesn't fit for ALL songs. of course, the critic expressed in the song is almost always too strong, but that only makes Maynard's poetry more stunning and willingly or not, it will makes us think about our flaws and flaws of others.Įulogy: Critique of people who point the finger but themselves and who speak strong and loud over the crowd and who have nothing to say. replace the "you" or the "Jesus" in the song by your name or one of your friend's name. Sometimes he also uses himself to demonstrate that something is disgusting like in crawl away: "he" kills the woman/friend who's leaving him. "Jesus" could be "the idea in which you believe because you have nothing else you dumb fuck" "Jesus" could be "the one who's trying to sell you bullshit" I think Jesus is so well known that he is most of the time (and this could also be in any - or all - of Maynard's songs) referred to as a general idea. He is therefore saying more than one thing at a time, which is brilliant.įollowing the same idea, maybe what he wants to make us understand is: "it is not important who I'm talking about" Of course there is nothing clear: in almost every case, Maynard's words have more than one interpretation but all interpretations seem to converge towards the same point. "But there's nothing really clear in any Tool song!" Now you must realize this: in most of his songs, we can't really tell who he's talking about (the proof is you are all fighting and arguing on that).Ĭombine these two things: if Maynard thought it was really important to knowĮxactly who he's talking about, he would have made it clear. Maynard's not a moron, I think we will all agree on that. It had four singles released from it: “Stinkfist,” “H,” the title track, and “Forty Six & 2,” which all became some of their most well-known songs.Ok everybody, there is one thing that you have forgotten which I'm pretty sure of. It was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA, making it their all-time bestselling effort. 2 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for 104 weeks, a record by the band that they still haven’t broken. AllMusic reviewer Rob Theakston hailed the album as being filled with “long exploratory passages are unleashed with amazing precision, detail, and clarity, which only complements the aggressive, abrasive shorter pieces on the album,” while also citing similarities to progressive rock, most notably, King Crimson. Ænima received acclaim from critics, and it has since been named one of the most influential albums of all time.
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A close friend of the band, he was referenced a few times on the album, most notably on the album’s lengthy final track, “Third Eye,” in which there was a sample of him talking about LSD.
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The album was dedicated to stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, who died two years prior of pancreatic cancer. Lyrically, the album touches on ketamine, psychologist Timothy Leary (who died shortly before the album’s release), ritual magic, and religious fundamentalism. The album’s title is a combination of the words “anima” and “enema,” of which the former means “soul” and is associated with ideas of life force, while the latter is the medical procedure where fluids are injected into the rectum. Released on September 17, 1996, the album continues the progressive, hard rock sound of their debut album, Undertow, albeit with more ambition, leaning towards a more progressive style.
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Ænima is the sophomore record by heavy metal group Tool.