Tool (2) – 10,000 Days

The 3-D artwork is spectacular, the audio engineering is sonically perfect, and the musicianship is world class. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to see when I look at the artwork through the glasses...

This is a review to criticize Tool's aesthetic choice to add extraneous and clunky parenthetical addendum to the song titles "Wings For Marie (Pt. 1)" and "10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2)." It looks really stupid and childish in print and I think cheapens the intent of the titles. I know its not a big deal to most people but I felt annoyed enough by it to express my distaste for it. If they really wanted to adhere to sequential numeration of verbal titles the logic insists that it would simply be "Wings For Marie Pt. 1" and "Wings For Marie Pt. 2" or "Wings For Marie I" and "Wings For Maire II" or "10,000 Days Pt. 1" and 10,000 Days Pt. 2" or "10,000 Days I" and 10,000 Days II" like so. They could have simply Named them "Wings For Marie" and "10,000 Days" respectively and left it at that. Anyone who listens to the songs will understand they go together without numeration in the titles but its their songs and they can do what they want. It still drives me nuts though.

Tool is just being an ass with not pressing vinyl or not enough, thats why there are so many bootlegs around it's a huge gap in the market!

I've heard that the bootleg copies of this album have a "pause" in between tracks, including tracks that would typically blend together (lost keys > rosetta stoned). Is that true? I've been considering picking one of these up but not if it has huge pauses in it

I just received 82876-81991-1 LP and it was supposed to be BlueX2 and I got 1xRed and 1xBlue. I already have the 2xRed and I will be saving this as well. The sound on the 2xRed is pretty god damn good for a promo release.

Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann): been there... :)

Yep, they are working on new album now. They've released pics on the toolband website of "the loft."

It's been 6 years, I wonder if new tool is on the way soon.... its usually every 4 years or so that a new cd drops. I'm still in love with this album though, the excitement of picking up this album when it came out was like angels giving me a sign from the heavens :) I'd love to experience that feeling again, please release something new guys! <3

Tool is quite possibly one of the greatest "thinking man bands" of the time. There musical talent is far beyond most of todays common pop bands. Keenans voice is completely distinct from any other voices of the time, and portrays an atitude of insanity quite possibly only compareable to Pink Floyd's Roger Waters. 10,000 Days, being my first Tool experience, will always be to me the greatest album by Tool. The story line is completely insane and dark. There music varies between heavy metal Metallica esque sounds such as Vicarious and Jambi and the use of disturbing sound effects and chants such as in Lipan Conjuring. The album starts out having the feeling of a fairly talented and catchy heavy metal band. As you continue into the album the albums breaks down into an extremely addicting musical journey. The rise and falls in the bands volume made me jump. The use of the thuderstorm sound effects caught me off guard making me realize that this is no average metal band. As the album nears the end it breaks down into complete craziness and finnaly end with the sounds effects of a machine. Overall I would say that Tool,especially in this album, is bringing talent and uniqueness back into popular music.