For some reason it reminds me of the chord changes from Angels by The XX.

woooow great feel !!! Amazing cover - BOC are disturbingly comforting.

This lady likes all the same bands I like. I’d love to see your break down of decks dark.

Wow, what a treat! Here's a double discovery: ixi discovering an Aphex Twin album - and specifically DrukQs, at that - AND my discovery of you @ixi! What joy this video was to watch and hear your analysis, description, etc. of the entire album! I love how in depth you went with it all...including all the humor along the way. Oh, and kudos on keeping the leaf-turned-eye flower in your hair throughout the video - nice touch. Again, what a delight of a discovery!

Adrian Belew. Is my favorite guitarist.

Recognize this as a Holy Gift and celebrate the chance to be Alive and Breathing...Life Mantra

Amazing to watch this after someone else’s reaction. The other person didn’t care for his voice and said the song was boring 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

You forgot to headbang

This is my favorite tool song. Thank you for covering it.

Still is an especially sad album, and probably my favorite or at least second favorite. It’s at least within the top 3, with TDS and the Fragile being in that area of discography for me.

Incredible music and enjoyable analysis. I recall my mind being blown when this album came out in 2002. It was such a huge jump from the musical stylings of their previous albums. Hard to believe these complex songs were written by a guy who was only 22 years old.

Ah shit looks like I’m goin to be joining patreon cause that was amazing

You're spot on comparing it to a musical. In the live performances of this album, he calls the first and second halves of the show "Act 1" and "Act 2". If you can, I'd recommend getting a hold of the live DVD version of this album since you're into musicals, and this would give you the full visual spectacular of it: Live from Faraway Stables. It's also on KZbin in low res.

I totally hear the carnival aspect of what you're talking about around 30:15, but I never heard it that way until you mentioned it. What I felt was a little different. I paint, so I will use images to describe the feeling. Start with pitch black. Ok, now there is a faint layer of dark red over the black. Now, the dark red is becoming more red, but it's losing the height dimension. As the pitch ascends, the red become pink, then quickly escalates into a scintillating white hot sensuous line before it disappears completely. Then it begins again. In my mind, Reznor is imitating what sensual touch or lick feels like, and he's doing it all up in your brain.

Another excellent and enjoyable analysis - you get TOOL in a way that focuses on the subtel details that make them so brilliant... @ixi did you ever anlyse Boards of Canada ?

The darkness is infinite, beautiful and compelling

Great video, please react to avenged sevenfold, this band have very interesting melodies and harmonies too.

The words Maynard holds onto are “Holy” “Alive” “Be”

It feels good because this song is all about feeling good!

17:41… Those singing passages are very impressive. Usually involuntary vibrato comes through in lesser singers.In the first song you covered I think that is Daniel playing the piano at the start. He has a grand piano in his home. He commented in a documentary about the making of the album that he was listening to a lot of music like Kate Bush and Judy Garland so it influenced the album in a huge way. The song “Tuna in the brine”, you can search on here for the “isolated vocals” version of that song, which is incredible to hear the effort he went to in the layering of harmonies.

I love how you show us how to decipher this song! Brilliant. Subscribed!

2:44 We're not talking about how good this sounds?! 👌

2:44 We're not talking about how good this sounds?! 👌

I knew the melodies would be good, but even better than I expected and the vocals sound amazing! Shaping up to be a beautiful album!

This song coincidentally sounds very similar to the chords in the song "Fashion" by Owane! (Well, at least the beginning of Fashion.)

You have an *incredible* voice!!

…and the riff you’re looking for is from Pearl Jam’s Even Flow, after second chorus.

In the darkest tragedies, there is always a miracle. In every such miracle, there is the tragedy of passing from it and back into the major tragedy, not sure if you really experienced what you winessed or if anyone would understand if you talked about it.

This song has the E tuned down to B

This made me so freaking happy. Not enough people have reacted to or analysed this album and your song choices were perfect. Tuna in the Brine is such a fantastical song. One of my all time favourites.

Hi Ixi, I'm new your channel, what gold mine, thank you for sharing your talents with us - Subscribed, and am getting your digital album. I was wondering, could you or Pax take apart one the songs from Dream Theater, something fun like Octavarium, Illumination Theory or Count of Tuscany? Not sure you might fancy them. Thanx in advance. Keep the deconstruction coming!

this is so cool!

This is in my top 5 modern rock albums of all time. Another album worth checking out, an adventurous swing by a little bit heavier (metal/rock) band, would be Say Hello to Sunshine by the band Finch. There’s plenty of unconventional stuff going on that I never would have expected from them based on their prior catalogue.

Love this analysis and breakdown! I think you'd love their Neon Ballroom album. Emotion Sickness, Ana's Song, Black Tangled Heart and Paint Pastel Princess are my favourites

I thought the intro was Living on a Thin Line by The Kinks.

Bowie,Boys Keep Swinging.

You don't clap to this song, you rock back and forth, slowly.

Sounds like noise to me

loved your vid on aphex twin drukqs and now this, perfect

Super validating to hear your input to my absolute favourite song. Maybe I also feel strongly about it because of it being an island of 4/4 in a sea of Tool. haha

You should definitely do a breakdown of their song “Emotion Sickness” from the Neon Ballroom album

Thank you so much for this! Diorama is a masterpiece

You've gotta react to the song The Parable by the band The Contortionist

Excellent video. Tool rocks, but I wish they’d write at least a few more songs in baritone.