Tool - Sober (REACTION) with my wife

[@kylesheehan5697]

Greatest Band Evaaaaaaa.... 56 & Have been listening everyday since Day 1

[@thejohnson9204]

I love your reactions. Fan from Sydney, Australia.

[@tomevil6]

More TooL PLEASE!

[@shatteredstiks7392]

It's about the lyrics it's about addictions and he I'd the voice physically showing you what he's singing.

[@rj.w.5069]

He's singing as the addict in the first verse. Body language is begging and the vocals are begging "why can't we just be sober". In the second verse he's singing as the addiction that's afflicting and destroying him. The vocals are much more aggressive, "i will find a center in you, i will chew it up and leave", "i will elevate you just enough to bring you down", "why can't we NOT be sober (wanting to be inebriated). In the third verse.. he's singing as both.. same words with different meanings, "I want what i want" the addiction wanting to chew up the person more, and the addict wanting more poison. Both wanting for each other. One begging for reprieve, the other celebrating the destruction of a person. Powerful. The body language is amazing. Unbelievable song and performance.

[@suzannemartin776]

Tool can make you feel uncomfortable and I'm pretty sure that is quite intentional. They don't back away from stuff. This song makes me want to cry. It captures so well the desperation, anger and frustration of addiction. The last section, "I want what I want", really takes me back to those days and the compulsion I used to feel. Been clean for 9 years now but it never hurts to be reminded. I think you are right - Tool grows on you.

[@FrostedVanity]

Just wanted to tell you: Keep it up! Being sober is so much better! I too have been clean for 9 years. It's so much easier to be clean, than to be an addict! For me it was just a personal choice, easily the smartest one anyone captured in the thralls addiction can make. 💖

[@tattoodude8946]

Well put. Maynard has a way to just belting out the inner thoughts that we keep hidden in the shadows of our minds. All the fears, anger and anxieties we suppress in our conscious mind, he drags to the front and puts them on display. The band of course, plays with this too sonically with complex time signatures, polyrhythms and sonic dissonance that adds to the uncomfortable and tense feelings. And congrats on your sobriety - I know how hard that can be.

[@rafaelrivera9508]

Yessss... finally... great reaction his voice is amazing...

[@sherlock595]

He is immersed in the sobriety challenged character the song is centered on!

[@epicmage82]

The complexity is what I like. For me Tool is a band that I like to listen to in the dark with headphones.

[@atlarsenal]

Keep the Tool coming!

[@clintjo2377]

Yes the words in the song !

[@momishka7]

If you’re uncomfortable that means you have empathy.

[@momishka7]

It’s very sacral chakra! ❤❤❤❤

[@dryferr5557]

Love your reactions. I've been listening to Tool for over 20 years and to this music grows as I have

[@heyskipj]

So 👍🏽 these reactions here.

[@fgoogle5576]

Best living drummer... Danny Carey

[@kellyschneider2545]

Just found your channel. You two are awesome! Thanks for sharing.

[@karlsjunior466]

Great analogy! You do have to Crack the code in tool songs. And each one is different.

[@toolfankrk]

They are unique band. Try "Schism" by Tool.

[@MartyrDK]

Thanks for the reaction. Hope you guys will do more tool. It takes a while to learn to love tool. But ones you do its the best :).

[@pedromarques2077]

Well, Tool have been around for over 30 years, so yeah, they've been here for quite some time. Tool has a very very big fan base (you can even say they're a cult band), they fill out stadiums regularly and have several platinum albuns (their last album knocked Taylor Swift of the number one position), but they were never a mainstream band.. You are correct in your assessemnt, Tool is really not a band for begginers and it's one of those bands that the more you listen and the more you discover, the more you'll like them. This son you ust reacted is from their first album and this footage is from a concert in 1994, so yeah, it is quite old. Hope you keep enjoying and discovering them.

[@thisistheyear99]

Great reaction video. Tool definitely writes more complex music and lyrics than most traditional bands, but they will grow on you the more you listen and you will fall in love with their genius art ✌🏻

[@-TRIAD-]

It won’t be long before 🛠️T⚙️⚙️L🛠️ is a Must on your wife’s playlist 😎 Great reaction, KEEP BEING HONEST 👊🙏

[@drewmcbratney5253]

The lyrics are more than just skin deep. Maynard is a very well read and intellectual person and so are his lyrics. If you don't have the lyrics to read while listening you should at least read them beforehand.

[@MrDuanepalmer]

Glad yall went to something from their early work. Much easier to digest than a behemoth song like 7empest. You have an opportunity to go through their catalog and start from the beginning. They literally dont have a bad song.

[@nucl3arboNg]

Just a note for you guy's if you didn't already know this was recorded with the band's original Bass player Paul D'Amour. Justin Chancellor took over in '95 with the recording of the Aenima album.

[@pablocosta2940]

Wing for Marie !!!!!!!!

[@TheCollinGray]

tool - right in two

[@nicknick2903]

It's listening music you have to listen nobody talking around you just listen

[@EiriUesugiKun]

10:00 - You could say that Tool is an "acquired taste". They use alot of polyrhythms and Maynard's lyrics can be a bit confusing but they most definately offfer you an ride with every song if you are willing to open your third eye and spiral out. ;) I would love to see and hear you go through the entire Tool discography from the first EP "Opiate" from 1992 to the latest album "Fear Inoculum" (2019) and ending with Opiate² that they re-made for it's 30th "birthday". :) IF you decide to take the deep dive, there are some short transitions but also songs that are to be listened back to back like "Intermission" and "Jimmy" (Ænima), "Parabol" and "Parabola" (Lateralus), "Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)" and "Rosetta Stoned" (10,000 days), "Wings for Marie (Pt 1)" and "10,000 days (Wings Pt2)" on (10,000 days). Also on the album Lateralus there is the so called "Holy Trinity" consisting the songs "Disposition", "Reflection" and "Triad" and they also should be listened back-to-back. Luckily they have all their songs available on KZbin, below are the links to each albums playlists. :) Opiate (1992): kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P0BenMCcS-_JdyWRUN60TKI Undertow (1993): kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P0GRGiSs9oYKy7RvwPE9ugF Ænima (1996) playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P0zA2eNuAZndytJPH9XOxxc Lateralus (2001) playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P2IGN0wvksh-SYVWWj4lrxN 10,000 Days (2006) playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P2zMbYA_RJfVkRTYI-QKnL3 Fear Inoculum (2019) playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLESF6Vbm19P3U4iPQ_coFr6MtTX92HxyR And finally, the latest song from TOOL, "Opiate²": kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYqalKKcq9mVmdE Since this is such an task, I do understand if you decide not to go through all this. But it would give you such an great view to the band and how they have evolved during these past 30 years. :)

[@heyskipj]

5:49 As you know by now their music catalog isn’t that massive in songs, but “massive” in greatness. Ha! Hope there are only Tool fans here to see me post this comment! 😆🤘🏼

[@BoolFalse]

Listen anything from FI the last album.. nice reaction !!

[@zazune56]

Check out their song The Grudge. It is about holding grudges and how they will destroy you. Epic scream as well!.

[@clintjo2377]

Amazing song so many people feel this way ! 💔

[@elskeletor3566]

Love Tool this song and album Undertow was my begining to Tool becoming my favorite band. I bought Undertow then opiate their first album. A band I recommend you listen to is Ween the song mutilated lips.

[@scottmayo7545]

Stay curious. Keep trying Tool and you will change your perspective for the better with lyrics pulled up on phone or side screen.

[@markroberts8864]

With TOOL, you have to sit still, and listen...

[@momishka7]

This is sooooooo old, I feel so old 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@qostka]

Definately Jambi, Invincible, Pneuma (both, studio and live), Lateralus, Grudge, The Pot are the ones to start with.. From the beginner's level ;)

[@FatBoySlim696]

More Tool

[@PongGod]

Tool is definitely an acquired taste for many (most?) people. But once you start acclimating yourself to their style, they're just amazing. Musically and lyrically they go deeper than almost any others out there. They're truly special.

[@sharilynbratton6476]

You guys are really starting to get the deeper aspects behind Tool! You should try The Pot for a more straightforward banger that talks about hypocrisy in our courts about drug sentences, also 46&2 is a great song, hard power chords but also a great look into Carl Jung's philosophy about the shadow self and Tool taking it a step further up the evolutionary ladder. There are two songs that must be played together, Parabol and Parabola, that I think the missus will like, the lyrics are very straightforward but also have a great message. I am a 60 year old mom and retired preschool teacher from Texas, and I have loved Tool since they started; but it's only been in the last 7 years or so that I really began to shift focus from enjoying mainly just the music and the crazy polyrhythms to absorbing the actual lyrics and themes of the different albums. My appreciation of this band grew exponentially when that light bulb clicked on in my consciousness, and I have to add that the death of my only son in 2015 sent me into such deep grief and depression but for some reason Tool was the band that spoke to and helped heal my broken spirit most in the first 2 years after Daniel died. My deeply religious sister turns to hymns and Christian songs when troubled or grieving, and I turn more toTool, ha; so is Tool MY 'religion'? Not exactly, but my son was a practicing Buddhist and I think many of Tool's lyrics remind me of his own sentiments about human nature and a philosophy for humanity's highest good that my son and I always loved to discuss for hours.

[@jimmorris67]

The complexities is what draws me to bands like Tool and Jinjer.With Tool some people start with their song The Pot and hoping you get to the audio version soon and I’ll predict it will become your favorite as alot say your favorite is the last song you hear from them lol

[@ElgynsToy]

You're correct; with Tool, Maynard's vocals are generally more back in the mix and that's a creative decision. Maynard himself is rarely up front in live shows (this one is an exception) as he sees himself as another instrument rather than a front man. Funny, given that he's such an incredible performer; this clip being a prime example. The song is about a friend of the band who felt they couldn't create while they were sober, and Maynard is essentially playing that role. Anyhoo, not to steer you away from Tool at all, but Maynard also works with two other bands you might like to check out (also world class musicians ; ) A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Same lyrical genius and excellent production, slightly different styles : )

[@coustryemmanuel1631]

About A Perfect Circle, "Eat the Elephant" is a pure masterpiece and I think "Mer de Noms", their first record, is the best album released during the year 2000. Hope you'll give a try to this amazing band.

[@tattoodude8946]

Good call. Maynard really makes a conscious effort to blend his vocals in such a way that they become just another instrument in the band in spite of the fact that his lyricism is amazing. In the early days of Tool, they did the standard band positioning as it was just what you do, but as the band grew in popularity he started hanging out in the back. Ironically, he had terrible stage fright in the early days when he was out front on the stage and since then (and after years of being out there) he has gotten better with that aspect just in time to stick himself in the back with Danny! The stage fright is also one of the reasons he seems so zoned out in his early performances. He would pick a spot in the crowd and just sing to that one spot rather than look at the mass of people staring at him. It is a classic stage fright technique. He would do the same even in smaller venues like the 1996 Glass House or the 1992 Philadelphia shows. I always thought in those smaller venues: I would hate to be in his eyeline for the show! That piercing, empty stare as he screams at you with that much energy? 🥶

[@jimwilson5545]

7empest was not a good place to start, but depending on your preferences there might not be a good place. Though I would love for you to listen to parabol and parabola (all in one go), check out the album version. Or 10000 days. Tool is one of my all time favs.

[@stevedaniels623]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@getoffamycloud9844]

If you came out of this thinking vocals were secondary, you're wrong.

[@frankspaan6160]

React to The Patient. You get a little of everything from Tool on that song! 👍

[@nephilliumsilver8826]

I've seen two creationists cry too this song

[@prefono]

TOOL are zero catchy. I had known them for a while because all my friends who played instruments loved them. I could not understand why, but once accompanied them to a concert. That was in 2007. I've been obsessed ever since. There's nothing like them, and the amazing thing is that after all these years, even though I know every song by heart, every time I listen to them with headphones I still discover something new that I've never noticed before. The only definition I could give them is MONUMENTAL.

[@jimdunagan4180]

This was the early hit...

[@justinlovince8816]

Yeah the volume of the vocals are on purpose. Maynard and the band hand in hand telling a story. It is a "Tool" for you to use and find your own meaning. How does the song speak to you? It is meant to have multiple meanings. Enjoy!!!

[@WillyAffentranger-jb1oi]

Not sober, pronounce sooober, thats when you are not drunken. I am every sunday drunken, i like that because i work as a taxidriver 5 days a week and i want over the weekend my chilling time.

[@jbird4478]

I think what you're describing is that it is an acquired taste. Tool is not an easy listen. Just like with fine wine, you have to learn to really appreciate it.

[@neilpatrickhairless]

Maynard was really itching on this one. Perfect depiction of an addict needing it, whatever "it" is

[@happysatan1860]

Still waiting for everyone to ask for wings for marie

[@EiriUesugiKun]

No.. I would like to see them go through Tool discography from Opiate to Fear Inoculum to Opiate².. :D

[@aaronlane5000]

They are not ready for Wings yet. At the very least they need to pull up lyrics with the songs before they try Wings.

[@EiriUesugiKun]

@@aaronlane5000 I just asked them to go throug the entire catalog. x) I doubt that they will be willing to take such an task, but "if you don't ask, you don't get" ;)

[@labgnat]

Maynard rocking the romper before the romper was cool. well it's still not.

[@thedoc7305]

I love ur sabaton reactions 😁 I wanted to ask if u could react on to the "Osowiec Attack of the Dead Men Wargaming short film". Sabaton did a song to this event that happened in the first World War

[@thedoc7305]

There's a Russian and a English version, in my opinion the Russian version sounds better 😁

[@hawks7775]

hearing Sober live recording before the audio recording isn't recommended....

[@TraditionalHippie]

Tool is an acquired taste like scotch

[@bernduwebrunner4928]

Guys please react to the brandnew Rammstein Song Adieu!!!!!!!!!! Released today!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PongGod]

If you're considering a follow-up, I would highly recommend Parabol/Parabola (two separate tracks meant to be played in succession). It's very different than either of the two songs you've reacted to thus far, yet shares so many of Tool's unique characteristics. But I'd advise you to avoid their music videos on first listens because they are extremely weird and distracting. Focus first on the audio and then circle back to the videos if you're curious.

[@green4anon339]

Its not about addiction...... Think about it

[@momishka7]

But we tool fans can admit that Maynard has been and will always be a tad weird in the best of ways 😊

[@justonjenkins1589]

I bet she's a lot of fun at parties... he's acting out and singing about his addiction to alcohol that's why he's acting weird

[@EatBeets]

Male: Get's it. Female: Can't dance to it, so doesn't get it

[@NijFix]

Tool are a band called Tool. The singer is the one who's singing. The guitarists are on the guitars, and the one playing drums is the drummer. They play their instruments together to make music. There are many fans of music all across the world.

[@WillyAffentranger-jb1oi]

I want to know, where you from, because your english is kindergarten englisch.

[@golfer5636]

Feel like I’m watching Stockholm syndrome

[@LanceThompsonKssooner]

People like to suggest this because of Maynard's strange but intriguing performance. Personally I hate it. The audio is horrible. You need to hear the album version.

[@dpaquette69]

I recommend reacting to Tool’s “The Pot”, “Right in two”& Lateralus for starters. Maynard (lead singer) has said that The Pot was a great introductory song to their catalog. Love your reactions to Tool.

[@jeffreytipton-kp7fz]

If you ever been a attic you'll understand this song aloha