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Just returned from seeing Ours in Chicago...
Hear about that and how your next trip to the salad bar could be your last tomorrow at 11.
...and I now own 10,000 Days
Hear about that and how your next trip to the salad bar could be your last tomorrow at 11.
...and I now own 10,000 Days
I, however, was not disappointed. But hey, does that shock anyone?
I do see how the album could be tedious...but for me, my understanding of tool, and my take on what they have been doing since 1992, I feel like the album deviates entirely from the constructs that make a rock song a rock song. They have gone back and forth with that moreso in Aenima and Lateralus, but they let go with this one. In that respect, the extreme lack of both verses and choruses and bridges and whatnot, I can see why some would have trouble sitting through the whole album. But as I was saying, to me, this is hands down the Toolest thing they have ever done. They have been talking about their connectedness with eachother since Lateralus, and in spite of the rumors that this is the last album, I feel the complete opposite.
Maybe I am a little bias, but with or without that, no matter how much I dig the album, I think compositionally the album is borderline groundbreaking. Take that for what you will, but I have never heard music come together like this before. I think that Undertow, Aenima, and Lateralus were pre-cursors for what Tool is really going to accomplish musically. Granted, at the rate they tend to go, by the time two albums follow 10,000 Days, they will be about 50 years old.
Maybe I should have saved this for an actual conversation.
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