Tool's Lateralus album.

[phillipmorephil]

It is, in my opinion, one of the greatest musical journeys of the twenty-first century.

The Grudge
Eon Blue Apocalypse
The Patient
Mantra
Schism
Parabol
Parabola
Ticks and Leeches
Lateralus
Disposition
Reflection
Triad
Faaip De Oiad

The album starts out with eight seconds of silence. When you put on an album, you expect to immediately hear music. You've

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[kyle_tofusoup]

I wouldn't agree with you more - Lateralus is the perfect album. It's the album that I "woke up" to, when I really thought, "wow, THIS is music", and that solidified my determination to pursue music. Every song on that album could be a single, but the great thing about it is that it functions so perfectly as a whole. Also, the message that it puts across, to be aware as a person and to transcend and to reach out from the ordinary (I don't really kow how to articulate it fully, but the title song pretty much sums up what I'm trying to say), really inspires me.

Disposition/Reflection/Triad is the greatest musical movement in the history of sound.

I always thought the noise at the beginning was a manipulated sample of a washing machine starting up.

[phillipmorephil]

No, I completely understand what you're saying, and I wholeheartedly agree with your views on D/R/T. More analysis of this album to come, I promise.

[kyle_tofusoup]

I was going to do a track-by-track analysis on Amazon a while back, but, y'know how it goes, and after a while I just forgot. Maybe I'll do that soon...