10,000 Days
10,000 Days
With a majority of the songs on 10,000 Days clocking in well past the seven-minute mark, you wouldn’t be entirely mistaken in thinking that the title of the album refers to how long it actually takes to make it through the whole thing. Two of the tracks–the sitar and tabla enhanced “10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)” and its suitably epic psych-rock sister “Rosetta Stoned”–even linger on for nearly a dozen leisurely minutes each. That’s delightful news for the legion of Tool fans that have been waiting five years for the follow-up to 2001’s Lateralus, which debuted at number one and sold 2.3 million copies in the United States. Singer Maynard James Keenan is back on mystical form after his hiatus with the politically slanted A Perfect Circle, sounding at once ethereal and eloquent as he calmly charges through the metal tempest of the opening track “Vicarious.” The rest of the band, meanwhile, hits a series of high-flying moments with tracks such as “Jambi” and “The Pot.” When Tool sounds as good as it does on these songs it’s hard to get enough. Which makes it all the more baffling that a surprisingly large chunk of the disc is given over to mood-enhancing soundscapes like “Lost Keys” and “Vigniti Tres.” Who has time for filler? –Aidin Vaziri
Customer Review: tool take the toll
How unremarkable
In here Tool sound like a copy of themselves
There are echoes of their previous offerings all over the place
Repetitive at times and falls short by any Tool standarts
See you in six years lads
Cheers
Customer Review: Tool - 10 000 Days
Stating from the outset that I’m a Tool fan: Saw them in 2002 in Canberra and they we’re bloody amazing. It was loud, (undeniably so - even the young kids in the audience were stuffing tissues in their ears - me, an older and wiser monkey came prepared with the industrial ear-plugs I take with me to every gig these days). There was an arrogance to the band which appealed to me, they didn’t play to the punters, they played their wonderful music and left me feeling a buzz I hadn’t felt from a live gig for years.
That was the Lateralus tour and that album was my favourite until 10 000 days.
Opening tracks seem to be Tool’s strong point (The Grudge on Lateralus was brilliant); Vicarious is another step up. An incredible opener. You just finish Vicarious and are hanging open-mouthed when Jambi pummels the ears and brain. Good stuff keeps coming with the extended Wings for Marie/10 000 Days - a brooding and emotional piece which charts the 27 years from the initial stroke and paralysis to death of Maynard’s mother. The Pot’s another bunker-blaster. Other very listenable tracks include the penultimate Right in two. Unfortunately the CD ends with the anti-climactic Viginti-tres. Tool do have a (annoying to me) habit of adding filler tracks - nothing much happens for five minutes. A pity as it takes off a point. However, the whole package outweighs this minor whinge for me. An amazing CD and for me Tool’s best.
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