4 - Tool

We'll ride the spiral to the end, and may just go where no one's been.

At number 4 is metal icons, Tool. The above quote is so awesome that it made my middle school yearbook quote. What an honor.

Wiki Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1990. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.

Tool emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first studio album Undertow in 1993, and later became a dominant act in the alternative metal movement with the release of their second effort, Ænima, in 1996. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued with Lateralus (2001) and the most recent album 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim and success around the world.

Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and relatively long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock and art rock. The relationship between the band and today's music industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship and the band members' insistence on privacy.

Discography -

* Undertow (1993)
* Ænima (1996)
* Lateralus (2001)*
* 10,000 Days (2006)
*-best album/top 10 favorite

Top 20 Tool Songs:

20 - The Grudge
19 - Sober
18 - Rosetta Stoned
17 - Flood
16 - Third Eye
15 - H.
14 - Right in Two
13 - Parabola
12 - Intolerance
11 - Opiate
10 - Jambi
9 - Vicarious
8 - Eulogy
7 - Stinkfist
6 - The Pot
5 - Aenema
4 - Forty Six and 2
3 - Schism
2 - Lateralus
1 - Prison Sex



Tool Lyrics:

"I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive, even if signs seem to tell me other wise."

"I know the pieces fit, cause I watched them fall apart."

"Vicariously I live while the whole world dies. Much better you than I."

"Pain is an illusion."

"Silence leech and stay out of my way"

"Learn to swim"

"Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away."





Picture hint was Tim Allen. It's "Tool Time"!
And hey, I was here!


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