10,000 DAYS

¨10,000 days¨ was the first Tool album that was a little dissapointing for the fans and i believe there are several reasons for that, the most important one is that everyone was expecting an album that was Better and if possible SIMILAR to ¨Lateralus¨ and that is not easy to do, it did not happened, this album is not better than ¨Lateralus¨ but does that make it bad? don´t think so. Also when you listen to Tool´s discography is easy to notice that none of their albums is similar to the other in any way but ¨10,000 Days¨ has so many songs and parts that are similar to previous albums, i read in a review the other day that this album seemed to have a bit of every Tool album and well that is not necesarily bad but it´s a first for Tool.

¨Vicarious¨ opens the album with a cool intro and it´s a good Tool song, lyrics here are totally different from anything ¨Maynard¨ has ever written, many people believe that the solo in this song is played by ¨Adam Jones¨ but it´s actually played by ¨Justin Chancellor¨, ¨Jambi¨ comes next and is also very good and strong, more usual lyrics from ¨Maynard¨ here and awesome solo by ¨Jones¨. ¨Wings for Marie¨ and ¨10,000 Days¨ (Wings for Marie part II) a beatiful song divided in two parts, maybe one of Tool´s best song ever, this song lyrics are about Maynard´s mother who was paralized 10,000 days and died recently, so of course it´s a very melancholic song, very emotional and it´s also the first time Maynard´s writes this kind of lyrics, beatiful, touching, but it kinds of slows the album for me, i really would have prefered this songs to be at the end. The ¨Pot¨ is next, i believe is Tool´s biggest hit ever (ha) strange vocals from ¨Maynard¨ at first, actually very scary (for a moment thought it was Justin Timberlake) but then the song goes hard great vocal performance by ¨Maynard¨.

Now here in track six the whole album changes for me, up to here everything has been very good, but then comes ¨Lipan Conjuring¨ a totally idiot segue, some kind of chanting or ritual, horrible. ¨Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)¨ is the intro to ¨Rosseta Stoned¨ it is almost 4 minute intro where ¨Jones¨ keeps playing exactly the same riff over and over and there is a conversation in the back. So then comes ¨Rosseta Stoned¨ which was believed to be the star of the album, i am a Tool fan and really, this song is just bad, weird and crazy and long, similar in some ways to ¨Third Eye¨ from ¨Aenima¨ but totally inferior, for a non ¨Tool¨ fan maybe the most horrible thing ever heard. Track nine is ¨Intenssion¨ a song very similar to ¨Disposition¨ and ¨Reflection¨ from ¨Lateralus¨, good relaxed song. ¨Right in two¨ is the last real song on the album, could be the best in the album, the more proggy also is actually a very good song. The last track is ¨Viginiti Trees¨ which is just some strange sounds, i HATE this closures, pointless... but they keep doing it since ¨Lateralus¨, i much prefer a good closure for an album like ¨Third Eye¨ in ¨Aenima¨ but well..

Good Album, Very good but not as good as Lateralus or Aenima, so 4 stars.