Tool/Top 100??

You don't like Haggard? I think they are great!

Don't really like Nightwish... Some of their albums are good, just that their newest one= sh*t

Mhmmm... I'm not really a big Haggard album, but I got introduced to them from my friend.

Since he loves all Folk Metal, he really seems to like their newest album (Which he got it in Europe)

Eppur Si Muove or something like that, I've heard it, its pretty good... Its a mixture of FOlk and Symphonic Metal..

TheProgtologist wrote: The Ryan wrote: ian_b wrote: The Ryan wrote: Angeldust wrote: Tool don't have many prog - characteristics?Since when all the bands should use some patterns that claim to be prog-characterestics ...?In my head Ozric tentacles sounds as progressive as Hawkwind.And Gong as progressive as Camel.Open your mind ...! What makes Tool original or unique? What they do, I've heard before in many other bands. To me it's nothing new, but that part is my opinion. i would like you to name one band that plays in the same style as tool. have you seriously heard a vocal style like maynards in your life? personally i hear noone else in their music, i just hear tool.  they are one of the most unique bands on the planet and that is what makes them so popular and great. Maynard has no range, I've heard it plenty of times. Do you watch American Idol, do you listen to the radio, do you realize what's popular in America? Pick a band. People who have no dynamics are all the same to me. I never insult people on this forum but you are an idiot.Maynard has no range????His ability to hold and sustain notes are a testament to his vocal ability.Listen to the live version of Push*t on Salival,then get back to me.And I don't watch American Idol cause it's mindless commercial fluff and it sucks,and feel the same way about radio.The fact the you do tells me alot about you.

I never said I watch American Idol, or listen to the radio. You never insult people, except when you do. Sustaining a note has nothing to do with range. There's no dynamics to a 20 second scream. You assume I haven't heard Salival for some reason. I'm bored with Maynard, I was from the start, and I've heard him plenty.

By the way, I avoid things like American Idol and the radio. Tool is on the radio all the time, and this is because they fit in. They fit in on the radio. You don't like commercial fluff, but Tool belongs in this grouping. I don't listen to teeny bopper music, that's for idiots.

stinkfist wrote: tool is not popular music it is not on the radio all the time in fact im sure 60-75% of the people i know, hate tool the day i can go into school with my tool shirt on and not hear some sh*t about the band is the day they are popular music

Where I am Tool is popular. Everyone who listens to rock knows Tool, and most of them enjoy Tool. You can say what you want. They get major air time on radio stations here, and they have good album sales, this is mainstream. I call that popular.

where i live makes no difference
people hate tool
you guys do
and there are people that agree with you
so therefore tool is not popular music

Wow, you people are still whining about Tool.

Of course Tool is popular, they're album "Lateralus" is in the top 100! That doesn't mean they're bad (they're quite good, and they got me into prog in the first place), it just means that a decent number of people like them. That's all.