Inside the booklet, however, it´s another story. The European version looks at first less interesting as there are no holographic effects or anything fancy like that - just a camera flash frozen in mid-flash. und keine Eier!" (And no eggs!)ĭid you get the American or the European version of "Aenima"? (The American features a fancy holographic cover (well, actually you get more than one cover as you can flip the booklet and choose between three different illustrations ranging from weird (a camera flash surrounded by floating eyes) to creepy (a giant eye with a freely wandering eyeball) to really fucked up (a man giving himself a blowjob on the floor while the (naked) band members look on from a couch.). "Satan's balls." Hence all the repeated calls in the recipe ". On Die Eier von Satan: That's right, it means literally "eggs of Satan" but Eier is also slang German for balls/testicles/cojones, and definitely means this in the context of the song. Amazing - I especially like the bit with scalpel passing over the disembodied head, opening up the third eye. I never watch MTV but I did get a chance recently to see the Schism video. Adam Jones is quite amazing - IIRC, he worked on the set of Terminator 2 as an f/x guy? I realize that bands are more than any one member, or even the sum of the members, I just feel especially connected to the lyrics, so I give a lot of attention to Maynard. I'm not sure what you mean by "I am worse than Satan" but Die Eier von Satan translates to The Eggs of Satan. The whole toolshed fiasco is a tragedy of earth-shattering proportions. He's largely responsible for the look and feel of the TOOL experience. TOOL is far and wide a major collaborative effort but if I was forced to nail any one member down as representing the band it would be Adam Jones, the guitarist. 6 songs and they're all excellent.Īnd Felonious Punk, Maynard is a lyrically and vocally talented but he gets too much credit for "being" TOOL. Opiate is a must have simply because its so short. One major difference though, Undertow can be digested piecemeal, each song really stands on its own, while Lateralus is more of a concept album and must be taken all at once or it loses some of its effectiveness. The next TOOL album to buy? I'd say all of them 'Noid They are all works of genius in their own way. Every store I've been in only has about one or two copies, but like I said every store seems to have one or two copies. As for Opiate being rare, I don't know about the UK but it's not over here in the states.
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Chock full of info, images, sounds, everything.Īenima is one of my all time favorite CDs. Puts just about any fan site for any band to shame. If you haven't been there before, try Toolshed - it's an incredible site, run for like 8 years or so by a very dedicate fan. I thought the songs on it were mostly unremarkable, except for the last one (and title track), Opiate, which I liked. From what I've read, they took their six "hardest" tracks and threw it together to get the EP made. Opiate is fine, but not nearly as good as anything else they've done (I suppose it makes sense it's their first after all). Undertow deals with more personal (Maynard) issues, and is generally darker. Lateralus IMHO continues in the direction that Aenima went, metaphysical and mystical, less personal.
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It's a hard call between Lateralus and Undertow - they are both excellent albums, but very different. Die Eier von Satan - sounds like a Nazi rally, actually someone reading the recipe to hash cookies in German. The album is full of crazy things, deliberate errors like the H listing, or the track "Useful Idiot" which is nothing but a recording of the sound a turntable makes when the needle has passed the last recorded track. Maynard James Keenan is a true genius.Ĥ6 & 2 and Third Eye are also incredible tracks, my two favorites on the disc. Epic is an excellent word to describe Aenima! They are like no other band out there today.