Info There is hope: Tool dethrones Taylor Swift on Billboard 200

[Fanatical Meat]

Not sure if serious.
You were what, 17 in 1991?

Heh. Yeah, I bought the Closure VHS set back in the day, it has the video on it.

Saw them live at some small club in Boston around this time. Played under a different name, I think it was the broken cocks

 

[whm1974]

I would still expect someone of that age to know what grunge was, even if they hadn't heard it personally. Just how socially isolated were you?

Well I didn't have any girlfriends and go on dates as most of the HS girls wouldn't have anything to do with me at all. In fact the last girl I ask out slapped my glasses right off my face and they flew across the hallway. That was during my last year.

 

[dainthomas]

Maybe 15 years ago, I don't think the current music-consuming public bothers much with piracy anymore when there's Apple Music and YouTube and Spotify and Pandora etc etc.

I pay $8/mo for Pandora Premium. Cheaper than if I bought only an album a month (used to buy more than that). Listened to the new Tool album and I thought it was great.

 

[whm1974]

That wasn't until the late 90s though.

My older uncle complain that MTV wasn't any good anymore when he briefly stayed with us in the early 90's.

 

[dainthomas]

Whatever you do don’t watch this.
same for anyone at work

Media auto embeds now I removed it

For those interested NiN Happiness in Slavery

Pcgeek is well known for being a total square.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Pcgeek is well known for being a total square.

He was too mature at that point in time. Not weird that he isn’t aware.

 

[nakedfrog]

Well I didn't have any girlfriends and go on dates as most of the HS girls wouldn't have anything to do with me at all. In fact the last girl I ask out slapped my glasses right off my face and they flew across the hallway. That was during my last year.

I'm just talking in general, friends, acquaintances, maybe cousins... your peer group.

 

[nakedfrog]

I pay $8/mo for Pandora Premium. Cheaper than if I bought only an album a month (used to buy more than that). Listened to the new Tool album and I thought it was great.

I generally prefer to pay for albums, artists get very little money from streaming services.

My older uncle complain that MTV wasn't any good anymore when he briefly stayed with us in the early 90's.

Was he into bands like Motley Crue, Poison, etc?

 

[whm1974]

I'm just talking in general, friends, acquaintances, maybe cousins... your peer group.

Yes I had some friends and acquaintances, a few anyway.

 

[nakedfrog]

Yes I had some friends and acquaintances, a few anyway.

Were they all, uh, like you? Just seems weird that you are somehow completely unaware of a major cultural event for someone of your vintage. Kind of one of the defining "things" for Gen X. You do seem to maybe be on the autistic side, so maybe that's it.

 

[balloonshark]

Tool - 46 and 2 is one of my favorites.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't do streaming aside from research. If I like something, I buy it. Wasn't a fan of Tool, but rock has bored me for a long time anyway. In the 90s, I was mostly listening to jazz and celtic music.

 

[spacejamz]

Don't remember, I think 97.1? in the Dallas area. It's been a hot minute since I had to remember that channel number though. That was the normal 'rock/metal/modern' station around those parts. Nowadays I just listen to Tool mp3's (among others) or NPR. For some reason, whoever bought all the local radio stations in America has decided to only play trash on repeat so there's not much worth listening to anymore.

Would Tool have been played on 94.5 The Edge? I don't the Eagle played that stuff back then (mostly Guns and Roses and Def Leppard stuff IIRC)....

 

[nakedfrog]

Would Tool have been played on 94.5 The Edge? I don't the Eagle played that stuff back then (mostly Guns and Roses and Def Leppard stuff IIRC)....

Seems like, with a name like that.
/fondly remembers when commercial radio wasn't hot garbage
Thanks, Clear Channel/IHeartRadio!

 

[BudAshes]

This might would be interesting news but honestly this is fucking sad as shit sign of how sad the music industry is these days. They sold 270,000 albums for their debut week. Swift sold 867,000 and then their fans are bragging because they outsold her 2nd week by only 80,000? I guess when you're desperate to hang onto the band from your high school days or something.

Also, WTF at their collector CD. It has a 4" display and a speaker (which I'm sure sounds like total shit). At first I thought it was like a bluetooth speaker or iPod Touch type of thing (and thinking they probably didn't even make money off of the sales of the physical copies), but its just like integrated into the shitty paper housing of the CD. And they want $45 for that shit.

Apparently Adele is like the only one selling albums like they used to. She's killing fucking everyone.

For fuck's sake the highest selling album in 2018 was the Greatest Showman soundtrack?

The music industry is a fucking joke these days. I love it.

All I know is if an annoying dipshit like yourself hates it it then it is probably cool.

 

[whm1974]

Were they all, uh, like you? Just seems weird that you are somehow completely unaware of a major cultural event for someone of your vintage. Kind of one of the defining "things" for Gen X. You do seem to maybe be on the autistic side, so maybe that's it.

Why do you think I'm seem to be on the autistic side?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Would Tool have been played on 94.5 The Edge? I don't the Eagle played that stuff back then (mostly Guns and Roses and Def Leppard stuff IIRC)....

Ah shit, the edge! You're totally right, that was 94.5... Man, memories.

Yeah they used to kill it back then, Tool, Metallica, Korn, Nirvana, it was worth putting up with the occasional stone temple pilots drek for that!

 

[pcgeek11]

Most people these days don't buy music, they just rent it.

I'm pretty sure the intent was to freak out squares like you.

Tool being a group of freaky idiots doesn't bother me at all. I'd never even heard of them until this thread.

Square?

Kind of a dated term isn't it?

LOL

 

[pcgeek11]

Did you two just straight up sleep through the 90's? You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing Tool for a while.

Should we make a list of other ultra-popular things over the last few decades to see if you missed that too?

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I like real music, both kinds country and western.

Not an act put on by a couple of freaks.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I like real music, both kinds country and western.

Not an act put on by a couple of freaks.

Excellent movie reference, you have just won.

 

[pcgeek11]

Pcgeek is well known for being a total square.

Yeah man, like from Squaresville.

The 50's called and they want their terms back.

 

[whm1974]

Tool being a group of freaky idiots doesn't bother me at all. I'd never even heard of them until this thread.

Square?

Kind of a dated term isn't it?

LOL

Nope, young'uns are still using the term along with prude.

 

[Starbuck1975]

See you down in Arizona bay

 

[glenn1]

LOL, perhaps Tool should just remake their "Sober" video using this chick's facial expressions and throwing out words like embouchure when trying to provide "vocal coach" feedback

 

[spacejamz]

Ah shit, the edge! You're totally right, that was 94.5... Man, memories.

Yeah they used to kill it back then, Tool, Metallica, Korn, Nirvana, it was worth putting up with the occasional stone temple pilots drek for that!

guess that makes my cooler older than dirt...LOL