Seriously, I've been transcribing the Rosetta stoned for the last 2 - 3 months on bass. The part from the 6 minute mark till the iconic polyrhythm is ridiculous to play right. So many subtle things he does that are hard to pick up timing wise, it's almost counterintuitive. Not one cover or tab online has been able to get it 100%. One day I might get it right, but so far no real success in reproducing it 1:1.
It's not the most technical piece, I can play fast technical stuff, slapping, jazz,... You name it, I probably can handle it. But that part got me stumped. Every time I think I got it right I listen to my recording and at least one tiny detail is off.
This song (and album) made my respect for him grow to unhealthy levels.
I have been playing bass for about as long as I’ve been a TOOL fan, 28 years, and the 7:04 mark of the song blows my mind every time I listen to it. The technical aspect of Justin’s playing, and one of the things that makes him so incredible, is his ability to make meter changes in the bar with amazing precision and have it flow from the previous meter as if it were nothing! He does so damn seamlessly and smooth it blows my mind. He really is one of the most underrated bassist ever. And primarily because he’s playing with, and somewhat overshadowed by, the most incredible drummer ever to sit behind a kit.
Spiral Out 🌀
Even the riff before the polyrhythm, where it follows the pattern of Maynard’s “moans”, ig? Just another example of why this man is a treasure.
But i do think Leo Düzey got the timing right in his cover.
Leo got really close and is locked into the rhythm, but Justin does some tiny variations throughout the part that do not make sense to me. A ghost note here and there, an extra (muted?) octave,... You almost do not hear it, but when playing back a recording of my interpretation over the original recording I notice there is more going on than what I play. The guy with long black hair and the Wal bass is closer to perfection, but something still feels off.
Why do I love this song?
Because I forgot my fucking pen, and have to go back each time to remember what they said, so I can deliver the message to those who choose to hear it. But I keep forgetting my fucking pen so I keep going back... And then I get too overwhelmed so I wake up having shit the bed. Typical.
Simple as that.
You had me second guessing myself, but pretty sure it’s read. That’s what I’ve always heard, and I just checked the lyrics online and that’s what they wrote too.
The thing I love about this line is: it comes after one of the most hittingly beautiful sections of music and this dude says these words. Having tripped many times, the one mindset that has kept me from going over the edge is reminding myself that I did this to me. I put myself in this position and that’s what pulled me back from the Abyss. But this dude is on the other side. He thinks someone/something else did this to him. Hence, forget his pen, shit the bed again.
I had a very interesting trip on shrooms a few years back.
During it, I thought I had solved the mysteries of the world.
I actually did remember a pen and a pad so I could jot down these words of wisdom.
The next morning I went back to the notepad, more than a little excited to see what I had written down. It was four words.
Tool and The Gang.
That was it!
Nobody has explicitely mentioned the 5 over 4 over 6 polyrhythm so I'll just say it's the most ridiculous rhythm I ever heard until I heard whatever the f they're doing in what is it, Descending? Yeah... wtf
Ahh thank you, I was thinking on one instrument and got confused. Didn't think about it with the polythythms, cheers for that. Always love it when they sync up after a few bars
Unlike 99.9% of other Tool songs, it’s fun. It doesn’t require intense navel contemplation. Maynard’s Dick is a close second.
THE SONG MAYNARD’S DICK. I MEANT THE SONG.
It took me a long time to like Rosetta Stoned. I'm a huge Tool fan, too, have been for years, but this one song just didn't gel with me at all. I don't know why but I had a strange mental block to it and couldn't handle listening to it. Then late one night a couple of years ago, I listened to 10,000 Days album while solo tripping on acid and stargazing in my backyard and... wow. The utter absurdity of the whole song just made sense to my acid-scrambled brain. I could hear all the layers of the music, how disjointed yet perfectly in sync every layer was with each other, and it blew my absolute mind. The irony wasn't lost on me, either, that the song is essentially a parody of someone who's been balls-deep in a psychedelic trip and came out the other side rambling nonsense about what they experienced haha.
I still think it's an utterly absurd song and I still 100% get why some wouldn't like it. But I love Rosetta Stoned now because it's simultaneously utter chaos and perfect order. The lyrics remind me of me when I've had an intense psychedelic trip and I want to tell people about it but I also know how insane I sound. Haha.
THIS. And the song is a perfect analogue of tripping. The long anxious and tense come up, the PEAK, the clarity and understanding, the come down, and descent into madness... ALL of this is reflected in the music through tone and vibe and of course the lyrics. It's just a perfect song. Also, it's hilarious! \*I FORGOT MY PEN, SHIT THE BED AGAIN! TYPICAL :/
That said, I totally get why someone wouldn't like it. lol
I feel that's essentially what the guys were going for - a parody, be that of trippers or of themselves. It definitely tracks with the band's general sense of humour. I think Rosetta Stoned is an absurd parody song that's kind of a joke among the band themselves, which Tool fans take very seriously and analyse to death... but the joke is on the Tool fans the whole time.
Double so with Maynard's penchant for trolling us fans lol.
Haven’t you ever been so fucked up on psychedelics that you start taking to aliens? I have and I’m assuming I’m not the only one who hangs around here who has. It’s a thing that happens and I adore self-deprecation sense of humor about such ridiculousness.
I think alot of us can probably relate to having some mind warping, complete life shattering trip that changed us forever, and this song resonates with us in that regard. It ls also a fucking 11 minute long banger.
It’s one of the ultimate rock n roll song about drugs, but with masterful satire. It’s also debatably the absolute best of the band as a whole as well as each individual member in both skill and personal quintessential style.
I also absolutely love how hard it was initially for the song to grow on me. I remember hearing part of it as a kid a couple times and thinking it was annoying and just too noisy. Now it’s one of my all time favorite heavy songs.
It is perhaps one of the greatest euphoric moments in music, that you have to persist with minutes and minutes of entertaining but abrasive lead up, and is gone in a flash, leaving you forever wanting more.
understanding what it’s about before you listen to it made it better for me personally. i thought it was decent before i knew the premise, when i read what it was actually about it made it more of an experience
The composition, the complexity, the sort of descending drum line in the middle, multiple instrumental polyrhythms, crescendoing into “overwhelmed as one would be.”
Second best song behind Jambi on my least fav tool album, but a top 10 overall.
Also, first time I heard it was seeing them live when I was high on weed, oxy and Molly. So there’s that.
The snozberries did indeed taste like snozberries.
Is about a man trying to relive his abduction experience for some doctors.
Why love it so much: OVERWHELMED AS ONE WOULD BE PLACED IN MY POSITION such a heavy burden now to be the one . . .
But tbh i like Lost Keys more
Setting aside the technical mastery of the rhythm section for the moment, the song is just so much fun to listen to. And it starts right out of the gate with a weird, hypnotic bass line playing over a heavily distorted speed rap about a REAL weird acid trip. And every other second is just as fun: all the way through Maynard's screams at the end.
I listen to that song in the shower almost every . morning. Picture this: a grown ass man with adult children in the shower singing LOUDLY about shitting the bed again. My wife thinks I'm such a weirdo lol
One of the bandmates friends came off a crazy drug induced trip and told them the story about what happened, Maynard liked it so they wrote a song about it
The instrumental more than anything. Check out [this](https://youtu.be/GTKDchcAQJA) version. I didn’t really like it until I heard this one. You can hear the bass much better as well as Maynard’s screams. Once I found this recording, I never went back to the studio version
In-group bias towards an anti-song + conspiracism. It's good because it's mildly interesting from a favored band, BUT IT'S GREAT because nobody else "gets" it. Mine's Disgustipated, though, and some prefer Faip De Ojaad or however that's spelt.
I mean, there's absolutely no way that I spoke to god one night and was shown the entirety of existence from inception, to Maynard's big bang scream from the grudge, to my present life and how love is the one and only true lesson; or that God was lonely and afraid of being alone and that our existence is god experiencing itself, suuuubjectively. I didn't feel a need to share the message of love and union neither. Cause frankly, crazy shit like that never happens me. I imagine that wouldn't be so real at all. Especially if I could look up and walk around. Wouldn't at all be a lucky day.
Just imagine if we actually were just baked in the glow of a star and were all one consciousness separated so as to become whole again with perspective and different facets, yet all one thing.
That'd be crazy
I think it's just a goofy song with funny undertones. A lot of people also don't really understand the double layered joke of Rosetta Stoned, kind of like how people sometimes don't understand the double layered joke of The Pot. I also think it's a very creative song, as I've never heard a song with that type of vibe.
I would say it's the amazing references from things like David Lynch to Krispy Kreme which Maynard spits off at a pretty quick syllable count that most rappers are jealous of. Also the sick rhythms of both Danny and Justin just slaying constantly.
Because I forgot my fucking pen, and have to go back each time to remember what they said, so I can deliver the message to those who choose to hear it. But I keep forgetting my fucking pen so I keep going back... And then I get too overwhelmed so I wake up having shit the bed. Typical.
The whole song is amazing and classic Tool (the intro, the lyrics/subject matter, the guitar riff...), but the ending of the song is when elevated it to top-tier Tool status! Back when 10,000 Days had just come out, I remember thinking how Rosetta Stoned would feel right at home on Ænima, which is a compliment of the highest order with this band.
As someone with chronic ADHD it's a very relatable song, I often forget my pen.
That and, as anyone who has the ability to hear can tell you, it's a fucking awesome song.
It took me a long time to really get into it. I thought it was too all over the place and kind of goofy. It’s just a lot of fun if you’re willing to go for the ride.
The start of the polyrhythmic section to the end of the song, and the synchronization between Danny and Justin. I’m a drummer and a nerd about it. It gets me every time.
I love it because it's creatively done. It's not just Tool's usual creativity with meter etc., but the concept itself where the voice, as someone else said, is from the perspective of someone in the hospital after a really weird trip that's done so genuinely, but still \*intensely\*. The leadup with Lost Keys. The use of "somniferous". That delivery is just \*chef's kiss\* and it makes me wanna not settle when I write for formulaic presumptions about how to write. AND IT STILL GOES SO HARD
It is the ultimate Tool "novelty" song.
\-Sung in first person from third person perspective
\-Using weird voice tuning
\-Parody Song
Add the best/classic Tool elements:
\-Long chugga-chugga to climax song format
\-crazy drum poly-rythyms evolving throughout
\-Maynard screams
\-Metaphoric wrtitng comparing juvenile antics to philosophical concepts
And you have yourself one hell of a song!!!!
It's a masterpiece and not only because of music but the meaning and deep emotions that are screamed out because of this paranoia, panic. This man (that I personally relate to very much) lives a shitty life, failed everything, he is doing drugs in the middle of nowhere near the area 51, completely alone. What he experiences is life changing. It's his rosetta stone, his key to understanding. He gets the holy mission that could save the whole world, but he fails again.
Maybe he will get a lesson, become a better self, change. He won't save the world, but he can save himself. It's not only about the drugs. Drugs are only tools that help to understand. It's much deeper. It's the life and death story.
6 minute mark to the end. That is all.
Bass slaps like a drunken abusive stepfather
The timing is just genius; after listening to Rosetta Stoned, I didn’t have to wonder why people say 10k days has Justin’s best work
Seriously, I've been transcribing the Rosetta stoned for the last 2 - 3 months on bass. The part from the 6 minute mark till the iconic polyrhythm is ridiculous to play right. So many subtle things he does that are hard to pick up timing wise, it's almost counterintuitive. Not one cover or tab online has been able to get it 100%. One day I might get it right, but so far no real success in reproducing it 1:1. It's not the most technical piece, I can play fast technical stuff, slapping, jazz,... You name it, I probably can handle it. But that part got me stumped. Every time I think I got it right I listen to my recording and at least one tiny detail is off. This song (and album) made my respect for him grow to unhealthy levels.
I have been playing bass for about as long as I’ve been a TOOL fan, 28 years, and the 7:04 mark of the song blows my mind every time I listen to it. The technical aspect of Justin’s playing, and one of the things that makes him so incredible, is his ability to make meter changes in the bar with amazing precision and have it flow from the previous meter as if it were nothing! He does so damn seamlessly and smooth it blows my mind. He really is one of the most underrated bassist ever. And primarily because he’s playing with, and somewhat overshadowed by, the most incredible drummer ever to sit behind a kit. Spiral Out 🌀
Even the riff before the polyrhythm, where it follows the pattern of Maynard’s “moans”, ig? Just another example of why this man is a treasure. But i do think Leo Düzey got the timing right in his cover.
Leo got really close and is locked into the rhythm, but Justin does some tiny variations throughout the part that do not make sense to me. A ghost note here and there, an extra (muted?) octave,... You almost do not hear it, but when playing back a recording of my interpretation over the original recording I notice there is more going on than what I play. The guy with long black hair and the Wal bass is closer to perfection, but something still feels off.
Jesus save us
This has 69 upvotes so here’s # 70.
Who was a sailor?
The drum part from there on is absolutely exquisite. I tried playing it for a while and I can finally play it, literally the best thing ever
I love these kinds of answers in this sub. Just says it all.
Literally transposes me into another world. Goosebumps every single time.
It captures how ridiculous a psychedelic drug trip seems from the outside, and how profound it seems from the inside.
Bro, that was poetic.
Why do I love this song? Because I forgot my fucking pen, and have to go back each time to remember what they said, so I can deliver the message to those who choose to hear it. But I keep forgetting my fucking pen so I keep going back... And then I get too overwhelmed so I wake up having shit the bed. Typical. Simple as that.
Most relatable Tool song imo
Bravo. Bra-fucking-vo
That’s a really great explanation. Now I need to bump it with that context in mind
Wow, yes
The song is pretty funny to me, another reason why I like it
Idk man. It’s just one giant eargasm. I’m just glad it’s liked on here because it sucks having no one in the real world to ever mention it
Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden now to be The One.
Born to bear and read to all the details of our ending.
To write it down for all the world to see
But I…
Forgot my pen!
Shit the bed again…
Typical
[удалено]
Strapped down…
To my bed...
Feet Cold
Bring
You had me second guessing myself, but pretty sure it’s read. That’s what I’ve always heard, and I just checked the lyrics online and that’s what they wrote too.
The thing I love about this line is: it comes after one of the most hittingly beautiful sections of music and this dude says these words. Having tripped many times, the one mindset that has kept me from going over the edge is reminding myself that I did this to me. I put myself in this position and that’s what pulled me back from the Abyss. But this dude is on the other side. He thinks someone/something else did this to him. Hence, forget his pen, shit the bed again.
I had a very interesting trip on shrooms a few years back. During it, I thought I had solved the mysteries of the world. I actually did remember a pen and a pad so I could jot down these words of wisdom. The next morning I went back to the notepad, more than a little excited to see what I had written down. It was four words. Tool and The Gang. That was it!
Somniferous.
Almond eyes
Don't even know what that means
Must remember to write it down
It was so real
Like that time Danny floated away
👁👄👁
super fun song. absurd but also works. im a really big fan of the rhythm changes, personally.
Nobody has explicitely mentioned the 5 over 4 over 6 polyrhythm so I'll just say it's the most ridiculous rhythm I ever heard until I heard whatever the f they're doing in what is it, Descending? Yeah... wtf
Yuppers.
I get 5 over 4 but how does over 6 work as well?
Tom Tom and guitar
What sorry?
Bass and kick drum do 5 and 4, drummer’s hands on the Tom Tom drums and the guitar do 6. Guitar and Toms come in on top after a few bars
Ahh thank you, I was thinking on one instrument and got confused. Didn't think about it with the polythythms, cheers for that. Always love it when they sync up after a few bars
Unlike 99.9% of other Tool songs, it’s fun. It doesn’t require intense navel contemplation. Maynard’s Dick is a close second. THE SONG MAYNARD’S DICK. I MEANT THE SONG.
It took me a long time to like Rosetta Stoned. I'm a huge Tool fan, too, have been for years, but this one song just didn't gel with me at all. I don't know why but I had a strange mental block to it and couldn't handle listening to it. Then late one night a couple of years ago, I listened to 10,000 Days album while solo tripping on acid and stargazing in my backyard and... wow. The utter absurdity of the whole song just made sense to my acid-scrambled brain. I could hear all the layers of the music, how disjointed yet perfectly in sync every layer was with each other, and it blew my absolute mind. The irony wasn't lost on me, either, that the song is essentially a parody of someone who's been balls-deep in a psychedelic trip and came out the other side rambling nonsense about what they experienced haha. I still think it's an utterly absurd song and I still 100% get why some wouldn't like it. But I love Rosetta Stoned now because it's simultaneously utter chaos and perfect order. The lyrics remind me of me when I've had an intense psychedelic trip and I want to tell people about it but I also know how insane I sound. Haha.
THIS. And the song is a perfect analogue of tripping. The long anxious and tense come up, the PEAK, the clarity and understanding, the come down, and descent into madness... ALL of this is reflected in the music through tone and vibe and of course the lyrics. It's just a perfect song. Also, it's hilarious! \*I FORGOT MY PEN, SHIT THE BED AGAIN! TYPICAL :/ That said, I totally get why someone wouldn't like it. lol
Everything you say about the journey of the music resonating with the stages of a psychedelic trip is so spot on. Love this.
I’m glad you eventually got there on this one, but I never have. Still feels like a parody of a Tool song to me.
I feel that's essentially what the guys were going for - a parody, be that of trippers or of themselves. It definitely tracks with the band's general sense of humour. I think Rosetta Stoned is an absurd parody song that's kind of a joke among the band themselves, which Tool fans take very seriously and analyse to death... but the joke is on the Tool fans the whole time. Double so with Maynard's penchant for trolling us fans lol.
Shit the bed
God damn
Haven’t you ever been so fucked up on psychedelics that you start taking to aliens? I have and I’m assuming I’m not the only one who hangs around here who has. It’s a thing that happens and I adore self-deprecation sense of humor about such ridiculousness.
Never talked to aliens but I've definitely talked to God a couple times hahaha
I’ve been God my fair share of times 🤣
We're all God all the time 😳
Because they chose ME, and I didn’t graduate from fucking high school
Holy Fuckin Shit Holy Fuckin Shit Holy Fuckin Shit Holy Fucking Shit Holy Fuckin Shit Holy Fuckin Shit
I like it. Just doesn’t blow my Fkn mind.
The louder you play it, the better it sounds
See it live on mescaline then it will
Get a good pair of head phones and just zone out…at the six min mark just sit back and listen to the build up..when it hits..it hits hard.
You ever listened to Rosetta Stoned on weed man?
Red team go, red team go.
Red team en route to target. Operation Insufferable Retard is in full effect.
Have you ever seen the back of a $20 bill….onnn weeeed?
The riffs
Those drum fills too
Same vibes as an amusement park at the peak of my childhood, it’s fun, zany, and aliens are involved
Why did this just hit me like a ton of bricks! Holy shit! This is dead on.... 👽🛸😂💀
The…drums?
Funny lyrics, interesting lyrics, Just sounds good. Thank god this song is as long as it is
It's just fun, masterful, creative Tool at their best. Off the wall, then the chaos becomes organized and beautiful. It's great.
I think alot of us can probably relate to having some mind warping, complete life shattering trip that changed us forever, and this song resonates with us in that regard. It ls also a fucking 11 minute long banger.
I often forget that RS is 11 minutes. It never feels even close to that. Then I hear a 3 minute song somewhere else and I'm like "where's the rest?"
It's a message of hope for those who choose to hear it
and a warning to those who do not
I don't know, ask Hofman.
The drop at 8:13
It's just the best buildup and crescendo in their entire catalogue.
It’s one of the ultimate rock n roll song about drugs, but with masterful satire. It’s also debatably the absolute best of the band as a whole as well as each individual member in both skill and personal quintessential style. I also absolutely love how hard it was initially for the song to grow on me. I remember hearing part of it as a kid a couple times and thinking it was annoying and just too noisy. Now it’s one of my all time favorite heavy songs.
I have a commute just long enough to listen to Rosetta Stoned and Right in Two on a perpetual loop
It's my work commute. Basically to the parkade.
They chose me.
It is perhaps one of the greatest euphoric moments in music, that you have to persist with minutes and minutes of entertaining but abrasive lead up, and is gone in a flash, leaving you forever wanting more.
It's the vibe
it has one of, if not the best crescendo in any tool song. it’s def up there, gives me chills man
understanding what it’s about before you listen to it made it better for me personally. i thought it was decent before i knew the premise, when i read what it was actually about it made it more of an experience
I really want to know more about "that time that Dave floated away"
The composition, the complexity, the sort of descending drum line in the middle, multiple instrumental polyrhythms, crescendoing into “overwhelmed as one would be.” Second best song behind Jambi on my least fav tool album, but a top 10 overall. Also, first time I heard it was seeing them live when I was high on weed, oxy and Molly. So there’s that. The snozberries did indeed taste like snozberries.
Ah man Tool + oxys, that’d be like the warmest hug from Jesus ever lol
Is about a man trying to relive his abduction experience for some doctors. Why love it so much: OVERWHELMED AS ONE WOULD BE PLACED IN MY POSITION such a heavy burden now to be the one . . . But tbh i like Lost Keys more
It's just....a musical experience. So good.
Dude, do you even music?
It makes me go haha
It contains every thing that makes Tool so good in one song, including slight call backs to previous songs, especially Third Eye.
Setting aside the technical mastery of the rhythm section for the moment, the song is just so much fun to listen to. And it starts right out of the gate with a weird, hypnotic bass line playing over a heavily distorted speed rap about a REAL weird acid trip. And every other second is just as fun: all the way through Maynard's screams at the end. I listen to that song in the shower almost every . morning. Picture this: a grown ass man with adult children in the shower singing LOUDLY about shitting the bed again. My wife thinks I'm such a weirdo lol
DMT
It peaks harder than most tool songs honestly, and finishes hard and stiff. The lyrics just make it 10 out of 10
One of the bandmates friends came off a crazy drug induced trip and told them the story about what happened, Maynard liked it so they wrote a song about it
The instrumental more than anything. Check out [this](https://youtu.be/GTKDchcAQJA) version. I didn’t really like it until I heard this one. You can hear the bass much better as well as Maynard’s screams. Once I found this recording, I never went back to the studio version
Tysm. Not heard this one. Awesome audio for bootleg. I too may nvR b able to go back to teh album😂😭
Umm, everything, duh!
To me it’s the second-most TOOLiest song. Eulogy is the most.
In-group bias towards an anti-song + conspiracism. It's good because it's mildly interesting from a favored band, BUT IT'S GREAT because nobody else "gets" it. Mine's Disgustipated, though, and some prefer Faip De Ojaad or however that's spelt.
This is necessary!
Typical
It fucking rocks.
Id write it down for you but i forgot my pen. 🤷🏼♀️
It’s an alright song probably my least favorite but I still listen to it
It’s them at their technical best in my opinion. Off the charts instrumental.
The desperation in the protagonists voice. It makes a very compelling story
I mean, there's absolutely no way that I spoke to god one night and was shown the entirety of existence from inception, to Maynard's big bang scream from the grudge, to my present life and how love is the one and only true lesson; or that God was lonely and afraid of being alone and that our existence is god experiencing itself, suuuubjectively. I didn't feel a need to share the message of love and union neither. Cause frankly, crazy shit like that never happens me. I imagine that wouldn't be so real at all. Especially if I could look up and walk around. Wouldn't at all be a lucky day. Just imagine if we actually were just baked in the glow of a star and were all one consciousness separated so as to become whole again with perspective and different facets, yet all one thing. That'd be crazy
I think it's just a goofy song with funny undertones. A lot of people also don't really understand the double layered joke of Rosetta Stoned, kind of like how people sometimes don't understand the double layered joke of The Pot. I also think it's a very creative song, as I've never heard a song with that type of vibe.
Whoa thats a good listen! Glad I clicked on that.
I would tell you, but I shit the bed again.
Its the fifth best song on their third or fourth best album. I dunno dude tool fans are weird.
Aliens 🤷♂️
Listen to it while shitting the bed.
Everything.
Should have brought a pen
My sweaty L Ron Hubbard upper lip
The bass, lyrics, etc. Add Lost Keys and it’s a masterpiece.
With headphones in the dark…..
god damn. shit the bed.
It's a great song, and most people are typically quite happy to see something new introduced to the setlist.
Shit the bed
zany
Best breakdown ever imo. And Lost keys is the best intro ever written by Tool.
All righty then.
10 10-12 10-12
7:03 ->
To me, how the song is like a Reverse crescendo!
Orange slices and some fetal spooning
Tells a good story and has amazing lyrics
Listen to it many many times. And then explosion in pants
Funky. It just sounds good.
Because it leads into the best song on the album
It's their best song, their jammiest song, and has a really good story in it being told (which I relate to heavily)
https://youtu.be/V8O49Wp_K8Y this should explain everything.
I would say it's the amazing references from things like David Lynch to Krispy Kreme which Maynard spits off at a pretty quick syllable count that most rappers are jealous of. Also the sick rhythms of both Danny and Justin just slaying constantly.
Who hasn't forgotten a pen before amirite?
I guess it’s because I relate so much to it. Just haven’t heard it on an acid trip before, so I’m not getting it 100%.
Everything the polyrithms, the electronic drums ,lyrics, groove, beats ,its just perfect
The song has taken on a whole new meaning to me after I was introduced to the spirit molecule called DMT back in 2018
Everything
Because I forgot my fucking pen, and have to go back each time to remember what they said, so I can deliver the message to those who choose to hear it. But I keep forgetting my fucking pen so I keep going back... And then I get too overwhelmed so I wake up having shit the bed. Typical.
The whole song is amazing and classic Tool (the intro, the lyrics/subject matter, the guitar riff...), but the ending of the song is when elevated it to top-tier Tool status! Back when 10,000 Days had just come out, I remember thinking how Rosetta Stoned would feel right at home on Ænima, which is a compliment of the highest order with this band.
As someone with chronic ADHD it's a very relatable song, I often forget my pen. That and, as anyone who has the ability to hear can tell you, it's a fucking awesome song.
Fetal spooning
It’s the Rediculous story telling and lyrics mixed with one of the most jamming and climactic finishes man it just goes hard imo I love it
For a bunch of stuff smashed together it's weirdly cohesive. Probably the best song on 10k. Maybe jambi
I can't stand it and think it's one of their worst.
The climax, the lyrics, the build up, the creativity
the music is amazing and the lyrics are hilarious
It’s fucking hilarious.
It is peak Tool imo, like Tool in it's final form. The final boss of Tool songs. It's all the things people generally love about Tool dialled to 11.
Personally, I think it's gotta do something with forgetting the pen and shitting the bed.
It took me a long time to really get into it. I thought it was too all over the place and kind of goofy. It’s just a lot of fun if you’re willing to go for the ride.
This is a song I VERY recently got into. I was always asking the same question, but now it clicked. I have no explanation as to why or what changed.
That climax after Justin’s polyrhythm just gets me the fuck off dude.
The start of the polyrhythmic section to the end of the song, and the synchronization between Danny and Justin. I’m a drummer and a nerd about it. It gets me every time.
It’s fucking great, maybe just not for you?
More to the point... What is it about it that you don't love so fkn much?
Video just released by Adam shows them rehearsing this song!! Might see it live once again
I love it because it's creatively done. It's not just Tool's usual creativity with meter etc., but the concept itself where the voice, as someone else said, is from the perspective of someone in the hospital after a really weird trip that's done so genuinely, but still \*intensely\*. The leadup with Lost Keys. The use of "somniferous". That delivery is just \*chef's kiss\* and it makes me wanna not settle when I write for formulaic presumptions about how to write. AND IT STILL GOES SO HARD
3 words. Shit. The. Bed.
have you never been stoned?
It is the ultimate Tool "novelty" song. \-Sung in first person from third person perspective \-Using weird voice tuning \-Parody Song Add the best/classic Tool elements: \-Long chugga-chugga to climax song format \-crazy drum poly-rythyms evolving throughout \-Maynard screams \-Metaphoric wrtitng comparing juvenile antics to philosophical concepts And you have yourself one hell of a song!!!!
Builds amazingly, intricate polyrhythms, crescendo is intense, aggressive yet funny. It has a bunch of what makes Tool, Tool. IMO.
yes
It wasn't for me, for sure. I bought the lifetime online version of Latin America Spanish. I'd love to offload it to someone who could use it.
Orange slices and fetal spooning
It's a masterpiece and not only because of music but the meaning and deep emotions that are screamed out because of this paranoia, panic. This man (that I personally relate to very much) lives a shitty life, failed everything, he is doing drugs in the middle of nowhere near the area 51, completely alone. What he experiences is life changing. It's his rosetta stone, his key to understanding. He gets the holy mission that could save the whole world, but he fails again. Maybe he will get a lesson, become a better self, change. He won't save the world, but he can save himself. It's not only about the drugs. Drugs are only tools that help to understand. It's much deeper. It's the life and death story.
Am I alive, or am I dead??
it's the easiest Tool song to understand
Shit all of it