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Tool The Lowdown is a 2 CD set featuring a spoken word biography of the band, an interview recorded with the members, rare photos, booklets, posters and a whole range of other features, and covers both the career of Tool themselves, and that of side project Perfect Circle. Purchase Lowdown CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tool Opiate CD (1992) Extended Play
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Tool: Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Adam Jones (guitar); Paul D'Amour (bass); Danny Carey (drums).
Producers: Sylvia Massy, Steve Hansgen, Tool.
Recorded at: Sound City, Van Nuys, California and live at Jello Loft, Hollywood, California on December 31, 1991.
Personnel: Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Adam Jones (guitar); Danny Carey (drums).
Audio Mixer: Sylvia Massy.
Recording information: Jello Loft, Hollywood, CA; Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA.
In retrospect, Opiate seems a little haphazard, but it's possible to hear the seeds of Tool's oppressively bleak, cerebral metal in such cuts as "Sweat" and "Opiate." The two live tracks, "Cold and Ugly" and "Jerk-Off," don't sound out of place, since they share the same churning riffs, black noise, and doom that characterize Tool's sound. This is not as developed as either Undertow or Ænima, but it's possible to hear the roots of those albums all over this EP. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Back in the early months of 1992, alternative rock was exploding. Radio and MTV had finally ...
| | Tool Aenima CD (1996)
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Tool: Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Adam Jones (guitar); Justin Chancellor (bass); Danny Carey (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Marko Fox (vocals); Eban Schletter (organ); Chris Pittman (synthesizer); D.B. (keyboards); Bill Hicks.
Recorded at Ocean Way, Hollywood, California and The Hook, North Hollywood, California.
AENIMA was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. "Aenima" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
Personnel: Maynard James Keenan, ...
| | Tool - Schism DVD (2005)
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| | Tool 10,000 Days CD (2006)
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Tool: Danny Carey, Adam Jones , Justin Chancellor, Maynard James Keenan.
Audio Mixer: Joe Barresi.
Recording information: Grandmaster, Hollywood, CA; O'Henry, Burbank, CA; The Loft, Hollywood, CA.
Animation: Ray Zone.
Illustrator: Alex Grey.
Photographer: Travis Shin.
To its legion of fans, everything the band Tool does is an event, but the elaborate plan behind their sporadic release schedule--roughly five years, on average, between albums--is due primarily to the time and effort the band packs into each successive effort. To title their fourth album 10,000 DAYS, then, isn't as much an exaggeration as it would seem. Tool are America's most consummate mainstream perfectionists, revitalizing progressive rock ...
| | Maximum Tool CD (2003)
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| | Queens Of The Stone Age Era Vulgaris CD (2007)
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Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo.
Audio Mixers: Joe Barresi; Alain Johannes.
Recording information: Cherokee studios; Los Angeles Steakhouse Studios; Studio City Sound City Studios. Van Nuys.
Illustrator: Jason Noto.
This is Queens of the Stone Age's fourth full-length and second without founder Nick Oliveri. Perhaps the most ambitious and intricately made album thus far in the QOTSA catalog, ERA VULGARIS makes clear that this is Josh Homme's band through and through. The album still contains the band's trademark rock muscle and fierce riffage, as "Sick Sick Sick" and "Misfit Love" prove. But there's also a charming synthetic sexiness to tracks such as "Battery ...
| | Patch Work Music Compilation Musique Electronique CD (Import) Import
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| | Denovo CD (Import)
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| | Mac Dre 15 Years Deep CD (2005)
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| | Afterdark: New York City Revisted CD (2007) Digipak
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| | John Vanderslice Emerald City CD (2007) Digipak
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Personnel: Ian Bjornstad, David Douglas, Scott Solter, David Broecker.
Audio Mixer: Scott Solter.
Recording information: Tiny Telephone.
Photographer: Autumn DeWilde.
Arrangers: Ian Bjornstad; David Broecker; Scott Solter; David Douglas; John Vanderslice.
When indie purists decry the state of pop radio and the tastes of the record-buying public, John Vanderslice is just the type of artist they are defending. A one-man cyclone of talent, Vanderslice can write, sing, perform, and record pop music as well as anybody, but a variety of factors (his age and looks, and his sometimes challenging production choices, among other factors) keep him from the Billboard Top 10, where he undoubtedly deserves to be. EMERALD CITY--his sixth solo full-length for Barsuk--is his best record to date and the culmination of his many talents.
Reportedly recorded when his longtime Parisian girlfriend was denied a visa into the United States, EMERALD CITY--despite its title--reacts to a world that is anything but a fairytale, with a song cycle about terrorism, paranoia, police tactics, isolation, and medication all slyly encrusted with crystals of hummable melody and studio trickery. "Kookaburra," the album's lead-off track, perfectly illustrates this sleight-of-hand: the song has light-on-its-feet harmonies and an AM-friendly chorus but is clearly about the destruction of a building via terrorism. This theme continues throughout the record culminating with the stand-out single "Time to Go" and the beautifully emotive ballad that closes the record, "Central Booking."
Emerald City finds John Vanderslice moving in a more organic direction, relying less on electronic studio trickery and more on the weight of lyrics in his songs, in the vein of the Decemberists or Neutral Milk Hotel. According to a press statement by Barsuk Records, Emerald City was supposedly written as John Vanderslice dealt with legal issues due to an incident where his Parisian girlfriend's visa immigration was rejected by U.S. Immigration. Of course, with Vanderslice it's hard to know the difference between fact and fiction. (He cried wolf once before when he told the press that Bill Gates was suing him because of his song "Bill Gates Must Die," and his lyrics are often buried so deep beneath layers of mixed metaphor that it's more likely about something else entirely -- or then again, it could be about nothing in particular.) That's the beauty of Vanderslice's music. With good art, you can take away many different meanings depending on your perspective. There is a definite reoccurring theme that alludes to events of 9/11, with imagery of towers disappearing in a cloud of white smoke, but the stories are convoluted enough that it's difficult to know positively the concept of the record. It seems to be a tale of a man who destroys the Chrysler Towers in an act of terrorism. Afterwards, the protagonist loses the police in a parade and flees to a new home where he is tormented ...
| | Genius Of Soul Sleep Now CD (2007)
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| | Republika Marzen CD (1995) (Import)
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| | Soulwax Any Minute Now CD (2008) (Import)
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