| Tool | Primary Artist |
| Tool | Producer, Audio Production |
| Joe Barresi | Engineer |
| Danny Carey | Composer, Producer |
| Adam Jones | Composer, Producer, Art Direction |
| Maynard James Keenan | Composer, Producer |
| Justin Chancellor | Composer, Producer |
| Alex Grey | Concept, Illustrations |
| Ray Zone | Animation |
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Posted October 1, 2010
I think this is a common comment on Tool CDs -- there are three really great tracks, and the rest I could take or leave (or skip).
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This is definitely more of a perfect circle type Tool cd. It definitely catches you with it's hooks and soothing, spine tingling melodies. The song 10,000 Days definitely sums up how amazing Tool can put together a song that starts from very little. It kind of reminds me of the rain for some reason. Anyways, I cannot wait till they put out a new cd. I think some people were offended that they decided to go a little more melodic instead of keeping it heavy, but there are definitely some heavy songs on here for the metal freaks too such as Vicarious and a few others. I still like Lateralus just a tad more, but if you could combine this cd and Lateralus you would have one mega hit!
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Posted October 1, 2010
With Tool albums there come 2 different kinds of songs...songs easily accessed by radio listeners, and the songs that only can reach a few Tool followers. This CD will only bring instant jollies to some listeners with two songs " Vicarious" and " The Pot" . For those listeners with the patience for finding the instrumentation in each song this CD is a great buy. The title track " 10,000 Days" comes in at 11 min. 13 sec. this song still gives me chills when I listen to it. Devoted Tool fans will like this CD for the songs abilities to paint slithering visuals for the listener.
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Posted October 1, 2010
If you are a hardcore TOOL fan you'll love it. It is not their best album. However they are not going to write the same songs. They are going to progress to something different. Also it is going to be hard to surpass some of their better albums like Aneima or Lateralus. Everyone is talking bad about TOOL but if you are a fan and you like TOOL don't listen to them.
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Posted October 1, 2010
There are a few good songs, but the rest is just a sloppy mess. The songs go nowhere. There are no great melodies, or change of melodies that make any sense. I'll stick with Tool's best CD "Aenima." The art work means nothing if the music is terrible.
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Posted October 1, 2010
This album is good. It is not the best, but it's still good. Not all of the songs are 5 star good, but I still recommend it. It starts out strong, and then dulls down a little. And the artwork is awsome! I love the 3-d stuff. So in the end, it was good and I do recommend it.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Maynard did a poor job putting this CD together. "Vicarious" and "The Pot" are the only two good songs here. The rest of the songs are pretty bad. I hope Tool hasn't lost it. Play all the samples.
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Posted October 1, 2010
To me, this album is best understood from the career perspective. With their last album, Lateralus, Tool completed their "concept metal to transcendental experimentation" transformation. Five years later Tool emerges with a "what we learned as a band" album, combining the fed up and heavy with the thoughtful and moving. With these elements, the band sounds tighter and more creative than ever.
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Posted October 1, 2010
There are a few really great songs and a few that are good. A lot are just all right though. Tool may not last if they keep coming up with CDs like this one. Maynard already destroyed the fan base for A Perfect Circle by allowing Billy to sing. Hopefully, Tool's next CD is a lot better than this one.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Most people who know tool from their radio friendly songs usually are critical of this album. They are looking for something more like A Perfect Cirle, which this is not this is TOOL. Tool is the supreme musicianship of Keenan and the rest trying to release something that is a modern work of art, whether it's radio friendly or not. This magical piece of art is intended to be listened to thru and thru not for those who just want to skip from one new single to the next. This album, like Lateralus, is an experience that is definitely worth 15 bucks! These guys are geniuses, and that is what separates this album for the others that is why most fans of the 4 minute songs of A Perfect Circle don't get it. So, make your choice based on that. Which one are you?
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Posted October 1, 2010
In the general scheme of the music business, at least these days, I would call this album outstanding. With that said, I feel it is only right to judge this album not by Tool's previous albums, but by other new releases of the past year or so. This meaning, 10,000 days isn't my favorite Tool release, but I won't hold that against it. I agree with previous reviewers. The album is so much more rewarding when listened to in it's entirety. I made the mistake of hearing half of the songs individually without giving it a proper listen, but then I heard it from start to finish and I must say that nothing can bring down a band as high caliber as Tool.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I've been listening to Tool for years, and this is probably my favorite album by them. Everything they put out is nothing short of amazing, and this is no exception. While songs are good on their own for the most part, the listening experience is so much more rewarding listening to all the way through. Tracks segue effortlessly into eachother, or pave the way for the next, either instrumentally, or in theme, or both. Things kick off with Vicarious, which is about our obsession with death and tragedy in the media. Vicarious ends and Jambi immediately follows, opening with a similiar rhythmic attack and has an awesome drum n bass part in which the guitarist Adam Jones uses a talkbox to top it off. The Wings for Marie/10,000 Days suite tone things down for a ode to Maynard's deceased mother only to rise back up again while demanding her well earned angel wings at heaven's gate. "While played live, these songs are accompanied by a fantastic laser show worthy of Pink Floyd". The Pot is the second single off the album to get radio play "the first being Vicarious", and with good reason. Its infectious bassline and impeccable rhythm of the words as well ""Liar, lawyer, mirror for ya what's the difference?!"", this is a cool tune. The drug theme carries on to the next few songs with Lipan Conjuring, a sort of Native American ritual kind of song. It continues with Lost Keys "Blame Hofmann", which is a kind of skit about a john doe patient who is all tripped out and dropped off at a hospital, and when the doctor asks him what's wrong, he replies in Rosetta Stoned, "Alrighty then, picture this if you will" and goes on a hard to decipher rambling of a madman about UFOs and ETs, and being made the "chosen one" to deliver a message to mankind but he forgot his pen, and by the end of the track he's strapped down at the hospital, brain dead, and still desperately trying to remember but by then it's too late. Intension and Right in Two are kind of a pair as well, the latter being about angels shaking their heads at the human race's petty bickering and war. Vigniti Tres "23" ends the album.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Let me start off by saying that I love Tool and all of their music! I love many types and genre's of music. I own over 700 CD's and I go to 15-20 live concerts every year (even at my age). Tool is one of my favorite bands. 10,000 Days is the BEST Tool album. I love Lateralus, Aenima, Undertow and Opiate, BUT 10,000 Days is the best! Musically, lyrically, song structure, complexity, depth, etc. this is their best effort! EVERY time Tool puts out a new album, it's better than their last one (and different too). This is one of the reasons that makes this band so incredible. Tool rocks, and like a fine wine, keeps getting better with age!!!
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Posted October 1, 2010
Yeah people wanna compare this one to Aenima and so forth- to me this is an awesome album that grows on me more every time I play it and stands up easily to Tool's previous records. The sound is incredible, the influence of King Crimson makes for much more interesting and exciting bass-drums-guitar parts, interlocking and flowing. The bass really shines on this album, I've always loved it that Tool were never a guitar hero band where every song has to have a fast guitar solo, each intrument is interesting in the way the four pieces fit together and that creates the excitement. Also the guitar often steps back to let the bass shine out- which being a bass player I appreciate. A lot of people who want to like the album right away expexting it to be "as good" as Aenima should give the album more time and open up to the music. Being a musician I know what it takes to try and compose new tunes and these guys deliver. The tunes sound awesome live also. Tool is evolving and I hope they got over all the legal hassles and can put a new cd out sooner than 5 yrs :)
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Posted October 1, 2010
I have just recently began listening to Tool, but I fell in love immediatley. I only have this and AENIMA, both incredible. All of the songs on this album can work as just the song or as listening through the whole thing. I, personally, prefer listening to the whole album. If you like Tool, buy it. If youy don't...buy it anyway.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Whereas Tool's AENIMA was a gritty, raw, industrial masterpiece of it's time, Tool's 10,000 DAYS is an almost entirely underwhelming album in comparison, and a merely mediocre one on it's own terms. In a sense, it is simply a reminder of how much of a shadow of their former selves Tool have become. Initially, the album seems somewhat promising as it starts off with a polished, almost "twinkling" combination of guitar and bass, symmetrically harmonizing, predictably foreshadowing an explosion of sound soon to come. Which it does. Keenan's vocals begin to atmospherically fade into the thumping combination of guitar, bass, and Danny Carey's - as usual - excellent drumming, almost humming "I own the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me...". This effective sound-scape is good enough for a while, until you begin to realize how repetitive the song truly is. For Tool, it is surprisingly formulaic. Generic, even. Passage, chorus, passage, chorus, bridge, passage, chorus, passage, bridge... wash, rinse, repeat. For over five minutes. Considering this is Tool, who with AENIMA mastered finishing their songs off at the "just right" length, this is especially distressing. And sadly, almost the entire album follows this same pattern. The only exceptions here are "Wings for Marie", pt. 1 and 2, atmospherically lulling melodies where Maynard sings mournfully: "It's time for us to let you go", as well as "Right in Two". But as for the rest of the album - it feels like Tool are trying to fill up as much possible space on one disc as they can. Which is horrifying for a band that spoke so strongly of anti-conformist sentiments. For now, we'll have to continue listening to everything before 10,000 DAYS, and hope that Tool will at some point return to form.
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Posted October 1, 2010
O.K. you are all complaining that 10,000 Days is not as good as Anemia or Laturalus but who are you to say. I would like to see you write a master pieces like Wings for Marie or The Pot or any of the songs off the new album. Also Tool is a band of four human beings they can change direction and also change perspective on things so you have to consider that too. One more thing if you can take three songs and put them all into one song (Wings for Marie, 10,000 days and Vigneti Tres) let me know because I would love to here it. and yes we all know we are all fans of Tool no need to brag about it ( iv'e been a fan this long) who cares we all love tool it's not a freaking compition it's a brother hood so give it up.
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Posted October 1, 2010
I bought this album and it's good. But it isn't great. Tool has been my favorite band since I heard the song Sober. This album has too much down time and not enough songs. The little skits and stuff are entertaining but I wish it had more music I waited 5 years for this and it was a little disappointing.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Tool has been my favorite band for many years now. Aenima, Lateralus, Salival, Undertow, and Opiate have all been in constant rotation for me. 10,000 Days is lacking the same magic those wonderful albums all had. The amount of thought put into this album isn't consistent with what I would have expected after a five year hiatus. Given the fact that there are so few actual songs here, it makes for a rather disappointing album overall. The track 10,000 Days stands out as pretty good, as does Jambi, Vicarious is quickly becoming the new Schism (it was obviously written to be a single), and The Pot and Rosetta Stoned are decent. Overall 3 stars, a rather poor effort from a very outstanding group.
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Posted October 1, 2010
i've been a Tool fan since i was 11 when Lateralus came out and I was hooked since then. When 10,000 days came out, it was like any other Tool album I purchased, long and boring in most parts. But with a Tool album you have to listin more than 3 times to get the full blown creativity of what Maynard says. The album shows the agression Tool is known for in "Vicarious" and "The Pot." Where as In contradiction to that they show a more softer side in "Wings for Marie/10,000 Days" The Album is a cornucopia of different emotions that if you listin closely you'll find. My personal favorite is "Right in Two." It shows an Angels perspective of God's creation and gift of man and how they squander their gifts. Shows Maynards religious evolution and how thought provoking his lyrics can be. Vicarious is great since it's a cold hard slap to the face of some people who live their lives through TV reality shows plus its a great radio song, barely eclipsing the 7 minute mark it never looses its agression. OVerall this is my third favorite Tool CD but it's behind Aneima and Lateralus so surpassing those two albums would be a challenging feat. A lot different from both Aneima and Lateralus but great none the less. If you have 79 minutes to blow one day i suggest throwing it in your car cd player and just listin. It's how you get into Tool albums. On a final note, one of the best CD's of 2006 bar none
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Editorial Reviews
Barnes & Noble - David Sprague
It's only been five years since prog-metal kingpins Tool last launched a studio salvo, but a few lifetimes of experience seem to have gone into its creation. 10,000 Days marks something of a maturation, and while it's not exactly the emergence of a kinder, gentler band, there's considerably less misanthropy and angst coursing through the disc's grooves. Heck, "Vicarious," with its layers of harmonies and impeccably infectious rhythms, is practically radio friendly -- the closest Tool has ever come to delivering outright accessibility. Fans of the band's dense thickets of sound needn't fret, however: Most of 10,000 Days is every bit as intense and demanding as folks ...