Advantages: Great Listening with a distinctive sound Disadvantages: Not as easy to listen to as their later stuff
Unsurprisingly, this is a great album - it's by Tool so the greatness is pretty much a given. Although the album only has 6 tracks and the songs are quite short compared to the 6min average of Tool's later songs, this is still a really great listen.
You can hear the distinctive 'Tool sound' even though the music seems a bit rougher and theres also a different bassist (Paul d'Amour).
I personally wouldn't advise this album to be one of your first Tool purchases, I'd probably recomend Lateralus to start with, but if you like Tool then you're gonna get this album at some point, even if its not right now. Overall its another great album with a unique sound that you won't stop listening to if you get it.
Oh btw there's also a couple of live tracks on here which are excellent. ...
rouseymousey 01.07.2007
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Advantages: Handy to have with you for multiple purposes, more than just a music player Disadvantages: Feels delicate, Metal casing scratches easily, Sometimes freezes
Having originally owned what is now known as an iPod Classic and being extremely happy with it, I decided upon hearing about the iPod Touch to purchase one. Expecting an mp3/mp4 player like any other with a few special features thrown in here and there, I was blown away by what I found.
A full mobile internet browser (best I have encountered), apps for pretty much everything, games, tools - more than you can think.
It makes listening to your music library a lot more fun and easy, by incorporating features found in iTunes as well as adding extra features. It is also really easy to intergrate with iTunes.
The iPod touch even has a built in (albeit low quality) speaker. Superb tool, and I definitly would reccommend it. Its fantastic! ...
Advantages: Great Art work Disadvantages: its only 26minutes long!
This is where it all began for the metal band TOOL, this is there first EP called Opiate. It deal's with strong themes such as censorship, mind controle and religion. Fast pased and harsh lyrics. Very loud and agressive type of music. The kinda music that'll make you wanna slap your own mama, no joke.
The CD features 6 songs, which includes "Cold and ugly" and "Jerk-off" being perfomed live!. The songs are shorter in length compared to there 13 minute long epic's off there later album "lateralus"
All songs are good, "jerk-off" being a personal favourite. Okay now im not gona rumble on about what the songs are about because the band prefer that people listen to the album, think for themselves and take the lyrics how ever they want! wow such an open minded band.
Additional information
CD Length - 26.8 minutes
No Of Songs - 6 ...
his-name-is-alive 19.06.2006
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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. Back in the early months of 1992, alternative rock was exploding. Radio and MTV had finally fully embraced the oft-dismissed genre, but the bands that were receiving most of the airplay were writing straightforward, raw punk-pop songs. After the breakup of Jane's Addiction, another Los Angeles band, Tool, satisfied fans looking for progressive art-rock with an alternative edge. Issued in March of 1992, Tool's debut six-track OPIATE EP showed that the new band was creating its own highly original sound. Half of the songs stretched over the four-minute mark, which signaled the epic-songwriting direction the band would explore further on such future releases as 1993's UNDERTOW and 1996's AENIMA. While the compositions on the debut aren't as developed as those on the aforementioned albums, OPIATE remains a gripping listen. Four studio tracks are featured ("Sweat," "Hush," "Part of Me," and the title track), as well as a pair of tracks recorded live at the Jello Loft in Hollywood, California, on New Year's Eve of 1991 ("Cold and Ugly," "Jerk Off"). Most of Tool's now instantly recognizable musical traits, like Maynard James Keenan's perturbed singing and guitarist Adam Jones' repetitive guitar riffs, were already noticeable on OPIATE.
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Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "[With] some grindingly metallic riffage and hauntingly corrosive vocal wailing..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Sweat
2.
Hush
3.
Part Of Me
4.
Cold And Ugly
5.
Jerk Off
6.
Opiate
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