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.
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A review by rouseymousey on Opiate - Tool July 1st, 2007
Author's product rating:
Originality
Groundbreaking
Lyrics
Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks
Flawless
How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Good
Value for Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Great Listening with a distinctive sound
Disadvantages:
Not as easy to listen to as their later stuff
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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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.
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...
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Advantages: Complex, original, amazing rock music with a difference. Disadvantages: Takes a while to fully appreciate. Not to everyone’s tastes. Grrrr those four silly tracks!
...There is a sure fire way to forget about the commercially manufactured abomination that is the charts and there is a way to forget about bandwagon hitchhikers that claim to be making ‘alternative’ music. The way to do this is to sit down with a Tool album in your stereo and listen to it with your ears...
Aenima is the third album by Tool (following on from Opiate and Undertow). Like all their albums it is complex, sincere, difficult to categorise, and of course is amazing... Tool are defiantly anti-commercial. They do not release singles and they do not personally appear in their own videos (the videos are always really cool animations that have been worked on by a member of the band). The band like to remain fairly anonymous by avoiding personal talk in interviews and the vocalist (Maynard James Keenan) has a constantly...
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Advantages: brilliantly mature, tense and original Disadvantages: Tick and Leeches could have been a great track, but...
...TOOL are not the kind of band I would normally listen to. Opiate is OK, I?ve only ever heard Undertow once and can?t remember much about it. Aenima starts well but gets bombastic and rather repetitive ? though never generic. Lateralus is something entirely different and new.
I was given the album to listen to by a friend at work. All well and good. He seemed to have a canny knack for knowing what I?d like, which is odd as I usually dislike anything my friends listen to, and vice versa. So I slipped the CD into the drive and put on my headphones.
I can?t quite describe what I felt the first time around. I think I was somewhat in shock. I had expected to feel a bit, well, under whelmed, disinterested, even dismissive. What I felt ? what I feel now ? is the complete reverse. Lateralus is a fantastic album. Different...
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Label / Distributor: Music For Nations / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Engineer: Sylvia Massey
Producer: Sylvia Massey; Steve Hansgen; Tool
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Mixed
Format: Performer
EAN: 828765364621
Catalogue Number: 82876536462
Additional notes
Album Notes: 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.
Album Reviews: 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 (live)
5.: Jerk Off (live)
6.: Opiate
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