soobs' junk yard

I kinda like the weird way I experience art. It's probably the same way everyone else does, but I just haven't put it into words yet.

Take Tool (again? no thankee), they're not the easiest band to get into. They're definitely NOT pop, but they're not indy either. They're too progressive to be rock, and too mellow to be metal. Unlike nearly every other band out there, the guitarist on tool is a minimalist. He doesn't even strum chords. 60% of most of Tool's songs are bass+drum-driven. The vocals and guitar make that (30%) leap that people relate to(the vocals, obviously carry the lyrics, which with most people associate with, and the guitar riff is what gives the overall melody). 10% has to do with their mixing and additional instrumentation.

Well, that's for most of their songs. One of their songs, Mantra, is at its core, a recording of a cat being squeezed in slow-mo(i'm not joking). Faaip De Oiad (The voice of God, in Enochian) is an excerpt of a phone call to a radio show by a self proclaimed Area 51 worker. That track scares the shit out of me. Die Eier Von Satan, you guys probably already read that post, so forget about that.

The point is, THERE IS NO EFFING POINT, I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO The Grudge SOMEONE HELP. I listened to it 4 times today and will probably listen to it twice more before I go to bed. I think I should forget about blogging like a regular person and dedicate the rest of this post to trying to understand that song.

Let's see, it's the first song of their Lateralus album. According to a fanboy, if you rearrange the song list to match a fibonacci spiral, the songs flow fluidly from one to the other. I tried cutting-and-pasting them to see if it worked. It did, but only for the first half an hour. Some songs flowed better when in their original order. (Disposition-Reflection-Triad, especially)

The Grudge starts off with a barely audible click-whir sound. Like a machine starting. i guess it's fitting since it's the first track of the album (before rearrangement). Then after 3 or 4 seconds, the music starts. 1st riff, or theme, with pounding drums. then just the guitar, still 1st riff. softer though, vocals mechanic. Drum build up. silence with guitar soft, drum pad, 2nd riff tap-tataptap. Clutch it like a cornerstone. Impossible, but simple drum beat. pounding drums 2nd theme. 2nd theme with guitar riff.

Clutch it like a corner stone, uber pounding drums. 3rd theme. saturn ascends.

ahhh i can't do this. This song scares me. It's beautifully complex or maybe it's beautifully simple. I can't tell.