D’Amour has several songwriting credits on the album. It’s the first TOOL album to feature Justin Chancellor on bass, replacing original bassist Paul D’Amour. The album went 3x platinum in the United States (the highest selling TOOL album), received positive reviews upon release. The album has 15 tracks and a runtime of 77 minutes. The album was released on September 17th, 1996, by Zoo Entertainment. And if you’ve been listening to the band’s classic albums and are looking for something different from the band, this might be an album you should reach for. But if that’s your niche, this is an album for you to check out. Unless you’re really into grunge and ‘90s rock, I wouldn’t recommend this as your first Tool album. However, over the past year, I’ve grown to apprentice this album more and more. There was a while where I didn’t care for this album at all. Whether it’s a good thing or not is subjective, but I thought I’d mention that I liked it. Paul D’Amour is a good bassist that a lot of people sleep on, and his presence on this album gives the record a groove that’s unique to this album. But I don’t see Chancellor’s absence on this album as a negative. Justin Chancellor would replace him on all future albums, and he’s one of the premier bassists in the world, as well as one of my personal favorites. Undertow is also the only album to feature Paul D’Amour playing the bass guitar. The performances on the album are great as well, though the album is a little long for its own good. The album has some of the band’s best songs (Prison Sex, Sober, Crawl Away), and pretty good production for a debut album. The two negatives I mentioned could very well be a positive for you. I’m not a huge fan of grunge, so the grunge elements aren’t something I care for, and while complexity doesn’t equal quality, the complexity of later albums is something I appreciate in their music.īut this isn’t a bad album by any means. The songs are a lot more simplistic (compared to other Tool albums at least). The album has a lot of ‘90s grunge overtones to it. The album, compared to the other Tool albums, is on an island. It’s the only TOOL album to feature Paul D’Amour on bass guitar.Ĭhris Haskett – Sedge hammer on “Disgustipated”įor as strong each Tool album is and how many different ways you can rank Tool’s discography, I don’t think putting their debut album, Undertow, at the bottom is an unpopular move. The album went double platinum in the United Sates, and received mixed to positive reviews upon its release. The album has 10 tracks and a runtime of 69 minutes. It was released on April 6th, 1993, by Zoo Entertainment. It’ll also help explain my ranking, because it’s very different from other rankings out there. Even if you read my discography overview from a couple months ago, I recommend reading my reasoning behind the ranking, because it’s not just rehashing what I said there. Since the reasoning behind ranking is where the real meat is, I’m going to ask and hope that you don’t just skim through the article. Each album manages to be both very different from each other, yet also unmistakably a Tool album. What I can say is that you’d never get the same reasoning behind every ranking. I would say that you could ask a large number of fans what their ranking would be and you’d never get the same answer, but they have so few albums that it would be statistically impossible. The band has been around for 30 years, and even though they’ve only released five albums in that time, each one is a masterpiece in its own right. One of the band’s best qualities is how consistently great each album is. And the rhythm and groove of the band is entirely theirs. Their arrangements and compositions are extremely complex, but oftentimes feel extremely natural. Their unique blend of progressive rock, metal, grunge, and psychedelic sounds like nothing else out there. Tool is one of my favorite bands of all time.
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