may 14th

Right date, but wrong band my friend!

this is what I/all Tool fans are waiting for Tool - Lateralus the most anticipated rock album of the year!

May 14th UK Release of Lateralus May 15th US Release of Lateralus

This will be the benchmark rock release of the year, epic, expansive, intelligent, multi dimensional, artistic, dynamic and creative rock music.

Where is the competition in rock music that can possibly match Tool in 2001 ? maybe Ulver and Beyond Dawn from Norway, or Botch and Neurosis from the USA or Scotland's Mogwai or Canada's Voivod in the studio with Steve Albini and the return of The Chameleons ? But it is Tool I am looking for innovation in rock music and May 14th is the delivery date

Remember May 14th is TOOL day - Lateralus ! We have been waiting for it since the last album in 1996!

TITLE LATERALUS RELEASE DATE MAY 15 2001 (US) TRACKLIST The Grudge Eon Blue Apocalypse The Patient Mantra Schism Parabol Parabola Ticks & Leeches Lateralus Disposition Reflection Triad Faaip De Oiad PRODUCER TOOL and DAVID BOTTRILL TOTAL RUNNING TIME 78:58

PS I was not aware of a new prefab sprout - surely they are past, Steve Mcqueen 1985 and Jordan the comeback 1990 - were well crafted albums with excellent production and sound arrangements.

The last I saw of prefab sprout in a magazine - Paddy had a beard and looked like he was an extra in the Grateful Dead, and had aged into an old man, and that 1997? andrognous? heights album hardly made an impact.

Surely they have lost it? is this a new album, or yet another compilation?

also Depeche Mode release Exciter on May 14th

DJ Martian On May 14th a new Tool album is released called Lateralus -- this is a reason to celebrate ! and you must experience it.

Nice thread title May 14th!

shut up.

ethan, shut up and let the dj rant..tool! TOOL!

cetainly tool is a reason to celebrate but you are allforgeting that both plaid and Autechre have upcoming albums in the next three months - silly billys that you are!

How generous of you to start a thread dedicated to my birthday. Jelly and ice cream for everyone :)

Holy crap - Steve, May 14th is your birthday too?!?!? It's my 21st :)

Jesus! Two people born on the same day!! That's never happened before ever!?!?!

What an aptly named band Tool are.

Tool are fantastic. They're certainly better Prefab Sprout.

Keep up that sarcasm, Mr. Ewing, and I will give you an ass-whooping when you're in the US. Alternately, I'll just refuse to buy you a pint. Which is probably worse.

It just strikes me very odd that two people on the same message board have the same birthday. I mean no one has YOUR birthday, do they? I feel so not special now, no one will buy me presents :(

Hello. My name's Nick and I'd like to be immensely tedious. Surely Ally, you've been presented with the How many students need to be in a class before it's more likely than not that two of them sharing the same birthday? poser?

The answer is 23 and you can see all the maths somewhere like umm.... here:

http://fym.la.asu.edu/~fym/mat114/projects/birthday.html

I'll buy you a pressie ally (if only because i'm unlikely to forget the date).

Hey everybody I got Lateralus Friday, May 11, from a radio station and I'm also going to the concert tomorrow night in Atlanta. This new cd definitely rocks. It's about time we had some real music come back on the scene to help us rid that shit they play now.

What scene ? "The shit they play now" being what ?

the scene is all that backstreet boys shit they play now. tool is my savior. now let me go stand around the mall with my greasy korn-shirted friend and try to pick up chicks.

(the above is based on actual observations of tool fans in their enviroment)

Celebrate Tool and nothing else on that day. I've never heard prefab sprout before, but I'm willing to put down money and say that they probably aren't as good as Tool.

Ethan, complete rubbish at least in the UK - most Tool fans are in their twenties or early thirties.

Tool fans are more likely to read Terrorizer and despise Korn. Tool fans listen to the most artistic rock bands such as Emperor, Neurosis, Godflesh, In the Woods, Katatonia, Beyond Dawn, Anathema, Earthtone 9, Tiamat, Satyricon, Botch, Ulver, The Gathering, Arcturus - as reflected in Terrorizer writers and readers polls of recent years.

In 2001 Tool are superior to well over 99% of guitar/rock bands and are completely different to Korn.

Orbital are acknowledged Tool fans and they are above 30.

Tool's music and fans are completely above the "teenage nu metal types that hang around shopping centres in groups" as the last Tool album came out in 1996. Tool fans despise the likes of papa fuckin roach and lame linkin park and crazy cunting town and krapping klapped out korn.

Lateralus is astonishing.

Highly Recommended

It will take something exceptional to match this in rock music in 2001.

tool is the token band for middlebrow posers who graduate from korn to 'artier' groups like nin and pink floyd. i'm well aware that there are intelligent people who like them, but they occupy that awkward position of being the worst band in some people's collective tastes and the best in others.

What Ethan said supports my theory that Tool is the rock version of whatever Radiohead is the pop version of. I like some Tool songs (mainly the "learn to swim you dumbfounded dipshits" one about California falling into the ocean) but then I've never claimed intelligence on any level.

i think it means something that all these pseudo-intellectual bands we're talking about (tool, radiohead, nin) can all be traced back to pink floyd.

what the means is that pink floyd are the worst band ever.

That much I agree with: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a- fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0054KJ

Hey, smart people, you know almost all generalizations are false? It's bullshit to categorize all Toolfans into one specific mold...personally, I've never even heard of any of those other bands you listed DJ. Why can't it be enough that I like Tool and who cares about what else I like

That's fine by me, Jeff.

When I listened to Tool a lot I never listened to any of those other bands either.

I'd just like to point out that on March 28th, Steve promissed me a present. I still haven't received it. Typical male.

What a cockfarmer.