Perfect Circle / Tool

[OrLevitate]

Do/did any of you identify heavily with Perfect Circle or to a slightly lesser extent Tool?

 

[redbaron]

A Perfect Circle bores me, always sounds over-produced although there's some songs I do like.

Tool I love.

 

[nanook]

Agree with redbaron, but I like the live set*, much better sound, imo.
(*eMOTIVe, mer de noms, stone and echo, thirteenth step)

I mostly like puscifer these days, because being all serious about stuff has become a bit difficult for me.

 

[Helvete]

I like tool. I was going to say perfect circle bore me too, but then I realised I'v never heard them and it was Russian circles I was thinking of

 

[Base groove]

Not a fan of 1000000 days.

 

[Hadoblado]

I like Perfect Circle a lot more.

I think Tool are a little soft for that genre (to my ears), which makes them boring to me.

I listen to PC when I'm in a chill mood, it's not often but it does the trick.

 

[Helvete]

I will listen to PC later when I have time. Here's a band though that I identify a lot more with than Tool, two more bands in fact. Isis and Pelican, both are in the same style of music.

Isis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EhHqqzJFQ

Pelican
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI092yWHwBc

Sorry if I'm derailing

 

[Steven Gerrard]

I love Tool.

I really haven't heard anything like them.

Love 10,000 Days. Nothing more articulate than 10,000 part 1 and 2.

 

[Lot]

I'm going to parrot the others. I'm not a big fan of PC, but I love tool.

I haven't really listened to PC too much. Not a bad group. Tool just has more prolific songs, to me. Each group has something to offer as far as sound scapes. I relate more to the tool world.

 

[OrLevitate]

This is the result I expected. I relate very much to Tool but more to Perfect Circle. Perfect Circle is mainly for expressing Maynard's emotional issues, Tool is more commentary on society with anger and existential Oiad fear, along with patterns INTPs find beautiful. I would've found it interesting had more INTPs identified with PC. But this is solidifying evidence nonetheless.

 

[redbaron]

To be honest I don't often connect lyrically with music at all. It's all about the music for me. I'm a drummer and I'm greatly interested in a huge variety of styles of drumming. Danny Carey really combines a lot of styles, and combines them incredibly well. He pretty much makes Tool what they are in my eyes.

It's almost fair to say that a lot of the music I like is almost wholly dependent on the drummer. I'll like any music with good drumming, almost no matter how cheesy the rest of the music is. For that reason I have trouble enjoying certain genres of music that don't have much rhythmical depth or a strong presence of acoustic percussion.

Quite simply, the way in which a lot of APC's work is produced takes away a lot of what I love to hear rhythmically in music.

Although like nanook said, their live stuff is actually a lot better than their studio work. I probably should have mentioned that myself.