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Undertow [Explicit Lyrics]

~ Tool
4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (1 April 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: Bmg
  • ASIN: B000025L6U
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 169,793 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Intolerance
2. Prison Sex
3. Sober
4. Bottom
5. Crawl Away
6. Swamp Song
7. Undertow
8. Four Degrees
9. Flood
10. Disgustipated

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UNDERTOW is an example of nimble heavy metal in the angtsy/artsy tradition of Jane's Addiction. Tool favours medium tempos, which gives several of the group's songs a modern-day Black Sabbath feel, but fortunately lead singer Maynard Jamesmostly steers clear of the usual quasi-operatic yowling favoured by most metal frontmen--he's a remarkably expressive singer in a genre not usually so noted. As for the band's world-view, it's pretty much summed up in the unsentimentally named "Prison Sex": "Do unto others, what has been done to you".

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The old future of progressive metal, 2 Jun 2003
By G. D. Harding (London, London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Undertow (Audio CD)
This was the first tool album I owned. At first I thought it was "good", but after you really listen to it you realise what a true masterpiece it really is. The whole album grows with you, each track compliments the others on the album. Melancholy lyrics combine with churning guitars, tight baselines and solid drum rhythm. I've heard this album referred to as progressive metal. It truely is. No bands from the nu-metal fold ome even close to the dark majecty that is tool. Listen to this album as a whole.
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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, not great. Buy it anyway., 26 April 2002
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This review is from: Undertow (Audio CD)
If you're new to Tool, this record will sound like a masterpiece. It is so far ahead of most rock music today (and it was released 10 years ago!), God knows what it must have sounded like when first released. It expands on Opiate (released the year before) to such a degree, that it is hard to believe this is the same band. Unfortunately, with the releases of AEnima and Lateralus, this now sounds unfulfilling. It's best moments rank among Tool's brightest, but I don't think I've listened to this record start to finish in over a year. Sober, Prison Sex, Crawl Away and Undertow are timeless, but Bottom (featuring Henry Rollins) and rest of the album can be hard to listen to. The album closer, Disgustipated, is probably the most irritating of all Tool's segues. It lasts about 16 minutes, except ten of those are just white noise. It is worth buying, but pales in comparison to Aenima and Lateralus - two of the best albums ever.
Incidentally, the UK release of Undertow has about three minutes edited out. Thankfully, most of those came from Disgustipated. However, the opening section of Intolerance has been cut. The US version has about thirty seconds of what is rumoured to be a man drowning before the band start playing.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An album for everyone, 26 May 2003
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This review is from: Undertow (Audio CD)
I think that without doubt that Undertow is by far the best album that Tool has ever brought out. There are some heavier tracks, followed by very melodic tracks in between. And there isn't one track that i dislike. I've liked Tool for more than 4 years now, and have purchased every album, and they just seem to be getting better and better i think that this one sum's up what Tool are all about.
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