We just had to wait until an annoying radio DJ with a wacky DJ voice announced a world premiere single. Before social media you couldn’t bombard Maynard’s Twitter profile until he answered. For hardcore fans, it was a life raft that gave us hope new material was on its way-and more importantly dispelled rumors the band was breaking up. Released in between Aenima and Lateralus, Salival is Tool’s only live album to date. Note: the argument can be made (usually by me, to everyone) that Tool has yet to make a bad album, so the following is a ranking of their least perfect to most perfect albums. Below, I rank their five studio albums, one EP and one live album. He along with singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and drummer Danny Carey have consistently toured and very inconsistently released albums for 29 years. Not only did their music survive the '90s, they as a band stayed together undergoing just one lineup change, swapping bassist Paul D’Amour for Justin Chancellor. It’s 2019 and Tool is still among the greats. Time is art’s greatest and most impartial critic. I was an angsty, unpopular teenager in the '90s, so artists like Tool made me feel less emotionally and physically alone. Most songs on my local radio station (I’m 900 years old) were short, had definitive verses and hooks and didn’t make me question my spiritual place in the universe. The first time I heard Tool I knew something was different.

Tool aenima album art