Aenima | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tool
Label: Volcano
Category: Music
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Rating:  1140 reviews
Sales Rank: 221616
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Tracks: 15
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 614223108711
EAN: 0614223108711
ASIN: B00000099X
Release Date: September 17, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Stinkfist | | • | Eulogy | | • | H. | | • | Useful Idiot | | • | Forty Six & 2 | | • | Message to Harry Manback | | • | Hooker With a Penis | | • | Intermission | | • | Jimmy | | • | Die Eier Von Satan | | • | Pushit | | • | Cesaro Summability | | • | Aenema | | • | (-) Ions | | • | Third Eye |
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Amazon.com
With its heavy-duty distortion, weighty rhythms, and cynical lyrics, Tool is a heavy metal band for the '90s. Rather like Metallica circa ...And Justice for All, the sound is focused heavily on texture, with vocals and guitars layered one atop the other, and heart-pounding drums underlying everything. There's not a whole lot of variety on Tool's second full-length album--most of the songs start off fairly low-key, kicking into high gear for the chorus, and repeat--but Maynard James Keenan's distinctive voice, the prog-rock stylings over a heavy metal base, and a supremely unhealthy dose of vitriol make this the perfect album to bang your head to. --Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews:
 Another long and remarkable journey. December 30, 2008
JetBlackNewYear (California)
Some how for some reason, this was the last Tool album to complete my collection... Don't ask me why... I've listed to "Aenima" 4 times now, but already I find it lives up to the hype surrounding it, just like "Lateralus" did. For newcomers: This is a GREAT Tool album to start with because it contains some of the best elements of Tool: the dark, gritty and somewhat bitterly juvenile "Undertow" as well as Tool's complex though provoking magnum opus that is "Lateralus". But beware, this isn't your typical hard rock/ metal album, like other reviewers will tell you, it takes time and attention... be prepared to set aside enough time to listen to this record in it's entirety and probably not like it. You'll be rewarded though as your brain starts to sort things out and piece parts together... which is the best way I can describe it. It's just structured so differently than anything else one typically hears from popular rock groups... To be honest, I fell asleep halfway through during my second listen to "Aenima", but on the 4th listen, It hit me, and I was rockin this album just completely enthralled by it... On "Lateralus" it took me like 10+ listens to fully appreciate it, but when it finally hit me... WOW. Anyways, again, this would be an excellent place to start in my opinion... It contributed to Tool's amazing evolution. "Aenema" IS Tool's first progressive metal masterpiece.
Tool's Best Work December 13, 2008
Moshpit Man (Chauvin, LA)
If you've never heard of Tool, this is the album to listen to first. Tool is one of the best progressive metal bands of all time, my personal favorite on top of that. They're music is very well...mind-bending, whether that's bad, good, or just crazy, it's all what the listener decides. Not just the music, but the interesting tracks, like Ions, where all you hear is electrons charging.
My personal favorite songs are Stinkfist, Eulogy, H, Jimmy, and 46 & 2. The rest of the album is still great. This album just has a tendency to keep you listening to it over and over again, and is just a great record to add to your music collection if you haven't already.
Why is this forgotten? November 9, 2008
mike the cablinasian (East Bay)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stsrt to finish, this is fantastic piece of work. I put it up there with Stones (Sticky Fingers and Exile), Who (Who's Next), Zep (I, II, or IV). Not a bad track on the whole disk. A Landmark. We listen to this at work, and it is simply known as "The Album." Hey, Gus, what's next? I think I'll put on "The Album" again. Buy it.
Amazing September 19, 2008
Kelly Garrison
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Aenima is one of my favorite Tool albums. It's just too amazing to put into words.
production masterpiece July 21, 2008
Ravenshaw (Switzerland)
The musical aspects of Aenima and the ritual "file under exercise**" have already been well-covered in the other reviews here. I'll cover an angle that I have never before read about this CD.
When mixing a record, it is common practice to bring in recordings of other songs, sounds, or whatever to use as references and / or "ear-cleaners".
This CD has become (for me at least) a Golden-Standard. The sound on it is SO well-produced that it serves as landmark; it not only sets a standard against which other works are measured, it is also like a lighthouse for those mixing new works. It helps one maintain or regain one's bearings in frequency-space.
** the comparison of one band to other bands such to allow those who know the music to market it to those who don't.
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