Tool
Undertow
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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Intolerance full track | 4:53 | 125,912 | ||
| 2 |
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Prison Sex | 4:56 | 159,399 | ||
| 3 |
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Sober full track | 5:06 | 206,039 | ||
| 4 |
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Bottom full track | 7:14 | 115,201 | ||
| 5 |
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Crawl Away full track | 5:30 | 115,978 | ||
| 6 |
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Swamp Song full track | 5:32 | 117,328 | ||
| 7 |
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Undertow full track | 5:22 | 126,067 | ||
| 8 | 4° | 7:04 | 45,213 | |||
| 9 |
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Flood full track | 7:46 | 99,473 | ||
| 10 |
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Disgustipated full track | 15:47 | 68,881 |
About this album
Undertow is Tool’s first full-length album, released in 1993. At the time, grunge was at the height of its popularity, and pop punk was slowly beginning to gather mainstream attention. Undertow helped heavy metal remain prominence as a mainstream musical style, and allowed several later bands to break through to the mainstream. Allmusic sees the album’s success in the “striking, haunting visuals that complemented the album’s nihilistic yet wistful mood” — it was eventually certified double platinum by the RIAA on May 14, 2001.
The album was recorded between October and December 1992 at Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California, by Sylvia Massy. It includes songs that the band decided to not release on their previous EP, Opiate.
Album art
The album art was designed by Adam Jones. Photos in the liner notes of a nude obese woman, a nude thin man, and the band members with pins in the sides of their heads generated controversy, resulting in the album being removed from stores such as KMart and Wal-Mart. The band reacted by releasing another version, which depicted a giant bar code on a white background. This version of the album included a note from the band .
When the original cover is held up to a light, the obese woman inside is seen encircled by the ribcage.
The message on the photographs of the band members reads “Trust me trust me trust me trust me trust me I just want to start this over say you won’t go this is love I’ll make weapons out of my imperfections lay back and let me show you another way only
The album was recorded between October and December 1992 at Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California, by Sylvia Massy. It includes songs that the band decided to not release on their previous EP, Opiate.
Album art
The album art was designed by Adam Jones. Photos in the liner notes of a nude obese woman, a nude thin man, and the band members with pins in the sides of their heads generated controversy, resulting in the album being removed from stores such as KMart and Wal-Mart. The band reacted by releasing another version, which depicted a giant bar code on a white background. This version of the album included a note from the band .
When the original cover is held up to a light, the obese woman inside is seen encircled by the ribcage.
The message on the photographs of the band members reads “Trust me trust me trust me trust me trust me I just want to start this over say you won’t go this is love I’ll make weapons out of my imperfections lay back and let me show you another way only
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Shouts
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RockNRolla808 wrote:
love this album
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misterdubya wrote:
little known factoid - they were going to make this album 100 minutes long, but the guys decided that 69 minutes long would be more fun as it would piss off the people who are easily offended by things
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threejones wrote:
doesn't get much better than this. Sylvia Massy did the boys a huge credit.
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akamadcow wrote:
You shouldnt be weraing panty's to begin with. Than you wouldnt have to waste all you time taking them off.
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kida08 wrote:
A collection of love songs :-d
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GetTrumped wrote:
for a psycho-sexual supernova such as myself, Undertow is the best work Tool has ever done. Undertow, Crawl Away, Prison Sex and Swamp Song are purely the greatest songs I have ever heard.
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JeffGuidry wrote:
An excellent example of Tool's burgeoning talent, all of the ambition to create new and interesting hard rock, but without the ornamentation of later efforts. A solid improvement and refinement of the Opiate EP, and stands as one of their best efforts. Fans who have been with them since the beginning often call this their best record, as it is certainly the purest; later efforts may be better realized but hardly anyone can argue that their impact is somewhat blunted by a too-expansive thematic reach. Undertow is direct and forceful, and it makes even the less fully realized songs at the end have great impact. If they would have broken up right after this album, they still would have been a vitally important touchstone of 90's metal. The only thing that could have made this album better would be to include their cover of No Quarter, which they played live during this era.
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kvlt-master5000 wrote:
@pizzake: It's a ribcage
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Zarrix wrote:
My favourite Tool album. Minus Disgustipated. Beats Aenima only by a hair though.
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pizzake wrote:
what is the thing on the cover suposed to be?
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psyborgue wrote:
Prison sex an bottom would have to be my favorite but everything is good on this album.
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Requiem_19 wrote:
My favorite Tool album.
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ignitedpatiqro wrote:
I'm going to side with buzzlotm on this one, tmanrocker is a simpleton. To be blunt, he is only disagreeing with the blatant grandeur of this album, and tool in general, because he is too much of an imbecile to understand the meaning of any of the songs. Now go back to listening to that talentless sack of idiocy people like to call soulja boy. What a fucking stupid name.
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heman159 wrote:
n if u're tryin to b funny.. u've done a very bad job, let me tell ya.......
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heman159 wrote:
buzzlotm.. its his opinion.. i don tihnk u shod hav said wat u said......
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Pudzinski wrote:
catchy little tune...the girls at the convent danced.
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buzzlotm wrote:
tmanrocker you're like 8 years old. You're probably sitting on your parents lap having them type for you. So I don't think you get a say in best albums of all time... Although it is a good album.
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tmanrocker wrote:
possibly one of the best albums all time???
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combichrist88 wrote:
About this album © Volcano (1996) Released: 17 Sep 1996 10 tracks (68:09) It's released in 1993. this band is like drugs. More you listening to them, more you're going to like the music and at the end you realise that you're addicted.
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MennOpeth wrote:
I fucking admire this album !!
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