How did you start listening to tool?

[teejayau]

A girl I knew recommended Tool to me and I decided to listen to Anemia which she recommended. I listened to it and I decided to become a Tool fan.

[Ajna]

...I decided to become a Tool fan.

I don't think you can decide to become a fan of something.

[patient11]

it was one of the strangest things that has ever happened to me..id always been wallowing in my own self conscious consciousness trying to figure why i am the way i am..and just when i thought that i was the only one at 13, i discovered tool..it was like 3 something in the morning and i couldnt sleep..i got out of bed and turned on my clock radio..and aenima was playing..i was amazed by what i heard..and i was immediately drawn to the sound and intention..i stood lingering by the dresser..staring at the clock waiting for the song to be over to get the artist name..i remember thinking...this is one of the most longest songs that have ever been aired on this station...the only real music too.

[MMMREESESCUPS]

My friend showed me the pot. i said it sucked and tool sucked being my usual ignorant self. he insisted that tool was good and i gotten a few more chances to listen to the pot. I finally gave in and am said this song isn't that bad, who's it by again. I got the pot and listened to it some more, i really liked it so i looked the band up got a couple songs and started listening. that was wen it all happened, after that within a month i had 5 physical albums excluding salival and had all their songs. now i listen to them all the time and is usually the only band i listen to on my ipod and itunes, pathetic but i am pretty obssesed

Dude, why is it that when I showed all my friends Tool, the first one they decide to kind of like is The Pot? I wasn't even too crazy about it the first time I heard it...

[Ænimatic]

Haha maybe because it's catchy - it's not too proggy for the rock people, not too metal for the prog people, not too prog rock for the metal people...

well, you get the idea. I've heard it on the radio a couple of times, so I guess it's like the 'single' from 10,000 Days

People should grow some balls and dive head first into Third Eye, or Jambi or somethin.

[alphachiquita]

Really interesting to read alle these stories, it seems like most people's first "encounter" with Tool sticked to their memories.
I think it is also nice to see how this band is so important to many of us listeners.

It took my a while to discover Tool for me, think around 2 years, not joking. 2 years Aenima was in one of my CD-Cases and I didn't pay great attention to it.
I got the Album from one of my older sister's friends, who knew I was interested in ROCK-music (no more information!), so she gave me some RATM CDs plus Aenima.
First thing I thought was that it had a cool cover, so I put in in my CD-Player.
And now comes the funny part.
I listened to the intro of Eulogy, thought ok this is weird with all the percussion-thingy-sounds (that was how I thought then).
Then I skipped to Useful Idiot, only noticing noises, Forty-6 & Two sounded like arabic music to me (!!!!!), Message to Harry Manback, I mean, it's a phone call, and I didn't get Die Eier von Satan at all (I live in Germany...).
So I really thought this was a CD from like a experimental hip-hop-rock noise producing band (notice I didn't even know the name of the band!)

Later on (~ 2 years), I was bored at night so I watched MTW showing simple rock-clips. Prison Sex came on and I loved that song.
The next day (really the next day), it so happened that I looked through all of my CDs and wondered about the name of the band with this "eyes-moving-around-a-white-box" cover. Reading these little letters "Tool", I realized this was the same band that made Prison Sex.
Therefore I listened to Aenima again and REALLY paid attention to the single songs. I felt in love with H. and realized that my first impression was TOTALLY wrong

I mean, this is so messed-up!
But through Tool I learned alot about music. Music is art, and should be able to bring you in another world. Good music reflects the soul and the mind of the musician.
Cheers!

[kutulu80]

But through Tool I learned alot about music. Music is art, and should be able to bring you in another world. Good music reflects the soul and the mind of the musician.
Cheers!

Hear, hear!!

[SpunkySkunk347]

always heard Schism and Sober on the radio, then one day decided to download schism and sober and a few other songs by Tool. I ended up finding out how all of their songs were equally as kick ass, so i went out and bought all their albums

[3rdI]

i started listening to them on 7 hihts of lsd blotter form and my friend put in lateralus and we listened to it the whole way through best day ever

[Ajna]

i started listening to them on 7 hihts of lsd blotter form and my friend put in lateralus and we listened to it the whole way through best day ever

You are a great argument as to why I should never do anything stronger than Advil.

[ThroughTheCracks337]

Well, I suppose for me it started first with AFI. (or MCR).

I was a YOUNG teen, listened to MCR. (YOUNG!)
Moved onto AFI (Who I still listen to now)
from AFI, I moved onto NIN as Davey was always praising Trent, so I gave them a listen a couldn't beleive how much I liked and connected to Trent's music so immediately got everything they had ever done. And then, from NIN I kept hearing and reading about Tool, I skimmed over their songs quite a lot but didn't really like them at first. But, one strange day I decided to really listen to a song, which was fortunately the amazing lateralus!!!! And from then on I realised how amazing they were and went onto APC and Puscifier

[mothermary710]

I'm only 20 now, and the fact that i've known about this band since i was six scares me. I have older sisters, and back when i was a little kid, i would sneak some of their cds out of their room and listen to them. One of my older sisters was into hard rock, and bein the little klepto i was, i happened to find Aenima in her collection (along with Dirt by Alice in Chains) and i just held onto it. I really got into them when i turned eleven, i bought lateralus, and just kept listening to them. To this day, they are one of my favorite bands.

[PatientAttention]

I cannot remember how old I was when I first heard Tool. I only remember that it was Sober... I must've been around 11 or 12. The radio host came on the air afterwards and explained the song followed by the artist. After that I began listening to them and fell deeper and deeper into my obsession with the band. It wasn't until I was 17 that I truly began to appreciate the complexity of the lyrics and music. Around that time I was going through a bit of a bad time and I could make a connection with Tool. I began writing my own lyrics and interpreting Maynard's words. Tool's art healed my wounds. And I honestly cannot thank the enough for what they do.

[Faust]

I cannot remember how old I was when I first heard Tool. I only remember that it was Sober... I must've been around 11 or 12. The radio host came on the air afterwards and explained the song followed by the artist. After that I began listening to them and fell deeper and deeper into my obsession with the band. It wasn't until I was 17 that I truly began to appreciate the complexity of the lyrics and music. Around that time I was going through a bit of a bad time and I could make a connection with Tool. I began writing my own lyrics and interpreting Maynard's words. Tool's art healed my wounds. And I honestly cannot thank the enough for what they do.

Fucking hilarious

[PatientAttention]

I cannot remember how old I was when I first heard Tool. I only remember that it was Sober... I must've been around 11 or 12. The radio host came on the air afterwards and explained the song followed by the artist. After that I began listening to them and fell deeper and deeper into my obsession with the band. It wasn't until I was 17 that I truly began to appreciate the complexity of the lyrics and music. Around that time I was going through a bit of a bad time and I could make a connection with Tool. I began writing my own lyrics and interpreting Maynard's words. Tool's art healed my wounds. And I honestly cannot thank the enough for what they do.

Fucking hilarious

Thanks man, I appreciate that. Prick.