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The same thing would be listening to songs by the same artist.
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If you listen to seven songs by Tool, then listen to seven other songs by Tool, it is not the same thing.
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How is that presupposition nonsensical?
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Simple - you can't criticize something you have yet to perceive.
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To listen to a Tool album would take how long? Half an hour? An hour?
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An hour and five to ten minutes.
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But I wouldn't understand it the first time, right
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You might, you might not.
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And for what? To fully understand that they weren't actually playing the same riff over and over and over?
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Music can change people's lives. I hated Tool at first, but once I
really listened to them, they quickly became one of my favourite bands. I'm not saying the same will happen to everyone else, but it's always a possibility.
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You might have made the assumption that the songs were all from the same album.
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Judging from what you've stated about these seven songs, I said it's
likely that the songs you heard were from two of Tool's earlier, less progressive albums.
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which I would have said were a bit more boundary-breaking than old moaning Maynard and co.
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So because you've written an essay about a boundary-breaking piece of music, you automatically know more than everyone else does about every other boundary-breaking genre or band out there? You know more about Igor Stravinsky than I do, and I know more about Tool than you do, but we're not arguing about Igor Stravinsky or any sort of classical music, are we?