The Beatles were innovative. While I agree that maybe early Beatles was pop trite their later material had so much going for it. They wrote what is probably the first hard rock song, they pushed a weird gimmick to its limits, they wrote some of the earliest concept albums, and they wrote Eleanor Rigby.
What did Tool do? Put good drumming behind nu-metal riffing and mixed it with bits of ambient? Yeah, lame. While I find Tool moderately enjoyable I can't stand Maynard's vocals or his lyrics, and I most certainly don't understand the hype.
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