Take a few grams of psilocybin mushrooms and listen to Lateralus and then try to tell me that Tool's overrated. ;)

What you said might possibly be the dumbest comment ever.

1. I did not say there bad, read the damn post I said they are overrated. I love Tool and think there good/talented. If you would have taken the time to read what i said you would have realized that means they are given way more credit than is due to them.

2. Your judging what your saying about my music taste on about 2 weeks of last fm charts. Either your just a very dumb bloke, or think that has something to do with my overall music tastes.

3. Im not at all big on indie, and have listen to a damn good amount of prog in my 30 or so years of being very into music and playing 3 instruments.

So ill sum this up for you since you obviously are not the smartest poster in the world. Tool is an amazingly talented and skillful band which i listen to all the time, but is extremely overrated and many times considered one of the best bands in history. ( yes iv heard that many times)

And you make a very uneducated argument with the metaphor of the flute and clarinet, which is completely wrong. I met Danny Carey (i think thats how its spelled) about 10 or so years ago. I say that not at all in a bragging sense but in that i fully know what im talking about when it comes to tool and that type of music.

I am with RezZ, I think that we may have a 'Poser' instead of the real deal. Knowing a few facts concerning classical music, and to quote shakespear will not cut it with me. One has to realize, if you post on any certain thread (subject). You had better know what you are talking about before you speak. Because you will be challenged if you are not correct, and most times. Even if you are right. Personal opinions are a different matter. But to insult someone, you will find that it will not be tolerated by most people.

Haha if that aint the truth...

Take a few grams of that and nothings overated:)

Overrated as one of the best bands ever? I have never heard that in my life. Yeah I'm younger and mabey they were popular a decade ago but no one listens to them anymore. I hear kids my age talking about how Muse is the best progressive band ever. Yeah if someone called them the best band ever I would absolutely agree with you, but I rarely meet anyone who has ever heard of them. Adam Jones writes the melodies for one which is BY FAR the best part of Tool. Even if they were called that there are bands that are so much more ridiculously overrated its stupid. Like Kiss or U2. I don't look at music charts, and when someone has a band in their sig I assume they like them. I think thats a pretty rational assumption. "Poster" is spelled Poser by the way. I'm in Music school if that makes any damn difference. If you had been listening to prog for 30 years you should god damn know that there are tons and tons of Indie Wankers who make fun of Prog. That's what I took you as.

Apology Accepted.

I guess you are right I keep reading about Tool and Volta fans. Hey where I am from me and a couple of my friends are the only people who have ever heard of Tool. Volta is popular but that's not even worth mentioning. I guess Tool is alot more famous in other places and I just never knew. If there really are that many fans then yeah they are WAY overrater, but I just thought they never really got famous for various reasons such as their music not being on Itunes. Guess I was wrong. As for the flute reference (i forgot to mention this in my last quote). A flute and a clarinet while both woodwinds are nothing like each other when it comes to playing. Indie (what I orginally thought you listened too) and Prog are both alternative to mainstream genres but are nothing alike.

Wait, you guys are saying that Tool is less heard of them Mars Volta? Where the hell are you from? Mars Volta is way LESS mainstream than Tool. I mean ****, I would say A Perfect Circle is more mainstream than Mars Volta. Personally I think that Mars Volta is better than the couple, but I do think both Tool and A Perfect Circle are great bands.

Yea, def agree.

APC ain't vereh good, are theh