My pressing is suffering from horrible surface noise (very loud cracking and popping) on both discs. Singer Maynard James Keenan has been unaffected by the comparative tunefulness of his side project A Perfect Circle, while the stripped-down nature of the instrumentation means that Tool's innate heaviness shines out in a world of production tricks and dodges. Despite its musical complexity, abstruse themes and embrace of the band's King Crimson fandom, the album debuted at Number One and launched Tool into amphitheaters and arenas around the world.

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This edit breaks the segue that occurs between "Disposition" and "Reflection", however, which, along with "Triad", are linked together on the tracklist. It's 'unofficial' ie not authorised by the band, but it is an 'official' Volcano/Tool Dissectional release. On the vinyl itself I don’t remember what side it has the lock groove section but my record player is not manual.This site may get a bad reputation and no longer be considered a legitimate source for Tool fans, etc. Though the CD3 is a very capable performer it's probably fair to say that it's rather out-gunned here. I myself got really bored/tired reading responses from people with their boo-hoo’s about this and others stating “this will never happen anytime in the near future”, “loss of jobs”, etc. My advice would be to save your hard-earned money, and to keep in mind that I’m not adverse to using an acronym that’s also an anagram (where applicable).

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There, he got married to my grandmother, who used to sell baked goods to people at concerts, and they had my dad. Rob Theakston reviewed the record for AllMusic, where he claimed that " Lateralus demands close listening from the first piece onward, as it becomes quickly apparent that this is not going to be an album one can listen to and accept at face value.

One of my favourite LPs of all time, hopefully one day it shows up on regular crisp and clean black vinyl, but until then this isn't as horrendous as it might seem. I thought I knew this album intimately, but there is a whole new level of detail revealed by the vinyl, and not just subtle nuances, we're talking major features that jump forward. Someone has taken all of the randomly labeled tool mp3’s that floated around in the Napster era and made a bootleg vinyl from them. I've read that some of the bootleggers get good distribution somehow, so the releases look really legit but they're not.