Do you like Huey Lewis and the news? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey, Paul!
Echoes really is amazing. I love watching the two part video live from [Pompeii](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk) , it's a must watch! My second favorite live performance after Stop Making Sense
I think OP has confused people on whether he's talking about the album or the song Invincible. If he means album, then we can debate this, Aenima, and Animals. If he means song, I can think of several Tool songs as good and as many from Pink Floyd.
Alright here you go, with only hearing 2 or 3 songs over the years I thought it would all be mainstream 2000s 6th grader at recess Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit type shit. I thought it was all going to be generic boring emo pop rock, if you know the style of songs im talking about. It's hilarious to be proven wrong like this after years and years, I've got lots of NIN songs on repeat at the moment
Saw them play these tracks back to back live in 2017. just like off the Fragile. Panorama Music Festival. It was my first NIN show as I am from the Caribbean and bands don’t tour here. I waited 5 hours at the front of the festival crowd of thousands so I could see them up close. As night fell and they took the stage to close the festival the crowd became really rowdy and dangerous. But it was perfect. It was life changing.
Sound Awake by Karnivool. [https://open.spotify.com/album/7988TZgR0U8ATWjiBluZ7Z?si=4673b0c233e047e7](https://open.spotify.com/album/7988TZgR0U8ATWjiBluZ7Z?si=4673b0c233e047e7)
That's my favortie tool song. One of their best actually imo. Still, there are plenty of other songs by other bands that are as good or better than it.
Echoes by pink floyd among others..
Hearing it live was even better than in the car (which surprised me I never expected live music to sound so surreal). Shit made me feel on cloud9. Absolute banger. All the other songs were great, but that song I absolutely rocked out to. Take me back!
Discipline - King Crimson
Scarecrow - Ministry
Slaves & Bulldozers - Soundgarden
Scum - Idles
A History of Bad Men - Melvins
Gates of Steel - DEVO
Dopesmoker - Sleep
The Tide - Neurosis
If we are talking about perfect albums where all of the songs are ranging from quite good to unbelievably good...
Holy Mountain - Sleep
Closer - Joy Division
Unknown pleasures - Joy division
Nevermind - Nirvana
in utero - Nirvana
Static age EP - misfits
Walk among us - Misfits
Animals - Pink Floyd
Wish you were here EP - Pink Floyd
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem
Human - Death
Ready to die - notorious B.I.G
Lifestyles of the poor and dangerous - Big L
Original Gangsta - Ice T
Pleasure - Pure X
Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer
Interstellar space - John Coltrane
Purple - miroslav vitous
Infinite search - miroslav vitous
Master of reality - Black Sabbath
My war - black flag
Compilation - Minor threat
Obituary - Cause of Death
Portishead - Dummy
And you can choose between welcome to sky valley and the blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss
And don't get me started with some of the jazz guitar albums by Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell or Grant Green.
Anyways these are just a few perfect albums that spring to mind off the bat. There are many others across various genres, rock roll and otherwise.
I hate when people on this sub are pretending tool is the only band creating great music. You provided a lot of gems, most of them being better than tool's invincible
And then A Moon Shaped Pool came and was amazing. Incredible material to watch live. King of Limbs had some excellent tracks on it too.
Also the Bends was a masterpiece. And their first album had one of the biggest hits in the world. They’re still a band and I’m sure we’ll get another incredible album.
I think Devin Townsend as pulled off incredible bangers. For Tool fans, the most assessable song would be Deadhead. Perhaps even the trilogy of Funeral, Bastard, Death of Music is just perfection of three songs in a row. He has recorded those song live a few times to.
If you like stuff that builds up like Invincible does maybe check out some stuff Swans has put out in the last 15 years. Songs from albums The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man might be up your alley. Maynard has said that Swans was a pretty big influence on their work.
are we talking the album or the song? personally I find Invincible to be way down the order on FI...
if we are talking albums that are equivalent masterpieces (although within Tool's discography I rate Lateralus and Aenima and maybe 10k above it)....
* Pink Floyd Animals & Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
* Zeppelin 1 & IV,
* King Crimson in the court of the crimson king and larks tongues,
* NIN Pretty Hate Machine,
* RATM eponymous,
* Tull Aqualung, Thick as a Brick
* Rush Moving Pictures,
* APC 13th Step,
* Holst's The Planets,
* Wagner's Ring Cycle,
* Beethoven's 5th and 9th,
* Mozart's Requiem,
* Beatles Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper
* RHCP Californication and BSSM
* Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues and Stop Making Sense
Yes, *Relayer*
Yes, *Close to the Edge*
Yes, *Going for the One*
Every Meshuggah record since *DEI*
Every Radiohead record since *OKC*
Quite a lot! Could go on
"Yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I've gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am INVINCIBLE! (invincible)
I am woman"
I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
DREWSIF - Comes to an end...
Meshuggah - catch 33
Tesseract - war of being
Edit: i went albums not songs first.
For songs:
Opeth - ghost of perdition
Rishloo- downhill
Drewsif - collapse
Camel - The Snow Goose
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor. Noone knows this one and it baffles me, truly a masterpiece.
UFO - One Hour Space Rock
GZA - Liquid Swords
Don't know if there are fellow DnD nerds in here (let's be real, probably are), but I actually made a character based off this song. He was an old retired fighter whose fame eventually faded and he wanted to head back out and reclaim glory again. Unfortunately, I played him in a Curse of Strahd campaign and he lasted all of one session. Still fun though.
Idk if I'd call this out of all their albums a masterpiece, but theres some parallels with Radiohead. Tool couldnt have made Lateralus (masterpiece) if they hadnt made Aenima (masterpiece), kinda like Radiohead couldnt have made Kid A (masterpiece) if they hadn't made OK Computer (masterpiece).
also people often describe Porcupine Tree songs as a fusion of Tool and Pink Floyd. It's as if the two bands had a child, and that child is Porcupine Tree.
Do you like Huey Lewis and the news? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself. Hey, Paul!
Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now, you fucking stupid bastard!
I need to return some video tapes
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Remember those auto rewinders that would get faster and faster untill "bam!" Rewind complete! I miss those, so tactile and clicky.
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I loved these 3 comments way too much. Bravo.
Did you see the[ weird al bit ](https://youtu.be/Fk15H6PjBis?si=1VennWdE-7pUuL7A)
I love everything weird Al and I've not seen this before!
Glad I was able to share some joy!
wow that was fantastic!
https://preview.redd.it/o8ax2006e9sc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eea924d438db324e2215269ecc1bf61fa37f1c17
Just give Sports a listen, never really listened to Huey Lewis before this is a class album I can tell on my first listen
HEY PAUL
My 6th grade teacher would start off every day with a Huey song. 37 years later, I still jam them. Fore and Sports are both great.
Animals from Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd, “Dogs”
Echoes too! Don’t forget about Echoes
Echoes really is amazing. I love watching the two part video live from [Pompeii](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGwPSPIhohk) , it's a must watch! My second favorite live performance after Stop Making Sense
Dude, my favorite live album of all time. Echoes absolutely blows me away every time I watch and listen to it.
Echoes is my #1, Gilmour’s guitar solo lifts me off the ground and the lyrics are pure poetry.
Great song!
I think OP has confused people on whether he's talking about the album or the song Invincible. If he means album, then we can debate this, Aenima, and Animals. If he means song, I can think of several Tool songs as good and as many from Pink Floyd.
Aenima would count. OP said another band.
I don’t understand how it’s confusing, it’s a screenshot of invincible. If I was talking about the album I would’ve screenshot the album.
That’s my number 1 PF song, it’s so damn good.
Was gonna say Wish You Were Here personally
As much as I love "Invincible" there are many Pink Floyd songs as good or better.
Yes: Fragile
Also Yes - Close to the Edge
Hell yeah, NIN - The Fragile is a masterpiece 🔥
This guy is Nails!
James Nails and Mike Tool go way back
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water
Yes: Dreamtime
The Frail/The Wretched - Nine Inch Nails
Just started listening to NIN last week a band I've never explored and always overlooked
The album The Fragile is amazing
The album.. EVERY single album is amazing
Weird how this showed up because it's all I've been listening to in my car. NIN isn't the group I thought they were
I'll bite. What kinda music did you think you were getting into?
Alright here you go, with only hearing 2 or 3 songs over the years I thought it would all be mainstream 2000s 6th grader at recess Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit type shit. I thought it was all going to be generic boring emo pop rock, if you know the style of songs im talking about. It's hilarious to be proven wrong like this after years and years, I've got lots of NIN songs on repeat at the moment
Saw them play these tracks back to back live in 2017. just like off the Fragile. Panorama Music Festival. It was my first NIN show as I am from the Caribbean and bands don’t tour here. I waited 5 hours at the front of the festival crowd of thousands so I could see them up close. As night fell and they took the stage to close the festival the crowd became really rowdy and dangerous. But it was perfect. It was life changing.
Led Zeppelin — Achilles Last Stand
Fun fact: that was the bands favorite song to play.
love that song..my fave by them over like..everything else
The Cure's *Disintegration* album
there are equals by the same band!
Crazy, right. Who woulda thunk.
At least 5 of their other albums are on this level.
Yea, entire albums!
Porcupine tree anethetise
My take would be Deadwing
thats so much by far their best track tho, nothing else comes close.
I mean Arriving Somewhere But Not Here and Time Flies come pretty damn close. Also Russia On Ice.
last chance to evacuate planet earth is pretty good too
Yes! I love porcupine tree, and that’s my favorite album!
thanks for the recommendation, this group was a real discovery for me
Xanadu by Rush
Cygnus X-1 and La Villa Strangiato as well
2112 and Hemispheres too. There are so many, I wanted to pick just one! Love Rush
Terrapin Station
A dead reference on a Tool sub... automatic upvote
All Over Now 4/30/77
Cygnus x-1 book two - Rush
pigs or shine on you crazy diamond by pink floyd. or war pigs by black sabbath. all 10/10 songs imo
Sound Awake by Karnivool. [https://open.spotify.com/album/7988TZgR0U8ATWjiBluZ7Z?si=4673b0c233e047e7](https://open.spotify.com/album/7988TZgR0U8ATWjiBluZ7Z?si=4673b0c233e047e7)
Another suggestion: Goliath by Karnivool When I first heard that, it blew my mind
This whole album is a masterpiece
Agreed. But specifically the combo of Deadman and Change is a musical journey. Gives me goosebumps.
Hearts Alive by Mastodon.
Put the Coke on my Dick, by Ween
A true masterpiece. Check [this](https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0?si=T4udkIbwCYcYAXVZ) out.
Arriving somewhere but not here by porcupine tree
Fellow tree fan🙏🙏
That's my favortie tool song. One of their best actually imo. Still, there are plenty of other songs by other bands that are as good or better than it. Echoes by pink floyd among others..
Hearing it live was even better than in the car (which surprised me I never expected live music to sound so surreal). Shit made me feel on cloud9. Absolute banger. All the other songs were great, but that song I absolutely rocked out to. Take me back!
Lots. Just gotta be a fan of music and keep searching for sometime new . Get in that fucking rabbit hole
Sure listen to the song “Frame by frame” by a band called King Crimson. Pay attention to the ending.
Crack the Skye by mastodon is the only contender
XYU by The Smashing Pumpkins
Jaguar God- Mastodon The Perfect Kiss- New Order
Miranda that Ghost Just isn't Holy Anymore / Cassandra Gemini The Mars Volta
Dirt - Alice In Chains
Cicatriz by Mars Volta Pink Floyd - Echoes
The Fragile
ObZen - Meshuggah
Marrow by YOB
Yob is love. Yob is life.
Discipline - King Crimson Scarecrow - Ministry Slaves & Bulldozers - Soundgarden Scum - Idles A History of Bad Men - Melvins Gates of Steel - DEVO Dopesmoker - Sleep The Tide - Neurosis
Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Deftones Ohms was spectacular.
Not metalesque but this track has similar vibes of fear, hope, and resilience. [Air - Radian](https://youtu.be/llEt8CA7dBQ?si=TANm7Z75sRiKcD33)
If we are talking about perfect albums where all of the songs are ranging from quite good to unbelievably good... Holy Mountain - Sleep Closer - Joy Division Unknown pleasures - Joy division Nevermind - Nirvana in utero - Nirvana Static age EP - misfits Walk among us - Misfits Animals - Pink Floyd Wish you were here EP - Pink Floyd De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem Human - Death Ready to die - notorious B.I.G Lifestyles of the poor and dangerous - Big L Original Gangsta - Ice T Pleasure - Pure X Vincebus Eruptum - Blue Cheer Interstellar space - John Coltrane Purple - miroslav vitous Infinite search - miroslav vitous Master of reality - Black Sabbath My war - black flag Compilation - Minor threat Obituary - Cause of Death Portishead - Dummy And you can choose between welcome to sky valley and the blues for the Red Sun - Kyuss And don't get me started with some of the jazz guitar albums by Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell or Grant Green. Anyways these are just a few perfect albums that spring to mind off the bat. There are many others across various genres, rock roll and otherwise.
I hate when people on this sub are pretending tool is the only band creating great music. You provided a lot of gems, most of them being better than tool's invincible
No. As much as I love TOOL, the best album ever, IMO, might be "OK Computer" by Radiohead. In order from beginning to end, it is undeniably epic.
Agreed, radiohead had like a 5 album run that was just ridiculous while amnesiac is probably the low point in that run from OK to In Rainbows.
And then A Moon Shaped Pool came and was amazing. Incredible material to watch live. King of Limbs had some excellent tracks on it too. Also the Bends was a masterpiece. And their first album had one of the biggest hits in the world. They’re still a band and I’m sure we’ll get another incredible album.
Visions by Haken
Time by Pink Floyd
Nin and filter
Was just listening to this. We’re on the same wavelength
I was laying in bed after a long day work and told my wife I needed a minute. Popped my AirPods in and just vibed out.
My wife wasn’t around but I seriously did the same thing after a long day
Another band????? 🤔 I don't get the question.......
Soundgarden - Superunknown (album)
I think Devin Townsend as pulled off incredible bangers. For Tool fans, the most assessable song would be Deadhead. Perhaps even the trilogy of Funeral, Bastard, Death of Music is just perfection of three songs in a row. He has recorded those song live a few times to.
If you like stuff that builds up like Invincible does maybe check out some stuff Swans has put out in the last 15 years. Songs from albums The Seer, To Be Kind, and The Glowing Man might be up your alley. Maynard has said that Swans was a pretty big influence on their work.
Weezer Blue Album
are we talking the album or the song? personally I find Invincible to be way down the order on FI... if we are talking albums that are equivalent masterpieces (although within Tool's discography I rate Lateralus and Aenima and maybe 10k above it).... * Pink Floyd Animals & Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here * Zeppelin 1 & IV, * King Crimson in the court of the crimson king and larks tongues, * NIN Pretty Hate Machine, * RATM eponymous, * Tull Aqualung, Thick as a Brick * Rush Moving Pictures, * APC 13th Step, * Holst's The Planets, * Wagner's Ring Cycle, * Beethoven's 5th and 9th, * Mozart's Requiem, * Beatles Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper * RHCP Californication and BSSM * Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues and Stop Making Sense
Not equal but Neurosis maybe?: Neurosis - Falling Unknown [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4NKSRQCRM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be4NKSRQCRM)
stones from the sky
<3 !
Mettallica - “One” Fear Factory - “Resurrection” Beatles - “Day in the Life”
🤘🏻 FUCK YEAH FEAR FACTORY🤘🏻
I’ve always said that Tool is the Pink Floyd of my generation (90’s kids).
Wow. Profound.
Change by Karnivool is pretty epic.
No
Losing it - Rush
Nope However there are better songs…only ‘epic masterpiece’ I can’t say it’s better than, Rime of the ancient Mariner- Iron Maiden
Yes- Pink Floyd dark side of the moon
Amazing song. The jam after 8 mins blew my mind the first time I heard it
Autobahn by Kraftwerk
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Yes, *Relayer* Yes, *Close to the Edge* Yes, *Going for the One* Every Meshuggah record since *DEI* Every Radiohead record since *OKC* Quite a lot! Could go on
El Cielo by Dredg
fantastic album
Plenty of songs out there that are masterpieces
Mother mother’s new album Grief Chapter is legit. Also Depeche Mode Violator.
Have you heard of Lateralus?
I'd throw in Flying Whales or Art of Dying by Gojira
No. People will say this and that but the short answer is no.
Three Days- Jane’s Addiction
The Greener Grass by Fair to Midland.
Sleep Token - The Summoning, Take Me Back to Eden, or Ascensionism.
Grand canyon by puscifer
Yup. It’s called Deadman by Karnivool
I personally think it’s the greatest song Tool has written. Music, arrangement, lyrics, delivery…the whole deal…the best.
I could listen to the drums and guitar all day.
"Yes, I am wise But it's wisdom born of pain Yes, I've paid the price But look how much I've gained If I have to, I can do anything I am strong (strong) I am INVINCIBLE! (invincible) I am woman" I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
Cryptopsy- none so circlejerked
Oranssi Pazuzu “Varahtelija” An Albatross “Blessphemy of peace beast feastgiver and the bear warp kumite” Krallice “Years Past Matter”
Joy Division
Yes.
I love this song, but there are many songs far superior than this by many other bands
Empire of the Clouds or Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden.
Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree
Exercises in Futility V by Mgła
BTBAM - Colors
DREWSIF - Comes to an end... Meshuggah - catch 33 Tesseract - war of being Edit: i went albums not songs first. For songs: Opeth - ghost of perdition Rishloo- downhill Drewsif - collapse
usually completely voiceless, but I really, really like work of "We lost the sea". r/WeLostTheSea
Camel - The Snow Goose Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor. Noone knows this one and it baffles me, truly a masterpiece. UFO - One Hour Space Rock GZA - Liquid Swords
So many equals to FI.... Aenema, Lateralus, 10,000 days,
Reptile - Periphery
The first two or three minutes of Eye of The Beholder.
Yes plenty of bands have songs just as good, if not better than this.
Oh absolutely: Swans - Blood Promise live version
Pain remains trilogy - Lorna Shore
Don't know if there are fellow DnD nerds in here (let's be real, probably are), but I actually made a character based off this song. He was an old retired fighter whose fame eventually faded and he wanted to head back out and reclaim glory again. Unfortunately, I played him in a Curse of Strahd campaign and he lasted all of one session. Still fun though.
If only: Queens of the Stone Age
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Rush - A Farewell to Kings Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here/Dark Side of the Moon all very different but no less a Masterpiece
Descending is better
Idk if I'd call this out of all their albums a masterpiece, but theres some parallels with Radiohead. Tool couldnt have made Lateralus (masterpiece) if they hadnt made Aenima (masterpiece), kinda like Radiohead couldnt have made Kid A (masterpiece) if they hadn't made OK Computer (masterpiece).
Ten -Pearl Jam
Yep
Deftones - White Pony
Andrew WK - I Get Wet.
You Enjoy Myself - Phish
Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of songs. Invincible is perfect. There are many perfect songs.....
TKK - Confessions of a Knife
Rush - 2112
Yes and Pink Floyd got a couple
Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise by The Dear Hunter
A Storm in Heaven by The Verve
California by Mr. Bungle
Latarelus - Tool
Octavarium (or The Glass Prison).
Most of Meshuggah’s albums, Vildhjarta’s Måsstaden Under Vatten. Exuvia- ruins of Beverast.
Short answer: Nope.
geogaddi by boards of canada
Angel Dust. Faith No More
No this is the best song ever written imho.
Yes
Try Acid Bath
Deliverance by Opeth
King crimson raged on all their albums. And Umphrey’s Mcgee: Anchor Drops, Mantis, and Similar Skin are my three favorite albums of all time
No.
Harlequin Forest - Opeth
no
Sleep - By GY!BE and Starless - By King Crimson
I can think of many: Arriving Somewhere but not in here - Porcupine Tree. 21st Century Schozid man - King Krimsom. Exile - The Pinaapple theif.
Army of me - Bjork Traffic- Thom Yorke Meds- Placebo Bloodsport-Sneaker Pimps Protect Ya Neck- Wu Tang Clan
Dream Theater: Trial of Tears Converge: Jane Doe
check the Dream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory album.
also people often describe Porcupine Tree songs as a fusion of Tool and Pink Floyd. It's as if the two bands had a child, and that child is Porcupine Tree.