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Tool - 10,000 Days



8.6 | 1083 votes |
Release date: 2 May 2006
Style: Alternative metal, Progressive metal

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01. Vicarious
02. Jambi
03. Wings For Marie (Pt 1)
04. 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
05. The Pot
06. Lipan Conjuring
07. Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
08. Rosetta Stoned
09. Intension
10. Right In Two
11. Viginti Tres

The best Alternative Metal album of 2006
Top 20 albums of 2006: 17

Staff review by
jupitreas
Rating:
8.0
We had to wait 5 years for a new release from Tool. Is 10,000 Days worth the wait? Well, the answer is a definitive yes, although this album is not actually Tool's best.

10,000 Days starts misleadingly with two quite accessible numbers in the form of "Vicarious" and "Jambi". The first is pure gold single material with its superb riff, phenomenal buildup and clever lyrics. "Jambi" is more meandering but still very memorable. Sadly, this is when it all falls apart. Halfway through the "Wings" duo, we realize that the band has absolutely no intention of being on the same page as the listener. The album becomes a meandering mess that requires very careful listening and even then doesn't gel into a very cohesive whole. It seems that Tool took their progressive leanings way too far this time around and committed the crime of self-indulgence, sacrificing the very important element of flow. I would be willing to overlook this lack of cohesion if closer listening resulted in the discovery of some really phenomenal things; however, this is not the case here. "The Pot" and "Rosetta Stoned" are very good and the rest of the tracks are acceptable. This is a far cry from Tool's previous, nearly flawless album Lateralus and is a bit of a disappointment.

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published 28.04.2006 | Comments (38)

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28.11.2011 - 01:36
Rating: 7
Fade To Black

Cool thing you can do with this album is make a play list of "viginti tres" and "wings for Marie" in that order play those two over 10 000days and they make a super song.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html
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01.06.2012 - 02:24
neiluria

A masterpiece !
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27.01.2013 - 07:34
Rating: 8
CobiWan1993
Secundum Filium
Listening to this album again, I think this maybe my favorite Tool album out of all of them. It's a brilliant release.
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Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe (Lao Tzu).
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27.01.2013 - 16:40
Rating: 8
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Written by Fade To Black on 28.11.2011 at 01:36

Cool thing you can do with this album is make a play list of "viginti tres" and "wings for Marie" in that order play those two over 10 000days and they make a super song.


Holy shit, that is a helluva find. Thanks for the info. I wonder if someone actually did this...
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02.02.2013 - 06:35
Rating: 9
squidrick420

Great Tool album!! I love everything about it, especially the unique way that it is packaged. This is a really spacy head trip of an album that will never get old. I want a copy on Vinyl, but I do believe that it is over $50!!
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11.06.2013 - 06:40
Rating: 7
Ace Frawley
The Spaceman
Really love the song "Vicarious" - reckon that's a killer. Also dig "The Pot". I suppose I like the more straight forward rocking numbers than the more progressive, weirder stuff.
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The sun shines over The Fool...
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16.06.2013 - 22:08
Rating: 9
infernaldeath87

I just bought this album yesterday, and I have to say that it is a very interesting listen and the songs are really, really good. The first half of the album is amazing and then the middle kinda drops off after "The Pot" but then picks back up with "Rosetta Stoned." Love this album and can't wait to hear their new material later this year!
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07.07.2013 - 23:31
Rating: 9
(o> . )

Written by tea[m]ster on 27.01.2013 at 16:40

Written by Fade To Black on 28.11.2011 at 01:36

Cool thing you can do with this album is make a play list of "viginti tres" and "wings for Marie" in that order play those two over 10 000days and they make a super song.


Holy shit, that is a helluva find. Thanks for the info. I wonder if someone actually did this...

Sarcasm?
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18.08.2013 - 21:18
Rating: 9
Obay

One of my favs for Tool
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04.09.2015 - 10:25
Rating: 4
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Bored totaly due to the useless time between songs...
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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11.02.2017 - 22:41
Rating: 9
musclassia

I always held Lateralus over this album, but I have to say in the past year or so I've found myself really growing fond of 10,000 Days, arguably to a level higher than Lateralus, although that might partly be because I listened to Lateralus so much it lost some of its freshness. Still, removing the pointless interlude tracks, I strongly like pretty much every song on the album apart from maybe Intension. Jambi, 10,000 Days, The Pot, Rosetta Stoned and Right In Two are all brilliant
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04.04.2018 - 01:42
Rating: 7
afu

All these years later and still I can't get into 10,000 Days or Wings For Marie. A playlist without them is almost a perfect album.
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06.08.2019 - 18:55
Desha
delicious dish
Written by afu on 04.04.2018 at 01:42

All these years later and still I can't get into 10,000 Days or Wings For Marie. A playlist without them is almost a perfect album.

for me it's almost the opposite haha. Wings Pt. 2 is easily my favourite song of theirs and has a real emotional edge to it. Meanwhile the rest of the album is basically filler to me...
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You are the hammer, I am the nail
building a house in the fire on the hill
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08.08.2019 - 18:02
gavdann

Written by Fade To Black on 28.11.2011 at 01:36

Cool thing you can do with this album is make a play list of "viginti tres" and "wings for Marie" in that order play those two over 10 000days and they make a super song.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html

Wow, I never knew about this. That's some crazy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFjEp79zaNw
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01.11.2020 - 04:52
Rating: 9
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist


Can't ask for a better cover than that.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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26.08.2021 - 10:32
Cthulu

Written by afu on 04.04.2018 at 01:42

All these years later and still I can't get into 10,000 Days or Wings For Marie. A playlist without them is almost a perfect album.


Those are my favorite two songs on the album
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18.11.2021 - 11:46
RaduP
CertifiedHipster
Due to inflation, this is now 13,719.69 Days.
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Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking
One day there will be no heart at all?
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11.01.2024 - 11:59
Rating: 6
24emd
Theory Snob
My favourite by this band. Still surprises me that I'd end up somewhat liking this sound.
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"I am too stupid to be human, and I lack common sense." - Proverbs 30:2
"Music? Well, it's just entertainment, folks!" - Devin Townsend

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