Below, we highlight some of the album's most intriguing details and stories. Lateralus is 78 minutes and 51 seconds long, making it — by default, considering that most discs max out at 80 minutes — one of the longest single CDs ever recorded. Somehow, though, Tool still left music on the cutting room floor. Producer David Bottrill told the Salival site in , "On Lateralus , I helped more with the structure of some of the songs. I remember campaigning to lose a section of the song 'Lateralus' that Danny liked a lot.
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I think he still is a little sorry it didn't make it into the song. The terrifying instrumental piece " Faaip de Oiad" is , in trademark Tool style, filled with Easter Eggs and obscure allusions for fans who are willing to dig The song itself blends white noise with distorted drums and a man's feverish rants about "extradimensional beings" — the latter sampled from a call into Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show.
During the infamous recording, the caller claims to be a former employee of Area 51 and panics audibly that his message is being "[ triangulated ].
Instead of just titling the track "Area 51" or something obvious, Tool added another mystical layer. Tool, always way funnier than anyone gives them credit for, have never been shy to fuck around with their fans.
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During the preceding hype for Lateralus , they teased a fake album title and track list. The beauty of the gag is that major news outlets picked up the goofy names and ran with them. Just take this ABC News blurb: According to the band's Web site toolband.
Tool fans and other pranksters helped the spread of Lateralus disinformation before the album release Back in the Wild West days of Napster leaks, numerous fake tracks circulated online — to the point where fan sites were forced to play referee. One imposter track was reportedly called "Prove It," which turned out to be Chevelle's "Prove to You. A badass factoid that many Tool fans regard with Biblical importance, some of the lyrics from "Lateralus," if charted syllabically, follow the numeric pattern of Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa's famed Fibonacci Sequence Let's untangle this a bit: In the sequence — which correlates with the "Golden Ratio," a pattern that appears throughout nature — each number equals the sum of the previous two.
The 16th number in the sequence is 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, , , , , During the writing process, bassist Justin Chancellor brought in a riff that, after some workshopping, evolved into measures of 9, 8 and 7. It came from trying to relate to those things in life or nature we all have in common It's something that people have been studying since the beginning of time. So we wanted to apply that to our music — that's why we got more into the idea behind science, metaphysics and the myth of communication. Keenan then built some of his lyrics around the sequence, using words with syllables climbing from numbers one through six and back down — in a haiku-like structure: It's a nifty feat of verbal symmetry, but Keenan regrets the approach.
I could do better. Tool layered lots of weird shit into the mix — including the electrical crackling from a "Jacob's Ladder" transformer — as they indulged in the studio.
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Much of the experimentation was Carey's territory. I got some good samples from that, banging on the strings for 'Resolution,'" he told Modern Drummer. The Tibetan monk sounds you hear on the record are just me growling through a tube. That was the initial sample, and then I overdubbed an Oberheim through a Vocoder. Before this record, we were really rigid about being able to perform every note live, but we got away from that for this one.
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Push the envelope 5. Watch it bend 3. The song's introduction also ends at the 1 minute and 37 seconds mark, where the first verse then begins. This time is significant, as it is a reference to the Golden Ratio.
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