Tribute to Tool

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000060OS2
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,645 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What is that!!??, March 6, 2002

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Antipop (Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tribute to Tool (Audio CD)

What is that? I thought that it'll be a good record. Tool's songs in new arrangements. New look at old songs. But this is [bad]. Some disco beats and [bad] vocals. If u like TOOL DON'T BUY IT!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 stars, April 18, 2002

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"bigrawk" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tribute to Tool (Audio CD)

My fellow New Yorker (?) has an obvious issue here.
There are a couple of weak tracks on the disc but it's far from "horrid" and "disgusting".
I share the suspicion of a previous reviewer that some fella' here has a string attached to that "string tribute".

The idea of replacing or matching Maynard is idiotic. This is a tribute album where various bands are playing their versions of the originals. Duh! The style, the sound and the vocals are going to be different of course.

Taking it further: "A women cannot sing a Tool song" is (definitely a sexist!) and just about the stupidest comment I have ever read on Amazon's review boards.

To prove that wrong right off the bat, Maya Hyena's "Stinkfist" (sung by a woman) happened to be the hardest rocking track on this tribute. I can bravely say it is amazing and there are other good tracks here that cannot be denied. Prison Sex by Mists Of Avalon has a REALLY cool gloomy overtone, Intolerance by Dragon Style
Has a LOT of energy. Razed In Black, Haujobb, and Rosetta Stone are holding up just fine.

I'm not fond of the techno bands myself, but (hint) I learned how to program a CD player (and I can't remember EVER buying a CD where I liked every single song)
Tool included - while I AM a Tool fan.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well, what did you expect?, December 22, 2002

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S. Walden (Woodstock, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tribute to Tool (Audio CD)

Well, it's a tribute album. And generally speaking, a tribute album is nothing more than some label throwing together a gaggle of sorry unknown bands in a thinly disguised attempt to scam money off some other label's big draw. Add the fact that this is a CLEOPATRA release, and you've tossed in some bad goth covers of what could conceivably be the best band in the last decade (Cleopatra's motto: 'If you can write it and make money, we can cover it with a Casio and five bucks...'). OK, OK... Now there are some fairly well known groups here(Haujobb, Rosetta Stone, Razed in Black) if you know your tribute albums (haha), and some of these covers are kinda interesting (the Haujobb, Maya Hyena and Translation Collapse tracks I am embarrased to admit I kinda dug), BUT if you are a TOOL purist as I am, NONE of these tracks are going to sound right, much less good, to you. I would say that this isn't a horrid tribute album, but it sounds about as funky as the Tori Amos tribute this label put out not so long ago. The bottom line: If you really want to hear this, either check out the samples or download the album, or even buy it used, it is NOT worth full price. And if you REALLY have to have a TOOL tribute in your music library, get the string tribute, you can bypass some bad Depeche Mode vocals that way.