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Originally posted by Yesspaz
I really get into Tool's music, but I can't listen to them because of Maynard's lyrics. "Hooker with a Penis" and "I love Satan"? Gimme a break. But it's interesting that musically they influenced two of my favorite bands, Stavesacre and the above mentioned Chevelle.
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I agree totally about the lyrics. I actually don't own a copy of Aenima because of them. I was ecstatic when Lateralus came out and it wasn't filled with profanity and inflammatory diatribes on Christianity.
I liked Chevelle when I first heard them, but I quickly got bored with them. I've unfortunately come to think of them as a poor man's Tool (which probably isn't fair or accurate). It seems to me that if you take Tool, add some simple chord progressions, remove the clever use of dynamics, and make everything sound less polished, you get Chevelle.