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Originally Posted by gotjuice
For me, overall, Lateralus>10,000 Days>Aenima. The separation between the three is incredibly tiny though. Lateralus is just a sonic assault, with tracks that almost effortlessly seem to hypnotize and then steadily hammer themselves into your mind. The transitions are perfect and I think the album just flows so well, even with the abrasive Ticks & Leeches. Disposition/Reflection/Triad is the greatest end to an album I've ever heard. 10,000 Days is great because it's a much more personal album, and the band was able to retain their same power from Lateralus while moving on from talking about Saturn and mathematical sequences. The cold, almost robotic nature of Lateralus that makes it stand out so well in my mind is gone, but 10,000 Days stands out almost for the complete opposite reason. Aenima is a fantastic record and laid the groundwork for Lateralus and 10,000 Days, and Pu**** and Eulogy are right up there in terms of my favorite individual songs.
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I actually agree with most of what you've said
It's funny how you say that Lateralus flows well; when I was younger I was completely obsessed with Tool's use of the Fibonacci sequence in that album, and I read that thing about how when you rearrange the tracks into a different order they all flow perfectly.Like, the random pluckings at the start of Schism end up to actually be the finishing chords of Parabola. It was a pretty neat discovery and I enjoyed listening to that particular flow.