I can't see it being them just jerking around, I think they probably just wanted to have something twisted and light at the end, and that was what they came up with.
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I don't know about you guys but this song sounds a lot like The Doors. it's got that trippy, psychedellic feel to it. I know it's just a filler, but is there any significance to it at all? I don't see Tool just putting it in just for the hell of it. Maybe it's to emphasize the effect of acid =)
the "satan" part is just maynard fucking around, probably. just thought it would sound stupid; so stupid it would be funny. GLE also reminds me of the doors. let's face it, this song has no point and is just there because they thought it would be funny to throw something in to make people turn to each other and say, "what the hell?"
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Well I don't think it takes a lyrical genius to think this stuff up, just a couple of bad weekends and hungover mornings...
Remember, it was early days for Tool anyway, so you use the time signiture (666) and chuck in just some humerous anecdote for the listeners to enjoy.
There can't be much more to it than that, can there?
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Not really all that earth-moving, but I am pretty sure that Maynard's chanting 'Satan....Satan' is referring to over-cloistered people who think that drugs are 'the great satan.'
I.E., in the song, he's giving in and succumbing to the 'satan' at hand (drugs)...
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I agree both that he says what dumb stuff stoned friends do and say "This is what your parents/christians call "satan" and I agree that they are sorta jus fuckin around saying something and not being serious think about tool can do it...Maynards Dick...............btw I love Maynards DIck:P
Actually l think they were probably just winging it too. Maybe he was saying Satan because they were recording some Occult ceremony and the more we listen to it, satan is going to take over our minds and start a revolution.
Well yeah l guess it does some-what resemble it...the guitar in it l suppose.
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The way I see The Gaping Lotus Experience is as a complement to the title track of the album. Opiate seems to be about religion as a drug for the people, probably inspired by Marx, and TGLE fulfills that light-heartedly with its acid and ecstasy story. Part of the irony is that TGLE alludes to the conception that drugs are evil whereas Opiate describes religion as a drug.
Funny... If this song wasn't from the first release, I'd say it was about how people who don't really get Tool (ie Walmart people) think the band is all about Satanism and hate and violence and drugs and all that bad shit... and this was Maynard's little joke making a song that has drugs and Satan in it for those people.
But since it IS from the first release, that can't be it.
Unless.. do you think Maynard has precognition???
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Who knows, but that's what I was thinking of the first time I heard it, I bought Opiate after all that stuff started to get talked about so that's how it hit me first.
When I first hear this, I was pretty freaked out. When I hear the end, (i'm getting bored...) it reminds me of people who do drugs so much that they're just getting bored of them.
When I first hear this, I was pretty freaked out. When I hear the end, (i'm getting bored...) it reminds me of people who do drugs so much that they're just getting bored of them.
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I agree that this song sounds a lot like The End by The Doors. I also think that this song was recorded as a joke, and that there is no deeper meaning to it.
I agree that this song sounds a lot like The End by The Doors. I also think that this song was recorded as a joke, and that there is no deeper meaning to it.
can I ask why you posted your last comment in a thread that hasn't been posted in since last september? Especially when ur comment pertains directly to my thread that I started that no one has responded to? (see "the Doors" thread)
