Right on the money :D

"So crucify the ego, before it's far too late
To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical,
And you will come to find that we are all one mind
Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable.
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason ...
before we pine away."

Yep, thats my fave part of any Tool song ever

dont if this has been posted or not but this is mine

"i was wrong...
this changes everything"

flood as a whole is my favorite TOOL moment

Tool have plenty of those moments. It's what cathes your ear first and drags you deeper into their songs. Here are my favourite "euphoric" Tool moments

Swamp Song - The epic part where Maynard sings "Suffocate...Why don't you get out, while you can"
4 Degrees - The quiet section with Maynard singing "Take it all, take it all higher, 4 degree now"
Stinkfist - "I'll keep digging until i feel something"
46 & 2 - The climax where Adam does the harmonics and Maynard starts "see my shadow changing, stretching up and over me"
jimmy - "Where the hell have I being..."
Pushit - Adams guitar solo has a lot of moments, but none better than Maynards climax "I must pursuade you another way"
Aenima - "Cuz I'm praying for rain, I'm praying for tidal waves I want to see the ground give way" The video clip captures this moment perfectly
Third Eye - "Chasing a trail of smoke and reason"
The Grudge - Maynard yelling in harmony at 3:03 "Saturn ascends through one but 10" and again at 4:37 "Saturn comes back around, lifts you up like a child"
The Patient - The climax of the song betwen 6:12 and 6:32
Triad - 5:32 until the end of the song. Especially the keyboard line that follows and then replaces the guitars chords
Ticks and Leeches - "Suck me dry" after the quiet part
The Pot - "Weeping shades of indigo, trapped without a reason" my favourite part from 10,000 Days
Rosetta Stones - and of course "Overwhelmed as one would be..."

Each of these moments is what makes Tool one of the greatest guitar based bands in my opinion. It's a spiritual as music gets.

HIIIIIIIIJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASomething kinda sad about
the way that things have come to be.
Desensitized to everything.
What became of subtlety?

HIIIIIIIIJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASlipping back into the gap again.
I'm alive when you're touching me,
Alive when you're shoving me down.

I like Maynard's HIIIIIIIIJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA's

satelites........driiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiifting

The grudge- maynard's 30 second roar

The singing at the end of "Rosetta Stoned" sounds golden, if that makes sense. I visualize music, and I see gold when I hear that part. It's beautiful. I think that's what made the song for me, and it's possibly my favorite part on the album right now.

There is an "illness" were people would literally see colours when they heard music. Composers would say to their orchestrea "make it a little more blue" and the musicians wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about.

Do you have that. I would say thats a pretty damn good gift.

As the old Biology abb. goes, TNTC (too numerous to count).

the amount of times i've gotten goosebumps reading the posts in this thread is ridiculous. So many great moments, and even just silently singing those parts to myself.... amazing.

prying open my third eye.

Like the original poster, I absolutely love that part in Rosetta Stoned. The way it builds and then Maynard's melody over that bluesy chord progression. The lyrics make it even better.

Other fave Tool bits include:

"...but for one...sweet, moment, I am whole" over the Prison Sex riff is so fucking amazing.

"...so glow, child, glow...I am heading back home."

"All you know about me is what I sold you, dumbfuck..." great lyric, great bass riff.

"The really heavy part of Schism just before the slow midsection where Justin is playing counterpoint to Adam's riff. Fucking gold, that one.

Geez...so many awesome moments.

Also:

"Shit adds up at the bottom"

my most euphoric tool moment is when H. turns into that second set of chords. That and 46 & Two.

^^^ I'm a grown man, and that little verse almost brings me to tears, EVERY TIME.

Also (as mentioned):

"I'll...Keep...Digging..." -stinkfist

"To ascend you must die, you must be crucified, for our sins and our lies...GOODBYE." -eulogy

"I must keep reminding myself of this..." -The patient

"Shine on benevolent sun/son" -jambi

"Saturn comes back around..." - The Grudge

"Spiral out.." -Lateralus

"Eu--Phor---I---A---" -undertow

1. the grudge (the whole rhythm section)
2. prying open my third eye
3. the whole 10kdays track
4. beginning of rosetta stoned
5. vocals of maynard at the beginning of pot

I do agree about the Lateralus part. Amazing.

You say he sounds emotional in Rossetta Stoned but he isn't actually singing emotional lyrics but then again remember that the character has learned something (or imagines he has) that he must share with the world that could save them all and he went and forgot it... Pretty emotional moment for him. What a burden lol.

Also for the list:

"Give away the stone, let the oceans take and trasmutate, this cold and fated anchor... Give away the stone, and let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold". - The Grudge

"Come down, get off your fucking cross...." - Eulogy

I also agree that the quiet interlude in Ticks and Leeches melts and soothes everyones soul and then brings everything crashing down like an epic tidal wave when the drums/distortion/vocals kick in again.

And last but not least... MY ULTIMATE, EPIC, TOOL MOMENT. I think Lateralus is overall a better album than Aenima but only because it's more evolved. I love all the songs from Aenima but theres one moment that makes the album for me:

Excuse these lyrics coz I believe I always thought it's mayhem but apparently it's rain so here goes:

"I'm praying for mayhem (or rain), I'm praying for tidal waves...". THat whole vocal section makes me cum in my shoe. And it only gets better with the "Don't just call me pessimist, try and read between the lines...".

"Overwhelmed as one would be..etc." Rosetta Stoned

"dead, in,SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE" I guess the last dead inside lyric in Bottom. Good god do i love that.

"Set as i am in my...etc." 10000days

"it will end no other way" pushit

"jesus christ why dont you come save my life" live versions of opiate where he goes all gosple like.

"I'm praying for or rain, I'm praying for tidal waves...". "Don't just call me pessimist, try and read between the lines..." <- yeah man. everything about it..something about the recording even. its so warm and UGH. love it.

"Don't wanna be an AMERICAN IDIOT"

"Wake me up when September ends"



Oh wait. Shit.

"if when i say i might fade like a sigh if i stay"
"i must keep reminding myself of this"..."and i still may"
"give me my, give me my, give me my wings"
"so good to see you once again"
"lier, lawer, mirror for ya whats the difference?"
reflection 7.56ish
"i dont mind"
"so shut up and buy..."
"watch you flush it all away..."
"sense of compasion............."

You're all forgetting:

"... I KNOW THE PIECES FIT! .. I KNOW THE PIECES FIT! .. I KNOW THE PIECES FIIIIIIIIIT!!"

And who could forget:

"PRY. ING. OP. EN. MY. THIRD. EYE!" ... (silence)

This whole song makes me high but these parts stand out...

"So alive... in this way... like an apparition you had me cryin' out --"

"And he looked right through me, with somniferous almond eyes, don't even know what that means, must remember to write it down..."

"But I forgot my pen..."

I have experienced the same thing. Im not in a "trance" but im as close to it as I can get, I am totally engulfed in the music. My heartrate goes down too, its weird/badass. I love Tool.

Take what is mine... The end of Flood is it.

"Such a heavy burden now to BEEEEEEEEEEE the one!"

Oh my! Live show Friday the 19th.

Same here.

"I have missed you soo much...".

Dear God, yes.

I am also a fan of Third Eye when the bass kicks in around 2:11. So fucking sweet. Other than that, I agree with just about everyone in this thread about their special Tool moments.

"It's getting colder.....It's getting colder.....

.....locked in a place where no one.... GOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS"

Most euphoric Tool moments?

The chorus of The Patient where the lines are being sung over a repeated 'I must keep reminding myself of this'.

In Aenima, from 'and I'm praying for rain...'

The last chorus of Vicarious.

The 'give me my, give me my, give me my own wings...' in 10,000 Days.

Parabola, the entire song.

The entire Aenima album playing into my headphones as I linger between sleep and consciousness, in an extreme dilerium in which the album sounds like God speaking himself, experiencing a state of mind in which I feel I know everything there is to know, I know everything, every question I ever had is answered in that moment, and everything is good and perfect. I am eternal. The universe is loving and nothing could ever bring me down...Then I wake up...damnit

To give specific moments:

Disposition. Great song to meditate to.

"I could have cried then.
I should have cried then."
Not exactly euphoric, but very touching.

"I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
of our divinity and still be a human."

"I'LL - KEEP -- DIGGING
TILL I - FEEL - SOMETHING"
not exactly eophoric, but it sets me off.

"We are eternal, all this pain is an illlusion" (at end of song)
only Adam's next riff could top this.
euphoric by definition.

Damn dude, we think alike... totally agree

I almost cried when I heard the heavy part in Wings For Marie starting with:

Vacant, broken
Fell at the hands of this moment so that I wouldn't see
It was you who prayed for me so
What have I done
To be a son to an angel?
What have I done
To be worthy?

The till the end of the heavy section.

This is what defines a great band. There are so many moments that lift you up in all of their songs.

ah yes, that would be in my top 3 if it were a Tool song. I'll make my #3*.

Pretty much every Tool song has waves of euphoria.

hah you guys have good taste:P those are exactly my favorite moments too... I almost always get shivers down my spine when i listen to those songs.

By the way, has anybody brought up the sweet riff from Adam and "shit. adds. up. shit. adds. up." in Bottom?

-adam's final guitar solo in 3rd eye
-the part towards the end of no quarter where it starts back up again after the song has seemingly ended
-the really heavy part in the grudge right after the final "let go"s where danny just goes apeshit
-adam's triple tracked solo at the end of bottom
-adam's solo at the end of h., where he goes nuts on the wah pedal
-adam's solos that cut through reflection's hypnotic beat
-adam's 4 degrees solo that seems to come out of nowhere
-mayard's "its time now, my time now" from wings for marie
-justin's whammy bass on "with my feet.." from lateralus

^hard to pick - one of those.