random quote just to point this message at Cid, man i jsut noticed that ur level 9, obsteperous, i couldnt have described you better myself

i think we actually stopped arguing about 50 posts ago and now we're all just being stupid. i know i'm right and you "alrighty" freaks are wrong, but it doesn't matter.

keep it up and you'll get to where you want to be one day too....level 9 on the ol' toolshed!!!

Even if I concurred with you, you would still have to destroy the planet because he doesn't say 'Alrighty'. It's "Alright then, picture this if you will..."

Now someone lock this already now that the truth hath been spoken.

If I could lock this thread I would, after saying "Alrighty then."

this thread shouldn't be locked until we find out for sure. i don't know how that's going to happen unless maynard releases the lyrics. but until then we can argue about it.

Maynard has already released the lyrics, clearly saying "alrighty then" at the two shows I went to and all the recordings I've heard. If he does type it up and put it on here, it will say alrighty, but I'm sure you will all have an excuse for that.

liar

i just cant see where the arguing stops and the stupidity begins. I can however, very clearly here Mustard Jones Keema (thats how i hear his name anyway, you might not agree) saying " ALRIGHTY THEN"!

actually, i think i hear 5 syllables now. i don't hear the ee sound still. anyone hear 6? 7 maybe?

its definately "alrighty then"

you are crazy.

You Alright-ers are outnumbered, and outgunned. The AlrightyThens have spoken the truth, and will soon unleash a jihad upon you.

(Am I the only one that is highly entertained by the correlations between the rivalry over something this simple with the huge rivalries that cost thousands of lives?)

no, you're not

its 'alright then. picture this if you will.'

Anyone who says alright then should get a job working for Bush... you all have some serious reality denying skills

i have a bootleg and its so overwhelmingly obvious that its "alrighty". kthx ~_~ :U

I gotta say my vote goes with 'alrighty', its not really a matter of 'i dont think maynard would say alrighty then' this song is from the point of view of a guy who never graduated high school working at area 51 seeing a ufo and shitting himself, it isnt like maynard is telling the story, it is maynard telling it as if he is this unknown character. And i wont lie this is a pretty funny thread a bunch of us crazy tool fans debating one word, but oh well it gives us all somethin to do, right? haha Although i d/led the live show that i went to at auditorium theatre and it kind of sounds like it could be 'alright' so i could understand that being heard but on the album i have to go with 'alrighty' it sounds clear as day.

anyone that says "kthx" is obviously retarded and doesn't know what they're talking about.

ok...so i played just that part to people that have no preconcieved notion about what it is and the people didn't even know it was tool or anything about it. 5 out of 5 of them said they hear 3 syllables. one said "alright then", one said "origin" and the other 3 said they couldn't tell but that it was 3 syllables.

it doesn't prove anything, but try that out with some people. i'm going to keep doing it, i'm sure i'll get some that say there's 4, but it's not "clear as day" like some of you seem to think.

It's definitely alrighty then.



But I think the more creative ideas are HILARIOUS:

"origin"

"i'll accept"

LOL....

How about "I'm writing then,"

Now you're making sense!

i'm one of the few that have been making sense the whole time. but yea, you're right. i am making sense now as well.

that's impossible because there are only 3 syllables in the song...you have 4 here.

3 syllables in the song? Your cd is defective :D

Remember, we all listened to this song once with no preconceived ideas of what he was saying. First time I heard it it was clear as day that it was "alrighty then".

Wait, I mean, you're mad.

possibly....

another random person at work votes for 3 syllables. she heard "all red then". so far every random person i played it for hears 3.

no way cid, see here: http://toolnavy.com/showthread.php?t=49396

RANDOM people!! not people that know what the sound is from and already have some idea about what it is. you think it's "alrighty", i think it's "alright", we're not going to change our opinion. neither is anyone that's already heard the sound a thousand times. so far i'm up to 8 random people that hear 3 syllables, none with 4. it's not as "clear" as all of you seem to think it is.

I still don't understand how people on this board are different from random people. So what if the first time they read the lyrics it said "alrighty"? since then there have been plenty of people saying otherwise. I'm sure everyone has given it a good listen. I don't think the power of suggestion has any bearing on this.

they read alrighty, and it's stuck in their head that that's what it is. i'm sure there are people here that didn't know what it was, read the lyrics and agreed. but i'm sure there are also others that heard it before reading. i'm just saying that you can't know for sure unless it's random people that have no clue what it is.

Cid, I'll give you that. Its NOT as clear as some are saying. But I'm still convinced its alrighty. By the way, I'm destroying China because you won't give in. The blood is on your hands, pal. I'm just a messenger.

if that's what you gotta do, go for it man. i won't stop you, but please don't scream "alrighty" when you are destroying china. they'll just laugh at you.

Listen to the mp3 file from the first page. Pause it half way through "alright/y" then start it again. The 't' sound carries through into the next word. There are 3 syllables. I can't see where some (or most) people are hearing a 'y'. It's either "alright" or "alrigh", which sounds like "alrighty" but isn't.

Wow, I wasted my first post on this. And probably my last.

A t sound carrying over! Maynard truly must be a genius then, since ordinary mortal vocalists can only carry vowels. Amazing!

excellent first post mupps!

we know maynard isn't an ordinary mortal though...

He's not even singing. It's just two words said quickly so they sound like one.

Side note: Is that Maynard? No one else is credited, but it really doesn't sound like him at all, even his talking voice.

You fucking jambi eye fools are going to sabotage every lyric on the album. If you're seriously in doubt, go download a live bootleg. Preferrably '8-may dallas 2006'. Alrighty?

best thread ever