Talk:Ænima

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 * All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 22:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Picture
Sorry, the picture isn't showing up. -- Zoe


 * I don't think it was ever uploaded. I've deleted the link to it, and will now delete the image page. --Camembert

I think whoever put the details of charting singles needs to say which country they are referring to... Secretlondon 09:40, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)


 * I'd assume it was the U.S... ugen64 01:31, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)

newbie question - would it be appropriate to write about individual tracks on this page, or would another page for the song be made? (or would it even be worth writing) K_R 03:09, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Title Pronunciation?
How do you pronounce "Ænima?" ah-ni-mah? --Feitclub 22:42, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's how the band pronounced it in interviews that mentioned it. Jh51681 19:48, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What about Track 13, "Ænema?" Same thing? --Feitclub 16:58, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)


 * Yep. Jh51681 00:34, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * No, it is a latin word (Ænima) fusioned with the word "Enema". So the proper pronounciation is "Ah-neh-mah" -- Dexter prog 01:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Ya i have an interview with justin, and they asked him how to pronounce it. It is "On-ih-mahDissectional 01:00, 12 August 2007 (UTC)


 * on a similar note, pushit? is it pronounced poo-shit, pus-hit, or push-it?


 * In the song it's prounounced "push-it", but the ambiguity is almost certainly deliberate.174.46.172.13 (talk) 10:07, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Capitalization of track titles
Why is jimmy the only track with a lower-case letter on this page? Neither Amazon nor CDUniverse  do this. The site www.toolband.com, otoh, lists all of the track titles in lowercase and the album title in all uppercase. I don't understand the inconsistency on this one page, especially since Jimmy seems to be the only title which is obviously a proper noun. Could someone explain it please? TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 23:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
 * That song title is specifically written in lowercase on the album (while none of the others are). (see http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html, question G50) —Slicing (talk) 00:54, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it doesn't look lowercase, but that's a reasonable answer. Thanks. TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 03:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * check out the The Tool FAQ.  they discuss it there.  it has something to do with the perspective of an 11-year old, and the lack of capitalization implys youth and inexperience. Deutschebag17 06:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * See WP:MOSTM and WP:MOSCAPS. Names are always capitalised, regardless of stylistic preferences. Nouse4aname (talk) 12:09, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Proof?

 * The song "Forty Six & Two" refers to the idea of evolving past the current 46 chromosomes that mankind carries in their DNA.

Can someone provide some proof of this? And doesn't 46 & 2 refer to the time signature of the piece?

SLATE 05:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Check out The Tool FAQ, Question G36. --jh51681 06:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


 * great, thanks! SLATE 18:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Besides, how could the time signature be 46/2? That would be illogicall and it does not even follow the song's time sig. Dexter_prog 24 Nov 2006 (UTC)

printing goofs
under the trivia section, shouldn't something be included about how in the image of california turning into arizona bay, the oklahoma panhandle is not drawn in? it on The Tool FAQ somewhere. Deutschebag17 06:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * Uh...This is an album cover in a article about an album...I don't understand image policy. Pomte?  Should this be deleted?  19:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Time Signature

 * Die Eier von Satan is said to be in 9/8 or possibly 9/4. Such a distinction is impossible to make, althought 9/8 is more likely to be correct as 9/4 is seldom used in a song. Does the article really require this declaration? It could just as easily be 9/2, or 9/16, or 3/4. Tomato katsup 11:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Removed. –Pomte 08:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey
Just so you guys know, singles were released for H. and Eulogy. (Source: http://tooldiscography.com/) These songs should, therefore, have articles. Floaterfluss (talk) (contribs) 17:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * If you're referring to the promos, that's probably not good enough. There was a discussion about H. at Articles for deletion/Hush (Tool song). –Pomte 08:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Critical reception?
Where's the info?  Lara  ❤  Love  03:56, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I've copied a sentence from Tool (band). Reception sections can seem too much like syntheses, and I'd rather do original research about themes. –Pomte 08:29, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Meaning of H.
I don't understand why there's so much "mystery". Any junkie knows precisely what H. is about -- it's very clearly about heroin, or at least opioids in general. First of all, "H" is a slang term on the street for heroin. Secondly, it only takes about ten seconds of thought to notice the drug meaning in various lyrics. ("considerately killing me", the many references to serpents, which are symbolically associated with opium and the like, "I have died, I will die, I don't mind" et cetera.) Honestly, there's no other interpretation that makes total sense. Every single line seems clearly to be a portrayal of his relationship with opioids, and an attempt to present them as the spiritually and emotionally opening things they are, as opposed to demonizing them like non-users always do.

When discussing the song, he's referred to angels and demons, the opinions of his friends, and such. I don't know if this can be supported by the lyrics, but I strongly suspect it was his response to friends trying to get him to quit, trying to communicate what they mean to him. 46&2 has some heroin stuff in it too, but H. is his main "poppy spirituality" song. (As opposed to generalized drug spirituality, which the album is full of.)

I'm tempted to add this interpretation to the article, but since I don't have any concrete proof beyond logic and the lyrics themselves, I'm not sure I can. Does anyone have anything to add to this/any advice? Frankly, I had no idea there was even a controversy about its meaning until I read Wikipedia -- no Tool fan I've ever talked to before thought it was about anything BUT heroin. 75.35.211.238 (talk) 23:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I think like all Tool songs you can, to an extent, find your own deeper meaning for the lyrics, and probably several different meanings. There is a suggestion about it being about drug addiction, as H. can be used as the symbol for Heroin.  However, Maynard has said on several occasions that it's a deeper exposition of the concept of the Angel on one shoulder and Devil on the other, both telling you what to do. It could be both - an internal struggle with two parts of yourself.  I've also read that it could be a very personal song for Maynard, and that it partly refers to his desire to bring up his child properly. Apparently his dad beat him, and he sometimes gets the urge to do the same to his son, but has to fight against it. His son's middle name is also H. It could be about all, any or none of these things, that's what's great about Tool and especially Keenan's lyrics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.123.219.196 (talk) 08:51, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Pushit
I recall Pushit being a single, or at least having an article when I first looked at this page a few months ago. Maybe I'm thinking of another Tool song though. [User|Arcai|Arcai] 2-5-2009 7:00 AM —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.21.39 (talk) 12:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

140,000
IThe article should mention that the album sold 140,000 copies in its first week in the usa, 10,000 away from Nirvana's "From The Banks Of The Muddy Wishkah", at no.1. I got this info from: http://toolshed.down.net/articles/index.php?action=view-article&id=December_1996--The_Music_Paper.html  dunno if this is reliable  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.108.245 (talk) 20:08, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It does mention that 140,000 were sold in the first week, however I think anything comparing it to a Nirvana album is just trivia, that doesn't really need to be here. hellboy (talk) 01:44, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah sorry i did not notice it was already there. However i think the Nirvana think might as well be mentioned, it wn't do any harm. What's wrong with a little bit of "trivia" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.76.10 (talk) 18:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Personally I have no issue with trivia, however Wikipedia Policy does. hellboy (talk) 23:56, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Aenima?
Surely Aenima should by default direct here and not some portugese band. The odds of an english-speaker looking for them, and not this album, are smaller than the opposite scenario.

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mzrt
9/8 is not an irregular time signature. please remove the term "irregular." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.89.71.113 (talk) 01:19, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Die Eier von Satan
Die Eier von Satan is NOT controversial and it is NOT an Easter Egg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.167.25.67 (talk) 01:10, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

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Eulogy
We don't have Eulogy listed as one of the singles. Discogs has it as a single, but I can't find it anywhere else as a single, and I don't know if discogs is reliable here for Wikipedia?Agamede (talk) 12:53, 9 February 2019 (UTC)