Best tool playlist ever made in the history of tool

“Best tool playlist ever made in the history of tool” is basically a guided tour through TOOL’s main eras, stitched together with A Perfect Circle tracks that hit a similar nerve without trying to copy the same vibe. It jumps from the raw punch of *Undertow* (“Sober,” “Prison Sex,” “Bottom,” “Intolerance,” “4°,” “Undertow”) into the sharper, more sprawling *Ænima* run (“Stinkfist,” “Eulogy,” “H.,” “Forty Six & 2,” “Pushit,” “Hooker With A Penis,” “Jimmy,” “Ænema”), then settles into the big, patient builds of *Lateralus* (“The Grudge,” “Schism,” “The Patient,” “Parabol/Parabola,” “Disposition,” “Reflection,” “Lateralus”). It keeps moving, too, with the modern stuff landing hard when it needs to—“Vicarious,” “Jambi,” “Rosetta Stoned,” “Right In Two,” “Wings For Marie (Pt 1),” and the calmer tension of “Intension,” plus the *Fear Inoculum* stretch of “Fear Inoculum,” “Pneuma,” “Invincible,” and “7empest.” “Opiate²” slots in like a quick reminder of where all that intensity started.

The A Perfect Circle picks act like clean side-roads between TOOL’s heavier sections: *Mer De Noms* staples like “Judith,” “3 Libras,” “Orestes,” “Magdalena,” “Rose,” “The Hollow,” “Thomas,” and “Sleeping Beauty,” then the *Thirteenth Step* cluster (“Weak And Powerless,” “The Outsider,” “The Noose,” “Pet,” “Blue,” “A Stranger,” “Gravity”) to keep the mood focused and a little more direct. Toss in “Passive” from *eMOTIVe* and the whole thing ends up feeling like a long, coherent listen—part riffs-and-rage, part slow-burn hypnosis—without getting stuck in just one mode.