Tool - Salival DVD & CD (2000)

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DISC 1: AUDIO CD
1. Third Eye
2. Part Of Me (live)
3. Pushit (live)
4. Message To Harry Manback II
5. Merkaba (live)
6. You Lied (live)
7. No Quarter
8. L.A. Municipal Court / Maynard's Dick (hidden track)

DISC 2: DVD
1. Aenema (music video)
2. Stinkfist (music video)
3. Prison Sex (music video)
4. Sober (music video)

California industrial-metal band Tool have a sound akin to that of the more ubiquitous Nine Inch Nails. With their dark, murky sound and their morbid Claymation videos, the group broke through to respectable mainstream success in the early 1990's. SALIVA is a release which combines the band's 2000 CD Salival, which includes several live performances, with a DVD, which includes videos for "Prisonsex," "Sober," and "Stinkfist" plus a previously unreleased, uncut version of "Aenema."

Review
After a four-year hiatus, Tool returns with the elaborately packaged Salival set, which includes a 70-minute CD of previously unreleased live and studio material, a 56-page book of photos and video stills, and a DVD collection of the group's impressive stop-motion videos. Live versions of "Hush," "Part of Me," "Push It," and "Third Eye" reaffirm the band's standing as one of alternative metal's most compelling live acts; unreleased studio tracks such as "Message to Harry Manback II" and "L.A. Municipal Court" definitely sound like abandoned material, but offer a look at Tool's quirkier side. Covers of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" and "You Lied" – a song by bassist Justin Chancellor's previous group Peach – round out the disc's better-than-average selection of odds and sods. Salival's intricate, eclectic look and sound give it the feel of a "thank you" to patient Tool fans; fortunately for them – and the band – it was worth the wait.