Ahhhhh, Tool.  The first time I heard this album was on a walkman, and,  I'll be honest with you; It scared me.  Not in a "oops, I pooped my  pants" sorta way.  More a "CHRIST ON A BIKE WHAT THE HELL IS  THIS!!!!!" trip.  Stinkfist brutalised me, and I gigled when I  discovered that Maynard's voice could have existed at any point over the  last 5000 years.  It is ageless.  Powerful yet soothing, I cannot convery  the emotion, the succour in his thorax.  Ahem.  The rest of the album got  me too, making me cry and laugh simultaneously.  I really don't know what  to say other than BUY THIS NOW.  It is amazing, whatever genre of music you  claim your own.