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Tool—“Stinkfist”

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Tool FAQ: Stink Fist

The official tool frequently asked questions file tools press near blackout this vacuum of low information and active disinformation was filled naturally by obsessive tool fans in the early days of the widespread internet. By 1996 tool are rock stars their second full length album, Onema debuted at number two on the Billboard album chart behind a posthumous Nirvana live album. A tool fan with an AOL.com email address suggests that quote, it is using a fist up the ass metaphor for the desensitizing of the public end quote. In other words, perhaps tool or just going door to door trying to shock people. I dare say it worked at the time. They played this song on MTV yet another grody Adam

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