Every Tool Album Ranked From Worst to Best

The first time I heard Tool I knew something was different. Most songs on my local radio station (I’m 900 years old) were short, had definitive verses and hooks and didn’t make me question my spiritual place in the universe. I was an angsty, unpopular teenager in the '90s, so artists like Tool made me feel less emotionally and physically alone.

Time is art’s greatest and most impartial critic. It’s 2019 and Tool is still among the greats. Not only did their music survive the '90s, they as a band stayed together undergoing just one lineup change, swapping bassist Paul D’Amour for Justin Chancellor. He along with singer Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones and drummer Danny Carey have consistently toured and very inconsistently released albums for 29 years. Below, I rank their five studio albums, one EP and one live album. Note: the argument can be made (usually by me, to everyone) that Tool has yet to make a bad album, so the following is a ranking of their least perfect to most perfect albums.