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“The Pot” by Tool
From the album 10,000 Days (2006)
“The Pot” by Tool appears on 37 radio countdowns from 21 stations between 2006 and 2026. It was first released in 2006 on the album 10,000 Days. Its best result is #10 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #38 alternative song of 2006, #2,180 alternative song of all time and #184 of the '00s.
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"The Pot" is the track from 10,000 Days, Tool's fourth studio album, from 2006, that got sent out to radio as a promotional single, and it turned into the band's first number one, topping Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in 2007.
All four members share the writing credit: Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones and Maynard James Keenan. The band produced it themselves, and Joe Barresi recorded and mixed it. It's Tool at its most limber and least forbidding: a slinky, prowling bass groove, Keenan showing off a high, almost soulful vocal before the riffs lock in, and a rhythm section that keeps shifting its weight under the song's feet. For a progressive metal band, it's a tight, sly, knotted-up piece of work.
It went on to earn a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2008.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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