10 Perfect '90s Rock Albums That Are Ridiculously Long

10. Undertow - Tool

Anyone remotely familiar with Tool's music knows that these guys like to take their time in between releasing albums. After the colossal wait after 10,000 Days, they made sure to make every song count on Fear Inoculum as well, taking the interludes to mess around with different textures and stretching songs out to lure you into a bit of a trance. And when they were at their greenest, they still understood the importance of how to stretch things out.

For most of Undertow, Tool is mining a traditional sounding heavy metal groove, with songs like Sober and Crawl Away delving into something that was a lot more vicious than what we would come to expect on something like Lateralus. While the actual songs themselves aren't that long, the album fades away a little bit longer than expected on Disgustipated, which starts off of as your typical heavy metal song before you're greeted with crickets at the end of the track.

As you wait around for nearly 10 minutes, the album properly ends with an answering machine message from Maynard James Keenan's landlord, complaining about where he was parking his car when he was at home. This was all meant to be lighthearted though, with the track number on the CD counting up and up during the waiting until you finally landed on this song on track 69. Tool would definitely have some more mature themes sprinkled into their songs later, but for right now it was just about taking the piss.