{"id":299152,"date":"2026-02-15T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:50:13","slug":"its-depressing-alex-honnolds-tool-playlist-overshadowed-his-actual-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299152\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s &#8220;Depressing&#8221; Alex Honnold&#8217;s Tool Playlist Overshadowed His Actual Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maynard James Keenan says he found the hype surrounding Alex Honnold\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/alex-honnold-taipei-101-climb-playlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tool-centric climbing playlist<\/a> \u201cdepressing\u201d believing it \u201covershadowed\u201d his accomplishment of scaling the Taipei 101 skyscraper live on Netflix last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually depressing that what gets the attention is not the fact that this idiot is climbing that building, which is still impressive, it\u2019s the playlist,\u201d Keenan commented in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/puscifer-maynard-james-keenan-carina-round-interview-hope-politics-sessanta-3928975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NME<\/a>. He went on, \u201cBut For him, all his accomplishments get overshadowed by a rock band that can\u2019t put out records in a very timely fashion. That\u2019s pretty weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honnold\u2019s playlist included Tool songs like \u201cForty Six &amp; 2,\u201d \u201cInvincible,\u201d \u201cThe Grudge,\u201d \u201cLateralus,\u201d \u201cSchism,\u201d and others. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/alex-honnold-taipei-101-climb-playlist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maynard James Keenan says he found the hype surrounding Alex Honnold\u2019s Tool-centric climbing playlist \u201cdepressing\u201d believing it \u201covershadowed\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-299152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}