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For EMOTIVE, their third full-length album, A Perfect Circle offers up a covers-heavy collection that includes a number of protest songs. What's most striking about this set is the way in which the group reworks pop classics. In the hands of frontman Maynard James Keenan and company, John Lennon's "Imagine" becomes a foreboding lament, and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" is transformed into an oddly soothing, nearly ambient song. Other standout tracks include a lullaby-like, electronics-laced take on Depeche Mode's "People Are People" and a gently melodic version of "When the Levee Breaks" (almost totally unrecognizable from Led Zeppelin's revered rendition). EMOTIVE also presents two APC originals--the frustration-venting "Passive" and the scathing "Counting Bodies like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums." Although a few tracks feature amped-up arrangements, it's remarkable how many of these tunes are subdued and understated, further backing up A Perfect Circle's status as a dynamic, unpredictable band.
Coll.Of Songs About War,Peace, Love & Greed.New & Cover Songs
A Perfect Circle: Billy Howerdel (vocals, guitar, harmonium); Maynard James Keenan (vocals); Danny Lohner (guitar, bass guitar); James Iha (guitar, programming); Paz Lenchantin (piano); Jeordie White (bass guitar); Josh Freese (drums).
Recording information: 2004.
Rolling Stone (p.107) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[They] revisit classic protest hits, jacking up the terror by throwing out iconic arrangements and performing heretical surgery on the melodies."
Spin (p.117) - "[T]he band seems dedicated to big challenges....A Perfect Circle prove that they've got not only good taste, but real bite, too." - Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly (p.80) - "Sweetly morbid dreams of a better world abound on this politically motivated release..." - Grade: B+
Uncut (p.138) - 4 stars out of 5 -"Unexpectedly impressive, like a 2004 equivalent of Randy California's similarly motivated masterpiece, SPIRIT OF '76."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A]pplying minimalist melodies and hypnotic rhythms to a repertoire that seems collectively absurd, but is woven together by the band's singular sonic worldview." A Perfect Circle Emotive Songs Emotive Music Review Average Rating: (3.3 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Only the cream of the crop!
I've been a fan of APC since thirteenth step, and even further of Maynard from Opiate and still going at it and wishing he never stops writing for either one if the bands. But when i heard Emotive i was almost amazed at how it was in part simmilar sounding but totaly different to the previous too, and that in it self is a triumpf because those two albums rock so much it's almost unbelievable some one can have two bands, 6 albums from one and two from the other, and still just blow you the F away with Emotive. My hats off to A Perfect Cyrcle.
Submitted by lugubriousether (JERSEY CITY, NJ)
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 Very well done
This CD of anti-war remakes was superbly done by the band. Not the usual APC offering, but it adds some food for thought.
Submitted by tandtjames (Swansea IL, USA) 
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Huge
It is a new style
Submitted by miguel_edmundo (La Paz, Bolivia)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Political Expression
This album is definetly different than there lasttwo but most of it is based on remakes of political songs. Theyare basiclytrying to makea political statement. If you carefully listento track # 10. That statement is clearly made and it is strikingly powerful!!!
Submitted by Sweetjuliabound (Montclair NJ)
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Im a huge APC fan, anything with Maynard has my dollar but this was the worst work any of them have done I think! With the all star cast which makes up the newly refined band I expected much more I guess. It sounds like they went completely out of their way to make sure the cover songs didnt sound anything like the originals and it shows, almost like they tried too hard! The original tracks are up to par, and even the cover "Imagine" is great.
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AENIMA was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. "Aenima" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.
On its second full-length album, this hard-rocking quartet delivers 15 tracks of unrelenting aggression and focused intensity. Rather than overwhelm with huge sonic washes of guitar and booming drums, Tool employs a propulsive, snaky approach that makes use of undulating rhythms and clipped, percussive guitar riffs. Maynard James Keenan's vocals follow ...
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Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan offers up something to fill the collective void of fans eagerly awaiting a follow up to AENIMA. Keenan teamed with Tool guitar tech and A Perfect Circle guitarist/composer Billy Howerdel for MER DE NOMS, which is both a band effort and an engaging hard rock album, recorded while Tool renegotiated with their label and other band members took a break. But don't be fooled; A Perfect Circle is more than a one-off side project.
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