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A Perfect Circle performing at Lollapalooza Chile in 2013.. American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle has recorded material for four studio albums.The band's music is mostly written by the band's two core members and founders, guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan, the former writing the music, and the latter writing the lyrics and vocal melodies.
A Perfect Circle is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan.A Perfect Circle released three of their four studio albums in the early 2000s: their debut Mer de Noms in 2000, a follow-up, Thirteenth Step in 2003; and an album of radically re-worked cover songs, Emotive, in 2004.
The set compiles songs from previous albums by the band and includes one new song, "By and Down". The album was also released in a deluxe edition (with dark blue cover art rather than white) which includes additional studio songs from the band's back catalog and live tracks from 2011 featured on the limited edition box set A Perfect Circle Live ...
Emotive (stylized as eMOTIVe) is the third studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle.The album is primarily a collection of anti-war cover songs.It was released on November 2, 2004, via Virgin Records to coincide with the US presidential election. [2]
A Perfect Circle is the brainchild of Billy Howerdel. [1] After hearing demos of Howerdel's music, Maynard James Keenan , the lead singer of Tool , offered his services as vocalist. Howerdel agreed, and the band formed in 1999.
The song, originating from the Tapeworm side-project under the title "Vacant", was eventually recorded in the studio as "Passive" by A Perfect Circle around the time of the side-project's demise. It was the second single from their album Emotive , and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2005.
Musically, Spin described the song as "an orchestral power-rocker of sorts, alternating sunnier, almost glam-like chord progressions with more traditional hard rock gestures". [3] The song was written in major key, and features a more upbeat tempo than most songs by the band. [6] [11] [12] The song features driving percussion, dark guitar parts ...
"Weak and Powerless" is the first single by the alternative rock band A Perfect Circle, from their second album, Thirteenth Step, and is also their highest charting single, reaching #1 on both the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Alternative Songs, the band's first number-one hit. This song was featured in the movie Underworld. [2]