A Perfect Circle is one of those bands that nobody realized was needed until it happened. A grand claim, perhaps, but there's little question that the addicting combination of Keenan's aching voice and Howerdel's accomplished songs and production skills made for one of 2000's best splashes in whatever was left of "modern rock." That the band had in its initial pre-debut album tours performed an audacious, entertaining medley of Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary of a Madman" and the Cure's "Lovesong" -- regularly matching one's words with the other's music and vice versa -- indicates where Mer de Noms ended up. Howerdel's earlier work with Billy Corgan makes perfect sense as a result, since the Pumpkins regularly fused the extreme theatricality of metal and goth just so, but Howerdel's work is no clone. His guitar work operates on setting the mood rather than driving everything before it, balancing sheer power with a textured approach that's quite beautiful. Nine Inch Nails-inspired touches crop up in the distorted percussion of many songs, such as "Rose," but for all the derivations everything becomes its own smart fusion, with Keenan's vocals the killer touch. His abilities in delivering on-the-edge emotional collapse had long been clear thanks to Tool -- here, with a slightly different musical bed to carry things, he often holds back from complete explosiveness, but it's still clearly him, just about to crack. His astonishing call-and-response exchange on the single "Judith" makes another high point in his career. The choice of who else to make up the band was a smart one -- Lenchantin's violin and string arrangements add even further to the air of dark, moody mystery, while Josh Freese's abilities on drums once again come to the fore. Alan Moulder adds in some fine help on mixing, polishing the glowering sheen of Mer de Noms to a hard, sharp edge.
So how did you start singing for bands? How did you learn? How do practice if you do?Did you take lesson? If not how did you get to where your at? Do people say your good? Are you Good?My Inquireing Mind wants 2 learn...|:^[)>
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APC-Thinking of YouMer de Noms lying all alone and restless.unable to lose this image.sleepless, unable to focus on anything but your surrender.tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head.tugging a beat to the sight of you lyingso delighted with your new understanding.there's something about a little evil that makes that unmistakable noise i was hearing,that unmistakable sound i know so we...
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I added this to my library quite a while ago but couldn't really get into it. It's one of those deals where I knew I'd like it, but just wasn't in the mood for it.I'm really digging it now.
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By DANIEL YEE ATLANTA (AP) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is now among the ``superbugs'' resistant to common antibiotics, leading U.S. health officials to recommend wider use of a different class of drugs to avert a public health crisis. The resistant form accounts for more than one in every four gonorrhea cases among heterosexual men in Philadelphia and nearly that many in San F...
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So how did you start singing for bands? How did you learn? How do practice if you do?Did you take lesson? If not how did you get to where your at? Do people say your good? Are you Good?My Inquireing Mind wants 2 learn...|:^[)>
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This album quickly worked its way into my mind long ago and still finds itself as relevant and inportant to me today as it did when I was still young, and eager, and relatively sane. Cycles, cycles...
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I added this to my library quite a while ago but couldn't really get into it. It's one of those deals where I knew I'd like it, but just wasn't in the mood for it.I'm really digging it now.
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I was just watching Once Upon a Time in China III with Jet Li. The volume was down, the subtitles were up, and iTunes was playing. APC's Judith came on just at the beginning of a great fight scene. It was perfect.
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APC-Thinking of YouMer de Noms lying all alone and restless.unable to lose this image.sleepless, unable to focus on anything but your surrender.tugging a rhythm to the vision that's in my head.tugging a beat to the sight of you lyingso delighted with your new understanding.there's something about a little evil that makes that unmistakable noise i was hearing,that unmistakable sound i know so we...
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Got this from a friend, it is commercial, but don't know where to buy it.Mike
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| 1 The Hollow |
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| 2 Magdalena |
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| 3 Rose |
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| 4 Judith |
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| 5 Orestes |
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| 6 3 Libras |
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| 7 Sleeping Beauty |
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| 8 Thomas |
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| 9 Renholder |
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| 10 Thinking Of You |
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| 11 Brena |
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| 12 Over |
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