A Perfect Circle

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Eat The Elephant Colored Vinyl - 538401021 Sealed 2018 2LP Limited Edition Red/Blue Vinyl Gatefold. Eat The Elephant Marks The Return Of The A Perfect Circle And Is Their First Studio Album In 15 Years. Featuring The New Singles Talk Talk, The Doomed, And Disillusioned. more
	Eat The Elephant New - LP - 4050538374377 Sealed 2018 2LP, Gatefold, Limited Edition, White Vinyl. more
	Emotive Colored Vinyl - New - 7243 8 66687 1 4 Rare, Sealed 2005 2LP Orange Vinyl In Triple Gatefold. Unable To Confirm Which Cut This Is (Ron McMaster Or Stan Getz II). "When Tool Frontman Maynard James Keenan Covered Wings' "Silly Love Songs" As A Guest Vocalist For The Replicants, It Was Amusing And Well Thought Out. When Tool Covered "No Quarter" In Concert It Was Intense, Appropriate, And Staggeringly Good. And When Maynard Continued The Tradition With The Beautiful Recording Of Failure's "The Nurse Who Loved Me," It Became Apparent That Maynard Had A Penchant For Re-recording Songs That Were Of High Quality But Not Necessarily Anthems. But Then There's The Notion Of Recording A Whole Album Of Covers, Which Immediately Sends Off Red Flags That The Water May Be Running Dry And The Record Label Is Thirsty For A New Release. A Perfect Circle's Album Of Covers, Emotive, Falls Flat And Fails To Raise The Bar Set So High By The Quality Of Their Previous Two Releases. Turning Some Of Popular Music's Most Potent Songs Into A Soundtrack Ideal For Background Music At Your Local Teen-angst Mall-chain Clothing Store, A Perfect Circle Work Their Way Through 12 Songs That Would Almost Be Unrecognizable In Their Current Arrangement If One Weren't Familiar With The Original Versions Of Each Song. John Lennon's Somber, Optimistic Anthem For Peace, "Imagine," Is Changed From Its Original Major Key To A Funereal Minor Key Dirge. Marvin Gaye's Perfect "What's Going On" Is Turned Into A Horrible Industrial Track That Would Be Permissible On A Budget-line Compilation But Is Simply Unforgivable In Its Inclusion Here. The Same Could Apply To The Butchering Of Black Flag's "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" And A Few Other Numbers. However, The Album's Sole Moment Of Tranquility And Its Most Effective Moments Lie In The Band's Treatment Of Led Zeppelin's "When The Levee Breaks," And The Disturbing A Cappella Of Joni Mitchell's "Fiddle And The Drum." Emotive Is A Slight Dent In The Armor Of Maynard's Nearly Flawless Career As A Frontman, And It's (Hopefully) A Mere Detour For A Perfect Circle." AMG - Rob Theakston. more
	Mer de Noms Colored Vinyl - Used - 7243 5 96031 1 7 Hard To Find 2003 2LP 180gm Picture Discs Housed In A Clear Jacket. more
	Mer de Noms Colored Vinyl - Used - 7243 5 96031 1 7 Hard To Find 2003 2LP 180gm Picture Discs Housed In A Clear Jacket. Released in 2000, "Mer de Noms" received widespread critical acclaim and commercial success. The album features 12 tracks that blend alternative rock, progressive metal, and post-grunge influences, creating a unique and immersive soundscape. One of the album's strengths is its vocal performance by lead singer Maynard James Keenan, who showcases his range and versatility throughout the tracks. From the soaring choruses of "Judith" to the haunting whispers of "Orestes," Keenan's vocals are a standout element of the album. The instrumentation on the album is also impressive, with intricate guitar riffs, driving bass lines, and complex drum patterns that complement Keenan's vocals and add depth and texture to the songs. Standout tracks include "3 Libras," "The Hollow," and "Magdalena," which showcase the band's musical prowess and ability to craft memorable hooks. "Mer de Noms" is a powerful debut album that established A Perfect Circle as a force to be reckoned with in the rock music scene. more
	Mer de Noms New - LP - 7243 8 49253 1 4 Sealed 2008 2LP 180gm Limited Edition Gatefold Reissue From The Capitol Vaults. more
	Thirteenth Step Used - LP - 80918 2003 2LP Gatefold. Open, Unplayed Copy. more
	Thirteenth Step New - LP - 80918 Sealed 2003 2LP Gatefold Original. Not The Reissue. more
	Thirteenth Step (AMS DROP-SHIP) New - LP - 7243 5 80918 1 6 Sealed 2019 2LP gatefold reissue. "Three years after the release of its debut Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step sees the light of day. By that time, Troy van Leeuwen and Paz Lenchantin had left and been replaced by bassist Jeordie Osborne White, formerly of Marilyn Manson, and guitarist James Iha, formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins (though he doe not appear on the album). While van Leeuwen appear on part of the set, guitarist Danny Lohner helped out after he departed. Amazingly, despite the changes, the sound is still very much the creation of Billy Howerdel with the unmistakable vocal of Maynard Keenan from Tool. Produced by Howerdel and mixed by the inimitable Andy Wallace, Thirteenth Step is a moodier, tenser, and more atmospheric (if that is possible) recording than its predecessor. Written mostly by Howerdel and Keenan, the songs traverse a particular associated with surrender, loss, having the nature of a person stripped away, and turning in the twilight of those feelings toward a kind of slow transformation into something that can only be called "other." There are no easy outs and no easy answers, only hard questions throughout "Weak and Powerless," where surrender is necessary but far from desired. The title bitingly refers to the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, but this is not your average recovery outing. Tracks like "Blue," "Vanishing," and "Lullaby" (one of two tracks featuring the amazing Jarboe on vocals) feature a kind of barely restrained menace caught in a trap by rock & roll vulnerability. The wide dynamic swathes that were so prominent on the band's debut are all but absent here. The squalling guitars have taken a backseat to carefully crafted melodies where atmospherics are maximized and pulled taut over the listener. While not a radical departure from Mer de Noms, there is a real progression here. However, the explosive, heavier-than-heavy rock-ism of A Perfect Circle is so well known for it is readily evidenced on cuts such as "The Outsider" and "Pet." As moods shapeshift from the sepia-toned murk of "The Package" and "The Noose," the over the top hard rock to the Baroquely scaled "The Nurse Who Loved Me" and "Gravity," with its beautiful guitar effects and crystalline bassline, the listener becomes aware of just how much water has traveled under A Perfect Circle's bridge. The Thirteenth Step is the sound of a musical and lyrical maturity that normally doesn't occur until a band's third or fourth albums. Lyrically, musically, sonically, the Thirteenth Step is proof positive that mainstream rock has plenty of life and vision left in it." All Music Guide - Thom Jurek more