First Time Hearing A Perfect Circle - The Noose (Reaction!!)
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I think he might be talking about his own self and the heroin addiction he went through and his mother being the one who helped him get sober, but now she has passed. So maybe he's speaking of his own self? Just a thought... ❤ Thanks for all you do!
Oh Man you HAVE to listen to A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums. Even if you don't do a react, you have to listen to that one!
Reading the lyrics before hearing the song is such disrespect
@@GMahtakicalm down 😂
This is actually my favorite song of all time. Still gets me every time. The haunting lyrics, the progression, the layering of verses... I'm excited to see what you think. My second favorite song of all time is Wings for Marie pt 2. ❤️😇
You got some good ears on ya ❤
Yup, I can agree with everything said here…
Ditto Kimberly, this is one of my all time favorite albums. Its the only reason i clicked on this reaction video. I'm pleasantly surprised how much i'm enjoying watching someone else discover and enjoy it.
This song is amazing I consider the whole album a masterpiece.
I'm a massive metal fan but will admit one guilty pleasure fed by this song. I nearly always have to listen to Taylor swift and the civil wars after this 🤔
The entire 13th step album is perfection.
From start to finish, it is pretty damn perfect
One of my favorite albums
We need to go back to thematic albums.
@@bloodbeatssome people still nake em but i agree. i miss how popular they were, so many amazing albums.
theres something about 13th step you cant put a finger on, the first time you hear it it might be just ok but when you hear it again its almost as if it has unlimited replayability, just the best album in 2 decades
"so glad to see you well" For such a throw away line during a casual conversation that line stings with condescending sarcasm every time I hear it. Outstanding writing once again MJK
This is a criminally underrated song.
how so, everyone here loves it and he started with it.. so again.. how so
@@CyPhaSaRin I don't know about "Everyone started with it" but I agree on it being underated because I don't see nearly as many reactions to The Noose as other APC songs. It sort of flys under the radar for some. I wish more people would react to it tbh.
Gravity by A Percent Circle is great as well. The 13th step is a masterpiece of a concept album.
Always a favorite that song has lifted me in my most sunken times. Daily mantra: "I choose to live."
Anyone who has survived a friend or family member who has, at least temporarily, overcome addiction feels this song in every fiber of their dna. “I’m glad your well… but you still destroyed a lot of people”
This album explores EVERY aspect of addiction. Amazing considering Maynard has never struggled with addiction--however he has lost so many friends to it.
I think the fact that the public is not aware of any struggles with addiction doesn't mean he hasn't had any. He goes to great lengths to keep as much of his life as private as possible in his position.
I think it's a tough side of addiction that we don't talk about often. We generally either talk about the fully positive or fully negative side; either the person fixes themselves and is redeemed, or they spiral into toxicity and damnation.
Sometimes there's no making things right. I personally believe addiction is an illness, and you blame the illness for the negative actions of the person rather than the person themselves, but I've never lost a kid to a drunk driver.
So what, do we never allow a person to be truly redeemed? How do we and they live with the damage they did? These questions don't have easy answers.
I lost my brother to alcohol. We were camping. It was a Sunday, and he was 39. It was a shit show, to say the least. Adiction is a nasty beast. While the pain was unimaginable, there was oddly a sense of relief. It was finally over. I've always wondered for those who beat it, do you get the relief, without all that pain?
I always thought of my bff to this song, she was the best, prettiest, funniest person in a room... we grew up in the oxy age and she never left, I will be turning 38 this year, and she is forever 33... miss her unimaginably!!!
@@falsedragon33 🫂 I am absolutely sorry for losing your brother. I hope you are recovering
By and Down the River is also a great song of them. Atmospheric, dark and melodic, with Maynard's voice on the forefront and some amazing guitar riffs to top it off.
I'm seriously digging your insights into all things Maynard. Some reactors, yourself included, have really taken Tool/Puscifer/APC to heart and it's a delight to watch your awareness open like a flower. Around our house, we imagine this song is about Kissinger.
It's about the 12 step program for addicts and alcoholics. 12 steps, not 13. The 13th step is relapse. Kinda like 18 holes in golf. The 19th hole is the bar. Step 9 is making amends to all the people you've harmed in the past. But how can you make amends to the dead? As always, Maynard's lyrics are absolute genius.
Seeing this live when I was about 16 years old is still one of the most amazing moments of my life.
I always forget this song but then when I listen to it I sing along, knowing the lyrics so well and the beauty of it. It's gorgeous. It always feels like that gothic vibes song to me. I found beauty in something horrifying for it. I never entirely *got* this song. I'm trying to listen for this. But the feeling was always a sort of forlorn ghost melody which is what I loved about APC.
I'm amused every one of those becomes your new favorite. On another note I always felt this was just about a bully. Never a particular bully. You know how you can have those popular bullies who always have solid images but in reality are shitty and... The axe forgets but the tree remembers. and it's like "You can't fix this anymore. Your perfect image is falling."
Add on here to make sure the likes are right. I do get this is not true to the album and that the lyrics are probably more clear. A lot of A Perfect circle for me is about the feeling first and meaning of the lyrics second. A lot of the songs I only got the meaning of the lyrics as an adult. What I feel this is about vs what it actually is is interesting.
@@athannyx6815 I listen to all music in this manner. If I focused too much on the meaning there are far too many I'd likely not listen to that I love. The sound, feeling... the raw emotional power of a song, that's where it is for me.
@@chrisfrench9257 It alternates with me and songs because singers matter so much, so I need to be able to hear the lyrics. But A Perfect Circle sometimes what the song actually means is secondary to the emotions conveyed. Whether it's anger, like Judith or Counting Bodies like Sheep, or feeling trapped like Rose or the playfulness of Magdalena (I always felt that song very mocking of the narrated perspective "I lost my self control, beyond compelled to throw this dollar..." and "I'd sell my soul, my self esteem, I don't want to pray outside."). Or the sense of drowning like Blue.
But some songs are so much journey, the story conveyed, some are emotion, some are message and some can be all of that or none of that. Great thing about songs.
Weak and Powerless is my favorite song by them by far! Should definitely give it a shot
the transition between Weak and powerkess and The noose is amazing.
Mine too and followed by this song.
The bass is intenseee
Fun fact I found out about weak & powerless in 2002 on Napster that it was a collabo with Reznor and mjk called tapeworm project. Mjk owned the rights I suppose and put it on the epic 2nd lp from apc. Woohoo
A perfect circle was a pivotal part of my late teens/early twenties. Alone, addicted, living in rural northern Michigan, eating shrooms while also trying not to lose my mind. All I listened to was A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, and The Doors. I don’t know if I’m any better for it, but it’s a part of me now.
Love your reactions! Yours are my favorite. Not because of making faces or the stuff you joke about. It's just I'm so passionate about music and I LOVE sharing music and hearing peoples ideas about an art form I also appreciate. I listen to almost every genre. The thing about MJKs music, is it is not something imo, and I speak to all three of his bands, you can't pin it down to one genre. If you think about it, most songs are like that. These bands just really offer unique, profound lyrics that so many people can relate to. I love the lyrics, the instrumentals, the way he uses his voice, just everything. I can't decide if I like Tool or APC better! 😂 Puscifer rocks as well.
Start at the beginning and do the whole album, it's perfection!!...It's absolutely written this way!!
This whole album is so good, their best in my opinion. Love your vids mate keep them coming 👍
So glad you are digging Perfect Circle and you just started with them and there is so many more songs you will love from them
My favorite APC song is passive, much enjoyment from the trio of music maynard partakes in
I adore this song. Every time I hear I get ideas for a music video about a contract assassin who just finished a job and is driving away in the rain, and as the music builds, the ghost of everyone he took looms in the shadows out beyond the car lights. He finally makes it home and clutches his family tight, and it is implied that was his last job and now he is going clean.
I know you did this a year or so ago but I found it today. I listen to many of your reactions(mostly Tool, some bball). I'm super glad you like this song. It's crazy how.life can change the way you perceive a song again. My youngest child(Son) died last February due to a drunk driving accident. He was in the back seat and ejected out of the car and died on impact. The young man driving the vehicle was his friend in the Navy and supposed to be the DD for the night. He was found to be over 2x the limit and of course, he's alive and not injured. There was a 2nd young man in the passenger seat who also lost his life that night/early morning.
Amends?! How the hell can he ever make amends for this! I believe in justice, retribution, forgiveness, and punishment. Next month I'll go to CT for the sentencing hearing. He will only get a maximum of 8yrs total for the deaths of two young men. My son was 23yrs old and finally getting his life on track. Our justice system is very flawed and in need of real change. Anyway, you have the meaning of this song correct.
I have perfect circle tattoos on my body even though tool is my favorite band. Just shows the impact a perfect circle has on me.
Whole album about addiction. Start to finish. End was recovery. Good now but one day at a time
The Package and Pet are also great - The Package is a slow build, but awesome track about being an addict.
Whole album is awesome
Pet is pure genius. “Countin bodies like sheep to the rhythm of a war drum”….DAAAAMNNNN! 😲
The Outsider as well. This entire album is spectacular. Got it when it came out, I was in 5th or 6th grade.
I got it for their single Weak and Powerless, which is a great song. But they're are 5 songs better than that on this album
lol i just suggested exactly those, wtf bro :D
@@hmpphoto you know thats a recycled line tho yeh? Pet's not the only one with it
Very well aware. Doesn’t negate the impact of the line though.
Puscifer next bro. They have some really great songs and the harmonies between Maynard and Carine are incredible
if he hasn't heard tool maybe don't scare him away with that garbage yet
This one, The Package, Passive and Gravity are my favorites. ❤️
Gravity!!!
Team gravity, blasting it so long in 03 not knowing in 23' so many others loved it, woohoo
Been waiting for this one 🙌. Still not sure how we haven’t got Tool Schism yet 🥺
I LOVE this album. I remember when the album came out and it was white, with a banana slug, it really tipped my understanding on how to be heavy and dark and not the cliche black. Sonically and artistically this white album as I like to call it has always inspired me in my work. Blue is a good one but also Gravity might be my fave for personal reasons
Just an idea: if you want to react to a song by APC and it has a live version from their Stone and Echo show, watch that instead. That concert is their best work, period.
Saw them live after this album dropped.
My absolute favourite song from this album
Have you ever heard Toto? Such an amazing band.
Definitely one of my absolute favorite APC tracks, Maynard's voice is so beautiful and almost ghostly, with some gorgeous guitar and under-spoken drums combining into pure musical bliss. The whole "13th Step" album is great and worth listening to in order, front to back.
You’ll see with a perfect circle there’s songs like this one, breña, 3 libras, gravity, Orestes, etc that are just…they hit different. Love the band and glad you hit this one.
I just started listening to the album myself. And I haven't gotten past this song yet, it's so beautiful, meaningful, and as others have said haunting.
Pet is a great song with a great message of waking up to what the governments are hiding from us...And of course with a killer guitar fift
Pet and Counting Bodies like Sheep should be listened to one after the other. I *love* how the emotion is different but the song itself is the same. It's like Opiate and Opiate2 with Tool.
@@athannyx6815 APC have closer to ten of those sort of reprise moments don't they?
@@CyPhaSaRin They don't have as many as you think. Like I pointed out Opiate was Tool. But I absolutely love them because it's a perfect example of APC being what it is, a band more emotions and feelings based.
I don't count the live ones because naturally live is a little different from studio albums. But there are more remixes then I thought there were.
I was your 420 like. LOL.
Do in this moment into the light live!!!!
This whole album references 12 step groups, addiction, and all the hardships that come along with such problems. Making amends is the 8th and 9th steps and the process of making amends to those that have past is a bit of a point of contention. Everyone has their own way. 13th step is a reference to the fake 13th step which is essentially taking advantage of new comers to the program sexually or any other way. We call people who engage in this behavior 13 steppers.
Puscifer - The Humbling River............ some more Maynard for ya
No matter how many times I hear this I get full blown chills every single time 💜
It's like he's dragging us like a heavy sack then throwing off an abyss of intense synesthesia.
13th step was my first album purchase in 2003 when I was 13. It has a VERY sentimental place in my heart, my soul. Particularly this song... Agggh the build up and climax of this song, it's just TOO MUCH BLISS.
I've been on a kick watching your tool, killswitch and now apc videos! Love your reactions. If I may suggest one to check out on or off a video even, check out "Red Hands" by The Dear Hunter. If however you'd like to keep the A Perfect Cirlc train rolling be sure to check out "3 Libras" my all time favorite APC song!
2024 with war in my country, thousands dead, murdered.. this song sounds different now.
Now, for me, this song about a one viliant, who persuing his nonsense goal started a war, started one of the largest killing streaks. But in the end of the day, he'll die. Patheticly, like a filthy little coward, maybe begging for mercy (oh i wish), exuses himself, or just shot, doesn’t matter.
And now he's "completely silent", goes through 13 circles of hell, probably understanding something, understanding what he has done, repenting, acquiring his thin, faded, dull halo. And in the end of his way, a crowd, of millions, million souls. They're just looking on him, in his eyes, silently asking "How? How will you? No, there are too many, too many..." . And weight of guilt, becomes weight of halo, that starts slowly slipping onto his neck, and slowly begins to tighten. Millions of gloating smiles, with widely opened eyes, watching, enjoying the moment of revenge, of retribution.
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Try the guitar player, Billy Howerdel’s, new solo album. It’s called What Normal Was. A lot of work with Danny Lohner on there. If you like APC I think you’ll like it.
I really like your takes on the songs you've reacted to. Another song Maynard does that I think you'd like is Puscifer's The Humbling River.
Need to try Orestes live Stone and Echo from Red Rocks. Chills throughout from the harmonies Maynard and Billy pull off.
One of the 12 steps of recovery is to make amends to those you've wronged. If you wronged someone, then they died before you made amends, technically you can't complete the steps. It's kind of a slight against the steps because they are kind of silly and illogical. Btw, the 13th step is jumping back on the wagon (using again).
Great song. Passive is my favorite APC song.
Spot on analysis. Altho less "ppl you killed" and more "your friends who ODd along your journey to redemption"
Do Feathers, Hourglass , Talk Talk, The Doomed or just do everything off of the album Eat the Elephant. Please. There are very few reactions of that record.
The Nurse Who Loved Me"s freaking beautifully covered. Wayyyyy better than the original.
Orestes is one of the best perfect circle songs. Please listen
I think he already did.
@@darlyngcepeda damn really? Have to check
If you're looking for your next Perfect Circle track...may I suggest Passive? It was featured on the Keanu Reeves Constantine movie and it really good.
Sorry I'm so new to your reactions. Appreciate your insight. Dig the music, my man. Thank you.
Love this track. I enjoyed your reaction. My favorite A Perfect Circle song is Breña. I hope you get around to it. Cheers!
The Outsider is another song of theirs you should absolutely check out. 👊🏼
The greatest part about any maynard band, you can interpret the music like you see it, and still be 100% right. Even if every single human said otherwise, its tool, a perfect circle and pusifer, there is no wrong answer to how you received this or any other song of those 3 bands! To me, this one always seemed like an outcry towards himself for not doing exactly as he planned in his youth. Its not hateful or even angry, its sad and a lil disappointed. Like how come you didnt grow up from that?! Especially the beginning to me, sounds like hes speaking to his kid self, to me. Im glad you liked it though!
Bullet train to Iowa reimagined by Billy Howerdel:Puscifer, with animated video… ❤
Behemoth - Blow Your trumpets Gabriel
Black Crown Initiate - Great Mistake
Jinger - Pisces
These are 3 I would love to see your reaction to.
These lyrics are really hitting me lately. They can be applied to personal issues and global. I’m feeling them globally. Socially. Very dark place.
Making amends is one of the 12 steps... Either you didn't know or Maynard didn't know, if that interpretation of the song is proper. I have a totally different take on this song. I think your pretty cool! Keep it up!
If you love this, listen to 10,000 Days Wings of Marie PT2, epic
Please react to some Puscifer! Bedlamite is phenomenal, and Bullet Train to Iowa (watch the music video)
But I love almost ALL of their tracks for different reasons
You need to check out A Perfect Circle's "Thomas"...like now
If you loved this song you will love rthe song 3 Libras!!! Not sure if you've reacted to it yet but I highly recommend.
I think it’s about his dead moms, Judith, congregation. They turned her away when she got I’ll.
One of the few songs that usually brings me to tears.
I love your interpretation of the apc but for drugs and alcohol it’s a 12 step program having gone thru it myself I’m not exactly sure why Maynard titled the cd thirteenth step
My favorite A Perfect Circle song. Feel like you pretty much nailed your analysis. The bassline is the haunting part and it drives your emotions through the song. So unique
Well, there’s only 12 steps to the AA program. And he’s talking about pulling that halo down and putting around that guy’s neck throwing him to the ground
This is a fantastic song. You should check out By And Down. Another gem. Thanks!
Hell yea keep the APC coming!! We need to get ya to dive into Puscifer too, Maynards other brain child.
Should check out 'Passive' by A perfect Circle as well, one of my favourites.
This song is so beautiful but condescending at the same time. You can tell Maynard had a lot of people in his life dealing with addiction. Musically it's perfect, lyrically some parts of it rub me the wrong way. I could totally see this song making someone relapse.
Just wanted to chime in that I found your top tier react channel because someone on an obviously contrived reaction vid name dropped you as one of the few reactors whose reactions he takes as genuine. He was right. Your insightful music appreciation just the icing on the cake🎂👌
The Gathering: Saturine would be a good following of this specific song
I think of the lyric “…curious how you’re planning to go around making your amends to the dead” like ok you hurt everyone you loved in horrendous acts of selfishness by lying and stealing and avoiding people for such a long time , people that cared so much for you and were in so much pain having to witness your descent while they were helpless to do anything to save you. Some of those people took that pain to their grave never seeing your recovery. So how are you planning on making amends to them, and even if they’re not dead there are still many years of pain and absence that can never be recovered .
That was a lot and maybe I’m way off, but that’s what those lyrics mean to me
AA type programs have 12 steps. The joke with them is that the 13th step (for which the album is named) is relapse
This song shows just how much he hates his father. As mellow as it is its very dark. His father shows up at his mother's funeral after all the years of abuse to him and his mom like he's been reborn like nothing ever happened. He was in disbelief of his audacity to show up there knowing the history. His father was a true piece of sh*t. He was never a dad.
@poloreacts there are too many good tracks on “13th step” to list them all, and the concept behind the whole album is great, but please keep “the package” in mind 🙏 keep up the great work!
It's the calm before the calm. There is no "storm" on this track. Check out Pet, also off of the Thirteen Step album.
Addiction is a 12 step program, the 13th step is relapse to me but is an aa term for those that have completed the 12 step program preying on newcomers
Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight , Tears In Heaven , Layla , I Shot The Sheriff , Cocaine , Lay Down Sally, My Fathers Eyes
This track is the inspiration behind a graphic novella I wrote. One amazing track
Don’t mind you commenting over the song but please every time you stop/cut the song I feel my ears start to bleed.
The entire album is about getting over addiction. Which is why the album is the 13th step. The extra what ever it is after the 12th step
Rumor has it this whole album is a eulogy of sorts to Layne Staley of Alice in Chains who had succumbed to substance abuse not long before they released this album
I don't take it so literally. How do you make amends to who you left emotionally dead. But with Maynard, who knows...
There is the drug addict being full of themself which i think is the main version of the song. Others have said it could be an anti war song for a politician who feels great as they won a war yet many men died to make that win. Either way, awsome song and great album.
I imagine a drunk driver who killed someone and got sober and is acting high and mighty about it.... yea but bro
13th step, don't do it. Not worth it.
13th step is the meeting a hookup in the 12 step program.
Hey buddy, I hope you're ok, you're taking a nose dive into some heavy stuff, love you bro
This song Live at Red Rocks is amazing!!
I know... Its not just to the dead, but to those whom you are dead and rotting to.... How do we make amends to them? We can never... And those of us who are in that spot, we need to know that the only one we can makw amends to is God...
Very simple lyrics but beautifully dubbed together at the end.
I love tool and a perfect circle and I really dig your reactions to it. It's obvious to me you are a passionate person so males sense you would dig this
What is that balancing piece behind you? I want it. Where can I find that? What is it called?
U have to see APC live!!! They sound even better than recording