A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms

[Mitch]

[size=1][color=red] I know Tony's made a thread about this band in the past, and has talked about [i]Mer de Noms[/i] as well, but I think it'd be in my interest to make a thread considering this album.

I'm not sure how many of you out there have actually heard of A Perfect Circle, or heard of their first album, [i]Mer de Noms[/i].

The basic point of this thread is to get people to listen to this band, and perhaps even buy [i]Mer de Noms[/i] if they like it enough.

[img]http://home.comcast.net/~toolbox13/apccover.jpg[/img]

So here's the cover of the album. An interesting thing I've discovered, [i]Mer de Noms[/i] actually means [i]Sea of Names[/i] I think. I haven't actually checked to see if this is certainly true, but I did find out that Mer means Sea, and I'm guessing Noms means names, since in Latin the world [i]Nomine[/i] means called, or named. Who knows if that connection's wrong.

Now, about the album.

I'm sure someone here gives some merit into my taste in music, and listens to what I say. Well, if you do, then I'd say you should buy this album as soon as you can. It's that great.

The sound of the album is rock. But I'd label it as "progressive rock," because it has its own sound, is something different than all the other "pop rock" or whatever else you'll hear.

The band itself consists of Tool's vocalist, Maynard James Keenan, as vocals. I think that fact alone should buy some people over. Basically, if you like Tool, you should like this band, or at least that's my experience with it.

Anyway, I don't know if there's much else I can say. If you want, you can IM on AIM (my name's machineofbones) and I'll send you a few songs from [i]Mer de Noms[/i] as a teaser to show you how great it is.

Also, A Perfect Circle have a second album, which was recently released. This album is called [i]Thirteenth Step[/i] and still has Maynard on vocals, along with some new bandmates. This album is a decent album, and has some great songs, but all in all, it isn't as good as [i]Mer de Noms[/i] and is disappointing if you've heard [i]Mer de Noms[/i] prior.

[img]http://rockmerchuniverse.com/perfectcirclethirteenthstepcd.jpg[/img]

There's a picture of [i]Thirteenth Step's[/i] cover.

I really don't know what else to say. All I have to say is that [i]Mer de Noms[/i] is one of my favorite albums, and I'd like to let other people experience it.[/size][/color]