The Temple of Dagon

I am not a internet legality purist, I admit it. I downloaded this new album.

My impressions of it are...well...if you do not like A Perfect Circle, this new cd will not convert you into their circle of fans. If you do, in all honesty, you may start to question it.

The tracks are short, and because of the past song lengths that I have encountered with this band, and Maynard James Keenan's other project, Tool (something I am not really big into), it kinda makes you feel...cheated or something. The whole album from start to finish is not even an hour long, and in fact clocks in @ 48 minutes, 12 seconds.

hmm..

All I will say about this album in its favor is this: The cover song they did of John Lennon's "Imagine" is both good and bad in my opinion. It has high points, but the wall of noise surrounding it makes the songs impact less felt than the original.

In all honesty, I am not entirely sure what APC was trying to say on this record. I am a devout believer in try before you buy, and I do not feel that my previewing of this cd from an online source is wrong, because if I had gone out and bought this thing on the merits of the previous 2 releases, right now I would be slapping myself with a Moses action figure...

decadence wrote:I am not a internet legality purist, I admit it. I downloaded this new album.

My impressions of it are...well...if you do not like A Perfect Circle, this new cd will not convert you into their circle of fans. If you do, in all honesty, you may start to question it.

The tracks are short, and because of the past song lengths that I have encountered with this band, and Maynard James Keenan's other project, Tool (something I am not really big into), it kinda makes you feel...cheated or something. The whole album from start to finish is not even an hour long, and in fact clocks in @ 48 minutes, 12 seconds.

hmm..

All I will say about this album in its favor is this: The cover song they did of John Lennon's "Imagine" is both good and bad in my opinion. It has high points, but the wall of noise surrounding it makes the songs impact less felt than the original.

In all honesty, I am not entirely sure what APC was trying to say on this record. I am a devout believer in try before you buy, and I do not feel that my previewing of this cd from an online source is wrong, because if I had gone out and bought this thing on the merits of the previous 2 releases, right now I would be slapping myself with a Moses action figure...

I dl and burn albums fro Soulseek and other p2p systems on a regular basis and have all the APC albums including this one. First of all, the album is sort of a anti-war compilation rahter than a sequal to "13th Step". Secondly, calling Tool a side project of Maynard is very wrong in the fact that Tool had been issuing albums since about the year 1993 and the really side project "APC" is a newborn project. I am a great Tool fan and APC's "13th Step" is an evolution. Any real fan of APC should thank whoever they're used to thank for miracles, that Tool existed because it was and still is (everyone - try to listen to their song "Sober" and say you don't feel touched) because Tool has given birth to APC.

As for the tracks on "eMotive" they are mainly targeted at the Bush campaign. There is a five minute track on it that is a mixed version of "Pet" and other tracks on the "13th Step" and it sounds awesome.

All and all it is a specially targeted album that serves its purpose by expressing its opinions towards the war in Iraq . As a side project to Tool APC is doing quite well and they have the albums to back it up.

"Any real APC fan" ...okay then

Let me re-phrase it: anyone who knows what they're talking about. No offense meant.

I far prefer Tool to APC.

none taken I never said anything about side projects, I called tool his other project. so....everyone can die happy now

I know I will!

You're already dead, al, you don't count