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| Label | A Perfect Circle Entertainment | |||
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A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo is a live box set by American rock supergroup, A Perfect Circle. It was released via the band's own label, A Perfect Circle Entertainment, on November 26, 2013, [1] [2] [3] a week after the release of the band's greatest hits album, Three Sixty . [4]
The box set collectively includes five audio CDs and a DVD. Three of the CDs are grouped together as Trifecta - live recordings of the band's first three studio albums, Mer de Noms (2000), Thirteenth Step (2003) and eMOTIVe (2004), - performed in their entirety during the band's 2010 series of "three-night, full-album performances." The other two CDs, grouped together as Stone and Echo consist of the band's full-length performance on August 2, 2011, at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The DVD consists of video footage of the performances found on these two CDs. The live performances of "By and Down", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Diary of a Love Song" were released as bonus tracks. [5] [6]
Other items featured in the box set include: [2] [7] [8]
All tracks are written by Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan, except where noted..
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Hollow" | 3:06 | |
| 2. | "Magdalena" | 4:11 | |
| 3. | "Rose" | 3:28 | |
| 4. | "Judith" | 4:19 | |
| 5. | "Orestes" | 5:37 | |
| 6. | "3 Libras" | 6:17 | |
| 7. | "Sleeping Beauty" | 6:12 | |
| 8. | "Thomas" | 3:50 | |
| 9. | "Renholdër" | 3:20 | |
| 10. | "Thinking of You" | 4:32 | |
| 11. | "Breña" | 4:13 | |
| 12. | "Over" | 6:46 | |
| 13. | "Ashes to Ashes" (David Bowie cover) | David Bowie | 3:59 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Package" | 8:25 | |
| 2. | "Weak and Powerless" | 3:23 | |
| 3. | "The Noose" | 5:26 | |
| 4. | "Blue" | 4:26 | |
| 5. | "Vanishing" | 5:25 | |
| 6. | "A Stranger" | 3:11 | |
| 7. | "The Outsider" | 4:11 | |
| 8. | "Crimes" | Howerdel/Keenan/Freese/White | 2:01 |
| 9. | "The Nurse Who Loved Me" (Failure cover) | Greg Edwards/Ken Andrews | 5:26 |
| 10. | "Pet" | 4:36 | |
| 11. | "Lullaby" | 4:28 | |
| 12. | "Gravity" (Howerdel/Keenan/Freese/Van Leeuwen/Lenchantin) | 9:21 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Annihilation" (Crucifix cover) | 2:25 | |
| 2. | "Imagine" (John Lennon cover) | 4:57 | |
| 3. | "Peace, Love, and Understanding" (Brinsley Schwarz cover) | 5:20 | |
| 4. | "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye cover) | 5:02 | |
| 5. | "Passive" | Lohner / Keenan / Reznor / Howerdel | 4:14 |
| 6. | "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" (Black Flag cover) | 4:55 | |
| 7. | "People Are People" (Depeche Mode cover) | 3:48 | |
| 8. | "Freedom of Choice" (Devo cover) | 3:26 | |
| 9. | "Let's Have a War" (Fear cover) | 3:39 | |
| 10. | "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" | 6:02 | |
| 11. | "When the Levee Breaks" (Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy cover) | 7:03 | |
| 12. | "Fiddle and the Drum" (Joni Mitchell cover) | 4:21 | |
| 13. | "Diary of a Lovesong" (Ozzy Osbourne / The Cure mashup; listed in liner notes between tracks 7 & 8) | 14:59 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Annihilation" (Crucifix cover) | Sothira Pheng, Jake Smith, Matt Borruso, Chris Douglas | 2:15 |
| 2. | "Imagine" (John Lennon cover) | John Lennon | 4:55 |
| 3. | "Weak and Powerless" | 3:15 | |
| 4. | "The Hollow" | ||
| 5. | "Rose" | ||
| 6. | "Blue" | ||
| 7. | "What's Going On" (Marvin Gaye cover) | Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson, Marvin Gaye | |
| 8. | "People Are People" (Depeche Mode cover) | Martin Gore | |
| 9. | "The Outsider" | 4:09 | |
| 10. | "Peace Love and Understanding" (Brinsley Schwarz cover) | Nick Lowe | |
| 11. | "When the Levee Breaks" (Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie cover) | Kansas Joe McCoy, Minnie Lawlers | |
| 12. | "The Noose" | ||
| 13. | "3 Libras (All Main Courses Mix)" | ||
| 14. | "The Package" | ||
| 15. | "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" (Black Flag cover) | Greg Ginn | |
| 16. | "Orestes" | ||
| 17. | "Passive" | Lohner / Keenan / Reznor / Howerdel | |
| 18. | "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" | ||
| 19. | "Fiddle and the Drum" (Joni Mitchell cover) | Joni Mitchell | |
| 20. | "By and Down" | 5:34 |
A Perfect Circle is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. A Perfect Circle has released four studio albums, the first three during the early 2000s: Mer de Noms, their debut album in 2000, and followed up by Thirteenth Step in 2003; then in 2004, Emotive—an album of radically re-worked cover songs. Shortly after Emotive's release, the band went on hiatus; Keenan returned to Tool and started up solo work under the band name Puscifer, while Howerdel released a solo album, Keep Telling Myself It's Alright, under the moniker Ashes Divide. Band activity was sporadic in the following years; the band reformed in 2010, and played live shows on and off between 2010 and 2013, but fell into inactivity after the release of their greatest hits album, Three Sixty, and a live album box set, A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo in late 2013. The band reformed in 2017 to record a fourth album, Eat the Elephant, which was released on April 20, 2018.
Thirteenth Step is the second studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle, released on September 16, 2003. The album sold well, charting at the number 2 position on the Billboard 200 in its premiere week, selling over 231,000 copies and staying on the charts for 78 weeks. The album went on to be certified as gold on November 4, 2003 and as platinum on March 24, 2006 by the RIAA. Three singles were released from the album, "Weak and Powerless", which topped both the Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks, followed by "The Outsider" and "Blue", which also charted on the respective charts.
Billy Howerdel is an American musician, best known as the founding member, guitarist, backing vocalist, songwriter, and producer for the band A Perfect Circle, as well as for his former solo project, Ashes Divide. Howerdel has recorded six studio albums across his career: four with A Perfect Circle, one under the moniker Ashes Divide, and one under his own name.
Maynard James Keenan is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and winemaker. He is best known as the singer and primary lyricist of the rock bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer.
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