November 5, 2004

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EMOTIVE
A Perfect Circle
(Virgin/EMI)

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There is something to be said for putting your own stamp on covers instead of blindly Xeroxing other people's songs.

There is, on the other hand, little to be said for simply taking a random bunch of oldies -- John Lennon's Imagine, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Fear's Let's Have a War, Nick Lowe's Peace, Love and Understanding, Devo's Freedom of Choice, Black Flag's Gimme Gimme Gimme -- and converting them all into an identical-sounding batch of creepy, sub-Mansonesque goth-metal dirges.

Track Listing

1. Annihilation
2. Imagine
3. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding
4. What's Going On
5. Passive
6. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
7. People are People
8. Freedom of Choice
9. Let's Have A War
10. Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
11. When the Levee Breaks
12. Fiddle and the Drum