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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 5005
Released: November 2, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.94 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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eMOTIVe 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
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Description of eMOTIVe:
Maynard James Keenan is known for venting his personal angst through the abstract metal of his former band Tool and the poisoned art rock of his current outfit A Perfect Circle. On the group's third full-length release, however, the songwriter drops the high drama and gets blunt: War is bad. Politicians are evil. The world is doomed. To support his case he delivers a handful of politically charged originals and unusual Eastern-influenced covers of crusty anti-war anthems like John Lennon's "Imagine" and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On." You could never accuse Keenan of being predictable. --Aidin Vaziri
eMOTIVe Reviews:
Dissapointment 
2008-03-06 - No wonder this CD isn't more popular. It is nowhere as good as their other releases or anything from Tool. Except for two songs, it's a waste IMO.
Not so Perfect covers 
2008-02-13 - Maynard Keenan has proven already that he can do intriguing things with other people's material. Witness Tool's stunning cover of "No Quarter." Or the Replicants doing a deft and tongue-in-cheek version of "Silly Love Songs." Even A Perfect Circle's somewhat bland restructuring of Failure's "A Nurse Who Loved Me" is at least a noteworthy failed experiment. But an album made up almost entirely of covers is dangerous, especially since most would turn a nose to versions so consistently different than the sources.
Some work: the very odd, almost-lounge swing in "When the Levee Breaks," the rather disturbing a cappella "Fiddle and the Drum," the slow grind industrial dynamic on "What's Going On." But most aren't worth the trouble, and none can match the originals. For instance, their interesting if somewhat wrong-headed take on "Imagine" flips the mood of the song by switching to minor key, but why tinker with a classic that was already perfect? The two tracks authored by Keenan, Howerdel, and company are decent but unspectacular--why include them on an otherwise covers-only collection anyway? Unnecessary (even for fans), but its "curiosity" factor is strong.
Best cuts: "When the Levee Breaks," "Fiddle and the Drum," "Passive," "What's Going On," "Freedom of Choice," "Peace Love and Understanding"
brilliant 
2008-02-13 - More than just a cover album. APC puts its soul into every cover and comes out with amazing results. Two of my favorite songs aren't even typical rock songs: Fiddle and the Drum and Annihilation.
Ignore the naysayers
2007-08-16 - This album is musically amazing. I've heard a few people trash this album as being "socialist" or political or whatever. I don't think those people know what socialism is. Anyway, listen to the album for its own sake. I always take a little time in warming up to a new CD and this was no exception. After a few months of reflection, my only criticism would be the inclusion of the tapeworm song Passive. Otherwise, the song selections are stellar. The vocals are especially stunning on Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie and Let's Have a War. I am also impressed with the musicianship of the band, although I don't know who's doing what, I know Billy Howerdel is a great guitarist. Whoever produced and mixed the album knew what they were doing.
If you listen to this album and hear a message, don't trash it without thought. Why not do some reading and make an informed decision? Why is it that society has a habit of trashing people with messages of love? They killed Jesus, Kennedy, King, Lennon...if Maynard opens his mouth too much he'll be next.
None
2007-07-31 - Let me just say that this is a good record. I know a lot of people hate it because the only original song is Passive but they reworked the songs and they really made the songs their own the way Rage Against the Machine did with Renegades. What they did with some of the songs are truly amazing but the listener does need to be open minded. This record was also a way for the band, especially Manyard, to express political frustration. Sure there are songs that I don't like and I always skip but the ones I listen to are exceptional. My favorite is When the Levee Breaks and prefer it to the original.
