First Time Hearing A Perfect Circle - The Noose (Reaction!!)

[@poloreacts27]

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[@thegingermenace8593]

I think he might be talking about his own self and the heroin addiction he went through and his mother being the one who helped him get sober, but now she has passed. So maybe he's speaking of his own self? Just a thought... ❤ Thanks for all you do!

[@chelseaburrows366]

Oh Man you HAVE to listen to A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums. Even if you don't do a react, you have to listen to that one!

[@GMahtaki]

Reading the lyrics before hearing the song is such disrespect

[@redhats_exit1984]

​@@GMahtakicalm down 😂

[@thekimfilez]

This is actually my favorite song of all time. Still gets me every time. The haunting lyrics, the progression, the layering of verses... I'm excited to see what you think. My second favorite song of all time is Wings for Marie pt 2. ❤️😇

[@GobRogan]

You got some good ears on ya ❤

[@mebriner]

Yup, I can agree with everything said here…

[@nicdznutz9034]

Ditto Kimberly, this is one of my all time favorite albums. Its the only reason i clicked on this reaction video. I'm pleasantly surprised how much i'm enjoying watching someone else discover and enjoy it.

[@havoc6021]

This song is amazing I consider the whole album a masterpiece.

[@havoc6021]

I'm a massive metal fan but will admit one guilty pleasure fed by this song. I nearly always have to listen to Taylor swift and the civil wars after this 🤔

[@donrodztx]

The entire 13th step album is perfection.

[@Dilaudid281]

From start to finish, it is pretty damn perfect

[@NickConner]

One of my favorite albums

[@bloodbeats]

We need to go back to thematic albums.

[@grimdarkness2137]

​@@bloodbeatssome people still nake em but i agree. i miss how popular they were, so many amazing albums.

[@sean78745]

theres something about 13th step you cant put a finger on, the first time you hear it it might be just ok but when you hear it again its almost as if it has unlimited replayability, just the best album in 2 decades

[@seancook9747]

This is a criminally underrated song.

[@CyPhaSaRin]

how so, everyone here loves it and he started with it.. so again.. how so

[@thekimfilez]

@@CyPhaSaRin I don't know about "Everyone started with it" but I agree on it being underated because I don't see nearly as many reactions to The Noose as other APC songs. It sort of flys under the radar for some. I wish more people would react to it tbh.

[@gary2kr1]

"so glad to see you well" For such a throw away line during a casual conversation that line stings with condescending sarcasm every time I hear it. Outstanding writing once again MJK

[@edmilewski2907]

It's about the 12 step program for addicts and alcoholics. 12 steps, not 13. The 13th step is relapse. Kinda like 18 holes in golf. The 19th hole is the bar. Step 9 is making amends to all the people you've harmed in the past. But how can you make amends to the dead? As always, Maynard's lyrics are absolute genius.

[@trowabarton222]

Seeing this live when I was about 16 years old is still one of the most amazing moments of my life.

[@ajrob77]

Anyone who has survived a friend or family member who has, at least temporarily, overcome addiction feels this song in every fiber of their dna. “I’m glad your well… but you still destroyed a lot of people” This album explores EVERY aspect of addiction. Amazing considering Maynard has never struggled with addiction--however he has lost so many friends to it.

[@garconrouge9099]

I think the fact that the public is not aware of any struggles with addiction doesn't mean he hasn't had any. He goes to great lengths to keep as much of his life as private as possible in his position.

[@davidm6329]

I think it's a tough side of addiction that we don't talk about often. We generally either talk about the fully positive or fully negative side; either the person fixes themselves and is redeemed, or they spiral into toxicity and damnation. Sometimes there's no making things right. I personally believe addiction is an illness, and you blame the illness for the negative actions of the person rather than the person themselves, but I've never lost a kid to a drunk driver. So what, do we never allow a person to be truly redeemed? How do we and they live with the damage they did? These questions don't have easy answers.

[@falsedragon33]

I lost my brother to alcohol. We were camping. It was a Sunday, and he was 39. It was a shit show, to say the least. Adiction is a nasty beast. While the pain was unimaginable, there was oddly a sense of relief. It was finally over. I've always wondered for those who beat it, do you get the relief, without all that pain?

[@b.a.j5168]

I always thought of my bff to this song, she was the best, prettiest, funniest person in a room... we grew up in the oxy age and she never left, I will be turning 38 this year, and she is forever 33... miss her unimaginably!!!

[@cronaon317]

​@@falsedragon33 🫂 I am absolutely sorry for losing your brother. I hope you are recovering

[@yeaaahbuddy1991]

A perfect circle was a pivotal part of my late teens/early twenties. Alone, addicted, living in rural northern Michigan, eating shrooms while also trying not to lose my mind. All I listened to was A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, and The Doors. I don’t know if I’m any better for it, but it’s a part of me now.

[@karikeller9294]

I adore this song. Every time I hear I get ideas for a music video about a contract assassin who just finished a job and is driving away in the rain, and as the music builds, the ghost of everyone he took looms in the shadows out beyond the car lights. He finally makes it home and clutches his family tight, and it is implied that was his last job and now he is going clean.

[@chrisgooch4014]

Gravity by A Percent Circle is great as well. The 13th step is a masterpiece of a concept album.

[@brownandblessed333]

Always a favorite that song has lifted me in my most sunken times. Daily mantra: "I choose to live."

[@SuneTheMairn]

My absolute favourite song from this album

[@wardibald]

By and Down the River is also a great song of them. Atmospheric, dark and melodic, with Maynard's voice on the forefront and some amazing guitar riffs to top it off.

[@9milli320]

I know you did this a year or so ago but I found it today. I listen to many of your reactions(mostly Tool, some bball). I'm super glad you like this song. It's crazy how.life can change the way you perceive a song again. My youngest child(Son) died last February due to a drunk driving accident. He was in the back seat and ejected out of the car and died on impact. The young man driving the vehicle was his friend in the Navy and supposed to be the DD for the night. He was found to be over 2x the limit and of course, he's alive and not injured. There was a 2nd young man in the passenger seat who also lost his life that night/early morning. Amends?! How the hell can he ever make amends for this! I believe in justice, retribution, forgiveness, and punishment. Next month I'll go to CT for the sentencing hearing. He will only get a maximum of 8yrs total for the deaths of two young men. My son was 23yrs old and finally getting his life on track. Our justice system is very flawed and in need of real change. Anyway, you have the meaning of this song correct.

[@chriswebb7822]

Start at the beginning and do the whole album, it's perfection!!...It's absolutely written this way!!

[@Tylmorsea206]

Weak and Powerless is my favorite song by them by far! Should definitely give it a shot

[@raphaelmonteiro4833]

the transition between Weak and powerkess and The noose is amazing.

[@Jadedxx]

Mine too and followed by this song.

[@armaniquinnz4166]

The bass is intenseee

[@brandenoates]

Fun fact I found out about weak & powerless in 2002 on Napster that it was a collabo with Reznor and mjk called tapeworm project. Mjk owned the rights I suppose and put it on the epic 2nd lp from apc. Woohoo

[@doggoroni_]

The Package and Pet are also great - The Package is a slow build, but awesome track about being an addict. Whole album is awesome

[@hmpphoto]

Pet is pure genius. “Countin bodies like sheep to the rhythm of a war drum”….DAAAAMNNNN! 😲

[@danielschnapp6737]

The Outsider as well. This entire album is spectacular. Got it when it came out, I was in 5th or 6th grade. I got it for their single Weak and Powerless, which is a great song. But they're are 5 songs better than that on this album

[@CyPhaSaRin]

lol i just suggested exactly those, wtf bro :D

[@CyPhaSaRin]

@@hmpphoto you know thats a recycled line tho yeh? Pet's not the only one with it

[@hmpphoto]

Very well aware. Doesn’t negate the impact of the line though.

[@darlyngcepeda]

This one, The Package, Passive and Gravity are my favorites. ❤️

[@gerardomorales4078]

Gravity!!!

[@brandenoates]

Team gravity, blasting it so long in 03 not knowing in 23' so many others loved it, woohoo

[@fallguy6196]

I have perfect circle tattoos on my body even though tool is my favorite band. Just shows the impact a perfect circle has on me.

[@salacca2297]

Saw them live after this album dropped.

[@athannyx6815]

I always forget this song but then when I listen to it I sing along, knowing the lyrics so well and the beauty of it. It's gorgeous. It always feels like that gothic vibes song to me. I found beauty in something horrifying for it. I never entirely *got* this song. I'm trying to listen for this. But the feeling was always a sort of forlorn ghost melody which is what I loved about APC. I'm amused every one of those becomes your new favorite. On another note I always felt this was just about a bully. Never a particular bully. You know how you can have those popular bullies who always have solid images but in reality are shitty and... The axe forgets but the tree remembers. and it's like "You can't fix this anymore. Your perfect image is falling."

[@athannyx6815]

Add on here to make sure the likes are right. I do get this is not true to the album and that the lyrics are probably more clear. A lot of A Perfect circle for me is about the feeling first and meaning of the lyrics second. A lot of the songs I only got the meaning of the lyrics as an adult. What I feel this is about vs what it actually is is interesting.

[@chrisfrench9257]

@@athannyx6815 I listen to all music in this manner. If I focused too much on the meaning there are far too many I'd likely not listen to that I love. The sound, feeling... the raw emotional power of a song, that's where it is for me.

[@athannyx6815]

@@chrisfrench9257 It alternates with me and songs because singers matter so much, so I need to be able to hear the lyrics. But A Perfect Circle sometimes what the song actually means is secondary to the emotions conveyed. Whether it's anger, like Judith or Counting Bodies like Sheep, or feeling trapped like Rose or the playfulness of Magdalena (I always felt that song very mocking of the narrated perspective "I lost my self control, beyond compelled to throw this dollar..." and "I'd sell my soul, my self esteem, I don't want to pray outside."). Or the sense of drowning like Blue. But some songs are so much journey, the story conveyed, some are emotion, some are message and some can be all of that or none of that. Great thing about songs.

[@violetfemme411]

No matter how many times I hear this I get full blown chills every single time 💜

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

I'm seriously digging your insights into all things Maynard. Some reactors, yourself included, have really taken Tool/Puscifer/APC to heart and it's a delight to watch your awareness open like a flower. Around our house, we imagine this song is about Kissinger.

[@fishsticks8395]

This whole album is so good, their best in my opinion. Love your vids mate keep them coming 👍

[@michaelmiller5951]

So glad you are digging Perfect Circle and you just started with them and there is so many more songs you will love from them

[@thomasl.4482]

You’ll see with a perfect circle there’s songs like this one, breña, 3 libras, gravity, Orestes, etc that are just…they hit different. Love the band and glad you hit this one.

[@chadrat39]

APCs live concert in AZ 6/4/2000 on KZbin as well was one of most beautiful things I've ever seen.

[@insrtcowjoke]

For me - and it works different for everyone, really - this song resonates because I came from a highly abusive family; one so bad it led to some 'self-deletion'. Now, years later, some of these people are reformed and have found faith and religion. And they're proud of who they are now - and they should be. But hey, while I'm glad they're a better person now, it came a bit too late for a couple people, didn't it? I doubt they would find much comfort in what a good person you are now, having paid the ultimate price from who you were.

[@johnryder2878]

Definitely one of my absolute favorite APC tracks, Maynard's voice is so beautiful and almost ghostly, with some gorgeous guitar and under-spoken drums combining into pure musical bliss. The whole "13th Step" album is great and worth listening to in order, front to back.

[@RayMurberg]

Just soundwaves of beauty and perfection..

[@chriswebb7822]

This song Live at Red Rocks is amazing!!

[@adlwilliams]

My first serious GF introduced me to this album. Hearing any song from it brings me back 20 years. Now that i think of it, exactly 20 years. It was fall of 2004😮

[@thseed7]

My favorite A Perfect Circle song. Feel like you pretty much nailed your analysis. The bassline is the haunting part and it drives your emotions through the song. So unique

[@thombrady420]

One of the few songs that usually brings me to tears.

[@Mandonburphy]

My favorite APC song is passive, much enjoyment from the trio of music maynard partakes in

[@Elliot-k8f]

Everything that APC & TOOL create is Brilliant: musical genius Shining!

[@eriggle83]

This song makes me cry every time I hear it. This album is so amazing.

[@samuelzurisadaylycanlegions]

The live version is sublime

[@aaroncole3941]

The drum cadence through to the drop makes me wanna be a drummer

[@MitigateOurRuin]

Great song. Passive is my favorite APC song.

[@that_heretic]

Yea ... this one is on my every day playlist. Love it.

[@danwarzecho6901]

Yes. I've been waiting to see what you think about this song. It's my favorite perfect circle song

[@ZosoLU]

I just started listening to the album myself. And I haven't gotten past this song yet, it's so beautiful, meaningful, and as others have said haunting.

[@malhondize3898]

i read or heard that maynard said that he does not or can not tell a person what a song means to themselves. he said the songs he writes are for him, what we get out of them is for us to decide. that is why his other band is was named tool he wants listeners to use his music as a tool to discover and learn for themselves and get what they can from the art. maynard will tell you how he feels or what he thinks but his songs dont tell you what or how to feel. that is up to you. this is why i love his music

[@nicknick2903]

So long and thanks for all the fish is a great song By A Perfect Circle

[@michaelmontenegro8832]

I LOVE this album. I remember when the album came out and it was white, with a banana slug, it really tipped my understanding on how to be heavy and dark and not the cliche black. Sonically and artistically this white album as I like to call it has always inspired me in my work. Blue is a good one but also Gravity might be my fave for personal reasons

[@rnrweb1968]

The climax turned all the way up!! Heaven!! 🖤

[@michellefrank8116]

My first time hearing it too! Thanks!

[@louisbako8744]

Very simple lyrics but beautifully dubbed together at the end.

[@robplotnick]

Love you brother/sister who ever suggested this track to Polo. One of my favorites.

[@jeffhelton3364]

Always love how the producer makes the song really come alive at the 4:44 mark. And from that slight grin it appears Polo did too 😄

[@HauntedHemo13]

Passive by A Perfect Circle is one of my favorites along with this one

[@Muzikrazy213]

Just wanted to chime in that I found your top tier react channel because someone on an obviously contrived reaction vid name dropped you as one of the few reactors whose reactions he takes as genuine. He was right. Your insightful music appreciation just the icing on the cake🎂👌

[@mercychoke4475]

One of the BEST songs EVER, fr... 🌬🙏🇩🇪🙏🕊

[@joleanhaught6625]

❤ absolutely beautiful song , one of my favorites ❤ glad to see people enjoying Maynards music & becoming a fan !!

[@Rimkus23]

Was so glad to see you react on this song. As many of us here that’s one of my favorite song. To me it’s amazing and great the drums here are like a heart beating. This song is so deep. I saw them live for this album tour in Paris, and it was perfection. Sometimes you are disappointed when you hear some of your favorites songs or artists live. Here it was like ok that’s amazing all the feelings are here the same ones I had when I was listening the disc version in my home. Sorry for my English as I said I’m from Paris France, and I hope you understand the correct way what I tried to say here 😅😂 Great content, you got a new follower here ✌🏼💯

[@iisotter8944]

Josh Freese, is the drummer, one of the worlds most under rated drummers. He was the genius drummer behind Nine Inch Nails, and the Vandals, GNRs and on and on. I believe he is the front runner for The Foo Fighters, RIP Taylor Hawkins, as well.

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

This one of my favorite albums.

[@airjer5480]

Favorite. Excellent reaction🤘

[@StingrayMk1]

Thanks! By And Down The River

[@violetfemme411]

You're spot on with your interpretation of the lyrics 👏👍💜

[@lulupumpkinpoo6135]

Yes!!! I’m so glad you covered this song!!

[@danwarzecho6901]

Puscifer next bro. They have some really great songs and the harmonies between Maynard and Carine are incredible

[@CyPhaSaRin]

if he hasn't heard tool maybe don't scare him away with that garbage yet

[@SigRho1429]

Right in Two! Right in Two! Right in Two!

[@kingjames1308]

This song is as close to music perfection as I have ever heard... sincerely

[@freeheeler00]

I love this band. All their stuff is unique. The Eat the Elephant album blew me away a couple years ago.

[@watchitbendstudios3781]

This always gives me a parole hearing vibe, even though I've never been to a parole hearing.

[@scooterreacts1822]

Sooooooooo good!!..."Your halo slipping down" - to form a Noose!

[@michaelmcdermott209]

The Outsider is another song of theirs you should absolutely check out. 👊🏼

[@nathanyunker1295]

This and "Pet" are my two favorite APC songs. They are just so good.

[@numnumm6836]

I've been requesting this song to reactors for years, good to finally see someone finally reacting to it 😌

[@Grumpy76]

Orestes is one of the best perfect circle songs. Please listen

[@darlyngcepeda]

I think he already did.

[@Grumpy76]

@@darlyngcepeda damn really? Have to check

[@ericcarpenter4224]

My favorite APC song! I can listen to this one over and over again! I think this one came out around 2003 or 2004

[@davidzoller8246]

I'm glad u got to this song, one of the greatest rock songs out there,!! This iis easily my favorite from APC but 3 Libras is not far behind!! I highly suggest someday giving that masterpiece a spin!! I love the videos man, keep them coming 🤘

[@davemick7216]

Love this track. I enjoyed your reaction. My favorite A Perfect Circle song is Breña. I hope you get around to it. Cheers!

[@baconator1550]

I love drumming along to this one. So creative

[@yosshy4774]

Josh is a monster on the drums

[@baconator1550]

@@yosshy4774 he absolutely is.

[@zakariaott]

Definitely a reason why this album is called "thirteenth step"

[@christalkelley6382]

I love tool and a perfect circle and I really dig your reactions to it. It's obvious to me you are a passionate person so males sense you would dig this

[@Dan_J_Hoyt]

Been waiting for this one 🙌. Still not sure how we haven’t got Tool Schism yet 🥺

[@SuneTheMairn]

The entire album is about getting over addiction. Which is why the album is the 13th step. The extra what ever it is after the 12th step

[@perlaintveen]

This song is amazing, my favourite from this album

[@tnightwolf]

It is an incredible song!

[@architectoverlord]

This song leads directly into Blue. What a fantastic pair of tracks. Darrrrrrrk, but fantastic.

[@Chris_Bro_aka_MR_PLAT1NEM]

This song was soooooo ridiculous live in New Orleans over 15 years ago now

[@51page]

One of my favorites from APC

[@redhats_exit1984]

Love your reactions! Yours are my favorite. Not because of making faces or the stuff you joke about. It's just I'm so passionate about music and I LOVE sharing music and hearing peoples ideas about an art form I also appreciate. I listen to almost every genre. The thing about MJKs music, is it is not something imo, and I speak to all three of his bands, you can't pin it down to one genre. If you think about it, most songs are like that. These bands just really offer unique, profound lyrics that so many people can relate to. I love the lyrics, the instrumentals, the way he uses his voice, just everything. I can't decide if I like Tool or APC better! 😂 Puscifer rocks as well.

[@bigdaddypiggy]

This is 1 of those songs where I’d heard it but I hadn’t really HEARD it yet ya know? & when I figured out the lyrics & so forth I was just 🤯such a great song 🖤🥶

[@mikeross8180]

The doomed!!!!! By a perfect circle PLEASE!!! You're definitely my favorite reactor

[@channel5o7]

This track is the inspiration behind a graphic novella I wrote. One amazing track

[@ashleyhaines7938]

Your lyrical interpretation is spot on! Love watching your videos, and that you’re in Ohio guy not far from me!

[@helenhoward5346]

It's like he's dragging us like a heavy sack then throwing off an abyss of intense synesthesia. 13th step was my first album purchase in 2003 when I was 13. It has a VERY sentimental place in my heart, my soul. Particularly this song... Agggh the build up and climax of this song, it's just TOO MUCH BLISS.

[@Lokbatch]

Havent even started the song yet, but this is my favorite A Perfect Circle song! When the drums come in.. Holy shit, eargasm haha! Intantly clicking like on this video!

[@reckoninginc.]

Best way to describe this album is just one word...... Atmospheric

[@Zach-cn4lb]

Just an idea: if you want to react to a song by APC and it has a live version from their Stone and Echo show, watch that instead. That concert is their best work, period.

[@Jackd-lz2hn]

Whole album about addiction. Start to finish. End was recovery. Good now but one day at a time

[@robertdefazio9533]

Epic album

[@flyinganchovy5267]

yep. you're deep in that rabbit hole now. nice!

[@CAMBOD23]

Do in this moment into the light live!!!!

[@ovtheabyss84]

These lyrics are really hitting me lately. They can be applied to personal issues and global. I’m feeling them globally. Socially. Very dark place.

[@chrisklema9992]

incredibly simple instrumental with lyrics that sting. That album has a song "PET" thats also a good listen.