A Perfect Circle - Magdalena (live)

[PenguinInDesert1]

there's so much special bout this band...love this song

[sniperblob]

so pure so rare

[RedSkyBlues]

bass riff: h a u n t i n g

[Blowyourtop]

I would have sold my soul to be there. Words cannot express how wonderful this is.

[zakktothefuture]

maynard is magdalena that we are throwing our dollar bills at. gladly.

[lcj1219]

i think of it "one dollar at a time",as blowing his money on her...showering her with gifts.....anything she wants... <3

[drewfilms123]

FREAKING ADDICTIVE SONG!!!!!!!!!

[TheBethany1991]

Yes! It's about a stripper. "I'd sell myself...my soul...a dollar at a tine..." Still a great song!

[WATCHandSUBSCRIBE]

beautiful



[x4aperfecttool]

i swear this shit let me thumbs up like 20 different times in the past year or so..

[EddyxAC]

"Beyond compelled to throw this dollar down before your

Holiest of altars"

I think is a striper no a hokker

[donutmaster]

I decided long ago that if I ever became a stripper my stage name would be Magdalena because of this song.

[sexylittleangel777]

sounds just like the studio version :)

he is so sexual

[Veineater7]

sounds good...makes me think, whatever happened to Pulse Ultra?

[silvrr0xy]

Got tickets to the Arizona show! Yessssss

[dellinger1000]

nice quality nice show 

[psychoXdown]

enjoy the damn song...stop trying to read more into it than there is...

[revelwoodie]

There's always 8 idiots.

[academicroach]

@revelwoodie you might say that they are 8 ers :3

[blastoid22]

@revelwoodie

navigating life is impossible without running into them idiots, doesn't dilute the awesomeness of this.

[angelwings1019]

Throw the dollar away children, Lust is crap compared to romance. I love this man.

[myrabrousard]

The Black Madonna was concidered the holiest relic by ancient christian warriors starting back with the knights templar and all of the tribes that came after. The fact that she was not pure was concidered holy to them as many of them believed that the blood line of Jesus was carried down by Mary Magdelene.

[bigwaves81]

This is actually me favorite APC song. Maynard is one ugly mother fucker but he sure can sing. I don't miss APC. Tool is way better of a show in my opinion.

[WarmothGuitarist]

This is the genius of MJK. His lyrics open so many doors as to what they may or may not be about.

He could be singing about tying his shoes, and we'd all think it's metaphorical for something else.

Ya gotta love it when a person can command that much debate with a single phrase.

[java8]

No words to describe. Maynard is a fucking legend.

[toothANDclaw13]

this song is soaked in evil...

[BriannaRae1102]

@toothANDclaw13 evil and sexy....

[toothANDclaw13]

@BriannaRae1102 yes, i forgot that...

[precccciousssss]

Just fucking awesome is what this is...

[Taurrus]

goddamn mean song

[jestik101]

get a room of frinds put on a kids cartoon with just the sound play it over, than get every ones opinion on the concept of the storey as they will be different. watch it than you will find that everyones ideas generally revolve around the same concept although slightly different the idea the narrater projected to the listeners was percieved, than enhanced through vision.consider maynards lyrics as the sound and life as the vision. think outside the box.

[algoAzrael]

id sell my soul and my self esteem one dollar at a time. for one chance one kiss one taste of you... hello hawt.

[thegrungewave]

i think it's safe 2 call this band progressive rock.

[axellness]

I hate how this is my favorite song by them and it's the same name as my most recent ex.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[shaft478]

maynard steps into tool and does the lyrical thing after the other 3 guys write the music. i don't believe we're waiting on maynard. the great thing about tool is the longer we wait the better the album will be i believe. if anyone went to see them live this past summer you heard a few bits of new music.

[hemispheres3]

Tool fan here but a perfect circle is missed in the genre of what I consider art-gothic-metal utopia! It's really self absorbent because you can't just spin out records of the calibur of APC or tool, that kind of art is not done overnight but still I wait impatientely.

[777biggs]

while this song is widely excepted aa song about a hooker ppl forget that ur saposed 2 take ur own meaning from the song i personly relate this song 2 my drug habbit i costantly dish out $ swallowing pride 4 a fix hell i even named my pipe magdalina but my point is that music is saposed 2 be persanol

[nubcakefool]

It's amazing how a band like APC can translate emotions into sound so well. Feel like this song perfectly expresses how I've felt when I have had an overwhelming craving for someone else, particularly someone 'bad' for me.

[Thed00rs35]

NOOO MAKE TOOLS NEW ALBUM FIRST PLEASEE!!!!!!

[bootscrapper]

strippers hookers, whatever. you can bend it to mean about anythign you want as far as a male or female you'd give all for. think broader.

[meagainok]

I used to love this song when it first came out. Guess I've grown up a little since then. Witchie-poo shit doesn't interest me now. Grow up Maynard and start worshiping something that is real...start with yourself perhaps! I aint into god either so this aint about religion.

[HeuristicThought]

i really cannot believe maynards voice on this song. its surreal. I think a lot of people dont know how hard this song would be

[HeuristicThought]

i really cannot believe maynards voice on this song. its surreal

[2hbladytron]

great howerdel's solo

[QueenBeeJulie]

one of the best apc songs ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm soooo impressed, his voice, absolutly crazy and fascinating...

[kiricomic01]

音イイネ！これだけスゴイボーカリスト、ひさびさに聴いた。

[mdangr66]

its about a stripper

[inconceivabledark]

dont think ill eva get tired of watching this

[vandervolldamm]

the best band

[ross011101]

Ah, i should have made myself clearer. I actually meant the live version

[ross011101]

Can someone help me out? loved this song ever since it 1st came out on metal hammer years ago but i cant seem to find an album with this? is there one? HELP :D

[Mertdizzle15]

@ross011101 It's called "Mer De Noms" and it should be available at your local cd store. They are a famous band. Try googling Mer De Noms album cover and it should come up so you know what you're looking for.

[DRUMKIND]

what a base drum¡¡¡¡

[tonyAJ420]

When was this show?  Must've been sometime on the Mer de Noms tour

[kidkage]

Billy Howerdel is the fucking man. Underrated. Probably the greatest musician to emerge in the new millennium. He makes a single note sound so fucking huge.

[schism206]

@kidkage he knows how to play lead, not in the flashy "look how fast I am" way, but in the, "hey lets play something that sounds great" way, regardless of difficulty. his music is just awesome, and I love his songwriting and guitar sound. truly unique, and having maynard sing on most of his APC stuff is pretty nice in itself :)

[sensai696]

You don't pay a hooker one dollar at a time but you do pay a stripper a dollar at a time at "the Holiest of alters."

[Mafanca]

a todo cachete

[MissHarmonyMoon]

Good shit but I hate the guitarist.He looks like a fruit with the shaved head and tight shirts.

[WoodRatGirl]

@MissHarmonyMoon

He'd probably think you're not all that much and a bag of chips either, love. ;-)

[CynicalSolo23]

@MissHarmonyMoon Because Yngwie with his tight black shiny leather pants, puffy shirts, excessive jewelry and hair more teased than Farah Fawcett's is clearly pure machismo? ; ) Ahh just razzin ya, but we both know that half the musicians from the 80s looked more like women than the ones they slept with on the road. "Dude Looks like a Lady" was Steven Tyler making fun of Motley Crue for just that, lol.

[420Guitar420]

One of their best songs. You know a band's good when they sound better than their album live. The last minute of this song is sex.

[jakedelgrande]

holy fucking shit i did not know mangerd and the guy from qosta was in a band its sooo fuckin good!!!

[Grafkores]

very good version... i do have a cover for the live version of this :P check it out

[countmanosalva]

Amazing song!!!

[milinhamanguitax]

perfect!!!

adoro essa musica

fantastica

eu entro em extase!!!!!!!!!!!!

[getbonus]

so pure, so rare

[soldemetal]

super banda, una de sus mejores rolas, yeeeaaah!! \m/ °~° \m/

[linkinmylog]

magdalena=mary magdalene=Prostitute?

[JasdelMal]

yup. Magdalena is spanish for Magdalene

[wolf1985l]

a masterpiece

[Progressification]

WELL I THINK it means he's talking about how he's laughing his ass off at all you dumb asses trying to interpret lyrics like they're some subliminal message from God.

[Quepedoporquenoentra]

I agree, LOL!

[youwillbowtome]

guys its obviously about a hooker, 'id sell my soul, my self esteem, one dollar at a time.... black madonna etc '

getting with a prostitue costs dollars and your own pride, ergo self esteem.

mary magdelene , jesus' girlfriend was said to be a prostitute too, hence the name magdelena as an analogy.

it doesnt have to be about maynard wanting a hooker either, people always think that just because a lyric contains the word 'I' it means theyre talking about themself, its just a cool topic.

[Blade3327]

I'd say it's more abotu a stripper than a hooker. The "dollar at a time" thing fits more.

Plus, the inner-cover art of the album shows a stripper. Hookers don't really have altars, either.

[zzsharka]

@youwillbowtome haha yeah it's not like he'd need to pay for it !

[christiannandres]

@youwillbowtome i dedicated this song to a girlfriend i had cause she was just sex for me, not cause i was an as...h.le but because she had nothing good to give to our relationship,she was cold,careless and boring but still i wanted her somehow someway

[splepoffiern]

@youwillbowtome

No... it's about Heroin.

[rawlc1114]

@youwillbowtome she wasnt his girlfriend dude. she was a follower. stop reading the da vinci code haha

[soulismissing]

@youwillbowtome  a stripper to be precise....its pretty fucking simple if YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THE SONG...

[northweststar1001]

@youwillbowtome Mary Magdalene was never referred to as a prostitute in the bible she was filled with evil spirits - that's it... it's the church that has twisted the truth about her and turned her a troubled woman into a whore

[hiyabuddy69]

@youwillbowtome oh man, i'm sorry to tell you this but you are not quite right and are missing the bigger

[kennman007]

@youwillbowtome Isn't it more important to be true to how the music makes you feel instead of analyzing the whole thing? The reason I listen to music is for my interpretation of it, how it makes me feel. It helps me get through what I'm going through. When you've picked apart a song to such an extent, it takes away the authenticity in a sense. It's original purpose of self-reflection. It's not crime scene investigation.

[NearbyHermit]

@youwillbowtome I believe you are right, but it doesn't need a message !

"I" believe it has a soul and it speaks for itself :)

[guitarshark22]

@youwillbowtome its not obviously about anything maynards songs arnt "obviously" about anything hey have many meaning and are just pure amazing

[imballn247]

@youwillbowtome I actually thought it was about a stripper...regardless, it is talking about some form of a lady of the night.

[BestCommonViewpoint]

@youwillbowtome He could just as easily be talking about any performer, worshiping their alter, their connection to pure spirit, and selling that spectacle to make a living. Question every word, every phrase, as they are all conscious choices. Musicians and artists are prostitutes, too.

[murphy1457]

@youwillbowtome Ever consider the song is about a guy falling in love with a stripper. I don't think you throw dollar bills down before a hooker's holiest of altars, you'd pay her in full.

[murphy1457]

@youwillbowtome Ever consider the song is about a guy falling in love with a stripper. I don't think you throw dollar bills down before a hooker's holiest of altars, you'd pay her in full. He hasn't been with the woman he is idolizing, it's fairly obvious he dreams about getting his way with her but is not allowed.

[MissPatchez]

@murphy1457 I like your brain.

[drumrnva]

@youwillbowtome Not to be pedantic, but the notion that Magdalene is not supported by scripture, at least not in the strict sense. She was said to be a repentant woman, and she had had seven devils cast out of her. The prostitute meme is just something which people have come up with over the centuries. It could be seen as a dismissive vision of her, because she actually seems to have been a progressive-thinking character. One theory is that she was in fact Jesus' girlfriend as you say....

[dantedraco]

@youwillbowtome My thinking was close to yours. Though "throwing a dollar at a time" reminds me more of a Stripper, because you are literaly spending one dollar at a time when they are dancing. And "witness" and "moving" sounds like your watching someone dancing to me. Though I am not picking on your theory, both of ours are very close in nature. Make me wonder if we are onto something ;)

[desecrator1000]

@youwillbowtome I think a little more broad. He is using the hooker as an analogy for anything one could want, and the extremes some go to in an attempt to acquire it.

In the dvd commentary of the music videos, aMOTION, Maynard says any of the songs he's made could be written off as a song about sex or jacking off, if you just look at the words instead of what he's really saying.

[grinbv]

@youwillbowtome

I think of it more as a stripper. Hence one dollar AT A TIME.

[PhoenixXZY]

@grinbv I don't. only because stripping isn't nearly as degrading a prostitution.

[schism206]

@grinbv that's what i think too, that line pretty much says it right there. plus the "one taste one kiss", if he just paid the hooker, then he can have all that, no problem.

[BGuss]

Please "A Perfect Circle", Please! MAKE ANOTHER ALBUM! Sorry, I love Tool and all, but I love A perfect circle 10x's more!

[simognr]

@BGuss they're back. check twitter/aperfectcircle

[2323jgrant]

@BGuss Now that they are back together.. for the time being... Maynard and Billy were on the radio today and they were talking about releasing more songs.. but probably in Singles mostly.

[KesORhaN]

@BGuss You got your wish!!!!!

[davism4a1]

@BGuss hey maynard, lay of the puscifer for a while, and where is this 2010 tool album? and oh yeah would be kickass if APC toured near my tristate area like in caine's ballroom or sumthin, alot to ask i know

[Zore16]

@BGuss i agree so much .... i wish the would do a full tour again

[fander12]

@BGuss That is bullshit, how do you even dare say that!

[BGuss]

@BGuss Sorry, just my opinion...

[azsunlovin]

Look into the Rennes-Le-Chateau. It should make sense then.

[przm28]

this has always been a conversation to babalon for me

[theserf]

I see the possible allusion to the Virgin Mary, but I've always seen it as another very literal interpretation. Sounds like a strip club to me. Moving temple - dancing body. Beyond compelled to throw this dollar down ... That's just a thought. I've never heard any interview or anything stating a definite meaning.

[fabionildo]

maynard is one of the best singers I ever heard..

his voice live sounds a lot like the album version.. sometimes even better@@!!

[Nebelkatze6]

A great song,oneofmy all time favorites ;)

[epiphysis]

I inerpret the "holiest of altars" as the vagina dude.... He's talking about Mary as she is turned into a "whore" or whatever. selling his soul for his piece of ass, a dollar at a time.

It's a pretty literal song.

[fahQaszholez]

weak if you're talking about the guitar solo, but how about the lead singer? the drums? rythym was dope too

[MEAT111111]

Great song!!!

[nsr180]

brilliantly written lyrics and music woo

[f4milyguycky27]

"Black Madonna" is not about Mary Magdalen. Its about the virgin Mary. The black Madonna is a statue in a Catholic monastery on one of the highest mountains in France. Famous figures such as Ignatius have prayed over night there..

Holiest of alters? Sell my self esteem? Its obviously about churches/money.

The whole stripper thought is another Tool thing. Its the interpretation that the literal get, much like almost all Tool songs- yet it has a deeper meaning

[ZShort1985]

Diffrent things are interpreted different ways. Interpretation is subjective, so I say just let folks take it however they want. Cuz the world don't march to the beat of just one drum, you know. What might be right for you, may not be right for some.

Just sayin', bro!

[fahQaszholez]

it's a lust song, the moving temple/holiest of alters is a womans body, he's using metaphor to describe a girl he digs calling her mary magdelene, he would sell his soul to kiss her that's how f*ckin bad he wants her

[drhbettathanu]

the songs about drug addiction are all on "Thirteenth Step". but idk i could be about drugs but a stripper just seems like a better fit imo

[eddiejones3rd]

maynard wrote the lyrics on a napkin when he was in a strip club

[dingwolf99]

He also calls her black madonna. Another reference to Mary Magdelene from the bible. It's all metaphor, of course, and perfect lyricism.

[7beres]

the name perfect circle apparently derived from the female`s annatomy down there in the nether regions, good eh !!!!!! DEGSIE!xxx

[ginamari]

lol ~ never heard that, but ya know what? Billy Howerdel's logo for the ASHES dIVIDE CD is unmistakably yoni shaped!

[ginamari]

...anyway , I thought the name APC came frpm the line in "Orestes"?

[oiramerz]

He's talking about a stripper. "I'm compelled to throw this dollar down..."

[ragecord]

i think its mary "magdalen"e" in the bible, pronounced differently but by the singers other lyrics it could be just word play. either way this song kicks ass.

[velvetvicenza]

this music makes me a lil crazy in the head ;P

[WCWDOA]

SOLID SOUND!

[richdanks]

billy howerdell is also amazing on guitar

[richdanks]

you guys are all retards. if you read luke in the bible it talks about a woman named mary magdalena who was a prostitue that jesus forgave who was one of jesus followers who was said to have been the first person to have seen him after the reserection shes the one sitting next to him in the last supper. im sure the song has something to do with that. could be comparing a real life stripper to magdelena. idk this song could be about his cat.

[asthesunsleeps]

XD The guy's got a point. Their music (Although not religious) touches on many evanglical topics

[MisterLTAV]

I like the cat idea. Very deep... :P

Great Song. I love the middle solo bit with the floor toms. Major head banging session.

[richdanks]

yeah billy howerdells great

[owiseone1]

only dopes use dope...im a dope

[theedgeinshow]

i'm with you brother

[Onedarknight]

Its a bad mix. Maynard did amazing...as usual... :D

[push1n420]

go dl this whole concert... follow the link Nitro hooked us up with... APC ftw!!!

[push1n420]

omg! seein Maynard do this live gives me a hard on LOL

[libraeG]

fuckin phenomenal sound quality - this is what a live performance should sound like. i wonder where this is. it reminds me of when i saw isis at el corazon in seattle

[dbeyrle]

Your ratio is terrible.. and there are only 3 seeds for being downloaded almost a thousand times. Not your fault. But damn I hate hit-n-runners.

[xxxdarkmexxx]

Billy Howerdel looks fine in this, and is it me or is Maynard's pants tenting bigger than a boy scouts convention?

[colonrape]

you're fucking sick!!!

[xxxdarkmexxx]

yeah, i know!

[colonrape]

so are you a fag or what?

[xxxdarkmexxx]

er, no i'm female!

[colonrape]

that's good I was wondering why the heck you were talking about Maynard's dick

[xxxdarkmexxx]

ahahaha, it's my perogative as a female to talk about Maynard's dick:D

[darkmoon532]

Amazing song. Kind of weird though :D

[Rgudge]

awesome song, about a hooker MJK knew he couldnt take home..truly fuckin amazing MJK is.

[linkenski]

Yup. Or i actually think it was a stripper he saw. But none the less, the song is so awesome. The instruments, vocals and lyrics!

[colonrape]

so what's your favorite faith no more album mine by far is angel dust

[xxxdarkmexxx]

introduce yourself, cos it was the first fnm album i ever bought.

[colonrape]

wow shows how much I new about the band I thought the real thing was their first now I feel like an asshole

[xxxdarkmexxx]

their first one was we care alot, and i only know that 'cos i googled it. anyway i got introduce yourself after the other ones came out.

[colonrape]

well that and calling you a fag I feel like a real asshole LOL

[xxxdarkmexxx]

no worries;D

[mistercrane]

paz.... ,my truly love

[SapereRisin]

billy howerdel is so cool

[lxyzeroomer]

A favorite song of mine!!!

[dodelidoe]

APC is a fucking great band. I'm more into this one than TOOL.

[dorokto]

apc is very different from tool and tool has much better drummer.

[bobbydee30g]

yeah true but Josh Freese is a pretty good drummer in his own right though. Besides Apc, Tool those are two different vibe. I like A Perfect Circles more refined sound and the way they use instrumentals.

[n8salem]

whats his name? he mooned you? i cant believe it.. i hope he appreciates hoe good he is and how much we love the MUSIC.. dont really care bout him.. im just a tool

[Sauroth]

I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails in 2000 in Vancouver and had heard judith often on the radio. It was an ok song. When they started playing it was pretty weak, then they fixed whatever was wrong with the audio, and blew I had never heard a band play so well live. I bought the album possibly there at the concert also not sure might have only bought a t-shirt. Maynard mooned us all during the concert.

[420Guitar420]

Best song ever.

[pushtheclown]

i bet the concerts are amazing..

[bredding1203]

Does anyone know how i can get an invitation code to download this show from demonoid? It would be much appreciated.

[Nitro20101]

Check your PM. :)

[melopsicodelia]

been original doesn`t mean to be againts everything that`s just globalizacion... if someone say tool or a perfect circle is convencional doesn`t know anything about music... mr bungle and faith no more they are awesome but tool convencional, hahaha! that`s toooo stupid...

[bredding1203]

Thanks bud!! I went to download the show but it wont work! Any tips for me?

[ccctripodccc]

I jist thought they run their sound through a synthesizer and manually changed the frequencies to their needs. I do that for original sound and its not even that hard. Is there any other band (besides tool, Smashing Pumpkins) that is as original sounding as this one? Please let me know.

[hokagemunuku]

okay all of u just shut up with the fruity loops audio-video hullabaloo and enjoy the freaking song! that's unless u r looking to have APC employ u as their sound technician! lol

[ccctripodccc]

it goes deeper than that,

It's music for musicians not just

listeners.

[charlysays04]

I love tool but if you listen to Rush and King Crimson it's not really that original.. And i read that Howardel uses an axe fx proccessing rack..

[ToOlOGT22]

rush sucks, king Crimson is awsome, but TOOL beats them all and they are completly original