# Perfect Circle

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 16, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872 "2003-09-16T02:30:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ping\_hop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@ping\_hop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ping_hop)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/1 "2003-09-16T02:30:13Z")

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What a load of crap, I hope tool doesn’t break up now. Floyd wanabe’s.

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**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/2 "2003-09-16T02:31:57Z")

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😕

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**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/3 "2003-09-16T02:33:04Z")

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I see your 😕, and raise you a :eek:.

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**Author:** ![ping\_hop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@ping\_hop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ping_hop)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/4 "2003-09-16T02:33:15Z")

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Just bought the cd, ripped off.

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**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/5 "2003-09-16T02:42:54Z")

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Damn…

I am listening to it right now. I have been listening to it non-stop for about 4 days now. This cd owns me right now. I really like it.

Oh well, to each his own. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/6 "2003-09-16T02:42:57Z")

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Ah.

Pie.

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**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/7 "2003-09-16T02:49:14Z")

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If Tool didn’t break up after the first album, why would they break up now?

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**Author:** ![emacularius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@emacularius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacularius)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/8 "2003-09-16T03:04:07Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Greathouse \*  
> I am listening to it right now. I have been listening to it non-stop for about 4 days now. This cd owns me right now. I really like it.  
> \*\*

Where the heck are you? It doesn’t get released here until tomorrow!!

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**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/9 "2003-09-16T03:16:56Z")

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> \*Originally posted by emacularius \*  
> \*\*Where the heck are you? It doesn’t get released here until tomorrow!! \*\*

I have every intention of buying it when it is released because I like it that much, but for now I am having to make due with a burned copy. I don’t know where the guy at work got it. His was burned to. Probablly downloaded from Kazza or something.

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**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/10 "2003-09-16T03:18:19Z")

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But, to answer your question, I am in Texas. Sorry, I should have included that in my last post.

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**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/11 "2003-09-16T03:48:44Z")

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Um, color me confused, but, shouldn’t this be in Cafe Society?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/12 "2003-09-16T03:53:54Z")

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Tool? Perfect Circle?

Can I assume we’re talking about a compass here?

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**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/13 "2003-09-16T04:55:40Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Smeghead \*  
> \*\*Tool? Perfect Circle?
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> Can I assume we’re talking about a compass here? \*\*

I say this with all sincerity: band names.

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/14 "2003-09-16T13:39:11Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by brianjedi \*  
> \*\*I say this with all sincerity: band names. \*\*

😃

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/15 "2003-09-16T19:02:58Z")

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Perhaps the OP would like to explain why he thinks Tool might now break up.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/16 "2003-09-16T19:19:56Z")

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gosh, i think Tool are floyd wannabes, I can imagine what I’d think about PC. :eek:

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/17 "2003-09-16T19:21:04Z")

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Wait. A Perfect Circle has a new CD out?

I have to go tell my brother.

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**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/18 "2003-09-16T19:52:09Z")

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Tool’s latest album was released just about one year after A Perfect Circle’s first album. So… yeah. If they didn’t break up before, why do it now?

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/19 "2003-09-16T23:55:13Z")

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I just picked it up on my lunch hour today and have given it a couple of good listen-throughs. Overall, I’m still in a bit of “meh” frame of mind on it. It could go either way at this point - I could start to love it or it could just drop off my listening list altogether.

Although “Pet” rocks.

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**Author:** ![ping\_hop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@ping\_hop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ping_hop)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-circle/201872/20 "2003-09-17T00:32:34Z")

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PET?

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