You don't have to be a big A Perfect Circle fan like yours truly to appreciate their devastating rendition of John Lennon's Imagine, recorded for their "protest album" eMotive.
It's one of those songs everyone's heard a thousand times, so to successfully transform every bit of hope, happiness and desire for a better future into a dirge of despair and darkness is no little feat. It's almost as if the original never happened.
A Perfect Circle took a naive, one-dimensional, patchouli stinking hippie wishlist and turned it on its head in an ominous death blues evoking images of jumbo jets crashing into skyscrapers in slow motion from ten different angles on prime time TV and row after row of American soldiers shipped home in flag-draped coffins.
(mp3) John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
(mp3) A Perfect Circle - Imagine (2004)
2 comments:
Always loved the hell out of this version. Great video too.
Yeah, I'm in agreement about the song. That whole album is amazingly powerfully constructed. I used to play it whenever I was remembering that GWB was president. :þ We are cured, at last!
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