A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

A Perfect Circle is one of those bands that nobody realized was needed until it happened. A grand claim, perhaps, but there's little question that the addicting combination of Keenan's aching voice and Howerdel's accomplished songs and production skills made for one of 2000's best splashes in whatever was left of "modern rock." That the band had in its initial pre-debut album tours performed an audacious, entertaining medley of Ozzy Osbourne's "Diary of a Madman" and The Cure's "Lovesong" -- regularly matching one's words with the other's music and vice versa -- indicates where Mer De Noms ended up. Read More