"The Noose" from this album is just otherworldly. Arguably the best on an incredible album.

Maynard said in a acoustic session explaining this song “I had a friend who had some chemical problems. i ended up meeting his brother and his brother was so out of touch with what he was going through....so this song is kinda sung through the perspective of the brother who doesn't understand what his loved one is going through and in a way has no compassion for what he is going through...this song is called the outsider because that brother is standing on the outside of a understanding and doesn't get it. this song is from the perspective of someone who is ignorant and doesn't have the time or patience to understand what their loved one is going through." Very VERY good call on analysis.

"The Package" has the most monstrous bass hook on the album. If you like bass, the first track is your best bet.

This album's filthy af. Pure fire start to finish. The Package, Weak and Powerless, The Noose, Pet, Gravity all just brilliant tracks. Y'all really should dive more into APC!

"Weak and Powerless" is my favorite from the Thirteenth Step album...but, "The Outsider" is fantastic. This is just an all-star album.

Would love to see you guys react to "Pet" from the same album. Killer tune.

The final lyrics have always hit me the hardest. "If you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere, do it somewhere far away from here" where it seems like he is basically walking away from the situation and that person out of sheer frustration with their mindset.

There is not a bad song on this Album. My favorite is “Pet” then sliding into “lullaby “. Please give these a listen!

This album dropped in a extremely turbulent time in my life, addiction had me and my friends in its grasp. This album is 100% about addiction, and when i listen back to it, it brings me to a painful part of my life, lost friends, terrible life choices and a dark path i was on. Luckily i am 10+ years clean.

I won´t get tired of asking... ORESTES please! It is a master piece!

That last "Over Thiiiiiis!" is such a perfect, genuine catharsis. It's such a guttural, throat-y kind of yell. Basically a loud growl. True emotion. This song rips!

This whole album is fire! It’s A Perfect Circle’s crowning achievement. It’s like Alice In Chains Dirt. React to the whole thing!

APC Gravity is such a masterpiece especially if you want more bass

"The Noose" from this album is absolutely amazing too! Great review.

Oh, I cannot WAIT for their reaction to The Package by A Perfect Circle. If they went crazy over this one, especially for the bass guitar groove, they're going to lose it while hearing that one.

"Passive"is also a great track,one of my personal favs,and was featured in the Constantine film

"Pet" would be a great one to react to! Surprisingly straightforward too for Mayanards standards.

“Should you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere. Do it somewhere far away from here” So many emotions written into such few lines

This entire album is phenomenal. Weak and powerless, a stranger, the noose, blue, pet... just great, great stuff.

That intro bass line is HYPNOTIC!!

Once the Tool microchip is implanted through Maynard's voice, everything he gets involved with becomes tasteful. Good review guys!

This album is a masterpiece

Fun fact, Jordie White was also known as Twiggy Ramirez. He was in Marilyn Manson as their bassest for many years. 🤘🏽😁 Super talented guy

You guys have the best reaction videos out there. When the song is so amazing that all you can do is laugh about it, it’s clear that you just LOVE music and what it does to you. I can relate to that a lot. George frequently picks out the parts of songs that I love most. You guys have great ears and musical hearts and I love it. Thanks for these videos. This album is incredible.

The love y'all have for this one gave me a MUCH NEEDED smile on my face today. Thank you guys. ♡

I love watching the stank face you both get when the music is good. You all are awesome. Try Puscifer The Humbling River and The Remedy!

"Brena" from Mer De Noms has to be my favorite bass line of all time. So powerful right from the beginning of the song.

"The Package" will definitely blow your minds. So original.

this entire album is amazing. The album deals with addiction, with perspectives from the addict, the loved ones, and the drugs themselves, and the trauma that causes addiction. It is so beautiful.

You guys straight jizzing about that bass is the best thing Ive seen in awhile! LOL ----and btw, You guys would absolutely love the video for this song as well.

“We were snoring on A Perfect Circle!” Classic as always gents

As a bassist myself and someone who LOVES and respects the bass in many ways, I loved that he stood up and walked away. APC is awesome

Jeordie White was also the bassist for Marilyn Manson on "The Beautiful People" (under the pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez). This was also his first album with a perfect circle. Between Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step, Jeordie replaced Paz Lenchantin on bass and James Iha (of the Smashing Pumpkins) replaced Troy Van Leeuwen on second guitar.

Such a great song. Billy Howerdel is such a great musician

Josh Freese is one of the most talented and GROOOOOVY studio drummers out there. His work with A Perfect Circle totally shows how he learns his way around a song to add in so many juicy subtle details.

One of the finest bands I ever saw. 2004 in Manchester at the Apollo. The live version of ‘The Nurse Who Loved Me’ was unreal. Gents, it rarely gets better than this.

Thirteenth Step is an absolute masterpiece. Hope to hear you guys react to more APC! Pet, Gravity, and The Noose are a few other standouts but it really is an album that's best to experience start to finish.

George's face 12:28 priceless. Always love to see them get so pumped for great music 🤘

I’ve loved this song for years, but never appreciated the bass till this reaction. Thanks fellas!

It's the arrangement, imo. Such excellent musicianship; but the arrangement brings it all together! Love this band, thank you for checking them out!

I've even watching you guys for the past 3 years now, and as a prog metal guy, it's been amazing to watch your journey from being unfamiliar with things, to being able to pick up time signature changes and syncopation. It's been a joy watching you guys learn and appreciate the things I love about the genre.

The Outsider isn't the person being sung about, the person isolating themselves. Its the narrator passing judgment without the slightest clue how they'd feel in that person's shoes. Treating a loved one like they're garbage when they need you the most. That's straight from Maynard on the aMOTION DVD.

I had this cd in my car for 2 years straight in high school. An all-time great album for me personally. Listen to the package.

From what I understand, a big inspiration for this song/ album was Maynard’s friendship and life/ addiction of the original lead singer of Alice In Chains, Lane Staley.

Breña is a beautiful song ! Maynard is just perfect in this album !

My brother dealt with addiction, depression and suicidal urges for a long time and we always tried to help him through it. A couple months ago he killed himself. My entire life he was my best friend and I am so angry he chose to leave us the way he did. So yeah, this song hits really deep now listening to it. Because I know for the rest of my life I'll never fully understand why he did it, and that it will never stop hurting.

I love how you guys describe the music. I've listened to this band for years, and you've opened my eyes & ears by how you dive into the intricacies of the song. Respect!

Definitely one of my top APC tracks. I was smiling ear to ear the entire time watching your reactions!

This song is excellent. Give “Blue” a listen form the same album.

This is my favorite album from them. Every song is great. I’m particularly fond of Weak and Powerless.

I love how y'all are loving it so much you back it up to the beginning over and over!! This song is well worth backing it up to the very beginning!! I'm here for every second of it!

The live version on Leno’s late show was way better than the album version. Sounds like what y’all may be playing. Maynard is a vocal force no matter what band he’s fronting. Love you guys!! ❤️

I'm a massive death metal fan, but this song is a go to in the gym, especially towards the end when Maynard gets louder and louder. When he screams "Do it somewhere FAR AWAY FROM HERE" that works better than any steroid ever could.

Cool reation guys... If you decide to do more A Perfect Circle, the song - Orestes (live) is amazing!

Perhaps the best reaction video on KZfaq. I’ve watched this maybe six or seven times. So authentic, so much personality and so much joy. And such a joy to see others enjoy this masterpiece. 🥰

I get goosebumps watching people discover new music they absolutely love. And your reactions are always great! Much love to you all!

You guys are so far the “goats” of reaction videos to me. Love this band… love hearing your take on all you hear. The best part is how you actually make me focus on things I might not have caught in songs I actually already love. It’s almost like you make the songs new for me once again. Great stuff guys!

Also, the live version of this from Echo and Stone is incredible. Some other favorites from APC are Orestes (Echo and Stone version of this song is also unbelievable), So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, The Hollow, and Pet.

You guys nailed it. Best reaction I’ve seen and it all felt real. Thanks guys

From this same album “Weak and powerless” is just amazing. Definitely recommend it, I personally like it better than Judith

this whole album is an epic gem, please do an APC marithon. Try their songs gravity, the package, the rose, orestus, imagine, when the levy breaks, magdelina.

You guys are NASTY!!! Love your reactions. Greetings from a new subscriber from Denmark.

Hahaha great reaction / review as always! I love when you get all worked up about when something is really great sounding!

That whole album is a masterpiece. Mer de Noms is good but this is so damn fine you should have a licence to listen to it!

I love this song. Probably my favorite track off a near perfect album. Please do some more APC reactions in the near future. You've barely scratched the surface of what this band can do.

I love how even after 3 playbacks you still react so brilliantly. Been loving these vids. 🖤

The Package might the best album opener I’ve ever heard but The Noose…*chefs kiss*

Probably the greatest guitar break I've ever heard. It's been on my playlist for 19 years

One of my top 10 albums of all time. Every song is just so good. And listening from start to finish is a fucking journey.

I love your enthusiasm for music. It's very rare for a bass line to get the appreciation you gave the opening riff.

One of the best reactions I’ve ever seen. The energy and analysis you two show is unmatched. Well done.

Killer tune, great pick fellas!

This whole album is stank face worthy🔥🔥

I have been watching this reaction every day for the last week. You guys are both so expressive. Such great feeling from you guys.

Love watching your content especially when it is stuff I grew up loving. It feels like introducing the tunes you love to friends

Perfect Circle are amazing. It's a wonder that Maynard fronts Tool, Perfect Circle and Puscifer. Three totally different but amazing bands. Appreciate you guys doing this and this album is amazing. Would love to hear more from this album. Some more Pearl Jam too fellas. Happy New Year!

Maynard as a writer for me, is up there with the best lyricists to have ever done it! So much variation with different topics, and to top it all off he is an amazing singer!

You guys rock! I totally enjoyed watching y’all fall in love with that song!

You guys are awesome always entertaining seeing your reactions!

My favorite APC song by far, especially that last bit where everything gets super heavy. But the lyrics really put this song over the top - where it seems like Maynard is critiquing depression, he's actually calling out people who misunderstand depression and Maynard is critiquing that stance, the stance of the outsider. Here's the quote from Maynard: The lyrics to "The Outsider" at face value, are in judgment of a potentially self-destructive or suicidal individual, though Maynard clarified that the song's message was meant to be a criticism of people who do not understand the struggles of people dealing with depression, saying: "[In] the case of "The Outsider", it's sung from the perspective of a person who doesn't understand at all what their friend is going through, what their loved one is going through, and they think that it's more like a sprained ankle; they can just kind of walk it off." Y'all should check out Goliath by Karnivool or their newest one, All It Takes.

One of my favorite albums, great song. Love Gravity! Y'all are right that it's from Maynard's perspective of "the outside looking in", also drugs specifically addiction. This whole album is about addiction, the different stages/process of addiction, even the 12 step program, hence 12 songs & album title 13th Step (also about the 12 steps). In this song Maynard sings about being an outsider to someone who's addicted, Maynard has never been addicted so he doesn't understand why someone would do this to themselves. He does this by expressing his frustration & anger. In interviews, he's mentioned his late friend Layne Staley from Alice in Chains. Discussing Maynard drawing inspiration from Layne's addiction & ultimately his death. Also your point about the song helping people, Maynard has said those things "I do want to help people who are on that borderline, who might hear a song and go, "You know what, I think I want to try to live."" Really the whole album is great!! Love when you guys get this excited about a song!

I love this reaction! I’ve been into A perfect circle for years but to hear you guys react to it is the bomb, I watched it twice! Awesome job guys. Peace out. 😎

You guys are the best! Keep it going!

Absolutely love this reaction and this song and band.

Probably sacrilege to a lot of fans but I honestly prefer A Perfect Circle to Tool these days. Orestes, The Noose, Feathers... so many incredible tracks.

Great video and thanks for reminding me how awesome this song and album are!

One of the best reaction videos to tool I've seen Great work!

You finally got back to them, been requesting this one for a while. I would suggest "Passive" next, or maybe "Pet" or if you want something a little different try "3 Libras", all great songs!

APC's "The Thirteenth Step" album is about the 12 steps of Addiction Recovery (i work in addiction recovery and personally 14 yrs sober myself so this album has a lot of meaning to me). Each song corresponds to one of the twelve steps of recovery with a "bonus" final step. While people have many different objects of addiction, the behavioral patterns are always similar, to the point that learning about the programs can be beneficial even to sober, healthy people. A "bullet" is drug slang for a cocaine vial, you've probably seen them in movies, the type that people wear disguised as a necklace or w/e to go get a quick bump in the bathroom - though the "Russian Roulette" double entendre is likely intended as well. I'll leave it to others to get into more specifics because learning about this stuff is half the fun of this type of high art. On an unrelated note: When are you going to react to Legend of the Seagullmen? (Danny Carey and Brett from Mastodon's band)

OMG I LOVE THIS VID!!! so enjoyable when someone finds something u've loved too!!

This is personally one of my favorite songs period. Keep up the good work guys. I've been watching your channel for about 5 years now and I appreciate the dedication to the music. Your reactions are very fulfilling just cause it's like introducing a song to a friend and they vibe it like you do. Everytime you guys deliver, and with very thorough and thoughtful introspection. Again, keep up the good work, you guys are cool af in my book.

That first 10 seconds is so recognizable, and the wailing guitar in the background just fits perfectly.

Let’s goooo been waiting forever for this one! Orestes or The Package live at Red Rocks gotta be on the list too. The Outsider is a banger but those two songs really display the band’s talents

i haven't seen you guys in a while, and i forgot how much fun watching you is. Never heard of these folks but this is great!

Speaking the same language : beautiful. Love your reaction videos because you get so caught up in the power of music.

Stone temple pilots is another band I feel you should revisit as well. Their first album is a classic for grunge. Check out Wicked Garden and Sex Type Thing, really think you’ll enjoy them!

I always liked this song but never took the time to analyze the lyrics. That’s what I love about this channel. You guys sometimes change my mind about songs that I’ve heard a hundred times before, whether it’s in a good or bad way. Great song and great reaction!

I had so much fun watching these two react to this song. I love this band so much and to see guys with an honest first take to such a beautiful song is what I am here for.

Such an awesome song-so cool to hear fresh ears appreciating it! That bass riff at the beginning that grabbed you guys so much is actually a bass AND a low tuned guitar, so props to the guitar players too!

You might as well do a reaction to the entire ’Thirteenth Step’ album because it is pure sonic mastery from start to finish. If you love the feeling and weight of the bass here, checkout the opening track ‘The Package’. It has the mass of a planet! The production, the arrangements, the songwriting and musicianship on the album is just perfect throughout.