List of songs recorded by A Perfect Circle


American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle has recorded material for four studio albums. The band's music is mostly written by the band's two core members and founders, guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan, the former writing the music, and the latter writing the lyrics and vocal melodies. However, due to the commitments of its participants, band membership has fluctuated over time, leading recordings to vary when it comes to performance credits. The original incarnation of the band included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Josh Freese on drums; though Primus drummer Tim Alexander had briefly stood in as a drummer prior to Freese in the band's initial live shows prior to releasing any material. Band collaborator and producer Danny Lohner and Marilyn Manson bassist Jeordie White were also members for a short period in the early 2000s. The band's current lineup features former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, bassist Matt McJunkins, and drummer Jeff Friedl, the latter two also being contributors to Keenan's Puscifer and Howerdel's Ashes Divide projects.
After forming in 1999, the band released their debut album, Mer de Noms in 2000, featuring three singles, "Judith", "The Hollow", and "3 Libras", all of which hit the top 20 of both the Billboard US Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock Tracks|Mainstream Rock] charts, and helped propel the album to platinum sales four months after release. [|A] follow-up album, Thirteenth Step, was released in 2003, featured the band's best performing songs: "Weak and Powerless" topped the Mainstream and Modern Rock charts, "The Outsider", hit the top five in both, and both crossed over onto the all-format Billboard Hot 100 chart, at number 61 and 79 respectively. A third single, "Blue", also hit the top 20 of the Mainstream Rock chart. Initially planning to enter a hiatus after the second album, they stuck together to release a third album, a collection of radically re-worked, politically-motivated cover songs titled Emotive in time for the 2004 United States presidential election. Two singles came from the release, a cover of John Lennon's "Imagine" and "Passive", a song originating from the cancelled Tapeworm project with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.
After entering a hiatus in 2005, band activity was sporadic in the coming years. The band reformed in 2010, but would not release any new songs until 2013, with the single release of "By and Down" for their greatest hits album Three Sixty. After another period of inactivity, the band recorded a fourth studio album, Eat the Elephant, released on April 20, 2018. For the release, the band worked with an outside music producer, Dave Sardy, for the first time.
The large variations in composition and sound of the band's recorded material has led to them being described as many different sub-genres of rock and metal music, though critics generally agree that the band has been a major influences on modern rock. Reviewers from outlets such as AllMusic and Rolling Stone cited their work as rare examples of relevance and quality in contemporary rock music. with Music OMH even asserting that the band had "literally defined alternative rock as we know it."

Songs

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SongPerformerWriterAlbumYear
"3 Libras"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Violin: Paz Lenchantin
Viola: Luciano Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"A Stranger"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Strings: The Section Quartet		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Annihilation"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Piano, Keyboard, Programming: Billy Howerdel
Keyboard, Programming: Danny Lohner		Original:
Christopher Douglas, Matthew Borruso, Sothira Pheng
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Emotive2004
"Ashes to Ashes"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: James Iha
Bass: Matt McJunkins
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
David Bowie
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo2013
"Blue"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Brena"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"By and Down"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Matt McJunkins
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Three Sixty2013
"By and Down the River"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar,Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Matt McJunkins
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"The Contrarian"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Backing Vocals, Additional Instrumentation: Danny Lohner
Drums, Electric Piano: Josh Eustis
Saxophone: Jason Freese		Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel,
Arrangement: Danny Lohner, Keenan		Emotive2004
"Crimes"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel
Josh Freese
Jeordie White		Thirteenth Step2003
"Delicious"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Diary of a Love Song"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: James Iha
Bass: Matt McJunkins
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake, Robert Smith
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo2013
"Disillusioned"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"DLB"Piano: Billy HowerdelMaynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
“Dog Eat Dog”Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” single2018
"The Doomed"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Eat the Elephant"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Feathers"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Matt McJunkins
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Fiddle and the Drum"
Vocals: Maynard James KeenanOriginal:
Joni Mitchell
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan		Emotive2004
"Freedom of Choice"
Vocals, Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Backing vocals: Maynard James Keenan,
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Gerald V. Casale, Mark Mothersbaugh
Rearrangement:
Billy Howerdel		Emotive2004
"Get the Lead Out"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Harmonium Billy Howerdel
Bass, Backing Vocals: Danny Lohner
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Greg Ginn
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan		Emotive2004
Gravity"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: Troy Van Leeuwen
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel
Josh Freese
Troy Van Leeuwen
Paz Lenchantin		Thirteenth Step2003
"The Hollow"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Tim Alexander		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Hourglass"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Imagine"
Vocals, Piano: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Piano, Strings: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
John Lennon
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan		Emotive2004
"Judith"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Backing Vocals: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Kindred"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Sessanta E.P.P.P.2024
"Let's Have a War"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Danny Lohner
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Lee Ving, Philo Cramer
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan		Emotive2004
"Lullaby"Vocals: Jarboe, Maynard James Keenan
Guitar: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Magdalena"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"The Noose"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Backing Vocals: Jarboe
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: Danny Lohner
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"The Nurse Who Loved Me"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Strings: The Section Quartet		Greg Edwards, Ken Andrews
Instrumentation: Jon Brion, [|K]. Patrick Warren		Thirteenth Step2003
"Orestes"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Backing Vocals: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Orestes" Vocals, Guitar: Billy HowerdelBilly HowerdelMer de Noms 2000
"The Outsider"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Over"Vocals, Kalimba: Maynard James Keenan
Piano: Billy Howerdel		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"The Package"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: Troy Van Leeuwen
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Passive"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar, Bass: Danny Lohner Drums: Josh Freese
Piano: Paz Lenchantin		Danny Lohner, Maynard James Keenan, Trent Reznor, Billy HowerdelEmotive2004
"Peace, Love, and Understanding"
Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Programming: Billy Howerdel
Strings: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese
Programming: Charlie Clouser		Original:
Nick Lowe
Rearrangement:
Billy Howerdel		Emotive2004
"People Are People"
Vocals, Keyboards, Programming: Billy Howerdel
Backing vocals: Maynard James Keenan, Danny Lohner
Guitar, Keyboards, Programming: James Iha
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Martin Gore
Rearrangement:
Billy Howerdel		Emotive2004
"Pet"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Backing Vocals: Devo Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass, Backing Vocals: Jeordie White
Drums, Backing Vocals: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Renholdër"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Vocals: Kelli Shafer
Vocals, Guitar, Piano: Billy Howerdel
Vocals, Violin: Paz Lenchantin
Drums, Percussion: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Rose"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Violin: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel
Strings Arrangement: Paz Lenchantin		Mer de Noms2000
"Sleeping Beauty"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar: Billy Howerdel
Guitar : Troy Van Leeuwen
Bass: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl
Strings Arrangement: Dave Sardy		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"TalkTalk"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Keyboard: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Jeff Friedl		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Eat the Elephant2018
"Thomas"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass, Programming: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Josh Freese
Percussion: Draven Godwin		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Thinking of You"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Backing Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Programming: Billy Howerdel
Guitar : Troy Van Leeuwen
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Mer de Noms2000
"Vanishing"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Guitar: Troy Van Leeuwen
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"Weak and Powerless"Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Backing Vocals: Billy Howerdel
Bass: Jeordie White
Drums: Josh Freese		Maynard James Keenan
Billy Howerdel		Thirteenth Step2003
"What's Going On"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Vocals, Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Drums: Josh Freese
Programming: Charlie Clouser		Original:
Marvin Gaye, Alfred Cleveland, Renaldo Benson
Rearrangement:
Danny Lohner		Emotive2004
"When the Levee Breaks"
Vocals: Maynard James Keenan
Guitar, Bass: Billy Howerdel
Piano: Paz Lenchantin
Drums: Josh Freese		Original:
Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie
Rearrangement:
Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel		Emotive2004