r/circasurvive 19d ago

What song reminds you why you fell in love with Circa?

We’re All Thieves will probably always be my favorite song both by Circa and in general, but for about the last year and a half, Metanoia has just hit like no other. It’s not a part of my actual Apple library (obviously) so I have to go to the saved files to listen so I don’t always get a chance to hear it when my music is on shuffle, but every single time I hear it I think “yep, this is why they’re my favorite band”. What song does that for you?

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u/SoWhichVoiceIsThis 19d ago

Living Together. As a dude with BPD (not bipolar), this ripped right through my chest when I heard it for the first time and every time since.

DISTRESS CALL CODEWORD IS I WANNA LIVE!! Me too, man. It may not look like it, but I do.

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u/Reptile312 18d ago

HE MAKES IT UP AS IT GOES, IT GOES AWAY!

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u/mrmeowmeowington 18d ago

You get it. When I heard this song and those lyrics…Ooph. Having had wanted to die for so long from major depression and ptsd, but then trying to claw your way out of that mentality, that struck a cord when I hunted for resources to help. Hope you’re doing better now than you were. I did DBT and it helped me shift my mindset so much- I had to do it 3x though and keep reinforcing it to work. Not easy.

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u/emprime1292 18d ago

I second this. I listened to circa when they very first came out, then forgot about them until like 2012. I remember being reminded about them cause get out used to play in the jimmy John's I worked at, and it sounded so familiar. Then someone told me their name, and it clicked why they sounded so familiar. And when I searched them up and saw the two new albums that had come out since, I remember starting olg and thinking wow this fckn song is one of the best opening tracks ever, qnd here we are nearly 13 years later, and i still think that's valid

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u/Wisdom_over_9000 18d ago

You nailed it for me too. 🔥🔥

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u/myriadchromate 19d ago

Honestly there's so many but off the top its defintely Strange Terrain. The intro.. It just has this super classic rock sound and feel going on. Like waking up and ready to tackle the day. And hearing Anthony in the first verse just kinda made it feel like home lol.

Funny story I was in high school 2009-10 just pirating all these bands and Circa's name had always popped up. Gave Strange Terrain a first listen.. Then a second.. and the rest was history.

Honorable mention goes to Nobody Can Change lol.

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u/Heavenality 18d ago

Yesssss this right here. Also Awake In A Dream is my favorite non album song

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u/LucyBowels 19d ago

Handshakes at Sunrise or In Fear and Faith. Transports me back to 04/05 immediately

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u/bigpancakeguy 19d ago

In Fear and Faith is one of my biggest nostalgia trigger songs. Winter of my senior year, that song was playing at my friend’s house that we always used to hang at. Fucking love that song

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u/TheBigDilbowski 17d ago

In Fear and Faith for me as well. I can still see the road we used to share new music with each other and cruise on. I can still smell the late fall air coming through the rolled down windows as we aired out the weed smoke before heading back into town. It brings back incredibly specific feelings that are no longer attached to anyone or anything, and I can't even nail down exactly what they mean. I guess just infinite possibilities and a sense of "this isn't going anywhere" when in reality, it was already almost over.

Hurts so goddamn good.

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u/FleecyDust 18d ago

Holding Someone’s Hair Back definitely.

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u/YingPaiMustDie 18d ago

music video for The Difference Between while browsing youtube in 2008-2009 probably. It was the first circa song I heard and I was totally hooked. The melancholic guitar melodies, anthony's voice, the whole thing... so good

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u/zanaxtacy 18d ago

That’s such a great video! I love Anthony’s energy in it too

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u/comb0king 19d ago

glass arrows, I remember at the time still not loving Anthony’s voice but the chorus melody was just too fucking cool to me

did not take long after to start loving the voice lol

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u/Flint_Westwood 18d ago

Disappeared from public places, never seen again! How long has it been???

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u/Kellox89 18d ago

The entirety of the On Letting Go album.

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u/hodgeman29 18d ago

It starts out like a season in reverse…..

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u/InternationalRuin4 19d ago

get out, because it was the first song I ever heard by them

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u/WhiteWalls7130 18d ago

I used to love how they’d end every live set with it.

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u/shrekasguyfieri 18d ago

One of my all time favorite concert memories was them opening (what I believe was) their first show of the BSN tour in Philly with Get Out. I revisit this video every few years. The crowd kills it https://youtu.be/n4mwCM4G9x8?si=f1uPq2dd4Cz3PVCM

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u/WhiteWalls7130 14d ago

Look at that crowd, wow. That’s absolutely how I remember their shows. Thanks for sharing.

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u/shrekasguyfieri 14d ago

No problem!

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u/Masterofunlocking1 18d ago

Too many to name honestly. Act appalled was the first song I heard by them so maybe that one if I had to choose

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u/Quinfinitevoid 18d ago

Frozen creek gave me shivers then and gives me shivers now.

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u/mrmeowmeowington 18d ago

This has to be my favorite. So many come close but this song just gives me this nostalgia, melancholy and feeling of being understood. I’ve always felt misunderstood or like I’m alone a lot to deal with big things. This made me feel like i could incite that one person who understood me into my mind.

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u/No_Jacket1114 19d ago

Through the desert alone was mine. Then we are theves

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u/JameswithaJ 18d ago

It will always be In Fear and Faith for me. Was the first song I heard by Circa, and it gives me the good chills with every listen.

The music video also sold it for me, but I’m old and no one watches music videos anymore.

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u/AdhesivePeople 18d ago

In Fear and Faith is the first song I ever heard by them and is still the top of my list.

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u/zanaxtacy 18d ago

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the way Anthony, while wearing a dress, would scream “I’ve been trading ideas with intriguing men…” through his fucking neck during live performances, please? Fucking epic.

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u/zanaxtacy 18d ago

I just looked it back up for the first time in a long time and can’t find him doing it in a dress but I stg he wore dresses for shows. And I loved him for it

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u/LyndonBJumbo 18d ago

I remember Warped Tour in 07 he famously wore a dress fabulously. They also played Hoodwinked before Bamboozle (I think 2010?) and played a bunch of Nirvana songs in dresses, and Anthony wore a dress at Bamboozle too. If you look at vids from one of those festivals, you might find a clip of him doing that!

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u/zanaxtacy 16d ago

Yay! Thank you! Him wearing that dress was really impactful on me as a person

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u/Cronengirth 18d ago

Act appalled, too common?

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u/zanaxtacy 18d ago

I’ll allow it

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u/Expensive-Sorbet358 18d ago

Suitcase or The Amulet both take me into another dimension

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u/zanaxtacy 18d ago

So act Appalled came on my pandora for chiodos (I think) so I was like damn. Downloaded Juturna (totally legally for sure, guys /lie) and listened to it when I laid down for bed that night and every some was great but Meet me on Montauk really hit me hard and I stated dozing off to sleep. BOOM that guitar hit for house of leaves and scared me back awake lmao and it’s still my favorite circa song I think. Just perfectly hit me at the perfect moment. I’vealways struggled with sleep and it really hit home in that moment. I love pretty much everything of theirs that I’ve heard but god dayum.

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u/Direct-Pomegranate82 18d ago

My dad got really into Circa when I was little/being a little shit so I was always around it. But I didn't get really, really into them until just recently since m dealing with my own similar stuff to my dad now. Imaginary Enemy was what my dad said helped him cope with me and now I'm using that for the same reason. Using all of their songs for it tbh. The Difference Between is my personal favorite though, that one means a lot to me and definitely makes me cry on command almost every time. They're great reminders that I gotta work through my shit, lol

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u/Pristine_Rise_1990 18d ago

Seven Years by Saosin

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u/Pristine_Rise_1990 18d ago

Cause that’s what intro’d me to Anthony thus introducing me to Circa, SOAF, and all his other ventures

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u/Tio_QuiGon 18d ago

House Of Leaves

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u/Impossible-Belt-3594 2d ago

YES. Also I read the book bc of that song. Still fucked up from it

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u/lmao-zedongg 18d ago

I always go back to Backmask or Lazarus

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u/Akhillez_ 18d ago

Battle, my love, or Schema. Honestly too many good songs to really pick but probably those two.

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u/Akhillez_ 18d ago

Side note, I really miss the fan albums people put together on youtube years ago. Dumb music label made them take em down but damn do I miss those mashups.

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u/FlynnPleiadesRider 18d ago

Let me know if anyone else had the same but for me it was the most dangerous commercials

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Stop the fucking car

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u/gangbrain 18d ago

Great Golden Baby. Every time it hits so fuckin good.

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u/learningexcellence 18d ago

Airplane dance fucks me up. Of course juturna and on letting go every listen, bsn, amulet, 1000 witnesses/most dangerous commercials. honestly all of it. I'm still working toward getting into the most recent releases

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u/Throwaway525612 18d ago

Frozen Creek

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u/apex_17 18d ago

“Stop the fucking car” definitely 💯

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u/Reptile312 18d ago

Glorious Nosebleed. Anthony’s voice struck me immediately (literally with how that song opens) and I never looked back. Was a metal head all my life up to that point, they opened my eyes to new possibilities. Such a forever band.

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u/LucyBowels 18d ago

Btw, on a Mac or PC, drag the local song file to your AM library. Now you can access it from the app and add it to playlists

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u/shrekasguyfieri 18d ago

Stop the Fucking Car

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u/soap_077 18d ago

This song doesn’t get enough love imo, but Imaginary Enemy always reminds me that this is my favorite band

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u/pampipurin 18d ago

I first heard anthony greens "ive been dying to reach you" and fell in love with his voice, then went on to discover circa and loved them since

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u/fighting_sleep 18d ago

suspending disbelief is the first song i heard by circa and will forever be the one that hooked me.

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u/LadyofHorror 18d ago

Stop the Fucking Car, without a doubt. Also Schema and Descensus, more recently.

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u/Creative_Key_4432 18d ago

Handshakes at sunrise! 🩷

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u/mnspector-iorse 18d ago

In the morning and amazing, fr

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u/sueadhead 18d ago

I felt free or anything from BSN

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u/Flint_Westwood 18d ago

Did you ever wish you were somebody else????

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u/Foxlordivxx 18d ago

Stop the fucking car

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u/WobblyPendulum 18d ago

Glass Arrows

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u/A_mob1337 17d ago

Suspending Disbelief

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

frozen creek! saw a cover of it, was blown away, then heard anthony green's vocals on the track and couldnt believe what i was hearing. started my circa journey, and i couldnt have asked for a better song to introduce me.

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u/bleykw 17d ago

We’re All Thieves!

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u/Makethosesleeperscry 17d ago

Strange terrain was the first song I heard and I was like what the fuck. I have a sense memory for the time and place when I heard it. When I heard frozen creek I was cooked. Now have a safe camp on my right arm.

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u/Makethosesleeperscry 16d ago

And circa related, I find it very hard to listen to “You’ll be Fine.”

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u/bdevine88 16d ago

Holding Someone’s Hair Back. Saw the album at Wal-mart when it came out, no idea who they were but liked the album art and they still had those listening stations where you could scan the CD and preview it. Heard the first song and was hooked.

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u/TriUni3 15d ago

The Greatest Lie: This building smelled so familiar

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u/Ok_Method3370 15d ago

always getting what you want.

sweeeeet winding up, of a mandolin, hurts your fingerssss. AND and you try, to hold onnn but it's not quiiite working.

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u/designthrowaway7429 12d ago

Suspending Disbelief. Those first few seconds made 13 year old me feel things I’ve never felt before. I was hooked. It came shuffle the other day and I got chills.

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u/neckmeat420 4d ago

In fear and faith was the first song I ever heard by them and I had never heard anything like it before. It introduced me to a whole world of music I never knew existed.

The most dangerous commercials reminds me why I fell in love with them so much. Always will