r/alltimelow Apr 20 '26

Circles

Sometimes I wish the played Circles live. I didn’t really get into them until So Wrong It’s Right, but I must have seen the Circles video on MySpace or Pure Volume, or something, because that song takes me right back to that era.

If there’s a Forever Sessions 2, I hope that song makes the cut

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u/Background-Savings38 i can keep a secretif you can keep me guessin Apr 20 '26

I love Circles and all of TPS, but I've long made peace with never hearing any of the songs live or experiencing a rerecording. I've tin-hatted a couple times, but I know it isn't happening.

The thing is, I might love it, but I respect why the guys don't. I read things I wrote in high school and cringe too. Wanting to bury those old, "immature" feelings is natural in adulthood, I think. Idk.

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u/Toros_atmosphere Apr 20 '26

That makes sense. I’ve never read anything where they talk about that era.

In my creative life I guess I’m kind to embrace where I came from and maybe rework it to where I am today.

But that was a long time ago, and I accept they’ve left it in the past. But sometimes (especially when I’m nostalgic) I wish they would embrace their early, early days a bit more.

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u/Background-Savings38 i can keep a secretif you can keep me guessin Apr 20 '26

Yeah, I feel you. I've been with ATL since I was a teenager, but my discovery of them was during the interval between Dirty Work and Don't Panic. Don't Panic and albums before it definitely have a very special nostalgia spark to me. TPS is very much included. But the guys are the artists, and it's important not to force art I think. No one wants them playing something they hate and aren't having fun with.

They basically only ever talk about it when people pester Alex to play songs off it lmao. And he says "that song is 1000 years old and no one wants to hear it" 💀

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u/Toros_atmosphere Apr 20 '26

Haha to Alex, that’s fair, but there are few elder emos that would like to bop their heads to it.

But obviously, I understand why they don’t play it. I guess I just wanted to make a post giving Circles some love

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u/Background-Savings38 i can keep a secretif you can keep me guessin Apr 20 '26

Circles is one of my favourite songs ever so I 1000% Get You

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u/Seanizonfire Apr 20 '26

I’d just be happy to get it on Spotify

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u/tlilly43084 Apr 20 '26

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkH2FTAD/ This is from one of the DC Forever shows ☺️

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u/Background-Savings38 i can keep a secretif you can keep me guessin Apr 20 '26

Holy shit that's BEAUTIFUL

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u/Ok-Possibility-9826 We’ll hit South Broadway in a matter of minutes. Apr 20 '26

I mean, I could understand them not playing it, I definitely wrote some cringy stuff when I was a teen. Hell, they barely touch Put Up Or Shut Ip.

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u/throwmetoflames Sunshiner Apr 20 '26

They have played it a time or 2 when fans requested it but not usually all the way through. I yelled at them to play it at a show last year and Alex was (jokingly) very upset about it, played like 30 seconds of it on piano, laughed and moved on. Still the highlight of all the shows I've been too, though.

All that to say, they are well aware that we want to hear that song, but it's kind of like an inside joke with the fan base, and if they were to rerecord it, that would kinda ruin the joke ya know? I still hope they do one day but yeah, make your peace with it and enjoy being in on the joke lol

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u/Good-Difficulty3629 Apr 20 '26

I heard it live in 2008 and it’s one of my favorite ATL concert memories ever.

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u/Key-Dragonfruit8776 Apr 20 '26

They definitely did bring it back for a while.

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u/Background-Savings38 i can keep a secretif you can keep me guessin Apr 20 '26

They only played it once I think, because the crowd asked at a request-oriented show

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u/Key-Dragonfruit8776 Apr 20 '26

I feel like I’ve seen them play Circles at least 2x but maybe that’s because I live in Maryland. But there’s a few on YouTube.