- Record Label: Immortal / Virgin
- Release Date: Aug 27, 2002
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Nov 11, 201530 Seconds to Mars has managed to record an album that breathes life into the empty shell that corporate rock has become, and in reanimating an avenue of musical expression that has for many years been on its deathbed, has quite possibly offered the single best rock experience of 2002.
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Leto sounds more like Tool/A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan than a member of the Screen Actors Guild--even if his lyrics are kind of space-case lame.
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Blender30STM manage a high-minded space opera of epic scope befitting prog-rock prototypes Rush. [#9, p.142]
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Q MagazineThe album has a polished sheen, but Leto's delivery of his earnest, sci-fi-tinged lyrics gets monotonous over the course of the album. [Dec 2002, p.96]
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The album is undone by Leto's baffling, pretentious poetry and the sanitized quality of the heavy guitars.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 153 out of 177
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Mixed: 8 out of 177
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Negative: 16 out of 177
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Oct 12, 2010
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MaxM.Sep 11, 2002
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Aug 30, 2019Some parts of this record never leave my playlist. Always in time, always hypnotic.