This album has changed the way I look at music, it has changed the way I play the bass, and it has changed the way I write. Everysong on this album is just as good as the next, if not better.

This album makes me proud to be a native of the state of Texas (Since the band came from El Paso). It's pretty refreshing to hear a different vibe of music with unbelieve creativity and futuristic visions of what rock can be if you follow you're own pathway in the music business. I've learned so much form "Relationship Of Command". I don't like the fact that the band split in to 2 groups but that's just more room for them to create great music. Hopefully there will be another at the drive-in down the road in our future. At the Drive-In are my favorite group of all-time!!!!… Expand

From the very opening track 'arcarsenal' you just know this album is different to all the others in its genre. The anger merged with beauty combo from 'arcarsenal' continues throughout the album, with the fantasic 'one armed scissor' and the quite unbelieveable 'cosmonaut'. Unlike Cedric's new band, The Mars Volta, there's less emotional drive to the album, but it still comes up with the very moving 'Invalid Litter Dept.' - a song written about the treatment of mexican women and how the police and media don't really care. I'd say my personal favourite track is 'Pattern Against User' a strange choice but its a song i find myself singing to myself most of the time. If ever an album deserved 10/10, this one gets it. A marvellous record, and it gives an insight into the genius that was, At The Drive-In.… Expand

shit yea

Fantastic.

a perfect album

Fantastic!! pattern against user is one of the best songs ive ever herd that hasn't been released!!

A good enough album, but somehow it pales in comparison to the musical masterpiece that is De-Loused In The Comatorium by The Mars Volta. However, you can certainly hear some of Cedric and Omar's brilliance in this album, and it is an album I quite happily play on a regular basis.

this cd is awesome! much better than the others it sucks ATDI borke up but the mars volta are fuckin awesome so its cool

Top marks dude! Omar & Cedric just make this album totally special, one of my fave albums!

Great album. the absolute pinnacle of rock. But, In/Casino/Out is better.

It really is just too good. Honestly, I'm suprised it ever caught on, this just seems like a band that should go over everybody's head.

Perfect, the brilliance that made The Mars Volta applied to a more standard "rock band" format creates a individual and interesting sound that hold the raw aggression missing in TMV. One of my favorite albums of all time.

its an 8 for the simple fact that Deloused In The Comatorium just overshadows it in musical capabilities of Omar and Cedric. The thoughts going through the minds of those two due glimmer in this album, but dont blossum until DITC.

I give this a 10 out of 10 because this is probably their best Album ever

Walking out of the dark woods...i see a light in the distance...that light is my guide...that light is my hope...that light is my future...that light is...AT THE DRIVE IN!

If I could give it an 11 or 12 I would. Heck I would probably gie it a ! Million out of 10 if that was possible. There is just not enough one can say about the greatness of this band and of this CD. They have little moments of subtlty that really help out when it gets to the energized areas of the songs. This is an album that I can sit down and listen to and never get bored with the songs. Everytime I listen I can almost feel ATDI's energy being driven into me through my headphones, making me want to yell, kick, scream, and break things. An utterly and completely beautiful album that, in my opinion, will be remembered as a classic in years to come.… Expand

this is truly a remarkable album. These guys are really just an amazing band. PLEASE if you haven't heard atdi you must, must, must get this cd. If you have heard them then i already know you have this cd.

This is probably the most intense album in the history of music. It's fucking excellent.

Truly fantastic album...band reminds me of Disaster Strikes, probably the greatest anarcho-punk band.

My all time favourite driving CD. After more than 3 years, I still love this album.

this album is one of the best i have ever heard. I heard it on a school coach trip around europe and its no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. And whoever thinks that the mars volta are better, they obviously aren't listening to the same record. Deloused is completely pretentious and has about 3 good songs. All of At the drive-ins albums, including the underated acrobatic tenement are far, far better than deloused...… Expand

ATDI's murderous assaults prove that rock can be angry and edgy while also maintaining intelligence. Soulful, scary, unpredictable, one of 2000's greatest triumphs.

Truly stunning, a brilliant mixture of unpredicatability and vocal chord strain. Greta Afros too

This cd is absolutley captivating, unlike many cd's these days. It has contrast from start to finish. I didn't find myself listening to the single the whole time because the whole rest of the cd was there. I became addicted the "Cosmonaut". Too bad they're not around anymore, but the good new's is that theres 2 new bands. The Mars Volta, and Sparta. I wouldn't call At the Drive-In "emo" just good music… Expand

This is one of the best albums I've gotten my hands on! It's emotional, raw, and haunting at times. That's good music!

Abosoluty the best cd of all time and the greatest band that will ever form.

In a time when most punk is pop ripoff, these guys are indeed the cheese who stand alone. Get this and their other CD in/casio/out (ALSO A 10) for a reason to love music again.

This is my favorite CD. Ever. At the Drive-In is amazing.

this is a pretty incredible CD full of depth. every track is better than the next. amazing.

From the ashes of At The Drive-In have come an excellent band (Sparta) and an otherwordly mindfuck of latin/prog bombast (Mars Volta). Not bad. How good is Relationship of Command? At it's best, it's fucking incredible. At its worst, RoC wipes its ass with any other emo-core pretender that dares to sit in the same room with these guys. If you've never heard a prog/punk band, you're not alone -- it doesn't exist. But the closest thing to it is ATDI, the most important band of the last ten years.… Expand

Maybe a little more variety would perfect the album, but it's undoubtedly irreplacable in style and sound. In a way, the forced restriction of Omar/Cedric's meandering impulses makes it work; TMV are fantastic in their own right, but here the restriction makes the songs' seams burst with fury and ideas. A one-off classic, effortlessly surpassing the worthless post-genre-core-wave movements since.… Expand

Excellent album; a little uneven and certainly overshadowed by TMV, but a little rawer and more punkish.

Give it a couple listens, but eventually you will appreciate this amazing album. Intense abrasive vocals and atypical riffs scare away most, but if you give this album a chance you will fall in love with it. Full of great themes and compelling, superb music. Why did they break up???????????

Great, great album. I discovered this album after listening to TMV for a while. Its so amazing to see how Omar and Cedric have evolved so greatly as musicians in between this one and Deloused. Two very distinct sounds, but both great. I wish that Relationship could've had some greater variety though. As mentioned earlier, the vocals may turn some people off, but everything as a whole on Relationship is pure genius.… Expand

It is unwise to compare this album to Mars Volta, because they are two TOTALLY different bands! Thus the reason for the split... With that out of the way... This album is one I pop into the CD player and thoroughly enjoy from start to finish. Great teeth grinding rock that captures something that most rock bands haven't even heard of. That rare working combination of rawness, sing-song, and oddity. I was sad when they broke up, but out of that came Mars Volta which kicks unspeakable @$$. And ATDI left on the best note possible, Relationship of Command, which will be recognized, when we are old farts, as the best punk album of the turn of the milennium.… Expand

Underrated upon release and a thousand times more soulful than anything TMV will ever produce. When Cedric goes insane and screams 'CHIKALALAKILAKAYAYAYAYA!!!!' after that intense buildup on Cosmonaut... just wow.

This album is just brilliant one of the best albums i've ever heard, and 'invalid litter dept' is just magnificent

Awsome and better than The Mars Volta, sucks that they stopped being at the drive in.

After hearing Relationship Of Command, I now compare all similar music I hear to At The Drive-In. There's absolutely no filler here, though it could use a little more variety. Seriously, though, this album changed how I see music. I'm afraid I can't wish they hadn't split up--TMV is one of my favorite all time bands. oh, and i agree with Bobby-'CHIKALALAKILAKAYAYAYAYA!!!!' is my favorite moment on the album.… Expand

GREATEST emocore cd off alltime? Ohhhhhh i think so

At the Drive in is not EMo! Its art rock!

I was introduced to this by my 17 year old son yesterday. I am 50 I amtotally totally blown away by it. IT IS A MASTERPIECE. I am lost for words. IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERSTATE HOW BRILLIANT THIS ALBUM IS.

Who in the blue hell are AFI, the Used, Dashboard Confessional, Story of the Year and Taking Back Sunday? What nerve these posers have even thinking they could match up to the God's of all things emo. If Coachella doesn't get these guys back together soon than there's no way they can consider themselves groundbreaking.

Mindless screaming is not music. One Armed Scissor is great, and that's about it. Sounds about as revolutionary as the last sh*t I took. Thank God for the break up because The Mars Volta is 100x better.

Easily one of my favorite albums ever. The low rating on here is sad indeed.

Probably one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded, in my opinion.

Definatelyone of the greatest almbums. a shame they had to break-up. Sparta just doesn't have the passion that they did.

The best hardcore album ever recorded. you just need to listen to it a couple times to understand. and im sad and happy that atdi broke up cause The Mars Volta are mind bobbling.

Best album Ive ever heard.Full Stop

Superb, utterly flawless album. One of the most important steps in the evolution of rock music. Probably one of the biggest dissapointments of my life that they couldn't put together another two albums before breaking up. Pity Mars Volta sucks so much ass.

What an album. What a band.

Surprised the Metacritic score isn't higher.

One of the last bands that had something to say and the music was un-edged as if fighting for it life to be played

Outstanding. The more I listen to it the more I like it. And Iggy Pop is god.

A fantastic emotional rollercoaster of an album. A classic.

One of the best albums I have ever heard. It sounds better every time I listen. AMAZING. ATDI are true artists.

A hard-hitting tribute to aggressive intelligence, At The Drive-In offers the world a chance to see what happens when the smart, productive man gets ahold of anger. Lyrically quizzical, ("Soft white glow in the cranium, a bull's eye makes sedated") ?, and musically complex, Relationship of Command is just that; a connection with it's point passion and drive wedged between this band and it's listeners. There is still hope for Rock music; ATDI proves it.… Expand

masterfully detailed, futuristic, subtle and intense, cryptic

This is one of my favorite rock albums. It's utterly amazing. The vocals are some of the best I've ever heard and the musicianship is incredible. "Pattern Against User" is one of my favorite songs of all time. All In All, One of my favorite albums. A