To be fair, it can probably be said that MY views of this album are being tainted in the other direction due to my bias for the time period of Train of Thought's release. I hold those albums in high regard and albums like ToT, Like Water ..., Black on Both Sides, etc., are still among my favorites of all time. So it can probably be said that my views are tainted just due to the fact that I am admittedly highly nostalgic for that time period. So I'm, probably subconsciously for the most part, more willing to overlook potential flaws just due to the fact that even hearing one note from a lot of these songs/albums can bring me right back to the excitement I felt when I first popped these CDs into my discman/stereo.

Sorry so long and rambling, I am trying to work while quickly typing out responses so excuse any typos/non-sensical run-on sentences.