Forget about this album being short..these songs make up for the length, these are Tool's shortest songs to date, though I actually love their lengthy ones the best, these songs are right up there with all of there with Tool's other classic songs, in my opinion I consider alot of these songs their classics. Songs on this album show Tool's earlier and harder music they wrote back then, though they matured later on (for the better I think). But Maynard's lyrics are were still supereb at the start (and sometimes funny on this one)...not as good as Aenima's or Undertow's, but these lyrics are a little more straight forward. Anyway if you call yourself Tool fan you must have this album. All in all an underated Tool album that has earned respect...so RESPECT IT..haha