Brandt Cooley 2008-09-25

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I just wanted to add another 5 star review on for this album. Honestly, I don't like their second album that much, and this isn't my usual kind of music, but these songs are fantastic. There's melodic, catchy, and have a great full atmosphere.

Catherine Dzwonar 2008-09-18

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I didn't even know who Jared Leto was when I bought this album. I bought it because I enjoyed the first single, entitled Capricorn (a brand new name), and I saw the band open up for Incubus in the fall of 2002. My sister was the one who pointed out that Jared Leto was the guy who played the chick's boyfriend in that old as dirt My So Called Life show. She also pointed out that the singer was the star of the now cult classic Requiem for a Dream.
The first two tracks of the album are the only songs that were released as singles. As far as I know, they are the only two tracks that music videos were made out of. They could of put out another one in another country or something, but I'm not sure. The first two tracks aren't the best tracks on the entire record, but they are definitely two of the better tracks. My other favorites include Buddha For Mary, The Mission, and my all time favorite, 93 Million Miles. A whole bunch of people used to make fun of me for listening to these guys but I would still rock this CD on my system anyway. They were the same people who would ridicule me for listening to Incubus's SCIENCE and the self entitled System of a Down record. Later on down the road, they would also become fans of all three of the bands I just mentioned, but I was tired of listening to all three of them by then and had already moved on to bigger and maybe even better things.
Believe it or not, I actually enjoy this album more than the sophomore release entitled A Beautiful Lie. This album sold only a few more than 100,000 copies!! I can't believe it.
Oh, and if you enjoy this CD and feel as if you would like to listen to an album that bugs you out in that same kind of acid flashback kind of way, try 1999's Videodrone! I have no idea how Videodrone never became popular considering that the album was put out in 1999 and had really great guest appearances from Korn's Jonathan Davis and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst who were both really popular at that time. It also had a guest appearance from the Cypress Hill inspired Psycho Realm. I guess that wasn't enough to give it a good push but that album was never really marketed that well either. Videodrone was on he same label as Orgy, Elementree. They also fell of the map and they weren't even nearly as good so who knows what really happened.
But to make a long story short, 30 Seconds to Mars and Videodrone are two great albums to listen to if you want something to make you bug out for awhile. End of story.
Sincerely, Robbydzwonar (AIM)

Brittany Caron 2008-06-16

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Oblivion is seriously one of the best songs ever created (crank the volume to 50 and you'll know what I mean)! Except for Buddha For Mary, I love every song on this album (but only because I don't like that song's lyrics very much). Definitely a must buy!!

J. Loscheider 2008-06-05

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I admit it - I've been listening to this album almost non-stop for the past five days. It is honestly one of the most engaging pop/alternative albums I've heard in a long time.

You won't find standout players here who strut their stuff as much as a band that works together and works well. No solos, no crazy breakouts, but a cohesive melodic and harmonic structure that shows a great deal of prowess. The tempo changes and progressive song structuring is something I'd expect from much more experienced bands, and in particular the multiple bridges in songs that flow seamlessly from section to section are very well-done. You will not get bored listening to a repetitive under-rhythm here.

The songs vary in tempo and feel in such a way that the entire album just works. "Oblivion" and "The Mission" are the catchiest and so high-energy they're almost danceable. "Capricorn", "Edge of the Earth" and "Echelon" offer impressive displays of tempo changes and ethereal guitar work. "Buddha for Mary" is just bizarre, but somehow I like it. "Fallen", "Welcome to the Universe" and "93 Million Miles" are on the darker side, but still well-composed.

The part of myself that has followed Sevendust since their roaring eponymous debut screams that I'm just a poser for listening to pretty-boy Jared Leto's screams, groans and layered crescendos. The rest of me is too busy dancing to half the tracks to care.

True headbangers will despise 30STM as too poppy, too out there, too synth. Pop fans will wonder what the deuce Jared is singing about - "what's with the fascination with the echelon" and "into the wild...I'm with the mission over the hill, come here with me". In both of these, I think the band succeeds in conveying its own message, its own feeling, its own conceptualization, and leaves it open to the listener to discover. The lyrics take the listener far down the ladder into meteoric metaphors of primal territory, and are as atmospheric as most sci-fi epochs.

This one isn't for the headbangers or the divas. It's for us geeks, and I'm proud to accept.

Jeremy Poseley-Kopp 2008-01-08

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This is a very good cd if you like rock music. 30 seconds to mars is a band that I very much enjoy and if you liked their second Cd (A Beautiful Lie) you will definitely like this cd.