This album was quite a surprise when I first heard it years ago. Simply stated, this is a very good album. The music flows well and supports the lyrics outstandingly. Zach De La Rocha's lyrics however, indicate, at best, potential. There is a very repetitious nature to the album, not to say that the message is belittled because of it. It seems to me that De La Rocha was only beginning to come into his own lyrically, and was still learning how to fit his message in with the music. As a whole this album was a positive indicator of things to come.