I'll be honest: I hated this album when I first heard it. I really thought it was a sell-out album, trying to sound like the other music at the time.But I saw Queensryche on the "Hear in the Now Frontier" tour and got a much better appreciation for the songs. Now today I can say that this really is a good album.Sure, it's no "Operation: Mindcrime" or "Empire", but songs like "Sign of the Times" and "The Voice Inside" are very well written. Queensryche was always a tough band to categorize, and I think this album was just another attempt by the band to be different.The extra tracks on this version are good ones. The three Unplugged songs are great, but most fans of the band probably already have these on CD.This certainly was not their worst CD - I'll leave that honor to Q2K.