Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Billboard | (positive) |
| CDNOW | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (C) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| Kerrang! | |
| New York Daily News | (positive) |
| The New York Times | (mixed) |
| NME | |
| PopMatters | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Yahoo! Music | (favorable) |
Although the album received mixed reviews upon release, it became a commercial success. According to the band in the booklet that comes with Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 album, they did not want to be part of a popular trend and wanted to do their own thing. The band then changed their sound a little, such as less rapping and a little different from their earlier work like Korn and Life is Peachy. The band admits that with Brendan O'Brien working alongside them, he kept them more focused during recording so far as to not letting them just fool around and party, and that there was a lot less drinking this time around.
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