I love this album when I was 15. And those songs I loved so much back then are still great today. But the few songs in between are quite tedious. I'm giving this album 3 stars based on how much I enjoyed it at one point in my life. But if I was hearing it for the first time today, it might get 2 stars. The way this album sounds a lot like some music made in a shire with smurfs or Hobbits or the like; along with the repetitive themes that come up throughout the album (although the band says it's not a concept album?) just bore me somehow.