I like that this CD took the very expansive and, for lack of a better word, strange things they did in Lateralus and combined it with their harder, crunchier sounds from Opiate and Undertow. I think if they'd continued in the direction they took in Lateralus they would've ended up somwhere musically interesting but very hard to listen to. 10k days takes what they "learned" in making Lateralus and brings it back into a more listenable sphere.
Also, this is just me, but I've never been one for lyrics. I just don't care what people are saying. If it sounds good, that's really the important part to me. I often put up lyrics in away messages or signatures because I really like the sound of the part of the song they come from, but the lyrics themselves are very weird/morbid/incomprehensible if the source is apparent and I get lots of concerned IMs from friends. Oh well.
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