For me Black holes was nearly ruined by some horrible production, track ordering, songs being altered and the wrong songs being chosen.
Assassin sounds about a million times better with the bridge they play live. Without it, it's just a boring alt-metal song. Even Knights of Cydonia sounds awfully compressed.
Take a Bow is a great opener, but to set the tone of an album with a semi-apocalyptic rave and then go straight into a cheesy pop song is suicide. The second half of the album admittedly sounds more balanced with COD, Hoodoo and KOC all running nicely together. However, why Soldier's Poem for example is there, I really don't know. They instead left out the aptly named Glorious, which would have fit nicely.
It's still got some tunes though, which is more than can be said for The Resistance.
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