Editing Life on Display (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
|MC = 37/100<ref name="metacritic"/>
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |url={{AllMusic|class=album |id=r669996 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Life on Display - Puddle of Mudd |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=November 25, 2003 |accessdate=February 7, 2012}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
|rev2Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="metacritic"/>
| rev3 = ''[[E! Online]]''
| rev3score = C<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,3093,00.html|title=Puddle of Mudd - Life on Display|website=[[E! Online]]|date=December 21, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031221212827/http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,3093,00.html |access-date=March 7, 2025|archive-date=December 21, 2003 }}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
|rev4Score = B−<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,547935,00.html |title=Life on Display Review |last=Sinclair |first=Tom |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=November 28, 2003 |accessdate=March 23, 2012 |archive-date=April 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425163916/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,547935,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Melodic (magazine)|Melodic]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.melodic.net/album/puddle-of-mudd-life-on-display|title=Puddle of Mudd - Life On Display|website=[[Melodic (magazine)|Melodic]]|last=Wippsson|first=Johan|date=December 4, 2003|access-date=March 7, 2025}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-12-04/music_discs6.php|title=PUDDLE OF MUDD - LIFE ON DISPLAY|website=[[Now (Newspaper)|Now]]|last=Raynor|first=Brent|date=December 10, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050218021934/http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-12-04/music_discs6.php |access-date=March 7, 2025|archive-date=February 18, 2005 }}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="metacritic"/>
|rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev8score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref name=RollingStone>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/298702/review/5940725 |title=Life On Display : Puddle Of Mudd : Review |last=Hoard |first=Christian |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=December 11, 2003 |accessdate=February 7, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027114209/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/298702/review/5940725 |archivedate=October 27, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9score = D<ref>These hammerheads still sound like the touring company of Grunge-a-Mania. [Jan 2004, p.100]</ref>
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Initial critical response to ''Life on Display'' was generally unfavorable. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 37, based on seven reviews.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/life-on-display/puddle-of-mudd/critic-reviews | title=Life on Display reviews at Metacritic.com | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=September 17, 2009 }}</ref> ''Life on Display'' received largely average to poor reviews from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', ''[[E!|E Online]]'', and [[AllMusic]]. Christian Hoard of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album a mere 1 out of 5 stars, citing "the predominant emotion transmitted by these tired, [[hook (music)|hook]]less tunes is a kind of skull-banging numbness."