Though I am happy their major label Sire/WB has brought this ridiculous record, as AM! continue to get better no matter what the label, all the press and commercial mass media outlet support one would dream the machine gets you, I do have an inkling of that feeling that an old fan down from day one usually has when the world discovers something you have been down with from the start and though the assbags in the major press want to say how this honest, guts, now popular music could be as important as Nirvana, they reinvented Axl Rose for me in 2002 and were not afriad to fuck with disco too. The political themes have been there since the demos, the personal connection I felt with How Low on Clarity, which hit me at a rough time, the contiued love of the bar, and the cattle gravitating, though slowly, to the more real and honest, AM! has always done it that way and Tom just writes better and better songs each record and I am not saying he didn't start at great. I wouldn't want to be Panic at the Disco or The Used or Good Charlotte with the development of a band like AM! becoming popular or even in the Hip Hop game right now. Consistency in the face of their new heights of success and major business will be the true test but AM! have succeeded in making great music their whole career on various labels and including their major label debut, New Wave.
-D
