It was a good album, but not as great as Rise Against could be. To their credit, the band managed to keep things somewhat raw despite his influence, but it seemed clear to any fan that something wasn't right. His influence resulted in an album that suffered in small but significant ways as he tried to force the band's gritty Midwestern sound into a slick modern rock package. The one disappointment then, was that they were coupled with a talented hitmaker producer that unfortunately just didn't understand this genre of music. But I had faith the label might try to change them, but I knew they'd refuse, and for the most part, they did. That's not to say that I even understood what happened when the band left Fat Wreck Chords and signed to Dreamworks I loved the album that garnered them major label attention, but it seemed too honest, too dark and too real to be force-fed through glamorous MTV singles they didn't have the striking image of an AFI, or the friendly snottiness of Green Day. But even then it was clear that it was a little moment of greatness a powerful hardcore/punk band channeling their emotion through a simple acoustic song, and when it was re-recorded and released on Siren Song, I knew that it would have an impact. The single that broke the band was a simple contribution to a little compilation called Punk Goes Acoustic. The success of Siren Song of the Counter Culture, Rise Against's previous album, should have been a surprise, but frankly, I must admit that it wasn't.
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