"Draw the Line"

So let's kick it off. The first cut of Draw the Line, the title track, establishes the album's MO right away. It's dirty, fast, loud, and doesn't make much sense. And what a riff - Joe Perry once said "It's the simple ones that turn out best." That staccato ramp up, followed by a two-note fall.

The song's a good song, but it's also an indication that the band isn't doing all the same things they did the last time. If Rocks was an album on the brink, Draw the Line is an album in the course of plummeting. But it's exciting, in its way because it never lacks for adrenaline. It did not make for the best music the band ever produced, but it still made for a few damn good songs. Aside from the riff, the song also has some pretty impressive screeching from Steven, and was clearly engineered to sound good live, which was increasingly becoming the band's priority, since they had found their record store audience.