by Mike DaRonco
For the ten releases that AC has managed to release every week since their debut, they should also include their unintended motto of &taking the joke way too far.& AC stopped being funny after their hilarious 1994 contribution to the Son of Bbbbbllllaaaarrrgggghhhh! compilation -- which soon followed the rumor that they signed a seven-album deal with Earache Records. A thousand songs later, AC continue to break that unwritten rule: If a band is intentionally going to put out a bad record, it should at least be funny. The same goes for Picnic of Love, which is a collection of ballads that never ceases to have a tragic and violent ending by the end of each song.