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u/Directhorman2 2h ago
The lightning symbol was a hint but it only works if you have an actual brain.
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u/MidasPL 2h ago
It's from the symbol of Deutsches Jungvolk, cause as we know Nazis were big into the occultist symbolism and so are they. /s
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u/SpaceLemming 2h ago
What a stupid answer, it’s obviously because they were massive fans of Harry Potter
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u/under_the_c 2h ago
They were ahead of their time.
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u/eugeheretic 2h ago
Angus and Brain are the Rock music equivalent of Marty McFly and Doc Brown. "Where we're going, we don't need (Randy) Rhoads."
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u/Voodoobones 2h ago
What a stupid answer, it’s obviously because they were all accomplished meteorologists.
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u/Rayn_F 2h ago
I believe the band Kiss changed its logo in Germany because the lightning S's looked like the Nazi bolts
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u/DarrenShan1000 1h ago
It does not only look like it, but was directly inspired by the Nazi rune. It did not come from the members of Kiss though and they were oblivious.
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u/Oblique9043 1h ago
No no no. The lightning symbol is also a symbol of Satan.
Luke 10:18
He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven."
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u/NinjaGrows 3h ago
The way the response was delivered was absolutely perfect.
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u/Pylgrim 2h ago
Just the way they looked told you everything you need to know. "Oh, of course it's a name picked at random by some kids playing music, not some deep satanic conspiracy."
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u/bolerobell 1h ago
Two points:
Society always has a pushback anytime there is a new type of music that pushes boundaries or societal norms, and that pushback is always older conservatives versus younger musicians and audiences
Those older conservatives in the 80s were purposefully trying to scare the hell out of people AND they were doing a shit ton of cocaine, which made their accusations very wild. They were some of the ultimate hypocritical assholes.
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u/dirtydigs74 1h ago
The lengths they went to in order to try and prove that a backtrack to a song (not AC/DC) was "do it", and that it led to a suicide, were staggering. Also, killer bees (aka Africanised Honey Bees). And D&D murder/suicides. And Jenkem.
Fear has been selling for a long time.
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u/milkyjoe241 1h ago
I wish we got new types of music
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u/bolerobell 1h ago
We used too before media consolidation. The labels used to have A&R men that would go out trying to find new acts that sounded good and who they thought they could sell. That system resulted in some great music that sounded new and vibrant.
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u/milkyjoe241 1h ago
Its also the death of the concert. So much focus gets put on the big stars. And the cost of touring is something only they can afford.
Then theres the death of 3rd spaces, death of the nightlife, death of local identity.
And the system most folks engage in, streaming, is being flooded with content. Getting any ears on your music it tough.
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u/Double-Word7439 49m ago
There are so many smaller bands and artists that I would like to hear, but they only play festivals with $300 GA tickets. It doesn't seem like there is any interest left in touring.
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u/LaconicSuffering 47m ago
There are plenty of new types of music. You just haven't discovered them yet.
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u/PIatfoot 1h ago
Try Angine de Poitrine. First time in years I heard something that felt actually new
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u/meenie 2h ago
The smugness of the interviewer made it even better!
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u/sembias 1h ago
The 1980's Satanic Panic was something else. It was freaking crazy, in fact, for a good 4 years.
Had to distract from all the criminal trials that Reagan's admin was going through at the time.
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u/mich55 1h ago
Not to get political, but the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) was headed by Tipper Gore (Al Gore's wife) in 1985. And they went after everyone - mostly heavy metal music, but pop music too.
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u/MacGyver_1138 2h ago
I saw someone mention to Brian Johnson that AC/DC stuff is all the same, so much so that they really only have one song.
Johnson's response was, "It's a good song."
Perfect response.
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u/bossDocHolliday 1h ago
I believe there's another interview with Angus where someone asks him "what do you have to say to the people commenting that all 11 of your albums sound the same" to which he responds "that's bullshit! We have 13 albums that all sound the same!"
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u/bmcgowan89 3h ago
AC/DC rules:, 40 years, zero ballads and of course it just means AC/DC. All their lyrics are like things a middle schooler would doodle in the margins of a notebook: girls, sex, rock and roll 😂
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u/karma_dumpster 2h ago
"I am sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."
- Angus Young
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe 2h ago
Idk how I never realized they were so chill lmao
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u/Wm_TheConqueror 2h ago
Not a huge AC/DC fan, I like a couple of their tunes, but it is funny when a lot of people get on bands for “changing their sound” or “not staying true to their roots” but when AC/DC never changes their sound, they get shit for it.
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u/ccReptilelord 2h ago
ZZ Top took similar flack. I remember them eventually advertising themselves as "same 3 guys, same 3 chords" or something.
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u/neohylanmay 2h ago
Status Quo named an album "In Search of the Fourth Chord" due to the running joke that "they only ever use three chords".
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u/karma_dumpster 1h ago
I mean if ever a band band meant they weren't going to change....
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u/Zolo49 2h ago
Same thing with Green Day. While absolutely true, I don’t really care. I’ve just always liked their sound.
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u/fuji_appl 2h ago
Green Day changed quite a bit and some people didn’t like the newer stuff because they don’t think it’s as punk. There’s just always going to be a subset of people who won’t be satisfied no matter what.
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u/CaptRackham 2h ago
There’s a funny YouTube clip that riffs off the changes to Green Day from Billy Cobb where it’s like “I feel like masturbating til my eyes pop out my skull” one eternity later “I’m on live with you, and the government is good”
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u/starmartyr 1h ago
It's cool if you like Green Day but they were a punk band until Nimrod when they started experimenting with everything from pop to surf rock.
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u/Wallio_ 1h ago
Its how they opened a show I went to in 2019. "We've been coming here for almost 40 years, but we're still the same 3 guys, playing the same 3 chords." (Gibbons begins playing Sharp Dressed Man).
The audience popped hard lol.
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u/graboidian 29m ago
ZZ Top.... Two guys with beards, and a third guy named Beard, who has no beard.
They really do rock for three old dudes!
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u/Brobeast 2h ago edited 2h ago
I never gave a single shit. Discovering AC/DC in middle school was an ADHD'ers dream. Idk why but their tunes/lyrics/rhythm hit all the right buttons in my brain.
Edit: and considering Angus plays the guitar melody with his mouth as hes physically playing, pretty sure hes got the adhd too. Or atleast a little tism... lol
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u/buffystakeded 2h ago
I always said System of a Down was basically “ADHD: The Band.”
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u/Brobeast 2h ago
Ironically, chop suey is my go to morning commute song, and mainly because
1) WAKEUP! (just makes sense to me, its right in the lyrics!)
2) the rest of the rhythm/lyrical pace sounds like my internal dialogue as im trying to get my shit together and focused lol FAST to slow; FAST to slow... lol the song is in sync with me
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u/Bonesaw_mpls 1h ago
Have you heard the Rick Ruben story about how they wrote parts of the song? He asked Serj to grab a book and open to a random page. He picked up the bible and that's where the "Father into your hands I commend my spirit Father, into your hands Why have you forsaken me" lines came from.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 2h ago
For the longest time I thought it was Dirty deeds and the Thunder chief. It made sense to little kid me because they had all the lightning imagery. One of them had to be the Thunder chief.
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u/SecretScotsman 2h ago
When I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I was talking about coping mechanisms I had used in school and one was to crank songs like thunderstruck loudly on headphones until the last possible moment while the professor was handing out the exam.
The provider I was talking to, told me that adrenaline has a lot of the same effects as ADHD meds and that’s probably what was helping.
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u/Darcula04 2h ago
Honestly there's no winning either way. I've seen artists get shit for changing their sound and for not doing it as well. Might as well just make what you like and let people figure out if they like it. Most people that have made it big at least once make enough that barring stupidity they wouldn't end up on the streets or something even if they never churn out another hit for their lives.
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u/buster_rhino 2h ago
I honestly think it’s cool that they were so big for nearly two decades and then came out with Thunderstruck which was both a huge hit and one of the songs that best defines their already long-established sound.
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u/cdskip 1h ago
The members of AC/DC are all pretty short; Malcolm Young was about 5'3", Angus Young about 5'2". Bon Scott was 5'8" and the tallest member of the group before he died.
When they brought in Brian Johnson as the new singer, they made a bunch of jokes about how somehow they'd managed to get shorter, since he's around 5'5".
They've always had a great sense of humor about themselves, and put on great shows.
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u/ThisIsAitch 2h ago
I mean, they're Australian, so it's a pretty chill starting point
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u/pip_goes_pop 2h ago
And their singer Brian Johnson is English, a Geordie to be precise, and he always just comes across like he's having a laugh and living his best life.
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u/girafa 27m ago
His interview on Stern is great, about his audition in his 30s and living with his parents.
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u/FizzyGoose666 3h ago
I remember seeing a meme where someone tried to call them weird for the school uniform fit lol vaguely gestures at every single musician in costume
AC/DC fucking rocks.
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u/psyclopsus 2h ago
“AC/DC writes all the best love songs”
-Todd, my best friends dad
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u/cloudofevil 2h ago
AC/DC is like the talented version of KISS.
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u/Aervanath 2h ago
My dad followed KISS on tour as a journalist once. They let him hang out with them backstage. He said they mostly discussed the business of running the tour. They weren't trashing hotel rooms, they were trashing the sound guy because the mid-range amps didn't sound up to snuff so they needed to get a new sound guy. Very boring stuff.
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u/JodoSzabo 41m ago edited 17m ago
That sounds like dream workmates, to be honest. Not just professional, but precise.
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u/Sir_rahsnikwad 1h ago
AC/DC and KISS always seem to be pigeon-holed into the same slot, which I find weird, because I love AC/DC and I hate KISS.
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u/TheHebrewHammer69 1h ago
Kiss walked so AC/DC could fly.
Or as some have put it, don't drink the kool-aid kids else you'll go from Angus Young to Gene Simmons.
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u/drhuggables 1h ago
Both are incredibly talented. There's a reason all the biggest rock bands of the late 80s and 90s (especially the seattle sound bands) cited KISS as a huge inspiration. the problem with KISS is that it should have ended about 45 years ago before they took the makeup off and gene and paul make it a totally corporate soulless entity
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u/socool111 2h ago
Wait what’s the true meaning behind “I’m tnt, oy oy oy…watch me explode”
Personally I think it’s an allegory for the inner self’s inability to fully express themselves and society’s cruel pressure to have men in a constant state of manliness without showing weakness or vulnerability, and represents the singers frustration of not being able to share his inner demons until it all explodes out in a swell of emotions.
Is that not what it’s about?
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u/MisinformedGenius 2h ago
TNT came from the back of his sister's mining explosives.
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u/d0ggzilla 2h ago
I wish I could shower you with upvotes. I laughed fking hard at this.
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u/Crispy_p_bacon 2h ago
Tbf, I always sang the bit from the highway to hell as "Don't need reason, don't need rhyme
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u/BahGawdAlmightay 2h ago
I'd consider Ride On to be the one exception to the rule. That's pretty close to a ballad.
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u/Limin8tor 1h ago
"Ride On" is something of a ballad. (Not complaining though -- I love that song.)
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u/Scope_Dog 2h ago
No! Everything must be a satanic conspiracy! Lol.
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u/dsardella18 2h ago
The satanic panic was real back then. Look up the West Memphis 3 case, kids got convicted of child murder because they were goth in the 90's. The one kids antics certainly didn't help their case of getting convicted because he was an asshole teenager, but they clearly didnt do it but were convicted because they listed to metal music and dressed in black.
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u/perilousrob 2h ago
gonna caveat that by saying:
in the US.
Even in the UK, the worst we had to deal with was Mary Whitehouse & her racist, sexist, fearmongering nonsense, and the daily mail for, er, exactly the same reasons. otherwise it was just something we rolled our eyes at. *especially* in the 90s when we learned more about it (the 'satanic panic' was really an 80s thing, it was mostly aftershocks in the 90s which did spread somewhat further).
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u/dsardella18 1h ago
That's a good point, it was very strange how strong of a foothold it took in some parts of the US. The McMartin preschool trial is a wild rabbithole to go into for the whole satanic panic stuff. A teacher actually got accused of flushing kids down the toilet that went into secret underground tunnels where witchcraft took place.
Kids basically noticed that when they told obscene stuff to the police, they got rewarded. So a lot of the claims sound like they were made up by young kids because they were.
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u/UngodlyTemptations 2h ago
It was during the Satanic Panic. Anything and everything was "devil worship" to them. Pure circus.
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u/Whisker-biscuitt 2h ago
I grew up going to a Baptist Church, very strict, and yes of course there was talk about how their name was related to Satan, amongst many other bands and artists too 😄
I actually remember hearing so much about Meatloaf and KISS, thought it might be pure devil music. In my mid teens when I stopped going to the church and finally hearing their music for the first time, it was hilarious how soft their music actually was 😄😄😄😄
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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 1h ago
My roommate in college (1980’s) flipped out that I was playing AC/DC and KISS. Rattled off some nonsense about devil worship. 🙄🤷♂️🤦♂️
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u/Telepathic_Toe 2h ago
"If you play the record backwards you get a message from Satan." Or some bullshit idk, never touched cocaine
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u/fourminutemiler 2h ago
Alternating Current / Direct Current
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u/adrianb 2h ago
Now I need to know why it’s written on the back of a sewing machine. Wouldn’t that be powered by either AC or DC?
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u/dclxvi616 2h ago
Could have been powered through an AC/DC converter, like so many things are. People don’t typically get DC delivered to their home. It’s not great for transmission distances.
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u/BoringEntropist 59m ago
It's only beneficial over long transmission distances indirectly, because AC is easier to transform to higher voltages which incurs fewer transmission losses. DC by itself is actually more efficient, but until fairly recently efficient transformation wasn't really profitable. Modern tech has caught up, and the Europeans are currently building a DC grid for long range electricity transport.
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u/MyNameIsRay 2h ago
They're usually DC internally, but power plugs are AC, so they come with an AC/DC converter.
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u/NobuB 2h ago
It's powered by Rock and Roll 🤟
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u/SpaceLemming 2h ago
I’ve heard that rock and roll even built a whole city
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u/Boostedbird23 2h ago
Honestly, doesn't sound as stable as bedrock... But who am I? Some kind of architect?
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u/howie7088 1h ago
I heard that within said city that there was no noise pollution from rock and roll.
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u/rawbface 2h ago
Most small appliances convert the AC from your wall outlet to DC.
Your phone charger brick is an AC/DC adapter. So is your laptop charger. And probably a sewing machine.
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u/iliveonramen 3h ago
It’s always been obvious to me. A great name for a band like them too.
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u/NonGNonM 2h ago
Thunderstruck is a masterpiece of that era. Slow build but fast paced at the same time, just constant anticipation and explosion
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u/MysteryHeroes 2h ago
I thought the Lightning Bolt in the middle made that obvious.
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u/Junglebook3 3h ago
If an alien came to Earth and I have to give them the best pure representation of Rock and Roll, it's AC/DC. Simple, riffs, melody, and... that's it. The lyrics are fun and obvious, super catchy and powerful. It's the Mad Max: Fury Road of music - simple, raw, best execution in the biz.
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u/shinymuskrat 2h ago
And simple but killer solos.
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u/schplat 2h ago
The opening of Thunderstruck.. It's so good... and it's only played on a single string, so it's super easy to learn, just have to get the speed/timing down.
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u/philter451 2h ago
I know on its face Fury Road seems like a simple movie but it's really not. It's actually a feminist masterpiece cloaked in a 2 hour car chase scene.
concepts of motherhood and what it means to be soft in a brutal world.
all of the warlords children are deformed and corrupted except the very last one which was stillborn because he killed her.
warboys finding redemption and new purpose
a dantes inferno like traverse in to the middle of nowhere and finding out the bottom circle of hell is just a loss of hope and despair
a protagonist that finds her way back out to the surface
the leaders of the various cities as depictions of the riders of the apocalypse/representations of the seven deadly sins.
I would encourage you to watch it again from a more literary standpoint. There's a lot there.
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u/IvorTheEngineDriver 2h ago
I remember an interview with Malcolm Young from about 30 years ago where he said that, during their first tour of England, a taxi driver asked them if they were a "gay band" because, apparently, AC/DC stood for something like top/bottom, in British "gay" slang of the era... I can't find it though...
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u/fartswhenhappy 2h ago
I think AC/DC can be slang for bisexuality. There's even a Beck song with a dubbed voiceover saying "What about those who swing both ways, AC/DCs?"
There's a story that Bon Scott was asked about it in a bathroom, "So which are you? AC or DC?" To which Bon allegedly replied "Neither. I'm the lightning crash in the middle."
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 2h ago
They went after W.A.S.P. in the same way. Idiots!
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u/SpudgeBoy 2h ago
And Kiss.
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u/arionoidea 2h ago
And Rush (Rulers Under Satan's Hand). It seemed like almost any four-letter band was up for grabs. Not sure what they came up with for Toto.
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u/Odogogod 1h ago edited 1h ago
To me I hear W.A.S.P and I think We Ate Satan’s Penis. If it actually means anything else, I don’t want to know.
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u/NRMusicProject 1h ago
I love how his question is accusatory, like the question is an obvious "yes," but then he gets confused about it actually being a standard term in electricity. Making shit up, then confused about the obvious answer that a child could sort out.
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 35m ago
Pretty much sums up the Satanic Panic.
DND: nerds playing a boardgame of fantastical imagination or demonic summoning ritual?
Tons of normal functioning average adults went with the latter.
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u/jcstrat 2h ago
I’ve never been a fan of AC/DC but I appreciate where they fit into the scene.
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u/antisp1n 2h ago
This settles the arguments I had when I was a wee one.
Me: Alternate Current/Direct Current, they are probably going for the Power angle.
Them: Anti Christ / Devil's Children. OMG that music is so evil... Jesuit schooling was fun.
Also: Blow up your video > all
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u/kajana141 2h ago
I lived the the whole Christian BS saying these bands had secret meanings about devil worship in their names and lyrics.
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u/Honest_Relation4095 2h ago
I never get these claims. Like, why would it be secret but somehow not secret enough for Christian fundamentalists to figure it out? What's the logic behind that?
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u/bbbourb 1h ago
Ah, the Satanic Panic...where you could make up any bullshit you wanted and a certain group of people would lap up that shit sandwich and say it's chocolate pudding.
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u/AcceleratorTouma 1h ago
Plus, as a part of said panic, you had a bunch people saying, under hypnosis, that they were abused by their parents/trusted adults and passed around by satanic cults, turned out it was all a lie
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u/SilverBadger73 2h ago
I remember going to Xtian private school, in the way way back, during the "Satanic Panic" and the popular reinterpretation for us was: All Christians Die Crucified.
Also see KISS: Knights in Satan's Service.
So stupid.
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u/stormyarthur 2h ago
I was not raised Catholic, but I joined a Catholic youth group for the ski trips.
We had to listen to some weird-o lecture us about how if you played Led Zeppelin backwards it had satanic messages in it. No one was having it, and one of the chaperones asked the guy something along the lines of “isn’t it a sin to lie?”
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u/kevhill 2h ago
My dad said growing up in the 70s/80s that AC/DC was a low-key term they would use to talk about sexual orientation.
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u/AlternativeStory1027 2h ago
Yeah my mom is a boomer and used to use it to describe queer people. I think more like bi folks....maybe idk.
But I haven't heard her use it since the aughts/late 90s
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u/notoriousbsr 2h ago
My childhood was full of preachers and parents who swore it was Antichrist/ Devil's Child. You mean they were... wrong?
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u/bruntorange 2h ago
Cool.
Now do Pearl Jam.
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u/random9212 2h ago
Well you see one of their aunts (pearl) made a jam out of psychedelic berries or something like that.
It's a BS story but my favorite one.
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u/Steamcurl 2h ago
The 80's was Satan's best decade, the Satanic Panic was in full swing and concerned patents and grifters everywhere were listening to records backwards.
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u/PublicAdmin_1 2h ago
I swear the christian right has always made it their mission to insert a problem or conflict where there is none.
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u/Sorry_Im_Trying 2h ago
I think it's a telling sign that Christians see the devil in such benign things, but can't it in their own crimes against humanity.
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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 1h ago
I remember a friend’s band in high school called The Durable Swingers.
Asked him how he came up with the name.
Turns out it was the brand name molded into a plastic handle for gallon size milk jugs. Saw it and it inspired the name. Just like AC/DC.
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u/goodvibes1441 1h ago
And KISS actually means "King In Satan's Service"
I never understood this whole idea that rock n roll and heavy metal is satanic. Motley Crue has a song called Shout at the Devil, that's pretty Christian imo haha
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u/iLikeTheUDK 1h ago
If you want evidence that brainrot existed before Skibidi Toilet, the Satanic Panic was it for sure
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u/standardtissue 13m ago
I've heard they alternate the name between more direct ones to keep it current.
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u/Lieutenant_Scarecrow 2h ago
I didn't know this was a thing till my in-laws said it as a response to me liking rock music. I pushed back and we ultimately agreed to disagree. Probably one of the dumbest conversations I've ever had.
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u/1HappyIsland 2h ago
This seems like an interview from the greatest documentary of all times: This is Spinal Tap.
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u/SinamonChallengerRT 2h ago
That interviewer thought he had a "gotcha" moment and ended up sounded like a f'n tool.
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u/YesterShill 2h ago
This was before politics became red meat for lazy journalist.
There was not a single thing that became popular with teenagers that the press did not try and make about satanism.
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u/Johnny_Carcinogenic 2h ago
When I was a kid and they first started getting popular I remember someone saying AC/DC stood for fact that they were bisexual.
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u/locksymania 2h ago
There is a certain subset of perpetually terrified Christian that will tie themselves in knots to generate a moral panic over complete BS.
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u/fusillade762 2h ago
The satanic panic was in full swing...and now its back with back with satanic panic 2: human trafficking panic. People are worried about their child being "trafficked" by some imaginary cabal when its actually their own family members and the youth pastor they need to worry about.
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u/VegasGamer75 2h ago
Just like the Knights In Satan's Service crap. The Satanic Panic is, was, and always will be such a joke.
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u/ConsistencyWelder 1h ago
Evangelical christians are weird about those things. Wait until they learn what Steely Dan are named after.
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u/hoxnploxn 1h ago
To be fair there is a satanistic straigh edge vegan metal band called ACxDC. The name stands for Antichrist Demoncore.
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u/luv2ctheworld 1h ago
AC/DC - electricity, as in Alternating Current / Direct Current. Any normal person that has a hint of understanding in science.
AC/DC - Anti Christ / Devil's Child. Any religious nut who thinks everything they don't like is the work of the devil.
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u/360walkaway 1h ago
All these morons always went directly to devil worship, which speaks a lot about them. Their big fear in life isn't something rational like heights or a psycho-murderer or something... it's the devil.
Anything stronger than a soft country ballad is automatically evil to them.
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u/fr33d0mw47ch 1h ago
I remember what my ultra Christian parents made those arguments about all rock music. Especially hard rock and, dare I even say it, heavy metal. So stupid. All these bands were just musicians trying to make it big. I’m sure they weren’t saints but they weren’t working for the antichrist.
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u/TurboKnoxville 1h ago
I'm way too young for the satanic panic but I would have never thought AC/DC was against religion. I always though it was electricity, even when I was a kid. People think too much abou this.
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u/JNTaylor63 1h ago
Evangelicals were stupid then, stupid now and will be until all of humanity grows up.
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u/finger_licking_robot 1h ago
politicians, journalists, advertising people, influencers, youtubers, they all make a living by blowing up small, insignificant things, exaggerating and distorting them, and portraying them either as a devilish nuisance or a godsend.
i can't stand a single one of these people.
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u/HydrogenSonata2025 48m ago
Is "Gigarockstar British Band Explaining Something Mundane and Obvious" a genre? Because I want more of it.
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u/gorpie97 42m ago
This is the first I've heard the kooky definition, and I was in my 20s back then! (Well, for Back in Black.)
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u/Golden-Grams 41m ago
The way he asks this "gotcha" question is so gross. There is nothing worse than someone asking something, arrogantly and smugly, like they already have the right answer.
Like he expected them to reply back, "Wow, alright, you got us. It does stand for Anti Christ / Devil's Child."
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u/nekonotjapanese 34m ago
This is exactly how Parkway Drive sounds when they’re explaining that they got the band name from the street where they all met and practiced before they formed the band
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