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Why AC/DC Matters by Anthony Bozza

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The short answer is - they don’t. In another two generations, rock and roll will be seen as degenerate clown music, as quaint as Victorian music hall or Tin Pan Alley, only funnier.

Rock won’t outlast Bach and Wagner, but someday even Bach and Wagner will be forgotten, perhaps sometime after the death of the sun. For nothing lasts forever except forever (see The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson) as Bon Scott might have agreed, perhaps on his way back from the gonorrhoea clinic.

This entire book seems to have written, in 2009, as a rejoinder to hipsters who take the White Stripes seriously but despise AC/DC as bogan music.

But in 2018, hardly anyone remembers the White Stripes, yet ‘Powerage’ and ‘Back in Black’ are still widely listened to, so who cares what hipsters think?

Hipsters are dumb anyway…they latched onto black metal ten years after it lost its relevance, then pretended it was a rebellion against the ‘right wing church’, when in fact it was a rebellion against the left wing church and PC death metal bands like Napalm Death.

Also, if music critics called Altman and Fine despise AC/DC then it says something in the band’s favour, n’est-ce pas? ; )



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