AC/DC - The Wilderness Years

Something went radically awry after they replaced Shania Twain with a curly-haired drummer. First, nobody has ever come up with an explanation of what is happening on the (pencil-drawing!) cover of 'Flick of the Switch', the title track of which's first line sounds like "There's a lobster down in Maine" as well as another song that sounds like "the toast is on fire".
The next album 'Fly on the Wall' is even more inexplicable. The 'Y' in the title is replaced by an 'eye' peeking through a knothole and the 'why?' in the title track is Brian Johnson using said phrase for a whole bunch of different meanings ("I was trapped like a fly on the wall...Watch out there's a fly on the wall") none of which have anything to do with the way anybody has ever used it. Lacanians explain? "Playing With Girls" is even more confused! It's one of their great overlooked 'disco' tracks and I can't believe somebody hasn't sampled it, but the lyrics! "Playing with girls gonna get you hot, playing with guns gonna get you shot, playing with fire gonna heat you up, playing with me you're gonna get the lot." First, "get you hot" and "heat you up" are the same thing, and second, if "playing with [him] you're gonna get lot", does that mean that you'd get the SAME result (as well as being shot) as by 'playing with girls'??? Like as if "53rd & 3rd" AND AC/DC were both 'AC/DC'? It gets worse even! "See what's hangin' off him like a wanton child/ That's where you'll find me..." what, sitting on his lap? Perhaps they discovered polymorphous perversity via Kristeva or someone cuz it's best when they retreat from 'language' altogether which makes "aye-aye-oh, shake your foundations" the only memorable phrase on the whole record, which incidentally became the production template for cassette-only Belarussian skinhead bands.
'Blow Up Your Video' went all Baudrillardian with the title illustrated by A. Young emerging from a TV set (but still trapped on a 'two-dimensional' cover tho). The title's cooler if the word 'video' is not defined in the British usage (video PLAYER, in which 'blowing up your video' would just allude to a common irritating occurence) but instead defined as a 'video film' which would suggest multiple meanings. Also you could take 'blow up' to mean either 'set afire with explosive devices' or 'radically inflate in terms of dimension', and also who is the 'you' in the title? Is it an exhortation is the artisttitle supposed to be one word (ie "AC/DC blow up YOUR video")? Probably the former as they're quite literally illustrative of it on the cover which as mentioned has its own trap in that transcendence of the 3(4?)D is still constrained by the 2D but then that's just a representation itself. Or maybe it's a(n?) homage to Antonioni who I really should've mentioned instead of Baudrillard cuz I don't know anything about philosophers and I just use the names cuz I see them on ILX all the time and figure I should try and keep up and most of the time if you get called on it you can come up with some ridiculous argument later about what you really 'meant' with your allusion anyway. OK going by the 'Rule of 3' that was in a James Bond flick here's two more rickety props for the allusion, 1) "That's the Way I Wanna Rock'n'Roll" is a)meta-'RnR' b) meta-AC/DC (which the despised and deposed auteurists used to call 'self-parody', ie by using a kind of crap riff that sort of sounds like you would expect them to sound [hint - game given away by using a C SHARP in the single-note riff and the lazy reliance on music theory proves this is becoming a dave q self-parody meta as well] and putting 'rock and roll' in the title it actually has the APPEARANCE of being a SIMULACRA of AC/DC!), and 2) the one great track on the album (which uncoincidentally is another disco-DC track) is "Mean Streak", which has the curious line "I've been to the left/ I've been to the right/ I found myself in Abu Dhabi just a mirage in the night", which insinuates that not only a)the last 20 years of US foreign policy re the Mideast but b) the crappy final track "This Means War" NEVER HAPPENED