Talking Heads 'Fear of Music' v AC/DC's 'Blow Up Your Video'

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'FoM' has been described here as definitive prescient 9/11/WW3 statement, but what about this marginal entry in the AC/DC canon? Of course there's the obvious ("Heatseeker", "This Means War"), but also oblique comment on US foreign policy in "Meanstreak" ("I been to the left/ I been to the right/ I found myself in Abu Dhabi in a mirage in the night"), and the album title is right out of Noam Chomsky

― dave q, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

TS "Safe in New York City" v "Shake Your Foundations"

― dave q, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Who Made Who

― Winkelmann, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

the album title is right out of Noam Chomsky

so OTM it's hilarious.

and while i vote for fear of music, ac/dc never gave the world a song as irritatingly bad as "animals."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago)

ac/dc never gave the world a song as irritatingly bad as "animals."

Wrong. "Money Talks" is dreadful.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago)

man, AC/DC diehards fucking hate that song, don't they?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

As well they should.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. There's worse stuff on 'Back in Black,' which gets a little sludgy compared with 'Highway to Hell.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

There's worse stuff on 'Back in Black,'

No there isn't. This is an incorrect statement.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd pay five bucks to hear AC/DC cover "Animals," truthfully.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago)

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