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Originally Posted by Bicorn Halfelven
AC/DC never wrote songs about hobbits.
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No, but they did write "Soul Stripper", "Highway to Hell", "If You Want Blood", "Sin City", "Let There Be Rock", "TNT", "High Voltage", "Shot Down in Flames", "Night Prowler", "Hell Aint a Bad Place to Be", "Live Wire", and "Rock 'n Roll Damnation".
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before Back in Black and all loaded with imagery that alludes to Satan, electricity, darkness and evil, and overall machismo. Of course that's what makes the band so fun, but it can't be denied that such material is thematically right in line with what the majority of society considers "heavy metal". Many a kid listening to AC/DC went on to form a metal band and I distincly remember a Hit Parader poll in the '80s voting Angus Young "best guitarist".
That said, I wouldn't describe AC/DC as a metal band first and foremost. They always had the boogie blues thing going on a bit too much, and for that matter they crossed over into the punk scene pretty heavily in the Bon Scott days (they headlined CBGBs in '77!) It just seems positively silly to me to say AC/DC is in no way and never was a heavy metal band. Metal is a major
part of what they do, though you certainly don't have to be a metal head to like them.