AC/DC and the film industry.

I'm both a film enthusiast and a hard rock listener, and so it was only logical for me to combine two of my loves into one post. First, I'm going to ask each and every one of you to take a look and a listen to this video here (hosted lovingly by Youtube.com):



Have you ever heard this song before? Powerful, distinctive guitar riff. Gritty, rough-around-the-edges vocals. Makes for an amazing hard rock track, right? Well, I would hope that you've heard it, or you have ostensibly been living under a rock for the past few decades. This has been used in car commercials, television shows, films, and cartoons. Lewis Black used it for his Daily Show segments. They used it in the ad campaign for Men in Black II. Two of my personal favorite examples are from The Brak Show and School of Rock. The former example has the titular character doing a bad air-guitar rendition of it. The latter has the song featured quite prominently, even having Jack Black (who recorded a cover of it with the Foo Fighters, if I'm not mistaken) rocking out to it in a van. The next song might not be as well known, but I'll put it on anyway.



This is, I think, my favorite AC/DC track, simply because it's so completely, unerringly powerful, even more than a lot of their other songs. It talks about knife fights, explosions, and women, and I think it's a really good song with a powerful driving guitar riff. This song has apparently not been used in nearly as much as Back in Black, which is ostensibly their most recognizable tune. However, the San Francisco Giants use the song when they play at the AT&T Stadium *annoyed grunt,* and a few other sports teams (don't ask me which; I'm not a sports guy.) It was also used in the Ad campaign for Napoleon Dynamite, one of my personal favorites, although surprisingly, it's never been used on the TNT broadcast network.



This song is instantly recognizable as well, possibly more than Back in Black. People at least know this song's title (because more of it is usually used than just the beginning,) and I'm sure that it's been used in a plethora of films, television programs, and especially advertisements. I can think of several off the top of my head--Wild Hogs, School of Rock; mainly stupid comedies with lots of hard rock. It seems like a biker song, but it's good for non-bikers too. It's also probably been used more frequently than "Walking on Sunshine," which most people probably pass off as being impossible.



This one actually annoys me quite a bit. It's a fine song, being just as heavy and powerful as all of the others, but one thing that bothers me the most is how self-referential it is. The song seems to be about music (although like most of their songs, it could just as well be about sex,) and if any musician plays it, whether it's a rock god or a teenager with a guitar who thinks that he's way cooler than he actually is (again, I can name several of both off the top of my head,) they'll get the song. I suppose it's just not my favorite. Again, this song was used in School of Rock, and probably in a few other things.

Again, this post really has no practical purpose. It's just more random crap about stuff that I like. Once people actually read my blog, I might begin to post some stuff that people care about.