AC/DC - Back In Black

How good are AC/DC? I'd say they were about 12 good on the good scale.

Everything about them's just perfect.

The name: AC/DC. It's literally about power, for crying out loud.
The look: Angus Young, the guitarist, dresses like a schoolboy - no-one knows why. The singer, Brian Johnson, wears a flat cap.
The sound: Relentlessly upbeat. Relentlessly noisy. Relentlessly unchanging. That last one's the key. Why change when you have perfected music to such an astonishing degree.

All the whinging, juvenile US rock bands who are practically in tears the whole time for no immediately apparent reason should go and see AC/DC at least once.

I'd be mightily surprised if they didn't all immediately think: 'Hey. What are we so upset about? We own guitars. We should do THAT. We should do what they're doing as soon as we get back to daddy's studio. We should wipe this make-up off our faces, because it makes us look like girls. We should conceal our lank, greasy hair beneath flat caps and maybe one of us could dig out our old school uniform.'

The same goes for anyone thoughtlessly doling out soulful R'n'B. Are you seriously telling me that if Boyz 2 Men went to an AC/DC gig they wouldn't be swayed by 'Hells Bells' or 'Shake A Leg'? Anyone would be swayed by 'Shake A Leg'.

Boyz 2 Men would say to each other: 'How stupid we've been thoughtlessly doling out this soulful R'n'B. I was first swayed by 'Hells Bells' and even more so by 'Shake A Leg' Now: Who's still got their school uniform?'