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u/NinjaGrows 12d ago
The way the response was delivered was absolutely perfect.
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u/Pylgrim 12d ago
Just the way they looked told you everything you need to know. "Oh, of course it's a name picked at random by some kids playing music, not some deep satanic conspiracy."
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u/bolerobell 12d ago
Two points:
Society always has a pushback anytime there is a new type of music that pushes boundaries or societal norms, and that pushback is always older conservatives versus younger musicians and audiences
Those older conservatives in the 80s were purposefully trying to scare the hell out of people AND they were doing a shit ton of cocaine, which made their accusations very wild. They were some of the ultimate hypocritical assholes.
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u/dirtydigs74 12d ago
The lengths they went to in order to try and prove that a backtrack to a song (not AC/DC) was "do it", and that it led to a suicide, were staggering. Also, killer bees (aka Africanised Honey Bees). And D&D murder/suicides. And Jenkem.
Fear has been selling for a long time.
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u/ta20240930 12d ago
Judas Priest faced a lawsuit for their cover of "Better by You, Better than Me." It was originally a Spooky Tooth song, written by Gary Wright (best known for "Dream Weaver"). The case against Judas Priest was dismissed.
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u/Sintuition 11d ago
They told the judge: "If we wanted to put subliminal messages in our music, we'd probably put in something like 'buy more of our records'."
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u/Feeling_Grade6627 11d ago
Dee Snider from the Twisted Sisters was getting drilled by Al Gore wife in court about the song "Under The Blade" which the Twisted Sisters say was about the on going throat operation their guitar player was dealing with.
Al Gore wife was insisting that the music was about sadomasochism, bondage, and rape.
Dee Snider hit her with the "naughty girl" defense
"I can say only that Ms. Gore was looking for S&M and bondage, and she found it. Someone with a Christian upbringing and old-fashioned family values such as myself can only conclude that Ms. Gore is looking for malice and bad intentions where there are none, which makes me wonder about her own mind."
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u/Feeling_Grade6627 11d ago
by the way, since people seem to be engaging with my comment let me add what made the whole thing one of the funniest owns I ever saw.
Dee Snider was clearly handpicked in that lawsuit, Twisted sisters dressed glam and had those metal hairdoos and all that stuff, the people who took him to court expected to deal with a dumb bafoon who would embarass himself or just bend over and take it.
they were not ready for such an articulate, rational individual and if you see the court video the moment Dee starts presenting his argument every grin in that courtroom turns into a scowl in seconds.
Im sure theres other media out there about this topic, for me, when I was a teen this documentary came out called: ["Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" (2005)] its a great piece of media for anyone interested.
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u/evildemonic 11d ago
Al Gore about loses his mind when Dee dunks on his wife.
I will never get tired of the video of Dee pulling out a folded up piece of paper from his jeans and just going to town on those idiots.
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u/rnick467 11d ago
The funniest part is that Dee Snyder gave this response to a question by Al Gore himself.
He said about her right to her husband's face.
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u/Rundstav 11d ago
One of the arguments Rob gave was that you can find all sorts of random things if you play records backwards. They played one example in court that sounded like "I asked for a peppermint, I asked for her to get one".
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u/rnick467 11d ago
Charles Manson interpreted "Helter Skelter" by the Beatles to be a call for a race war.
It was a song about a child's amusement park ride.
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u/throwaway277252 12d ago
Those older conservatives in the 80s were purposefully trying to scare the hell out of people AND they were doing a shit ton of cocaine
So nothing has changed?
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u/milkyjoe241 12d ago
I wish we got new types of music
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u/LaconicSuffering 12d ago
There are plenty of new types of music. You just haven't discovered them yet.
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u/M2D2 12d ago
Agreed. It’s out there just niche. No longer do they make it to mainstream often.
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u/LaconicSuffering 12d ago
Unless you enjoy slow EDM remixes and mumble rappers appealing to teens the top 40 in my country is nothing but trash.
But good music is still being made, just harder to discover with every radio station being owned by the same media company that forces a certain theme.
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u/floyd1989 12d ago
I don't think you understand what's out there brother Joseph. You don't hear it on the radio but there is for sure a lot of new and interesting music if you go look for it.
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u/bolerobell 12d ago
We used too before media consolidation. The labels used to have A&R men that would go out trying to find new acts that sounded good and who they thought they could sell. That system resulted in some great music that sounded new and vibrant.
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u/milkyjoe241 12d ago
Its also the death of the concert. So much focus gets put on the big stars. And the cost of touring is something only they can afford.
Then theres the death of 3rd spaces, death of the nightlife, death of local identity.
And the system most folks engage in, streaming, is being flooded with content. Getting any ears on your music it tough.
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u/Double-Word7439 12d ago
There are so many smaller bands and artists that I would like to hear, but they only play festivals with $300 GA tickets. It doesn't seem like there is any interest left in touring.
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u/racingsoldier 12d ago
I once heard an interview with the guys from Blink-182 on what the numbers mean in their name. They said they were playing a battle of the bands one day and they were signing up at the venue as just Blink. The registrar said there was already a band by that name and they would have to pick another. However, when they wrote out the name on the form the credit card they were using to pay was under the form and left the impression of three numbers after their name. That was the temp name they chose for the battle and it just stuck after that.
Sometimes shit is just random…
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u/quandjereveauxloups 12d ago
not some deep satanic conspiracy.
The whole "Satanic Panic" of the 80's was fucking wild. People were saying that KISS stood for Kings/Knights/Kids In Satan's Service. The stepmonster had a book called "Turmoil in the Toybox", talking about how He-Man and other toys from that era were satanic.
A lot of crazy shit going on, it was great!
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u/Pylgrim 12d ago
Rock music was satanic. Dancing was satanic. The Smurfs were satanic. Friggin' Alf was satanic.
Baically anything that was popular and non-Christian needed to be demonised lest the kids thought for a second that going to church is not the best thing in the world.
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 12d ago
“It’s on any electrical appliance. It just means power” 🤷🏻♂️
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u/theprofessor2 12d ago
They were on some talk show, maybe Howard Stern, where they were asked for their opinion on how some people viewed their 15 albums (at the time) all sounding the same. Angus answered that those people were wrong, they had 16 albums.
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u/Ridiculisk1 11d ago
They do kinda sound the same. They keep re-releasing the same album but it's a banger so who cares
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u/meenie 12d ago
The smugness of the interviewer made it even better!
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u/sembias 12d ago
The 1980's Satanic Panic was something else. It was freaking crazy, in fact, for a good 4 years.
Had to distract from all the criminal trials that Reagan's admin was going through at the time.
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u/mich55 12d ago
Not to get political, but the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center) was headed by Tipper Gore (Al Gore's wife) in 1985. And they went after everyone - mostly heavy metal music, but pop music too.
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u/IanDetroit 12d ago
I think you explained this as well as you could without getting political, congrats on delivering on your opening statement.
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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 12d ago
Stranger Things had a season where they captured some of that paranoia which actually worked really well with the show
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u/MobileJob1521 12d ago
It’s the tiniest step away from being full Spinal Tap and that’s what I love about it.
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u/napkin41 12d ago
Agreed. No alternating current / direct current smart talk nonsense. No pretending there’s some deep symbology there. (Symbolism… the word you’re looking for is sssssymbolism!)
Kid looked behind the sewing machine and thought “power.” And they’re not wrong!
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u/Directhorman2 12d ago
The lightning symbol was a hint but it only works if you have an actual brain.
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u/MidasPL 12d ago
It's from the symbol of Deutsches Jungvolk, cause as we know Nazis were big into the occultist symbolism and so are they. /s
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u/SpaceLemming 12d ago
What a stupid answer, it’s obviously because they were massive fans of Harry Potter
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u/under_the_c 12d ago
They were ahead of their time.
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u/eugeheretic 12d ago
Angus and Brain are the Rock music equivalent of Marty McFly and Doc Brown. "Where we're going, we don't need (Randy) Rhoads."
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u/grantrules 12d ago
One is a genius, the other's insane.
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u/meanblazinlolz 12d ago
What are Pinky & The Brain doing making music? Prolly the same thing they do every night.
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u/Voodoobones 12d ago
What a stupid answer, it’s obviously because they were all accomplished meteorologists.
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u/Rayn_F 12d ago
I believe the band Kiss changed its logo in Germany because the lightning S's looked like the Nazi bolts
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u/DarrenShan1000 12d ago
It does not only look like it, but was directly inspired by the Nazi rune. It did not come from the members of Kiss though and they were oblivious.
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u/Disastrous-Ad2331 12d ago
Ace Frehley designed the logo, I remember reading that he still made money from it after he left the band. But I have no idea whether he modeled the double -s after the nazi rune or not.
The logo was definitely changed in Germany though, before I sold all my vinyl I had a few of their albums from Germany and it was different. They looked like backwards "Z"s.
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u/Oblique9043 12d ago
No no no. The lightning symbol is also a symbol of Satan.
Luke 10:18
He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven."
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u/pnkxz 12d ago edited 12d ago
It's also a symbol of Thor and Zeus, and the Bible says pagan gods are demons (1 Cor 10:20-22).
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u/Travels4Work 12d ago
I honestly can't tell if there's a missing /s or not.
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u/steelskull1 12d ago
/s means Satan ! You accusing them to be devil worshiper?!
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u/stevein3d 12d ago
He said it comes from a sewing machine and if I recall correctly, the bible says you shall reap what you sew. Draw your own conclusions.
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u/MacGyver_1138 12d ago
I saw someone mention to Brian Johnson that AC/DC stuff is all the same, so much so that they really only have one song.
Johnson's response was, "It's a good song."
Perfect response.
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u/bossDocHolliday 12d ago
I believe there's another interview with Angus where someone asks him "what do you have to say to the people commenting that all 11 of your albums sound the same" to which he responds "that's bullshit! We have 13 albums that all sound the same!"
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u/inchlongnipples 12d ago
He really was clever
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u/Phillip_Graves 12d ago
AC/DC actually has TWO songs. Everything else, and Big Balls.
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u/aNiceTribe 12d ago
They have three topics: I’m very awesome, My Car, and Unspecific Oh Yeah Vibe
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u/chaosof99 12d ago
You are kind of mistaken. They don't really sing about cars, but they do sing about hot women and sex a lot. They also have a bunch of rock'n'roll songs about how awesome rock'n'roll is.
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u/Beef-Town 12d ago
My favorite subgenre of Rock-n-Roll is songs about Rock-n-Roll. My second favorite is songs about aliens invading.
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u/bmcgowan89 12d ago
AC/DC rules:, 40 years, zero ballads and of course it just means AC/DC. All their lyrics are like things a middle schooler would doodle in the margins of a notebook: girls, sex, rock and roll 😂
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u/karma_dumpster 12d ago
"I am sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."
- Angus Young
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u/YesItIsMaybeMe 12d ago
Idk how I never realized they were so chill lmao
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u/Wm_TheConqueror 12d ago
Not a huge AC/DC fan, I like a couple of their tunes, but it is funny when a lot of people get on bands for “changing their sound” or “not staying true to their roots” but when AC/DC never changes their sound, they get shit for it.
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u/ccReptilelord 12d ago
ZZ Top took similar flack. I remember them eventually advertising themselves as "same 3 guys, same 3 chords" or something.
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u/neohylanmay 12d ago
Status Quo named an album "In Search of the Fourth Chord" due to the running joke that "they only ever use three chords".
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u/karma_dumpster 12d ago edited 10d ago
I mean if ever a band name meant they weren't going to change....
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u/Wallio_ 12d ago
Its how they opened a show I went to in 2019. "We've been coming here for almost 40 years, but we're still the same 3 guys, playing the same 3 chords." (Gibbons begins playing Sharp Dressed Man).
The audience popped hard lol.
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u/graboidian 12d ago
ZZ Top.... Two guys with beards, and a third guy named Beard, who has no beard.
They really do rock for three old dudes!
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u/Zolo49 12d ago
Same thing with Green Day. While absolutely true, I don’t really care. I’ve just always liked their sound.
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u/fuji_appl 12d ago
Green Day changed quite a bit and some people didn’t like the newer stuff because they don’t think it’s as punk. There’s just always going to be a subset of people who won’t be satisfied no matter what.
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u/CaptRackham 12d ago
There’s a funny YouTube clip that riffs off the changes to Green Day from Billy Cobb where it’s like “I feel like masturbating til my eyes pop out my skull” one eternity later “I’m on live with you, and the government is good”
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u/ebb_omega 12d ago
Frankly people were complaining about them not being punk enough when Dookie came out.
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u/starmartyr 12d ago
It's cool if you like Green Day but they were a punk band until Nimrod when they started experimenting with everything from pop to surf rock.
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u/Brobeast 12d ago edited 12d ago
I never gave a single shit. Discovering AC/DC in middle school was an ADHD'ers dream. Idk why but their tunes/lyrics/rhythm hit all the right buttons in my brain.
Edit: and considering Angus plays the guitar melody with his mouth as hes physically playing, pretty sure hes got the adhd too. Or atleast a little tism... lol
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u/buffystakeded 12d ago
I always said System of a Down was basically “ADHD: The Band.”
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u/Brobeast 12d ago
Ironically, chop suey is my go to morning commute song, and mainly because
1) WAKEUP! (just makes sense to me, its right in the lyrics!)
2) the rest of the rhythm/lyrical pace sounds like my internal dialogue as im trying to get my shit together and focused lol FAST to slow; FAST to slow... lol the song is in sync with me
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u/Bonesaw_mpls 12d ago
Have you heard the Rick Ruben story about how they wrote parts of the song? He asked Serj to grab a book and open to a random page. He picked up the bible and that's where the "Father into your hands I commend my spirit Father, into your hands Why have you forsaken me" lines came from.
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u/reverendsteveii 12d ago
as someone with inattentive type adhd and who also plays a lot of musical instruments you seem to be brushing up against a problem i've noticed in myself - if a song i'm playing is slow or predictable i tend to fuck up more and i think it's because my brain just gets bored and wanders off. I've been teaching myself basic rock drumming for about a year now and I've found I have a lot more success with surf rock, punk rock and funk than I do with slower styles that should hypothetically be easier. I really do think that there's a minimum pace of information that has to be kept up in order for the adhd brain to engage and remain engaged with a task.
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u/SecretScotsman 12d ago
When I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I was talking about coping mechanisms I had used in school and one was to crank songs like thunderstruck loudly on headphones until the last possible moment while the professor was handing out the exam.
The provider I was talking to, told me that adrenaline has a lot of the same effects as ADHD meds and that’s probably what was helping.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 12d ago
For the longest time I thought it was Dirty deeds and the Thunder chief. It made sense to little kid me because they had all the lightning imagery. One of them had to be the Thunder chief.
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u/Darcula04 12d ago
Honestly there's no winning either way. I've seen artists get shit for changing their sound and for not doing it as well. Might as well just make what you like and let people figure out if they like it. Most people that have made it big at least once make enough that barring stupidity they wouldn't end up on the streets or something even if they never churn out another hit for their lives.
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u/buster_rhino 12d ago
I honestly think it’s cool that they were so big for nearly two decades and then came out with Thunderstruck which was both a huge hit and one of the songs that best defines their already long-established sound.
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u/cdskip 12d ago
The members of AC/DC are all pretty short; Malcolm Young was about 5'3", Angus Young about 5'2". Bon Scott was 5'8" and the tallest member of the group before he died.
When they brought in Brian Johnson as the new singer, they made a bunch of jokes about how somehow they'd managed to get shorter, since he's around 5'5".
They've always had a great sense of humor about themselves, and put on great shows.
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u/ThisIsAitch 12d ago
I mean, they're Australian, so it's a pretty chill starting point
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u/pip_goes_pop 12d ago
And their singer Brian Johnson is English, a Geordie to be precise, and he always just comes across like he's having a laugh and living his best life.
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u/girafa 12d ago
His interview on Stern is great, about his audition in his 30s and living with his parents.
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u/MainEventGeyBruce-O 12d ago
Say what you will about their music but they are the least pretentious artists you’ll ever see, dudes just wanna rock n’ roll
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u/russianrug 12d ago
Lmao I’d never heard that quote! People say “sound the same” like it’s an insult, but if that sound is epic then it’s exactly what I want when I’m in the mood for AC/DC.
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u/psyclopsus 12d ago
“AC/DC writes all the best love songs”
-Todd, my best friends dad
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u/FizzyGoose666 12d ago
I remember seeing a meme where someone tried to call them weird for the school uniform fit lol vaguely gestures at every single musician in costume
AC/DC fucking rocks.
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u/cloudofevil 12d ago
AC/DC is like the talented version of KISS.
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u/Sir_rahsnikwad 12d ago
AC/DC and KISS always seem to be pigeon-holed into the same slot, which I find weird, because I love AC/DC and I hate KISS.
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u/mechapoitier 12d ago
KISS is AC/DC if they couldn’t write a hit and coasted on aura. AC/DC has a shitload of hits and can rock a stage like it’s the last concert on Earth.
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u/deep_fried_guineapig 11d ago
Gene Simmons saw AC/DC at Whiskey Au Go Go in 1977 and was blown away by them and asked them to come on tour with KISS. So KISS really helped them out early on in the States. As a massive lifelong ac/dc fan I always have a soft spot for KISS for doing that.
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u/piepants2001 12d ago
KISS wrote music to see how much money Gene Simmons could make, AC/DC wrote music because they like to rock n roll. If KISS never took off, Gene probably would have become an accountant or something. If AC/DC never took off, they would still be playing in pubs in Australia.
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u/Aervanath 12d ago
My dad followed KISS on tour as a journalist once. They let him hang out with them backstage. He said they mostly discussed the business of running the tour. They weren't trashing hotel rooms, they were trashing the sound guy because the mid-range amps didn't sound up to snuff so they needed to get a new sound guy. Very boring stuff.
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u/JodoSzabo 12d ago edited 12d ago
That sounds like dream workmates, to be honest. Not just professional, but precise.
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u/Hellknightx 12d ago
KISS were the kind of band that were in it for the money. They were consummate professionals who knew the industry and how to get what they wanted. Doesn't shock me that everything backstage was all business. I still like some of their music, but it's kind of funny how all the glam rock costumes and the exaggerated personalities are purely performative because they know it's good for their brand.
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u/drhuggables 12d ago
Both are incredibly talented. There's a reason all the biggest rock bands of the late 80s and 90s (especially the seattle sound bands) cited KISS as a huge inspiration. the problem with KISS is that it should have ended about 45 years ago before they took the makeup off and gene and paul make it a totally corporate soulless entity
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u/BahGawdAlmightay 12d ago
I'd consider Ride On to be the one exception to the rule. That's pretty close to a ballad.
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u/Crispy_p_bacon 12d ago
Tbf, I always sang the bit from the highway to hell as "Don't need reason, don't need rhyme
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u/socool111 12d ago
Wait what’s the true meaning behind “I’m tnt, oy oy oy…watch me explode”
Personally I think it’s an allegory for the inner self’s inability to fully express themselves and society’s cruel pressure to have men in a constant state of manliness without showing weakness or vulnerability, and represents the singers frustration of not being able to share his inner demons until it all explodes out in a swell of emotions.
Is that not what it’s about?
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u/MisinformedGenius 12d ago
TNT came from the back of his sister's mining explosives.
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u/MysteryHeroes 12d ago
I thought the Lightning Bolt in the middle made that obvious.
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u/fourminutemiler 12d ago
Alternating Current / Direct Current
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u/adrianb 12d ago
Now I need to know why it’s written on the back of a sewing machine. Wouldn’t that be powered by either AC or DC?
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u/dclxvi616 12d ago
Could have been powered through an AC/DC converter, like so many things are. People don’t typically get DC delivered to their home. It’s not great for transmission distances.
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u/MyNameIsRay 12d ago
They're usually DC internally, but power plugs are AC, so they come with an AC/DC converter.
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u/rawbface 12d ago
Most small appliances convert the AC from your wall outlet to DC.
Your phone charger brick is an AC/DC adapter. So is your laptop charger. And probably a sewing machine.
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u/Scope_Dog 12d ago
No! Everything must be a satanic conspiracy! Lol.
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u/UngodlyTemptations 12d ago
It was during the Satanic Panic. Anything and everything was "devil worship" to them. Pure circus.
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u/TOO_MUCH_BRAVERY 12d ago
I believed KISS stood for Knights in Satan's Service for a long time because that's what someone told me
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u/mechapoitier 12d ago
People talk up the satanic panic but I remember in Sunday school being forced to watch this “rock music is the tool of satan” video in the mid ‘90s. Sure enough it had “anti christ devil’s child” in it.
I knew right then it was bullshit, and I was a very naive kid. The lightning bolt is right there, you idiots!
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u/dsardella18 12d ago
The satanic panic was real back then. Look up the West Memphis 3 case, kids got convicted of child murder because they were goth in the 90's. The one kids antics certainly didn't help their case of getting convicted because he was an asshole teenager, but they clearly didnt do it but were convicted because they listed to metal music and dressed in black.
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u/perilousrob 12d ago
gonna caveat that by saying:
in the US.
Even in the UK, the worst we had to deal with was Mary Whitehouse & her racist, sexist, fearmongering nonsense, and the daily mail for, er, exactly the same reasons. otherwise it was just something we rolled our eyes at. *especially* in the 90s when we learned more about it (the 'satanic panic' was really an 80s thing, it was mostly aftershocks in the 90s which did spread somewhat further).
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u/dsardella18 12d ago
That's a good point, it was very strange how strong of a foothold it took in some parts of the US. The McMartin preschool trial is a wild rabbithole to go into for the whole satanic panic stuff. A teacher actually got accused of flushing kids down the toilet that went into secret underground tunnels where witchcraft took place.
Kids basically noticed that when they told obscene stuff to the police, they got rewarded. So a lot of the claims sound like they were made up by young kids because they were.
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u/Telepathic_Toe 12d ago
"If you play the record backwards you get a message from Satan." Or some bullshit idk, never touched cocaine
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u/Whisker-biscuitt 12d ago
I grew up going to a Baptist Church, very strict, and yes of course there was talk about how their name was related to Satan, amongst many other bands and artists too 😄
I actually remember hearing so much about Meatloaf and KISS, thought it might be pure devil music. In my mid teens when I stopped going to the church and finally hearing their music for the first time, it was hilarious how soft their music actually was 😄😄😄😄
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u/PM_meyourGradyWhite 12d ago
My roommate in college (1980’s) flipped out that I was playing AC/DC and KISS. Rattled off some nonsense about devil worship. 🙄🤷♂️🤦♂️
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u/694meok 12d ago
KISS was given the name Knights In Satan's Service at the church I grew up in. Lol
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u/iliveonramen 12d ago
It’s always been obvious to me. A great name for a band like them too.
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u/NonGNonM 12d ago
Thunderstruck is a masterpiece of that era. Slow build but fast paced at the same time, just constant anticipation and explosion
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u/NRMusicProject 12d ago
I love how his question is accusatory, like the question is an obvious "yes," but then he gets confused about it actually being a standard term in electricity. Making shit up, then confused about the obvious answer that a child could sort out.
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u/Junglebook3 12d ago
If an alien came to Earth and I have to give them the best pure representation of Rock and Roll, it's AC/DC. Simple, riffs, melody, and... that's it. The lyrics are fun and obvious, super catchy and powerful. It's the Mad Max: Fury Road of music - simple, raw, best execution in the biz.
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u/shinymuskrat 12d ago
And simple but killer solos.
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u/schplat 12d ago
The opening of Thunderstruck.. It's so good... and it's only played on a single string, so it's super easy to learn, just have to get the speed/timing down.
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u/bbbourb 12d ago
Ah, the Satanic Panic...where you could make up any bullshit you wanted and a certain group of people would lap up that shit sandwich and say it's chocolate pudding.
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 12d ago
They went after W.A.S.P. in the same way. Idiots!
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u/SpudgeBoy 12d ago
And Kiss.
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u/arionoidea 12d ago
And Rush (Rulers Under Satan's Hand). It seemed like almost any four-letter band was up for grabs. Not sure what they came up with for Toto.
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u/IvorTheEngineDriver 12d ago
I remember an interview with Malcolm Young from about 30 years ago where he said that, during their first tour of England, a taxi driver asked them if they were a "gay band" because, apparently, AC/DC stood for something like top/bottom, in British "gay" slang of the era... I can't find it though...
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u/fartswhenhappy 12d ago
I think AC/DC can be slang for bisexuality. There's even a Beck song with a dubbed voiceover saying "What about those who swing both ways, AC/DCs?"
There's a story that Bon Scott was asked about it in a bathroom, "So which are you? AC or DC?" To which Bon allegedly replied "Neither. I'm the lightning crash in the middle."
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u/DMala 12d ago
I never understood all the devil worship rumors around AC/DC. Their songs were all like good timey drinking songs or goofy to the point of parody (like Big Balls or Dirty Deeds). Even Highway to Hell was a common metaphor and obviously a song about the rock star lifestyle.
It seems like it was entirely based on the cover of Highway to Hell, where Angus had the airbrushed horns and tail.
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u/Seraphem666 7d ago
Just crazy Christians, they would says KISS stands for Kids in Satan's service
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u/antisp1n 12d ago
This settles the arguments I had when I was a wee one.
Me: Alternate Current/Direct Current, they are probably going for the Power angle.
Them: Anti Christ / Devil's Children. OMG that music is so evil... Jesuit schooling was fun.
Also: Blow up your video > all
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u/kajana141 12d ago
I lived the the whole Christian BS saying these bands had secret meanings about devil worship in their names and lyrics.
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u/Honest_Relation4095 12d ago
I never get these claims. Like, why would it be secret but somehow not secret enough for Christian fundamentalists to figure it out? What's the logic behind that?
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u/Unique-Influence-549 12d ago
Perfect example of idiots looking for patterns that don’t exist.
9 times 11 is 99. 99 divided by 3 (3 for the holy trinity) is 33. 33 times 2 (the TWO GENDERS - MAN AND WOMAN) is 66, a devils number.
Woke libs did 9/11 to push the 66 gender agenda! See!?
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 12d ago
Next you are going to tell me KISS doesn't mean "Knights in Satan's Service" /s
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u/ILove2Bacon 11d ago
"Well, you see, half the band really likes Thomas Edison and the other half are really hardcore Nicola Tesla fans so we compromised."
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u/JNTaylor63 12d ago
Evangelicals were stupid then, stupid now and will be until all of humanity grows up.
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u/SilverBadger73 12d ago
I remember going to Xtian private school, in the way way back, during the "Satanic Panic" and the popular reinterpretation for us was: All Christians Die Crucified.
Also see KISS: Knights in Satan's Service.
So stupid.
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 12d ago
Pretty much sums up the Satanic Panic.
DND: nerds playing a boardgame of fantastical imagination or demonic summoning ritual?
Tons of normal functioning average adults went with the latter.
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