Album Week continues today! I need to moisturize my hands. They're not as bad as they were a little over a week ago, when they could have passed for those of a corpse, but the whole point is to stay ahead of these things.
I use Badger Balm For Hardworking Hands. It is organic and comes in a little metal tin, and on the side it says THIS STUFF WORKS. When appraising the product, this simultaneously hilarious and no-nonsense statement struck the bargain. It does, too. And the badger on the lid is just the handsomest little chap.
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The cover of the AC/DC album Highway to Hell has some men on it, and one of them has devil horns and is holding his own devil tail as though it were his penis. I guess this album tells you enough about itself in this way. This album is a stupid dude thing in a very accented sense, almost in the way of being an archetype, but it does not lose the fundamental stupidity. So without making the error of inserting any gravity, of taking itself seriously at all, it is transcendent'ly libidinal, honest, funny, and scary.
Angus and Malcolm Young are straight-up good guitarists. Listening to the guitars on this record is like eating delicious crispy fried seafood, all juicy and steaming. Having a problem with these guitars is a definite sign that you're a fair hike up your own ass. If that offends you, I am glad that it does. You need to unclench your guts enough to let your balls drop, then find someone to ferociously make out with and slowly, richly make love to as Touch Too Much oozes out of the speakers like flaming sex honey.
That's basically what this album is all about.
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Have a good Tuesday, everybody. Album Week 2019.
--JL
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