Song of the Day 9/19: AI/DC, “Great Balls”

This is a few months old but I just found it the other day, and I still crack up when I listen to it. Back in May some YouTuber who goes by Funk Turkey fed all AC/DC’s lyrics into a computer program that spit out a “new” AC/DC song that, despite having total nonsense for lyrics, sounds like it would fit on any of their non-Bon Scott albums.

Mr. Turkey (if that’s his real name) then cobbled together some Angus Young power chords and added the instruments and vocals himself. As he put it on the post, “I put the lyrics of AC/DC into a bot and asked it to write a song. Also, let me say that trying to sing like Brian Johnson is extremely hard.” He pulls it off quite well.

Whoever this guy is, he’s a great vocal mimic. He’s done the same stunt with a variety of classic-rock bands — Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Nirvana and more — and while they all sound like the bands being imitated, the lyrical tendency towards nonsense works best with AC/DC, because their lyrics are just a string of macho-strutting double-entendres in the first place.

It’s also the best in the series because of the comments. The comments on most of the others are filled with fans who huff that it’s obviously a fake that’s far inferior to the real thing. On “Great Balls,” listeners agree it sounds just like the band, they quote favorite lines and seem to have reached a rough consensus that the AI is writing about trans women.