A Rock BANecDote/Another Reason AC/DC Sucks

This past weekend, during a solid Rock Band session it was decided to take on one of the various pre-decided set lists that are offered to you during the tour mode. If I remember correctly, the particular one that we had chosen was five songs long. For those of you unfamiliar with the intricacies of the game, the goal of the set lists is to simply pass all of the songs they are made up of. I believe we had made it to the fourth song of this set list when we had to play AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock". While I've never been a fan of AC/DC (in fact, I would consider myself to be a detractor) I figured that this song wouldn't pose too much of a problem, at least not in the way it eventually did.

I was actually sitting this song out at first, so I saw fit to make a trip to the bathroom. As I was relieving myself I heard Morrison Lewis yelling at me about how I had to hear the lyrics to the song they were playing. As I listened to Morrison through the bathroom door I thought to myself about how there was no way the lyrics to "Let There Be Rock" could be as bad as he was saying there were.

Shortly after I stepped out of the bathroom, however, the band failed the song. I offered my services to try and sing the song in hopes that we could get through it. But as I began to sing the song I realized I had made a mistake. The lyrics to the song were as bad (if not worse) than advertised. I was literally having trouble making it through lines of the song without breaking down laughing, and it only got worse as the song went on. The lyrics were that bad. Here, take a look for yourself:

Lyrics I find particularly ridiculous in bold

In the beginning
Back in nineteen fifty-five
Man didn't know about a rock 'n' roll show
And all that jive
The white man had the schmaltz
The black man had the blues
No one knew what they was gonna do
But Tchaikovsky had the news
He said -
"Let there be sound", there was sound
"let there be light", there was light
"Let there be drums", there was drums
"Let there be guitar", there was guitar
"Let there be rock"
And it came to pass
That rock 'n' roll was born
All across the land every rockin' band
Was blowing up a storm
And the guitarman got famous
The businessman got rich
And in every bar there was a super star
With a seven year itch
There were fifteen million fingers
Learning how to play
And you could hear the fingers picking
And this is what they had to say
"Let there be light"
"Sound"
"Drums"
"Guitar"
"Let there be rock"
One night in a club called `The Shaking Hand'
There was a ninety-two decibel rocking band
And the music was good and the music was loud
And the singer turned and he said to the crowd -
"Let there be rock"

After another failure on the song in no small part by yours truly, Morrison gave the vocals another go. Fortunately they passed the song this time, and that's the story of the last time we ever played AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock" in Rock Band.