BSPH: AC/DC - Big Balls

"Big Balls" is a song by australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was released in 1976 on an album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap". It is dirty dirty stupid little song that is also inherently (out loud) funny. It has nothing to offer except for whole lotta suggestive phrasing and overall whimsical vibe but you don't need anything else to enjoy this song. It is perfect. This is one of the finest examples of subverting the very idea of a silly joke into something else. It is crude but in the same time strangely affective and even elegant.

"Big Balls" is marvelous example of tongue-in-cheek lyricism that lets you in for a joke but still keeps it relatively straight albeit just barely and just for fun. That makes it even funnier because it makes no sense at all. Formally, it is an ode for testicles also known as "balls". That word is also used as the name of prestige and solemn dance events. That is it and it is no good. The very notion of using this joke any way is wrong in an ultimate manner - it is too simple. And still Bon Scott manages to pull it off with an amazing gambit and then does self-congratulatory u-turn with his ears.

It starts off as a reflective sentimental schlager but quickly turns into demented beer chorus. And it the end it enacts drooling babbling sabbath. The song reeks with tackiness. It is beyond reasonable appreciation. But it is so masterfully put together you can't help but enjoy it. Bon Scott delivers a master class of jam-packing the lyrics with as many double entendres and sexual innuendos as possible. In fact - there is entire glossary of fancy sleazy-sleazy phrases hidden in the song. And all this is made while maintaining plausible song structure and even somewhat straightforward if nonsensical narrative.

There is also one very interesting thing in the song. Over its course the "balls" thing is gradually pumped up to eleven and then beaten to death viciously, with flowers. That is undercurrent narrative of the song. It overuses innuendos and double entendres to the point of stripping them of any sense. It is so overabundant it shuts off any chance of sense breaking in. It ends with barely comprehensible exclamations "Bollocks Knackers" - which is still about balls but in the context of the song it is almost a spell in an alien language.

"Big Balls" is a song that can shine a light even on the darkest days.