My Music Journal 2025: December 17, 2025

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

 

Time: 5:15 PM

Song: Big Ten Inch Record 
Artist: Aerosmith
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on the way home from work.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/74jtieTD4GbZSwfCfmaFxz?si=fb273c2f5f6244d6

 

Driving home from Write On last night I entered the section of songs in my MP3 list that start with the word “Big.” The first song to come on was ACDC’s “Big Balls.” 

 

I thought about using that for yesterday’s blog song, but I thought the one I chose fit the story I wrote at the meeting a little better. Although, there was a crudeness to my story that fit a bit with the Australian group’s cheeky, bawdry song. 

 

The thing I like about the song “Big Balls” is that it doesn’t really sound like any other ACDC song. It’s not nearly as heavy, not nearly as formulaic, and Bon Scott’s voice isn’t screaming, instead it is ripe with wit, like through his voice he’s winking at the obvious innuendo of the song. 

 

I neared the end of the “Big” songs on the way home tonight from work, and this one from Aerosmith came on. It’s from the same era. “Big Ten Inch Record” was released on “Toys in the Attic” in 1975, and “Big Balls” was released in 1976 on “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.” 

 

This brings me to another little anecdote. Last Friday as I was leaving for work, I came down the hill that is our driveway to find a half dozen DVD cases strewn around. Not wanting to drive over them and then having sharp pieces of plastic in my driveway for the rest of eternity or until our tires found every one of them, I picked them up. 

 

I thought, maybe there would be a good flick. 

 

Instead, they were all porn. One featured Asian women, and one was called “Titties and Holes.” 

 

Why had someone thrown these here? Were they getting rid of evidence before a marriage? Was it a mad girlfriend who had found their man’s stash? Have they transferred all their porn to digital and couldn’t wait to find a garbage can so they threw them out their car window? 

 

These are the kind of questions that will never be answered.