That is a lovely tribute. Should really be an AC/DC album called "All in the Wrist."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
ugh that suuuuuuucks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
LET LOOSE FROM THE NOOSE NEWS: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6053874/acdc-not-quitting-retirement-rumors
― brio, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Still, the management/pr wing not climbing all over themselves to squash this makes me nervous.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Hmm. I think the fact that it's already been six years since the last album, which means at minimum two more 'til the next one, if there's a next one, hints that announcing a formal split or retirement or whatever is sorta beside the point. Every band is on hiatus between albums and tours. But yeah, that Billboard piece is pretty rife with a non-denial denial vibe. It'd be pretty easy to kill this rumor right now, and that article does not do it.
Basically, no official word from the band or management, let alone anyone on the record, so I fear for the worse.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
if true, it's the end of an era. what a band and malcolm should go down with ppl like nile rodgers and steve cropper as all time great rhythm guitarists
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Well, here's Johnson on the record:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/10769783/ACDC-We-are-not-retiring.html
Again, sorta vague. Confirms someone in the band has a debilitating illness, confirms there is still a plan to head to the studio to see how things go, and maybe that there will be a 40th anniversary tour. But then he also says everything is up in the air, so I guess plans don't mean that much.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
it'd be nice if they got to do one last big album and farewell tour, a lot of big bands end their run unexpectedly and don't get to soak in a moment like that. but they're old guys and nobody lives forever, it's okay whenever it ends, they've had a great run.
― posi riot (some dude), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
I'd be perfectly happy if it just ended unexpectedly, without the three year Final Farewell Forever Tour. As befits a band who thus far has refused to release a best-of or comprehensive boxed set.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
Formal word:
https://www.facebook.com/acdc/posts/10152370344752930
After forty years of life dedicated to AC/DC, guitarist and founding member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health. Malcolm would like to thank the group’s diehard legions of fans worldwide for their never-ending love and support.In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family’s privacy be respected during this time. The band will continue to make music.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
thus far has refused to release a best-of or comprehensive boxed set.
What else would you have included on the box sets?
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
If you have Who Made Who and the Iron Man 2 soundtrack you have a decent best of.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
A "best-of" would be rough to whittle down for AC/DC, but I'd listen to a "greatest hits" comp on the reg anyway.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's strategic, their hits are such high points that it must really boost their catalogue sales to have them spread out on albums that are otherwise plenty listenable
― j., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Man, there have been tons of best-ofs and greatest hits released for all sorts of shitty bands. It has nothing to do with I'd want - that is, nothing - but what the band could get away with releasing and yet has not released. Boxed set-wise, the two sets - Bonfire and Backtracks - are sort of odds and sods, no? There's no equivalent of the 4-disc career-overview best-of that, again, lots of other acts release. Whether one is warranted or not is another question, but again again, that has not stopped lesser bands from doing it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
but what the band could get away with releasing and yet has not released
this is the thing - they're proud of their albums as individual works, they reasonably think there's no need to fleece fans, the two movie soundtracks are functional best-ofs, Family Jewels has almost everything you'd want to see, and the DVD in Backtracks has the alternate videos.
and as one of the best-selling bands in the world, they're likely not under any irresistible pressure to cash in from any record companies. (and even if they were, I'd guess have enough control via George and Alberts to refuse if they wanted.)
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Thursday, 17 April 2014 00:40 (ten years ago) link
Name me some other best selling acts with no greatest hits on the shelves.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Conversely, New Order (a band I imagine sells reasonably large numbers) has more compilations available than proper studio albums.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 9:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Metallica
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
Good call.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, good one.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
kind of amusing to think of what those would look like, though. lots of bands do periodic greatest hits (ie, "Best of 1983-1989"), can you imagine how rankled the diehards would be with a "Metallica Greatest Hits: 1991 - 2011" release.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
Nutallica has its own very devoted following of people who have almost nothing in common with the fans of the 80s stuff.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
totally, and it'd sell really well, but I'm just amused thinking of all of the diehards going "THE CD SHOULD BE A BLANK CD-R" on newsgroup message boards (ok ok it's 2014 not 1996 but w/e)
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
if AC/DC was going to do any kind of best-of, they'd probably have to do a Bon and a Brian comp separate
what Metallica and AC/DC also have in common is that they were two of the biggest holdouts in not putting their music on iTunes for years before finally giving in. interesting how it's a couple bands who have dozens of singles in permanent rock radio rotation that are really trying to uphold the sanctity of the album.
― posi riot (some dude), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
Bon disc 1 and Brian disc 2 comp would be pretty killer. Van Halen should've done that, too, but they had to go and mix up their comp chronologically, which seems like a terrible idea.
― posi riot (some dude), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
Van Halen should've done that, too, but they had to go and mix up their comp chronologically, which seems like a terrible idea.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
I ought to have been clearer: obviously the band don't want to do it, and their sales success gives them the ability to reject any suggestions*. Presumably most best-selling acts are happy to sell EVEN MORE copies of Greatest Hits Vol. III / come up with the idea themselves.
*or to do it twice in the same non-obvious way
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
Well, yeah, that's why I respect AC/DC's decision. They could, and it would sell millions, but they clearly don't want to. See also: the delay selling stuff online, the dogged dedication to formula, the lack of some weird trendy outlier in the band's catalog ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:40 (ten years ago) link
this is why I feel this strange melancholy at the idea of AC/DC shutting down, even though I have no interest in hearing more material or seeing a 2014 show. Loosing that singleminded dedication to formula with the Ramones long gone and Motorhead wobbly too. I've always assumed it was Malcolm who was the force behind that.
― Yarl Kastremski (bendy), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
the lack of some weird trendy outlier in the band's catalog
We were Back in Black/but now check this rap!
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Apparently Malcolm is indeed the band's undisputed leader/creative director. And, vitally, co-writer of everything.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Brian Johnson would have probably looked good with dookie chains on though.
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Wait, they've apparently got a nephew replacing Malcolm!?!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
ugh, why
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 May 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I guess Stevie Young subbed for him in 1988?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HuQdjgltFA#t=115
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
Stevie filled in for Malcolm on occasions during the Black Ice tour when Malcolm wasn’t well and on the 1988 Blow Up Your Video tour when Malcolm was being treated for alcohol dependency. Stevie’s first band Starfighters also supported AC/DC on the 1980 Back In Black tour.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
I mean I'm not even remotely one of those lineup pedants, I can appreciate incarnations of bands through changing lineups, but being w/out someone that founded the band and was integral to the band's sound like that, I ain't down with at all.
for the occasional live show, ok...but recording w/out him, which I saw some articles suggest = fuck that.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 May 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
Hopefully he and Wolfgang and Jason can form a band called the Reboots.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 May 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
I ranked every AC/DC album for Stereogum. Have at it, if you can get the thing to load.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tky4USPxFok
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/news/acdc/79959
Unfortunately, due to the nature of Malcolm’s condition, he will not be returning to the band
:(
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
Frontman Brian Johnson previously said he toyed with the idea of calling the album 'Man Down' in reference to Young's absence, "But it’s a bit negative and it was probably just straight from the heart. I like that."
I love the band and like having them around, but kind of screw them for not calling it quits.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
They didn't quit after Bon died so why now?
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
Didn't Stevie Young fill in for him in the 80s at some point?
― folk punks: stop bragg-ing (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the cousin or nephew or whatever? This isn't filling in, though. Mal is gone.
I dunno. I guess we'll hear the results, but everything I've read has stressed how vital and valuable Malcolm was as a songwriter (as far as that goes) and as the band's rudder, while Angus even considers his brother a better guitarist. I hope the new album sounds like AC/DC and not like AC/DC trying to sound like AC/DC.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
When Stevie filled in, Simon Wright was the drummer, leaving one original member (Angus) for those shows.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, and how did the music fare?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link