AC/DC: Classic or Dud

PWR UP is hot! i will always be a bon girl, but brian's voice has aged so well... he sounds better here than on back in black to me.

the first song is dope but it reminds me of that awful Christian praise song we used to sing "ROMANS! 16! 19! SAYS!"

Brian's voice still has quite a bit of bite to it

Did you guys pay for this album or what

ripped it out of Angus Young's hands

lmao

the only good thing I saw on the Internet today pic.twitter.com/fBFJACKWAj

— Russy KGB (@RussellHFilm) November 23, 2020

*applauds*

hahaha so good

New album is brilliant

Angus ranks their best songs, riffs, and school uniforms: https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/interview-angus-young-acdc-new-album-power-up.html

This is like the best thing ever for a dozen different reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULs4JW3tPI

1) They could be playing live *and* to a track
2) Angus and his SG appear to be the same size
3) They look like the sort of band that give each other tattoos
4) The dancing girls
5) They look like they know they're the best band ever *and* that they're getting away with something
6) Electric bagpipe
7) The almost deliriously motorik denouement
8) Bon never losing sight of that camera
9) The triple split screen that still features a double Malcolm in one frame
10) Bon's funny bagpipe dance
11) Angus is almost never on camera!
12) Bon is wearing a shirt

Duckwalking the bagpipe!

Playing to a track but Bon's mic is live imo

Angus ranks their best songs, riffs, and school uniforms: https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/interview-angus-young-acdc-new-album-power-up.html

It's rather sweet that Angus admits that even he finds "Thunderstruck" tricky to play.

Often when the whole band is miming you can tell with the drums, but Phil seems pretty on the bullseye. I'll have to watch again.

love the sharpies dancing behind Bon - and he is definitely miming those pipes to look like a blowjob

that video is fucking great

11/10

Power Up really is v enjoyable! i am def surprised by this turn of events

Mists of Time fave so far

Are you sure you’re not listening to Powerage

y

I'm pretty surprised by how good Brian sounds

I'm pretty surprised by how good Brian sounds

Even the second time?

I was surprised, too. Then again, I was surprised at how well Axl did as a sub, all things considered.

By the way, most underrated aspect of Angus iconography? The way he gulps like a goldfish when he plays.

Late-period AC/DC - S&D btw

Late-period AC/DC - S&D: Classic or Dud

guys?

it's a long way to the top

if you want to rock and roll

Fuckin' tell me about it

gettin old
gettin grey
gettin ripped off
under-paid
gettin sold
second hand
that's how it goes -
playin in a band

*postin on Ilx

workin on a ban

long way to the shop
if you want a chiko roll

YESSSS

it's a long way to buy pot
if you wanna smoke a bowl

primary school playground vs high school playground

lmao

guys?

it's a long way to the top

if you want to rock and roll

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, January 11, 2021 1:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

so this update is responsible for me listening to "it's a long way to the top" for the first time yesterday (!) and going down a mini ac/dc rabbit hole. i never really listened to them, i don't know why. good god they were a band, with albums and songs and stuff. but yeah they completely rule. i'm not a huge rock guy but a few rock bands are just undeniable to me, these guys are probably on the level of like ccr for me i guess.

honestly I was the same with AC/DC. I used to think Bon Scott sounded like a muppet with chlamydia and I hated the so-called "sameiness" of their music, also believed challops like that Brian Johnson era was superior (when really the only thing of his I liked was Back in Black)

Was about 9 years ago I went through their near entire discography and fell in love with the Bon material. it's so raw and purely face-melting.

it's fun to just spin AC/DC album after album until 3 am

https://www.repfoto.com/wp-content/uploads/7910008002-1H-2-768x768.jpg

(AC/DC fans at Glasgow Apollo Theatre, Scotland, Highway To Hell Tour, October 27 1979, ©1979 Robert Ellis)

air guitars in front row are great. I miss times like that

My sister was there, in the bouncy balcony. Judging by that photo no women were allowed in the stalls.

yikes tbh

a muppet with chlamydia

As if this is a bad thing for the notorious singer of a hard rock band.

My favorite AC/DC story is from both of the times when I saw them on the ... maybe first Ballbreaker and then the Stiff Upper Lip tour? Whenever it was, during probably "The Jack" iirc they had a camera panning the crowd for flash-happy women, but after a couple of flashing women the camera would linger on flashing men, too, and it just alternated from there.

i love the Bon era the best

but overall with this band I think the joy of relistening as a longtime fan now is that there is a lot of joy in their music, and how the fun IS that it’s not really “about” anything. And lately for me on a musical level, marvelling how the whole rhythm section is *so* locked in, solid as a fucking rock, with these perfect spaces to support Bon’s showmanship, or Angus’s solos, or fuckin bagpipes or whatever

it’s a thing of beauty imo

it's a long way to buy pot
if you wanna smoke a bowl

― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, January 11, 2021 3:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

also

powerage best rock album after aerosmith rocks

Surely it's ALL about sex, booze and rock & roll?

aside from that