AC/DC: Classic or Dud

i almost died riding in a (homemade) convertible pickup truck down a back road with a guy who took it up to like 100 miles an hour while blasting Thunderstruck and now every time I hear that AAAAHAAuhHAAAAAHAAAA i get giddily nauseous

lol Thunderstruck may as well have been my hometown’s unofficial theme song the amount it was played for the 5 years after it came out
(my hometown = bogan central)

i am still somewhat triggered by it

i remember exactly where i was when i first heard thunderstruck. my friend josh's house - watching the video on his tv. he had trivia to tell me about the drummer which i did not really care about

what was the trivia?

that he had played for The Firm, who had done their own versions of Led Zeppelin tracks or something

meanwhile i'm getting flattened like a train and can't speak, can't think

That's a different Firm to the Star Trekkin' mob, I believe

It is. (the Star Trekkin' one is the same as the Arfur Daley E's Alright one though)

£4 today got me the remasters of this lot :

AC/DC - If You Want Blood
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - High Voltage

i am 53.
too old to get into this stuff ?
my neighbours wish.

I feel like one of the only people who loves Fly on the Wall. Crazy underrated album. A little clunky (Simon Wright's style is more caveman compared to Rudd's swinging groove) but it's loaded with some wicked rockers.

given the excess, not got to that one yet.
but to be fair, have listened to 4 of them, and so far, not hit a dud yet (ftr : back in black, let there be rock, high voltage, if you want blood)

I was surprised they never did a farewell tour, but perhaps one is imminent, as apparently they are playing a one-off (for now) show in California with a bunch of ol' Monsters of Rock vets.

Always loved the way that Cliff Williams essentially stays out of the way of the real rhythm section, which is Malcolm Young and Phil Rudd.

Every musician in this band is part of the rhythm section. Someone I know used to say of AC/DC, for all its no frills, no fuss, meat and potatoes philosophy, the band is always in tune, and always in time.

I think of AC/DC* as the electric equivalent of the Count Basie Orchestra, and Malcolm was their Freddie Green.

*with Phil Rudd, that is. Without Phil, they’re too stiff, they don’t swing, and the rhythm section doesn’t breathe.

Just heard Thunderstruck used as a cue on NPR, and for a second was sure that meant someone had died. :(

AC/DC were a huge band for me when I was a kid. I got into them because of Maximum Overdrive. But I was very Brian-centric and only knew the biggest hits of the Bon Scott years. Anyway, I was listening to Rose Tattoo the other day and it inspired me to dig further into 1970s AC/DC. I mean, I don't need to tell anyone that High Voltage is an amazing record, but I'm always glad when I find something awesome to catch up with.

Powerage is the 70s record I return to the most (though obv I celebrate the whole catalog) mostly cuz its light on hits but mostly cuz it's like if I told you "Oh yeah the Stones made a record between Sticky Fingers and Exile that's just as good but no one talks about it"

The early Johnson era stuff is so great and maybe a little underrated now?

The band I was in did an AC/DC covers thing for a NYE and we specifically focused on the Brian Johnson era stuff cuz it wasn't as "cool" but we did a deep dive and really practiced the material (like more then we normally would for own shit, natch) but so it gave me a renewed appreciation of those songs and Johnson is a fucking incredible singer, to sound like he does and do it LOUD is a lot harder then you'd think

we had a confetti canon on stage and sync'd up "For Those About to Rock" with the midnight countdown so "FIRE!" came right at midnight and it would have been awesome but our bass player kinda step on the touchdown call cuz he thought I was going to blown up by the confetti canon so he pulled me away and can you tell I'm still pissed about it haha?

Apparently Cliff is back, but Phil is out. :(

I guess it's kinda hard to guess where Rudd's head is at given his history

Fun fact: Rudd was the only Australian born member of the blockbuster era.

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

Booming post, cosign 100%.

oowerage is so so awesome, Chris otm

There is a 2 part ABC documentary about Alberts LTD which covers from the 60s with the Easybeats through AC/DC that is on Youtube that is worth a view. It is like many of these RNR documentaries but the Australian view point is pretty novel to me, especially seeing some of the other acts covered in the show like Rose Tattoo. The part where Young and Vanda was using drum tape loops to make tracks was interesting.

oowerage is so so awesome

First tour since 2016, I guess. But just Brian and Angus as anchors. No Cliff or Phil.

Phil Rudd has not toured with them for fourteen years tbf

(four years before his meth / murder-for-hire legal complications)

(and Cliff retired from the band aged 67, so not touring at age 74 for an album that he popped back to record for a few weeks in 2018 is not much surprise)

And Malcolm is dead. I know *why*, doesn't make it much better. But Cliff did play with them at that Power Trip show back in October, so there was a possibility.

Aw man why is this thread not called "AC/DC C/D"? Someone really slipped up there.

Makes me really nervous when two separate threads about aging artists get bumped.

tbf this the rare band where it's unusual when something bad *doesn't* happen to them.

the current Mitsubishi commercial has done the impossible and actually made me dislike "Thunderstruck"

AC/DC C/D S/D

mods please rename

xpost same thing happened to me but 20+ years ago, ithere was a Holden ute commercial that played in Australia foreverrr in the late 90’s early 00’s

still cannot with that fkn song