5. Dirty Deeds (Australian version) 4. Let There Be Rock (Australian version) 3. Back in Black 2. Highway to Hell 1. Powerage (updated version with Rock n Roll Damnation in place of Cold Hearted Man)
1.Let there be rock 2.High voltage 3.Highway to hell 4.Powerage 5.Back in black 6.Fly on the wall 7.Dirty Deeds 8.Blow up your video 9.Flick of the switch 10.Ballbreaker
5. Powerage 4. For Those About To Rock 3. Back In Black 2. Highway To Hell 1. Let There Be Rock... my first AC/DC rekkid and still my favorite! Honorable mentions... Razor's Edge Flick Of The Switch Dirty Deeds
1. Powerage 2. Back In Black 3. Highway to Hell 4. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 5. Let There Be Rock Honorable mentions: 6. High Voltage 7. Flick of The Switch 8. The Razors Edge
My top five AC/DC albums are: 1) 'Ballbreaker' (1995) 2) 'For Those About to Rock' (1981) 3) 'Flick of the Switch' (1983) 4) 'Highway to Hell' (1979) 5) 'Back in Black' (1980)
Well, I've loved 'em since I discovered them in '78. Found "POWERAGE" under "A" at Two Guys Record Dept. Vineland, NJ, when I was just a ROCK loving pre-teen & budding young guitarist. And man, it was Love at first feel...I mean sight! That stunning, colorful, insane Powerage album cover, with it's lightning-centric logo 'n title. Bought it on the spot. Never looked back. AC/DC "very quickly" became one of those "life changer" artists/bands that made my young life very exciting and very inspired. Pretty hard to even do a Top 5, what with my love and adoration of the Bon Scott era (I mean, look, the very night of the news of Bon's death (2/20/80), I called my local radio station, WYSP, and talked to the DJ about this brutal loss for rock n roll. At the end, I asked for him to play "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" as not only a good representation of Bon himself, but of his wit, swagger and chutzpah as a singer and lyricist. He agreed and played it. So obviously, it's hard for me to not include any one of the excellent Bon Scott era LPs. Each one carries it's own kind of endearing magic. That said, I love the first 3 with BJ very much as well. Before I do this, I have to say, as a core AC/DC fan since the late 70s (living and breathing this band through those essential years, seeing them on every tour from Highway To Hell through Razors Edge) .... hearing Hack's choice of "Blow up Your Video" as a Top 5 album(??) is just laughable. To each his own, but c'mon, man. That album is absolutely one of their worst. Moreover, Martin is absolutely right about "Flick Of The Switch" That is a great, visceral, band produced record! And it's Wayyyyyyy better than that echoey Blow up Your Video mess. Okay, there are a couple of good tracks, but overall...please. It's a bottom 5 for sure. *I do agree with you about "For Those About To Rock" though. Underrated, fantastic album. "Back in Black" obviously cast a very large shadow, but judged on it's own, FTATR is a brilliant and highly catchy, consistent LP. And nice to hear someone bring up "Breaking The Rules" too. Great song that I've always championed, as is most every track on that album ("Evil Walks," "C.O.D.," "Inject The Venom," "Snowballed," not to mention the epic title track and the tight-groove single, "Let's Get it Up"...all those are excellent too) I understand the comment, but I do not find it a weak tea version of BIB. I find it to be a record that, while admittedly not as magnificent, is still an engaging, killer LP. For me, it's just the "gold" colored Back In Black. Heh. Like it that Martin mentioned those great color coordinated "Atlantic center labels" of the first 3 Johnson era albums. I personally loved that cool aesthetic touch to each of them (black/silver, gold/black, white/black) Artistic things like this only add to the overall impact of the record at hand. But let me finally post my list, which is difficult and separated by the thinnest of margins, because they're all monumental, uptopian ROCK albums, esp 1-4: 1. LET THERE BE ROCK (1977) 2. HIGHWAY TO HELL (1979) 3. BACK IN BLACK (1980) 4. POWERAGE (1978) 5. FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK (WE SALUTE YOU) 1981 ∆ have to add that not including T.N.T ('75) / High Voltage (1976) and Flick of The Switch (1983) was extremely painful, Mr. Verrell. But hey, this is set up as a Top 5 only, so what can ya do. For the record though, I adore those albums as well. I also feel that "Ballbreaker" is a bit of a unique and slightly underrated, kick ass record (what a title track!), which also sports a way better jacket than Razors Edge or any of the others, post Flick! Finally, I left "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" out of the mix, due to this, I think, being only for studio efforts, as it probably should be. But I'd like to say that cranking up this magnificent, earth melting live album is a God-like experience. Angus is just "off the charts great," with a guitar tone that can set houses ablaze and sterilize young women at a thousand paces. I love it very much. ⚡ MARC
My favorite band. Back in Black is a staple, but my next 5 lean heavy on the Bon era: Highway to Hell High Voltage '76 Razors Edge Let There Be Rock Powerage
One of my top 5 bands. They definitely have a formula, but what the heck….. who cares!?! Anyway here’s my top 5: 5. Power Up (maybe because it’s still new & was such a surprise) 4. Razor’s Edge 3. Powerage 2. Back in Black 1. Highway to Hell
Had to catch on the replay. I agree Hack "Back In Black" 1st and "Highway to Hell" 2nd after that mostly single songs for me. What Martin said about AC/DC and Van Halen holding down the late 70's made sense to me.
Very true about the late 70s and I’m glad Martin pointed that out. Styx, Kansas, BOC, Aerosmith, etc. kinda fell off the map with weaker albums while AC/DC and Van Halen charged on through.
1. DDDDC 2. Highway to Hell 3. High Voltage 4. Let There Be Rock 5. Powerage I don't have anything against the Brian Johnson era, just not in my top 5...
Seduction line in you shook me was the name of a race horse bons girlfriend in miami owned. No way Brian wrote that.. 100% bons lyrics were used throughout bb
Martin does not like Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution? Dear me, 1 - Back in Black 2 - For those about to Rock 3 - Highway to Hell 4 - Stiff Upper Lip 5 - Razors Edge
It's funny. Rock or Bust is my favorite of the latter day AC/DC albums. I really love Emission Control, Hard Times, Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder. Fly On The Wall is weak in terms of songwriting, but I still love it. Fly, Shake, Send for The Man, Back in Business is fire. I put Blow Up Your Video last. It's got better songwriting, but the production is so bad I almost find it unlistenable. The live versions of Heatseeker and That's The Way are vastly superior. Too bad. I know Stiff Upper Lip is flat in terms of songwriting, but to me it sounds the best in terms of production. My dream would be to have them re-record BUYV with that production. It may have been close to For Those About To Rock level success if so (imho). Ballbreaker has some great stuff, but has lost some steam for me. Can't knock the title track, Caught With Your Pants Down, Burnin Alive, The Furor. Hard as a Rock is just a stupid song, though that riff is catchy as hell. As you can see from my other comment I am more of a Bon fan, but love all eras.
Blow up your video is really underrated. First two tracks are killer, Kissing Dynamite is really decent, Nick if Time of criminally overlooked and I love the riff of Ruff Stuff. Plus This means war kicks ass. Also just listened to Stiff Upper Lip again, it's really really good. Give It Up is absolutely brilliant, Hold me back also.
This is actually quite easy for me: I probably don't have the most popular opinions regarding AC/DC and their catalog, but I don't care. 5. Fly On the Wall 4. Highway To Hell 3. For Those About To Rock 2. Flick of the Switch 1. Powerage
1. Let There Be Rock. 2. Powerage 3. Fly on the Wall. 4. 74' Jailbreak 5. Flick of the Switch. And about the Mutt Lange records I simply don't get it, because apart of Shoot to Thrill all the rest of the tunes in the entire 3 albums are absolutely horrible, maybe just suitable for the casual listener but difinivetly not for the rock n roll fan.
Bon is like a tennis 🎾 player that plays with a wooden raquet and Brian is like a tennis 🎾 player that plays with a carbon fiber raquet. Bon sounds drunk 🥴 Brian sounds sober and sharp. Bon doesn’t have the horse power Brian has
I'm so glad to read on the comments that "Flick of the Switch" is finally getting the recognition it deserves. FOTS is my favourite DC album. ⚡
5. Dirty Deeds (Australian version)
4. Let There Be Rock (Australian version)
3. Back in Black
2. Highway to Hell
1. Powerage (updated version with Rock n Roll Damnation in place of Cold Hearted Man)
1- Powerage
2 - Highway to Hell
3 - Let There Be Rock
4 - Back in Black
5 - Flick of the Switch
My favourite 5 are
1 Powerage
2 Back In Black
3 Highway To Hell
4 Let There Be Rock
5 Flick Of The Switch.
I picked the same 5, different order..
1.Let there be rock
2.High voltage
3.Highway to hell
4.Powerage
5.Back in black
6.Fly on the wall
7.Dirty Deeds
8.Blow up your video
9.Flick of the switch
10.Ballbreaker
1 Let There Be Rock
2 Highway To Hell
3 Back In Black
4 Powerage
5 Flick Of The Switch
1) Powerage
2) High Voltage
3) Let There Be Rock
4) Back In Black
5) If You Want Blood, You Got It... I know it's live but it is essential
1) Highway to Hell
2) Let There Be Rock
3) Powerage
4) Back in Black
5) Flick of the Switch
1 Back in black
2 Flick of the switch
3 Highway to hell
4 For those about to rock
5 Let there be rock
Great show guys.
My Top 5:
5. Flick Of The Switch
4. Back In Black
3. Powerage
2. Highway To Hell
1. Let There Be Rock
1- Powerage
2- Let there be rock
3- Highway to hell
4- Flick of the switch
5- High Voltage
1. Powerage
2. Back in Black
3. Highway to Hell
4. Blow Up Your Video
5. Flick of the Switch
1. Back in black
2. Highway to hell
3. Let there be rock
4. For those about to rock
5. Blow up your video
6. Flick of the switch
5. Powerage
4. For Those About To Rock
3. Back In Black
2. Highway To Hell
1. Let There Be Rock... my first AC/DC rekkid and still my favorite!
Honorable mentions...
Razor's Edge
Flick Of The Switch
Dirty Deeds
1. Let there be rock
2. Highway to hell
3. Powerage
4. High voltage
5. Back in black
My favourite top 5 albums
1.Flick of the Switch
2 Highway to Hell
3 Let There be Rock
4 Back in Black
5 Razors Edge
Damn Flick is good
Song for song strong
Nice to see Martin give The Razor's Edge strong respect! It gets way too much hate and it's one of their absolute best, imo.
Totally agree with your comments on Breaking All the Rules. Some of their most unique guitar playing!
5 high voltage
4 highway to hell
3 flick of the switch
2 let there be rock
1 powerage
⚡️
1. Back in Black
2. High Voltage
3. Highway to Hell
4. Power Up
5. Black Ice
1. Powerage
2. Back In Black
3. Highway to Hell
4. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
5. Let There Be Rock
Honorable mentions:
6. High Voltage
7. Flick of The Switch
8. The Razors Edge
1 back in black
2 highway to hell
3 let there be rock
4 for those about to rock
5 flick of the switch
1. Powerage
2. Let There Be Rock
3. Highway To Hell
4. Dirty Deeds
5. TNT
1. Powerage
2. HIGHWAY TO HELL
3. HIGH VOLTAGE
4. LET THERE BE ROCK
5. BLACK AND BACK
Black and back????
My top five AC/DC albums are:
1) 'Ballbreaker' (1995)
2) 'For Those About to Rock' (1981)
3) 'Flick of the Switch' (1983)
4) 'Highway to Hell' (1979)
5) 'Back in Black' (1980)
Here's mine before you guys get started:
5) High Voltage (Intl)/TNT
4) Back In Black
3) Highway To Hell
2) Let There Be Rock
1) Powerage
5. Highway To Hell
4. High Voltage
3. Back In Black
2. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
1. Powerage
1-back in black, 2-highway to hell,3-let there be rock, 4-high voltage, 5-powerage and razors edge
My top 5
5. High Voltage (1976)
4. The Razors Edge (1990)
3. Highway To Hell (1979)
2. Let There Be Rock (1977)
1. Back In Black (1980)
1 Let There Be Rock
2 Powerage
3 High Voltage
4 Highway To Hell
5 Flick Of The Switch
1. Let there be rock.
2. Dirty deeds done dirt sheap.
3.Powerage.
4. Highway to hell.
5. High voltage.
Well, I've loved 'em since I discovered them in '78. Found "POWERAGE" under "A" at Two Guys Record Dept. Vineland, NJ, when I was just a ROCK loving pre-teen & budding young guitarist. And man, it was Love at first feel...I mean sight! That stunning, colorful, insane Powerage album cover, with it's lightning-centric logo 'n title. Bought it on the spot. Never looked back.
AC/DC "very quickly" became one of those "life changer" artists/bands that made my young life very exciting and very inspired. Pretty hard to even do a Top 5, what with my love and adoration of the Bon Scott era (I mean, look, the very night of the news of Bon's death (2/20/80), I called my local radio station, WYSP, and talked to the DJ about this brutal loss for rock n roll. At the end, I asked for him to play "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" as not only a good representation of Bon himself, but of his wit, swagger and chutzpah as a singer and lyricist. He agreed and played it.
So obviously, it's hard for me to not include any one of the excellent Bon Scott era LPs. Each one carries it's own kind of endearing magic. That said, I love the first 3 with BJ very much as well.
Before I do this, I have to say, as a core AC/DC fan since the late 70s (living and breathing this band through those essential years, seeing them on every tour from Highway To Hell through Razors Edge) .... hearing Hack's choice of "Blow up Your Video" as a Top 5 album(??) is just laughable. To each his own, but c'mon, man. That album is absolutely one of their worst. Moreover, Martin is absolutely right about "Flick Of The Switch" That is a great, visceral, band produced record! And it's Wayyyyyyy better than that echoey Blow up Your Video mess. Okay, there are a couple of good tracks, but overall...please. It's a bottom 5 for sure.
*I do agree with you about "For Those About To Rock" though. Underrated, fantastic album. "Back in Black" obviously cast a very large shadow, but judged on it's own, FTATR is a brilliant and highly catchy, consistent LP. And nice to hear someone bring up "Breaking The Rules" too. Great song that I've always championed, as is most every track on that album ("Evil Walks," "C.O.D.," "Inject The Venom," "Snowballed," not to mention the epic title track and the tight-groove single, "Let's Get it Up"...all those are excellent too) I understand the comment, but I do not find it a weak tea version of BIB. I find it to be a record that, while admittedly not as magnificent, is still an engaging, killer LP. For me, it's just the "gold" colored Back In Black. Heh.
Like it that Martin mentioned those great color coordinated "Atlantic center labels" of the first 3 Johnson era albums. I personally loved that cool aesthetic touch to each of them (black/silver, gold/black, white/black) Artistic things like this only add to the overall impact of the record at hand.
But let me finally post my list, which is difficult and separated by the thinnest of margins, because they're all monumental, uptopian ROCK albums, esp 1-4:
1. LET THERE BE ROCK (1977)
2. HIGHWAY TO HELL (1979)
3. BACK IN BLACK (1980)
4. POWERAGE (1978)
5. FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK (WE SALUTE YOU) 1981
∆ have to add that not including T.N.T ('75) / High Voltage (1976) and Flick of The Switch (1983) was extremely painful, Mr. Verrell. But hey, this is set up as a Top 5 only, so what can ya do. For the record though, I adore those albums as well. I also feel that "Ballbreaker" is a bit of a unique and slightly underrated, kick ass record (what a title track!), which also sports a way better jacket than Razors Edge or any of the others, post Flick!
Finally, I left "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" out of the mix, due to this, I think, being only for studio efforts, as it probably should be. But I'd like to say that cranking up this magnificent, earth melting live album is a God-like experience. Angus is just "off the charts great," with a guitar tone that can set houses ablaze and sterilize young women at a thousand paces. I love it very much. ⚡
MARC
I'm with Martin, fave album is Highway, fave song is Touch Too Much. Some unconventional album picks made this more intriguing.
My favorite band. Back in Black is a staple, but my next 5 lean heavy on the Bon era:
Highway to Hell
High Voltage '76
Razors Edge
Let There Be Rock
Powerage
One of my top 5 bands. They definitely have a formula, but what the heck….. who cares!?! Anyway here’s my top 5:
5. Power Up (maybe because it’s still new & was such a surprise)
4. Razor’s Edge
3. Powerage
2. Back in Black
1. Highway to Hell
Powerage (European version); Let there be Rock (Australian version); Back in Black; Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (European version); Stiff Upperlip. 🤘😎
Great Show Hack I agree with Martin Flick of the Switch is AC/DCs Hardest sounding record it never gets the love it Deserves.
Thanks for watching Ricky. Cheers
Power Up is a great return to form! forgot to put it in my Honorable mentions.
Had to catch on the replay. I agree Hack "Back In Black" 1st and "Highway to Hell" 2nd after that mostly single songs for me. What Martin said about AC/DC and Van Halen holding down the late 70's made sense to me.
Very true about the late 70s and I’m glad Martin pointed that out. Styx, Kansas, BOC, Aerosmith, etc. kinda fell off the map with weaker albums while AC/DC and Van Halen charged on through.
Did Martin put "Flick of the Switch" at #1?
1. Highway to Hell
2. Powerage
3. Back in Black
4. Let There Be Rock
5. High Voltage
I believe Highway to Hell was his number 1.
that was more than interesting i always thought in no particular order let there be rock,powerage and highway were top 3 and brian albums followed☝🏻
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1. DDDDC
2. Highway to Hell
3. High Voltage
4. Let There Be Rock
5. Powerage
I don't have anything against the Brian Johnson era, just not in my top 5...
1) Powerage
2) LTBR
3) HTH
4) FOTS
5) BIB
My top 5 AC/DC albums
1. Powerage
2. Back in Black
3. Let there be Rock
4. Highway to Hell
5. Flick of the Switch
Highway to Hell
Back in Black
Powerage
Let there be Rock
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Powerage
Highway to Hell
Flick of the Switch
Let There Be Rock
Power Up
My sons and I(one of them a guitar player) all agree that Rock or Bust was their best record in quite some time.
Any of their albums is splendid
#1 highway to hell #2 back in black#3let there be rock#4 for those about to rock#5 flick of the switch
Seduction line in you shook me was the name of a race horse bons girlfriend in miami owned. No way Brian wrote that.. 100% bons lyrics were used throughout bb
AC/DC............................................ RULES
Martin does not like Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution?
Dear me,
1 - Back in Black
2 - For those about to Rock
3 - Highway to Hell
4 - Stiff Upper Lip
5 - Razors Edge
It's funny. Rock or Bust is my favorite of the latter day AC/DC albums. I really love Emission Control, Hard Times, Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder.
Fly On The Wall is weak in terms of songwriting, but I still love it. Fly, Shake, Send for The Man, Back in Business is fire.
I put Blow Up Your Video last. It's got better songwriting, but the production is so bad I almost find it unlistenable. The live versions of Heatseeker and That's The Way are vastly superior. Too bad.
I know Stiff Upper Lip is flat in terms of songwriting, but to me it sounds the best in terms of production. My dream would be to have them re-record BUYV with that production. It may have been close to For Those About To Rock level success if so (imho).
Ballbreaker has some great stuff, but has lost some steam for me. Can't knock the title track, Caught With Your Pants Down, Burnin Alive, The Furor. Hard as a Rock is just a stupid song, though that riff is catchy as hell.
As you can see from my other comment I am more of a Bon fan, but love all eras.
I am enjoying this Hack!! Great Show Man!! Rock On!!
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To me it ends with Highway to Hell, I just can‘t deal with Brian‘s voice and I always hated Thunderstruck. Powerage is probably my favorite album.
Dancers like Brian
Shoot to Thrill too 'poppy'?!?
Yes! Both chorus and verse.
@@MartinPopoff Shoot to Thrill is such a great song
Blow up your video is really underrated. First two tracks are killer, Kissing Dynamite is really decent, Nick if Time of criminally overlooked and I love the riff of Ruff Stuff. Plus This means war kicks ass.
Also just listened to Stiff Upper Lip again, it's really really good. Give It Up is absolutely brilliant, Hold me back also.
This is actually quite easy for me: I probably don't have the most popular opinions regarding AC/DC and their catalog, but I don't care.
5. Fly On the Wall
4. Highway To Hell
3. For Those About To Rock
2. Flick of the Switch
1. Powerage
Lol at any non Bon Scott records being in this ranking. Boo.
1. Let There Be Rock.
2. Powerage
3. Fly on the Wall.
4. 74' Jailbreak
5. Flick of the Switch.
And about the Mutt Lange records I simply don't get it, because apart of Shoot to Thrill all the rest of the tunes in the entire 3 albums are absolutely horrible, maybe just suitable for the casual listener but difinivetly not for the rock n roll fan.
Bon is like a tennis 🎾 player that plays with a wooden raquet and Brian is like a tennis 🎾 player that plays with a carbon fiber raquet. Bon sounds drunk 🥴 Brian sounds sober and sharp. Bon doesn’t have the horse power Brian has
"Flick of the Switch" sounds terrible. Awful production value. The songs are pretty good, but it sounds like it was recorded in a garage.
Loose ranking:
1. Highway to Hell
2. High Voltage
3. Back in Black
4. For Those About to Rock
5. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap