Totally - Bon Scott era for the lyrical story telling (‘What I like I take, What I don’t I break, And I don’t like you…’ - ‘I got patches on the patches, Of my new blue jeans, Well they used to be new, When they used to be blue, When they used to be clean…’ - pure gold)- everything after Bon Scott just for the Young brothers (if you have to explain why ‘Who Made Who’ is the greatest three guitar rock song - ever - it’s ‘cause you’re speaking to an idiot)…
Well, the period with Bon is still the best period a band played - ever. Brian is superb, the greatest replacement AC/DC could get, but with Bon it was better, even MORE energy. But everybody understands it was a candle that burned at both ends and in the middle. Bon was on overdose and all knew that he would die soon. But the time up to that moment, boy, i wished i could have seen them live with him (born in 1971 i was to young for it).
Ronald Belford Scott is one of my favorite singers and lyricists of all time. I don't know about you guys but I think a lot of the lyrics for Back In Black were already written by Bon. His sisters recalled laughing about reading American Thighs in his notebook of lyrics before he passed.
I don’t think I could’ve said it better. I was actually surprised he did not include them in his show f is for family lol because clearly it was based in the 70s. When they were just getting famous. Even Family Guy does that stuff. Not many people I know don’t like AC/DC in some form.
Dirty Deed's was a re-release of earlier stuff. The original Australian cut of "Dirty Deed's" came out in the mid 70's. It's one of their best records.
We had these great import record stores in the '70's, and we got all those different releases of Dirty Deeds, Jail Break and High Voltage. That's also how I discovered Priest, Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard and Accept.
@@andrettski8686 The original Dirty Deed's had some brilliant songs that were less "radio friendly". I rate "Ain't No Fun (waiting around to be a millionaire)" an unheralded rock n roll classic alongside "Down Payment Blues", and "Ride On" is total proof that AC-Dc could also crank out a great ballad. One of the great privileges of my life was seeing them live at Festival Hall in Melbourne January 1977. It was the last time Bon toured Australia.
@@Andy-o2f I had the chance to see Bon in '78, but my parents said I was too young. Aerosmith with AC/DC would have been my 1st concert. I'm still upset.
It wasn't a re-release it was released in Australia and the rest of the world but because Atlantic didn't like it and thought it wouldn't sell it wasn't released in the U.S, they were even considering dropping the band and up to that point ACDC hadn't cracked the American market but after Highway to Hell and then Back in Black ACDC's record label Atlantic wanted to capitalise on Back in Blacks success so they decided to release dirty deeds in 1981.
As an aussie hearing Mr Burr talk bout our ACDC with such passion and reverence is a merging of 2 x guilty pleasures I have.......comedy and rock n roll! Thankyou sir, you made my day hearing this!! Much respect always 🙏
When I finally got see AC/DC, they were touring on the success of BIB, even though the news album FTATR was out. They did two shows at the big arena. The show opened with "Hells Bells" and that it was one of most impressive concert openers I have ever experienced, and I saw most every great rock band in the 70's...
I'm old enough, and Australian enough, to remember when their song 'Jailbreak' was number one in Aus. Also old enough that I hated Brian Johnson with a passion - bc noone could replace Bon - for about, oh, 5 minutes. When all is said and done, Accadacca have been the quintessential rock BAND, not just surviving but excelling despite adversity, and persisting through sheer love of rock until age finally denied them.
i bought For Those About to Rock at Target when it was released. I placed the album on my bedroom wall supported by two plastic thumbtacks because it's such a great album cover. Still listen to it
Never listened to any ACDC when I was a teen in the 80s, was all about the charts, buying singles and top of the pops back in the UK I was watching VH1 on sky one night back In 2000 and a documentary came on about them ..went straight into town next day and bought back in black ,high voltage and the stiff upper lip,CD ..and the live at Donnington DVD ..same year I started seeing my wife and we both got hooked at the same time.... they are our band ....seen them 5 times since 2008....shame I never saw them in the 80s or 90s though......been to Wembley and Dublin this tour both great nights ...
Saw them in Milwaukee in April of 2010 with that classic BIB line up. Been to a lot of rock and metal shows, but the way Brian controlled the crowd, the sound mix, and pace of things made the show seem like 10 minutes from the Rock and Roll Train opener to FTATR and the cannons. Best show I have been to.
@@thegreatstrogannofski3418Angus is quoted saying something along the lines of, people say we put out the same album 11 times, but they're wrong, we put out the same album 12 times.
For those about to Rock is one of the most under rated albums ever. Well done Bill Burr who I love. I couldn't have described it better. I grew up in Ireland and our cousins from New York send us the albums (their mother did). They send us cassettes (remember cassettes). I saw them in Paris recently, probably last time I will ever see them. Legends.
Mutt had a great ear for production. This and Hysteria for Def Leppard are two of the absolute best produced and sounding albums, ever. The 40 year old production still holds up.
Good on ya Bill. As a young teen i used to listen to dirty deeds on my walkman with headphones & it was awesome. Loved that & used to imagine i was in a band playing an ACDC guitar rocking out ❤🇦🇺
Its one of my favorite acdc albums Spellbound is my favorite acdc song ever its so sick. Im a victim of a bad crash. Man its awesome i got my hands in the fire. I love it.
For Brian's era AC/DC I think FTATR does have the best guitar sound. I think their most recent album came the closest to recapturing it. Number one on my list is still Let There Be Rock.
Haha yeah I remember when DDDDC came out in the US as well and thought maybe it was a different band named AC/DC because It had a different font and didn’t have the lightning bolt. ALSO, I remember when MTV played back in black and FTATR videos in its normal rotation and then out of the blue one day a video came on for Jailbreak. This had to be around 1984 when Flick of the switch came out. I called my best friend to tell him to turn MtV on and we watched that video while in the phone together and neither of us could figure out if it was OUR AC/DC because of Bon. We didn’t know it was an old song we never heard of. We concluded it was them because of the way angus moved and he had the SG. The outfit also threw us off because it wasn’t a schoolboy outfit and at age 12 we had no clue what an Aussie prison outfit looked like.
I had Dirty Deeds a year before (1979) Back in Black came out (1980) I bought an import copy on vinyl. I grew up in Seattle. I was 10 in 1979. My friend’s older brother schooled me on the ways of rock. 😂
Same here but I swear I got it at Sears in Seattle ‘79. Maybe I’m having some Mandela effect here but never in my life do I remember a time when Deeds was released after Back In Black
Agree with everything you said Bill. I was the same age as you when BIB came out and confused with Dirty Deeds, not knowing much about Bon or Brian. I also love FTATR.... phenomenal tracks on that album! One of my favorites!
I absolutely love the FTATR album. It was the perfect follow up to Back In Black. It is one of my favourite AC/DC albums. I has some of their best material on it but it never got nor still gets the wider recognition it deserves.
That is so true. I was the same age. I had all those albums in the early 80s, Dirty Deeds my favourite. I did not know there were two different lead singers over the history this band until maybe 2010 lol.
I remember when I got into Helloween ‘Keeper of the Seven Keys’ Pt.1 & 2 and loving the vocals. When I subsequently heard their first album ‘Walls of Jericho’ I was confused because I didn’t realise it was the guitarist who sang on that one!
The opening guitar on You Shook Me All Night Long is my favorite. It's restrained. Not fully pushing the amp. Then he winds it up and you get the full force. At the other end there's Ride On. Angus and Malcolm - such no-BS guitarists. Love that band.
I remember ACDC playing gigs at my local YMCA for $2 entry in the 70's. Large windowless brick building with an extremely high ceiling, and polished wooden floor with a basketball court and gymnastics area. Heavy Tinnitus for days afterwards (I still have it, long term hearing damage was not a consideration back then). 😅😅
I totally agree. However, Mutt had produced FTATR, Foreigner 4, Def Leppard High n Dry and Pyromania, and The Cars Heartbeat City within a span of two years. At the time AC/DC recorded Flick of the Switch, he was hospitalized for exhaustion. But he insisted they send him tapes as they were in the process. He signed off on them, but the poor genius was drained.
FTATR is by far the biggest they ever sounded, and it’s not even close. It falls just short of BiB as far as song quality, and it takes a real hit because it had to be the album that followed BiB, but it’s still really, really good. Most bands would kill to put out an album like that! ⚡️
I’ve loved For Those About to Rock since it first came out and always thought it was very underrated. I think Flick of the Switch is even more under rated.
Seriously how can you not like AC/DC? Even if you don’t like them in some form, you definitely at least heard them. They have too many albums not too have . And I love Bill Burr this just makes me like him even more 😂. She said wearing her favorite shirt and shoes lol.
He's speaks some truth. I loved everything they did. There last great album was Razors Edge. No question. As Australian who knows there record company.
I'm on the fence about Brian era AC/DC. I can't decide if I like Back In Black or For Those About to Rock better. It depends on what day you catch me on.
I can't tell you how many times I replayed For those about to Rock trying to count the cannon shots. The lyrics call for a 21 gun salute but I could never count more than 18 or 19. I was 13 at the time.
I remember that weird time when they released Highway to Hell, then Back in Black, then Dirty Deeds and I was wondering the same thing....did Bon totally change his voice then go back ? Then I read an article and they mentioned Brian Johnson and at that time I had no clue Bon was dead! It was so weird. Then For Those About to Rock comes out and I tell ya, that opening of that album was AMAZING! It was that summer I finally heard on the radio that Bon was in fact, dead. I was was shocked and saddened, but I was also glad that AC/DC chose to go on with Brian. It was a surreal moment for sure.
I was also 12 when the DC came into my consciousness.. I was on family holiday in US and Canada (I'm from UK) in 1980 and I remember one of my Canadian cousins saying to me "have to you heard Highway to Hell?" and I responded (insert Homer Simpson voice) "err... what, who???" - back in after the trip I bought Rock n Roll Ain't noise pollution single, then Back in Black, then Highway and didn't look back after that. What a f*@kin band.... I saw them for only the third time at Wembley in July this year, aged 56 and I bounced around for 2 hours like a 12 year old. My iphone 'heath' app told me that I did 24,000+ steps on the night of that gig... god I love em!!! (and Bill 😛)
This is hard core Australian Music. I am 60 years now and I remember watching TV and they are on a back off a truck In Newcastle Australia playing there music driving around the streets which was A steel City.A hard place they were no pussies.
I was 11 when Back in Black came out. I was already an AC/DC fan. I got told the same thing about For Those About to Rock, but I already had a copy and LOVED it right from day one. All those albums rock. As for the record execs who thought AC/DC didn't have the legs for a career, I sure hope they learned from that. It's hard to get more wrong, unless you're the execs and studios who turned down Lucas because they thought Star Wars was going to flop. (There was a lot of stupid in the '70s. No ignoring that!)
Dirty deeds wasn't released in the US because the music industry (yes in some way there was an Industry and always has been) said it wasn't radio friendly (mixing wise), but after the succes of Back in Black they changed their mind
Greetings from Australia. The acdc albums were released chronologicaly in Australia. We have a lot of affection for the bon scott period
Fucken oath mate.
Totally - Bon Scott era for the lyrical story telling (‘What I like I take, What I don’t I break, And I don’t like you…’ - ‘I got patches on the patches, Of my new blue jeans, Well they used to be new, When they used to be blue, When they used to be clean…’ - pure gold)- everything after Bon Scott just for the Young brothers (if you have to explain why ‘Who Made Who’ is the greatest three guitar rock song - ever - it’s ‘cause you’re speaking to an idiot)…
Well, the period with Bon is still the best period a band played - ever. Brian is superb, the greatest replacement AC/DC could get, but with Bon it was better, even MORE energy. But everybody understands it was a candle that burned at both ends and in the middle. Bon was on overdose and all knew that he would die soon. But the time up to that moment, boy, i wished i could have seen them live with him (born in 1971 i was to young for it).
Ronald Belford Scott is one of my favorite singers and lyricists of all time. I don't know about you guys but I think a lot of the lyrics for Back In Black were already written by Bon. His sisters recalled laughing about reading American Thighs in his notebook of lyrics before he passed.
Looks like Dirty Deeds was released everywhere but the US in 1976.
I am in Canada. It was released here five years before it was released in the US.
As if I needed another reason to like Bill Burr
I like Bill, I just wish he would say f**k a little more. 🤣
i hear you mate
I don’t think I could’ve said it better. I was actually surprised he did not include them in his show f is for family lol because clearly it was based in the 70s. When they were just getting famous. Even Family Guy does that stuff. Not many people I know don’t like AC/DC in some form.
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Dirty Deed's was a re-release of earlier stuff. The original Australian cut of "Dirty Deed's" came out in the mid 70's. It's one of their best records.
We had these great import record stores in the '70's, and we got all those different releases of Dirty Deeds, Jail Break and High Voltage. That's also how I discovered Priest, Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard and Accept.
@@andrettski8686 The original Dirty Deed's had some brilliant songs that were less "radio friendly". I rate "Ain't No Fun (waiting around to be a millionaire)" an unheralded rock n roll classic alongside "Down Payment Blues", and "Ride On" is total proof that AC-Dc could also crank out a great ballad. One of the great privileges of my life was seeing them live at Festival Hall in Melbourne January 1977. It was the last time Bon toured Australia.
@@Andy-o2f I had the chance to see Bon in '78, but my parents said I was too young. Aerosmith with AC/DC would have been my 1st concert. I'm still upset.
@@andrettski8686Bummer for you mate. IMO, 1977-78 was the bands peak.
It wasn't a re-release it was released in Australia and the rest of the world but because Atlantic didn't like it and thought it wouldn't sell it wasn't released in the U.S, they were even considering dropping the band and up to that point ACDC hadn't cracked the American market but after Highway to Hell and then Back in Black ACDC's record label Atlantic wanted to capitalise on Back in Blacks success so they decided to release dirty deeds in 1981.
I totally agree! For Those About to Rock is an incredible album! I still listen to it regularly!
The flood of AC/DC reissues after the release of Back in Black was awesome to us young new fans at the time, so much good music to be had.
As an aussie hearing Mr Burr talk bout our ACDC with such passion and reverence is a merging of 2 x guilty pleasures I have.......comedy and rock n roll! Thankyou sir, you made my day hearing this!! Much respect always 🙏
lol loser
Did pub security for em ❤ early 1970s, with Bon ,Geelong and Melbourne, rock forever!! Cheers 🍻 from Australia ❤ 😊
Nice one Paul.
Bet you've got some good stories?
When I finally got see AC/DC, they were touring on the success of BIB, even though the news album FTATR was out. They did two shows at the big arena.
The show opened with "Hells Bells" and that it was one of most impressive concert openers I have ever experienced, and I saw most every great rock band in the 70's...
I'm old enough, and Australian enough, to remember when their song 'Jailbreak' was number one in Aus. Also old enough that I hated Brian Johnson with a passion - bc noone could replace Bon - for about, oh, 5 minutes. When all is said and done, Accadacca have been the quintessential rock BAND, not just surviving but excelling despite adversity, and persisting through sheer love of rock until age finally denied them.
I already loved Bill Burr. Now I love him even more!!
The opening title track, I Put My Finger On You, Evil Walks, Let's Get It Up, etc. What a great album
C.O.D.
Snowballed!!
The second half of _For Those About to Rock_ is pretty solid. "Evil Walks", "Night of the Long Knives" and "Spellbound" hit hard.
i bought For Those About to Rock at Target when it was released. I placed the album on my bedroom wall supported by two plastic thumbtacks because it's such a great album cover. Still listen to it
Never listened to any ACDC when I was a teen in the 80s, was all about the charts, buying singles and top of the pops back in the UK I was watching VH1 on sky one night back In 2000 and a documentary came on about them ..went straight into town next day and bought back in black ,high voltage and the stiff upper lip,CD ..and the live at Donnington DVD ..same year I started seeing my wife and we both got hooked at the same time.... they are our band ....seen them 5 times since 2008....shame I never saw them in the 80s or 90s though......been to Wembley and Dublin this tour both great nights ...
Saw them in Milwaukee in April of 2010 with that classic BIB line up. Been to a lot of rock and metal shows, but the way Brian controlled the crowd, the sound mix, and pace of things made the show seem like 10 minutes from the Rock and Roll Train opener to FTATR and the cannons. Best show I have been to.
I liked Flick of the Switch too. I saw ACDC in 85, indoor arena in Indy. They did For those about to Rock and those cannons were so freeking loud. LOL
I agree Flick of the switch is criminally underrated.
Their weakest albums,arguably blow up your video & fly on the wall are still rock solid albums,most consistent band of all time
Hell, yeah.
@@thegreatstrogannofski3418Angus is quoted saying something along the lines of, people say we put out the same album 11 times, but they're wrong, we put out the same album 12 times.
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Snowballed is so underrated, Brian Johnson’s vocals are so good
Love the pace and rhythm of that song!
Probably one of their best songs that no one talks about! It's pure fire.
That song is great during the verses, but not so great during the refrain.
@@perpetualbystander4516 I agree with you there
For those about to Rock is one of the most under rated albums ever. Well done Bill Burr who I love. I couldn't have described it better. I grew up in Ireland and our cousins from New York send us the albums (their mother did). They send us cassettes (remember cassettes). I saw them in Paris recently, probably last time I will ever see them. Legends.
The best sounding record of all time. That bass drum at the start, perfection
Australia's best band , there gods here in Australia!
Mutt had a great ear for production. This and Hysteria for Def Leppard are two of the absolute best produced and sounding albums, ever. The 40 year old production still holds up.
That’s AC/DC in a nutshell.
Dirty Deeds was rejected by Atlantic in America when it was first released in 1976. It was released everywhere else though.
That is the album with the very best song of AC/DC - ride on.
it's a healthy milestone in people's lives when they realize how much impact 12 years olds have had on them.
We solute you!
Every fucking Accadacca album is awesome! It's AC/DC, mate! Love your work, Bill!
Inject the Venom off of For Those About to Rock kicks butt. One of their best albums !
Good on ya Bill. As a young teen i used to listen to dirty deeds on my walkman with headphones & it was awesome. Loved that & used to imagine i was in a band playing an ACDC guitar rocking out ❤🇦🇺
They got Brian Johnson, because Bon Scott had told the other band members how much he liked hearing him sing.
Night of the long knives, Brians vocals, the riff. an absolute gem.
Its one of my favorite acdc albums Spellbound is my favorite acdc song ever its so sick. Im a victim of a bad crash. Man its awesome i got my hands in the fire. I love it.
Bill from one AC/DC fan to another, you’re a fucking legend.
For Brian's era AC/DC I think FTATR does have the best guitar sound. I think their most recent album came the closest to recapturing it. Number one on my list is still Let There Be Rock.
EVIL WALKS
The Beatles hit me hard in 1964 when I was 12 !! I understand how you reacted to Accadacca who also breastfed me out of the 60s
My 1st concert was AC/DC For Those About To Rock…8th grade.
Same age as Bill and I 100% agree. When I first heard BIB my balls dropped and when FTATR came out I loved it and still do.
A little late but I was at their North American debut concert for Back in Black in Edmonton, AB back in 1980. Best concert period, what a show.
Haha yeah I remember when DDDDC came out in the US as well and thought maybe it was a different band named AC/DC because It had a different font and didn’t have the lightning bolt. ALSO, I remember when MTV played back in black and FTATR videos in its normal rotation and then out of the blue one day a video came on for Jailbreak. This had to be around 1984 when Flick of the switch came out. I called my best friend to tell him to turn MtV on and we watched that video while in the phone together and neither of us could figure out if it was OUR AC/DC because of Bon. We didn’t know it was an old song we never heard of. We concluded it was them because of the way angus moved and he had the SG. The outfit also threw us off because it wasn’t a schoolboy outfit and at age 12 we had no clue what an Aussie prison outfit looked like.
Greatest rock band of all time!
I love the end of Put the finger on you.I rewind that a few times usually.
I had Dirty Deeds a year before (1979) Back in Black came out (1980) I bought an import copy on vinyl. I grew up in Seattle. I was 10 in 1979. My friend’s older brother schooled me on the ways of rock. 😂
Same here but I swear I got it at Sears in Seattle ‘79. Maybe I’m having some Mandela effect here but never in my life do I remember a time when Deeds was released after Back In Black
Geez Bill never knew you wuz so normal from a uk fan 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
Awesome! Bill Rocks!
Love FTATR album Top songs with a deep, lush production.
You have a lot of Aussie fans mate. Glad you love Acca Dacca as much as we do!
Agree with everything you said Bill. I was the same age as you when BIB came out and confused with Dirty Deeds, not knowing much about Bon or Brian. I also love FTATR.... phenomenal tracks on that album! One of my favorites!
Love ac/dc being a Proud Aussie and owning box 1 and 2 of the records. I still smash out all their tunes on my phone or home stereo
What's being an aussie got to do with it?
@@alemgas a Proud Aussie as their Australian
AC/DC played at mu high school in 1974....
Which school
We Australia had all albums chronologically. First I heard of this belated release. Onya Mr Burr ,incidentally I was 9 yrs
For Those About To Rock is my second favorite Brian Johnson album, anybody who doesn’t like is not an AC/DC fan.
Just learnt something , thanks Bill 🤙🏻
I absolutely love the FTATR album. It was the perfect follow up to Back In Black. It is one of my favourite AC/DC albums. I has some of their best material on it but it never got nor still gets the wider recognition it deserves.
Rock on Bill Burr…. We salute You!🇨🇦🎸😎
That is so true. I was the same age. I had all those albums in the early 80s, Dirty Deeds my favourite. I did not know there were two different lead singers over the history this band until maybe 2010 lol.
C.O.D. and Inject The Venom have killer guitar sound!
Don't forget evil walks
I remember when I got into Helloween ‘Keeper of the Seven Keys’ Pt.1 & 2 and loving the vocals. When I subsequently heard their first album ‘Walls of Jericho’ I was confused because I didn’t realise it was the guitarist who sang on that one!
Its so thick!!! Evil walks on volume 11!!
The opening guitar on You Shook Me All Night Long is my favorite. It's restrained. Not fully pushing the amp. Then he winds it up and you get the full force. At the other end there's Ride On. Angus and Malcolm - such no-BS guitarists. Love that band.
The Ironman II video of "Shoot to Thrill" just captures everything about AC/DC for me.
Great album Bill, you're not wrong.
I remember ACDC playing gigs at my local YMCA for $2 entry in the 70's. Large windowless brick building with an extremely high ceiling, and polished wooden floor with a basketball court and gymnastics area. Heavy Tinnitus for days afterwards (I still have it, long term hearing damage was not a consideration back then). 😅😅
For Those About To Rock was my introduction to AC/DC, and it is still my fav album. BIB is No. 2 😁
Bill rocks … AC/DC Bon Scott ❤ let there be Rock … what a song 🏴Australia and Scotland ❤
FTATR is their most underrated album. It's brilliant.
It's a shame that 'Flick of the switch' wasn't as well produced as the two preceding albums... Should have kept Matt Lange for one more
I totally agree. However, Mutt had produced FTATR, Foreigner 4, Def Leppard High n Dry and Pyromania, and The Cars Heartbeat City within a span of two years. At the time AC/DC recorded Flick of the Switch, he was hospitalized for exhaustion. But he insisted they send him tapes as they were in the process. He signed off on them, but the poor genius was drained.
Dirty Deeds was not released in the states until like 3 or 4 yrs after its release
Agree ,I dont know why the changed the Australian cover or the song order ? It was brilliant as it was
FTATR is by far the biggest they ever sounded, and it’s not even close. It falls just short of BiB as far as song quality, and it takes a real hit because it had to be the album that followed BiB, but it’s still really, really good. Most bands would kill to put out an album like that! ⚡️
On ya Billy.
For those about to rock, we salute you!!!
Bon Scott was a phenomenal lyricist. That's the part that's kind of missing now. Whole Lotta Rosie, etc.
Well, he just told stories out of his life. So he was so good, because he actually lived these stories :)
I’ve loved For Those About to Rock since it first came out and always thought it was very underrated. I think Flick of the Switch is even more under rated.
Damn, I like Bill Burr even more now!!
The trifecta of Highway to Hell, Back in Black, and For Those About to Rock is a must have staple of any hard rock/metal fan. Timeless music.
Seriously how can you not like AC/DC? Even if you don’t like them in some form, you definitely at least heard them. They have too many albums not too have . And I love Bill Burr this just makes me like him even more 😂. She said wearing her favorite shirt and shoes lol.
Back in black tour 1980 my first concert!
He's speaks some truth.
I loved everything they did.
There last great album was Razors Edge. No question.
As Australian who knows there record company.
While the US release was after BiB, I absolutely heard and saw bootlegs of Dirty Deeds well before.
I'm on the fence about Brian era AC/DC. I can't decide if I like Back In Black or For Those About to Rock better. It depends on what day you catch me on.
Legend
My favourite album is "If You Want Blood" live from Scotland. The best 3 song opening to a concert I've ever heard. Bon Scott at his best.
What’s he’s talking about is called “the good old days”. I miss them.
Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall are also underrated ACDC bangers
Right on! FTABTR is awesome!
I love Back in Black, but I've always preferred For Those About to Rock. I saw that tour too and the cannons were so loud it was crazy.
great album - great intro on title track
I can't tell you how many times I replayed For those about to Rock trying to count the cannon shots. The lyrics call for a 21 gun salute but I could never count more than 18 or 19. I was 13 at the time.
I remember that weird time when they released Highway to Hell, then Back in Black, then Dirty Deeds and I was wondering the same thing....did Bon totally change his voice then go back ? Then I read an article and they mentioned Brian Johnson and at that time I had no clue Bon was dead! It was so weird. Then For Those About to Rock comes out and I tell ya, that opening of that album was AMAZING! It was that summer I finally heard on the radio that Bon was in fact, dead. I was was shocked and saddened, but I was also glad that AC/DC chose to go on with Brian. It was a surreal moment for sure.
Now I’m not surprised anymore why I like his comedy so much. I wonder if he also has a miniature canon as a piece of decoration in his living room.
Lots of great songs on that album! I've got it ranked #5 behind Back in Black, Let There be Rock, Highway to Hell, & The Razor's Edge.
I was also 12 when the DC came into my consciousness.. I was on family holiday in US and Canada (I'm from UK) in 1980 and I remember one of my Canadian cousins saying to me "have to you heard Highway to Hell?" and I responded (insert Homer Simpson voice) "err... what, who???" - back in after the trip I bought Rock n Roll Ain't noise pollution single, then Back in Black, then Highway and didn't look back after that. What a f*@kin band.... I saw them for only the third time at Wembley in July this year, aged 56 and I bounced around for 2 hours like a 12 year old. My iphone 'heath' app told me that I did 24,000+ steps on the night of that gig...
god I love em!!! (and Bill 😛)
This is hard core Australian Music. I am 60 years now and I remember watching TV and they are on a back off a truck In Newcastle Australia playing there music driving around the streets which was A steel City.A hard place they were no pussies.
I’m a big fan of both eras of the band
Dirty Deeds was released in 1976. Third studio album. Production on the early Brian Johnson albums are amazing.
I was 11 when Back in Black came out. I was already an AC/DC fan. I got told the same thing about For Those About to Rock, but I already had a copy and LOVED it right from day one. All those albums rock. As for the record execs who thought AC/DC didn't have the legs for a career, I sure hope they learned from that. It's hard to get more wrong, unless you're the execs and studios who turned down Lucas because they thought Star Wars was going to flop. (There was a lot of stupid in the '70s. No ignoring that!)
I have a lot of affection for the Bon Scott period too. A whole lot.
"I hadn't talked on a phone for 20 years, so I had a memory "....😂😂
It is funny hearing about other countries talk about Brain Johnson and here in OZ, it was Bon Scott everywhere.
Very good album.👍
Bill Burr is nothing but real. Of course he loves AC/DC.
Back in black, greatest album ever made!!!!
Sometimes I love Bill Burr
Black and About to Rock are AC/DC classics
Dirty Deeds was a great album! High voltage! ⚡️
There are bands and then there is AC/DC.
Dirty deeds wasn't released in the US because the music industry (yes in some way there was an Industry and always has been) said it wasn't radio friendly (mixing wise), but after the succes of Back in Black they changed their mind
We salute you