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AC/DC - What's Your Favorite Album?

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  1. 1. What's your favorite AC/DC album?

    • High Voltage (1976)
      1
    • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
      0
    • Let There Be Rock (1977)
      2
    • Powerage (1978)
      7
    • If You Want Blood (You've Got It) (1978)
      1
    • Highway To Hell (1979)
      6
    • Back In Black (1980)
      5
    • For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (1981)
      0
    • Flick Of The Switch (1983)
      1
    • Fly On The Wall (1985)
      0
    • Blow Up Your Video (1988)
      0
    • The Razors Edge (1990)
      0
    • AC/DC Live (1992)
      1
    • Ballbreaker (1995)
      0
    • Stiff Upper Lip (2000)
      0
    • Black Ice (2008)
      0
    • Live At River Plate (2012)
      0
    • Rock Or Bust (2014)
      0

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Entre_Perpetuo

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Highway, BiB and FTATR are all very close. But BiB’s highlights are SOOO high.

 

What do you think of Let There Be Rock?

 

Actually, that may be my least favorite Bon album. It’s still great. After Highway, I’d pick High Voltage from his era.

 

Interesting.

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I just remembered there's one album, well, it's really an EP, that's not listed up there. " '74 Jailbreak", released in 1984. It contains five songs that never made the cut, but old school fans of AC/DC might just appreciate it. Looks like YouTube has at least some of the tracks.

Yeah, I was going to post about the Aussie releases of High Voltage (which is totally different) and TNT (which has most of the international High Voltage stuff). I love that Aussie debut album with Soul Stripper, Love Song, You Ain't Got A Hold On Me...
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Highway, BiB and FTATR are all very close. But BiB’s highlights are SOOO high.

 

What do you think of Let There Be Rock?

 

Actually, that may be my least favorite Bon album. It’s still great. After Highway, I’d pick High Voltage from his era.

I think it's the outlier for that era, in terms of mood. And a lot of the songs from Let There Be Rock translated so well to If You Want Blood that the studio versions don't quite match the vibe.
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Nova Carmina

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Question for the (slightly) older heads: how "popular" was AC/DC before Back in Black? In your average American (or English, I suppose) high school in 1978, for example, would they have been the household name they were throughout the '80s? I'm wondering how much of the Bon-era stuff was sort of "discovered" by people going into the back catalog after BiB.
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Question for the (slightly) older heads: how "popular" was AC/DC before Back in Black? In your average American (or English, I suppose) high school in 1978, for example, would they have been the household name they were throughout the '80s? I'm wondering how much of the Bon-era stuff was sort of "discovered" by people going into the back catalog after BiB.

Not very. My western washington experience was that when Back In Black broke big, Highwell to Hell and Dirty Deeds became huge. Then the lost tracks Jailbreak and Soul Stripper were local monster requested singles on Seattle's KISW. Edited by goose
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Rick N. Backer

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Question for the (slightly) older heads: how "popular" was AC/DC before Back in Black? In your average American (or English, I suppose) high school in 1978, for example, would they have been the household name they were throughout the '80s? I'm wondering how much of the Bon-era stuff was sort of "discovered" by people going into the back catalog after BiB.

Not very. My western washington experience was that when Back In Black broke big, Highwell to Hell and Dirty Deeds became huge. Then the lost tracks Jailbreak and Soul Stripper were local monster requested singles on Seattle's KISW.

 

Not here in the "cradle of liberty" either. Highway to Hell did get some airplay. But until BiB came out, I thought the band on the album cover for Highway was the "the Association," and the logo was an abbreviation. I think Dirty Deeds came out either at the same time as, or right after, FTATR. I saw them on that tour (my first concert ever) and I remember Dirty Deeds was a "new" song.

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J2112YYZ

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POWERAGE

 

Who's Brian Johnson ?

 

Brian Johnson is the guy who was vocalist for much longer than Bon Scott and the man who fronted AC/DC during their most successful and popular run.

 

Just an FYI since you asked lol.

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laughedatbytime

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Question for the (slightly) older heads: how "popular" was AC/DC before Back in Black? In your average American (or English, I suppose) high school in 1978, for example, would they have been the household name they were throughout the '80s? I'm wondering how much of the Bon-era stuff was sort of "discovered" by people going into the back catalog after BiB.

In our high school in NW Indiana/Chicago area (I graduated in 1980), Highway made them huge...probably right behind Floyd and Rush (yes, that Rush.)

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