AC/DC - Back In Black (Rock And Roll Ain't Noise POLL-ution)

Hells Bells b/c of what is coming.

'you're only young but you're gonna die'??

"let me cut your cake with my knife"

this is the best album to get work done to.

given

Tough call. Hell's Bells or Shoot to Thrill.

oh man. hells bells vs shoot to thrill vs back in black vs you shook me all night long vs have a drink on me...

think it comes down to hells bells vs back in black but shit just the intro to you shook me deserves a vote

you shook me - feels like a cop out, but come on

I dunno you shook me is an unstoppable juggernaut but back in black and hells bells are more fun to play.

title track for me.

find these guys tiresome in the extreme but always thought "Let Me Put My Love Into You" was an uncharacteristically genteel come on for them. "excuse me my dear, may I put my love into you? no?"

i never bought this because i had 'ac/dc live' when i was a teenager and figured that i had heard all of these anyway (and i kept seeing weightlifting bros with the album sitting on the dash of their cars in the high school parking lot so i was kind of well wait) but actually i've never heard like half this album

which seems to be roughly true of every single ac/dc album, thanks to classic rock radio

'noise pollution' b/c surprisingly stirring, touching

FORGET ABOUT THE PAST

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best road trip album, especially when you are trying to remain conscious at 2am after six or seven hours of interstate driving

"You Shook Me All Night Long"

Tbh, I never really got into the half of this album that doesn't get heavy-rotation airplay. "Hells Bells" vs "Back in Black".

welp. two weeks to think about it hasn't made this any easier...

nice piece at then play long

Shoot to Thrill has become my favorite on that record..

The title track appearing on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 for a couple of weeks when I was 12 years old - along with the longer run by Billy Squier's "The Stroke" around the same time - was my gateway drug to all things I would eventually come to love in life.

Hearing those two songs at such a formative age in the format of the biggest hits in the country at the time - it showed me that loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (and yes, this story is what prompted my user name in this forum) - pretty much guaranteed that I was going to get into metal, punk and the like when I got older... Or become a stripper. But everyone I know agrees I made the right choice.

So, the title track.

Back in Black, cuz of the solos

Once put "Who Made Who" on a year-end--I liked them for a short while. Never really investigated the lyrics of "Given the Dog a Bone"--I assume it's every bit as charming as its title--but that was the one I'd sometimes play on the radio from this album.

title track

best road trip album, especially when you are trying to remain conscious at 2am after six or seven hours of interstate driving

― Brad C., Wednesday, February 26, 2014 7:18 PM (Yesterday)

lol, have done exactly this, windows down, hollering my fool head off

This album is just fucking amazing. I've lost track of how many times I've heard BiB and YSMANL and I'm still not sick of them. About the only song I could do without is "Given the Dog a Bone." Lately I've been partial to "Shoot to Thrill" and "Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution," but I have to give the edge to the title track because even though I've heard it a gazillion times, I still turn it up every time it comes on.

(Much love to the "Shoot To Thrill" video featuring the Ironettes, too.

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well those would be the three I was agonizing over...

I always thought You Shook My All Night Long has a pretty similar feel to Honky Tonk Women. While there is certainly some overlaps in the Stones and AC/DC's sound being it kind of amps up a similar kind of blues, this track particularly sounds 'stonish' to me. I think it is how it opens up with just the guitar with the beat,then the second guitar joins and the whole band kicks in the chorus.

that's OTM and I'm now tempted to see what I can do with "you shook me all night long" in open G

It would have a different feel, but I have no doubt it would sound like a good Stones song.

AC/DC doing 'Bitch' would kick ass though. I'd love to hear the Young brothers pound that sucker out.