With which album did your love for AC/DC take a fatal hit ?

Telejester · April 2017

When I was a wee boy and all the others were into madness , ska and mod music , my idol was Angus Young and so my love for guitar was born. Ac/dc have released many albums over the years , but was there one which had a drastic impact on how you followed the band ?

For me a near miss was for those about to rock, an album of a few great tunes, a few ok tunes and a few dogs, my love for the band survived that one but nothing prepared me for flick of the switch the next year. I ran home after buying the vinyl record on my way home from school and was horrified after the 1st listen. Nothing ever grows on me, i like something or i dont and flick was a monumental pile of shit right from listen no 1.

My interest in ac/dc petered out and was replaced with thrash metal which my parents despised but which in 2017 i still have a fondness for, despite my guitar hero being jeff healey.

Was there an ac/dc album which inflicted a death blow on your interest in the band ?

jonnyburgo · April 2017

The production went a bit 80s in the, erm, 80s - which didn't work for me. The last thing you need to do to AC/DC is soften the sound.

quarky · April 2017

Yeah, the 80's. Blow Up Your Video (from memory) was a strange album for AC/DC. Some of the stuff after that has been OK though. The Razor's Edge and Stiff Upper Lip in particular.

Rabs · April 2017

I liked Guns for Hire on Flick of the Switch

Its kind of hard for me to judge exactly when I started not liking their albums cos I started on The Razors Edge and Thunderstruck... At that point there was no internet for information so I just found the albums here and there as time went on and it wasn't in any particular order.. But yes.. Probably after Black in Black its just down to a few tunes I really like on each album, the rest was a bit throw away.

And I purely put it down to the lack of Bon Scotts lyrics.. That's one of the things that made them amazing and worth listening too.... If they had gone a different direction with their replacement (and im not moaning about Brian at all, he did a great job) and hired someone who could also write... I think they would have been all the better for it.

exocet · April 2017

I bailed out at For Those About To Rock.

mellowsun · April 2017

tbh i never liked them in the first place

randella · April 2017

quarky said:

Yeah, the 80's. Blow Up Your Video (from memory) was a strange album for AC/DC. Some of the stuff after that has been OK though. The Razor's Edge and Stiff Upper Lip in particular.

Oddly enough, Blow Up Your Video was my favourite when I was getting into them as a kid. Nick of Time is still a mint tune. Me dad was really the one who introduced me to them with the Dirty Deeds... record playing constantly in the car.

So a strange mix there that led me to discovering the rest. Anything after Blow Up... not so sure. Bits here and there, Thunderstruck is a tune, but no stone cold classic whole albums.

randella · April 2017

mellowsun said:

tbh i never liked them in the first place

Heathen. Hand in your man card on the way out.

kaypeejay · April 2017

exocet said:

I bailed out at For Those About To Rock.

Same for me

Winny_Pooh · April 2017

Ballbreaker was a solid album.

Telejester · April 2017

exocet said:

I bailed out at For Those About To Rock.

A definite iffy album, tracks like c.o.d, spellbound and the title track i really liked, but crap like i put the finger, inject the venom and lets get it up brought it down.

DrCornelius · April 2017

I liked LTBR , didn't like anything after that until Black Ice however

EricTheWeary · April 2017

Never been a huge fan but I hugely prefer Scott era AC/DC, the lyrics were better and the band were still blues and rock and roll and not the lumpy heavy metal band singing nonsense they became.

proggy · April 2017

The first one.

Telejester · April 2017

Songs from the real early days like soul stripper are the ones that did it for me, now that is a song

Headphones · April 2017

But there are only two albums!

There's a few decades of contractual obligation/motions stuff, but the whole reputation (and mainstay of live) is from those two albums. None the worse for it either.

HtH and BiB of course.

axisus · April 2017

When Brian Johnston came in.

Bon all the way for me.

Philly_Q · April 2017

axisus said:

When Brian Johnston came in.

He should never have given up the cricket commentaries.

TheMarlin · April 2017

Back in black. Two good songs, loads of filler, much screaching.

They should have stopped at High Voltage!

Nitefly · April 2017

TheMarlin said:

They should have stopped at High Voltage!

They should have stopped in Australia...

Telejester · April 2017

TheMarlin said:

Back in black. Two good songs, loads of filler, much screaching.

They should have stopped at High Voltage!

I thought the only duffer on back in black was you shook me all night long, rest of album kicks ass

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