VinnyM27 said:

I think I know exactly what you're getting at.
This is something I was going to bring up in my original post but I wasn't sure how to describe it properly.

All the tunes on that album have a very defined groove.
It's very James Brown in that each player has a very simple and distinct part to play.
However when these parts are combined, you get that AC/DC power rock groove happening.
That's the element that attracts me to the sound of that album.

Hope that made sense.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

minneapolisidiot said:

They're certainly not Motown or Usher, it's just that they're funkier than most hard rock bands. I think when you say R&B in reference to them you're talking about older stuff like Ray Charles or Wilson Pickett who had more of an emphasis on the "B" maybe

They groove like fuck.
Simple as that.
Watching some of the Bon footage, he was more charismatic. Brian just comes across as a dirty old man to me. Then again, that also has some appeal...
Years ago when I was in a band on tour in the States, we had the good luck to get a tour bus driver who wasn't an arsehole. It transpires that he had been driving AC/DC around the previous year. He had a video on the bus of them shot live by a cameraman on stage with the band.
I had always wondered why, when seeing AC/DC live with Brian, he'd always look down to the stage floor and laugh. Watching the video, it became pretty clear. Most of the stage would be usually be perspex; underneath it would be an assortment of strippers and porn stars (I recognised a few...I mean, another one of the band did) performing a range of hardcore sex acts on each other. Mystery solved.

Where in the hell is SPYZFAN1 and funkpill?!

Right here baby baba!! (lol) This was the 1st AC/DC LP I ever got. I bought it off this girl for $3 used and I still have it. This LP is CLASSIC. "Back In Black" is still a badass song and Angus Young (in my book) has the best vibrato of any guitarist out there. The beat, riff and vocals still gives me goosebumps when I hear this being blared in a club or a party. The backbeat and some of the riffs are very "Zep" like. Like my man Black, I used to play this song in a cover band and it always brought the house down. Speaking of covers, anyone heard Living Colour's version of this? Good pick lovedad43. This was the LP that brought AC/DC into the mainstream..I always thought of them as a blues band more than metal...They definetly proved to the naysayers that they could carry on with a new singer after Bon died...Think I'm gonna crank this and "Dirty Deeds" tommorow night!

I definately feel I should have said a blues/funk influence rather than R&B. They certaintly are different.

minneapolisgenius said:

That's me! Slash is my other account ()

For years, the only ACDC stuff I knew was with Brian singing, so I always associate the band with him and not Bon Scott.

Since I have gotten to know the band's catalogue better, I appreciate the Bon years too, but his death, unfortunately, has meant his status has been artificially inflated.

Great frontman and singer etc, I just prefer the BJ years.

And Back In Black is a GREAT, GREAT album...

jjam said:

rocknrolldave said:

Yeah, I knew you two were one in the same. I just couldn't remember which "you" I was talking about it with.

I only own this album. Very good stuff. Did "mutt" lange do any of their other albums?


"back in black" vs deff leppards "hysteria"? Thats tough. I go for def though, nothing beats "armegeddon it"

It's a great album though 1977's Let There Be Rock is superior. One of the best rock n roll albums ever.

minneapolisgenius said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

There u are SPYZ. I knew u could get with this! Right u are about it being "Zep" like.

WildheartXXX said:

I'd agree there, but Highway to Hell can't be touched. Definitely their greatest album and, in my mind, one of the few absolutely perfect rock records.