AC/DC - Back in Black

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian make the best of an odd situation in which a guest was supposed to come on to be our gritty Australian rock and roll connoisseur but ended up not joining us. So we tackle AC/DC's legendary Back in Black (1980, Atlantic). After years of working their way to the top of the Australian charts, the band, founded by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, broke through to an international audience with 1979's Highway to Hell. Tragically, after a night of heavy drinking, charismatic frontman Bon Scott passed away during the winter of 1980. Choosing to carry on, the band brought in singer Brian Johnson who helped them reach even greater heights of success and critical acclaim. Brian and Bill talk about AC/DC's presence in their younger days, Bill while listening to the radio and Brian while broadcasting on the radio. They also discuss the influence of producer Mutt Lange, Brian Johnson's back story, the band's unique ways of honoring Bon Scott, how the band made it's distinctive sound, Angus' killer leads, the chart topping-ness of the album and its singles, what Max Weinberg might think of Phil Rudd, a bit about if there is any misogyny on the album, and as always a track by track review!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:30.9	I'm Bill.
0:31.6	And I'm Brian.
0:32.6	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:34.9	We're listening to the title track, Back in Black, by ACDC,
0:40.5	off the July 25th, 1980 album of the same name. All right. So if you've never listened to the
0:46.8	podcast before, what we do hear every week is take a different album of music and talk about what
0:51.9	makes it great. We try and kind of have a conversation
0:57.2	from a fan's perspective about the album. And we're going to talk a little bit about our own
1:03.0	personal interaction with the music, a little bit about the band in the album itself, so that
1:07.3	way we have a context for the conversation. and then we're going to get to a
1:11.2	track by track review of the entire album sounds good to me man so normally uh or actually i should
1:18.1	say occasionally we have a guest join us on the podcast and we actually did have a guest lined up
1:24.5	to help us talk about back in black it It was our guest choice to do this album.
1:29.5	But the guest kind of ghosted on us.
1:32.8	Yeah, ghost guest.
1:34.1	Yeah, so he just sent out an email to him last week and was like,
1:39.6	hey man, you still, you know, ready to do this next week?
1:42.5	Just confirm it.
1:43.4	And he never got back to me.
1:45.4	So, and the weird thing was was he reached out to us.
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