Back in Black
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Free Music Review: Great old Pink Floyd music
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, I was just trying to collect all of the Pnk Floyd music that I could and ran across this one. Yea, if you want a piece of the Sid Barret era stuff, this is one to get.Free Music Review: One star reviewers just don't get it.
Hit: 5 Stars
I really don't understand how anyone can give this classic album on DualDisc a one star review.Granted,the audio may not be up to their exacting standards,but that's just nitpicking.Real fans of this album and this group will be glad to see the bonus video footage on the DVD side.I know I was.Free Music Review: Perspective of a simple "Please and thank you" country boy.
Hit: 2 Stars
I grew up occasionally listening to AC/DC, always in the background from friends playing it at school or in a car. It never stood out to me. Now at 41 I rediscovered this old band and like it a lot. I especially like listening to it while weight lifting. "Back in Black" and "Dirty Deeds" are both raw and raunchy (like the classic Mississippi Delta Blues these guys probably grew up listening to), but after listening to both several times I find that song for song, "Dirty Deeds" is better than "Back in Black". Both have AC/DC's signature sound and are milestones of the hard rock genre, but I just don't get tired of listening to "Dirty Deeds" which I can't say about "Back in Black". In rediscovering this band, I was a little surprised to later find out that next to Michael Jackson's "Thriller", "Back in Black" is the #2 selling album of all time. Okay, but I personally don't hear it in the album. But this is just the perspective of a straight white male with no tattoos whose favorite album of all time is Dire Strait's "Brothers in Arms"....Free Music Review: Comin' on like a hurricane...
Hit: 5 Stars
It is really kind of pointless to say anything new or relevant about a album that most people my age have heard about a billion times from beginning to end. This does not in anyway diminish its greatness, it's that almost everything said about this monolith to hard rock has already been said. It must have been earth shattering to be back in July 1980 and to have just come home from the record store and thrown this on the turntable...can you imagine... hearing those ominous bells toll out, and that riff...descending, incessant and lethal. AC/DC literally came back from the dead with a career saving move that would solidify their status as true rock immortals. What makes 'Back in Black' so devastating is the care given to the song quality - the structure, lyrics, guitars, rhythm section and production are all spot on and flawless! Mutt Lange may have dominated Def Leppard to create 'Star Wars for the ears' but with AC/DC it was more of a true collaboration. He doesn't interfer with the song quality so much as to give each track its much needed space and allow the band to just expand on their own terms - something he never did with Leppard - credit to the Young bros. who not doubt had very much control over how their sound was captured. Brian Johnson of course was Bon Scott's replacement and unfortunately it was only on this record that he held his own - his voice and lyrics were never better. "Hells Bells", "Shoot to Thrill", "Back in Black", "Money, Honey", "Have a Drink", "Noise Pollution"...I mean c'mon....everyone knows these tunes by heart....but this does not dimminish their greatness or make them stale. Only "Shook Me All Night Long" has suffered the overplayed, big hit syndrome (it's played at weddings for Christ's sake (people dance to it....hilarious!!)). 'Back in Black' needs to be in your collection and download every song...in the orignal sequence...and raise your glass to the memory of Bon Scott and the album made in his memory.Free Music Review: DVD-Audio Quality Disappoints
Hit: 2 Stars
While the audio quality is okay for a CD, I bought it for the DVD-Audio quality. Everybody's correct in saying that it's two-channel PCM, and that's why I'm disappointed. Sure, it smokes next to other CDs, but it's just flat when you compare it to other DVD-Audio disks.
If you want good surround mixes or lots of dynamics, take a listen to any of the Talking Heads discs included in their Brick collection or to Donald Fagen's Morph the Cat. Even the Who's Tommy, which was originally recorded in the late 60s, on DVD-Audio, has much more dynamic range and detail than this disk does.
Sure, the music's good, but I was really hoping that the opening of Hell's Bells would rattle my teeth. Instead, it just rattles the cheap plastic clock I have hanging on the wall behind my system.