Posted on 06/08/2005 6:56:56 PM PDT by freedom44
NEW YORK (Billboard) -- AC/DC's 1980 breakthrough "Back in Black" has been certified for U.S. shipments of 21 million copies, tying it for fifth place with Billy Joel's "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & II" on the Recording Industry Assn. of America's all-time best-sellers list.
The Australian hard rock group's first album with lead singer Brian Johnson, who replaced Bon Scott following his alcohol-related death, "Back in Black" was originally released by Atco and was reissued in 2003 by Epic along with the rest of the band's catalog.
Joel's "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & II" reached 21 million in 2000. The leader of the list remains "Eagles/Their Greatest Hits" (Asylum), last certified in 2002 at 28 million. In second is Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (Epic), which reached 27 million in an April RIAA accounting, followed by Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (23 million/1999; Capitol) and "Led Zeppelin IV" (22 million/1999; Atlantic).
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Sort of reminds me in an odd way of when after releasing "Killing an Arab," skinheads started going to Cure shows.
Never mind. I get the alphabet groups mixed up. Shame.
Remember a song by The Stone Roses, "Love Spreads", back in my grunge-rocker days... yeah, I was cool... Wore a Seattle Supersonics ball cap because I loved Seattle bands so much. I was in my early 20's back in the early 90's. It was a great time, never fell for any of the Liberal Lyrics, just loved the music, especially Alice In Chains.
I heard that story on VH-1. Not sure I buy it.
Musicians knew the alternate meaning of AC/DC before most people.
But I think they're the greatest all-around hard rock group ever.
"You Rocked Me All Night Long" and "Big Balls" are perfect songs.
The only gay metal band I can think of is Accept of "Balls to the Wall" fame. At least some of them were gay.
For all the controversey about their songs with "Hell" in the title, none of them had to do with devil worship. Highway to Hell is about a concert tour. Hell ain't a bad place to be is about a women. I forgot the story behind Hell's Bells, but I think it had to do with Bon Scott.
Big Bottom! Played on 3 bass guitars
And I wouldn't call "Fat Bottom Girls" distant past -- Jazz was their next-to-last good album.
And of course, there's the classic, "Big Fat Blonde" by The Rainmakers
The lyrics are already posted on another thread, one about Howard Dean, believe it or not!
Grrrr.... It's not coming up right... It's message # 70.
Mark
Here they at the Toronto SARS stock show which was a benefit show to revive the city after the SARS crisis. It was probably the biggest crowd they have ever played in front of (somewhere between 4 and 500,000). I recall a lot of fans interviewed on tv said they had come to see them rather than the headlining Rolling Stones.
Mark
Best 3 chord band ever bump!
Rob Halford of Judas Priest is gay.
Our very sheltered sons attended Ozzfest last year and said it was terrific.
I don't buy it. I think they picked the name because of the different meanings to get a reaction.
For the same reason "Big Balls" was about a "party", "The Jack"(clean version) was about a poker game, and "Given the Dog a bone" was somewhat subtle.
The bitch is "using her head again."
I gotta be careful. The last time I quoted AC/DC, my ex-girlfriend called me out for the geek I truly am.
I was just gonna mention them. They're great!
In place of the standard industry "Bio," here's the official story of Hayseed Dixie:
So just what the hell is this whole Hayseed Dixie thing all about, you ask? Well, the Liner notes from the first Hayseed Dixie album, "A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC," say it all:
"From the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of Appalachia, comes a sound that is old yet new. In an area completely isolated from outside cultural and musical influence, this band of acoustic musicians grew up playing the traditional music of their forefathers.
Then, as fate would have it, one crisp fall afternoon, a stranger passed through the holler. Well, he almost made it through. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for appreciators of great music worldwide, the stranger crashed his car into a stately old oak tree at Devil's Elbow Curve. Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on. For under the back seat of his car, the boys found some old black vinyl records as they went through his belongings looking for identification. All they had to listen to them on was an old Edison Victrola that only played at 78 R.P.M., but the boys all agreed it was some mighty fine country music. So, in memory of the stranger who had perished the boys set about learning these songs . . . "
"Highway to Hell" was their tribute to "Stair way to heaven" by Zepplin ....
Not to jump into a debate on Leppard on a ACDC thread, but Joe's voice was good enough to earn him 2 diamond albums. I don't know many other bands in the 80's who pulled that off. Actually, I don't know of any other bands who pulled that off.
As for his range, Rocket, Love Bites, Photograph, Rock Rock Till you Drop, Stagefright, Die Hard the Hunter, and others are pretty high up there. It takes a swift kick in the nuts to hit the chorus on Love Bites and Rocket. Slang showed off his lower register as well.
One of these days I'm gonna ride on...change my evil ways...
I heard on the radio that Queen is getting back together, with a "new" lead singer, former frontman from Bad Company. You hear about this?
Awesome, awesome records!!!
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