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AC/DC's 'Back in Black' cracks all-time top 5
CNN ^ | 6/8/05 | CNN

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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To: SamAdams76
Dark Side Of The Moon should legitimately be called Pink Floyd's biggest selling album as 15 million copies of that one was sold.

Plus it has the distinction of being the album that had the longest streak in the number one slot. It was there until bumped my MJ's "Thriller".

141 posted on 06/09/2005 10:14:32 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It's a 'dog eat dog' world out there and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear.")
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To: HamiltonJay

Actually you're not the only one. I think those 2 bands suck bad. My roommate loves the Doors but I can't stand them and he knows enough not to play them around me. Thankfully AC/DC is his all-time favorite band so it makes up for his Doors thing.

The only time I liked Pink Floyd was the time a friend of mine got me to do about 2854 bong hits and watch "Wizard Of Oz" with the Pink Floyd album playing at the same time. That was pretty cool, I have to admit.


142 posted on 06/09/2005 10:20:06 AM PDT by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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To: hobbes1
That may be, But High-n-Dry is one of the best Metal Albums ever released.

I absolutely agree with that. My favorite cut on the album is Switch 625 which, ironically, is totally instrumental.

Re: AC/DC...if you've never seen Jim Breuer's (ex-SNL comic) tribute to AC/DC where he sings the "Hokey Pokey", you're missing out!

143 posted on 06/09/2005 10:21:15 AM PDT by AngryJawa (Will Work For Ammo)
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To: Clemenza
Scorpians. Pete Townsend.

AC/DC was suspicous. Then they thew out lines like

'for a fee, I'm happy to be your back door man'

144 posted on 06/09/2005 10:21:53 AM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: BikerTrash; MarkL

Haysee Dixie bump


145 posted on 06/09/2005 10:26:10 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: AngryJawa

Back when that album was current, there was some sports show I used to watch, and they did a montage of Racing Hydroplanes, using that cut as background.....


146 posted on 06/09/2005 10:27:31 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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To: SamAdams76
Around the same time Back In Black was released, Molly Hatchet released probably the the best hard rock single ever...Flirtin' With Disaster. I must have played that song 10,000 times since 1980 and I still never get tired of it. I saw Molly Hatchet in Birmingham, Alabama back in the day and they would have eaten a sissy band like Coldplay for breakfast.

Dittos. I saw Molly Hatchet along with LoverBoy back in the 80's in the Quad Cities - I was so close to the stage I was getting hit with sweat.

Without a doubt one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to. I think my ears are still ringing!

Molly Hatchet Rocks!
147 posted on 06/09/2005 10:34:42 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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To: t_skoz

Good job. Very cool.


148 posted on 06/09/2005 10:48:46 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: HamiltonJay
I rank Pink Floyd very highly but I definitely agree with you on The Doors. Other than their debut album - which was electrifying - their subsequent albums were mostly full of depressing dirges. About the only decent song that they had since 1967 was "Riders On The Storm" and even that one will depress the hell out of you unless you are in the mood for it.

Pink Floyd are geniuses so far as I'm concerned, but they should have retired in 1980. They could have gone out like Led Zeppelin but instead they went out like Willie Mays.

149 posted on 06/09/2005 6:11:28 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?)
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To: KosmicKitty; archy
The first thing I think of when hearing AC/DC is Dirty Deeds and they're done with Sheep!

"Mondegreen" ping for archy!

150 posted on 06/09/2005 7:51:36 PM PDT by Cloud William (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: t_skoz

Izzat a pic of Hadrian's Wall?


151 posted on 06/09/2005 7:53:10 PM PDT by Cloud William (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: SamAdams76

I'll FReepmail ya sumthin'


152 posted on 06/09/2005 8:15:13 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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To: LexBaird
L.N. Smithee ...and my current favorite band, Puffy AmiYumi.

LexBaird: No wonder you use a pseudonym.

Unlike most music enthusiasts, I don't feel compelled to suck up to fans of certain genres of music to legitimize myself to them. Throughout my life, I have never been shy to admit I like hard rock to fans of Barry Manilow, or that I like some Barry Manilow songs to classical fans, that I like classical (particularly the underappreciated Ottorino Respighi) to metal fans, or that I like crass, commercial pop music to fans of whatever supposedly non-commercial music they liked (how amusing that my "corporate rock"-bashing friends must come to grips with their precious Clash songs selling automobiles and trendy light alcoholic beverages).

Something awful happened to the music industry in the early eighties: the Top 40 radio station fell out of favor, and broadcasting became "narrowcasting" -- rather than expanding playlists to contain every type of music that was selling, stations owned by monopolistic media giants would cater to one type of fan, and young listeners no longer were exposed to more than one type of music on a regular basis. Thank God I was among the last generation to listen to legendary stations like KFRC in San Francisco, where one could hear Boston, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Glen Campbell, Elton John, the Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, AC/DC, the Doors, Joe Tex, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Manfred Mann, Billy Joel, The Who, Parliament, Meco, Steve Miller, Maureen McGovern, Neil Young, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Meat Loaf, Dolly Parton, the Commodores, the Mamas and The Papas, James Brown, Journey, and the Beach Boys.

I have never heard Puffy AmiYumi on the radio, though. I heard their smooth, sweet phonetic English pop-rocker "Love So Pure" while browsing in Amoeba Music, San Francisco's largest independent record store. It was the first time in years I had heard a pop song like that. Here in America, "Pop" has come to mean over-produced records replete with scratches, thuds, and meaningless white noise (a la *NSYNC). "Love So Pure" sounds like it could have been done by a sixties girl group.

I asked a store employee what record was playing, and she told me, and added that Puffy was playing a week later in the store. I bought the CD, came back a week later to watch them do a three song set, and waited in line behind maybe 200 people (mostly Asian) who wanted an autograph. Yumi and Ami signed my CD cover, we had a nice conversation in broken English, and I saw them live at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium this past April. The joint was packed with fans of all ages, and was the most fun I've had (as a spectator) in years. I can't imagine thrusting my fist in the air to "Teen Titans Theme" and shouting "LET'S GO!" as Yumi and Ami sang it live not twenty feet away could have been more thrilling if I had done it to "Blitzkrieg Bop" in a live Ramones show.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I have a yen for a couple of cute Japanese girls and their kick-A band any more than anyone else on this thread is ashamed of digging a band with a lead guitarist who wears a grade school uniform on stage.

153 posted on 06/10/2005 2:06:33 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Freeping since March 1998. This is my blessing. This is my curse.)
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To: Cloud William

it's a random background of a ruined castle somewhere in Ireland, with a Palestinian protesting the Israeli security wall photoshopped next to a "Dark Side Of The Moon" prism... obviously that guy thinks "Dark Side" was a much better Floyd album than "The Wall" !!!


154 posted on 06/10/2005 6:10:54 AM PDT by t_skoz ("let me be who I am - let me kick out the jams!")
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To: L.N. Smithee

Well, de gustibus non disputandum. To me they are less smooth english phonetic rock and more fingernails on blackboard. My only exposure, however, has been their cartoon show and Titan's theme.


155 posted on 06/13/2005 12:33:33 PM PDT by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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