Back in Black

"If this record doesn't move you you're probably dead. Back In Black, produced by the brothers Young, is a terrifyingly brutal metal record. Songs like "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Hells Bells" and the title track sound like they were performed by a pack of crazed wolverines touched by the hand of God. You've heard of rhythm and blues? This is rhythm and bruise."

I can't think of anything else to add except THANK YOU SONY!!!!!


some mean tunes   December 15, 2004
Heavy Fuel (Napa, CA USA)
8 out of 57 found this review helpful

I don't like this album, I don't even like any of the songs on
it, all the songs are just mean, dirty, and just worse than Appetite for Destruction. In fact, this album has lots of sex, drugs. I only added their best album from one year earlier, "Highway to Hell", I've owned this album so long
and the fact about when I last listened to it, I don't like the
songs, I've liked all 3 songs on Back in Black, but they're all
so mean, Hells Bells is such a dirty sexy drug song and a never
tune to listen to, and same thing for Back in Black, I'd never
would recommend this item, and I wish nobody bought it, or I wish
that this album never came out, or I wish that Bon Scott from the
last album sings on this, and then I would recommend it. But for
now I don't.
My suggestion,
Don't buy it.


Skip away from it, unless you're a completist.   May 15, 2003
M. D. Fonseca (Thunder)
7 out of 14 found this review helpful

This is typical from Epic, the same record company that permitted Ozzy to re-record BLIZZARD OF OZZ and DIARY OF A MADMAN replacing the bass player and the drummer, and not even informing it the CD box...

Now, we have the AC/DC catalog released again. They promised the public marvellous things. But you'll find none here.

The graphic content is really impressive, top quality. There's also some worth texts. But, lyrics? Forget about them. There are none in the entire series, even in records that, in their first CD print, contained them (Example: DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP). As for the bonus track connecting to the internet, they are joke: in BACK IN BLACK, there is none bonus track, just an interview with Brian Johnson.

BACK IN BLACK, the music, is FIVE STARS. BACK IN BLACK, this package here, is just lust for money.


classic album....ripoff package   March 12, 2005
cobias (hell)
7 out of 22 found this review helpful

Back in black is the best rocknroll album piriod.This "digi pack" is a ripoff though.The cd side of the disc is poor quality,it sounds like they remastered it with too much compression trying to make it sound more analog.The dvd side has a cool documentary and a high quality version of the audio cd but you can only play the hq version on your dvd player...?I also bought the remastered "for those about to rock" cd and its crisper but somone got a little overboard with the low end and you have to cut it with your eq.Save yourself some money and buy the older pre-remaster 16bit cds.I have the older cd and they sound better than the cd side of the digipack.


The Greatest Rock N Roll Album of All Time   October 28, 2003
irishman77 (Lexington, MA United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

That pretty much sums it up. Most people know the story behind this album, but here's a short version if you don't: AC/DC had just had their big U.S. breakthrough with Highway to Hell, behind the guitars and songwriting of the Young brothers and the powerhouse voice and charisma of Bon Scott. Bon got drunk one night and passed out in a friend's car and was left there for the night. He vomited in his sleep, choked and died. Everyone assumed AC/DC was dead, but the band knew Bon's passion for rock n roll would want them to continue. They auditioned singers and found a diamond in the rough in Brian Johnson, then went into the studio focused on giving Bon the perfect musical farewell.

Now, the album. The tolling of the bell for Bon ends it ominously but perfectly, leading into Hell's Bells. Right away I was blown away by the pure range and power Brian delivers. You know this is something special. Don't think they're playing mournfully either, this is still down n dirty AC/DC rock, just more intense. They get back to more typical subject matter with the fun Shoot to Thrill, and by the time you get to What You Do For Money Honey the middle of the album just grooves along like no collection of songs you've ever heard. The title track is an all-time great (just like everything here) metal march that is the most personally linked to Bon.Everyone knows You Shook Me All Night Long, and it still holds up. The album rolls along to the song that gives a great middle finger to the people that would come to call AC/DC too vulgar or juvenile: Rock N Roll Aint Noise Pollution. The perfect anthem for rock fans to pump their fists too, it closes the album with a thunderous bang. So enough of me talking, go get this album and see the greatness you're missing. Like the last song says it just "makes good, good sense."