I own this album on a old skool vinyl

Awesome AC/DC album. There are a lot of fun tracks here-Big balls, the title track, squealer. Good old 70's rock:D

A good opus

Written by Yaniv on 03.03.2012 at 18:16

AC/DC made a school to everyone who wanna rock N Roll.
Great Album!

Absolutely true !!

There is a lot on this album to be admired, yet it is not quite as musically good as 'Highway to hell' or indeed exciting as 'Back in Black'. It sounds very much like British Rock, in the sense that there is a great deal of humour involved-'Big Balls' and 'Dirty Deeds done dirt Cheap' being the most obvious examples. The album is closed interestingly with a very pop-influenced 'Squealer', yet still manages to deliver the goods. This album is a good successor to 'High Voltage', even if some songs can get boring at times.

Easily "one of" my favourite AC/DC albums.

"Big Balls" is just ingenious song.

Must be my most listened album in the early years. And I always thought pretty highly of this album, though maybe not quite as highly as Highway to Hell, pun not intended. While HtH has more of those hard rocking hit type songs, DDDDC sounds to me more focused in the slow bluesy songs and they're definitely strong tracks; "Ride On" is still my favourite AC/DC song and "Ain't No Fun" while not as good a song, it has great chorus. The more hard rock oriented songs are good here too, the only songs I really don't enjoy are "Problem Child" (has a good riff though) and "Squealer" (never liked this one). Not their best album IMO but it's classic AC/DC and with Bon Scott it automaticly sounds very genuine and honest music by true rockers.

Written by Joppe on 02.05.2020 at 16:17

Must be my most listened album in the early years. And I always thought pretty highly of this album, though maybe not quite as highly as Highway to Hell, pun not intended. While HtH has more of those hard rocking hit type songs, DDDDC sounds to me more focused in the slow bluesy songs and they're definitely strong tracks; "Ride On" is still my favourite AC/DC song and "Ain't No Fun" while not as good a song, it has great chorus. The more hard rock oriented songs are good here too, the only songs I really don't enjoy are "Problem Child" (has a good riff though) and "Squealer" (never liked this one). Not their best album IMO but it's classic AC/DC and with Bon Scott it automaticly sounds very genuine and honest music by true rockers.

true rockers? if true rockers exist, does it mean there are fake rockers or false rockers? What's the purpose of fake rocking? All my lame jokes aside, I just wish people would just stop using the "true" term.

I agree with the rest that you say here. Ride On is one of my favorite songs as well. I don't mind Problem Child, it's a fine song, but Squealer is the weakest song here indeed, although still listenable.

Written by JoHn Doe on 02.05.2020 at 16:27

true rockers? if true rockers exist, does it mean there are fake rockers or false rockers? What's the purpose of fake rocking? All my lame jokes aside, I just wish people would just stop using the who "true" term.

I mean people who live that lifestyle sex, drugs and rock n roll and basically write songs about their life and experiences. You can see Bon was totally that kind of a person. I think a lot of these "rock is dead" comments that have been surfacing for decades already are referring to this phenomenon where new rock is made but it doesn't quite cut it, it seems missing some genuinity, it has some fakeness to it. Obviously there are some rock artists and bands that make the music pretty much just for money and fame and work with producers to get famous, it's easy to see that something is off about these "rockers". To me things just seem to have changed drastically -- and for worse -- since 60s and 70s when rock was flourishing, everything was then more authentic, less money involved -- money, which nowadays can attract poseurs to cash in.

But anyway, I don't wanna bash anybody for anything, we need fake to know what is true so I am grateful that we have both, and due to that comparison I can appreciate what's true more.

Written by Joppe on 02.05.2020 at 16:42

Written by JoHn Doe on 02.05.2020 at 16:27

true rockers? if true rockers exist, does it mean there are fake rockers or false rockers? What's the purpose of fake rocking? All my lame jokes aside, I just wish people would just stop using the who "true" term.

I mean people who live that lifestyle sex, drugs and rock n roll and basically write songs about their life and experiences. You can see Bon was totally that kind of a person. I think a lot of these "rock is dead" comments that have been surfacing for decades already are referring to this phenomenon where new rock is made but it doesn't quite cut it, it seems missing some genuinity, it has some fakeness to it. Obviously there are some rock artists and bands that make the music pretty much just for money and fame and work with producers to get famous, it's easy to see that something is off about these "rockers". To me things just seem to have changed drastically -- and for worse -- since 60s and 70s when rock was flourishing, everything was then more authentic, less money involved, which can attract poseurs to cash in.

But anyway, I don't wanna bash anybody for anything, we need fake to know what is true so I am grateful that we have both, and due to that comparison I can appreciate what's true more.

You make a lot of sense.
It was still in the 70s that music labels realised they could make a lot of money, that's why a gifted guitarist like Peter Frampton (for example) was turned into a teen idol, or Rolling Stones created disco-funk songs in the late 70s, even a legend like Roy Orbison was convinced to play disco in the late 70s. That's how bad it was. No surprise things will go so bad in the 80s with MTV rockstars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0

Written by JoHn Doe on 02.05.2020 at 16:53

You make a lot of sense.
It was still in the 70s that music labels realised they could make a lot of money, that's why a gifted guitarist like Peter Frampton (for example) was turned into a teen idol, or Rolling Stones created disco-funk songs in the late 70s, even a legend like Roy Orbison was convinced to play disco in the late 70s. That's how bad it was. No surprise things will go so bad in the 80s with MTV rockstars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZazEM8cgt0

Well, IMO 90% of rock, even many of the great bands of 70s went crap in the 80s, with only rare few exceptions. I have checked the albums from this era and came to the conclusion that I better have go to the past decades OR sometimes go with new stuff as it looks like bandcamp and the other platforms are bringing some new blood, resurgence to rock to restore the long-lost greatness of the genre.

Big Balls has got to be the worst song I've ever heard.

Written by MetalDoomMaster on 19.11.2020 at 22:48

Big Balls has got to be the worst song I've ever heard.

I don't think you are meant to take the song seriously, it's like a joke.

Joke songs can still be good but "Big Balls" isn't one of them.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 20.11.2020 at 00:15

Joke songs can still be good but "Big Balls" isn't one of them.

it's still a joke not meant to be taken seriously.

A good album but it's probably my least listened to of the Bon albums. Odd as it was actually the first I bought and only one I own on vinyl.