Sosso Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 (edited) Albums like Flick of the Switch, Fly on the Wall, Blow Up Your Video and the soundtrack Who Made Who had received very negative reviews from the press. I think that they are underrated. Especially Fly on the Wall. The songs are really good but the production is really bad. Who Made Who is my favourite song from that time. It's sad that these songs weren't played live for about over two or three decades now. What's your opinion about these albums? Edited May 12, 2016 by Sosso 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcon Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 As an album I like flick of the switch best of that group and think its great. Special shout-out too Nervous Shakedown and Landslide too. For the other albums there are songs I really like on each. Mainly the standards like shake your foundations, sink the pink, heatseeker and who made who. I'm certainly glad these albums all exist but I tend to favor the earlier albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Flick of the Switch is okay but Fly on the Wall and Blow Up Your Video are horrible. there's not really a song on those albums thats worth playing twice not to mention it sound like somebody recorded it from the hallway of the studio...it seems to me they got lazy and just released abunch of throwaways and hit the road to tour again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Flick Of The Switch is my second favorite Brian album, and probably in my top 5 AC/DC albums. It's a shame it was viewed unfavorably for so long - it's got some fucking great tracks on it; This House Is On Fire, Flick Of The Switch, Nervous Shakedown, Guns For Hire, and Bedlam In Belgium are some of my favorites. Luckily it seems more and more people are coming to appreciate this album as the overlooked gem of the Brian era. As for the rest, they all have their problems. Fly On The Wall could've been a decent album if it weren't for the insufferable production. The title track, Shake Your Foundations, and Sink The Pink are the only songs where the quality of the music overpowers the horrid production IMO. Who Made Who is...eh. Don't get me wrong, the three original songs on it are great (Even if the title track is far superior on AC/DC Live), but it's only three new songs, two of which are instrumentals. I'd have liked WMW more if the rest of the instrumentals from Maximum Overdrive had been released on the album - there was some good music in the movie, that one slow blues jam is especially tasty. Blow Up Your Video is just awful, it's one of only two AC/DC albums I absolutely despise (The other being Ballbreaker). I honestly can't even tell you the last time I listened to anything off it besides Heatseeker or That's The Way I Wanna Rock N' Roll. That said...I do like the album cover 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 AY AY YO, SHAKE YOUR FOUNDATIONS axl needs to sing this one! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I am surprised they're not doing "Guns For Hire" for the obvious reason 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 flick of the switch is criminally underrated and one of my favorites, it should have been the follow up to back in black to be honest. i also really like fly on the wall, never really understood the production of the album and why they fucked up the vocals so bad but the songs are a lot of fun and probably the heaviest ac/dc ever got. the rest i'm not a fan, blow up your video sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Flick of the Switch is a great album, it is too bad that even the band itself looks down on it. It is by far the meanest and hardest rocking albums of the Brian years. They wanted to go back to a time where they didn't have the bells and canons and polished production. In that way they fail to make it sound like their older albums with Bon, but they achieved a bad ass album that makes all the the would-be rockers at the time look like posers. Fly on the Wall suffered bad production as pointed out before. I think Brian's singing style was taking its toll on him which could be why his vocals are turned down a bit or the guitars are turned up. The band itself is becoming less inspired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 15 hours ago, Sosso said: Albums like Flick of the Switch, Fly on the Wall, Blow Up Your Video and the soundtrack Who Made Who had received very negative rates from the press. I think that they are underrated. Especially Fly on the Wall. The songs are really good but the production is really bad. Who Made Who is my favourite song from that time. It's sad that these songs weren't played live for about over two or three decades now. What's your opinion about these albums? Fly on The wall is probably the weakest AC/DC record Flick of the Switch is awesome, though. Blow Up Your Video was OK. Who Made Who is a bit dated by now, but i can't really look at that record as a full album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 13 hours ago, Powerage5 said: Flick Of The Switch is my second favorite Brian album, and probably in my top 5 AC/DC albums. It's a shame it was viewed unfavorably for so long - it's got some fucking great tracks on it; This House Is On Fire, Flick Of The Switch, Nervous Shakedown, Guns For Hire, and Bedlam In Belgium are some of my favorites. Luckily it seems more and more people are coming to appreciate this album as the overlooked gem of the Brian era. As for the rest, they all have their problems. Fly On The Wall could've been a decent album if it weren't for the insufferable production. The title track, Shake Your Foundations, and Sink The Pink are the only songs where the quality of the music overpowers the horrid production IMO. Who Made Who is...eh. Don't get me wrong, the three original songs on it are great (Even if the title track is far superior on AC/DC Live), but it's only three new songs, two of which are instrumentals. I'd have liked WMW more if the rest of the instrumentals from Maximum Overdrive had been released on the album - there was some good music in the movie, that one slow blues jam is especially tasty. Blow Up Your Video is just awful, it's one of only two AC/DC albums I absolutely despise (The other being Ballbreaker). I honestly can't even tell you the last time I listened to anything off it besides Heatseeker or That's The Way I Wanna Rock N' Roll. That said...I do like the album cover Nick of Time is a great stadium rocker But yeah, after Flick of the Switch, until Thunderstruck, the band went on a downhill really Ballbreaker is almost as weak as Fly on the Wall, though and i'm not a big fan of the Stiff Upper Lip record, it's pretty generic. The 2 last records blow SUL out of the water, imho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 8 minutes ago, Strange Broue said: Nick of Time is a great stadium rocker But yeah, after Flick of the Switch, until Thunderstruck, the band went on a downhill really Ballbreaker is almost as weak as Fly on the Wall, though and i'm not a big fan of the Stiff Upper Lip record, it's pretty generic. The 2 last records blow SUL out of the water, imho I actually really like Stiff Upper Lip, but I know I'm in the minority there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I like Ballbreaker. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mansin Humanity Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 Flick of the Switch is great. Fuck you if you don't like it and consider yourself anything past a casual AC/DC fan. Fly on the Wall is alright, but has some better tracks than people give it credit for. Blow Up Your Video is probably my least favorite AC/DC album. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseDemocracy2004 Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 It goes like this for me (at the moment); Flick of the Switch > Blow Up Your Video > Fly On The Wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 3 hours ago, Georgy Zhukov said: Fly on the Wall suffered bad production as pointed out before. I think Brian's singing style was taking its toll on him which could be why his vocals are turned down a bit or the guitars are turned up. The band itself is becoming less inspired. I think Brian's voice was intentionally buried in the mix. It was in pretty rough shape at that point. The solution seemed to be to hide it behind the guitars. The poor guy just needed a break! The rest of the mix suffered from some of the typical eighties production values - bass that is nowhere to be heard, overly compressed snare sound with a wall of reverb, and so on. I'd add more to this topic but @Powerage5 covered exactly what I would have said (except I like Ballbreaker). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosso Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 1 hour ago, Powerage5 said: I actually really like Stiff Upper Lip, but I know I'm in the minority there. I like the title track, House of Jazz, Safe in New York City and Satellite Blues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 I like Ballbreaker too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mansin Humanity Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 2 hours ago, Sosso said: I like the title track, House of Jazz, Safe in New York City and Satellite Blues. Those ones, Damned, Meltdown, Come and Get It, and Can't Stop Rock n' Roll are all good tunes. SUL isn't great but is still pretty solid overall. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted May 13, 2016 Share Posted May 13, 2016 Yeah Flick Of The Switch is a fucking solid album, I'll give you Fly On The Wall and Blow Up Your Video but Flick Of The Switch is very unfairly lumped in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 The problem with the Simon Wright albums is they all sound the same - even by AC/DC standards. They all have that sterile '80s production. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosso Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 6 hours ago, DieselDaisy said: The problem with the Simon Wright albums is they all sound the same - even by AC/DC standards. They all have that sterile '80s production. The production could have been better. But I like Simon Wrights drum playing, especially on Who Made Who and Blow Up Your Video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 I think Simon played closer to Phil but I can't stand his hi-hat work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 IMHO they all have there merits....let's face it if you took all those albums a played them on shuffle most people would have no idea what song was on what album.... I love AC/DC but they have been making one long album their whole career.. you could switch out songs from any album and they would not seem out of place....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Blow Up Your Video is my least favorite. The only time when they sounded like the other bands. I think Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip are underrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosso Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, classicrawker said: IMHO they all have there merits....let's face it if you took all those albums a played them on shuffle most people would have no idea what song was on what album.... I love AC/DC but they have been making one long album their whole career.. you could switch out songs from any album and they would not seem out of place....... I wouldn't say that. Songs like "House of Jazz" or "Anything Goes" would be out of place on albums like "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" for example. Edited May 16, 2016 by Sosso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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