![]() Also Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was initially rejected by their American record company only to be released in the wake of Back in Black, causing it to hit #3 on Billboard. It should be noted that their international debut release High Voltage is a compilation album consisting of tracks from their first two Australian only albums High Voltage and T.N.T. We’ll get on to those albums later though. That said, AC/DC have released a number of live albums and soundtracks, which over the years have somewhat filled the void left by the missing compilation. Thus leaving consumers no choice but to dig into their vast catalog. One of the reasons their entire catalog continues to sell so well is the absence of any Greatest Hits albums. In fact, over their 40 year long career ALL their full length studio albums, including so called flops and recent releases, have sold more than 3 million copies each! In total: 123,47m spread over 15 studio albums! ![]() Highway to Hell sold an impressive 15,15 million and 3 other albums top the 10 million mark. At 35,81 million regular album sales it has almost equaled the combined sales of their 2nd, 3rd and 4th biggest albums!Īlthough they’ve had their share of ups and downs, there’s more to AC/DC than making one of the biggest selling albums ever. Unsurprisingly, Back in Black stands head and shoulders above the rest of their studio albums. ![]() And so they remained: proud, primitive, electric.1976 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – 10,970,000ġ981 For Those About to Rock We Salute You – 10,040,000 “You can’t call an album Rock or Bust and then go bust,” Young joked about the band’s 2020 record. They survived not only the death of their first real singer (Bon Scott) and, later, of Angus’ brother, co-founder and co-writer Malcolm, but the hearing damage of Scott’s replacement, Brian Johnson. Albums such as 1979’s Highway to Hell and 1980’s Back in Black may have helped create heavy metal, but they also shared the minimalist attitude of punk: The songs were short, the chords simple, the spirit clear and uncompromising. “The real art,” Young said, “is making the complex simple.”įormed in Sydney, Australia, in 1973, the band presented a rebuttal to the bloat of art and progressive rock, but also restored the music to its roots in Little Richard, blues, and a kind of pre-Beatles notion that that rock music was primarily meant to entertain. Featured peformers: Bon Scott (lead vocals), Angus Young (lead guitar), Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Mark Evans (bass), Harry Vanda (producer), George Young (producer). Anyone could be complex-just put more junk into the pot. Released 1 December 1975 on Albert (catalog no. Young said that his older brother George, who had produced their first several albums, stressed the importance of making your point clear and never doing more than you need to. ![]() Where other 1970s hard rock bands digressed into concept albums and orchestral suites in tortured efforts to prove how smart they were, AC/DC treated their records the way a cobbler might treat a shoe, or a watchmaker a watch: as a humble craft to be refined through repetition, and always geared towards the utility of the final product. After all, by that point, they’d been around for more than 45 years, and had spent those years making more or less the same song. In a conversation with Apple Music in 2020, Angus Young, the guitarist and principal songwriter in AC/DC, mused on what he thought made the band tick. ![]()
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