ACDC Black Ice

Ok so here goes. If your gonna get pure ACDC music here is how I would now rank their albums following the recent release of Black Ice.

1. If You Want Blood, You've Got it: 1978 live release
2. Highway to Hell: 1979 (last album for singer Bon Scott)
3. Back in Black: 1980, the first album with new singer Brian Johnson
4. Black Ice: 2008

That's right, Black Ice is their best album in 18 years, getting back to the blistering type music of the Bon Scott era. And 15 songs with perhaps only one "filler song" is pretty incredible.

My favorite tunes on this one is perhaps Stormy Mayday (slide guitar, zepplinesque), Decibel (sounds like ZZ Top in the beginning), and War Machine. Least favorite song for me is Anything Goes which seems to belong on some other album.

This is in your face rock n roll with some blues rock thrown in. And that is good because lyrically there is not much to see here as in most ACDC songs. One thing to celebrate is that all these tunes are not steeped in sexual innuendo.