AC/DC are number one

[John Duncan]

There's hope for the future of music yet.....

Not that I've bought it (as a Kirriemuir boy I still think AC/DC stopped when Bon Scott died), but at least it's put rock at the top of the charts for once......

 

[Alec]

The album or single?

 

[John Duncan]

Album. Those pesky Aloud Girls are number one in the singles charts.

 

[Anonymous]

And that's without downloads as AC/DC don't do iTunes and the album is a CD only release...they feel their albums need to be heard in full, rather than people picking out individual songs, apparently.

 

[John Duncan]

Richard Melville:And that's without downloads as AC/DC don't do iTunes and the album is a CD only release...they feel their albums need to be heard in full, rather than people picking out individual songs, apparently.

Schoolboy error.

Do you see what I di.....ahforgeddaboudit

 

[survivor]

I took a peek on Ceefax page 528 (bbc2) and I couldn`t help smiling to myself when I saw that AC/DC were number one some 33 years or so after the release of their first album.

The album is also available on double disc vinyl which is the edition I bought last week.

Chart trivia fact - AC/DC have never had a top ten single in the UK.

Last I heard `Back In Black` has recently become the second biggest selling album of all time though I can`t confirm that as a certainty.

It is particulary satisfying to see AC/DC at number one after all the efforts of certain people within the radio/music business who done their best to kill off hard rock music.

It`s quite bizarre to walk into your local HMV store and see AC/DC T-shirts, belts, buckles, back packs and pencil cases for sale.

When it suits hey.

 

[John Duncan]

survivor:Last I heard `Back In Black` has recently become the second biggest selling album of all time though I can`t confirm that as a certainty.

The Grauniad seemed to think so today..........

"Times must be bad - AC/DC are number one" was the headline I think........

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Zavvi(virgin whatever) has also got a frontline display of Tshirts and paraphenalia plus all their previous albums for £5,£7 plus DVDs.

Hopefully it will get through to some of the kids who think 3 Doors Down and Linkin Park are "original" rock.(not that AC/DC were but at least earlier)

 

[survivor]

JohnDuncan:survivor:Last I heard `Back In Black` has recently become the second biggest selling album of all time though I can`t confirm that as a certainty. The Grauniad seemed to think so today.......... "Times must be bad - AC/DC are number one" was the headline I think........

Yeah well they know where they can go.

 

[survivor]

Ravey Gravey Davy:

Zavvi(virgin whatever) has also got a frontline display of Tshirts and paraphenalia plus all their previous albums for £5,£7 plus DVDs.

Hopefully it will get through to some of the kids who think 3 Doors Down and Linkin Park are "original" rock.(not that AC/DC were but at least earlier)

I guess it is good in a way. Thing is AC/DC are big enough and ugly enough to look after themselves. It`s all the smaller rock bands I feel sorry for who have suffered under the medias bias against them. Many of these have now ceased to be and it shouldn`t have been that way. I saw a group who could have been massive (Praying Mantis) earlier this year playing to about 80 people. Shame.

Tell you what though, it made me laugh last year when I visited an old friend/music sparring partner. This is the one who back in the 70`s dismissed Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and Meat Loaf as "they`ll never last" fodder. Of course AC/DC were to him even less likely to succeed playing the devils music and all that. Well, when I saw him last year his son, his very own son walked into the room wearing an AC/DC t-shirt! I tried not to snigger too loudly!

I wonder if I should e-mail him now and ask him to look on bbc2 ceefax page 528?

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

I can go with the Eagles and Meatloaf in the seventies although the moment I heard/saw the Eagles on the OGWT I heard something exceptional which I followed thereafter , but the original Fleetwood were already well established as a blues rock band from 68 onwards.

 

[John Duncan]

survivor:
JohnDuncan:survivor:Last I heard `Back In Black` has recently become the second biggest selling album of all time though I can`t confirm that as a certainty. The Grauniad seemed to think so today.......... "Times must be bad - AC/DC are number one" was the headline I think........

Yeah well they know where they can go.

Ah but you need to read it

 

[survivor]

JohnDuncan:survivor:

JohnDuncan:survivor:Last I heard `Back In Black` has recently become the second biggest selling album of all time though I can`t confirm that as a certainty. The Grauniad seemed to think so today.......... "Times must be bad - AC/DC are number one" was the headline I think........

Yeah well they know where they can go.

Ah but you need to read it

Cheers John, just read it. Now I understand what they were getting at! Actually, they`re probably right. Razors Edge was their best album for awhile when it was released as is Black Ice. Mmmnn... guess we`d better hope they never make another good one!

 

[Alec]

now an acdc siongle at number 1 really would be an event.

there are a few acts who know they dont really have to bother with downloads. but then they're your dylans, your heritage artists who know they can get plenty of bums on seats at gigs, and can arrange exclusivity deals with american chains like walmart and best buy. see the eagles and guns n roses (under the same managemnet i think.

anyway, i digress.

 

[Simon Lucas]

JohnDuncan:There's hope for the future of music yet.....
You're sure you mean future?

 

[John Duncan]

Simon Lucas:JohnDuncan:There's hope for the future of music yet.....
You're sure you mean future?

The future retro throwback revival, yes.

 

[Simon Lucas]

Marty: Do you feel that playing rock'n'roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek: No, no, no, I feel it's like, it's more like going, going to a National Park or something, and there's, you know, they preserve the moose... and that's, that's my childhood up there on stage is that moose, you know, and... and...
Marty: So when you're playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek: Yeah.ÿ

 

[John Duncan]

Ah but Arrested Development never had a number one album, did they? Hm? Hm?