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Black Ice | 
| Artist: Ac/dc
Label: sonyBMG
Category: Music
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 25
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886973923825
EAN: 0886973923825
ASIN: B001F2W4Y2
Release Date: October 20, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Rock 'n' Roll Train | | • | Skies On Fire | | • | Big Jack | | • | Anything Goes | | • | War Machine | | • | Smash 'n' Grab | | • | Spoilin' For A Fight | | • | Wheels | | • | Decibel | | • | Stormy May Day | | • | She Likes Rock 'n' Roll | | • | Money Made | | • | Rock 'n' Roll Dream | | • | Rocking All The Way | | • | Black Ice |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Such are the near-generational gaps between latter-day AC/DC albums that it's always tempting to hail the arrival of a new one as a return to form. Black Ice arrives a whopping eight years after the band's last offering, Stiff Upper Lip, but one chorus into "Rock N Roll Train", the wise man would conclude that any evolution here is as slow and incremental as, well, evolution. A punchy, straightforward opener that finds Angus Young in good riff and Brian Johnson preaching a familiar gospel of schoolgirls and schoolboys, fantasy and ecstasy, it's familiar in the best possible way. A little deeper into Black Ice, however, and there's evidence of a slightly altered approach. Producer Brendan O'Brien softens and fleshes out the stripped-down, electric blues sound AC/DC rediscovered on 1995's Ballbreaker, and in places the band follow suit--take "Anything Goes", a poppy stomp that recalls O'Brien's other recent charge, Bruce Springsteen. Elsewhere, "Stormy May Day" and "Money Made" find Young taking up the slide for a few Zeppelin-flavoured licks. A few new paths, then, but all in all, the destination is pretty much the same: another solid late-period AC/DC album that, while unlikely to dislodge Back in Black from the fan's pedestal, finds its makers rocking into ripe old age. --Louis Pattison
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 Fist in the air time.. November 19, 2008
Slightly better than Stiff Upper Lip, but not as good as Razors Edge. Not quite a classic album because there's too many flat tracks here. Having said that I've played it many times and punch my fist in the air in enjoyment. The stand out tracks are Runnaway Train, Big Jack, War Machine, Spoiling for a fight, and Rocking all the way. All in all, if you're a fan, buy it, play it and get rocking!
Pretty good November 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not bad, can't think of anything 2 say. It's AC/DC though and that can't be bad. Buy it.
Deceptively clever November 13, 2008
This album's greatest strength is that it is just so enjoyable to listen to. Simple as that. Obviously it doesn't break much new ground, but Angus Young's guitar sound is more 'live' than other recent (if I can use that word) AC/DC albums. The guitar playing on 'Spoiling for a Fight' is astonishing and leaves you hungry for more. Whereas Metallica's return to the use of guitar solos is just irritating (you have to sit through them), with Angus you don't want to miss any of it. The best track I think is Rock n' Roll Dream; Johnson's singing if anything has improved and the band have upped their 'blues' sound, and that really works well for them; the album is deceptively clever and definately a 'return to form'.
A Missed Opportunity. And they should have named it "Decibel" November 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Black Ice is not really a bad AC/DC album, but the opportunity for it to be a great one really was missed. The basics of the songs are there, even if the riffs are often recycled. The problem is that while the songs are intially catchy enough with decent riffing, they do not build a momentum and rather just flatline halfway through. I keep listening through the album and trying to decide what a good first single would have been (rather than Rock n Roll Train) but there really aren't any candidates that meet the standard.
Rock n Roll Train is basically a Highway to Hell rewrite but rather than build into the classic that Highway to Hell does, RnR Train dies after the first chorus. This is the problem with all of the better songs on here. They get your foot tapping along to a great riff, then the song dies.
Another issue is the quality of the lyrics. The lyrics have been pretty poor since the Youngs started penning them in 1990 but here they are pretty much nonsensical. They are truly awful and it is to the detriment of the album. They really just seem like random lines thrown in here and there with references to storms, decibels, liking rock n roll etc. The lyrics during both the Bonn Scott and Brian Johnson writing eras both had their clever moments, even if the subject matter was nothing too meaningful
So, I say this was a missed opportunity to do a great album. If more time were spent shaping the songs beyond the intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, end structure and if Brian (or anyone in the band) had at least helped with the lyrics it could have been so much better. There should only have been 10 songs and the album should have been called Decibel. It's not a great song but it sounds like an AC/DC album title. Black Ice is a nonesense song and a nonesense title.
The best thing on the album is Cliff Williams. His bass is pushed right up front and he gets to do a few riffs for a change.
The album is better than Ballbreaker but not as good as anything that came before it. I never bought Stiff Upper Lip after being burned by Ballbreaker so I can't comment on that one.
3 stars because there are some good tunes on hear. No classics, unfortunately.
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