Back in Black now the fifth top selling Album in US

NeZ · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:17 pm

I thought this was kind of interesting. They just certified "Back in Black" as having shipped 21 million copies in the US, making it tyed the 5th best selling of all time.

I knew it had sold a lot but I wouldn't have guessed it had sold that well.

Article at CNN

Billy Joel, the Eagles, Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin are the other top sellers.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:18 pm

It's a quality album.

Although I'm shocked that The Wall is Top 5. That's pretty amazing, I had no idea it was that popular.

hey look · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:31 pm

watch out for Daddy Yankee. ahahahaha

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:38 pm

"Dizzy, drunk and fightin'
On tequila white lightnin'
My glass is getting shorter
On whiskey, ice and water
So come on and have a good time
And get blinded out of your mind

So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the cheque
We'll get hell to pay"

This album owns and should be played in bars late night from now until the end of time.

Def. the best out to the top 5 of all time. The Eagles? *fart noise*

robotboy · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:40 pm

yeah great album

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:41 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

"Dizzy, drunk and fightin'
On tequila white lightnin'
My glass is getting shorter
On whiskey, ice and water
So come on and have a good time
And get blinded out of your mind

So don't worry about tomorrow
Take it today
Forget about the cheque
We'll get hell to pay"

This album owns and should be played in bars late night from now until the end of time.

Def. the best out to the top 5 of all time. The Eagles? *fart noise*

rack him

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:43 pm

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:49 pm

The problem with those counts is that people who had bought it on tape, had to buy it again on cd, so they get 2 purchases for the same person. But I guess on the other hand, it just goes to show the album is worth buying twice.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:35 pm

They became a journeyman parody of themselves after Back In Black, but it holds up as a hell of an album.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Rumor has it there are demos of about half the songs on the album that they recorded before Bon Scott died. I would kill to hear these.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:54 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

This album owns and should be played in bars late night from now until the end of time.

Agreed. You can definitely get a sing-a-long going to "You Shook Me All Night Long" anytime you play it in a bar.

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:56 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

But it didn't. It came out then.

Shut it.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:58 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

if AC/DC came out with it today, it would be garbage....

but if a semi-famous band came out with it, i'd like it.....dude the sound alone of Back In Black makes it legendary.

Big ups Mutt Lange!

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:03 pm

Timmy, most of us are perceptive enough music fans to be able to tell the difference in quality between Back In Black and later AC/DC albums. BIB absolutely festers with crass fuckall brilliance and an absolute spit into the face of death. Later albums are just party tunes.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:04 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

if AC/DC came out with it today, it would be garbage....

but if a semi-famous band came out with it, i'd like it.....dude the sound alone of Back In Black makes it legendary.

Big ups Mutt Lange!

How are we defining our terms here? Maybe I'm just being obtuse but how is it that if those exact songs are released by AC/DC in 2005, it's 'garbage'. Please explain I'm just not getting why this would be.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:06 pm

My sister had every ac/dc album on vinyl up till like 1984, along with every KISS and Iron Maiden. BIB was damn, damn good, though I was regretably too young too really get it. I wouldn't mind hearing it again sometime.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:30 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

if AC/DC came out with it today, it would be garbage....

but if a semi-famous band came out with it, i'd like it.....dude the sound alone of Back In Black makes it legendary.

Big ups Mutt Lange!

How are we defining our terms here? Maybe I'm just being obtuse but how is it that if those exact songs are released by AC/DC in 2005, it's 'garbage'. Please explain I'm just not getting why this would be.

yeah, sorry to be so "obtuse"; it was mainly just a shot at ACDC today. Like, even if they wrote and released those songs today it wouldn't be as good because

A. They are not lean,young and hungry anymore and the playing would reflect that.
B.It wouldn't sound like it did in 1980 for good or ill (my argument is obviously for ill)

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Don't forget that a lot of the impact of BiB is derived from the context of a band that had lost its leader. Bon Scott was a good deal older and experienced when he joined AC-DC, and he gave the brothers Young a great deal of leadership.

Now Bon's gone, and the band comes roaring out with BiB, and took a whole bunch of folks by surprise--foks who had figured that with Bon dead there was nothing to the band anymore.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:44 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

DumpJack Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

if that came out today, ya'll would call it garbage

edit: myself included

if AC/DC came out with it today, it would be garbage....

but if a semi-famous band came out with it, i'd like it.....dude the sound alone of Back In Black makes it legendary.

Big ups Mutt Lange!

How are we defining our terms here? Maybe I'm just being obtuse but how is it that if those exact songs are released by AC/DC in 2005, it's 'garbage'. Please explain I'm just not getting why this would be.

yeah, sorry to be so "obtuse"; it was mainly just a shot at ACDC today. Like, even if they wrote and released those songs today it wouldn't be as good because

A. They are not lean,young and hungry anymore and the playing would reflect that.
B.It wouldn't sound like it did in 1980 for good or ill (my argument is obviously for ill)

I got you now. I was interpreting the statements more literally, like if the AC/DC today in 2005 released that exact 1980 album, note for note, I think we'd all be pretty blown away for the exact reasons you've just stated. They're not hungry anymore and they haven't released anything of quality in years. Dropping an Back in Black quality album in this day and age would be an impressive feat.

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:55 pm

A couple of years ago I was at a show ( Mooney Suzuki, I think...maybe it was Soundtrack Of Our Lives ) waiting for the band to come on. I was standing right by one of the big-assed speakers, & the mixing guy started playing the Back In Black CD. Now, I've heard this album a gazillion times, & about half the songs I've heard TEN GAZILLION TIMES.

But I'll be Gawddamned if right then at that moment it still didn't sound perfect.

Way underrated track : "Shake A Leg".

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:55 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

I got you now. I was interpreting the statements more literally, like if the AC/DC today in 2005 released that exact 1980 album, note for note, I think we'd all be pretty blown away for the exact reasons you've just stated. They're not hungry anymore and they haven't released anything of quality in years. Dropping an Back in Black quality album in this day and age would be an impressive feat.

Yeah, like if the new Stones album rivaled Exile or something.

Yeah, and Billz, I agree with you on the tragedy and step-up factor being an issue on this record.

That's why I brought up Mutt Lange; this guy had a talent for working with bands in a state of "FUCK!", eh?

Save me a search,what albums of note did he do besides BIB, Pyromania, and Hysteria?

edit:

Quote:

Beginning production work in 1976, his first major hit was AC/DC's album Highway to Hell. He produced several more albums with the band, also working with 80's pop-rock group Foreigner. He worked with Def Leppard on their hit albums, Pyromania and Hysteria cowriting many songs. He is often credited with bringing them to the incredible levels of popularity that they achieved.

After "Hysteria," Lange felt he had contributed all that he could to Def Leppard's career, and he decided to bow out of working with them while they were at their peak. In 1991, he produced Bryan Adams' Waking Up the Neighbours, including "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", a hugely-successful single (aided by its appearance of the soundtrack of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves).

After seeing a virtually unknown singer by the name of Shania Twain, he got in touch with her agent and offered to produce for her. They were married in 1993 and together have built her enormously successful recording career.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:01 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Yeah, like if the new Stones album rivaled Exile or something.

Yeah, and Billz, I agree with you on the tragedy and step-up factor being an issue on this record.

That's why I brought up Mutt Lange; this guy had a talent for working with bands in a state of "FUCK!", eh?

Save me a search,what albums of note did he do besides BIB, Pyromania, and Hysteria?

Strange man, I literally thought the same thing re: Stones and Exile.

Mutt worked his comely wife into superstardom over three albums. He also did the Cars' Heartbreak City and a lot of other pop stuff in the 80s and 90s. He's got the touch!

Balls Mahoney · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:03 pm

Isn't Mutt married to Shania Twain? He gets props for that if he never produced a quality record. I think perspective is the key, same thing held when Slint toured earlier this year. It meant everything to me to see them live, but lots of people were there who watched them with a "what's the big deal" type of attitude.

For Those about to Rock is a pretty good record too. I saw them at the Tacoma Dome a few years ago and they were awesome.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:12 pm

I still don't have this album. I think it might be in my YourMusic.com queue though.

du&sku · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:15 pm

Someone explain this: are albums like The Wall and Rumours considered double albums, and thus every sale is considered twice?

Back in Black now the fifth top selling Album in US

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