What is the greatest AC/DC song?

[AngryAmish]

Highway to Hell or Long Way to the Top (If you Want to Rock n Roll)?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Hell's Bells

[anakie]

2. A Long Way to the Top

a bit of an Aussie anthem.

[AngryAmish]

3. Really? Is it the bagpipes?

Thought it would be a Scot thing...

[anakie]

8. it was their first big song

the film clip (so 70's Australia) with Bon on the back of a truck playing the bagpipes down the main road in Melbourne and everyone's first sight of Angus in his school uniform.

As an aside way back when I was in high school in the 70s we had a very young AC DC play at one of our school dances.

A Long Way to the Top is also the name of a documentary about Australian rock and roll. Well worth a look if you have any interest in Australian music.

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Anything on the first 6 albums would do. But if I have to pick just one...

In the beginning,
back in nine-teen fifty-five,
man didn't know 'bout a rock 'n' roll show,
'N' all that jive.
White man had the schmaltz,
Black man had the blues,
no one knew what they was gonna do,
but Tchaikovsky had the news.
He said

"Let there be sound,"
And there was sound.
"Let there be light,"
And there was light.
"Let there be drums,"
'N' there was drums.
"Let there be guitar,"
There was guitar.
"Let there be rock."

And it came to pass,
That Rock 'n' Roll was born.
All across the land
every rockin' band,
Was boilin' up a storm.
And the guitar man got famous.
The business man got rich.
And in everybody was a superstar,
With a seven year itch.
There were fifty million fingers,
Learnin' how to play.
And you could here those fingers pickin',
And this is what they had to say.

Let there be light,
Sound
Drums
Guitar
Ow! "Let there be Rock"

One night in a club called the Shakin' Hand.
There was a forty-two decibel rockin' band.
And the music was good and the music was loud.
And the singer turned and he said to the crowd,
"Let there be rock."

[jus_the_facts]

5. Soul Stripper ~ '74 Jailbreak

Well I met her in the garden

Underneath that old apple tree

Sitting with a handful of flowers

Looking as cool as can be

We talked away a couple of hours


Then she laid her hand on my lap

Oh I thought I got to be dreaming

I didn't know I fell in her trap



Then she made me say things I didn't want to say

Then she made me play games I didn't want to play

She was a soul stripper, yeah

She took my heart

She was a soul stripper, ooh

And tore me apart



She started moving nice and easy

Slowly getting near to my spine

Killing off each last little feeling

Ooh everyone she could find

And when she had me hollow and naked, yeah

That's when she put me down

Pulled out a knife and flashed it before me

Stuck it in and turned it around



Then she made me say things I didn't want to say, you know

Then she made me play games I didn't want to play

She was a soul stripper, yeah

Ooh she took my heart

Ooh was a soul stripper

Tore me apart



Soul stripper, soul stripper

You're a soul stripper

Soul stripper, soul stripper

Soul stripper

Took out my heart

And tore it apart



Aah you're a soul stripper

Soul stripper, soul stripper

:headbang:

[jus_the_facts]

23. also their rendition of 'Baby Please Don't Go' on that album too...

Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go
Baby please don't go down to new orleans
You know i love you so
Baby please don't go

When the man done gone
When the man done gone
When the man done gone down the county farm
He got the shackles on
Baby please don't go
Don't leave me

I'll be a dog
I'll be a dog
I'll be a dog kiss your way down here
When you walk along
Baby please don't go

Why must you leave me
Lying on my back
Going across the other side of the track
Found yourself a new man i know
So baby please don't go
Baby please don't go

Oh please, please don't leave me
I don't want to be left alone baby
Oh don't go, don't go, don't go


......'74 Jailbreak :headbang:

Jailbreak lyrics

There was a friend of mine on murder
And the judge's gavel fell
Jury found him guilty
Gave him sixteen years in hell
He said "i ain't spending my life here
I ain't living alone
Ain't breaking no rocks on the chain gang
I'm breakin' out and headin' home

Gonna make a jailbreak
And i'm lookin' towards the sky
I'm gonna make a jailbreak
Oh, how i wish that i could fly

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
Got to be free

Jailbreak, let me out of here
Jailbreak, sixteen years
Jailbreak, had more than i can take
Jailbreak, yeah"

He said he'd seen his lady being fooled with
By another man
She was down and he was up
He had a gun in his hand
Bullets started flying everywhere
And people started to scream
Big man lying on the ground
With a hole in his body
Where his life had been
But it was -

All in the name of liberty
All in the name of liberty
I got to be free

Jailbreak, jailbreak
I got to break out
Out of here

Heartbeats they were racin'
Freedom he was chasin'
Spotlights, sirens, rifles firing
But he made it out
With a bullet in his back

[OhioChick]

6. AC/DC

Thunderstruck :headbang:

[AngryAmish]

7. OMG no. That is a White Sox song.

Comisky Park fans: Tattoed, shirtless and sewer mouthed... and their husbands.

[OhioChick]

10. and their husbands...........

:rofl:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. Hands down...You Shook Me

It's the metal head national anthem

[AngryAmish]

12. You Shook Me is the song that has launched 100,000 pole dances

That is all.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. I rest my case

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

17. If you were a connoisseur of Hard Rock you'ld know Brain ain't no Bon

[Droopy]

11. I have to go with the bagpipes song

I've heard every AC/DC hit a thousand times and the bagpipe song is the only one that I still crank up when I'm heading down the road. It's a long way to the top if you want to be a trucker.

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. Got the "Family Jewels" DVD yet?

You can see them playing that song on the back of a flatbed truck. Somewhere in Australia I think. Even though they have the professional bagpipe players along for the ride, Bon Scott insists on "pipe syncing" through the song. Contrary to popular belief, Bon didn't play the bagpipe solo on the record, and he did drag out the pipes on the early tours when they played that song, but it wasn't exactly the same solo.

Bon Scott was a Hell of a rock n roll singer, but all of his Scottish genes couldn't fix his bagpipe abilities.

[Droopy]

15. That's cool as hell

I didn't know the fellas appreciated the truckers. I do not have the DVD, but it might be worth it just to see that song played on a flatbed truck.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

16. Live Wire or Walk All Over You....Long live Bon!!!

[Skittles]

18. my favorite was always Whole Lotta Rosie

I love that song

[Droopy]

20. That's a great song

I like women who are like Rosie.

[Buddyblazon]

19. CAUSE I'M TNT!

I'M DYNAMITE!

T N T!

AND I'LL WIN THE FIGHT!

T N T!

I'M A MOTHER LODE!

T N T!

WATCH ME EXPLODE!!!!!



THAT'S the greatest AC/DC song of all time.

[Skip Intro]

21. "Whole Lotta Rosie" - no contest.

I think.

Everthing off the black album kicks ass. "The Girl's Got Rythm" was on radio yesterday. I'm in my,well, nevermind, but I was jammin' to that song waiting on a light to change color. Really getting into it. Killer s***.

AC/DC knows how to do it.

[Skittles]

22. yeah

I always jam out really good to an AC/DC on the radio.
An-GUS! An-GUS!

[Lefty_the_Right]

24. The entire Powerage album, What's Next to the Moon if I only get one

But any old AC/DC is alright with me.

And they still rock live.
Most underated band ever in my opinion.

Powerage
1. Rock N Roll Damnation
2. Down Payment Blues
3. Gimme A Bullet
4. Riff Raff
5. Sin City
6. Whats Next To The Moon
7. Gone Shootin
8. Up To My Neck In You
9. Kicked In The Teeth

Downpayment Blues rules too.

[mitchum]

25. "Hedda Gobbler" or "Furry Elise"