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30 Years on the Highway to Hell
So it's been 30 years since this great album came out, wow, it's actually been that long? As we all know, this was Bon's last album and one of the bands most popular. I have this both on vinyl Lp and on CD, and love every track on it. May this record go on to influence many, many, many more generations.
Maybe AC/DC and Sony can issue a 30th Anniversary Collector's Tin, with the exact same CD they issued in 2003, along with a useless T-shirt and an even more useless tin. To restate the obvious: I am interested in AC/DC's music. I could care less about the packaging.
Yeah, you mentioned that before. I doubt they will though.
Columbia/Sony are money hungry. How many live albums of the same shit over and over of Ozzy's so called farewell tours. Starting since the early 90's have they released them. On a good note though. They do promote AC/DC a hell of a lot better than Atlantic ever did. I wonder how many copies of Fly and Flick they would have sold if the boys were signed to them back in the early 80's. But then again they would have been force to do a greatest hits album every 2 or 3 years.
boothjorden: AC/DC and greatest hits CDs mix just fine. The first three were called "If You Want Blood", "Who Made Who" and "Live". Every DVD release they've put out has essentially been a greatest hits album, too, if you were to take the audio from it. Beyond that, plenty of Greatest Hits bootlegs exist and they do a mighty fine job of introducing fans to the greatness of AC/DC's music. Two of my favorites: "Hell Best" a single CD Russian greatest hits CD which came out around 1994-95 and "Warning! High Voltage", a 2 CD set which came out last year, divided into Bon and Brian CDs. The "Warning! High Voltage" set is so well put together and designed I thought it was a Sony release at first. It isn't, but Sony must be kicking themselves from all the potential lost revenue they could be getting from a similar release. If Pink Floyd, a truly genuinely, thematically sound "album" band can put together a greatest hits package (which is pretty fucking fantastic, to boot), there's no reason AC/DC can't. At they head off into the sunset of their careers, it only makes sense as a method to hook the younger generations on the potential of their back catalog. But that's getting away from the point. Is anybody as excited as I'm not about the special 30th anniversary Highway to Hell motorcycle helmet? That's definitely on the top of my to-purchase-immediately list! Maybe I can wear it on the bus to work... Boy, won't I look cool... Does the helmet come in its own tin?
I know lotsa demos came out for highway to hell on Volts or whatever, but they could release it with some live tracks or demos. Thats what happens with most bands and there re-releases
Live albums should never be considered greatest hits packages, only a collection of studio tracks should be. Who Made Who is a soundtrack and not really a greatest hits, if it were, it would have had stuff like Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds, T.N.T. and what not. I have all of AC/DC's albums so I don't need to own a greatest hits CD or CD's. It seems to be RnRDamnation your fan status with AC/DC is really limited by how much you hate what Sony/Columbia are doing to them.
I agree mostly with RnRDamnation. I created my own 'Best Of AC/DC' out of a double CD case I had and I fail to see why they don't mix. And like he said, Pink Floyd's 'Echoes: The Best Of' is brilliant (I'm assuming that's the one he's talking about), especially for a band with so many concept albums and songs that flow together.
Thanks Big Gun. And yes, boothjorden, I do feel Sony is exploiting AC/DC's legacy in a way that is detrimental to the band itself. A lot of bad decisions have been made and will continue to be made as long as Sony owns AC/DC's back catalog. That's not to say they have done everything wrong. I love the 2003 remasters (although the liner notes for most of them are stupid as hell) and Family Jewels seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. The shoddy Plug Me In DVD, the so-called "comprehensive" Director's Cut of No Bull, the anti-digital stance, the exclusive Wal-Mart stance, the idiot dumbfuck tin cans with nothing more to offer - that's where I have problems with Sony. That and their overall attitude towards the fans is a combination of condescension and entitlement (as in they feel entitled to the fans money without offering anything substantial in return), which is a HUGE turnoff.
Well I like the Family Jewels/Plug Me In DVD's. As for the No Bull I was able to find this one in a store. I'll probabily buy the oringal when I get the money. But I really dont care about what it is, if its worth buying I'll buy it.
Cody: The original No Bull has the Hard as a Rock music video and the making of video which is worth watching since the making of video goes in depth to how the made the video. RnRDamnation: Why do you think Plug Me In is shoddy? It has some really rare film footage, like some rare Bon stuff I've never seen, hopefully if there's a Plug Me In 2 there will be some FOTW, WMW and BUYV tour stuff. Family Jewels is a good set but wish it could have had the BB and SUL promo videos as well.
RnRDamnation: How can you like Family Jewels, but not Plug Me In? Family Jewels is just all the promo videos (which were already on YouTube) thrown together. At least Plug Me In had live videos and stuff we haven't seen before. And the Director's Cut of No Bull was SOOOO much better than the original. The sound quality is worlds ahead. The Anti-digital stance is AC/DC's, not Sony's. I agree with you about the tin cans and WalMart though.