ACDC Retrospective: The List
(Longer Post at my music blog)
The entire time that I have been listening through all these albums, I have been keeping a list of "good" songs. Well done, listenable songs. In the end, not including duplicates or live versions, I came away with over 80 songs. So the first cut, I went through the huge song list with a quick listen to each song, lingering only with songs that I knew less of. I got rid of some of the very similar songs between "Ball Breaker", "Stiff Upper Lip" and "Blow Up Your Video". I also got rid of a few of the sleazier and sillier songs from the Scott era, its just not what I listen to ACDC for. Next I went through and substituted the "Live" versions of songs like Back in Black, Thunderstruck, and a handful of others. When I came to a point, such as "The Jack" where the Scott and Johnson songs are different enough, or both had their own merits, I went ahead and doubled them up. I came out with a "Mega-list" of ACDC that is 60 songs long. I will keep this list for its uses, I like every song on it.
I realized that I had songs on there that I do not necessarily consider my personal favorites, but are so iconic I could not leave them off. Songs like "Sink the Pink" and "Riff Raff" are used in tons of movies and you might not even know their names, but chances are you've heard their riffs. I wanted to have an even more personal list of favorites that I never get tired of, and I'd never want to skip ahead to a "better" song from. I will share that list of 35 songs here in album release order:
*denotes a new song I learned or only learned to appreciate from doing this adventure
Its a Long Way to the Top
TNT(Live version)
Dirty Deeds(Live version)
Let There Be Rock
Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be
Whole Lotta Rosie(Live Version)
*Rock "N" Roll Damnation
*Gimme a Bullet
Highway to Hell
*Girl's Got Rhythm
*If You Want Blood
Hell's Bells(Live Version)
Back in Black(Live Version)
You Shook Me All Night Long(Live Version)
*What You Do For the Money Honey
Have A Drink On Me
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
For Those About to Rock
*Let's Get it Up
*Rising Power
*Stand Up
Who Made Who(Live Version)
*That's the Way I Wanna Rock
*Meanstreak
Heatseeker(Live Version)
Money Talks(Live Version)
Thunderstruck(Live Version)
*Let's Make It
Hard as a Rock
*Cover You In Oil
*Honey Roll
Rock 'N' Roll Train
*Skies on Fire
*Stormy May Day
*Decibel
And there we go... that concludes it, my ACDC adventure is over. Thanks for putting up with my constant posts on the subject and for taking the journey with me. I do already have a plan on the next band I want to do this with, but they do not have even 1/2 the albums, so it should be quicker. Remember, have a little Rock and Roll in your life, whatever that means for you. So get off your ass and come down here, Cause rock 'n' roll ain't no riddle man. To me it makes good good sense
June 26th, 2014
I know a few of my readers are JRPG fans. I want to give a general PSA about a couple of games coming to PSN's PS2 collection recently. Digital Devil Saga 1 is out now, and so it is sound reasoning that Digital Devil Saga 2 will as well. The key here is that when Digital Devil Saga 1 was released, it already had the "1" in the title. The reason is because it was set up from the start as 1 story spanning 2 games. DO NOT buy part 1 unless you can get part 2, because you're going to have an incomplete and unsatisfying gaming experience with just part 1. This happened for several reasons; this was a side project that the development company was not exactly sure about, and also because there was a trend of splitting stories among several games in Japan at the time(look at .hack for a series that got brought to the USA that did this). The games are novel, as you play remorseless monsters that eat humans and cause destruction. Only... the characters start exhibiting emotions they never had before. Its an interesting story, but I have to warn that they did not have much money when they made this game, expect to see dungeons 3-4 times, and monsters to be recolored and stats increased with no other real changes. It was an interesting experiment, and one I enjoyed, but a masterpiece it is not.
The new Mad Max is a reboot instead of taking place between the 1st and Road Warrior. I feel weird about this. See... I've never cared for the first Mad Max, it was Road Warrior that was ground breaking for me, but the series just is not right without the first Mad Max. I assume the tragedy that propels Max will just be a small intro at the start of the new movie, but with the original we did have that first film for that. Even though I did not care for the first film, it was integral for the series. Mad Max is a very formative thing for me, I love the later two films so much that I'll watch entirely awful movies or design entire table top RPG games for hours just to get that feel again. Hell, when I played Fallout 3, I was "living" a Mad Max fantasy for a few months. I am willing to give this reboot a chance though, because of some very good reasons. George Miller is still directing it, he still wrote it, and Hollywood, by and large, has fucked off from the movie. Plus, Tom Hardy amazingly looks awesome as Max.
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