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Forget the Production, The Music Still Rocks!
By 1985, things were going downhill for AC/DC. Their popularity, along with their brand of hard rock, was slipping, replaced by legions of generic hair-metal acts. Their supply of original ideas was drying up, making all their albums sound roughly the same. Brian Johnson's voice was going, and Phil Rudd was gone.
In the face of all these obstacles, AC/DC carried on in a "business as usual" fashion and created one of the few(and better) true rock albums of the era. Angus and Malcolm turn out impressive guitar work as usual and the song quality is pretty much constantly good, with only "Danger" and "First Blood" being truly weak songs. Simon Wright's drumming is acceptable, but nowhere near the quality of Phil Rudd's. Brian's voice is beginning to go, but still remains relatively strong. Also against this album is the absolutely horrid production. With an actual producer this album may have turned out alot better than it did.
Overall this is certainly not the first AC/DC album anyone should get. Indeed, this ranks towards the lower end of their catologue, but even an average AC/DC album is about 75% of other rock music out there...pick this one up to round out your collection.

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Swat that Fly on the Wall
Don't get me wrong. I am a big fan of AC/DC, and have all their albums. FLY ON THE WALL, however, is the one in my collection that I would rank as my least favorite. After "Mutt" Lange left, things started to go downhill for this band. Simon Wright was brought in to replace Phill Rudd, and the production tended to slip, as evidenced on this album.

The title track has great opening riffs. Angus Young rips out chords that send the song into overdrive. Johnson's vocals help build the song well, and it picks up. The lyrics are horrible, however, ("Licking at my feet?"). Except for the annoying chorus, "Shake Your Foundations " is a solid track. "First Blood" isn't bad, but the depressing intro is bad. "Danger" is slow and boring, and I can't believe it was actually a single! "Sink The Pink" is my favorite song on the album. It's an upbeat, catchy number that gets you pumped up. It makes for a good party song.

"Playing With Girls" has a catchy beat, as does "Hell Or High Water," but the riffs aren't developed enough. "Send For the Man" has to be onbe of their worst songs. AS with some of their less successful albums, the album has a good half and a bad half. I gave this album three stars because of the funny cover with the fly illustation, along with the few good tracks. If you want great AC/DC matrial, go for BACK IN BLACK or FLICK OF THE SWITCH. If you are collector like me, then you probably already have it! :o) AC/DC would pick it up a year later with the soundtrack to the Stephen King movie, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.

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Brian Johnson isn't all that bad
First of all im writing this review to defend Brain johnson, im sick of people critizing him and his voice. He is not bad at all, when you listen to him sing keep in mind that he was about 40 when he recorded this, so compared to Bon he is old. And music wise you cant compare them,the ac/dc sound was changed after Bon died, not just the vocals. Also try to imagine Ac/dc with some one besides bon or brian, its hard isn't it, the only person i can imagine is Dan McCafferty of Nazareth. Don't get me wrong im a huge fan of bon and like him more then brian, i even did my 8th grade english project on Bon, it was about 6 pages long. Anyway this album is basic solid catchy 80's ac/dc