Line #25 Music/ACDC


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2	[[caption-width-right:273:AC/DC in 1979, From left to right: Malcolm Young, Bon Scott, Cliff Williams, Angus Young and Phil Rudd.]]
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4	->''For those about to rock - FIRE''\
5	''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKhTk0IynHM WE SALUTE YOU!]]''
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7	Perhaps no band in rock history [[TropeCodifier embodies]] HardRock quite like AC/DC. Since their formation in Sydney, Australia in 1973, AC/DC have gone on to define the style with their tight, concise attack of heavily {{Blues}}-influenced rock & roll, that helped form the bedrock of HeavyMetal. They’re still one of rock’s preeminent party bands--with their songs about partying, drinking, rocking, loose women, and getting through the bad times--and the boys have been through more than their share of the latter.
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9	The word "AC/DC" was originally seen by the sister of guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young, Margaret Young, [[LineOfSightName on her sewing machine]] of all things, and it’s an abbreviation for "alternating current/direct current," meaning the appliance can use either type of electrical current for power rather than just one or the other.[[note]]Wall sockets in people's homes provide AC, but most household appliances and electronics require DC, which is why that blocky AC adapter in the power cord is necessary.[[/note]] She thought it made for a good band name and suggested it to her brothers, who agreed and used it henceforth. (The band didn't learn that it was a euphemism for bisexuality until much later in their careers, much to their amusement.) The center of the band, at the beginning, was brothers Angus Young and Malcolm Young (on lead and rhythm guitar, respectively), with vocalist Dave Evans, bassist Larry Van Kriedt and drummer Colin Burgess. As the band quickly moved away from their glam beginnings, the lineup shifted numerous times. Over the years, Angus Young - one of the most iconic guitar players in rock, with his famous schoolboy outfit and duck-walk - has been the most consistent member of the band, followed closely by his brother Malcolm until he left the band in 2014 for health reasons.
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11	The most notable change as the band found their sound came when Evans was sacked for not fitting their new, harder sound. Bon Scott - previously a chauffeur for the band - took over as the lead vocalist, and his love of the DoubleEntendre and his smirking, lecherous vocals helped define the ''sleaze'' of AC/DC. Putting out a pair of albums on Albert Productions, they made a bigger splash internationally with a string of albums on Atlantic, culminating in their big break with ''Music/HighwayToHell'' in 1979.
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13	In 1980, Bon Scott died of "death by misadventure" -- asphyxiation from choking on his own vomit after a night of binge drinking. The band considered breaking up, but instead got a new lead singer, the infamously gravely-voiced Brian Johnson, and made ''Music/BackInBlack,'' one of the best-selling albums ever made, and have been making records on a fairly consistent basis ever since, right up to the present day.
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15	Drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and replaced by Simon Wright who, after that, was replaced by Chris Slade, who was in his turn asked to leave so Phil Rudd could return as drummer in 1994. In 2014, Malcolm Young was forced to retire due to serious health issues (early-onset dementia, from which he ultimately passed away on November 18th, 2017), and was replaced by his nephew Stevie Young, who previously temporarily filled in for Malcolm in 1988 when Malcolm was dealing with his alcoholism. In April 2015, Rudd got into serious legal issues, including various drug charges and threatening to kill his assistant, and was subsequently replaced -- this time directly -- by Chris Slade.
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17	As of 2008, AC/DC had sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, including 75 million albums in the United States. ''Back in Black'' has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the highest-selling album by any band and the second highest-selling album in history, second only to Music/MichaelJackson's ''Music/{{Thriller}}''.
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19	In 2010, their twenty-month Black Ice World Tour ended and officially became the third-highest-grossing tour in music history.
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21	In March 2016, singer Brian Johnson was [[http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/acdc-frontman-brian-johnson-ordered-to-stop-touring-immediately-or-risk-total-hearing-loss/ ordered]] by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk permanently losing his hearing. Ten scheduled U.S. dates on their 2016 tour were subsequently postponed as a result, with the band promising to reschedule them with a guest vocalist. In April 2016, Axl Rose of Music/GunsNRoses was [[http://time.com/4297027/axl-rose-acdc-world-tour/ announced]] to be the guest vocalist joining the band to finish out the tour. Initial fan reaction was mostly negative to say the least, but the band finished out the tour and the concerts received critical acclaim. Long-term bassist Cliff Williams retired at the end of the 2016 "Rock or Bust" tour - this left Angus as the sole surviving founding member who was still with the band. As the band had now lost four long-time members in quick succession, the band's long-term future was in doubt with many commentators suggesting it was time for the band to call it a day and go out on a high note.
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23	However, it was reported that the band had [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether reunited with Johnson, Rudd, and Williams]] to work on material written and demoed by the Young brothers in the early 2000s, including working around guitar tracks recorded by Malcolm Young prior to his leaving the group. This was eventually confirmed in October 2020 with the announcement of the album ''Power Up.''
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26	!!Principal Members (Founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italic''):
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28	* Rob Bailey - bass (1974–75)
29	* Peter Clack - drums (1974–75)
30	* '''Dave Evans''' - lead vocals (1973–74)
31	* Mark Evans - bass (1975-1977)
32	* ''Brian Johnson'' - lead vocals (1980-2016, 2018-)
33	* [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]] - vocals (2016-2018)
34	* ''Phil Rudd'' - drums, percussion (1975–83, 1994–2015, 2018-)
35	* Bon Scott - lead vocals, bagpipes, drums (1974–80, died 1980)
36	* Chris Slade - drums, percussion (1989–94, 2015–2018)
37	* ''Cliff Williams'' - bass, vocals (1977-2016, 2018-)
38	* Simon Wright - drums, percussion (1983–89)
39	* '''''Angus Young''''' - guitar, vocals (1973–)
40	* '''Malcolm Young''' - guitar, vocals (1973–2014, died 2017)
41	* ''Stevie Young'' - guitar, vocals (2014–) [[note]]Served as a fill-in in a 1988 tour when Malcolm took a break to deal with his alcoholism, now a full-time member due to Malcolm's death.[[/note]]
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44	!!Early Members/Fill-Ins:
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46	* Colin Burgess - drums (1973–74, 1975, died 2023)
47	* Ron Carpenter - drums (1974)
48	* Russell Coleman - drums (1974)
49	* Tony Currenti - drums (1974)
50	* Bruce Howe - bass (1975)
51	* Larry Van Kriedt - bass (1973–74, 1975)
52	* Paul Matters - bass (1975, died 2020)
53	* John Proud - drums (1974)
54	* Neil Smith - bass (1974)
55	* Noel Taylor - drums (1974)
56	* George Young - bass, guitar, drums, vocals (1974–75, died 2017)
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59	!!Studio Discography:
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61	[[index]]
62	* 1975 - ''Music/HighVoltage'' [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly titled internationally released album from 1976[[/note]]
63	* 1975 - ''[[Music/TNT1975 T.N.T.]]''
64	* 1976 - ''[[Music/TNT1975 High Voltage]]'' [[note]]Not to be confused with the similarly titled album released only in Australia in 1975[[/note]]
65	* 1976 - ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap''
66	* 1977 - ''Let There Be Rock''
67	* 1978 - ''Powerage''
68	* 1979 - ''Music/HighwayToHell''
69	* 1980 - ''Music/BackInBlack''
70	* 1981 - ''For Those About to Rock We Salute You''
71	* 1983 - ''Flick of the Switch''
72	* 1985 - ''Fly on the Wall''
73	* 1988 - ''Blow Up Your Video''
74	* 1990 - ''The Razors Edge''
75	* 1995 - ''Ballbreaker''
76	* 2000 - ''Stiff Upper Lip''
77	* 2008 - ''Black Ice''
78	* 2014 - ''Rock or Bust''
79	* 2020 - ''Power Up'' (also known as ''PWRUP'')
80	[[/index]]
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83	!!Live Discography:
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85	* 1978 - ''If You Want Blood You've Got It''
86	* 1992 - ''Live''
87	* 1997 - ''Live From The Atlantic Studios''
88	* 1997 - ''Let There Be Rock: The Movie – Live In Paris''
89	* 2012 - ''Live At River Plate''
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92	!!"Dirty tropes done dirt cheap":
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96	[[folder:Musician tropes]]
97	* TheBandMinusTheFace: Well, one of them, at least. After Bon Scott died, Angus Young became the Face - he is far more flamboyant and iconic than the new singer Brian Johnson.
98	* BandOfRelatives: Angus and Malcolm Young are brothers. Their brother George Young was bassist in 1974 and served as producer on many of their records, and mutual nephew of all three Stevie Young filled in for Malcolm in 1988 and permanently replaced him as an official member in 2014.
99	* CarpetOfVirility: Bon Scott. He wasn't afraid to show it off.
100	* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Brian Johnson's voice during ''Hell's Bells''.
101	* DwindlingParty: Malcolm couldn't record ''Rock or Bust''. Phil couldn't tour for it. Then Brian had to sit the final concerts out. And all the departures made Cliff decide to leave once it was done. Thankfully, [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether all the above-mentioned regrouped in 2020]] (except, sadly, Malcolm, who died in 2017).
102	* GameBreakingInjury: Brian's hearing loss, which wasn't caused by years of loud music, but by forgetting to wear earplugs while driving a racecar one day.
103	* GuestStarPartyMember: Stevie Young in the 1988 tour while uncle Malcolm was in rehab, Paul Greg subbed for Cliff Williams in two 1990 concerts when the bassist was hospitalized for kidney stones, and Axl Rose in 2016 to compensate for Brian Johnson's hearing loss.
104	* IAmTheBand: After Malcolm retired from the band, AC/DC is effectively Angus' band now.
105	* IconicItem: Angus' [[AgeInappropriateDress mock schoolboy outfit]] and red Gibson SG.
106	** Also, Brian Johnson's newsboy cap.
107	* {{Keet}}: Angus, who's short and never sits still on stage, running, mugging, headbanging, duckwalking, walking around on his knees, being carried on the vocalist's shoulders, falling to the floor and gyrating or spinning around on his side by kicking, moving into, through and/or around the crowd, and even stripping.
108	* LargeHam: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5BKTLU2bQ Bon Scott]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ONKtlmizs Brian Johnson]] are undeniably over-the-top, and Angus is so flamboyant while he plays he probably overcomes both in that regard.
109	* LesserStar: Cliff and Phil just provide a really basic rhythm section (Cliff says he's satisfied with it, while Phil [[TheQuietOne doesn't talk very much]]).
110	* LongRunnerLineUp: Brian Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams, and Phil Rudd from 1980–83 and 1994–2014.
111	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Malcolm and Angus were the second-youngest and youngest respectively out of 8 children.
112	* RefugeInAudacity: The fact that ''Music/BackInBlack'', the first album they recorded after Bon Scott's death from acute alcohol poisoning, features songs about drinking to excess ("Have a Drink on Me"), partying and overall fighting death ("Back in Black") and going to Hell ("Hells Bells"). All were homages to Scott, of course, given he would write in that vein.
113	* RevolvingDoorBand: The band formed in 1973. By 1975 when they first hit the big time (in Australia at least), they were on their 8th drummer (Phil Rudd), 6th bassist (Mark Evans), and 2nd vocalist. The second vocalist (Bon Scott) was one of the previous seven drummers, as well as the band's driver before that (the Young brothers thought having him play music instead increased their chances of [[DrivesLikeCrazy getting home from a show alive]]). Furthering the "revolving" part, Simon Wright replaced Rudd after his initial firing, who was later replaced by Chris Slade, Phil Rudd's predecessor (once Rudd decided to return in 1994) and successor (when the drummer went nuts and was arrested for it in 2014 and thus the band decided to part ways). Add in Malcolm's and Brian's departures due to health issues in 2014 and 2016 respectively, leading to Cliff's retirement also in 2016, followed by Brian's, Cliff's, AND Phil all returning in 2018, and the late Malcolm being replaced permanently by Stevie Young, and the trope is in more than full effect.
114	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Angus's costume.
115	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Bon Scott's life in a nutshell (the others - specially Angus, who only smokes - less so, even if Malcolm and Phil had to take temporary leaves for substance abuse).
116	* SiblingTeam: Angus and Malcolm have been the band's driving force from its inception, while George co-produced their first five albums.
117	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
118	** Brian Johnson replacing Bon Scott. Even allmusic.com said something like "The casual listener could easily have thought that Johnson ''was'' Scott." Johnson himself has said that his normal singing voice was nothing like that before AC/DC; he deliberately emulated Scott's style.[[note]]See for yourself: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPXFndzRgM Johnson as lead singer of the band Geordie]] in TheSeventies.[[/note]] And while he was still part of the band, Bon Scott said if anyone could ever replace him, it would have to be Johnson.
119	** Also, Stevie Young replacing Malcolm Young in 2014, when the latter had to leave for health reasons. Stevie [[StrongFamilyResemblance resembles his uncle]] enough that fans didn't realize that Malcolm had been replaced when Stevie first came on board.
120	* ThePigPen: In a ''very'' limited sense, Angus Young. His habit of playing his guitars shirtless ensures the components inside become saturated with sweat, destroying things like pickups, potentiometers, or wireless transmitters. His famous "lightning bolt" SG is an infamous example; it originated as a repair from a touring guitar where the wood had been so warped by sweat that the only thing luthier John "Jaydee" Diggins could salvage was the Gibson faceplate from the headstock.
121	* TheTeetotaler: In stark contrast to the hard-drinking Bon Scott and his older brother Malcolm, Angus Young has been sober his whole life. Apparently the heaviest thing he'll drink is coffee, and he's also quite partial to a glass of chocolate milk.
122	* UnusualEuphemism: In an interview, Angus described Bon Scott as a "crayfisherman" because he [[KavorkaMan "caught crabs for a living."]]
123	* VocalEvolution:
124	** Interestingly both inverted and played straight with Dave Evans being replaced by Bon Scott due to Evans having a wider range and cleaner tone than Scott, making him a technically more proficient singer, yet Scott's rougher, messier style suiting the band's tone better.
125	** Cliff Williams replacing bassist Mark Evans partially for the reason that Williams could sing backup vocals while Evans could not.
126	** Bon Scott on ''Highway to Hell'' due to producer Mutt Lange teaching him better vocal technique in order to handle the more difficult and demanding segments of the music on that album, and the backup vocals on the same album as well due to Lange's excellent production and contributing backup vocals himself.
127	** An even stranger case of simultaneous inversion and playing straight with Brian Johnson. Inverted because his voice gradually became less high and more raspy as time went on to the point where he sounded quite different in the span of only one decade; compare his vocals on the ''Back in Black'' album with those on ''The Razors Edge'' album. Played straight, on the other hand, because all live recordings of the band with Johnson from 1981 to 1986 show him straining (and failing miserably) to hit the same high notes he recorded for the albums, pushing his voice way too hard and sounding consistently flat, terrible, and out of breath. Who knows how, but from 1988 onward, live recordings show him absolutely nailing all the notes properly without vocal strain or loss of breath. Compare his vocals from any live recording from 1981 to 1986 with those in the radio broadcast of the National Tennis Center show in Melbourne from February 1988, or the Live at Donington concert film from 1991; the change is like night and day.
128	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Bon Scott, full stop. Angus as well partway through shows after he inevitably sheds his shirt.
129	* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Angus likes to strip down to his underwear and moon the audience at concerts.
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132	[[folder:Music tropes]]
133	* AlbumTitleDrop:
134	** "High Voltage" wasn't on the album with that name (the original Australia version, anyway; the international version included it).
135	** "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" wasn't even a song until ''Highway To Hell''.
136	** ''Blow Up Your Video'' is named after a line from "That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll".
137	* AncientRome: Angus didn't like school, [[http://www.guitarworld.com/article/acdc_the_big_chill?page=0%2C4 but is a history buff, Rome in particular.]] Three songs are based on it, "For Those About To Rock" (the title comes from the famous gladiator phrase), "Hail Caesar", and "War Machine" (inspired by a documentary on [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]]).
138	* AntiChristmasSong: As the liner notes for ''The Razors Edge'' read:
139	-->“Mistress For Christmas” ain’t exactly “Frosty The Snowman.” Nor is it likely to turn up on too many compilations of family Christmas favourites.
140	* AudienceParticipationSong: Several. "High Voltage" and "The Jack" are usually these.
141	** To a lesser extent the intro to "Whole Lotta Rosie" ( "Angus! Angus!") and the Oi's in "[[StuffBlowingUp T.N.T]]."
142	** THUNDER!aaaaaaaaaaaa...THUNDER!aaaaaaaaaa......THUNDER!
143	* BigBeautifulWoman: The titular Rosie of "Whole Lotta Rosie". 42-39-56, but that clearly didn't deter Bon. As he told it, she came onto him hard and was so large and in charge that she didn't really give him much choice.
144	* BigRockEnding: Tons of their songs, especially when played live.
145	* BlatantLies: Bon Scott singing 'I never smoked me no cigarettes, I never drank much booze' on "Overdose".
146	* BloodLust: "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)," "Night Prowler," and "First Blood"
147	* CoolTrain: Rock N Roll Train
148	* DarkerAndEdgier: 1990's "The Razor's Edge" is the closest the band ever came to straight heavy metal. The song is in a minor key, features an Angus solo that briefly meanders into "noise rock" territory, and is propelled by an almost militaristic drumbeat.
149	** The album as a whole can also qualify. Besides the title track, "Thunderstruck" and "If You Dare" also contain strong heavy metal influences.
150	* DepravedBisexual: The POV character in "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." He's a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hitman who works cheap]] and it's implied he also sleeps with his clients, both men and women.
151	* DontExplainTheJoke: Oddly inverted. The live, original version of "The Jack" is much more explicit with its message about gonorrhea, but because the song was too explicit, the band was forced to censor it when they recorded it for the album, resulting in Bon Scott [[{{Bowdlerise}} coming up with much more clever lyrics chock full of innuendo]]. Thus, the album version (which is what most people heard first and assumed was the original) stands as one of their crowning achievements of DoubleEntendre, and the original live version explains the joke by being much more explicit.
152	* DoubleEntendre:
153	** Bon Scott in particular was something of a genius at them, but let the record show that Brian Johnson wrote probably the greatest double entendre ever (from "Let Me Put My Love Into You"):
154	---> ''Let me cut your cake with my knife''
155	** This line from "Beating Around the Bush" is an honourable mention, and so is the song's title itself:
156	---> ''Sticks and stones won't break my bone''
157	** Every single line in "Big Balls" is a double entendre. Taken at face value, the lyrics are about ballroom dancing, but they can very easily be read as various claims the singer is making about their testicles.
158	---> ''Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress''\
159	''But when they're held for pleasure, they're the balls that I like the best''\
160	''My balls are always bouncing, to the left and to the right''\
161	''It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night''
162	** There's also this precocity from "You Shook Me All Night Long":
163	---> ''She told me to come, but I was already there''
164	** The studio recording of "The Jack" uses cards as a metaphor for venereal diseases.
165	* EpicRocking: "Let There Be Rock," in every sense of "epic." Live performances of that (and a few others such as "Jailbreak") can reach over 10 minutes! Other 6-minute tracks like that include "Overdose" and "Night Prowler." Furthermore, somehow they still managed to combine it with a [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth stripped-back, no-frills style]].
166	* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)".
167	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: While only four songs have instruments other than guitars, bass and drums, three are "regular" ones ("It's a Long Way To The Top"'s bagpipes, bells in both "Hells Bells" and "Mistress For Christmas")... and "For Those About To Rock" features cannons.
168	** Inverted in "Jailbreak", where Angus ''makes'' sounds in his guitar for ''Spotlights! Sirens! Rifles, firing!''
169	* {{Flanderization}}: They became known strictly for one specific sound, but their earliest albums occasionally had mellower blues-rock songs such as "The Jack" and "Little Lover".
170	* ForDoomTheBellTolls: "Hells Bells".
171	* GoldDigger: "What Do You Do For Money Honey"
172	* GreatEscape: "Jailbreak"
173	* GreatestHitsAlbum: Angus Young refuses to do one. Yet two soundtracks, ''Who Made Who'' (''Film/MaximumOverdrive'') and ''Film/IronMan2'' serve as good compilations.
174	** The 1 CD version of ''Live'' (1992) could count as well.
175	* GriefSong: ''Back In Black'' has both "Hells Bells" and "Have A Drink On Me" as an homage to Bon Scott, who had died that year.
176	* HeavyMeta: A third, or half the songs, include Rock or Rock 'n' Roll in the title or lyrics.
177	** The album ''Black Ice'' has no less than 5 songs that have the words "rock" or "rocking" in the title.
178	* AHellOfATime: "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be" is a sexual take on this.
179	* IntercourseWithYou: "Let Me Put My Love Into You", "You Shook Me All Night Long", and ... oh hell, about half of AC/DC's songs.
180	* InstrumentOfMurder: Angus appears impaled by his own guitar on the cover of ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Acdc_If_You_Want_Blood_You%27ve_Got_It.JPG If You Want Blood...]]''
181	* {{Instrumentals}}:
182	** "D.T." from ''Who Made Who''.
183	** "Chase The Ace" from the same album. Though lyrics can supposedly be found online, the song itself features none.
184	* JizzedInMyPants: From “You Shook Me All Night Long”
185	-->''”She told me to come, but I was already there.”''
186	* JobSong: "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is about the starvation wages and generally poor working conditions encountered by neophyte rock bands.
187	* LastNoteHilarity: "Night Prowler" ends with Bon Scott saying [[Series/MorkAndMindy "Shazbot. Nanu nanu."]]
188	** "The Jack" ends with Bon Scott thanking an unappreciative audience.
189	** "Shot Down In Flames" ends with a guitar solo that sounds like it's going to lead into a BigRockEnding - instead there's just a brief final note punctuated with Bon letting out a cartoonishly high-pitched cry of "eeehhh!". In the music video, he disappears in a puff of smoke at this part.
190	* LyricalDissonance: "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" is probably the most rousing and upbeat rock song ever recorded about how much it sucks to be in a band.
191	** "Shot Down In Flames" is probably the most fun song ever recorded about being rejected by women.
192	* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''Back In Black''. ''For Those About to Rock'' is a Single Object Focus version. ''Rock or Bust.'' Even ''Let There Be Rock'' could count due to the cover being mostly negative space with only Angus and Bon taking up a small amount of real estate.
193	* MoneySong: "Money Made" and "Moneytalks" are examples that critique capitalistic obsession.
194	* NonAppearingTitle: "Rock 'n' Roll Train". The working title does appear, but Angus thought there were already too many songsalbums named "Runaway Train".
195	** Other titles that appear in some form, but not exactly as the title suggests, include "Some Sin For Nuthin'", "Smash 'n' Grab", and "Anything Goes".
196	* RatedMForManly: The songs are all about SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll! Bon Scott's persona made it even manlier.
197	* PainfulRhyme: Occasionally PlayedForLaughs, especially in the Bon Scott days.
198	-->Gonna be [[RockStarSong a rock'n'roll singer!]]
199	-->Gonna be a rock'n'roll star!
200	-->YES I ARE!
201	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Implied in "T.N.T." Angus himself definitely counts, as his combination of tiny stature and immense energy were one of the main things that made the band famous in the first place.
202	* ProfessionalKiller: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
203	* RockStarSong: "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)". "Let There Be Rock" too. "Highway To Hell", "Little Lover", "There's Gonna Be Some Rockin'", "Rock 'n' Roll Singer", "Rocker", "Thunderstruck", "Showbusiness", and honestly too many more to name here.
204	* ShoutOut: The title "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is a reference to ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'', where it was a phrase used by the show's villain, Dishonest John.
205	** At the end of "Night Prowler", Bon can be heard saying "[[Series/MorkAndMindy Shazbot, na-noo, na-noo.]]"
206	** "T.N.T." features the line "I'm dirty, I'm mean, I'm mighty unclean", a reference to Australian advertising icon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_the_Fly Louie The Fly]].
207	** Bon frequently introduced "Whole Lotta Rosie" at shows by saying the song was about a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Tasmanian devil]], because the real Rosie was Tasmanian.
208	* SomethingBlues: "Down Payment Blues" and "Satellite Blues".
209	* StrictlyFormula: This quote by Brian sums it up:
210	--> ''"Someone said to Angus the other day, ‘Hey, you’ve made the same album 15 times.’ Angus said, ‘No, man, we’ve made the same album 16 times!’"''
211	* SubduedSection: "Let There Be Rock," "Shoot To Thrill," "Whole Lotta Rosie," "Jailbreak," "Thunderstruck," "Stormy May Day," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Little Lover," "Down Payment Blues," "Kicked in the Teeth," "Can I Sit Next to You Girl," "Squealer," "Soul Stripper," "Sin City"...
212	* TakeThatCritics: "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
213	* TelephoneSong: In "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", the singer tells various subjects to call him so he can assist them in underhanded ways.
214	-->"''36-24-36, hey! I lead a life of crime!''"
215	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The bread-and-butter of their music. In fact, it's usually ''exactly'' three chords per song.
216	* ThunderDrum: In "Thunderstruck", the drums are emphasized along with the "Thunder!" chants.
217	* TitleOnlyChorus: At least half of their songs. This is particularly prominent in recent albums when Angus and Malcolm Young write all of the lyrics.
218	* VillainSong: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Night Prowler"
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221	[[folder:Misc tropes]]
222	* AwesomenessIsVolatile: During the original recording of "Let There Be Rock", Angus' amp ''burst into flames.'' And he finished the entire song while the amp burned beside him.
223	* ContinuityNod: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" alludes to "T.N.T." and "High Voltage."
224	* GreatBallsOfFire: Their live shows are ''huge''. Just for starters, life-sized cannons fire during "For Those About to Rock", and a bell from which Brian hangs during "Hells Bells".
225	** The ''Ballbreaker'' tour featured Angus smashing through a (fake) brick wall on a life-size wrecking ball.
226	* LicensedPinballTable: Released by Creator/SternPinball in 2012. [[Pinball/{{ACDC}} It]] was so popular that it sparked a pinball renaissance in Australia.
227	* LineOfSightName: As mentioned above, the band's name came from a switch in a sewing machine.
228	* LuckyCharmsTitle: When spelling it, don't forget the lightning bolt. A slash is acceptable for partial credit. Unicode represents an approximate form this way: AC'''ϟ'''DC
229	* PopStarComposer: The soundtrack to Creator/StephenKing's lone directorial effort ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'' was comprised entirely of AC/DC songs old and new, with a little bit of instrumental incidental music.
230	* SatanicPanic: They were swept up in the Satanic Panic due to Satanist serial killer Richard Ramirez's fandom of them, including being accused that their name stood for "Antichrist/Devil's Child."
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