History YMMV / ACDC

* GrowingTheBeard: More like "Re-grew the Beard"; they had a big comeback with the great ''The Razor's Edge'' in the '90s. The album produced some of their famous songs (like "Thunderstruck"), its follow-ups ''Ballbreaker'' and ''Stiff Upper Lip'' were fairly well received, and 2008's ''Black Ice'' got critical acclaim and was that year's second best selling album. Then again, if you ask others, they'll tell you in no uncertain terms that AC/DC never lost the beard to begin with. Granted, they might have trimmed it a bit, but they never lost it.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Maybe ''Power Up'' had the advantage of being released to a hungry public during the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic, but the album received glowing reviews and was considered a welcome return to form, particularly after the band seemed to be falling apart rapidly during the mid-2010s.

* MemeticMutation: "Big Balls" from ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap'' has become a popular editing source for [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YouTube Poops]], if only because of the phrases, "I've got big balls," and, "everybody comes and comes again".

** ''Rock Or Bust'' was preceeded and succeeded by a truly surreal amount of problems within the band: Phill Rudd getting in trouble with the law, Malcolm Young's early on-set dementia (which led to his death), Brian Johnson's severe hearing loss, Cliff Williams deciding to retire. It really did seem at that time like the band was stuck between, as the title says, "rock or bust". Fitting that predicament, the band recouped with the album ''PWR UP'' (so they chose to rock, not bust).

* EpicRiff: "Back in Black", "Thunderstruck", "It's A Long Way To The Top", "Mistress for Christmas", "Beating Around the Bush", "Fire Your Guns", "Hells Bells", "Jailbreak"... seriously, every song may qualify. "It's a Long Way To The Top" is a special case in that it also has an Epic Riff for ''bagpipes''.

** "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" for the Scott incarnation of the band, to the point that Johnson vowed to never perform the song out of respect for Scott. Then, there's also "TNT".
** "Back in Black", "Thunderstruck" or "You Shook Me All Night Long" are both candidates for the Johnson incarnation.
** "Highway to Hell" covers both incarnations.

* SignatureSong: "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" for the Scott incarnation of the band, to the point that Johnson vowed to never perform the song out of respect for Scott. Then, there's also "TNT". "Back in Black", "Thunderstruck" or "You Shook Me All Night Long" are both candidates for the Johnson incarnation. "Highway to Hell" covers both incarnations.

* SongAssociation: If you've gone to see any movie after roughly 1995, chances are you've heard "Back in Black" in at least two trailers.

* SignatureSong: "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" for the Scott incarnation of the band, to the point that Johnson vowed to never perform the song out of respect for Scott. "Back in Black" or "You Shook Me All Night Long" are both candidates for the Johnson incarnation. "Highway to Hell" covers both incarnations.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: ''Rock Or Bust'' was preceeded and succeeded by a truly surreal amount of problems within the band: Phill Rudd getting in trouble with the law, Malcolm Young's early on-set dementia (which led to his death), Brian Johnson's severe hearing loss, Cliff Williams deciding to retire. It really did seem at that time like the band was stuck between, as the title says, "rock or bust". Fitting that predicament, the band recouped with the album ''PWR UP'' (so they chose to rock, not bust).

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Little Lover", Bon Scott sings about romancing a teenage girl who has his "picture on your bedroom wall, next to Music/GaryGlitter". With what we know about Gary Glitter today, it's a bit problematic.

* MagnificentBastard: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UIE4UjBtx-o Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap]]" from ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap'': The unnamed hitman is a hired gun skilled in TNT, electricity and various other murder methods, who offers all of his filthy acts at a reasonable price to his paying customers. Targeting perverted high school principals, cheating boyfriends and even nagging wives, the hitman uses his stealthy skills to pull off his hits, while using his charms to win over all of his clients, to the point of seducing some.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The album "Rock Or Bust" was preceeded and succeeded by a truly surreal amount of problems within the band: Phill Rudd getting in trouble with the law, Malcolm Young's early on-set dementia (which led to his death), Brian Johnson's severe hearing loss, Cliff Williams deciding to retire. It really did seem at that time like the band was stuck between, as the title says, "rock or bust". Fitting that predicament, the band recouped with the album Power Up (so they chose to rock, not bust).

** "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is about a hitman. And almost forty years after the song came out, Phil Rudd allegedly tried to pay someone a lot of money to kill his personal assistant. Maybe it could be HilariousInHindsight since nothing came of it and pretty much everyone made a "dirty deeds done not so cheap" joke after the news broke.

* MemeticMutation: "Big Balls" from ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap'' has become a popular editing source for [[WebOriginal/YouTubePoop YouTube Poops]], if only because of the phrases, "I've got big balls," and, "everybody comes and comes again".

* MemeticMutation: "Big Balls" from ''Music/DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap'' has become a popular editing source for [[WebVideo/YouTubePoop YouTube Poops]], if only because of the phrases, "I've got big balls," and, "everybody comes and comes again".

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Little Lover", Bon Scott sings about romancing a teenage girl who has his "picture on your bedroom wall, next to Gary Glitter". With what we know about Gary Glitter today, it's a bit problematic.