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- So the other day I tried counting down the all-time greatest rock riffs ever put to vinyl… by anyone… ever.… with a friend. And the crazy thing is, my top 5 picks all pretty much came from the same band! AC/DC! You know I tried to get some other bands in there. But these classic Riffs three were just too good… all of them pure rock and roll dynamite. So not only are we counting them down… we’re also giving their origin stories and some crazy insights what make these anthemic rockers tick. Including one riff that the band said stuck out like a dog’s balls… (Highway to Hell) But then after they recorded the guitar parts on a cassette, the engineer took it home and let his kid play with it, which unraveled the tape… Would the tape be salvaged? Find out next in an epic episode… It’s a hell-raising, triple-threat episode that will have you banging your head and shaking a leg… It’s the top 5 riffs from AC/DC from the dream teams of Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Brian Johnson! NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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So the other day I was having some discussion or should I say a friendly argument with some friends about the greatest rock riffs of all time. I was throwing out my top 10 And I thought it would be fun to discuss it in an episode. But then something happened. As I started listing my contenders for top riffs, I started to notice that almost half of them all belonged to one band… AC/DC. And I was like, wait a minute, this is turning into an AC/DC piece. So I thought why not do a show about my top AC/DC riffs instead? Because I mean, with respect to the great Eddie Van Halen, no one writes better riffs than them Young Boys. So, today I’m putting my Top 10 riffs on hold and giving you three AC/DC riffs for the ages. Let’s be honest, they were probably going to rule the top 5 anyway. So let’s go.
Coming in at #3, it’s the title track from AC/DC’s epic 1980 tribute to their fallen frontman Bon Scott… Back in Black. Recorded in the Bahamas and produced by Mutt Lange, Back In Black was this sonic sorcerer’s second album with AC/DC. And one of his biggest ever. One of “the” biggest ever… period. Selling a historic 50 million copies, Back in Black is right up there with Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Eagles: Their Greatest Hits, and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. It’s certainly the biggest-selling rock record ever.
After Bon Scott's death in February 1980, Angus Young decided their first album without him should be a tribute called Back In Black and feature a song with the same name. But Back in Black’s famous riff came into being even before that. It was Malcolm who actually came up with it. He used to play it all the time as a warm-up exercise while the band was on the road. The crazy thing is he almost - บันเทิง
Poll: What is your pick for the COOLEST GUITAR SONG EVER?
Wipe Out!
STH
I'll nominate ... "Summer Song" by Joe Satriani.
Redemption Song, Bob Marley.
I hope acoustic counts.
Paperback Writer by the Beatles has good guitar 🎸
Cliffs of Dover.
I have an autistic daughter (non-verbal, and at the age of 25 has the mentality of a 5 year old) who is a huge AC/DC fan. It’s one of my most favorite things to turn it on just to see her light up, yell “YEAH” and start rocking out dancing. For this reason they are one of my favorite bands. Which is interesting because I didn’t care for them much when I was younger. There was an obnoxious guy in high school who loved them and kind of ruined them for me. Good thing my daughter came along to show me what I was missing. 😊
I am 18 years old and am autistic, but I can speak. When I hear AC/DC, I immediately start banging my head.
"Children teach your parents well..."
Great story! My first concert was in 1976; Kiss, with a little known opening band called AC/DC!! We were a little late getting there and AC/DC were already playing. I will never forget walking in and hearing this fantastic powerful sound! I’ve been a fan ever since!!!
And so happy I got to see Bob Scott!
I was never an AC/DC fan when I was in high school (I graduated in 1981) but as the years have gone on, I’ve come to appreciate them.
Kids love AC DC. When mine were young whenever I'd listen to AC DC the kids would start dancing and carrying on. But the reaction was always more visceral when compared to other bands. Music is awesome!
She was a fax machine, she kept her modem clean.
She made the best damn copies that I'd, ever seen...
😂😂😂 ... 👍👍👍
She had the out tray size,
I'm not telling lies.
One at a time,
or just endless lines.
Had to cool her down, for another round.
Then it's back online for the seventh time.
Yeah the walls were shaking,
the print was stacking,
My ears were aching,
At the racket it was making.
You just bought the drinks….
I didn't think I was the only one with these alternate lyrics (except I always sang "toner" instead of "modem").
@@aboyd1988 Doesn't matter, it's still fun!
I love making up lyrics to songs. The sillier the better.
"When i listen to AC/DC, so do my neighbors" - Every AC/DC fan ever.
same with Zeppelin and Metallica, there's no point even turning the stereo on when others are home
Nothing wrong with it, but I'm also someone who likes to share.
I had AC/DC cranking at my house so my neighbors called the police. When the police arrived they arrested the neighbors. 😂
@@mattfitzpatrick83 That's hilarious! Why?
Guilty as charged, LOL.
Long Way to the Top is my fave!! Especially when the bagpipes kick in. --- Howdy from rock'n Texas!
Yes!
We made up a variation once. "Is a long way to the shop, when ya wanna smoke a bowl!"
That was the first song I ever heard from them , back in 1978 when I was 13 . Bon rules !
Crank the pipes ❤😊
Yes, it's a great number. The bagpipes were the band's way of acknowledging their Scottish roots.
Another great riff tune would be "Girls Got Rhythm". That song doesn't get enough love.
My fav too - thanks for reminding me!😂🎉
I'll make an argument for "If You Want Blood, You Got It".
While I am not an AC/DC fan, I still believe "Shoot to Thrill" from the Back in Black debut album with Brian Johnson is the most underrated and coolest song with either Scott or Johnson behind the 🎤. The energy and tempo changes, fun to dance to, worthy of cranking up when listening to 100's of watts from power amps.... A great song in my opinion!
Girl Scout ribbon!
Beating Around The Bush too!
At 6 years old we would walk to the shop singing "it's a long way to the shop, if you want a sausage roll. "
Touch too much is my all time fav.
That’s hilarious 👍😀🤣😂🤣
Are u an Aussie? Many of us have sung, the sausage roll bit for decades lol
@@bernadettelanders7306
Melbourne born and bred.
Would sing that walking to the shop for a suasage roll in a bread roll smothered in tomato sauce.
@@dysturbedone3395
Melbourne born and bred here as well, and have sung that with Tom sauce on sausage roll on the way home too lol 😂
@@dysturbedone3395Our tuck shop called that a ‘special with sauce’ but was available every day.
Respooling cassettes is nuttin', respooling 8-track tapes, now that's hard.
I've done both because I couldn't afford buying a new copie
I think Hell's Bells should be in the top five. I love how the riff builds as the song moves along.
I agree, Hells Bells is also a great tune, the way it builds momentum is awesome
Just posted this before I saw your reply. 👍
totally agree, the way it builds from slow to hectic and you're just left scratching your head going hold on, how the hell did we just get there? and the thumping bell in the background; just awesome. sounded amazing in the old walkman in the 80s bouncing from ear to ear.
what about the intro to "Riff Raff, always do it for a laugh" or "Thunderstruck", that one's crazy.
In the 1980's I knew a guy who sold advertising time at a local radio station. He always had press box tickets for every concert that came to town. They were usually given to company executives. But, apparently, few were interested in seeing AC/DC. So he gave me a pair. The show was great and LOUD. I suffered permanent hearing loss. But what a memorable night!
Very cool!
That must be why AC/DC usually repeats the lyric in the chorus, you might not have been able to hear it the first time. But you probaby felt it.
Those cannons for the "21 gun salute" were deafening. For those about to rock ..FIRE! 💣💥
My dad ran a marketing research company. He had press seats for KISS and took me to my first concert in 1978 or 1979 in Phoenix.
@@mechanic6682 How cool is that? Pretty epic for a first concert!
My first concert was Emerson, Lake, and Palmer when I was 14. My big brother took me because I loved their music and wore out my 45 rpm of "Lucky Man".
It was so good, nothing could top it.
Keith Emerson's keyboards stole the show!
Graduated HS in '83, Back in Black came out my Sophomore year, someone walked into the cafeteria with a boom box blasting it to the dismay of all the old lunch ladies and I was hooked!! I would say this was the most played, most owned cassette across the board, jocks, stoners, cheerleaders everyone played Back in Black in their cars, in the parking lots, at house parties at bonfire parties almost to the point of overplaying it! That is every year of HS this album was the "must have". And you throw it in or on a player today and everyone still knows every word even Gen Y & Millennials !!
Everybody knows it!
yep.iconic song some good covers out there also.
@@marktait2371absolutely. Have you heard ACDCfansDOThousebqnd?. They have a TH-cam channel.
1983 for me too but that album always gave me a headache.😂 I don’t know why. Rush was my top band in high school.
Back in Back WAS A “ BON FIRE”! After the shock and sadness of Bon’s death, this album was a classic, and kept his spirit alive; not over-shadowing him, but a continuation of his legacy!
malcolm is such an underrated musician. not just guitarist, but musician.
YEP. And of course, an underrated comment.
He wrote the best riffs.
They did call him the Riffmaster
He was the Riff Master!
Malcolm created most of the riffs and Angus created the lead solos! Very good teamwork with the brothers! Bon, then Brian added the lyrics!
Not wanting to add to the conspiracy, but Back In Black certainly sounded like Bon’s lyrics!! I noticed a big change after this album. Some still epic songs like “For Those About to Rock” and “Thunder Struck”, but not the same level as Bon for Highway to Hell, and all the great songs there!!!
I loved all of the songs on that album except for Love Hungry Man! That one was good, but sounded kinda cheesy to me! EDIT:
It just occurred to me: When did “cheesy” become a negative? I love cheese, it adds to everything!
Love your choices, but my personal fave will always be Whole Lotta Rosie.”
Thanks for all you do, Prof!
Had a dark red 86 w900 Kenworth nicknamed Rosie because of that song ha ha . She was a whole lotta woman !
I'm a proud veteran of the Satanic Panic Wars from 1981 to 1987 (my jr. and high school years). 6 tours of duty, and loved every note of it!
Right there with ya!
Awesome!
ain’t nothing like jamming to “Highway to Hell” and playing D&D in high school in middle of a sea of Jack Chick tracks and Tipper Gore tirades 😂
If people only knew how not satanic Rush is, in spite of the cover of Moving Pictures, which really baited the fear mongers, I can't help but think of Witch Hunt, yeah, who's the evil one in that scene?
Yeah, I wrote an article for the high school newspaper about Satanism as a fad - Those were the best days. I wonder if that’s a time that people refer to when they say make America great again?
My brother loathed AC/DC with Bon. When I came home with "Back In Black", he listened to the first songs and said "now they've gotten even worse". When we got to the second song on side two, he went silent. When "You Shook Me All Night Long" finished playing, he rushed out of the room and slammed the door. Twenty years later, he finally admitted that it was among the best songs he had heard. Thanks Professor for an excellent episode!
freakin' brothers, am I right?
I never got Brian. Once Bon passed I didn't buy anymore AC/DC.
AC/DC sucks after Bon died . The only great Album is BIB because Bon wrote the lyrics.
No Bon didnt@@arthurtaneI557
@@Dave-sw2dmcan’t stand Bonn - hate his voice and his stage persona. Also hate his choice to include bagpipes in Long Way to the Top … always thought it made no sense.
Brian is amazing though.
My earliest memory of AC/DC is from riding the school bus in the first grade. Our school bus had four speakers wired up and an old 8 track player with a cassette converter. Our school bus driver (Len Parks) was the coolest ever and would let the teenagers play their music as loud as they liked on the afternoon ride home.
You Shook Me is the first AC/DC song that caught my attention at that tender age. From then on, I was a fan… much to the frustration and disappointment of my country music loving parents.
They couldn’t believe I was falling for the devils music!
And fall I did. I’ve been a metal head ever since.
Rock on!! 🤘🏼
AC/DC were an awakening to me as a 13yo girl in 1980. 🤘🏻Long live rock!
I'm 55, graduated high school in 1987. This video just proves 3 of my favorite songs ever written, by one of the greatest bands ever will never die!! Please play this for your kids and grandkids so it continues long after we're all gone!!! As an old yt woman in Louisville Ky, it's amazing how 1 band can continue to effect you thru your entire life. What amazing artists!!! Thank you Professor!!
Also an ‘87 graduate! AC/DC were a big musical part of my High School years!
Ditto 87’ 🤘🤘
I'm 55 also, graduated in '86!
AC/DC will ALWAYS be my favorite band! No song can get me dancing faster than these 3 and many more!🤘😝🤘
Class of ‘86’ but got kept back in the 8th grade. So ‘87’
Cuz I’m a Problem Child!
87 graduate as well. AC/DC n Van Halen were the soundtrack of my HS
Recording Engineer: "Bon, my kid messed up the tape and now it's all unwound and tangled. I'm so sorry"
Bon Scott taking tape from Engineer: "Pencil"
The "pencil", yes! Also, 8-track tapes. My car player would eat a tape every once in a while. I'd get the tape all lined out and give it an expert snap-pull and suck all that tape right back in. It was gratifying! Thanks for the memory jog!
The old 8 track rip, done it many times. @@craigpierce7996
hahs the pencil.trick haha same 8 tracks cassettes no 2 the tape monster cachunk had a mind of its own
But then you see the tape is all twisted somewhere and even if you flatten it and get it rerolled, you have 1 song goes all wonky forever...
@@ianobrien3248 Often the case sadly!
Circa 1992-93 my two year old daughter would walk around banging her head saying “dumb dumb cheek”. My wife and I couldn’t figure out what she was doing/saying? One day in the car with the radio on KFMX in Lubbock, Tx the song Dirty Deeds came on and I looked in the rear view mirror to see my two year old slamming her head yelling “dumb dumb cheek” (done dirt cheap)! I told my wife turn around, I figured it out.....😂
I always thought it was “thirty thieves and the thunder chief”.
So cool you you chose AC/DC riffs for the episode. Was just thinking the other day about how important a good riff is to a good rock tune. I was 7 or 8 years old when I heard the opening riff of the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" it was my hook to the sound of rock n roll.
Great list. Here's my top 5:
1. Back in Black
2. Thunderstruck
3. Highway to Hell
4. It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Want to Rock n Roll)
5. Hells Bells
Good list!
Thunderstruck is the most over rated AC/DC song. I think
@@nicholaskruger9460I have to disagree, respectfully. I can’t hear the first 5 seconds without my adrenaline spiking. Every time.
Great list, but super hard to narrow down which would be my top 5! So many great songs, and albums, that I answer, when anyone asks what my favorite stuff by AC/DC is, I answer, "Yes!" They were my transition band into rock music, and boy did they do their job! Still one of my all-time favorites to this day!
my top five is 1 hell ain't a bad place to be. 2 Ride on. 3 Rock and roll ain't noise pollution. 4 Back in Black. 5 For those about to rock. don't hate it's MY top 5
Having seen both inceptions of AC/DC the driving guitars and gruff vocals pulled me in and kept me entertained for all these years. RIP Malcolm and Bon.😢
Oh yeah thanks Adam this is a fantastic video. Brings back a lot of good memories. Oh, and I love that shirt.
I thought Thunderstruck was going to be your #1 for sure. But I can't argue with You Shook Me All Night Long. What an amazing catalog.
I'm a country musician who found himself having to learn how to play rock. The band leader said that the best way to understand rock guitar was to listen to Back in Black, especially Malcolm's rhythm parts.
It blew my mind. Everything he played supported the vocals, perfectly.
A lot of really good music gets a bad rap because of the Genre it's in. I always figure if a song can be covered with the simplest arrangement, or better yet if it holds it own a capella, then there's a real 'song' in there.
It's great to see that you keep improving yourself!
Take any of Mutt Lange's productions: AC⚡DC; Shania Twain; Def Leppard; etc, etc ...
They could all be country songs. They could all be rock songs. There is no difference song wise 😂
@@GregoryKeithe Absolutely right. Mutt has written a bunch of Country songs by artists other than Shania: Lonestar, Blackhawk, Reba, Carrie Underwood...
@@GregoryKeitheseveral bluegrass bands cover ac/dc songs.
That photo at 3:17 , which was famously used as the _Highway to Hell_ album cover, is just so great. It's the epitome of 1970s juvenile delinquency. I've always loved the contrast between Angus Young's sneer and Bon Scott's goofy grin.
True!
Me too!
I was just talking about this with a buddy on how that album cover (Highway to Hell) scared me away from AC/DC as a kid, but I also found them, while still a kid, and loved them.
AGREED❤❤It was actually the song, Back in Black, that got THIS woman (who was a 13 year old girl in 1980) into AC/DC’s music. That album is still one of my all time favorites. When I was 16 and living in Connecticut, I went to Ocean Beach Park and when I rode the bobsled ride, You Shook Me came on, and I totally rocked out during that ride. The guy running it asked me if I really liked that song, when I screamed, “YES!!”, he told me to stay on the ride. He ran it forward and backward long enough to play You Shook Me two more times. That’s such a great memory!😊
Yes I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that photo!
I'll never forget me, my two cousins and their two best mates decided to head north from Newcastle to Tamworth for the country music festival in an XB ute... two up front and three in the back, and we thrashed Highway To Hell all the way there and all the way back to Newcastle again... Tamworth copped a huge downpour on the day we left and the car in front of us was supposed to be the last car allowed out but we forced our way through and the volume never dropped once. Helluva weekend, great memory.
The first party I went to as a teenager was the day after Back in Black was released. When the album ended, the host moved the needle back to the beginning by request. It was the only album played that night. On the 5th play, it was time for me to leave. The next day, I bought the album. It shook me all night long, for real!
I agree with your list, but my favorite is Thunderstruck, to me it just can't be beat!
The fact that there are punk-bluegrass covers of it speaks volumes about its integrity as a parsimoniously perfect song!!
One of my very favorites too!! It just moves me; even as a geezer, it gets my head banging!
@@sovereignbrehon Have you ever heard the 2Cellos cover? Amazing!
@keithosmond5730 Yes!! AND another is the Orions Reign with Dan Vasc as frontman. My all time favorite!!
Honorable mention:
"Long Way to the Top"
"For Those About to Rock"
Plus WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE 🤘
yeh great video also.a clasic
"T.N.T."
"Problem Child"
"Givin The dog a Bone"
just to name a few more honorable mention.
Down Payment Blues (and pretty much all the songs from Powerage)
Dirty Deeds
Professor. Your commentary made me laugh and then tear then laugh again for the nostalgia. Great job!
As a person who grew up in Australia in the late in the 90s, I cannot overstate how uncool it was to like AC/DC. But then again most bands were uncool by then, first because of grunge and then post-grunge all rock and metal was passé. Things are so different now where everyone is allowed to like anything which is awesome!
Christmas 1980, I was 14 and could not avoid rocking out with my air guitar to "You Shook Me All Night Long" every single time it came on the radio. I bought "Back In Black", the album, as my 15th birthday-gift-to-self in May 1981. I distinctly remember a coworker of mine describing it as "the consummate hard rock album" in 1987. Imagine my surprise when a friend of mine told me the student body at her high school voted "You Shook Me All Night Long" as their class song in 2004!
To me the greatest sin in music is that you can’t got to a football game with out hearing AC/DC being played and yet they have never been the halftime show at the superbowl
It ain't just football, but they would be a natural choice for the SB.
Great list!! Here's mine!
Riff Raff
Beat'n around the bush
Rock N Roll Ain't noise pollution
Let's get it up
Nervous shakedown
Riff Raff live in Scotland !!!
Great show professor. I have been a HUGE ACDC fan since I was 14. 56 now and still blast them when I can. In fact just blasted 2 of my fave riffs from them after your segment. Whole Lotta Rosie and Let there be Rock. They are right up there with your 3. Keep up the great work..love your videos😊
My fav AC/DC track has to be Soul Stripper. The opening rhythm and lead guitars, tight bass & drum groove and Bonn’s opening “Well I met her in the garden, sitting ‘neath that old apple tree,” just sets up a perfect track (imo). Rock on Adam!
definitely one of their best
Agreed... the best !!!
Yes, absolutely!!!
I don’t have any concert stories about Acca Dacca, but they are still played everywhere and it amuses me when everyone sings along to You Shook Me All Night Long at the supermarket, including the middle aged like me and the old. They will be played forever in Australia 🇦🇺.
"You Shook Me" is a phenomenal song, but I would put "For those about to rock" above it. That riff and song absolutely slays.
Just fabulous, thank you, Professor! I was lucky enough to see that first tour with Brian Johnson, it was at a small arena with the so-called festival seating, and my buddy and I just worked our way right up front. That was 43 years ago, and I can still see the sweat pouring off Johnson‘s face. Angus got on a roadies shoulders, and he walked him through the crowd on the floor while he wailed on that SG. What a great memory.
You are so right! The Young brothers are the king of riffs. The first notes of practically every song they did is instantly recognizable.
My high school football team had a sled nicknamed Bertha for us to practice blocking on, my friend and I made a whole song about Bertha using “you shook me all night long”. I can’t hear that song without quietly singing my lyrics about Bertha in there.
They're recognizable because they may know three chords.
When one of their riffs pop up you can name it in one second.
ACDC's work is littered with so many great riffs and grooves that really it's difficullt to pick one. "Hell's Bells" is one which hasn't been mentioned but is absolute genius. The arpegiated riff, the way it veers into the power chords, and other facets too numerous to mention...but certainly Back In Black is a prime example of ACDC's genius and musicality . ...three basic chords played mid tempo transformed into such a masterful song, showcasing ACDC's ability to bounce differing musical elements off each other. It's a song you can headbang to and dance to, as you see fit: the vocals are archetypallly rocking but also almost rapped; it's a fist in the air stadium anthem and it's got a bluesy undercurrent as well; it's supremely catchy but it's not pop; it's pure rock but it's soulful, it's heavy but it's got a swing and a groove...and all played with deliberate precision...ACDC's secret sauce is that the apparently no-nonsense, minimalistic approach actually involves a very intelligent, subtle combination of diverse ingredients and that's the secret of their success, I'd say
Great video from my all time favorite band! I'd like to think their best solo is from my personal favorite song, ride on. Glad I found your channel man.
I agree 💯
The rhythm track on Shook Me is just relentless.
Like a metronome .
Phil laid it down and Cliff was very tasteful.
That beginning drum part is just giant .
My favorite is Whole Lotta Rosie. I especially love the live version - da na na na na na naaa (crowd chants Angus Angus!!)
Tony Iommi's riffs are bone crushing, teeth gnashing, soul shifting works of art.
BIGGG time. Thank you for that.
Tony is great, master of the riff
But…very few of them make you wanna get up and move around & dance. That’s where AC/DC excelled- the groove.
I agree. And a while back I inadvertently came up with this pun: …anyone into good music, especially guitar riffs, owes it to themselves to listen to some Black Sabbath. And when you owe something to yourself, it’s not an I.O.U., it’s an…. 🤗🥁
@@StanDuppenshout1 Yesssssss!!!! 😝
Went to see AC/DC when they came to D.C. in '81 (Back in Black tour). No internet, No Ticket master... we stood in line for 2 & 1/2 days in line at the Ticket office to get tickets. Ya, that's right, 2 & 1/2 days for them to go on sale. Took turn sleeping, eating and bathroom breaks. Damn! It was worth it all. What a show. Attended 6 AC/DC concerts over the years.
34 times since Fly on the Wall. The permanent tinnitus was worth it.
@@Lemmon714_I have tinnitus told my kids ...ac/DC concerts
Grew in 70's Australia hugh AC/DC fan..remember waking to the news of Bons demise..as devastating as it was for Bons family and the boys in the band..to their credit they stayed focused to become the band they were destined to be..RIP Bon..
1980 riverfront coliseum I was 12 years young .Never forget the giant gold bell to start the event.AWESOME‼️
I'm from Cincinnati also. In San Diego now for years. I miss Skyline, LaRosas and White Castle so much.
I was in high school when Highway to Hell came out. I loved the album, but then Bon Scott died. Then, when Back In Black came out, I was amazed at how great they sounded. I was bummed about Bon’s death, but they really came through in his absence.
Yes, but only for that one LP (which had songs co-written by Bon). After that, they slid quickly into mediocrity (with the lone exception of the title track to "For Those About to Rock").
I worked at Eucalyptus Records in 1976 and at that time of course we received the albums regularly and got to listen to any and all over the speakers in the store.
This was the year Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run released 1975 for instance, Garland Jeffreys, John Cale, Frampton Comes Alive, but also many obscure albums foreign and domestic came through. I recall Muddy Waters Mannish Boy caught my attention. Linda Ronstadt was big.
High Voltage by AC DC came out in 1975 and I commented;
These guys are going to be HUGE.
I remember my colleague (David Bowie fan and others) saying
"I don't see it"😂
i was always proud of my Insight that day.
I graduated HS in 1979. The first time I heard Back In Black we were driving around at night coming up to the “old cemetery” out in the forest, and as we made the turn around a huge mountain of gravel the cemetery came into view and the first notes dropped. I was hooked!
1979 here also!
Watching Angus play SHOOT TO THRILL one handed in Nashville when I was 16 melted my face, then he rode Hell's Bell out on stage and I was a fan for life! Chase the Ace and D.T. rule too. Great content!
At the Municipal Auditorium? Or as we called it the “Miserable Auditorium”? I was there too!!
"Curtis... are you dead?!" Cuts into Chase The Ace. Best movie EVER!!!!
Some non-AC/DC riffs
Limelight (Rush)
Working Man (Rush)
You’re in Love (Ratt)
Lay it down (Ratt)
Unchained (Van Halen)
Panama (Van Halen)
Let it go (Def Leppard)
High ‘n Dray (Def Leppard)
Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)
Burn (Deep Purple)
Smokin (Boston)
Don’t look back (Boston)
Spellbound (Triumph)
Follow your heart (Triumph)
Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)
La Grange (ZZ Top)
Wild side (Motley Crue)
Girls girls girls (Motley Crue)
Stone in love (Journey)
Escape (Journey)
Night Life (Foreigner)
Dirty white boy (Foreigner)
Barracuda (Heart)
Some interesting picks, as well as a few head-scratchers. If you like Def Leppard, surely 'Photograph" deserves a mention? their only really memorable track, as far as I'm concerned. Likewise, "Hot Blooded" is the ultimate 'riff' song by Foreigner.
It’s the syncopation - juxtaposed with a dead-straight beat from the drummer - that makes the Youngs’ riffs so cool
So many to choose from. Hard to argue with these 3. Nice job!
Love this topic. Picking my favorite AC/DC riff is like picking my favorite child. That being said I think “That’s the Way I Wanna Rock and Roll” doesn’t get enough love.
To be honest when you mentioned Rick Astley, I kind of expected to get Rick Rolled with a clip of Never Gonna Let You Down.
Ha ha. big swing and miss!
Keep up the GREAT work! Respect Professor!
Evey time I listen to you shook me i cant not here in my head the intro to have a drink on me, its like turning the page in a great book. When in the dark ages we listened to albums Back in Black was one you always played to the end.
Back in the day when we had Walkman when I went skiing in Colorado I would put ACDC Back in Black cassette tape in my Sony Walkman
OH yeah! I LOVE AC/DC! You can't go wrong with them on any level. They just simply rock! A fun vid, really enjoyed this one. :) My fave albums are Back in Black and The Razor's Edge. Either/both get plenty of play time here.
Thanks!
Both albums are gold!
I can still remember those days of pulling in the parking lot at High School rocking out to Back in Black in my car when it first came out. ONLY to hear half of the parking lot rocking out to other songs of the same Back in Black Album. What at time, what an Album.
Yes
Shot Down In Flames is my favorite. The beginning gets my fired up
Yeah Brian Stepped up to the plate and the rest was history
My favorite is Hell's Bells. I love the odd count in the song...not sure if there's an extra beat or a missing beat, but it gets the blood flowing...
I first heard AC/DC when Back in Black came out and I LOVED it. I played that cassette so much that it wore out and I bought another. I became a big fan but as I started to listen to their older stuff I realized that I like Bon’s voice much more than Brian’s. I just find it more interesting.
Malcolm was the absolute riff-meister. So much great music. RIP to Bon and Malcolm.
Back In Black has always been a favorite song and album of mine. Its an absolutely stellar album from start to finish. Highway To Hell isn't far off.
AC/DC truly are some of the best riff writers of all time.
I figured Thunderstruck would be on this list. That opening riff is insane.
Sorry, Prof. AC/DC is great, but Tony Iommi is the riff f**kin master
Damn straight!
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Well you know what they say about opinions
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There are recordings of Bon Scott singing You Shook Me All Night Long. Clearly the song existed prior to Brian Johnson joining the band.
After a concerned friend in high school had overheard me ask my friend who AC/DC was, he loaned me a cassette titled, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. The minute I heard Big Balls on that album, I pulled out a Herb Alpert cassette, taped over the anti-copywrite holes and made myself a copy of that song. As fast as I could run, I went over to a girlfriend's place to make her listen to it.
Fast forward almost 20 years, she and I ran into each other at a mutual friend's funeral, where she commenced to tell me that every time she hears the songs Big Balls or Dirty Deeds, she fondly remembers me running through her front door, puffy faced, all excited and hollering that she has GOT TO hear my new favorite song! They were and still are my favorite AC/DC songs, even though they are in their own rights, trash.
Long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll!!! Come on Bagpipes a rockin'!!
Definitely one of my favorite bands ever.
Thank you Adam
HELL yeah!!! I cant belive you piecked my favorite song not just by AC/DC, but ever, I actaully paused the video to think. I actually yelled YESSS!!! When you said ''You shook me all night long'' HAHAHA =XD
The video is about riffs but your comment asks for cool guitar songs so here are some of my favourite guitar songs.
New Orleans is Sinking - Tragically Hip
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Layla - Eric Clapton
Crazy on You - Heart
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Love Song - Tesla
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses
Never Enough - LA Guns
and since you made the video about them, AC/DC - Thunderstruck.
I agree with everything here Professor, but I have always thought that "If you want blood" was the best guitar riff ever of any band. It just does something to me man. I can't listen to it while driving, I'll be doing 90 in a 45 in no time. Great stuff as always!
Every time I hear AC/DC I think of my lil brother. Lol, he used to wear our Dad's flat cap & sing into an old hair brush! Always made me laugh, trying to sound like Brian. 😂
I think it's interesting You Shook Me brought in female fans as that's my fave AC/DC song. I like the video where he enters the room & his woman is on the mechanical bull, going wild. The look on his face & dropping the bottles always gets me every time! 😆
I can’t beat that driving riff that opens dirty deeds done dirt cheap - and the swift and clean let there be rock - with a special mention to the live wire intro that has levels
@professorofRock don't forget the contribution of You Shook Me to the naming of Veruca Salt's "American Thighs" album (I'm sure you didn't forget) - more reach and influence beyond the riff. Great episode!!
Hard to pick the best 3 with AC/DC. Loved your picks. Also Long Way to the Top. I couldn't get Who Made Who out of my head for days when I first heard it. Carry on Adam. You're a Dick Clark, Casey Casem, and uncle Joe Benson. Love the stories behind the songs. Rock & Roll is here to stay.
1980, 15 year old HS sophomore, and DJ at the local skating rink. My HS was holding a fundraiser for the basketball team on a school night at the skating rink and the manager scheduled me to DJ the session. These were the days of the double turn table, mixer, head phone and vinyl records. About 30 minutes into the session I hear a loud knock on the DJ booth door. It’s the teams 6’10 center, and I notice he’s holding a record album in his hand. He recognizes me from school and asks me if I would play a song from the album. He hands me a brand new all black album cover and I say, “sure, which track do you want to hear?” He says, “it doesn’t matter they’re all great, pick one.” I pulled the sleeve out of the album cover, which had that brand new smell, then took the vinyl disc out of the sleeve and cued up the needle on a random track that turned out to be “You Shook Me All Night Long.” Serendipity. The party was never the same. Picture a bunch of teen age kids on roller skates for the first or second time in their lives- in a perpetual near fall-rocking out like there was no tomorrow.
Brought a year to my eye!
Tear
Mr. Professor I beleive we are close to the same age. With that being said? THIS IS MY FAVORITE CHANNEL ON TH-cam!
Nailed it bigtime! If those 3 songs don't epitomize the true essence of kick ass Rock-n-Roll then nothing ever will!
Great episode, thank you
Bro I’m glad you didn’t say Thunderstruck. You saved me having to make a lengthy rebuttal.
Great pics. My personal favorite riff of all-time is Day Tripper
That Peter Griffin cut got me laughing!!!! Nice touch!
Shoot To Thrill. 200 miles per hour standing still. Awesome.
I used to hate ACDC but as I got older I absolutely came love them and appreciate their talent.
I agree with you prof,as a live performer i always uses this 3 riffs on soundchecks,,the best way to get the right sounds and a good warmup also..and shook me all night long is the first guitar tab ive ever learned..rock on..
"its a long way" has to be one of my all time AC/DC favs.
As someone brought up on early 70s UK glam rock, which despite the glitter was all blues riffs played heavy, Malcolm's riffs stood out for their chopped and clipped style. Lots of rock and less roll, IMO. Angus' lead provided what was missing, though, and together they created a great sound.
My no. 1 riff of all time is Led Zep's 'Whole Lotta Love', and I've a soft spot for the simplicity of the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me'.
I have had the fortune of seeing AC/DC 6 times as both an opening band and as the headliner. Never once was I disappointed.
You can't ignore the older stuff...the intro to Soul Stripper, or Squealer, Long way to the top...Sin City, What's next to the Moon and, my fav, Whole Lotta Rosie!
I prefer the older stuff, personally.
How can you leave out “givin the dog a bone” that’s typical ac/dc grungy sound, love the sound of it
Great episode! ✌️✌️
Another great episode of the professor of rock .
So glad to have seen them live shame it was just after Malcom passed. Angus is a machine doesn’t stop once the show starts