Bon or Brian?

[Left Is Write]

Poll question: Bon or Brian?

[redqueen]

1. AS IF this poll were even necessary.

[Left Is Write]

2. Yeah, I know.

It popped into my pea-brain while I was listening to Jailbreak on the way home a little while ago.

[redqueen]

4. Oh stop!

It's a good question... I knew people who were into them more after Brian... but still, they're the eeensy minority. :)

[Radical Activist]

3. Yeah, duh.

Bon wrote much better lyrics. I don't think anyone in rock has ever matched his talent for phrases and songs with sexual double meanings. Its funny stuff.

[ragin_acadian]

16. i read an interview right after ballbreaker came out,

where brian johnson said that he doesn't participate in the lyric writing process - after listening to that album, i wish he had. there was one hysterical line in it though:

razor back, a hog attack
building steam, whipping cream
she likes a fat, smoking stack

[johnnie]

5. No question

Bon. I heard them first when Powerage came out. I Liked Highway to Hell, and then Bon was gone. That was sad.

[Hailtothechimp]

6. Back in Black rules and rules all!

Say what you will, but none of the AC/DC stuff with Bon measures up to the ten songs on BIB (and the first two or three songs on For those about to Rock). As much as I love Bon's stuff, (It's a Long way to the Top is a great tune) but it took his death (and Mutt Lange, no doubt) to push AC/DC to the level they reached when they recorded these songs.

Flame away if you want to, but the 20 million who bought it must know something.

And I will grant you they've not done very much since 1980.

[Left Is Write]

7. I love Back In Black.

But Bon has definitely got the quantity vote. There's more good Bon stuff than there is good Brian stuff. All in my humble opinion, of course.

[Hailtothechimp]

8. And in the end, it's all opinion anyway.

Anyone who votes and/or posts on this thread is OK with me.

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9. And Bon actually played the bagpipes...

that's cutting edge!

"(It's a Long way to the Top is a great tune)"

[jandrok]

14. "Let There Be Rock"

AC/DC's finest hour, IMO. Easily their nastiest, grungiest, heaviest, and all-around best album. BIB may have sold millions, but "LTBR" was pure rock-n-roll joy.

ALTHOUGH, I will nominate BIB as one of the all-time best party albums of all time, right up there with "License to Ill".

[Hailtothechimp]

15. I can't listen to License to Ill because...

once I start I can't stop. It must be like being an alcoholic.

[Mojambo]

19. I'd take High Voltage over BiB any day of the week, personally

Not to say BiB isn't a great album, but it only gets to #2 on my AC/DC list.

[Kat45]

10. Where's the option for "both"?

I love both of them. Love albums with Bon; love albums with Brian. Great band.

[Left Is Write]

11. No little bitty preference for either one?

Not even a little, tiny, itty bitty bit? :D


ETA - I'd put the option in there, but the time frame for editing has expired.

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12. Bon.

No question, but Brian Johnson was a much better replacement for Bon than
Sammy Hagar was a replacement for DLR.

Bon Scotts song writing was more clever than Brian Johnsons. As far as singing and vocal ability; I'd still have to give it to Bon, but by a very narrow margin.

One thing that Bon had that Brian Johnson never had, is that Bon was the consummate Rock and Roll bad ass... the stuff and kind of behavior R&R legends legends are made of.

Yeah, I know... sadly, that kind of care free attitude cost him his life and has nothing to do with talent or musical ability, but that's how legends are born.

[greeneyedpookie]

13. I voted who

my who is also a "Brian", my hubby!!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

GEP

:bounce:

[KitchenWitch]

17. Are you kidding me, Bon Scott of course

Brian Johnson does not sing, he screams.

[Elidor]

18. Indeed

Johnson live sounds like a cat being tortured. If he's doing something soft (Ride On) he can sound kind of bluesy, but singing balls out, he sounds wretched. I hear people like him and Ozzy and reflect that they are rich, and it just shows what rock has come to.