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List Price: $13.96 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 19554
Released: October 26, 2009 |
| Our Price: $10.14 |
| Used Price: $10.04 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Black Ice Track Listing:
1. Rock N Roll Train
2. Skies on Fire
3. Big Jack
4. Anything Goes
5. War Machine
6. Smash N Grab
7. Spoilin' for a Fight
8. Wheels
9. Decibel
10. Stormy May Day
11. She Likes Rock N Roll
12. Money Made
13. Rock N Roll Dream
14. Rocking All the Way
15. Black Ice
Editorial Review:
Double vinyl LP pressing of their 2008 release. Black Ice is the first full-length studio album of all-new material from AC/DC since the release of Stiff Upper Lip in 2000. Produced by Brendan O'Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC, Black Ice premieres 15 new AC/DC compositions and performances including the album's first single, 'Rock 'N' Roll Train'. Sony/BMG.
Black Ice Reviews:
Same old song and dance. 
2009-12-06 - This is straight up AC/DC.
There are real good songs on this but like some of their recent, they all sound the same.
It's almost like if you listen to the first song you've pretty much heard the entire album.
None the less they still kick, especially for being in their golden years.
AC/DC = AWESOME 
2009-11-20 - Love this cd.
It's old school shake your a** rock n roll.
These guys are still great.
2nd favorite release in the last year.
;-)
CD Purchase
2009-11-08 - Prompt and secure delivery of CD that was in exactly the condition as advertised. THANKS!
All this time waiting for this? 
2009-10-29 - You will find no bigger AC/DC fan than me. I own all of their stuff. I'm writing this because I'm frankly a little shocked that this album is getting so much undeserved hype. The only, and I mean only, song that is remotely decent is Rock N Roll Train. Frankly, you have to go way back to The Razor's Edge for AC/DC's last solid album. It's been all downhill after that, but Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip at least had more than one good song, and I would rank the song "Hard as a Rock" off Ballbreaker among the band's best songs. But Black Ice is just filled with duds. Their lyrics have never been that great since Bon Scott died, but they could certainly get by with the power and the amazing catchy riffs of their music. Well, not with this album. I was hugely disappointed, it's the only album I own of theirs that I almost universally do not like. I'm really kind of surprised AC/DC fans like this album.
Again, to each his own, it's all subjective, but I just want to throw my opinion in the mix that this album is very, very weak. I'd give it 1 star but I'm too much of a fan of the band to do that.
Running right off the track... 
2009-10-14 - Maybe not like a fine wine getting better with age....but an old reliable friend that comes around every so often...AC/DC had been away for eight years and let the excitement build until last fall when `Black Ice' made its long awaited appearance. I hate reviews that say...just as good as...or not as good as such a classic once in a lifetime record like `Back in Black' but I would like to say those days are long gone (almost 30 years ago??!!!!) yet they can still make very good, worthwhile records. The formula has been tried and true though `Black Ice' does have a few new wrinkles in more songs and the reappearance of slide guitar ("Stormy May Day") and even a ballad ("Rock n' Roll Dream") but for the most part the Youngs haven't veered all that far. A new collaborator noted veteran producer Brendan O'Brien (early Black Crowes) oversaw the band in Vancouver and while there is no indication in the song credits, supposedly Brian Johnson wrote the lyrics for the first time since the early `80's! Lead track and single "Rock n' Roll Train" is a huge song, classic Mutt Lange era chorus. "Big Jack", "Anything Goes" (very "Moneytalks-esque"), "Smash n' Grab", "Decibel", "She Likes Rock n'Roll" and "Skies on Fire" would be my favorite choice cuts from `Black Ice'. Instant success and a major chain store tie-in to boot made `Black Ice' a best seller in the post-CD era. AC/DC won't go away and who knows how long they'll keep producing their signature bone-crushing R&B...they are the REAL greatest rock band in the world.
