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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: East/West Records
Salesrank: 45278
Released: February 29, 2000 |
| Our Price: $2.50 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Stiff Upper Lip Track Listing:
1. Stiff Upper Lip
2. Meltdown
3. House of Jazz
4. Hold Me Back
5. Safe in New York City
6. Can't Stand Still
7. Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
8. Satellite Blues - AC/DC, Young, Angus
9. Damned
10. Come and Get It
11. All Screwed Up
12. Give It Up - AC/DC, Young, Angus
Editorial Review:
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Sony. 2008.
Description of Stiff Upper Lip:
Like death and taxes, you can count on AC/DC. The Australian metal men, unlike the more daring likes of Metallica, have stuck with one virtually unchanged formula since 1973. While '90s albums such as Who Made Who and Razor's Edge are uneven at best, the five-years-coming Stiff Upper Lip marks a return to the group's Back in Black prime. Muscular, meaty, and powerful, Stiff Upper Lip boasts a dozen instantly hard and heavy classics full of macho bravado, double entendres, and, of course, Angus Young's trademark guitar. From the archetypal title track to the more portentous "House of Jazz" to the forceful, irresistible syncopation of "I Feel Safe in New York City," AC/DC are again at the top of their game. --Katherine Turman
Stiff Upper Lip Reviews:
Xelent and it's one of kind 
2008-11-16 - AC/DC as to go with another back to back CD. Like black ice & somethin else????????? . Iknow it's much to ask , but that's reallllly what ROCK&ROLL is all about,I've waited a long time but It's time to go to WORK .IN THE STUDIO PLEASE!!!!!!!!one more time THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
AC/DC showing they have nothing left to prove 
2008-02-18 - This album is more laid back than any of their material since the '80's, with somewhat rawer production and without the more obvious "arena anthem" type songwriting we saw on The Razor's Edge. Consequently, the album eases into a solid mid-intensity groove and pretty much sticks with it until the end. Personally, I find it a really nice listen. But others might conclude that the band is playing it safe and that some of the fire is gone. It's a thin line, usually, between laid back and boring.
Once again, the Young brothers write all of the material, including the lyrics. While I always prefer it when Johnson writes his own lyrics, I think the Youngs do a better job on Still Upper Lip than on Ballbreaker or The Razor's Edge. The double entendres are less forced and the subject matter is less weird. It's great to hear Phil Rudd on this record. His drum playing is straight down the middle and no frills, but nobody brings more feel to a straight hard rock four-four beat than Phil Rudd does.
In summary, this should not be one of your first AC/DC albums. However, if you have most of their catalog, I don't think you'll be disappointed. The band has nothing left to prove to anybody. However, with this album they show they still rock.
3 1/2, A bit above average, but song structure is questionable 
2008-02-04 - OK, to say that AC/DC has an huge amount of change on their style of music is really going out on a limb. Everyone pretty much knows that AC/DC's style has been taking basic rock and blues beats, and putting them with Brian Johnson's raspy vocals. (of course the band seemed to have a bit more variety with Bon Scott, but I believe that he just fit a bit better with AC/DC then Johnson has)Of course this doesnt mean that AC/DC's material sucks with Brian, nor does it mean I dont enjoy their style of rock music, and even though 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip" is better then "Fly on the Wall" & "Blow up your Video" I was hoping of an album with more of a heavy metal feel to it such as the great "The Razors Edge" which was released as Hair Metal was ruling the airwaves, Yet the band took a diffrent approach and released a pure Heavy Metal album (with no ties of Hair Metal at all) with "The Razors Edge" So we fast foward a few years to 2000, where Nu Metal and Metalcore are ruling the airwaves (in the rock world) and what does AC/DC do? They take things back to basics and pretty much re-live their blues sound that we really havent heard since the days of Bon Scott. Some of this really works. There are some good songs here such as House of Jazz, Hold Me Back, and Safe in NYC, Meltdown, Satellite Blues, COme and Get it, All Screwed, and Give it up. So thats 8 out of 12 tracks that are pretty solid. But even though these songs are good, there arent really outstanding. They also suffer from sounding to much alike (I dont mean the AC/DC sound) but some of it is almost like listening to the exact same song just with different lyrics. So I give the band a break. This is an album released twenty five years since the debut album (which was released in 1975, yet didnt make it to the states til 1981) and of course the band has been together (minus a few members, for longer) and to still put out an album that is listenable, is impressive, yet it still doesnt manage to grab you like the albums of old, but still above average. 3 1/2 stars. ENJOY
Decent, but Far Too Tame
2008-02-02 - An attempt by AC/DC to return to bluesier material and to turn away from the arena rock feel of many Brian Johnson era albums, Stiff Upper Lip has a more laid back feel to it than many AC/DC albums from the last 25 years.
But despite a return to roots formula, the album is a bit of a mixed bag. There are a lot of solid songs here, but very few that are remarkable, as the band is less than inventive with their riffs and lyrics, and it's not until "Safe in New York City" that anything interesting happens on the guitar.
The duo of "Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll" and "Satellite Blues," which start the second half of the album, is one of the stronger portions, with interesting guitar, good lyrics and vocals, and...well, it just feels more like AC/DC than does much of the rest of the album.
The second half is considerably stronger than the first, with generally more entertaining songs, and I can appreciate what Angus and the boys were trying to do here. But there's just too much repetition, either of a less than amazing riff or of a lyric line, to be a top notch AC/DC album.
Stiff Upper Lip
2007-04-03 - Good hard rock for your ears. Great big band with good themes: Satellite Blues, Stiff Upper Lip and Give It Up are the most remarkable.
