![]() Each song on Black Ice feels free, dynamic and unburdened in a way they hadn't sounded in decades, yet never veers towards indulgence. What really sets Black Ice apart is its songwriting, the way Angus and Malcolm Young weave their guitars to make the most of the space lent by Phil Rudd and Cliff Williams' driving, yet perfectly un-flashy rhythm section. ![]() Granted, AC/DC's 15th album was hardly going to break any boundaries, but the supposed old adage that the band simply made a career out of churning out the same sound for close to five decades is one of rock's most tedious, and untrue, cliches.Īlthough before Black Ice appeared after an eight-year hiatus in 2008 the band had seemed to have faded well into the greatest hits arena circuit, their comeback record stands among the very finest of a now 42-year discography. If there's some later work that you prefer, a critical fiasco you're eager to defend or just a record that everyone ignored, please let us know in the comments below. We also decided not to count artists who, in our opinion at least, have grown only better and more acclaimed with age - Scott Walker, Kate Bush, Tom Waits et al. We asked them to pick a record that had been critically shunned or for the most part forgotten about - no Blackstar, for example - and while they didn’t have to be the writer’s absolute favourite, we wanted something for which they had a deeply held affection for. It would be foolish to claim that The Fall really bettered Hex Enduction Hour with 2015’s Sub Lingual Tablet, but what unites them all is that our writers think they’re brilliant. We’re not saying, of course, that they’re necessarily these artists’ best albums. Some became something of a laughing stock, some retreated from commercial relevance into the realm of "cult", others simply plodded along and played the hits, sneaking the odd new track in to a setlist if a crowd seemed particularly polite. The long-term fortunes of the artists we’ve listed here are varied. When it comes to a new band, sometimes they might even stick around until the debut album before moving on to the next eager-eyed band of Telecaster-wielding cannon-fodder.įor this feature we wondered: what of the later years? The days of fading relevance, ill-advised reinventions and public apathy. ![]() Many a music critic will be tell you, often at quite tedious length, about the joys of a band's early EPs, why Sunny Sundae Smile is in fact better than Loveless, how the Buzzcocks never bettered Spiral Scratch, or why Fleet Foxes really should have called it a day after Sun Giant. ![]()
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