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 Still waiting for the first single Nov 22, 2009
What this set is missing is their first single.
Can i sit next to you girl/Rockin' in the
parlour. This featured their first singer before bon scott.
One of these days they'll get it right and
we'll get the full albums in chronological order
with bonus tracks and rarities on each one instead
of bits and pieces on compilation discs. For now,
this will do.
 Who Knew Phil Rudd could play? Nov 20, 2009
This is an awesome set filled with tons for the hardcore fan!!!!! Why there has never been a full length Live disc of Bon Scott era material is just criminal. The 2nd disc helps us all hear how amazing they were back in that era. The DVD did not do much for me, but the 1st 2 discs of material are MUST have.
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MAKES ME FEEL A SOFTNESS IN MY HEART.... Nov 17, 2009
How nice of the guys at AC/DC to finally give us everything we've been missing for all these years! I had been writing these guys letters for years pleading with them to release the rare tracks and B-sides that never made the boat to the U.S. including Killer songs like CARRY ME HOME and COLD HEARTED MAN and ROCK IN PEACE... the band sent me a few nudy pictures from some forth rate aussie girl books and told me to quote "get a life clown. Nobody reads these letters."
But now, it seems that the band has softened up a bit in regards to all of these hard to find rarities, and it seems that maybe they have read my other letters too. Like the one I sent a few years back, asking about where the post 1990 videos were on the Family Jewels DVD. They have included a "disc three" for that set here. Totally gotta dig the videos from Stiff Upper Lip, some of their best. And some nice archived live music to boot, on disc two.
Now there is a crazy collectors box, that costs a milion clams, if you're hoity... it comes with an LP of the rarities and a muther flippin amplifier... some of us can only hope to either win that bit off the radio, or happen to see it fall off a truck. But this box for the less fortunate is still nothing to shake your stick at. At under thirty bucks, this has made me feel a total warmth and softness inside my heart. They really do care!
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the one we've been waiting for Nov 16, 2009
this is what us hardcore fans fans have been waiting for all those tracks we've heard about but never got released,and here they are "crabsody in blue,cold hearted man,rock in peace" and a bunch more all sounding great. and these come along with the great live rarites that will get you rocking and as a bonus for all those people who complained that the family jewels collection ended at 1991,you get get disc three of that collection with the rest of ac/dc's music videos right up to the present day,there is no reason why any ac/dc fan should not have this collection.
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The Unreleased To An Album B-Sides and Live Performances Nov 16, 2009
Backtracks is the long awaited release of the songs AC/DC had mostly had only released as B-sides to singles, but never found there way onto an actual album.
Mostly every AC/DC collector already has all of these songs. Either from bootlegs, internet downloads, or from the AC/DC website itself where a lot of these tracks where available to hear when you connected to the site using the Sony digi-packs they released a couple of years ago.
Stick Around & Love Song where recorded in 1974 for there first album HighVoltage which was released and still available only in Australia. Most of the original Highvoltage album and there next album in Australian, T.N.T where combined to make the world wide release of High Voltage. Only two of the tracks from the original High Voltage where on that album, and all but two of the rest where released later on 74' Jailbreak. These two tracks here should have been added to 74' Jailbreak, but what can you do about it now?
Fling Thing, Carry Me Home & Cold Hearted Man where recorded at the same time in 1976 or so, (along with Love At First Feel) and only got released as B-sides to a few singles. Though "Cold Hearted Man" was issued on some pressing of Powerage in Australia and Europe, however, those LP's are considered rare collectors items now.
R.I.P. (Rock In Peace) was released on the 1976 Australian Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album. The album was not released to the rest of the world due to complications with Atlantic (I think it was) not allowing them to release it as they thought it was sending out the wrong message. After Bon Scott died in 1980, DDDDC was released in 1983 to the rest of the world and instead R.I.P, Love At First Feel took it's place.
Crabsody In Blue is from the Australian Let There Be Rock album released in 1977. It is considered to be the sequel to The Jack and is about as close as you can ever get to AC/DC almost doing a country number, but don't mistake it for one, it's pure blues driven rock.
Snake Eye, Borrowed Time, Down On The Borderline are 3 songs recorded during the 1988 Blow Up My Video sessions. they each surfaced on B-sides to that albums singles and The Money Talks single from the next album. Each one of these songs could have easily been put onto that album with enough room for more, but like I said, what can you do?
Big Gun was recorded in 1993 for the movie Last Action Hero. It was also to see how producer Rick Ruban was at recording AC/DC, and he did a well enough job he got the gig for the next album Ballbreaker.
Cyberspace was recorded in 2000 for the Stiff Upper Lip album, but was only released on certain special 2 disc tour editions in various parts of the world.
CD 2
CD 2 features tracks that mostly all where also released as B-sides to various singles over the years. However they have been cleaned up and sound even better then before.
DVD
Speaks for itself doesn't it?
It's a good little package, and it's about time AC/DC released these tracks. However, where there is good, comes the disappointment. It's good to have all these songs remastered and sounding better then ever, but I can still not give it 5 stars. Because as a collector, I already have all this material. What we really wanted, was not just the stuff thats on here that we already had, but the songs we know exist, but are locked away in a vault somewhere. Plus the other songs that we do have that aren't included here.
"Shes My Babe" has surfaced in recent years as the warm up recording to Ballbreaker, but that isn't on here. Then there is the ones no one has heard, but know of, such as "Tight Rope", "Out Of Bounds", "The Cck Crows", "Rave On" and a few more.
Then there is the live material, such as Johnny B.Goode, Lucille with Phil Carson, Brians Shake, Messin With The Kid.
Brian has quoted before they can never satisfy what the fans want, well, haha, yas did it again ;) Lets hope for Backtracks 2!
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