The Razor's Edge by AC/DC which includes songs like Thunderstruck and Moneytalks

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The Razor's Edge

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Artist: AC/DC
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: April 2003
UPC: 696998021327
List Price: ~~$11.98~~

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2003 remastered reissue of 1990 album packaged in a digipak with 16 page full color booklet containing all original album art, many unpublished photos, classic memorabilia, and liner notes. Epic.

Tracks:
Thunderstruck
Fire Your Guns
Moneytalks
The Razors Edge
Mistress For Christmas
Rock Your Heart Out
Are You Ready
Got You By The Balls
Shot Of Love
Let's Make It
Goodbye And Good Riddance To Bad Luck
If You Dare

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A Solid Offering

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A strong album, featuring some of the best material from the Brian Johnson era of AC/DC, The Razors Edge gets off to a strong start, with the well known crowd pleaser "Thunderstruck," which also had the privilege of opening 1992's Live. "Fire Your Guns" follows, and is really some of the better "filler" in recent memory, which a lot of attitude and power behind the music. "Moneytalks" concludes a great trio of tracks to start the album, with some killer, bluesy guitar work courtesy of the brothers Young.

Title track "The Razors Edge" is a gritty, dark piece, very different from most of what AC/DC has done on past albums, and is a welcome addition that helps to shake things up from the typical Acca Dacca formula. A number of solid, hard rockin' tracks follow, giving the album a solid middle, though not so chock full of classics as 1980's Back in Black.

Not their best, but very solid!

the greatest album (period)	Customer Rating:
there is only one other album by ac/dc that could be almost as good as this and that is highway to hell, but this one is the best

Everything Done Perfect,By The Book...but

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Ac/Dc had recently released 'Blow Up Your Video' which had garnered a bit of a buzz especially from 2 great videos but the sales were still not up to what they were in the early 80s so they did what on paper seemed to be a very smart idea,they hired THE best rock producer in the business,Bruce Fairbairn who had rescued Bon Jovi,Aerosmith,and others with smash hits...heck,I would have done the exact same thing in their shoes,and did it work? Well,yes and no.The razor's edge did sell quite a bit more then the past few releases,especially powered by the lead off single 'Thunderstruck'
and the songwriting did improve tremendously on this release while still not selling out the blues based rock style that got them to the party in the first place..songs like 'Moneytalks''Are You Ready', 'Let's Make It' 'Got You By The Balls' and my personal fave 'Mistress For Christmas' show that they have all the power and fire that they did way back for their ultimate release 'Back In Black' yes,those songs are that good,the lyrics are still as sexually charged as ever,Angus can still play lead right up there with the best of the best and nobody alive can scream like Brian Johnson...but..something just doesn't feel right with this release...if you listen to the songs by themselves one at a time,they are just about perfect,but when you listen to the CD from start to finish it feels so bare bones,so for a lack of better word 'empty' I'm sure this was intentionally done,the band did not want people to say they had gotten too polished,but it makes the CD kind of hard to listen to from start to finish,there isn't a lot of warmth...maybe that's just me...but especially towards the end of the CD I always find myself looking at the CD case to see how much longer I have to go 'till it's over..it's just too similar,to o dry sounding the whole way through....I think basically aside from the production being dry the last two songs really bring it down (a problem that Ac/Dc had on almost every release)
The CD opens with 'Thunderstruck' a modern day classic,couldn't ask for a better way to open the album...from there 'Fire Your Guns' almost shouting to the world that they are back as strong as ever...'Moneytalks' brilliant lyrics,and extremely catchy music make this one very strong..the title cut 'The Razors Edge' full of dark atmosphere,reminds me in a lot of ways of the feel of 'Nightstalker' from Highway To Hell..but it seems to be lacking the same warmth ..from there 'Mistress For Christmas' almost every guy in the world would love the lyrics to this one..it's one of my favorite holiday tunes and is my personal favorite from this one...'Rock Your Heart Out' is another great catchy song...'Are You Ready' is just one word..power..awesome tune,one of their best ever,would be perfect to open up concerts with..from there 'Got You By The Balls' again the lyrics are perfect...I think they took more time with lyrics on this release then any album they ever did,and it shows,catchy music too...'Shot Of Love' catchy but not one of my favorites...'Let's Make It' perfect song for girls to dance to,so that gets thumbs up from me...'Goodbye & Good Riddance To Bad Luck' and 'If You Dare' I think they just threw those two songs to fill out the CD,but if they left 'em off (or maybe threw 'em onto a box set as unreleased tunes) it would have been better,it really drags the whole CD down at the end...all this being said,I originally was going to give this a 3 star rating but I've changed my mind and give it a 4 star rating...there are many many great songs,some of the best in their career,I just don't care for the overall tone,I wish they would re-release this one with a warmer feel...it feels very sterile..but overall a great CD and truly a comeback!

The Upside - perhaps the best lyric work they've ever done...the style of great blues tinged rock continues,but with a lot more attention to songwriting.They have done a great job of putting together some classic tunes.

The Downside - the last two songs,aside from that it's perfect aside from feeling a little bare.

The Bottom Line - This should definitely be in your collection. You are not likely to find a collection of songs this good on almost any band's CD.Some great hits are here,some incredibly catchy songs with great lyrics and my favorite holiday song are all here...if you are new to the band I'd start with Highway To Hell,Back In Black,and Dirty Deeds,but then you should definitely check this out..and all hard core fans of Ac/Dc should definitely have this...this is some of the best work...go out and buy this the donutman says so!!!

What Could Be Better?

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The Razor's Edge is AC/DC's greatest album. I Don't care if it was a comeback or not, it's that good. Lets review the songs.
Thunderstruck - One of the best songs from AC/DC. Angus' guitar skills are amazing, and I love the football-hooligan chants from Malcom and Cliff of "THUN-DER!"
Fire Your Guns - A Great fast paced song that has an awesome riff. Oh, it has nothing to do with artillery, if you didn't already know that.
Moneytalks - The band's greatest song, and my favorite of all time. Its riff reminds me of "Who Made Who." This song is what puts this album together. I can't even describe how good this song is. Just listen to it.
The Razor's Edge - While it is one of AC/DC's darkest songs, it is still awesome. I loved it. It's "eerieness" is similar to "Hells Bells."
Mistress For Christmas - Hilarious. Just listening to the words makes the song good, but the bands simple cords in this song also make it OK.
Rock Your Heart Out - Corny, but still has a good beat and riff that makes it worth listening to when you're doing chores around the house.
Are You Ready - Good song, but its still hard to believe that it was a single and not Fire Your Guns. If you ask me, its a little overrated.
Got You by the Balls - Better title than song. But it still isn't awful. It has an ok beat and riffs, but its just ok from a band that is this good.
Shot of Love - Incredibly slow beginning, and it starts to come around half way through the song, but its too little, too late.
Lets Make It - Underrated. Much better than Rock Your Heart Out. People will probobly disagree with me, but it is actually a pretty good song.
Goodbye and Good Ridance to Bad Luck - The worst song on the album. Very boring and repetitive.
If You Dare - Almost as bad as the above. It was just a bad way to finish the album, but the previous songs in the album makes the album waorthy of 5 stars.
My advice - New AC/DC fan or not, buy this album, especially if you love Brian Johnsons vocals. This album is just as good if not better than "Back in Black," so its 1 or two on their top albums list. BUY IT!

another great by AC/DC

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The Razor's Edge is the first AC/DC album I ever got and it turned me on to them. This is their comeback and it sounds great.

The album opens great with the masterpiece known as Thunderstruck. A great riff, great lyrics, great vocals...what more could you need in a song. Fire Your Guns is a great fast-paced song. The next great is the title track. One of the darker songs they've done, it has a great riff, great vocals, and a great drum solo by Chris Slade. Mistress for Christmas' riff is simple but it works. Rock Your Heart Out is one of my favorites from its great riff to its great bassline. Then comes the self-explanatory classic Are You Ready and its great beginning and great lyrics. Then comes Shot of Love. It starts out bad, but a song full of guitar syncopation follows making this track great. Let's Make It is poppy, but it has great drums and good enough lyrics. Then comes Goodbye and Good Riddance to Bad Luck. With one of my favorite riffs on the album as well as my favorite lyrics(especially when Brian says "disposable blues"). The last great song on here is If You Dare. I think it should have been a classic. It has a great chorus and a great riff.

Now as always, time for the other songs. Here's another thing to make people mad after my Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap review. Moneytalks isn't all that great. It's decent, with a good chorus, but it's too poppy to be a classic. Sorry but it is. Got You by the Balls isn't any better.

Overall, AC/DC had made a great rock album here, something they wouldn't be able to do on their next albums.