Win AC/DC’s Complete Collection on Vinyl!

I bet if you asked a hundred people what their first AC/DC album was, it'd probably be Back in Black for 95 of them. It was a monster album in 1980 with the staying power to keep it in the album charts still today.

My first AC/DC album was a hand-me-down copy of A Razor's Edge from 1990. It was the mid-90s and the whole family was on a cross-country road trip in a minivan. I also had a hand-me-down discman and a handful of CDs my sister's husband gave me to get rid of. He may have been a POS but he had good taste in music.

After letting KISS Alive III roll through the tracks a few times, I popped in that AC/DC album because it looked cool. A ten-year-old doesn't know anything about music, but I was about to learn. I must have played Thunderstruck 3,700 times between Oklahoma and Colorado, only to learn later A Razor's Edge was the album that saved the band.

It's hard to believe the Aussie legends were bordering on the VH1's Where Are They Now territory when it came out.

I know that's hard to believe, but the 80s were not nice to AC/DC. They had a few years of success after Back in Black, but quickly fell out of favor as music tastes changed. Had it not been for some smart marketing and movie placement for Thunderstruck, AC/DC could have ended up some old has-beens playing small clubs for $12 tickets until the meth would've surely taken their lives.

It's amazing what one song can do.

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