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Bon Scott Vs Brian Johnson

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    kbannon wrote: »
    Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a 12 year old thread resurrected before.
    ***looks around in awe***

    It's acceptable considering this is a debate that's been raging for decades.

    Bon was better in my opinion. Better singer, better frontman and the records were far better in the 70s.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 94 ✭✭Rym Shanley


    They should get Arnold Schwartz-A-Negro* to sing guest vocals or a duet. Who Made Who 2015 perhaps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭blastman


    It's acceptable considering this is a debate that's been raging for decades.

    ...except that it hadn't "raged" i.e. been mentioned, in over a decade until someone exhumed this stinky festering corpse of a thread.

    Next up: which one of your testicles is your favourite?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭ush


    blastman wrote: »
    Next up: which one of your testicles is your favourite?

    Bon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    blastman wrote: »
    Next up: which one of your testicles is your favourite?

    Sophies choice.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭Zico !


    Bon Scott -curently listening to Riff Raff wih a bottle of jack daniels with the wife upstairs asleep


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,696 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Has to be Bon - not even close.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Bon was dirtier in his delivery, more bluesy, more musical.
    I like AC/DC enough , but since Back in Black there is a hell of a lot of filler on all albums.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,696 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    buck65 wrote: »
    Bon was dirtier in his delivery, more bluesy, more musical.
    I like AC/DC enough , but since Back in Black there is a hell of a lot of filler on all albums.

    Bon was often smutty, stupid and dirty but there was also a lot of wit and personality to his lyrics and delivery - and he had a danger about him. I also think AC/DC's songwriting was at it's peak during his era. Love Bon's performance in this song: He's really singing at his limit and even though it contains so many other elements it's really dominated by his voice -



    Brian Johnson was great, but I thought it all got a bit cartoonish - even by the standards of the already ludicrous - by the time he arrived. The odd good album here and there, but they never consistently reached the earlier heights. Also, people seem to forget that for much of the eighties and nineties Johnson's voice was absolutely shot to pieces. Listen to how strangulated he sounds here, particularly on the chorus; you can practically hear his vocal cords disintegrating:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    Bon all day long

    but Brian is/was great too in fairness


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  • Site Banned Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭Zico !


    Yes Bon was the brains behind the lyrics while Brian was banned from doing lyrics after the razors edge


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