Talk:Back in Black (song)

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Signature song

I noticed that "You shook Me all night Long" was counted as ACDC's signature song, but when you think about it, isn't back in black more their signature song? I mean, when you think of ACDC most people remember Back In Black before You Shook Me All Night Long....could it be possible to swpa the song's places? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaji132007 (talk • contribs) 04:34, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Genre

It's definitely not heavy metal.

• First, thanks for putting this in a formatted section. Second, thanks for signing your post. Third, yeah, you're completely right, and All Music Guide, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine, VH1, MTV, Metal-Rules, pretty much every music critic is wrong. We should definitely listen to anonymous Gods of information like you. 70.226.96.31 01:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

You don't have to write like this, your IP is not better in anyway. And yes, it's definitely not heavy metal. AC/DC has never been metal. Calling this song metal is, well, just wrong. It's a blues-based, hard, rock-roll song which makes it a hard-rock song. Blues can be heard in the solo, pentatonic blues scale. Also, the chords are the tonic A, subdominant D and dominant E. Metal, sounds different. I'm removing the metal genre —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.135.29.235 (talk) 21:19, 7 July 2008 (UTC) 108.81.33.59 (talk)

Who the heck made you correct? Black Sabbath has lots of blues rock songs but that doesn't make them any less metal. That and many bands cited as hard rock were also called heavy metal like Led Zeppelin Kiss Aerosmith etc. Not only that they heavily influenced the metal genre. You obviously don't know what you are talking about. 108.81.33.59 (talk) 17:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

And who made you correct? Wikipedia is about consensus, not about who thinks they're most correct. Regarding your edit, Allmusic "styles" are not genres. You have to look at their "genres" field for genres, unsurprisingly. Bretonbanquet (talk) 18:14, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

F word?

I was listening to this song once, and I suspect this song used the F word in the line "I'm beating the ", Lyricsfreak,com claims tha word they say is "flack{", can anyone tell me how good a source Lyricsfreak.com is? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.3.2.130 (talk) 23:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC).

Removed this:

• "Back in Black" is also used as the theme for Lewis Black's section on "The Daily Show".

Since the Back In Black section on "The Daily Show" uses a soundalike, not the actual AC/DC song.

Bon's Version

Has anyone ever heard the Bon Scott version of this song? I dont know when the song was written, but it was obviously sometime before Feb. 19, 1980. Jameywiki 15:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC) I take that statement back. After giving it a critical listen, I think its a good possibility that it is not Bon singing, but maybe a cover band. See the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bon_Scott Jameywiki 15:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

-I thought I have the Bon Scott version- it certainly sounds like him. I thought Bon had already started some of the songs on back in black when he died. Didn't he write the song back in black? It is in my opinion better than the album version- the album version is just a cover version of a Bon song? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.49.160.1 (talk) 14:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I also have a song called Back in Black (demo) (bon scott) (very rare). it does sound like a more raspy Bon Scott. The song has a different intro, the mix is not final (if it's a demo, then a very well produced one!). The song has a lenth of 4:30 and has a very Angus-like solo (also different than the one on the album). It's hard to tell if it's a fake or not - I'd go for fake by a tribute band: Live/Wire or Joe Lynn Turner (on the tribute called "Thunderbolt") Saemikneu (talk) 22:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Personnel Heading

Is Personnel supposed to be listing who played on the main version of the song, as opposed to who wrote it? Given that Bon Scott appears in this list, either that's incorrect and it should read Brian Johnson, or else the Back in Black (album page) should also include Bon under personnel?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldumpo (talk • contribs) 13:04, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

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