AC/DC — Stiff Upper Lip (review)

AC/DC — Stiff Upper Lip album cover Album · 2000 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Stiff Upper Lip" is the 14th full-length studio album by Australian hard/heavy rock act AC/DC. The album was released through Albert/EastWest Records in February 2000. It´s AC/DC´s first album since "Ballbreaker (1995)", which means a 5 year recording break between the two albums. "Stiff Upper Lip" fared pretty well commercially and has today sold more than 1 million copies.

The music on the album is the usual blues based hard/heavy rock with Brian Johnson´s rusty voice in front. The tracks are generally of a decent quality, but I wouldn´t call it the band´s most inspired release. Actually far from, but there are still a couple of noteworthy tracks on the album. Especially the title track gets positive points in my book. Most tracks are unfortunately not as memorable and some even come off as "run of the mill" type material. The compressed, and for AC/DC´s standards, polished sound production doesn´t help on my impression of the album either. The fact that the album was produced by George Young (the brother of guitarists Angus and Malcolm and producer on most seventies releases by the band) is a bit puzzling to me, as this doesn´t sound anything like the seventies releases by the band.

It´s safe to say that "Stiff Upper Lip" hasn´t left the positive impression on me that I had hoped for, but despite this being perhaps the least interesting AC/DC of the lot, a 3 star (60%) rating is still deserved and it speaks volumes of the usually high standards of the band, that one of their least interesting releases can score this high.
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