2. AC/DC - Back In Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CW3ttZ5_oQ With bands like AC/DC, Motörhead or Slayer it's very hard to pick just one album that exemplifies the band and deserves a revisit for something outside of just a couple of singles, due mostly to their reliance on sticking to winning formulas so stringent that over time you'd be more likely to see the planets align than experiment with a different song structure. Luckily for AC/DC though, after suffering the awful loss of Mr. Highway to Hell himself Bon Scott, their ascent was really only beginning. Little did they know when otherwise-unassuming Geordie-born (Newcastle in England for you Americans!) Brian Johnson would get stuck in, Back In Black would be the harbinger of rock n' roll's identity to come. Even though many chastise the likes of AC/DC - and more recently Australian stage-climbers Airbourne - for sticking to such simplistic song structures and tonalities, there's not a band in existence that can pull off these songs with the right amount of positive attitude and genuine talent to make them hit home so frequently. Johnson himself has said it's far harder to write a memorable shorter song than it is to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the recording studio, and you need only take a listen to the likes of the immortal title track, You Shook Me All Night Long, Shoot To Thrill, or the rock-defining Hells Bells to know exactly what he's talking about. It's impossible to get sick of: AC/DC at all. Should you somehow not have listened to all of Back in Black, we implore you to firstly do so before checking out....everything else they've ever done.