Stiff Upper Lip (album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Brian Johnson
- Lead Guitar: Angus Young
- Rhythm Guitar: Malcolm Young
- Bass: Cliff Williams
- Drums: Phil Rudd
Stiff Upper Lip ( engl. keep a stiff upper lip "attitude preserve " ) is the 13th international studio album by Australian hard rock band AC / DC. It was released on 28 February 2000, four and a half years after Ballbreaker, their last album of new studio material.
- 2.1 bonus disc of the Tour Edition
- 4.1 Example setlist
Publications
Singles
The four singles of the album, Stiff Upper Lip, Satellite Blues, Safe in New York City and Meltdown were not particularly successful. None entered the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Top 40 However, all four managed a placement in the American mainstream rock charts, Stiff Upper Lip Satellite Blues and even in the top 10
Tour Edition
In Australia and Europe, appeared on 8 February 2001 in addition a tour edition of Stiff Upper Lip, containing the original album and a bonus disc. On the added CD were the B- side of the safe in New York City single, five live versions of old AC / DC songs that had been recorded in 1996 in the Las Ventas arena in Madrid, and three music videos.
Title list
Bonus disc of the Tour Edition
Reception
In the U.S. Billboard 200, the album was at # 7 in the UK album charts at number 12 both in Germany and in Austria it took even one week the top spot. The album was awarded, among others, in the United States, Canada and Germany with platinum in Australia, France and Finland, it was awarded a gold record.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for Allmusic: "It's the album that would have highly praised, produced by Rick Rubin Ballbreaker should be: a simple, addictive, hard album, bursting with cheeky riffs, supported by a crunching, passing through the intestines Sound. "
The Rolling Stone Magazine awarded three out of five stars. The Rock-Hard - magazine awarded 8.5 out of a possible ten points, this verdict Götz Kühnemund: " That it would be AC / DC not succeed in glorious Back in Black / For Those About to Rock - times ( from the old Bon Scott Not to mention all masterpieces ) to socialize, it was clear from the outset. The reason is as simple as irrefutable: Brian Johnson no longer has the power of a Thirty Years and cook ( in the studio ) for at least ten years on the back burner. You constantly have the feeling that the man yelling at absolute upper limit of its possibilities and tilts every moment of your socks - what particularly the last studio album Ballbreaker hurt. In Stiff Upper Lip sounds Brian ( of his job live surprisingly perfectly done) something more powerful, at least in some songs. So he reached the Highway to Hell suspected Satellite Blues, the uptempo rocker Safe In New York City ( with Let There Be Rock -Beat ) or the earwigs House of Jazz and Damned least Fly on the Wall - level. With numbers like Hold Me Back (ironically Brian's favorite song ) or the unspectacular opener Stiff Upper Lip, however, it is on its last legs, which is emphasized by the guitar -heavy mix. Still, Stiff Upper Lip is anything but a disappointment and definitely stronger than Ballbreaker. George Young's earthy, freed from any frills production can be the centerpiece of the band, Malcolm's rhythm guitar, perfectly come into play and sometimes even reminds of old milestones of Bon Scott era. Drummer Phil Rudd, the longer the break, was to listen to Ballbreaker, gradually finds its way back to his old, unique groove. And the irrepressible Angus, whose energy apparently enough for two lives, doing what he has always done better than anyone else: He plays the blues scales tirelessly up and down the fretboard that its SG hopelessly smoldering in front of him. Sure, there are more AC / DC albums, lots of even - but the comparison with the "competition" (as if it would have ever given for AC / DC) Stiff Upper Lip still wins with ease. "
Tour
The Stiff Upper Lip World Tour lasted less than a year of long and contained about 140 concerts. The first concert took place after the album's release on 1 August 2000 and thus only half a year. As with almost all other tours in North America, the tour began, then AC / DC toured Europe and have been some 15 times in Germany. The tour was then continued in Australia, where the band played 16 concerts. Furthermore, there were three performances in Japan until AC / DC again opened to North America and Canada. The last shows of the tour took place in Europe, where the band embarked on another 15 concerts in 2001 to 8 July.
On the tour, the title song, Meltdown, safe in New York City, Can not Stop Rock ' n ' Roll and Satellite Blues were played live from Stiff Upper Lip, the setlist varied between individual performances.
Sample Setlist
Encores:
Live Video
A concert recording was recorded on 14 June 2001 at the Munich Olympic Stadium and published on 26 November 2001 under the title Stiff Upper Lip Live on VHS and DVD. This concert includes the following titles list, which includes only the title track of this album:
Some other performances of the tour were recorded for the DVD Plug Me In, published in 2007.