The Razors Edge

AC/DC | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1990)
• Original Release Date: September 21, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000002JNN
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,549 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Thunderstruck

2. Fire Your Guns

3. Moneytalks

4. The Razors Edge

5. Mistress For Christmas

6. Rock Your Heart Out

7. Are You Ready

8. Got You By The Balls

9. Shot Of Love

10. Lets Make It

11. Goodbye & Good Riddance To Bad Luck

12. If You Dare

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Since Back in Black, March 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Razors Edge (Audio CD)

This album was what AC/DC needed after a series of relatively mediocre albums. (for AC/DC that is, those are still better than 99% of recorded music) The album opens with the blistering Thunderstruck, which is already a staple of many aspiring rock guitar players. The record follows this with a bevy of hard rockers, Fire Your Guns, Moneytalks, Rock Your Heart Out, Are you Ready, and If You Dare, all of which bring back memories of the High Voltage and Highway to Hell albums. The tracks not mentioned above still dish out plenty of good-old rock 'n' roll, they're just not quite a memorable. The only track that leaves one wanting would be the absurd Mistress for Christmas, and if you take it as a joke (which I assume it is) even it's not too bad.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Album That Affirmed AC/DC's Stance in Rock-n-Roll, August 5, 2002

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Bud (Seminole, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Razors Edge (Audio CD)

Prior to "The Razor's Edge," AC/DC's first album of the 1990's, and throughout a good deal of the 80's, the band had found itself being gradually overshadowed by a musical world of glam-pop and synthesizers, of hairspray and power ballads, but amazingly they never once negotiated their rock-n-roll prowess. And now the near-twenty year veterans of rock were entering the early '90's--the days of Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, and a movement of wannabe punk bands from Seattle angry at nothing. If AC/DC's first offering of this decade failed to hit the Top Twenty, it certainly wouldn't be a surprise to many--however, with the accomplished "The Razor's Edge" AC/DC found themselves in the Billboard Top Ten (this set hit #2) for the first time in nearly seven years.
"The Razor's Edge" is a marvelous set of twelve finely crafted songs, all of them holding a delightful sneer, notably the classic opener 'Thunderstruck,' 'Are You Ready,' and the title track (which could be one of AC/DC's most adept songs ever). 'Moneytalks' shows Brian Johnson's vocal ability going beyond its former limits (though the album's absence of his lyrics is puzzling) while the blue collar salute 'Goodbye and Good Riddance to Bad Luck' goes great with the rest of the album's songs.
Yielding a superior recording quality and fine arrangements and productions, "The Razor's Edge" is a fundamental element in the lexicon of a band who refused to compromise their traditional yet unique brand of hard rock.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "I always liked AC/DC, alright?!", June 19, 2004

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Razors Edge (Audio CD)

After the magnificent peak of "Back In Black", it seemed that AC/DC had spent their muse. Their creative slump through the 80s came to an end, though, as they delivered this superb gem in September 1990.

"The Razors Edge" was a sizable hit, although not as big as it deserved, and it is filled with the kind of memorable, catchy and unapologetically silly rock n' roll that made "Black In Black" such a tremendous album.

From the menacing title song through the melodious (and surprisingly big) hit singles "Thunderstruck", "Are You Ready" and "Moneytalks", to the silly "Mistress For Christmas", this record doesn't have a single weak track. Even the lesser-known album tracks, such as "Shot Of Love", "If You Dare" and "Let's Make It" are more than worth a listen, and rarely has any rock band put together such a great collection of songs...tune for tune, riff for riff, this is better than most hard rock bands' greatest hits-collections.

The title, by the way, is a quote from a 1988 interview with Keith Richards.
Nice.