Razor's Edge [Original recording remastered, Import]

AC/DC | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00004YWE5
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #889,857 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

Editorial Reviews

AC/DC's 1990 album remastered and reissued in a special digipak. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Their Greatest Effort, May 14, 2004

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HeadbangerDuh (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razor's Edge (Audio CD)

AC/DC experienced something of a slump in the late-80's, none of their albums fairing particularly well. In 1990, they made a comeback with this album. While many hailed it as their greatest work since Back In Black, I personally think there is a lot of filler. The first few songs are dynamic: Moneytalks, Thunderstruck, The Razor's Edge, and Mistress For Christmas. Bur after that, the songs almost immediatly go downhill. Most of the second half is just filler. I can't say I listen to the second half a lot, because it is not really worth it. This would have gotten two stars, but the first half saves it from that fate.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AC/DC Has the Edge, September 1, 2002

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unraveler "unraveler" (Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razor's Edge (Audio CD)

This is a great AC/DC album. It gives you energy when you listen to it. It opens on all cylinders with "Thunderstruck" and continues to rock with "Fire Your Guns" and a big MTV hit "Moneytalks." It sure does. Side One is more potent and rocking than Side Two, but it is still a strong production overall. AC/DC helped to define a generation of rock-n-roll. This is Australia's music with an edge. When AC/DC is in the house, it is always a rocking good time.

5.0 out of 5 stars quintessential AC/DC--an incredibly ass-kicking album from these kings of hard rock, September 3, 2005

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Dave "missing person" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Razor's Edge (Audio CD)

I've found this album getting some really mixed reviews, which is quite mind-blowing. Unless you're a total Bon Scott worshipper who refuses to give Brian Johnson his due, which of course is a big mistake, no hard rock lover should be without this album.

Originally released in September of 1990, "The Razors Edge" smokes and kicks major ass all over the place--you've got to take your hat off to the late Bruce Fairbairn for his production on this one.

Much has been made that Brian Johnson's voice sounds totally shot on here. Admittedly, by this time, he no longer had the kind of gloriously piercing edge that you can hear in full force on 1981's "For Those About To Rock..." and 1983's "Flick of the Switch". On the other hand, he's still singing his balls off on here in his usual high-pitched register, and he adds greatly to the album's excitement level. There's a certain on-the-edge intensity to his vocals here that really gets under your skin.

The big hit "Thunderstruck", with its classic single-string lead guitar line from Angus Young, gets the album off to a great anthemic start. "Fire Your Guns" is one of those thrilling fast-paced AC/DC gems that really gets the blood flowing. "Money Talks" has something of a barroom rock quality, but don't worry, it's hardly Hootie & the Blowfish, and it's got an incredibly catchy chorus. The arrestingly menacing title track is chillingly powerful. For proof positive that Angus and Malcolm Young are kings of hard rock riffery, you needn't look any further than the stomping "Got You By The Balls"--the main riff is uncanny: deceptively simple and absolutely bone-crunching. The album closes in intensely menacing fashion with the ingeniously crafted stomper "If You Dare". There's a load more excitement to be found as well with the driving "Rock Your Heart Out"; the chugging "Shot Of Love"; and a pair of good-timey party rockers: "Are You Ready" and "Let's Make It". Showing what a roll the boys are on, even the tracks that seem filler-ish work--the 'sleigh bells'-fortified "Mistress For Christmas" is amusingly dumb and irresistibly fun; and "Goodbye And Good Riddance To Bad Luck", with its utterly tossed off main riff, is also solidly amusing and enjoyable.

Metaphorically speaking, the boys are simply on fire here, and the album is thoroughly a blast. If you're looking to, ahem, "Rock Your Heart Out", you can't go wrong with this essential hard rock masterpiece.