Track Listing

1. Rising Power
2. This House Is on Fire
3. Flick of the Switch - AC/DC, AC/DC, AC/DC
4. Nervous Shakedown
5. Landslide
6. Guns for Hire
7. Deep in the Hole
8. Bedlam in Belgium
9. Badlands
10. Brain Shake

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8180 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .18 pounds

Customer Reviews

BACK IN WHITE!
A classic, powerful cover that is white hot.

I can't tell you how much i adore this album, it never leaves my stereo! it's been that way for a long time. My FLICK OF THE SWITCH cassette tape literaly melted into the tape deck from being overplayed.I own the whole AC/DC catalog and this is king of the mountain. When listeing, one can not help to recall the classic Bon Scott days, this is best described as BACK IN BLACK and POWERAGE thrown in a blender. One can not help but resist the high energy of RISING POWER or simpley keeping oneself from bursting out in flames over THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE. Or what about the raw guitar assault of GUNS FOR HIRE? or the Elvis like boogie of BRAINSHAKE?

Anyone getting sick of BACK IN BLACK being played for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th time? go throw on the switch and find out about this overlooked classic.

Under-rated, and misunderstood.
When this particular album came out, many pretty much gave up on AC/DC right there; if it wasn't bells and cannons, those "fans" would have nothing to do with it. While definitely under produced and probably in need of more work than was put into it, Flick of the Switch is a back to basics, no-nonsense type of album. It was meant to be pure, raw, hard rock, so raw in fact, the album cover even gives the feeling of a bootleg.
Again, it needs work. But they honestly, did not have the time; the record label basically said, "Ok, the tour starts on such-and-such-a-date; when do you think you can have an album ready to tour with?" Not only is that alot of pressure, but it doesn't even give alot of time to come up with new material, let alone perfect it. When one understands both this factor, and the idea behind the album, one can begin to truly appeciate what it's supposed to be.
Trust me. The album's worth the $10 it'll cost you.

my all time favorite from ac/dc!
Ah, this old lost classic, even though i'm not what you would call a hardcore fan of this band, this album is definatly one of my favorite hardrock albums. i would pick this album over classics like "back in black" or "highway to hell", in my opinon, "flick of the switch" is just as good as BIB. i am glad that they reissued this album and now it sounds better and has better packaging then the original did. this is often the ignored ac/dc album but i don't know why because this is ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS AC/DC EVER MADE! malcolm young has even stated that he thinks "flick of the switch" is the bands most underrated effort. "guns for hire" is one of the best ac/dc songs ever written, this whole album is an electric shock, it is their most energetic album w/ songs like "this house is on fire" "nervos shakedown" "bedlam in belgium" the title cut, ect. you can't go wrong by getting this, just a shot of pure rock!