AC/DC: ‘Fly On The Wall’ | Is it Really That Bad?
AC/DC’s ‘Fly on the Wall’ is an album that is unviverally panned by critics and fans alike. But is it really that bad?
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@FidgetMDCCLXIV
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
3:52 Send For The Man
@metalmystro7513
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
2 good songs in the rest filler
@mattemre6524
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
A good album but lacks production. I wish they would remix it. Definitely need to turn up the bass
@robdiv5848
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Yes I agree Brians voice was not mixed right and too much echo
@DickGozinya-zl2bd
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I always liked Fly on the Wall & never understood all the hate for it. I've seen AC/DC five times & the Fly on the Wall tour started it all off…. Plus, I managed to claw my way up to the very front row.
@ДавидАндреевич-л9ы
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I would disagree on your opinion bout Blow Up your video, I found that album awesome, with good lyrics (mean streak, this means war, twos up), and great riffs and solos… but everyone got his own opinion
@LouisOrlando-k7y
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Weird I always thought this was a great record very heavy and raw, I do miss Rudd on the drums but besides that I still jam to this album
@ChillModeSwaggins
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Love this album from beginning to end and the videos as well
@vanillaice887
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
🧱 🪰 🎸🥁 🎤 🦫🎢🚨🤪
@angusyoung7668
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I love the album it’s not that bad it’s seriously not that bad I think People are too harsh
@jeffsmith6915
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I love and I dont go that crazy over AcDc generally speaking. Awesome tunes for the Gym .
@aaroncicanese
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Heard this record was AC/DC’s attempt to stand out amongst the rising thrash metal trend, can definately hear it the music is super aggressive, guitars are heavy and brash, Brian’s vocals are super heavy, solos are ear piecing with heaps of pinch harmonics, great album, full of great tracks
@Porkynator-b9y
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Blow Up Your Video has some great highlights in a few songs, and a more clear sound where you can hear things better without the reverb, but I'd argue Fly beats Blow Up by a few points.
@Porkynator-b9y
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
They would have needed another production especially on the vocals, but as a whole it's not as bad as it's gotten presented to be.
@DoubleDragon-v1n
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I think Fly…may be given a bad time because it's the least biggest selling of their career and they were just over 10 years in at this point.
The critics could have been using this to predict that AC/DC's number was up. They were wrong, of course. Pop-rock was very popular then: power ballads, poodle hair, synthesisers, big over-produced nonsense. Typical AC/DC they just said, "Bollocks! We're not doing any of that shit!"
What I love about reading these comments is the diversity. I mean it's the beauty of AC/DC that everybody's opinion is different. Whereas with other bands they have albums that EVERYONE agrees are utter shit – because those albums ARE utter shit. Thats simply not true with AC/DC.
The fans all have a different opinion of what's what. I think this is AC/DC always deliver good/great rock n' roll. Never upsetting their fans by giving them something else entirely.
@americanmariachi97
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I'd say The Razors Edge is my favorite album from ac dc and Flick Of The Switch and Fly on the Wall are honorable mentions in my book, both in the top 10 ac dc albums..
Take a few songs from Flick and a few from Fly and apply the Razors Edge era production and you literally have another #1 album on the billboard charts. I honestly think even with Bruce Fairbairn it's still better than self producing the album though. But I would imagine Mutt Lange and Bruce Fairbairn working together on those albums
@seeknprotect6179
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
it's propably my fav acdc album.
@keith455-73
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Anybody that does not like the Fly On The Wall album is not a true AC/DC fan- simple as that.
@joelawrence7032
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Horrible. The lyrics alone are horrible. “Some like it hot, some like it quite not so hot””
@DEFKONSIXTYSIXlml
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
The best album they ever done and the most commercially viable
@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Danger, Sink the Pink and Shake Your Foundations were played a bit on MTV in the States. The only video that got a custom ending was Sink the Pink where instead of panning to the actors, Angus hit the pool/billiard ball with his Gibson SG with a smile on his face and the billiard ball went into the hole. Loved it.
@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
This was the first AC/DC album I got within the first few months of its release and I love it.
@amysson5151
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
It’s funny that more people are talking about this album than they are the latest album, Power Up. To me, power up is forgettable, and I’d reach for fly on the wall before I reached for power up. Power up doesn’t have any memorable songs for me, and apparently it doesn’t for anyone else because I don’t hear anyone talking about it.
@amysson5151
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Same three cords, same lascivious message. Perfect album. No skips.
@amysson5151
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Fly on the wall is an album for men with hair on their chest and women on their mind.
@amysson5151
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
One of my top 3 AC-DC albums.
@Guitar387
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
It didn’t have a good sound compressed and overproduced.
@americanmariachi97
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Is it really that bad? No. Not by a long shot.
@MrMatheustristao
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Reverb on the wall
@johnhareiel5118
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Fly On The Wall was my first AC/DC album! It's just as great as Highway- Back n Black to me! Thank You for this video!
@johnmccarthy-gd6xl
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I got this album the week it came out when I was a teen in High School and loved it at the time. I also went to the concert that year and it was one of the best live AC/DC shows I've seen among many. In retrospect the album is definitely not their finest hour but agree with the review that it's treated unfairly. As for the ridiculous claims about being misogynistic and sexist, well, that's what was going on in the 80's. Has everyone forgotten what the glam/hair bands were singing about back then, not to mention some of the early Rap of the 80's? You'd be hard pressed to find any album (or movie or TV show) of that era that didn't have something that would be found objectionable today.
@zoso7889
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
The production was brutal. Brian sounds like he’s being waterboarded in the next room.
@thunderdeed1
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Saw this tour . Didn’t play much from the album that night stayed with the classics. Opened with the title track . Flick Of The Switch, FOTW, and Blow Up Your Video are in my opinion are albums that are largely ignored as far as songs played in concert.
@marpsr
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I love Flick of the Switch, my biggest problem with Fly on the Wall is no Phil Rudd. It just doesn’t have the same feel. It’s a bit like the Beatles without Ringo.
@stephenjohn6850
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Love the album. Hell or high water is terrible though
@stoneagedjp
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
When this came out, I played the hell out of it — recorded album onto cassette tape, put in car stereo, left it there — not knowing that it was being panned. It was surprising to learn that it was a supposedly "bad" album. But for Shake Your Foundations alone, it's worth it.
@Gokizzmass
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Agree, the mix was pretty bad, the reverb was awful. Flick of the switch was worse, which is a real shame, because that album rocked !
@otaviorocha4156
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
its a great album, the guitars are brutal, Angus solos are outstanding. The songs are really good, but the production were wrong so its a very underreted album.
@ChongO66
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I absolutely love this and flick of the switch alot of people didn't like it but for most real ac DC fans we dug it great video bud thx mate🎸🎸🎸
@David_four_twenty
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Angus is on fire soloing all over the place. No this is not a bad album it is awesome. The video director sucked.
@olliepops1124
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I’d rank it above Black Ice and Stiff Upper Lip, and I’ve grown to enjoy it much more over the past 2-3 years, but it is too bad it came out when it did. If Ballbreaker came before Who Made Who and after Flick Of The Switch, and FOTW was released in 1995, I bet it would get higher praise.
My personal hit take is that it’s only a tad superior to For Those About To Rock 🤷♂️
@snakeeyes3308
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I love Fly on the wall
@mmrseed
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Hot take…this album (musically) is 10x better than back in black, although no Brian Johnson album can touch any Bon Scott era AC/DC
@aaronmcmahon7462
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
The biggest issue is the mix – too much reverb on the drums, and the tinny vocal sound for Brian – but the guitar tones are savage. I think it's one of the most underrated AC/DC albums and is better than many believe. It is like a lot of Brian's albums though, top heavy – it has a better side one than side two, in my opinion.
@AppocolipticMessiah
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Another great AC/DC album
@jasonweinstock1282
March 11, 2026 at 5:06 pm
It often seems like an AC/DC album is an AC/DC album..fly on the wall has some great songs on it,but nothing to really write home about.I had it on cassette tape in 1985,at age 15..I saw them live in September 1985 at Oakland coliseum in oakland,California.. They rocked,as always! Yngwie malmsteens rising force opened the show
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