{"id":597370,"date":"2026-05-22T04:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597370\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:09:10","slug":"five-ac-dc-riffs-that-need-to-be-deleted-from-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597370\/","title":{"rendered":"Five AC\/DC riffs that need to be deleted from history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Five-ACDC-riffs-that-should-be-deleted-from-history-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Five AC:DC riffs that should be deleted from history\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Far Out \/ Harry Potts \/ Alamy \/ Joan Sorolla<\/p>\n<p> Thu 21 May 2026 20:00, UK <\/p>\n<p>Look, you\u2019re currently reading the words of one of the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/acdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"AC\/DC\">AC\/DC<\/a> fans in the world, so this list was incredibly difficult to write. <\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/songs-from-my-father-ac-dc-live-at-wembley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">my dad who introduced me to the Australian rockers<\/a>, and I haven\u2019t looked back since. Their music is such a weird combination of a source of comfort as well as a desire to join the nearest mosh pit. At the heart of the band\u2019s quality, without a shadow of a doubt, are the exceptional riffs of both Angus and Malcom Young.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little bit of a twist,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-ac-dc-guitar-riffs-that-left-angus-young-speechless-how-clever-was-he-to-do-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\"> that\u2019s what Angus Young called it<\/a>. When he was talking about his brother\u2019s work on \u2018Bad Boy Boogie\u2019, Angus admitted he loved it because of that twist that Malcolm added: \u201c[It] has got a flavour because it\u2019s got a little bit of a twist in it. It sounds easy, but Malcolm had a little twist that I don\u2019t think many could do [\u2026] How clever was he to do that? I still play it just for the fact that he just changed that little note around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what makes all of their songs great. AC\/DC aren\u2019t a band which uses a huge selection of chords, but with every song, no matter how limited the library might be, they add inflexions, rhythm and melody that ensures each track is separate from the last. It\u2019s unbelievable, really. However, let\u2019s be real, the band have released 17 albums, and amongst them, it\u2019s inevitable you\u2019re going to come across a bad riff here and there. <\/p>\n<p>You can twist things the wrong way, you know? These are five instances when the band slightly missed the mark with their riff writing, and it led to the creation of guitar lines that we\u2019re better off without. <\/p>\n<p>Five AC\/DC riffs that shouldn\u2019t exist:  <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" style=\"\"> ADD AS A PREFERRED SOURCE ON GOOGLE <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/far-out-magazine\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/a>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Far Out \/ Harry Potts \/ Alamy \/ Joan Sorolla Thu 21 May 2026 20:00, UK Look,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[27575,27576,84098,84099,96,27577,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ac-dc","tag-angus-young","tag-bon-scott","tag-brian-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-malcolm-young","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}